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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday. October 3,1988 a Champion gels Cheek la Check with his owner for an affectionate rub. Tord Sven win of Boston and his Luek 2-Ycar-old abyssinian put haps were attend ing inc International pm slum at Boston Garden on purr haps perfection Friday. Perhaps was t in the minds of the judges Whtie they bestowed the Rowan cup in purr  for Best cat i the intern Lional cat show hat was held last March in Madison Square Garden. Disillusioned pair moving Back to Russia Man s Mother says hate. A. A a women whose son and Daugh lit in la returned from the soviet Union Lail week sail saturday the couple plans to move Back to mos cow because they believe . Officials have mistreated  Are going Back because of the lies that have l can told said Lavra ranch. Theodore and Cheryl a Branch after suffering Finan Cial lethal is moved to Moscow 10 months ago. They said soviet officials gave them a furnished apartment. Jobs and medical benefits. They said they were enticed to return to the United Stales by . Embassy officials in Moscow who prom ised logic them a place Olive find jobs for them and reimburse them s3.000 in travel expense. They also said the embassy offered help enforcing court judgment awarding them eight weeks Back wages from a former employer who had no paid them. But the state department said no such promises we re  plan to talk with soviet officials in washing Ion to discuss entering the soviet Union again Lavra ranch  and Cheryl Branch could not be reached saturday at the Motel where they have been staying. Last week Branch said the couple might return to the Sov Iet u Nion but they were tired of moving Back and Forth across the Ocean at somebody s  s Mother said the couple has been harassed by neighbors about their decision to i re i n the soviet Union. Stateside Chrysler prices will Rise average of 2.3% for 89 cars Highland Park Mich. A Chrysler corp. Will charge an average of 2.3 percent More for us 1989 models than for its 1988 cars the no 3 . Automaker said Friday. Earlier Industry Leader general motors corp. Said in was raising its Auto prices an average of 2.9 percent and no. 2 Ford motor co. Announced a 2.6 percent increase. Chrysler said its Plymouth Sundance four door Sedan would sell for j8.595, up from $8,522 in the previous Model year while the Dodge Omni America would sell for s6.595, up from j5,995 in 1988. The 1989 Chrysler new yorker will list for 117,416, Dawn from $17,578 in 1988, the automaker said. Man scares . Children with threatening rhymes Mineola . A police Are looking for a Man in a Van who has been scaring schoolchildren with threatening versions of Nursery rhymes. Police said one rhyme was Hickory Hickory Dock it s 3 o clock. I will kill you  he Lias not ouch cd the kids or used obscene Lan Guage. Out he is frightening them said Nassau county detective it. Gary Engle. The Man reportedly has approached children around the age of 10 near schools in he Hewlett Woodmere and Valley Stream areas of the county on Long Island four times Between sept. 13 and sept. 27, englis said. He has engaged the children in conversations taken pictures of them and then recited the rhymes police , during his conversations the Blond Man in his late 20s has never left he White Van. School teaching values of old Russia shut Down new York a because of a j100.000 Las debt the internal Revenue service has closed a High school that trained its students in the values and Cul Ture of  Russia. St. Sorgius High school approaching its 30lft anniversary in a month to month panic Over its finances was shut by irs agents. Thirty seven students Ages 6 10 is were ordered to leave on what was the first Day of classes at the Bilin Gual school and doors were padlocked said the school s founder the Rev . Irs spokesman Neil o pc cafe said the school owed 589,281 in employee withholding taxes dating from dec. 31. 1985, he said interest and penalties would raise the amount to More than si00,000. Invasion prompts fear of croaking new port Richey. Fla. Up residents of Pasco county thought they d wandered into a horror movie or a biblical plague when they awoke to find hordes of tiny toads covering the ground in a Black heaving mass. The creatures appeared Friday and were still there saturday surrounding Forest Glen Lodge a retirement Home where residents huddled in their rooms against the amphibian onslaught. Donna Abshir an employee of the Home said the creatures covered the Road and lawns near the building and moved closer to the Structure As the Day wore on seeking Relief from the heal in the Home s Cool moist shadows. We opened the doors to take the residents out for their walks and the loads were hopping in As fast As we could get the Lesi dents out. There s just millions of them she said. They re just Small like the end of my Finger just one Quarter Inch Long. They re not frightening. They won t Hurt you. They re just Sticky and cold. You can t step out without stepping on  residents first reported an invasion of billions of frogs but county officials said they were baby toads Frog like creatures that live on the land instead of in the water As frogs  
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