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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, September 29, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 29, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 i m great Wall miniature in shrubbery for the Many strollers in Beijing s Tien an men Square who May never get the Chance to he the great Wall of China a Model of the Wall is on display for the oct. I National Day which is a major Holiday on the chinese Calendar. The Model has been sculpted from shrubbery. Marijuana washing up in cans on Brazil beaches Rio de Janeiro Brazil up anyone with the Energy to climb out of bed before Dawn and go beachcombing deserves the Odd Bil of Luck and in Brazil this pail week in has been very Odd indeed. Police arc mounting a desperate operation to Slop beachcombers from gelling their hands on 22 ions of marijuana being washed up in some 4,000 cans along 300 Miles of Beautiful tropical beaches. The marijuana is packed into unmarked containers that Are about As Large As family size juice cans. This is absolutely unheard of in the annals of Bra Zilian contraband said a Federal drug squad agent. Claud Iob Arlouin. He said police suspect the illegal drugs were thrown overboard from a panamanian registered yacht bound for the United Stales from Australia that entered Bra Zilian Waters with engine problems. Bar Rouin said the . Drug enforcement Agency tipped off brazilian police about the drugs More than a month ago. We were monitoring radio conversations Between the Crew and other people in Panama where the boat was due to go before in Tang . Waters he said. The brazilian Navy sent out a frigate and a mine sweeper to find the yacht when they pinned her Down near Rio de Janeiro the cargo hold was Bare and freshly scrubbed police said. Now police face two headaches. They have to question Crew members and establish a link Between the yacht and the cans in order to press trafficking charges and they have to reach the cans before they arc found by Brazil s Large dope smoking population. A photo photo released a photo of american hostage Terry Anderson his released monday to Gether with a threat to kill Tunis a leaders if Ibex allow the execution of seven fundamentalists islamic jihad issued the threat in a note delivered with the photo to a Western news Agency in Beirut Lebanon. Anderson is Chi of Middle East correspondent for inc associated press. Forest fires in Northwest spread no posing scary threat to industries by the associated press Forest fires in the Northwest charred 3,000 More acres Over the weekend As High winds handed firefighters in southwestern Oregon a major setback in efforts to control blazes buying for nearly a month. In Northern California the West s largest Forest tire was closer to being con rolled but consumed 2,000 More acres Over the weekend and the . Forest service said Long Range implications for Timber tourism and Salmon industries looked pretty  these fires Are going to Burn for some Lime Forest service spokeswoman Nora Laughlin said in the Klamath National Forest. More than 1,200 Square Miles have been charred in the Western states since a series of lightning storms began igniting Trees on aug. 28, in Wyoming cooler Damper weather helped Settle Down Forest fires burning in grand Teton and Yellowstone Valiona Parks while a smaller Limber fire in the Bridger Telon National Forest was contained authorities said. The weather is doing Well for  said Patrick Smith spokesman for the grand Telon National Park where a ire raced from two acres to an 1,100-Acrc Blaze in three Days last week. The Oregon fires escaped their South Western boundaries jumped the Illinois River and spread toward Tincup pass in a Remote area West of Grants pass bum ing an additional 1,000 acres said War Ren Litey. A spokesman for the Sisk you National Forest. It Loots like a major setback in the control of this fire. Because of extremely Low humidity and dry winds firefighters Are unable to make a direct attack on the fire said Olney who added that the same weather conditions were expected to continue monday. The fires have burned More than 52,000 acres since they were ignited by a lightning storm aug. 31. Despite Sun Day s developments fire Crews said 70 percent of the fires were contained. Northern California enjoyed better weather however As the absence of Strong winds that had been forecast in the Region combined with absence of a weather inversion that had cloaked the area helped  efforts Laughlin said sunday. About 5.000 firefighters remained on the lines in inc Klamath National Forest where slightly less than 226,000 acres have burned. The acreage increased by about 2,000 since saturday. Forest service spokesman malt males said an estimated 1.9 billion Board feet of marketable Timber has been lost in North Ern California at a Cost of 1220 million 10 $240 million. Of that amount about is so million Worth May be Salvage blk. That Means $90 million of Timber vanished and will never be recovered Mathes said a lot of the losses were Young stands 20-year-old plantations and new plantings which will Hurt us in the Long  Long Range some of the implications gel a icily scary said Bob Swinford a . Forest service spokesman. In some areas the Trees literally vanished Down to and including the Root system males said. In other areas the fire killed the Trees bul the Wood is still  Zeke grader head of the Pacific coast federation of fishermen said Sedi mentation and rises in water tempera Ture because of the loss of the Forest can Opy in the Klamath and Trinity River basins could endanger 20 percent of the slate s Salmon spawning areas University of California economist Peter Lierck estimated lumber prices could drop As much As 25 percent during a Salvage glut on the Market and Short term lower housing costs could result. In Idaho More than 200 firefighters were on the line sunday and More Crews were being recruited As lire Bosses geared up to fight a spreading Blaze in the Targ Hee National Forest. Crews were build ing lines around inc fire by hand in sleep Canyon terrain fire officials said  
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