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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside Stritt but is it arts i Jer Magazine d fighter pilots ready for Gur smoke Page 3 g Randy Barnett s car Comer Page 13 q today s Dollar buys 1.81 Marks Page 23 Utho Vizco unofficial Ulic Tom Roll th1 , a Fumeo foiice1 vol.-16, no. 69 thursday june 25, 19b7 08693 a s. Korea talks collapse More protests planned Seoul South Korea a opposition leaders denounced president Chun Doo Hwan wednesday after the collapse of talks on ending nationwide protests that have plunged the country into crisis. The opposition vowed to step up its Campaign to oust the government. The reunification democratic parly issued a Tough statement after party chief Kim Young Sam met for three hours with Chun heir first meeting in the tvs years of Chun s presidency. The talks were a Concession by Chun after two weeks of the worst political violence since he took Power in i9so. We condemn the current regime s scheme to prolong its Power and declare strongly to struggle together with the democratic forces to struggle for democratization in a peaceful and non violent manner Kim said in the statement after the meeting. Related Story Page 9. Opposition leaders said they would go ahead with plans for major protests against the government on Friday. Radi Cal students have vowed to March on the presidential Palace. In Southern Seoul wednesday about 1,000 workers students and dissidents tried to stage a demonstration outside a railway station. But about 2,000 riot police hurling tear Gas grenades repeatedly attacked the demonstrators and sent them fleeing. When they tried to re see s. Korea on Page 24 stretch of dreary weather worst in Century  is unlearn Bureau Kapaun As Germany Lucky us. On the heels of the worst Winter Europe has seen in recent memory comes the Deariest Spring in at least 103 years. In the biblical Story they had Only 40 Days of bad weather said it. Col. Donald Best chief of inc aerospace Sci ence division of the 2nd weather Wing. We be had 51  make thai 52 now and counting. The persistent rain in t setting  Ramstein a for example the average june precipitation is 2.6 inches. The cur rent level of 2.98 inches will fall almost three inches below the record. And the temperature in t abnormal Only about 2.5 de Grees celsius below average. But it is the length not the strength of the dreary weather that has skies dark spirits Damp and socks soggy across the United kingdom the Benelux and Ger Many. The Clouds settled Over Central Europe May 4, and there has been no appreciable break since. Best said. The thing that has people irritated. Me included is this Long stretch of bad weather he said. By bad weather i mean Cool Cloudy and wet. It s  it s also unprecedented for May and june. Safe meteorologists use a data base provided by the German weather service to compare current weather conditions with similar conditions in the past. The store of information stretches Back 103 years for Germany and All the countries bordering it. While Here May have been longer periods of bad weather at other times Dur ing the year Best could not find a worse May and june on record. The culprit for the Cloudy skies is a trough in the upper air flow 18,000 feel Over Central Europe. It is like a Valley in the mass of air that circles the Globe at Sis by Cir by Lynas w. I the overflowing Rhine at Oppenheim Germany discourages Bench sitting. High Levels. A trough causes Low pressure and Low pressure causes bad weather said Harald Strauss a climatologist forthe weather Wing. Talk of troughs and Low pressure will sound vaguely familiar to those who re member last Winter. The same trough was in  then bringing aortic air Over the continent with record Low temperatures. The trough is it unusual for this time of year Best said. What s unusual is that it is  the effects of the upper air not mov ing Are being fell outside of Europe As Well. In the United states the late Spring Early summer weather patterns also Are mimicking conditions in Winter. The real summer pattern for the Northern hemisphere has not devel oped yet Sirauss said. But help might be on the Way. A com Puter simulated Model produced tues Day showed slight movement in the upper air pushing the trough East. Atmospheric conditions on the Wesl Side of these troughs tend to suppress Clouds and rain Best said. If this is right it looks like monday and tuesday Are going to be pretty Good Dayi he said. True to the weather watcher s Rule of not guaranteeing anything. Best advised keeping an Eye skyward this saturday. Seven Sleeper s Day which is like the . Groundhog Day Falls on june 27. According to the German Fanner s Al manac whatever weather conditions occur june 27 will continue for seven weeks Best said. There is a final argument in favor oncoming Good weather. The air weather service which pro Vides weather information to the Mili tary celebrates its 50th anniversary with a picnic july 1. It s got to be Clear that Day Best said. Lebanese official s son freed Glass still held Beirut Lebanon of moslem kidnappers on wednesday freed Ali Osseiran the son of Lebanon s defense minister and his Driver sources reported. American journalist Charles Glass abducted with them a week ago remains a captive defense minister Adel Osseiran told a news Confer ence in South Lebanon s port cily of Sidon after his son s release Charles Glass is still alive. Efforts Are continuing to obtain his  asked whether he thinks Glass will be released soon the 82-year-old Osseiran said i Hope  however a police spokesman said it appears or. Glass has joined the list of foreign hostages in Leb anon despite Syria s pressure to free him. The release of Osseiran and his Driver minus Glass appears to be a Compromise sought by the kid nappers to ease syrian pressure. But it remains to be seen whether the syrians will Settle for it said the spokesman. Osseiran 40, and his Driver bodyguard Suleiman Salman arrived at the Osseiran residence in the coast Al town of a Meileh wednesday morning the spokes Man said. Salman drove Osseiran Home in the same while Volvo they were Riding in with Glass 36, when they were seized by 14 kidnappers in South Beirut last  arrived Al rare sikh wednesday morning and sent his Driver to Wesl Beirut to inform the family see freed on Page 24  
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