European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 2, 1986 the stars and stripes Booklet lists illegal wildlife souvenirs by Cunt Butu Washington the . Fish and wildlife service wants to nuke an endangered specie out of americans who bring Home illegal Plant or animal souvenirs after their loan abroad. A brochure buyer beware warns thai such souvenirs May be seized by government inspectors and that smugglers face substantial fines. The old adage let the buyer be Ware has never been More appropriate to a situation than it is to wildlife Trade said wildlife service director Frank Dunkle. People who have in Manv cases innocently thought their wildlife purchases abroad were Legal have teamed the hard Way that it s Best to know before you beware is aimed at the More than 10 million americans who travel abroad each year spending an estimated $14 billion on exotic Birds and animals fashionable jewelry and fun and unique tropical plants. But jaws and treaties de signed to protect species facing extinction apply just As Well to Servic members Feder Al employees and their families serving overseas said Elizabeth Lipscomb a spokeswoman for the wildlife service. Modem transportation makes it possible to provide animals skins and other products to a growing International Market the brochure says. It also says the United suites is the largest consumer of wildlife Japan and Western Europe Are next the endangered species act provides for a Fine of $20.000 and up to a year in jail for Smyj Glens said wildlife service spokesman David stinger. For he aver age travellers the penalty is surrendering what they brought in. You give up your 11,000 Snow Leopard Coal without re prohibited items include watchbands handbags belts and shoes made from most crocodiles. South american or asian lizards and latin Amer ican snakes. Also sea Turtle products Suchias Tortoise Shell jewelry and Combs or Turtle Oil cosmetics. Virtually All Birds originating in Australia Brazil Ecuador Mexico Paraguay Venezuela and several Caribbean coun tries. Most wild Bird feathers mounted Birds and Large parrots including certain macaws and cockatoos. Jewelry figurines and piano keys of asian Ivory. Souvenirs from african Ivory May be imported legally. Furs from Large spotted cats such Ashe Jaguar Leopard Snow Leopard and Tiger and smaller ones such As the ocelot. Also the fur of Marine mammals such As seals and Polar bears. Plants such As orchids and cac uses. Wildlife Laws Are Complex Lipscomb said and Plant and animal products of Tenart laundered from one country loan other. Once overseas americans can get the facts from local authorities or a . of buyer beware May be or dered individually or in bulk from the pub Lic affairs office of the wildlife service room 1447, department of the Interior i8lh and c streets n.w., Washington . 20240. 2nd army div tankers set sights on trophy byjoe Mapother bib write bored Bergen Germany tankers of the 2nd army div fwd set their sights last week on nato s most prestigious Lanka satay contest the Canadian army Tro Phy which is eight months Down the Pike unless viewed from the inside of a tank. From that steel Clad perspective the june gunnery contest is a Mere 134 rounds downrange. Charlie and Delta company gunners fired the first of n maximum allowable 134 practice rounds last week and according to 2nd in 66th army regt com Mander col. John Caldwell there will be Many More. For this battalion it is the no. 1 priority no two ways about it Caldwell said. If you define winning As having the platoon with the Loo score then we Haven t won Caldwell said. We intend to fix Charlie co tankers shot Well enough during the last Competition i w years Zagolo help the Northern army group Edge out tankers from the Central army group. That gave Northam posses Sion of the trophy for two years. But within the Northam contingent Charlie co platoons finished second and third to a dutch platoon equipped with the German built Leopard 2 tank. Earlier last week the . Tankers re Lumen to the same Range in the nato Man Euver area it Bergen used in the 198s Competition. Even the weather was the same wet and Gray Low visibility. But the tanks were the newest of the new. The two companies hoping to com Pete in the 1987 Competition arc equipped with the most recent m1a1abram tanks to arrive at he division Caldwell my matchup with the Leopard 2 tank attracted a lot of attention at the last Competition. However 2nd army div fwd tankers claim Competition rules bar the m-1 from performing at its Best. There is no night firing which would allow m-1 gunners to use the tank s sophisticated night sight. Firing on the move i limited so the stabilization system of them a is not a big plus Factor said co c tank commander slant sgt. Arch Johnson. The Competition also does not take into account the survivability of them a Cald Well said. Features such As the tank s Armor lire suppression system and compartmentalize ammunition storage do not score Points toward the trophy. Accuracy and Speed do. Each platoon of four tanks is allowed one run downrange. The platoon com Mander must coordinate main gun and machine gun fire at a variety of year s winning Northam platoon hit 23 of 24 main gun targets. This year All main gun targets must be hit to win Cape. Armor Brown flatly told Charlie co gunners from the 3rd pit a they went Over the results of their first practice run. And hit quickly. A maximum 40 seconds is allowed to engage a main gun target. Time on the total engagement is factored into the final score. A perfect score at the last Competition was 28,100. The top platoon in both army groups shot a score of slightly better than 22.000. The Advent of the super tanks has Radi Cally changed scores in Lite Competition in 1983, before wide deployment of the Leop Ard 2 and my Only one platoon in the entire Competition scored better than 20,000 Points. Every my platoon firing in 1985 scared better than 20,000 Points. Only one company from the 2nd army div fwd will get to go to Grafen Woehr the site of next year s gunnery contest. The decision on who will go is random one made by contest sponsors said maj. Robert Dittmer the battalion executive officer. Spec. 4 Robert Smith and spec. 4 Danny Phillips both 3rd pit gunners Hope Charlie co is selected. If so they will get a Chance to make that single Pla Toon Battle run that decides where the marbles fall. Each gunner will have 10 rounds to fire. Both said they worry most about the main gun jamming before All rounds a fired and keeping the platoon operations procedure Clear in their Heads. It s no individual thing Phillips said. Everybody s trying to cover for everyone similar company level Competition is under Way at the 3rd army div headquartered in Frankfurt and the 3rd inf div in Wuerzburg to determine american teams forthe Central army group Effort. A photo helping out a visitor German Iii scr of defense Manfred wont Ermeti Czaki tank in Jasic Aspris Diu Park. Wortner helping hand from a female duh Louier u he we balding visit to the Dan Bih military Camp. Crowds flock to buy Bonds by the associated press Banks across the country were flooded with requests for . Savings Bonds in the final hours before sat urday s drop in the interest rate. Purchases that had climbed in recent weeks in anticipation of the Cut reached a Peak Friday after the government announcement that the minimum guaranteed interest rat for Bonds held at least five years was being lowered from 7.5 percent to 6 percent effective saturday. We re absolutely mobbed Andrew n. Baur presi Dent of Southwest Bank in St. Louis said Friday. It s the biggest crowd we be had on a non payday some Banks reported running out of supplies especially of larger denomination Bonds. The major denominations the $5,000 and si0,000 Bonds Are going wild said Bud Albert regional director for the saving Bond program in Nashville Tenn. Many Banks Here Are running out of the actual certificates but anybody who paid their Money Friday and Gat a receipt will receive the old guaranteed rate of 7.5." people who had never bought savings Bonds before and others who saw a last Opportunity to lock in High rates hurried to make their purchases. We had been planning to buy savings Bonds for month said Pam Cordingley of san Anselmo calif., a customer at the Federal Reserve Bank in san husband was walking Down the Street and saw the headlines in the newspaper so we came in to get not since the 1940s when patriotism inspired by world War ii stirred up sales has the government nonesuch a brisk business in savings Bonds. Sates in August and september alone exceeded s2 billion
