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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes saturday May 7,1966 world Voclav British retailer completes buying of Brooks Brothers London up giant British retail Chain Marks Anil Spencer has completed buy ing the Brooks Brothers Chain in the United slates Tram Campeau corp. Of Canada Tor 5750 million the major part or the Deal 5700 million also Covert certain preferential right tar Bod and clothing retail space in Campeau controlled locations in the United Stales and Canada Marks and Spencer said. To addition. Corn Pau hns in cred in la a five year Nan Competition agreement with Marks ant Spencer covering North America and Japan. Italy labor dispute Likely to affect Border traffic Rome api italian customs officials will refuse overtime work starting next Mon Day in a labor dispute that will Likely mean Long delays at Border Crossings for trucks and freight Rains. Italy s three major unions announced the Job adroit which will Back up clearance or most customs documents at Cross Points with France Switzerland Austria and Yugoslavia. One of the key Cross Points affected by the unrest will be the Brenner pass the Busy Road and train link Between Italy Austria and West Germany. Dodds Roundup Pat vice president to speak at Eca pts convention Aschaffenbur West Germany the a Lional Pat vice president will give the opening address monday at the european Congress of american parents teachers and students annual Spring convention in marburg. West Germany. Ann Lynch will deliver the address in place of Martha linger the National i to s president who can celeb her scheduled visit. Eca pts president Linda Rysch said Friday that More than 330 delegates Are expected to attend the four Day Memling which ends thursday. Elementary schools to hold Advance registration Wiesbaden Dodds elementary schools in West Germany will hold Advance registrations this month for school year 1989-89, parents need to bring a copy of their current dependent travel orders children s shot records proof of Floc for their children and valid id cards of each Parent. Parents will be asked to provide Home and duly phone numbers and an emergency phone number of another adult for each child registered a Germany Region spokesman said the Advance registrations arc designed to Cui Down the Long Linn that occur every August during regular registration Mannheim 5th-grader wins Oral Reading contest Mainz West Germany a fifth grader from Mannheim elementary school was named the Winner of the department of defense dependents schools Germany Oral Reading contest. Aaron Arv Ine read a passage from scary stories to Tell in the dark to capture top honors among 22 filth Grade finalists who competed at Mainz Elemen tary. Sarah Lewis of Caincr Borg elementary in Wiesbaden finished second and Tamara Brletich. Osl Ulgart elementary finished third. The Mainz Competition brought the annual contest to a close. More than 2,000 fifth graders participated in school District and regional competitions. 2 teams conquer Everest As 3 nations watch on to Katmandu Nepal api two teams reached the Summit or mount Everest from opposite Side thursday and broaden stunning pictures of azure skies and the craggy Snow covered Himalaya rising above the Clouds at the lop of the world. Ii was the first time two parties had scaled the world s highest Mountain simultaneously and in was the first live telecast from the Summit. The id climbers wept and congratulated each other. Some fell to their Knees after wading through Waist deep Snow to the 29,q2b-fom Peak. They were from Japan China and Nepal the nations that received the live broadcast. This is the greatest event in the history of climb  said Kunga Sherpa the Leader of the team that climbed from the Nepal Side As n camera recorded the breathtaking Panorama. Images were relayed by satellite front a Small camera attached to the helmet of japanese climber Susu Iii Nakanura. We made it the climbers gasped their voices rasping in the thin air. Most wore go Jogles and oxygen masks along with their red Blue and yellow parkas. Eyebrows were coated with ice in temperatures of about 30 degrees below Zero. They stretched Bright coloured banners across the Summit and scooped dry powder Snow into Small Baltyn. One poured whiskey on the Snow to Honor mountaineers who have died trying to conquer Ever est including Hidetaka Mizokoshi. He died of a heart attack an a i time last month.  team expands search at plane crash site Bangkok. Thailand a a ,-Laotii n team has expanded its search on a Remote laotian Hillside for the remains of to american fliers shot Down in 1966. . Officials said Friday. The 14-Man . Military team is cooperating with laotian government officials in the third joint excava Tion of a . Warplane crash site. The searchers Are trying to account for s55 american who did t return Home from Laos during the Indochina War. The team flew to Laos tuesday to search the Brush and Bamboo covered area of Southern Savan Naklicki province where an ov-1a Mohawk was downed by heavy ground fire on March 15,1966. The . Embassy in Bangkok said it received an undated message from the team saying the search site had been expanded from 4-by-ll Yards to 40-by-6q Yards. No explanation was Given but it is assumed that the team discovered material from the plane. Out Side the presumed original 4-by-ll-Yard primary Impact area the statement said. The joint .-laotian team has removed Brush from the lower half of the search area and has begun to examine it for material and remains from the plane it said. The american team is from the . Joint casually Resolution Center and the army Central identification Laboratory Honolulu based agencies entrusted with resolving the fates of americans missing in foreign the teams began their assaults on Everest last month from base Camps on the South face in Nepal and lie North face in Tibet. After the rendezvous in another first three climbers who scaled the South face descended by the North and three who ascended the North face went Down via the South. More than 200 people were involved in the project the most Ever for an Everest a a edition. Ii was timed to Mark the 35th anniversary of the first conquer in of Everest on May 29. 1953 by Edmund Hillary of new zealand and tensing Norgay his Sherpa guide. Nearly 200 climbers have reached the Summit since Ihnn some More than once. Hillary who was knighted for his feat could not be reached for comment thursday. Earlier this week he said of the simultaneous assaults i think some of the expeditions nowadays arc on the Gimmicky Side but conceded that it s one method of raising  the ones i Admire arc those who do a touch and difficult new route and do it cleanly and with style he said. Hillary now is his country s ambassador to India. Nepal and Bangladesh. Norgay called Tiger of the snows by others craps died in 198$, Ninon television corp. Of Japan which paid most of the expedition s Cost of s12.i m illion arranged the telecasts. All three countries receiving the broadcast saw several hours of action thursday including foot age of the ascents and descents. Anti terrorists dark stilled a Imam a it Seoul. Sooth Korea hold weapons in readiness to they go through in exercise to  Lac Tira. Tit men Are Muff lbt of special attack squad set up to Hud off in rest activities during the olympic cunts in september. Stage Star George Rose Dies in crash puerto Plata dominican Republic a noted Broadway actor George Rose a remarkably ver Salile performer and Winner of to Tony awards was killed to a one car Accident in the dominican Republic police said thursday. He was 68. Police officer Jose Nunez said  
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