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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday August 1. 1987 Picasso print discovered among seized porno films Orlando a. Al l police had pin Ned to Burn a charcoal coloured picture of a buxom Nakal woman and a bearded Man along with seized porno graphic1 films. Then they saw it was signed Picasso. Orlando s property manager Phil Edwards first no lived the work because he it the Frame. Hut when he dusted it off he saw an abstract image and Pencil markings in a Bottom Corner thai be it apart. The portrait of a nude woman posing for an artist could be Worth Between j2.000 and j9,Soo, some new York Art dealers said thursday. The work appears to be an original aquatic etching prepared in 1966 by the prolific Spanish born artist Pablo Picasso according to Alan Dubois assistant director of the Orlando museum of Art. Aqua Linting is a form of etching in which the artist uses acid to etch ones rather than Irnes from a cop per plate. The print is transferred to paper and it 7oncs Are filled Wilh color producing an etching that is similar to a Wal Creolor painting. The etching discovered in the Orlando police department evidence room was the firn Iff so pronoun in from a plate that i Kasso prepared on oct. 25. 1965.the artist who died in 1973 at age 91, started making prints in 1904. It was a very Nice Frame Edwards said of the slightly chipped Gold painted Wood Frame. The etch ing looked like a charcoal drawing behind the dust Edwards said he recognized the Picasso style from an Art class he look 10 years ago at the University of Wesl Florida. He asked therit librarian to Check it. Police said thursday they could t pinpoint where the print came front it was either unclaimed stole property or material seized in a drug raid said spokes Man Mike Wenger the print had been collecting dust in the evidence room for at teas a year. Ii was horrible an unidentified evidence room caretaker told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper. When we first pulled it we All laughed about  had Edwards not grabbed it the police would Haw burned the print along with inc pornographic films. Jim tikk Wrt 41, posts a to i 36-fool Sloop in middy town ., list May when the boat Naa launched. Blind Man ready to sail Atlantic Newport  A a Blind Sailor aided by a talking computer plans to cast off net week in his yacht. The Eye opener on his quest to become inc first sightless person to sail Solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The last couple of months have been the most exciting and the most difficult of my i ill Jim Dickson said thursday. The i a year old Dickson who has been preparing for the ?,800-mile voyage to England for seven years had planned to set Tail More than i month to bul postponed hit departure to make improvements to his 36-foot fiberglas Sloop. He said he is ready to leave whenever the winds cooperate. His planned route will avoid shipping lanes and will take him Southeast from Rhode Island to the 38lh parallel then East almost to he Alore islands and North Jii to Plymouth England. Dickum who estimates inc voyage will take 28 to 32 Days will be escorted out of Nurr Gansell Bay and into Plymouth Harbor but will be totally alone otherwise. He Hopes Hii trip will demonstrate what Blind peo ple Are capable of and eventually help reduce the 70percent unemployment rate among the Blind. It in t that they Don t want to work it in t that they re not capable of working said Dickson. An associate director of project vote a National voter Regis Lra lion organization in Washington it s that they Don t gel the  Bab Cooper director of the Rhode Island Gover nor commission on the handicapped did Pukin voyage would show ways Luj existing technology can help Blind people Lead productive lives. Dickson his outfitted the Eye Omer Wilh More than is 2,000 Worth of special equipment Bough with donations. The equipment includes the talking com Puter that will give him position Speed and wind direction. He also Plant to Nave a Ham radio Aba re and will keep an am radio switched on at All limes to detect storms. Stateside . Intends to sell 100 tanks to Morocco Washington to jul the administration has notified ingress of res Ink no to sell Morocco 1uo Vintage m48a5 tanks with machine guns ammunition radios and spares valued 41j68 million the Pentagon said Morocco already has m48 tanks in its Arsenal and the proposed Sale is intended to increase its armoured capability the Pentagon said. The tanks will come from army stocks it said. Congress has 30 Days in which to approve or disapprove the proposal. Cd reports 64 costs of tetanus in . In 86 Atlanta a tetanus ii a completely preventable disease but it continues to be re ported in Small numbers with 64 cases found in the United states last year Federal health officials said thursday. The National centers for disease control Tai last year s total marked a decline from s3 let anus cases in 19si. For the two year period the nation s tetanus Rale was three cases per 10 Mil lion people compared with 39 per 10 million in 1947, when officials began keeping tetanus re cords. Tetanus can cause muscle spasms and lockjaw and in some cases death. Thirty one percent of the . Patients Over he past two years died of the disease which is acquired Moil frequently when tetanus bacteria enter the body through an unclean wound. 2 men boy escape injury when shark attacks boat Naalehu Hawaii apr two fishermen and the 12-year-old son of one of them were Able to escape injury when their boat was attacked by a shark and hey spent More than 12 hours get line to Shore police and the men said. The boat which was attacked by a shark Esti mated at 600 Pound then Sank nine Miln off Shore police said the skipper. Weston Leslie said he i son Newton and his fishing partner. Waiter by were thrown into the water. He said he and Gay placed his son in a floating ii Huboi and set it on for Shore. Leslie said he killed the shark using a ban stick a makeshift underwater gun used by div ers. Leslie said other Sharks followed them As they made their Way to Shore but they  striking he water with their bands. Mother 3 children killed when son s truck hits train Williamstown Kan. Jap a 14-year old boy drove his family s pickup into the path of a freight train in a crash that left his Mother a and three of his siblings dead aul Horil its Taid the Driver and one of his Brothers were injured in the Accident at the intersection of . Highways 24 and 59 in Eastern Kansas. The cot ton Belt train was travelling on Union Pacific tracks the Highway patrol said. Killed in the crash were Linda Taylor 37, of Perry Claire Taylor a Marcel Taylor 6 and Maryjean Taylor 4. The Driver Adam Taylor and i brother i i year old Benedict were in fair condition a Lawrence memorial Hospital. Another brother Cameron tailor 5, was not injured according to the patrol. The patrol report said Adam Taylor apparently did not Sec the train and drove into its path. The Rural crossing was marked Only by a crossing sign. 100 minnows Darters could t hold their liquor la Nokbuko Tenn. Uhf i stale wildlife officials have determined that fish Don t hive much tolerance foraged Tennessee whiskey. About 100 minnows and Darters died after 13,800 Gallons of Jack Daniel s whiskey Worth j 700.000 spilled into Mulberry Creek from a broken pipe july 16 at the Daniel s distillery Tennessee wildlife resources Agency official do k Wilson a d  
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