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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, November 3, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday novembers 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Book offers tips to Cut risks of travelling Washington up1 the state department has published a Book with advice on How to avoid being target of terrorist pickpocket or muggers keep a Low profile be Alert and Don t reveal your travel plans. The Book a Safe trip abroad was put together by the state department s Bureau of consular affair and draw on the experience of . Diplomats and  experts around the world. On Protection against terrorists the Book says Itri impossible to protect oneself absolutely but says common sense will reduce exposure to danger. The slate department says traveler abroad should take the same precautions As in America. Men should keep their wallets in inside pockets and women should keep purses closed. Other hints avoid travel to unsafe areas even though the chances of becoming a victim of terrorists m Hose areas Are slight for a Louril. Schedule direct flights if possible and spend As Little time As possible at airports. Avoid advertising your nationality by Flash dress behaviour or Luggage tags. Avoid going to places where americans Are known to congregate. Don t insist on an american car when you rent a vehicle. Choose taxis at random and make sure the vehicle is clearly marked As a to i before you gel  with the windows closed in crowded areas As � Protection against bombs. If someone starts shoot ing drop to the floor wherever you Are and Don i move until the danger is past. The slate department s overseas citizens serv ices regional passport offices and . Embassies and consulates can provide information about travel to specific areas. For those travellers who arc taken hostage the stale department says the Mosi dangerous to minis Are at the beginning of the episode and if there is a resolve attempt at the very end. Us advice is to keep Cool avoid Eye con acl Wilh captors and be passively cooperative. The Book recommends think positively avoid a sense of despair by remembering you Are a valuable commodity to your captors. It is important for them to keep you alive and Well it also says hostages should not resist their captors and should prepare themselves physically and men tally for a Long ordeal. The government policy not 10 negotiate Wilh terrorists is firm since negotiations Only increase the risk for farther hostage taking the Book says. The slate department Book and others Wilh specific tips for travel to the Caribbean Eastern Europe mexi co the Middle East China saudi Arabia and the soviet Union Are available free from the Bureau of consular affairs Public affairs staff room 5807. Department of state Washington , 20520. Retail furriers form organization Power saving to counter animal welfare activists � " rejected by president Washington Cap retail furriers announced Friday the organization of a group aimed at countering what they called terrorist tactics by some animal welfare activists. The group took the name fur is for  Wilh the subtitle an Industry in Harmony Wilh  because our livelihood i tied to nature the fur Industry is one of the few industries in America Loday thai protect Sand preserves the wilderness and All the creatures that live in it said Fred Schwartz who owns the Fred the fumes shop in Bethesda my. Activists who Wear leather belts or shoes he said Are  Schwartz s new shop according to photograph he displayed was vandalized last week by someone who broke windows and threw red paint. Richard Parsons executive director of the new association said thai in the last six months activist have smashed win Dows they have thrown paint blood and human excrement they have picketed and blocked store entrances and they have made bomb threats in Washington fur sales in . Tt.0 1.60 1.00 new York Chicago Philadelphia bos Ion los Angeles san Francisco St. Louis Tucson and Dallas to name a  Parsons said his group will advise furriers on coping with vandals demonstrators and Advent publicity. Of an estimated 2,500 fumes in the nation the group solicited 1,600 and has monetary contributions from Iso to 200, he said. Solicitations arc still being  invited opponents to Dia Logue Wilh us on what he said was the real problem destruction of habitat and other problems such As acid rain an the destruction of tropical forests. Every time we build a housing development every time we build a Golf course or build a Highway across Ameri Ca we Are causing very severe damage to animal habitat be  animals Are not trapped in the wild they die of predation or disease invariably unpleasant he  invitation for discussion could be accepted said Susan Hagood of defend ers of wildlife but dialogue has been going on for decades and the positions arc so polarized it does t get very  re right and they re  her organization opposes rapping in the wild but has taken no position on fur farming or the raising of animals for their fur which according to Schwartz provides 6s percent to 85 percent of All furs. Santa Barbara. Calif. A president Reagan vetoed legislation Sal urday that would have established mint mum Energy efficiency standards for Home appliances saying it would Force Consumers to pay an estimated addition Al $ 1.4 billion a year for  a memorandum of disapproval Rea Gan said the measure intrudes unduly on the free Market limits the Freedom of Choice available to Consumers who would be denied the Opportunity to Purchase lower cos appliances and constitutes substantial intrusion Inlo traditional slate responsibilities and Pero Galilei while expressing sympathy with the idea of conserving Energy resources Rea Gan said the Bill fails to Advance this goal in a manner that lakes account of the tremendous Cost to  prices would Force Many to buy More expensive appliances than they would prefer and make some delay or forgo some appliance purchases altogether Reagan said. By eliminating the lower Price models the Bill would Hil Low income Consumers particularly  emergency Chufe gets go Den Knight Down safely Belle Chasse la a a member of the army s Golden knights Parachute team landed safely using an emergency Chute after her main Chute failed during a jump before a crowd at an air show a stators in a i floated Toile Grovind using the backup Chute. She glided Down to a soft Landing near a spot marked win an x. She said what had happened was not dangerous unless trouble had Arisen with the emergency Chule. "1 Felt a Rush. Well i should t say a Rush but the adrenalin was certainly pumping. But i knew just what to do Captain said. She has made 1,200 free fall jumps and said Fri Day s was Only the second time her main Chute had gone into the uncontrollable spin which happens if the lines become tangled. Such spins cause a parachutist to hit the ground at a dangerously High Speed. The Golden knights demonstration team was per forming free fall jumps throughout the weekend at new Orleans Nas Here. The team based at fort Bragg n.c., has won National and world honors in Competition jumping. Elsewhere a 38-year-old parachutist was killed sat urday when his regular and backup chutes became tangled during a jump at a Texas air show. Vemon Eugene Walden fell into the Yard of a House two blocks away from his target in a Park in Odessa Texas said police sol. Millon Tharp. Walden of Midland Texas was pronounced dead at the scene. He was an experienced sky diver who Wai licensed to make exhibition jumps Tharp said. Witnesses told police that his lines tangled and it the Parachute did t open up properly Tharp said adding that when Walden attempted to open his re serve Chute it got tangled in the main Chute. Blazes kill three children fire safety expert by the associated press fire swept through the apartment of a family in Pennsylvania on saturday kill ing three children and injuring their parents while in new York state a Man who Speni much of his life teaching fire prevention died in a Blaze at he Home. Authorities in the Fimburgh suburb of Brad Docic said the fire was caused by a stereo thai overheated after being left on a night. The apartment was equipped with so smoke detector., but neither Muta batteries said fire chief Robert Petnic. Allegheny county police said Leroy Moody jr., 4 Christopher Moody 2 and Starr Moody to were found dead on the living room floor near a Couch. Their Mother april Moody 20, was reported in critical condition at Allegheny general Hospital in Pittsburgh with Burns and their father Leroy Moody 24, was treated for Burns on his arms legs and Side and released police said. Petravic said Moody told firefighters that the children woke him and his wife up shortly after 8 . To Tell them the House was hoi. Moody said he and Hii wife were slow in waking up not Scaltz ing the House was on fire. The children tried to Rouse their parents a second time but by then the fire was extensive Petrovit said. Lumbia county Deputy Edward  was found in the bedroom said his daughter in Law Maryanne , former executive director of the state association of fire chiefs trav Moody s Mother Mae Moody of near eled around the state giving talks on fire t Zuqi Cisne said her son told her that p even ?. Of""1T based in his Kinder look Home Accord ing to his  s son Hany ii chief of the Kinderhook fire department but was out of town at the time of the Blaze she  Laid the cause of the fire he gathered the children in a Back bed room before he climbed out a window. His wife was to pass the youngster Down to him in an apartment below but the slipped and fell to the ground. In Kinderhook n.y., a fire destroyed the Home of Ward Bohner 74, said co was still trader investigation. Bohner widower was alone in the House  
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