European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 30,1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 town celebrates . Cooper sky Aufang Ariel. Wash. A More than 800 people crammed the Ariel tavern and general store on saturday and watched skydivers scattering phony $20 Bills to Mark the 16th anniversary of the . Cooper sky jacking. Tavern owner Richard Purdy said it was perfect weather for skydiving Clear and sunny unlike the Rainy night when Cooper parachuted from a Boeing 727 somewhere Over South Western Washington. Cooper and most of the $200,000 Ransom were never found and the mystery is celebrated every year Wilh a party of Ariel which consists of the tavern general store and Post office about 25 Miles from mount St. Helens. Events at inc party included a 10 kilo Clur walk displays by an old car club Buffalo Stew five skydivers and All Day music including Purdy s Rendi Tion of his song the Ballad of .  the nov. 24, 1971 hijacking the Man who bought a ticket under the name Dan b. Cooper passed a note to the Pilot shortly after the plane took off from port land. Ore. Cooper threatened to blow up the plane. Passengers and two Crew Mem Bers were released in Seattle before the plane look off again. He took our parachutes and $200,000 and ordered the plane to Fly to Reno Nev. When the plane landed in Reno the Hijacker and loot were gone. Authorities theorized he parachuted out the Back of the Boeing 727 Over South Western Washington. The Only sign of what happened was the discovery of is 800 of the Ransom on a Columbia River Sandbar in 1980. Purdy said he did t know if Cooper was among those at inc tavern but there was no shortage of suspicious characters in sunglasses. The event attracts annual visitors from throughout the country and some foreign nations he said. You have to be Here to understand. It s not just any old party. There s something special about it Purdy said. He said that the crowd is divided Between those who believe Cooper was a Crook and people who Are glad he was never caught. It s the mystery that makes it interesting he said. American made television sets soon to go on Sale in Japan Franklin Park 111. A television View ers in Japan will soon be watching tvs made in suburban Chicago a japanese company that owns a Plant Here announced. Matsushita electric Industrial co. Said Friday it is studying currency Exchange Rales and Market de Mand to determine How Many sets it will ship to Japan from its Franklin Park Plant. The company bought the Plant from Motorola in 1974. Matsushita whose Brand names include Panasonic and quasar was the second major japanese com Pany to announce last week that it will Export elec tronic goods from the United slates. Toshiba corp. Said it will Send 5,000 microwave ovens to Japan in january and an unspecified num Ber of color television sets from a . Subsidiary. In addition Honda manufacturing corp. Has said in will Start exporting Large motorcycles from its . Plant to Japan. Industry analysis said the reverse Trade is fuelled by the declining value of the Dollar which leads to lower prices on .-made products sold abroad and lessens the Price advantage of products made in Japan. However Many More companies would have to do the same before it would make a Dent in the . Trade deficit Wilh Japan which totalled s4.6 billion in september. What is coming from the . Is Token Only and Trade with Japan Muta Cound Good  Leipor Tad to Japan to. � imported from Japan will stay Token Only because asians can produce goods cheaper said David Gerstenhaber an analyst at Morgan Stanley & co. Token imports from the . Are probably More a reflection of the political slate while the reason for imports from other asian countries is hard Core economics he said. Protests staged asking shoppers not to buy furs Washington up animal rights activists including a 9-year-old girl who brought along her pet Rabbit demonstrated across the nation to urge Christmas shoppers not to buy Furt and 10 protesters were arrested in san Francisco. Other demonstrations were held in Providence . Greenwich Conn. New Brunswick . New York Allentown and Harrisburg a. Nashville Tenn Den ver Salt Lake City and Portland Ore. The protests were sponsored by trans species unlimited an animal rights group headquartered in Williamsport. Pa., which staged its third annual fur free Friday to focus attention on what it says is the suffer ing of animals raised to support the fur Industry. The group said protests were scheduled in 37 locations. Steve Siegol 37, the group s director said he hoped the demonstrations would heighten sensitivity to the suffering of animals. The people of this country buy inc propaganda of the fur Industry. That the animals who provide this fur Don l sultor he said. They say these animals Don t suffer but it just in t  nine adults were arrested and one juvenile was cited on charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace after they entered a Ciman Marcus department store in san Francisco in an attempt to disrupt fur sales police said. In new York More than 500 people marched along fifth venue heckling women dressed in fur Coats and holding four Small rallies outside clothing and depart ment stores. Goez s confess on available on videocassette by Michael fhe tag new York not when Bernhard h. Goelz surrendered to the police in Concord n.h., almost three years ago and admitted shooting four teen agers on a Manhattan subway he probably never imagined thai his confession would one Day become a Home videocassette sold in stores alongside such films As rambo and death  since nov. 12, however a video cassette containing extended excerpts of Goelz s confession which was videotaped by new York City Detec Tives and later shown in court has been on Sale in the City and across the nation. The videocassette titled the confessions of Bernhard Goelz is 88 minutes Long and Sells for $39.95. It is being distributed without authorization by Goetz. In addition to almost 60 minutes of Goetz s emotional description of the shooting the videotape has commen tary on the Case from iwo jurors a Law professor Curtis Sliwa of the Guardi an Angels and Roy Innis of the con Gress of racial Equality sales so far have been weak but Jaffer Ali vice president of sales for Mph Home video the company that produced the Lape said he believes that the confessions of Bernhard Goetz will find an audience. Who does Ali expect to buy the tape everybody who has read about the Case he said. Anybody who has tuned into nigh line or the television news and seen Only 20 seconds of the confession. Anybody who really is concerned with the issues  the video stores however Are sceptical. It is not something to put on the Christmas blocking list said Jacques Abbas the owner of video vault in Manhattan. It is going to be a weak renter and  Mph has put out 10,000 of the Goetz tapes compared Wilh 102,000 copies of la. Col. Oliver l. North s Iran Centra testimony. Ali said sales May improve this week when posters advertising the cassette appear in new York cily subway stations. In june goes was acquitted of at tempted murder and assault but was found guilty of carrying an unlicensed concealed pistol and was sentenced to six months  faces a civil suit brought by the four men he shot. Mph contends thai the Confes Sions of Bernhard Goelz is a news documentary serving a valuable pub Lic function. But Barry 1. Sloznick. The lawyer who represented Goelz in the criminal trial said the tape infringes on his client s rights. Slotnick is considering filing a Law suit against Mph on behalf of Goelz he said. We believe that no one can profit and exploit him commercially in the manner that is being at tempted Slotnick said. Ali acknowledged thai Mph did not receive permission from Goetz 10 pro Duce the videotape. He said however that such permission was not Nec Essary since the Lape was played in court and later released to news organizations. The Bill of rights does not Stop at the videocassette Ati said. Why would the manner of the dissemination of information mat Ter the tape is an example of video  Ali said. We thought we had something we could do better than broadcast or Prim journalism. You can t write about the anguish and anger you have to show  once the statement was released to news organizations it appears to have become fair game for entrepreneurs said Vincent Blasi a professor of Law at Columbia uni it would have been a difficult Case if the video tape had not been made Public g