European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 20, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 9 delayed car pickup in Bremerhaven causes Captain 2,600 headaches _ Bremer Rutn Bureau Bremerhaven one of every 10 persons ship Ping a car 10 Europe via arc Mcraven fails to pick it up within inc aligned time or As army Cape. Joseph Crowley looks Ai it 2,600 headaches a year. Crowley is the chief of the Bromer Haven vehicle processing Center. He oversees the Stream of registered idlers thai pursue people delinquent in picking up i hair automobiles. Although officials can threaten to dispose of vehicles that Aren t picked up Crowley said tint As a prac tical matter inc automobiles sit until something Hap pens. Recently two stateside creditors made arrange Nenis in Bremerhaven to re poness vehicles one � new Toyota pickup truck on which he owners had failed behind on payments. That disposed of two headaches. I wish 1 could Lake a Crane and Jutt dump them into the North sea and make fish houses Crowley said of the remaining automotive headaches. Roughly 10 percent of the 26.000 cars arriving each year in Brenner Haven fall into the delinquent category Crowley said. Some vehicle remain a few months some i year or More. On one recent Day. The Bremer Haven lot held 140 can overdue for pickup. On the Colier tide of the Ocean in Bayonne nj., slightly lets ban i percent of the 8,000 can shipped to the military Ocean terminal All into the delinquent Cut Ory spokeswoman then sail one big reason for the difference appears to be car insurance. Bremerhaven require proof of car insurance before releasing a vehicle. Bayonne does not. To onor insurance.  my  Europe. A 23-Ycar-Oid e-3 driving a Vork Wagen Imi onit can " expect to pay about si50 to $300 a year for Bare Bones coverage according to several insurance companies polled in the Washington . Area. An insurance agent in arc Mchaven said the tame Toldie with inc same car May pay about 51,100 a year in Germany and that amount will increase in january when across the Board increases take i Eccl the Cost of insurance was the reason Given by one army couple stationed in Bamberg. Germany As to Why their car had been sitting in Bremerhaven since nov. 15, 1986. They arc driving 1987 Dodge she of but can t afford the insurance on another car the woman said. Both arc specialists four. The couple is muting $270 monthly payments the new car plus another $ 145 a month of insurer she said. I can t afford another j145 car payment inc wife said. To bring another car Down Here and pay insurance on it would be extending  she said she was Lur prised the car was still sitting in Bremerhaven. I honestly thought it did t exist any  she had received a letter from the vehicle processing Center informing Bee the car had been sitting in Bremerhaven for 90 Days was considered abandoned and would be disposed or. It is a Standard letter the last of three that go out and one that packs More of a Baric than a bite Accord ing to Crowley months of labor Are required before a car can be sent to property disposal Crowley said. A title search must be done and if a Lien is held on the car property disposal is out he said. -. Owner allowing disposal or in the Case of a Bank. A pressing a willingness to forgo the Lien is needed be fore a Clear Case of abandonment can be made. Crow Ley said. Regulations allow charging a car owner for storage in Bremerhaven Crowley said. But in his opinion the hassle of gelling car owner to pay storage charges in addition to the other costs would Only compound the problem. Storage in Bayonne also is free unless the car Tat been put on a customs hold the spokeswoman in new Jersey said. The Bayonne and Bremerhaven centers Send owners a notification of arrival. If owners do not respond in 45 Days a registered letter is mailed to them. A service member is Given 120 Dayt to respond. After that the pertinent documents Are turned Over to the local judge advocate s office. Inc spokeswoman said. If sufficient justification is found to declare the vehicle abandoned the car it turned Over to the defense re utilization and marketing office she said. Bremerhaven does not use the Legal office to deter mine whether a car has been abandoned according to Crowley. One person in hit office works full time locating owners sending letters and hoping the owners will pick up their vehicles. Crowley does not expect the situation to change next year when the military starts shipping cars to Inland pickup Points to eliminate the need for service Meir Bers to come to arc Mchaven. Proof of insurance will still be required before a car is released from Hocmer Haven he said. J i fam Cluck Vonch  nit Lwort West accused of provoking protests former double agent Kim Philby makes rare appearance on soviet to Kin Phil lbs looks cure Tike a Cambridge Don in retire ment than a Bailor in  bbl said. London a Farmer double agent Kim Phil by appeared on soviet television for the first time and accused Western intelligence of provoking latvian opposition to soviet Rule the British broadcasting corp. Said. Philby whose defection from Britain to the soviet Union 24 years ago confirmed massive soviet penetration of Western intelligence appeared wednesday in a four minute interview in the soviet Republic of Latvia. Philby now 75, was the third Man with the Hie Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. The three come out of Cambridge University in the 1930s and betrayed British and american secrets for decades. A segment of the interview showed Philby speaking English but Only a few words were heard and then a voice Over in russian reported his remarks. Philby is saying that Western intelligence encouraged latvian exiles to oppose soviet control of i hair country and attempted to Reckitt them As agents the bbl report said. On wednesday thousands of latvians molesting the takeover of their Homeland by the soviet Union 47 years ago reportedly fought soviet authorities who tried to Blade the demonstrations. A Kab officer interviewing Philby called him com Rade  Philby is thought to hold the rank of Kab colonel and received the order of Lenin award for his services. The bbl described his television interview on the lat Vian troubles As one More service for the country he adopted half a Century  Harold . Kim Philby took up a pro soviet ideological stance while at Cambridge and was a soviet agent when he joined mj6, the British intelligence Agency Early in world War ii. He wrote in his autobiography my silent War published in 1968, that Here was hardly any Check of his background before he entered the ranks of the British secret services. The cast of my entry surprised me he wrote. The Only enquiry into my past was inc routine reference to m15 the Security service or  Agency who passed my name through their records and came Back with the laconic statement nothing recorded against " among the key posts he held was Britain s ton secret agent in Turkey head of the soviet desk at mj6, and Britain s Liaison Man with the Cia in the United Stales. The British say his betrayals Cost the lives of hundreds of people working for British and . Intelligence in Alba Nia in 1949-51 in 1951, he tipped Burgess that Maclean was suspected of being a soviet agent and both of them immediately defected to Moscow though suspicion fell on Philby As the third Man in a soviet spy ring after the two escaped he was Able to outwit his interrogators and avoid arrest but he was fired from intelligence work and worked As a journalist in the Middle East until stronger evidence against him came to Light causing him finally to flee from Beirut Lebanon t chinese Pilot flying Mig-19 defects in Taiwan Taipei. Taiwan a a chinese  Force Squadron commander Tew his Mig 19 Jet fighter across the narrow Taiwan Snail and defected to the nationalists thursday the defense ministry reported. The ministry said Liu glib Yuan. 28, took off from a base in lungs i in the Southern coastal province of fijian 113 Miles across the Taiwan Strait from Tai wan and landed at the Ching Chuan Kang  Force base in Taichung 120 Miles South of Taipei Al 3 38 . The ministry issued a Brief statement that said Liu stationed with the 49th chinese  Force right div was a native of Jinan in inc northeastern prov Ince of Shandong Taiwan s official broadcasting corp. Of China said two nationalist chinese Jet tighten scrambled to intercept the Mig 19 As it approached Taiwan and later escorted it to the  base where Liu was greeted by nationalist chinese  Force officials. Officials declined to provide addition Al details on the defection. A number of chinese pilots have defected to Taiwan since the nationalist government retreated to this Island in 1949 after losing a civil War on the China Mainland to the communists. Officials said Liu was the sixth Pilot la defect by flying directly to Taiwan since i960. Several others have defected by Fly Idjo planes to South Korea the Only asian country that maintain diplomatic relations with the nationalists. The defectors to South Korea were later allowed to resettle in Taiwan but the planes Wen kept by the koreans