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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Pope to visit Germany beautify 2 Vatican City Tupi Pope John Paul n win visit i cities in a three and a half Day trip to Ger Many next month. The visit will include the controversial beatification of a jewish bom nun killed in the Auschwitz death  trip John Paul s 34th outside Italy since he became Pope in october 1978, will Sun april 30 i Cologne and end May 4 in Stuttgart according to the official program released by the Vatican  officials also disclosed thai during his third papal trip to his native Poland june 8-14, John Paul Wilt travel to Warsaw Lublin Gamow Cracow Szczecin Gdynia Gdansk and Czestochowa. Bui they gave no details of his program. During the visit to Germany the pontiff will beautify both sister Teresa bin dicta of the Cross the jewish convert to catholicism killed by the nazis during world War ii and the Rev. Rupert Mayer a Jesuit imprisoned for fighting  groups have objected to sister Teresa s beatification on rounds that she was killed not As a Marty to her Faith but because she was bom a jew. Some also fur thai by honouring a jewish convert the Pope May seem to be encouraging such conversions. The Vatican has contended she was killed not Only As a jew but also in retaliation for a pastoral letter from dutch Catholic Bishops condemning the Deporta Tion of dutch jews to concentration  nun born Edith Stein in Breslau in 1891, be came a Catholic at the age of is after Reading the autobiography of the 16th-Century Mystic St. Teresa of Avilla nazi is men seized her aug. 2, 1942, in edit hol land and transported her to Auschwitz where she was killed two Days later along with 298 other jewish con verts to catholicism. John Paul the first Pope to make a pilgrimage to the death Camp in Poland has scheduled a meeting with members of the Central Council of jews after the nun beatification May i at a mais in the Cologne Mung Endorf  a mass May 3 in Munch s olympic stadium he will beautify Mayer a world War i military chaplain who lost a leg in the trenches but was a foe of the nazis during world War ii in the mid-1930s Mayer was sent twice to prison and in 1939 to a concentration Camp for preaching against Adolf Hitler. Released because of ill health he spent the War confined to a Benedictine monastery i Bavaria he died in november 1945 while celebrating  addition to Cologne Munich and Stuttgart John Paul Wilt visit Bonn Muenster pc Claer Bottrop Essen  Augsburg and pc scr. Spy hot line draws Cas from curious concerned fort Meade my. A most of the 2,000 Calls to the army s new spy hot line have been inquiries to see if the services for real Theoff Octal in charge of it says. Bat said civilian  William Dwyer some Calls have brought to he surface matters of con Cern including soldiers who drink excessively have gone into debt or boasted about Access to classified material. Such behaviour signals Security risk Sand possible espionage he said someone for instance who said they were going to visit their family in Minnesota and came Back with foreign coins and souvenirs could be suspect Dwyer said  program which started in March 1986, grew out of the Case of John Walker a Navy warrant officer who was convicted of spying for the soviet Union and the succession of espionage costs that  said the program began As a Pilot program and gradually expanded Lefour bases by november. It is to be in full operation with publicity in army publications and notices in paychecks on april 30. Army personnel anywhere in the United Stales can Call the toll free 24-hour number 800-Callspy, to report information. Calls Are Token by  gence experts trained to distinguish legitimate tips from Crank Calls Dwyer said. There Are plans to initiate such program in Usa eur this summer sgt. Elayne pc Nama a Susareu spokeswoman told the Stan and stripes thursday. Until such Lime the program is in place personnel can Contact their66lh military intelligence  Jerry Herman director of legislative counsel for the american civil liberties Union criticized the program the real Issue is whether they Are just going to end up with enormous amounts of gossip and information supplied by people with grudges Ber Man said. Dwyer said care would be taken tomake sure the information is not abused. Bakker tryst room at Florida hotel now big attraction Clearwater Fla. A room s38 at the Sheraton Sand key though not much different from the other 389 rooms at the hotel has become an attraction since television evangelist i Jim Bakker admitted he had a afternoon tryst then. It Sells so Pood i m thinking about putting 538 on every room on the fifth floor said hotel manager Russ Kimball since Bakker admitted his extramarital encounter the hotel has had callers wanting to slay the room or buy anything from the room. However Kimbal said the Bedspread curtains Bakker Beds and even the carpeting were replaced during a remodelling after Bakker s visit. Kimball said the hotel has been receiving two to three Telephone Calls a Day from radio disc jockeys from cities around the  want hotel workers to talk about the room where Bakker stayed. Others want to talk to the guest sin the room. And one radio station asked to broadcast from the room i had to Tell them i was sorry but the room was booked Kimball  manager Larry Hamm said that 538, which has two double Beds is booked for the next three weekends at a rate of $138 a night the Normal Price of inc room at this time of year. All confirmed Kil Afif Tuo time on his hands artist Klaus Rinke has planted his ohm kind of Cluck clocks controlled by Central mechanism will run Dur tree Forest on the grounds of an upcoming Galen show ing tie show which opens april 29. Rinke says his hit in Dusseldorf Germany Tyrenty three of the big  March of time. De in ferry sinking were British Zeebrugge Belgium a all174 people who arc confirmed to have died in the March 6 ferry disaster off this North sea port were British nationals officials said wednesday. At least a dozen corpses arc still believed entombed in the submerged car decks of he vessel. Meanwhile salvages continued Tor stabilize the Herald of free Enterprise righted last week but listing slightly Fol lowing a weekend storm said Roger Al Leyn spokesman for the West Blanden governor. The storm ripped open several holes in the ship s Hull and buried it deeper into the Sandy seabed to delay by at least three Days the re floating of the vessel Alleyn said. Recovery of the remaining bodies will Only be resumed when in ship is re floated which is unlikely to happen until late next week he said. The ship has to be made watertight and water has to be pumped out before it Ean be Lowed Back into acc Bruggy har Bor. It carried 543 people from  Dover England when it capsized in less than a minute As it left port. The cause of the disaster remains under investigation. But it is widely believed the ship rolled onto its port Side because its Bow loading doors had not been closed allowing water to Rush into the lower car decks. Townsend Thor san. The ferry owner disputed a published report it Lei a truck with 6t Drums of a hazardous cyanide solution Board inc ship in violation of International transport taws. The times of London reported wednesday the truck s owner had told Townsend Thoresen his truck carried 61drums of cyanide solution. It said the owner was surprised to learn the vehicle had not been put aboard a freight Only ferry Townsend Thor san spokesman Paul Ellis said his company knew the truck carried class 6.1 goods a hazardous cargo classification of the International maritime dangerous goods code. But that in itself Ellis said is no enough for Townsend Thor san to put the truck on a freight Only ship. For Tatlo happen extra information must be Given As provided under United nation maritime transport regulations. He said no extra information was Given for in truck  
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