European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 20, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Pultr for one of Buffalo Bill s Many farewells. Memora a of Buffalo biff1 sold at auction san Francisco a i icum Cura tors history buffs and Urban cowboys Friday bought up the biggest collection of William f. Buffalo Bill Cody Memorabilia Ever auctioned including a Silver trimmed Rifle that brought $22,500. The collection sold at Butterfield i Buiter Field consisted or Man than 300 items originally pre served by Cody s sister Julio Cody Goodman. A pair of chaps worn by the Pony express rider. Indian lighter Buffalo Hunter. Army scout and showman sold for is. 400, and a Lariat went for 15do other items included Cody s Buffalo hide coat and his Silver handled Toothbrush. Who better symbolizes the american West than Buffalo Bill asked . Wilson historical consultant to Coll firearms co. Of Hartford Conn. He came to bid on a single action Colt revolver one of eight guns in the collection. The collection was sold by Greg Martin a san Francisco gun collector and history Buff who bought the artefacts for $300,000 last year in Billings Mont. He had wanted to buy Only a Shotgun inscribed to Cody but had to buy the whole lot to get the  collection was unique for its Large number of personal items including a Tomahawk from his Friend . White Beaver Powell and Doz ens of photographs show Bills and theater tick ets chronicling Cody s life As the Roughrider who along with shooting Champion w. Doc Carver founded the first wild West show. Europe to join . Effort to develop space station Washington a the european space Agency has agreed after two Yean of negotiations to take part in the . Space station project and provide a Laboratory module to be permanently attached to the Earth orbiting facility. The agreement approved by the 13-Membcr Esa Council provides for cooperation in the design development operation and use of the space Slation. The european investment in the module to be called col Umbus is expected to exceed 2 billion. The United states is currently in the detailed design stage of building the space Stalion which is expected to be ready for occupancy Early in 1998. The estimate of . Costs has risen from a projection of j8 billion made in 1984 to More than j30billion in current dollars. Japan also is expected to contribute 12 billion and Canada about 1800,000. Cooperation Between the United Stales and Esa seemed doomed to failure late in 1986 when the Penta gon announced it wanted to retain its options for Mili tary research on the station. The National aeronautic and space administration had to assure its european i Well As Canadian and japanese partners that no major weapons systems would be placed aboard Al though the research option remains. Nasa Laid inc agreement Marks Trie end of More than iwo years of negotiations on the technical and program Matic framework Between the iwo agencies in the largest cooperative civil space project  in its decision thursday the Esa Council authorized director general re incr Lucullo sign a memorandum of understanding with Nasa administrator James c. Fletcher in the near future the memorandum of understanding is being re viewed by the Reagan administration then will be submitted to Congress for review before it is signed by the two parties. It also has to be approved by each of the Esa Mem Ber governments Austria Belgium. Denmark France West Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands. Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland and the United kingdom. In addition to providing the Columbus module to the space station Complex Esa will furnish an unmanned free flying Polar orbiting platform for Earth observation experiments. The United sidles is devel Oping a similar platform. A Apac Naa t Assur u loser radio i Stu o u � u u As Opin pm introduces steering wheel designed to reduce Driver injury Boston a general motors president Robert thai helps spread the foral Simenel on Friday introduced an automobile steering wheel designed to move with the Driver on Impact and reduce injury in car crashes. Simp cd told a conference of 1,000 Road safety activists that the steering wheel remains a primary source of injury in the event of a  despite the collapsible steering column developed 20 years ago. The new steering wheel has an Energy absorbing Hub the Point where he wheel meets the steering column. At this juncture in the new wheel six Metal joint Are designed to fold on Impact and enable inc wheel to move parallel to the Driver s Chest. This Al lows the wheel to my against inc body and move with it. Tha help Force of the Impact and reduces Chest injuries Stempl said. Tests showed the new steering wheel also lessened injuries to the Abdomen and the face when those were the Points of Impact he said. The steering wheel will make is debut next year in the Chevrolet Cavalier and will be phased in on other models not equipped with air bags. Stempel used the occasion 10 encourage the wearing of scat Bells especially in Massachusetts where a sen Belt Law was repealed. Thirty two slates require motorists to Wear sem balls. He also urged motorists to pay better attention to pedestrians and motorcyclists who account for 25 per cent of inc annual Road death loll. Bridges tone raises Firestone offer Chicago a Japan s Brid Citone corp agreed to buy Firestone tire and rubber co. Tor nearly $2.6 billion in Cash an offer that leaped far beyond a rival bid from the italian lire maker Pirelli spa. Pirelli which offered j1.9j billion for Firestone said Friday from ils Headquarters in Milan Italy a that it would not increase its Oiler. Later in a statement issued in new York the company said it would wait before making a final decision on dropping its Cun ent offer. Firestone directors announced the agreement to Bridges Lone s 180-a-share offer late thursday and recommended that shareholders reject the Pirelli bid. Firestone Stock which closed Al $62.50 a share thursday shot up to s78 by Midas Lemoon Friday on the new York Stock Exchange sex on Cri liner allegation results in 4 being arrested Bridges Lane and Firestone announced an agreement in mid february that called for the japanese company to buy 75 percent of Firestone s worldwide tire manufacturing business for s 1.5 billion. But after Pirelli bunched its bid last week. Bridge Stone faced with losing the world s fourth largest tire manufacturer decided to bid for the entire company. We never considered backing away from oui agreement with Firestone to become its partner in operating its worldwide tire businesses Bridges Lane pc Sidoni Awra vein said. The merger agreement merely represents an expansion and Extension four original agreement Weiri said his company planned to keep Firestone s worldwide lire operations Headquarters in Akron Ohio under existing management. All of Firestone s North american plants will stay in operation. Sands or time Chicago a a couple accused by a 13-year-old girl of having sex on a trans Al Lanitic flight were arrested and two men who began throwing food when a flight Al tend and intervened also were charged to Lic said. The passengers were arrested when american airlines flight 37 from Munich West Germany to san Diego made an in Leric Diane Stop in Chicago sol. Jerry Thornton of the police unit assigned to o Hare International Airport said but Phillip Matin 52, of Loomis calif., said hand his wife were sleeping. This was the fantasy of a Young girl thai b completely uncorroborated Matin said. It s  ii was Broad Daylight and there were people walking around Matin said. He and his wife Sharyn to Van Tassill 42, a lawyer and part Lime judge were arrested monday and charged with Public indecency. Police said most passengers apparently were asleep during the Atlantic crossing when the girl told her Mower that she believed the couple across inc aisle was engaged in a sex act. The girl s Mother summoned a flight attendant Whu notified a supervisor Barbara Weiderman Thornton said. Wei Demuri told the plane s Captain and the Captain radioed police to be on standby Ai o Hare. At thai Point iwo other passengers be came abusive and belligerent and began throwing food and drinks Al flight attendants Accord ing to the police report. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 20, 1948 Secretary of state George c. Marshal warned thai a communist Victory in the italian election would Cost Italy Benefit of the european recovery program. 30 years ago today. March 20,1958 comedian Bob Hope travelling in Russia to film a television special told soviet minister of culture Nikolai Mikhailov russian Vodka is an alcohol rub on the  20 years ago today. March 20, 1968 a House armed services subcommittee said the defense department s inadequate allocation of noncommissioned officer grades was t major contributing cause of promotion stagnation in the air Force to years ago today. March 20, 197s the . Security Council sparked by a dramatic . Initiative voted to Send an interim peacekeeping Force of 3,000 soldiers into Southern Lebanon to replace israeli forces