European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday september 27,19bb the stars and stripes Page 3 christinas comes Early for mailers abroad by Crystal Laureano staff writer rheingau West Germany time is running out to order Christmas presents from the United states by mail and have them arrive on Lime. People who want to order from a Catalon and receive their order by Christmas should be placing s " Way of army postal group mailing deadlines from the United slates o Europe arc Sam nov. 14 pal nov 23 and priority mail and letters dec. 2. Way said the deadlines should be relayed to family and friends in the states who will be sending packages to Europe. It s also Lime to prepare for sending packages to the states especially if mailers want to Lake advantage of he least expensive mailing rates Way said there Are four ways to ship packages through inc military postal system Sam. Pal priority mail and express mail using the examples of 20-Pound Bones shipped to Chicago and Dallas Way illustrated he Cost differ ence of inc four methods Wilh Sam. The package would Cost 17.16 to Chicago and s9.20 to Dallas pal s8.36 to Chicago and $10.40 to Dallas priority mail s1s.27 to Chicago and $17.27 to Dallas and express mail $30.55 to any eligible . Destination. Mailing deadlines for packages going to the United states arc Sam nov. 23 pal. Dec. 2 and prior Ity mail and letters dec 9. Express mail available to selected zip codes in the so alas is guaranteed to arrive in two Days or the Cost of postage will be refunded to he sender. The Cost which includes s500 of insurance is $8.75 for up to 8 ounces $12 from b ounces to 2 pounds and is 5.25 from 2 pounds to 5 pounds. A 70-Pound package inc maximum accepted for express mail costs s89.05. Package destination has a significant bearing on inc Cost of Sam pal and priority mail. All mail goes to the United so alas by air but the Price variations Are caused by inc Type of continuing transportation within the United states. After being flown to the United states. Sam pack Ages reach i hair destination by ground transportation. Sam parcels can weigh up to 70 pounds and measure up to 10s inches in combined length and Girth. Pal packages travel by air All the Way to inc Desti nation. For pal boxes must be no More than 30 pounds and 60 inches in length and Girth. Priority mail which also goes All the Way by air can weigh up to 70 pounds and measure up to 108 inches in combined length and Girth. The amount of mail processed in Post offices More than doubles Over the Holiday period Way said. If people mail their packages and tellers by inc deadlines they can be reasonably sure they will arrive by Christmas he said. Some Apos will offer longer hours weekend serv ice and package mailing by appointment. All Apos will publish Holiday guidance for customers. K i a id Las 1 of Fol is 13 Ibssa m German killed 21 people injured when apartment explodes Burns Slaff writer Nieder Roden West Germany an elderly German woman died Early monday and 21 people including americans were injured when an explosion and fire in inc woman s apartment ripped through the High Rise building. German police suspect a Gas Heater exploded in the one room apartment where the 70-year-old woman lived alone. The 8 30 . Blast heavily damaged the sixth floor witnesses said. American residents of a nine Story building about 100 feet away said their building Shook. German police estimated thai seven of inc injured people were americans. Several american families reside in the building which is next door to a . Government leased housing Complex at the Comer of Wiesbaden or and it tic she incr streets in nicer Rodin about 13 Miles Southeast of Rhein main All. Nine people remained hospitalized monday afternoon police said. The injured americans included an air Man and five family members from Rhein main a who lived in the building a base spokesman said. Three of the family Mem Bers were taken to the Frankfurt army regional Medico Center and to were trans ported to a German Hospital said master sgt. Larry Clave lie. The airman was Trcalek it the Rhein main clinic. Ilie army Hospital confirmed that it treated a 22-year-old woman and her 1 year old daughter for smoke inhalation and released them. A Hospital spokesman said a 26-year-old woman being treated for smoke inhalation was in satisfactory condition. Americans in the leased housing next door heard inc severe explosion thai Shook their entire building staff St. Michael Clarkton of the 435lh organizational Maint so at Rhein main said that he was still in bed and that he jumped up dressed quickly and went to help. The first thing 1 saw was a Man lying on the ground who had jumped from the fifth floor he said. Tried to open the fire doors but they Only open from the inside. So i ran up the other Side of the building and was Able to break the Glass doors. From there we just broke doors and checked to Sec if there were people inside the apart men he said he and three others brought about 15 people from the smoke filled building. Army staff sol. Loi Imis Alston who lives on the ground floor in the building adjacent to the fire struck building was at work when inc explosion occurred. It was about 11 . When 1 got the Call saying there was a fire in the build ing next door. I Haven t been in my German gather outside the apartment building after he blast and ire. House yet. I be talked to one of my Ger Man neighbors who said the Ameri cans arc Welt trained in evacuation that was Nice to Karla Todak also a resident in the leased housing said about 12 Security policemen responded quickly and she did what she could to keep people Calm and out of the area. She and another neighbor escorted two children to the Offenbach Hospital after their Mother was taken to inc army Hospital. The director of the Nieder Roden Community Center said the German red Cross has asked for clothing for men women and children of All Ages be cause the people in that building had loss she said donations should be turned in to the Center by 6 . Tuesday. Mafia Case judge killed in ambush caltan1ssetta. Sicily a a sicilian magistrate who sentenced two mafia Bosses to life imprisonment was ambushed and killed along with his 35 year old son police said monday. Antonio Scalia 66. And his son so Cha no were killed by gunmen who slopped their car on a Road outside Caltanissetta As they drove Home sunday nigh police said. Investigators said the ambush appeared to be a mafia vendetta for the 1985 sentencing of Brothers Michele and Salvatore Greco. Salta was the presiding judge at the trial of the grecos described As the Bosses of a powerful mafia ring. Scalia Senlin cd inc Brothers to life in prison after they were convicted of Mastermind ing the killing of judge Rocco Chinnici who had been investigating their activities. An Interior ministry spokesman in Rome called Saeta s killing a Clear Challenge to inc stale that recently named a special investigator judge do Menico Sica. To crack Down on the mafia and ils financial links in Sicily Scalia who had been transferred from the court in air incs to one in Palermo following he trial of inc Cir cos and their associates became the eighth mag Istrate killed by inc mafia in Sicily since 1968. Police said the killers shadowed Satta and his son As they left the nearby resort of Canicatti where they had spent inc weekend with relatives. In a descried part of the Agrigento Callands Scala Road in Central Sicily the killers rammed and stopped the judge s car and fired at least 20 shots through inc windows police said inc judge was hit by three bullets in the head and iwo in the Chesl and died instantly. His son was also hit by several bullets. An Anonymous caller tipped police about two hours after inc killings sources reported. Dec Hungary sign pact Brussels Belgium a the european economic Community and Hun Gary monday signed the most extensive Trade and economic cooperation Accord Ever reached Between the dec and an Easl bloc nation. Under the Accord the dec and Hungary agreed to Grant Cali other most favored nation status in Trade and establish diplomatic relations
