European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 9, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 foreign visitors helping set tourism records across . By the associated press foreigners attracted by the cheaper Dollar arc contributing to the strongest year on record Tor the . Travel and tourism business. Up to labor Day record foreign attendance was reported at attractions from Independence Hull in Philadelphia to unix real studios in los Angeles. The . Travel data Center predicts spending on travel and tourism in 1987 will set a record exceeding last year s $260 billion by about 5 per cent. Foreigners account for about 6 percent of the spending the . Travel & tourism administration estimates. The number of foreigners visiting the United Stales is running far ahead of projections and appears Likely to break the record set in 1982, said Harvey Shields a Market researcher for he travel & tourism administration. The Dollar s 2l. Year decline has made the United stale a bargain for Many foreign tourists and Busi Ness travellers at these Exchange rates it s not the right Lime Togo 1o Europe. You should t go to Japan. We have no Choice said Juan Manuel Ortiz a mexican Bank economist seeing the sights in Manhattan. It s easy to go out and spend the Money Here said Michael Andersen a danish airline Steward who has frequent layovers in the United Stales. Andersen used to pocket his dollars until he got Back to Denmark. Now that those dollars buy less a Home he spends them in the United Stales to the tune of s32s for three Tennis rackets on his last shopping spree. Travel and tourism is one of the few areas in which the nation runs a Trade surplus with Japan about is billion last year. But the United states runs a travel and tourism deficit of $8.6 billion with the world As a whole. At Universal studios 44 percent More foreign visitors came to Ogle King Kong jaws and Miami vice stunts so far this year contributing to an Over All 8 percent increase in attendance Over 1986, the Dollar s weakness is one Clement. The other Clement is increased International sales efforts said Randy Garfield the sales director record numbers of foreigners Are also joining crowds of americans at the statue of Liberty an Philadelphia s Independence Hall Birthplace of the 200-year-old Constitution. At Elvis Presley s Graceland mansion in Mem Phis. Tenn foreigners Are contributing to record attendance. This is the 10th anniversary of Elvis s death and the worldwide publicity has never been better said Todd Morgan the Graceland communications Man Ager. Throw a Dart at the world map and that s where they come  Canada leads Alt nations in sending citizens to the United Stales followed by Japan Britain Ger Many Mexico France Italy Brazil the Bahamas and Australia the travel & tourism administration says. $73 million pledged in Lewis telethon Las vegas Nev. A the 22nd annual Jerry Lewis labor Day telethon for muscular Dys loopy raised a record $39 million in individual pledges Mon Day surpassing last year s record by nearly $5 million and corporate sponsors pledged an additional $34.3 million fora total of 173.3 million. As corny As it May sound. What a Good Day for Mankind Lewis told a National audience. Celebrities Sang and danced through the 21 a hour event and muscular dystrophy victims and their families made poignant pleas for funds to help fight 12 different diseases and 24 neuromuscular Disord ers targeted by the new York based muscular Dys trophy association. Donations soared past last year s record in the20th hour of the telethon bringing cheers from a crowd jammed into the sports Pavilion where the telethon was held. Spectators stood in line for hours in the hot de Sert Sun or throughout the night waiting to spend an Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 9, 1947 More than 1,200 jewish refugees were resumed to German soil by British troops and lodged in a guarded displaced persons Camp near Hamburg. 30 years ago today. Sept. 9, 19s7 Arkansas gov. Orval Faubus ignored a Federal court Rebuff and ordered National guardsmen to continue to prevent Blacks from enter ing Central High school in Little Rock 20 years ago today sept 9, 1967 the Pentagon said in would use defoliants and herbicides at the planned demilitarized zone Barrier in South Vietnam to deprive infiltrators of cover it said the chemicals would t harm animals or people but would prevent Plant life from growing . Hour watching the telethon. Early in the show Lewis played a videotape of Jim Crigsby s a Las vegas fireman who helped launch a National program 25 years ago in which firemen stand on Corners collecting donations i firemen s boots for mad. Crigsby learned1 about two years ago that he had a form of the disease an died earlier this year. Lewis who attended Grigsby s funeral was Visi Bly shaken by the segment and his voice broke As he continued the show. Lewis who spends half of his Lime throughout the year working to raise Money for mad said this year s budget for the association will be si00 Mil lion with the Money used for a variety of purposes including patient care and research. Lewis s co hosts included Sammy Davis jr., de Mcmahon Casey Kasem Julius Larosa and Tony Orlando stars making appearances included Frank Sinatra Ann Margret Tom Jones and Paul Anka. Electricity Wewt pqwm9 Abri in percent of total Tor 1985 a Hydra 4.1% 11.4% Erik to Tanta Coturri 11ji nuke mishaps Down slightly Washington a . Nuclear plants recorded 2,957 mishaps in 1986, a slight improvement Over the j985 safely record Accord ing to a study released monday by Public Citi zen s critical mass Energy project. The total included it incidents considered serious enough by the nuclear regulatory com Mission that they were reported to Congress As abnormal occurrences there were 678 emergency Plant shutdown during the year at the More than 100 licensed nuclear reactors. The Ralph Nader affiliated group which opposes nuclear Power generation acknowledged that most of the incidents were minor but said they Are indicative of ongoing safety problems at All nuclear Power plants. While Viry mishap does not necessarily impose a major threat to Public health and safety if some were to occur simultaneously they could have severe consequences said the 130-Pagepublic citizen study. What May appear to be minor mishaps take on added significance when they occur in comic systems such As a nuclear reactor said the report. There were 2,997 mishaps in 1985, a year that Public citizen said was the nuclear Industry Sworst since the 1979 three mile Island Accident St. Louis police arrest 4 suspects in supermarket robbery murders 10 years ago foday. Sept. 9. 1977 Senate foreign relations com Mittee chairman John Sparkman d.ala., told pan Ama s Gen. Omar Torrijos he could not guarantee thai the Senate would ratify the new canal treaties thai Torrijos and president Carter had signed a Day earlier. St. Louis a four men two of them Broth ers have been arrested in the slaying of five people and the wounding of two others during a supermarket robbery police announced monday. The arrests came after one of the men contacted authorities Over the weekend and led officers to the others said police capt. Charles Mccrary. Of however he said we still have a lot to do to finalize our  additional arrests Are Pas sible he said. The slayings were the worst multiple homicide in the St. Louis area since at least 1980, when four work ers were shot to death during the robbery of a shopping enter cafeteria. Police said two men possibly posing As a cleaning Crew entered the Northside National supermarket after it closed on Friday night. After Money was removed from a Cash Register seven store employees were herded into a Corner and apparently ordered to lie on the floor most of the were shot in the head police Laid. Two of those who were shot survived and were reported in serious condition. Two other employees escaped injury by climbing onto the store s roof police said. Mccrary said discrepancies in information Given by the Man who contacted police on saturday led to the investigation s first arrest. During further questioning of the suspect on this subject he admitted to being in the company of several other men who were responsible for the actual robbery and the homicides Mccrary said. He declined to provide details of the questioning or say Why the Man contacted  said one of the three who were subsequently arrested sunday eventually implicated All four of those who were charged. Those charged in the killings were identified As Charles Wright 36, Anthony Benn 27, Reginald Wil Liams 23, and his brother Ricky Williams 19. Wright Benn and Reginald Williams were charged with first degree murder armed criminal action As Sault robbery and by irjary Ricky Williams was charged with second degree murder Mccrary said. Mccrary declined to specify which of the four men contacted police and which were believed to have ear Ned out the killings. A weapon was recovered sunday but investigators were not certain it was the same one used in the kill Ings Mccrary said. Police have not ruled out the possibility that the robbery was an inside Job. Mike Monica 28. The store s Frozen food manager said janitorial employees arriving at the store shortly after 11 o clock Friday night were not asked to show identification and apparently knew they would be Able to slip into the store