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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday january 31,1987 nuts and bolts presentation Jon the robot gesture daring welcoming address it the museum of science in Boston. Hie mechanical heal App Boio gave he presentation on the opening Day of an exhibit entitled the age of intelligent  supposedly empty crates sold at army auction held 24 rockets fort Bliss. Texas a two dozen armed rockets were inadvertently left in wooden crates sold by the army to a mexican businessman and official thursday were negotiating the weapons return from Mexico an army spokesman said. The businessman who purchased what he thought were empty wooden crates at an auction took All but one of inc rockets to neighbouring Ciudad Juarez Meni co. Said it. Col. James Lawson a fort Bliss military reservation spokesman. A 24lh rocket was discovered in a Crale the Man left behind at the base Lawson said. Leaving the rockets inside crates that were supposed to be empty was an inadvertent slip a careless slip up Lawson said. Officials were negotiating he return of the weapons which were seized by the mexican army at Tjie Busi Nessman s lumber Yard monday Lawson said. They mexican army authorities Are anxious to give them Back to us and we re anxious to get them Back Lawson said. The fool Long rockets would have exploded Only if they had been exposed to flames or an electrical current not by being dropped Lawson said. The Low spin folding Fin aircraft rockets which arc fired from helicopters contain about four pounds of composition b-4, a very insensitive explosive material. Military officials would not release the identity of he businessman who bought 147 wooden crates atan auction at the department of defense Reut Iliza lion and marketing office in fort Bliss on Jan. 22. He notified Fon Bliss officials last monday that he had found some rockets in the crates Lawson said. At thai time a representative of the . Consulate in Juarez and a member of the mexican army s 26th infantry battalion met fort Bliss officials at one of four Bridges Over the Rio Grande connecting Elpaso and Juarez he said. They were escorted to the lumber Yard where a Sec Ond mexican army officer appeared to say he was under orders to confiscate the rockets. Lawson said people who deliver and accept crates a fort Bliss must sign documents ensuring the boxes Are empty and ready to be disposed it Lawson said. The system has a series of redundant checks Law son said. What broke Down in the procedure which 99 percent of the Lime works is still under i Vestiga  he said the person who certified the crates were empty is a civilian working at the base. The mexican businessman frequently buys wooden crates from fort Bliss and no similar incidents have happened before Lawson said. Reagan urged of release Hess Washington a leaders of a group of Ger Man americans urged president Reagan on thursday to go to West Berlin and personally escort Rudolf Hess the As surviving major nazi War criminal out of Spandau prison. Reagan is expected to visit West Berlin in june. Hess is held jointly by the ., British French and soviet governments. Each month guards from one of those nations Talie Over. Stan Rill House. President of the German Ameri can information and education association said All or. Reagan needs to do is to visit or Hess when it is America s turn to guard him and Tell this harmless old Man of 92, or. Hess come with me i m going to make you a free Man " Rittenhouse is a former stockbroker who lives in Burke a a suburb of Washington. It is now evident thai Hess is a Symbol for a Liny minority with a need for vengeance lie said. Questioned at a news conference he identified ibis group As the bolshevik International zionist move  he declined to name individual members. Hans Schmidt vice president under i Stonhouse said he prefers not to identify the tiny minority any More  s belter to use  he said. You la be hearing euphemisms More and  stateside advertising official fired Over takeover attempt new York a another top official at the advertising giant a Walter Thompson co. Was fire thursday following discussions Aboul an abortive at tempt to West control of its Parent company from its current chief  e. Pc Lars president and chief operating officer of the and company was dismissed and will not be replaced according 10 a statement from Thompson s Parent Jet group inc. Ii cited no reason for the action. The dismissal comes less than a week after the and unit s chief executive. Joseph in. O Donne i a fired after disclosing he had talked with outside Bankers about a possible buyout of Jet group to make it it private company. . Snow removal funds depleted by 2 storms new York. Although Winter u far from Over new York City has used up the j10.j million it had to keep 6,200 Miles of streets Clear of Snow and slush a sanitation official said thursday it s going to be an expensive year said sanitation commissioner Brendan  14 inches of Snow from two storms that Blan acied the City in the past week left the department with a deficit to its Snow budget of Aboul $1.4 million so far Sexton Laid. He noted the snowiest part of Winter traditionally is Early to mid february but said there is no need to worry because we Are still in the Snow fighting Busi Ness new Marine land owner to close facility March 1 Rancho Palos Verdes Calif. A the new owner of Marine land announced thursday it will close the aquatic attraction March 1, while Knoll Iberry farm announced separately it Plu $12 Mil lion overhaul of in entertainment  new York publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich inc. Purchased die 33-year-old Marine land i Rancho Palos Gerdts on dec. 3 1. Harcourt plans for the site were not disclosed but executive vice president Jack Snyder said Hie pub Lisher of Carl Sandburg and . Elliot does not dese crate what it  s Berry farm another longtime Southern California theme Nark said 112 million in improvements Are planned before  $7 million will be spent on building kingdom of the dinosaurs a 400,000-Iquare-fool Lar action few luring 21 robot dinosaurs it said janitor who took late lunch to go to mass docked pay South Kingstown . A the univer sity of Rhode Island is Docking the pay of a janitor who has been taking Bis lunch 30 minutes later than the Union contract dictates to attend mass at a Campus  w. Southland 43. Of North Kingstown also faces a possible two week suspension without play Tor continuing to attend the noon Masi at the cube in Chapel after being told by school officials he is required by contract to take his half hour lunch break at 11 30  Cariri the University s labor relations offi cer said Southland has been put on notice at his supervisors won t tolerate it any  texan in pileup charged with Drunken driving Anahuac to map a 60-year-old Man was charged with driving while intoxicated in connection with a fog related 25-car pileup that claimed la fifth victim on thursday officials said. Justice of the peace . Guillory said he arraigned Samuel a Margraves or. Of Anahuac on a charge of felony driving while intoxicated hours after the pileup on interstate 10.hargraves was released from Chambers county jail on $2,000 Bond. Guillory  was driving a station Wagon thai stalled on a fog shrouded 2-mile-Long Bridge said slate trooper Ricky Davis. The Auto s immobility Ted to the Chain reaction crash that closed 1-10 for about fix hours said  members from one family died at the scene and a fifth member of the family died thursday officials said  
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