European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes thursday August 25,1988 Houston homicides increase Houston a the number of homicides in Houston this year is up by More than 40 percent with More drug related killings reported during the first eight months of 1988 than in All of 1987, police re cords show. As of sunday 300 homicides had occurred in Houston compared with 209 through aug. 21, 1987. Sixty nine slayings this year Are be conversion rates London up wednes Day s closing rates for the . Dol Lar to other currencies figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies in dollars the Price of Gold closed at $434 an ounce Silver at $6.82. August 23 August 24 British Pound -.1.6815 1.6780 German Mark 1.9030 1.8940 French franc 6.4685 6.4350 dutch Guilder 2.1504 2.1408 belgian franc 40.3750 40.3300 italian lira 1,411.45 1,406.20 Swiss franc 1.6000 1.5950 greek drachma 152.60 151.95 turkish lira 1,529.35 1,530.75 Spanish peseta 124.70 124.35 portuguese escudo 154.80 154.40 Canadian Dollar 1.2295 1.23 austrian Schilling 13.3950 13.3330 norwegian Krone 6.961 6.9490 danish Krone 7.2925 7.2735 these Are commercial rates and can be related Only to the use of foreign currency by . Forces for official business. Sales of German Marks to . Personnel for personal use will be at the rate of 1.87 through thursday based on a Price fixing at midday. Lived to have been drug related 19 More than in 1987, records show. Police speculated that drug kill Ings Are increasing because of the popularity of crack cocaine and an influx of colombian and jamaican drug dealers who Are believed to be More violent than the typical local Street dealer. Evidently the Competition is get Ting stiffer said sgt. John Burmes Ter. There s big Money involved and people will kill each other for Little  the Fri s uniform crime report for 1987 said Houston had a rate of 13.8 homicides 100,000 inhabit ants below new York s 20.4, de troit s 20.2, Miami s 20.1, los an Geles 16.6 and new Orleans 18.1, but above Dallas 2.9, Pittsburgh s 3.1 and Boston s 4.0. New York Exchange new York up the 15 most Active stocks in new York Stock Exchange composite trading tuesday. _. _. A Slock Blackstone inc Wickes cos Panhandle Eston coca cola co Knight Ridder genl electric ism corp Ford motor Clorox co Exxon corp Eastman Kodak Avistar into at to company adv Micro do digital equip sales 3,201,100 2,670,000 1,806,700 1,304,400 1,295,900 1,259,100 1,193,700 1,176,000 1,117,700 1,100,400 1,070,200 1,021,200 979,300 945,700 905,200 last10 131/8 25% 39 vib 39 v4 39 be 110% 47% 31% 45 v4 42% 5vfe 24 it 11 v4 94 v4 Netchy. Unch off a off up i unch up vie putt up 2 to up it off a off it udv4 off Toff 2 it european weather american Exchange forecast Lor thursday Cloudy with Chance of  the Day and Early evening. Slight Chance of isolated thunderstorms in the North. Winds Gusty in Northern areas an higher elevations elsewhere. Locally dense log forming at night. High temperatures 63-68 in the North 65-70 in the South lows49-55. Sunset thursday 8 25 Sunrise Friday 6 31. Outlook Lor Friday continued Cloudy with slight Chance of  and Windy conditions along coastal areas. Expect log to re form at night locally dense in the South. High tempera Tures 65-71 lows 48-54. Temperatures recorded wednesday 4am 4pm 4am 4pmadana. F 79 90 Copenhagen c 52 59 Amsterdam r 55 61 Frankfurt c 55 66athens, f 79 88 London c 59 66 Aviano c 64 73 Madrid t 61 88berlin i 57 70 Munich f 46 70 Bremerhaven c 54 63 Paris c 57 70brussels, r 54 59 Rome p 63 81 provided by Del 13,2nd weather Wing Graben Trarbach. Other worldwide temperatures new York up the 10 most Active stocks in american Stock Exchange composite trading tuesday. Stock dome petrol Hasbro inc Amdahl corp Bolar pharm by times a Wang labs b Bat Indus Texas air East air of 2.72 global Nat res sales 1,254,600 404,000 282,300 278,100 219,900 219,100 218,600 215,000 169,500 160,900 last 1vfe14 v4 42% 16% 25 9 7v4 10%9 6v2  1-32 Enchoff % off off up Tunch up Tunch unch Cairo. Dublin r Helsinki Jerusalem f Lisbon f High low93 73 Montreal c 64 50 Moscow f54 Oslo c 68 Toronto r61 Vancouver f High low70 45 81 6188 81 61 6673 5254 5757 supplied by the associated press. A Cloudy to Lair in fog a partly Cloudy a rain. No stocks closing Stock prices and the Dow Jones Industrial averages were not available for this Edi Tion. Temperatures August 23  Akron Canton. C Albany,n.y.,r     Atlanta. C Atlantic  Austin. C Baltimore. Baton  Billings.  Bismarck    Brownsville Buffalo. C Burlington,vt.,r Caribou. 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