European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. November 3,1966 the stars and stripes t page9 Booklet lists illegal wildlife souvenirs by Clint Swift i Washington Burnu Washington tie . Fish and  wants to make an endangered spies oui of americans who bring Home Eal Plant or animal souvenirs after the nun abroad. A brochure the incr beware warns that such soul Csc Teay be seized by government inspectors aim int smugglers face substantial fines. The old adage let the Bur be Ware has never been More App Pic to a i Lunation than it is to wildlife track uld wildlife service director Frani Dunkle. People who have in Many cases innocently thought their wildlife purchases abroad were Legal have Learned he hard Way that it s Best to know before you  buyer beware is aimed at the More than 10 million americans who Ravel abroad each year spending an estimated $14 billion on exotic Birds and animals fashionable jewelry and furs and unique tropical plants. But Laws 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 he United states Jhc largest consumer of wildlife Japan a Colero Europe Are next. Endangered species act provides Tor a fiifflvfi2d,000 and up to a year in jail for smugglers said wildlife service spokesman David Klinger. For the aver age traveler the penalty is surrendering tial they brought in. You give up your 11,000 Snow Leopard coat without re  prohibited items include watchbands handbags Bells shoes made from most crocodiles Smith american or asian lizards and latin rarer icon snakes. Also sea tunic pro dumb such As Tortoise shei jewelry and coins or Turtle Oil cosmetics virtually All Birds orig Tinc in Australia Brazil Ecuador min to Paraguay Venezuela and several Caribbean coun tries. Most wild  mounted Birds and Large Pavls including certain macaws and Coc Poos. Jewelry Jujj nines and piano keys of asian Ivor souvenirs from african Ivory May be imported legally. From targe spotted cats such As guar Leopard Snow Leopard and Liger smaller ones such Ai the ocelot. Also in fur of Marine mammals such As seals and Polar bears. Flags such As orchids and cac uses. Wildlife Laws Are Complex Lipscomb said and Plant and animal products often Are laundered from one country loan other. Once overseas americans can get the facts from local authorities or a . Embassy. Copies of buyer beware May be or dered individually or in bulk from the pub lie affairs office of the wildlife service room 3447, department of the Interior lain and c streets n.w., Washington. . 20240. A yips or of vhf in d j5jsh a for 3r- nov to i helping out a visitor a phom Gex i minister of defense Manfred Woerner gels climbs a tank in Jaeger sprals Denmark Woermer Al Ping band from a female danish Soldier u he was nuking Vail to the danish military Camp. Crowds flock to buy Bonds by he 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 Rale. 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 rate 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 is. Louis said Friday. It s Klee biggest crowd we be had on a non payday  Ime Banks reported running out of supplies esp i of larger denomination Bonds. Me major denominations the $5,000 and $10,000 Bonds re going wild said Bud Albert regional director for the Vegs Bond program in Nashville. Term. Many Banks a Are running out of the actual certificates but anybody ibo paid their Money Friday and got a receipt will  rate of 7.5." people who Timbo Cvar bought savings Bonds before and others who saw utom Opportunity to lock in High Rales hurried to . We had been planning Tilliy savings Bonds for a month said Pam Cordingley Nten Anselmo calif., a customer at the Federal Reserve Hajn san Francisco. My husband was walking Down the Kcal and saw the headlines in the newspaper so we came to jul  not since the 1940s when  by world War ii stirred up sales has  Donc such a brisk business in savings Bonds. Sales in and september alone exceeded $2 billion. Naval press again hits Jackpot with flight York not with another Best Selling novel to its credit the naval Institute press is batting a thousand As a publisher of fiction. Its Book Only the second novel the press has published in in 114 history is flight of the intruder by Stephen Coon an account of naval Avi agora at War Over Vietnam. In the York times Book re View sunday flight was listed As the no 12 hardcover Book of fiction. It follow by 20 months the appear Ance on that list of Tom Clancy s Hunt for red october " which not Only vaulted Clancy to Fame but also brought n measure of Fame and Fortune to the Annapolis md., publisher. Now Coonis is Well on his Way to reaping the rewards that come with bested least there Are 125,000  of Fth flirt in print. Pocket books bought it for $341,000 at a recent auction. In a recent trims Atlantic Telephone Nii Cimon pan books won the British with a bid of 100,650 pounds about $140,000. And dutch and italian rights have also been sold. Ill Tell you i want expecting any thing like this said the author a 40 year old Denver lawyer who flew a-6 in Truder warplanes against targets in North and South Vietnam and in Laos. A major reason for his Surprise he said is that when he tried to Tell the Book to York publishing houses most of those that bothered to reply to his query letters turned him Down cold. But i was t Loo discouraged he said in a Telephone interview Friday his voice bearing the traces of his West Vir Ginia upbringing. I had never written anything else and when i wrote this i would have been delighted if somebody offered to print 3,000 to 4,000 copies in  instead after Reading red october Coonis his manuscript having been rejected by then by four York pub Lishers sent Feighl to Clancy pub Lisher. Now it shows signs of eclipsing even its predecessor s impressive sales record. For one thing it made it onto the times list within seven weeks of publication whereas it look red october about five months. Right has been helped by a Blurb from Clancy he describes it As extraordinary and by the fact that the naval Institute press is no longer an unknown Quantity to most bookseller. Also the major Book chains which ordered Clancy s Book in Large numbers Only after it was Well on its Way to be coming a Best seller placed big orders for flight Well before publication. The purpose of the naval Institute a private professional society of naval officers is to Advance professional liter Ary and scientific knowledge in the naval and maritime  its press serves in effect As the univer sity press of the United states naval Academy Al Annapolis of the naval War College at Newport r.i., and of the Nav a postgraduate school at Monterey Calif the editorial Board is made up of eight Active duty officers from the Navy coast guard naval Reserve add Marine corps said Susan Artigiani publicity manager of the press. But when flight came before the Board its Miraben chose to rely on the recommendations of the press director. To ensure authenticity the Manu script was sent to naval aviators. To no one s Surprise it was authentic. The pub Lisher s biographical sketch reveals that Coonis who was discharged in 1977 after nine years Active duly made two combat cruises aboard the aircraft car Rier Enterprise. He had 1,600 hours in intruders and made 305 Carrier landings including 100 of them at night. His Many awards included the distinguished Fly ing Cross. Deborah Guberti acquisitions editor of the press said the number of unsolicited novels submitted to the press had almost quadrupled in the last year but flight was the Only one the press chose to publish. As a result it is on the fall list along with such other naval Institute press titles As reel tactics theory and prac Tice by Wayne Hughes the fourth Edi Tion of guide to the soviet Navy by Norman Polmar and a edition of the Art of Knotting and splicing by Cyrus Day revised by Ray 0, Beard or. And m. Lee Hoffman or