European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes wed with Malory stripes Saine Andy Barnett s r Corner Page of  author cd unofficial publication sch in pfc a. A mob for vol. 45, no. 278 Friday january 23, 1987 it  d 8693 a ., Japan pledge currency cooperation Washington a the United Stales and Japan seeking to Case ten Sions Over America s giant Trade deficit wednesday pledged 10 cooperate closely on currency Exchange Rales. A join communique was issued after a 2 i hour meeting Between Treasury Secretary James a. Baker i and Japa Nese finn acc minister Kiichi Miyazawa. Sec a fluted Story. Page i Bolh officials reaffirmed to Weir support for a joint agreement reached ocl. 31, when he two countries pledged to hold the Exchange rate of the yen and Dollar at the level in stood then. In Tokyo the Dollar plunged against 111? yen in morning trading thursday As dealers judged that nothing new resulted from the latest round of  Japan talks on currency stability. Pressure to sell the Dollar remains Strong said an official of a major Japa Nese commercial Bank speaking on Ore see currency on Page 24 a Phon pedal powered 88-Pound Eagle with Lois Mccallla it the controls Sels 10-mile clip cd circuit distance record at Edwards fab Calif Pilot pedals air plane to closed course record Edwards fab Calif. A a woman peddled and piloted an experimental air plane 10 Miles Over a desert take cd wednesday establishing a closed course distance record for human powered flight. Lois Mccallin flew id Miles in 37 minutes 38 seconds in the 88-Pound Eagle. The flight also established the first closed course record by a woman and a Dura Tion record by a woman said Peggie Scon spokeswoman for the Daedalus human powered flight team from Massachusetts Institute of technology. Mccallin 30, took off about 8 . For a planned five mile flight but fell she could go on and opted to make a turn and head Back to go for the closed course record Scott said. Glenn Tremml the project s other athlete Pilot was considering attempting to break the world distance record for human powered flight thursday Scott said. The world record was set in 1979 when Bryan Allen powered the Gossamer Albatross 22 Miles across the English Channel. The Eagle was built to test designs that will be incorporated in another plane to be called Daedalus after the mythological figure that fled Captivity on the Mediterranean Island of Crete by making wings of feathers and Wax and flying 69 Miles to the greek Mainland. That flight could take place late this year or in the see Pilot on Page 24 second West German Repov Teddy kids Beirut. Lebanon a Mous caller said wednesday t German was kidnapped overnight second German abducted in Beirut sin the arrest in Frankfurt of a lebanese charges of hijacking a Twa Jet int 1985. Anglican Church envoy Adf Wail met with pro iranian so of moslem extremists in what Wasj per cantly a mar athon negotiating Akken aimed at free ing   a. Anderson und Thomas Szijj fend who were Kidnap Ped in i9j Ped out of sight tuesday eve Allig and still had not been seen pub life 23 hours later. The anon plus caller to a Western news a of office in West Beirut said it we kidnapped German a Alfred Schmidt in the Vicinity of Summerland  the caller who sell act arabic Hung up without saying we he represented. The Cwg. If genuine would bring to 19 the Ril Imit of foreigners missing and believed Kinda us in Lebanon. Schmidt 467hut Engineer with Sie mens a and was Dirge of installing equipment for the Nev be Story Middle East Hospital about Hal Neaile from the howl. The Hospital manager or said Schmidt was kidnapped see Kidnap an Page midair crash kills two during dogfight training Brown Wood Texas a two military reconnaissance jets collided during a practice dogfight and crashed in Lames in a Remote area wednesday killing two Crew Mem Bers while two others parachuted to safely authorities said. One Crew member s body was found after the crash of the Rf-4c phantom ii about 4 . Near Lake Brownwood Texas Ranger Norman Autrey said. Debris from the aircraft was spread Over a two mile radius he said and searchers found another air a it s flight suit. Fire capt. Donald Reiger said offi cers found soldering air plane parts and body parts in a Field just West of Texas Highway 279, a half mile from Lake Brownwood. No one on the ground was injured he said. Criger said investigators had Learned the pilots were practising a dogfight. Someone Zig cd when they should have lagged he said. Airman Sean Ruark a spokeswoman at Bergstrom fab said she could neither confirm nor deny that report. Witnesses said they saw three parachutes one empty falling to the ground after the crash said Sieve sea crash on Page 24