European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday october 19b8 Boston blockheads you can see these architects really like to show Oft their work each came to the Boston society of architects awards ceremony id Cambridge mass dressed in scale models of their own buildings. Pic tured Are Thomas Klipfel left Irish the Thomas goats Landing building on his Hod Grid Graham Gund disguised As his Bullfinch courthouse rehabilitation project. Soviet observers of . Exercise say they re generally satisfied the stars and stripes Page 9 unemployment Down to 5.4% in september Washington a civilian unemployment fell 0.2 percentage Point to 5.4 percent last month the government said fonday. The decline erased an August gain and returned joblessness to july s Jenci. The september figures showed that the number of unemployed americans fell by 255,000 to 6.6 million. The number of discouraged workers those who have Given up the Hunt for a Job in the belief that they could not find one Rose from 910,000 to 930,000 in the third Quarter of 1986. More than half of the discouraged workers were women and one third were Blacks. Adult men accounted for nearly All of the decline in the Overall rate last month with joblessness falling from 4.9 percent in August to 4.5 percent last month except for hispanics whose rate fell from 8.4 per cent to 7.4 percent there was Little change among the population groups tracked. The opening of the fall school term accounted for 100,000 of the new jobs in september. Across private Industry the Job gain was 142,000. It was the second straight month of Little expansion after average monthly increases of 300,000 Over the first seven months of 1988, the labor department said. Assembly line manufacturing jobs fell by 19,000 atop a loss of 18,000 jobs in August that reversed an upward trend Over f i years. Oil and Gas Industry employment also Tell for the second month in a Row after edging up Over the previous 12 months. Together those industries had averaged a monthly Job gain of 65,000 from january through july. Excluding teachers and other government workers health services was the biggest source of new jobs last month with such payrolls growing by 62,000. N con Trast the government said business services one of London a a soviet military team said Fri Day it was generally satisfied with its two Day unprecedented snap inspection of a British military exer Cise in Southern England. The four soviet inspectors scrutinized the 4,400 Roop Drake s drum exercise for two hours fonday morning before departing for Moscow from London s Heathrow Airport. Team Leader col. Vladimir Grysh Nikon thanked the British army for its hospitality during their tour the results of the inspection will have to be exam ined in More detail but i am sure they can be consid ered positive arcs Nikov told a news conference at Heathrow speaking through an interpreter. Arcs Nikov said his team including Anatoli Makhov Yuri Conov and Vladimir Trofimov were generally satisfied with the tour adding that this kind of inspection will help to build Confidence measures in Europe the inspectors arrived at Dawn wednesday after giving Britain the 36-hour minimum notice for an inspection As required under the 1986 Stockholm agreement for relaxing East West tensions. They sought to assess the character and scale of Drake s drum which Britain described As a purely defensive eight Day exercise to test Protection of air Fields ports and other installations. British amid Brig. Gen Mike Tennant who joined Gres Nikov at the news conference said the soviets had seen a lot the soviets spent a hectic two Days in helicopters and land rovers Louring the 5,500-Squarc-mile exer Cise area entered on the Bullard Barracks near Salisbury 80 Miles Southwest of London. They have been looking. At troop concentrations had cups of Tea with the boys and chatted around having a general look Sec said a ministry of defense spokesman requesting anonymity. It was the first Lime the soviet Union had called a snap inspection in Britain under the 35-Nalion verification treaty though British inspectors have dropped in on soviet Maneu vers Royal air Force vice marshal Mike Star said. Continuing growth brought about largely through rising exports caused by the fallen value of the Dollar. In another report the labor department reported that real hourly earnings in terms of purchasing Power dropped 1,3 percent during september the worst decline since 1964. The labor department said average hourly wages Rose 0.5 percentage Point last month to 19.37 after declining by 2 cents an hour from May through August. Lawrence Chimerine chairman of the wefa group a consulting firm based in Bala Cynwyd. Pa., said private surveys show wages beginning to accelerate but very very slowly at an Annu afrate of 3.s percent to 4 percent. There have be some Large increases for entry level jobs but they have not spread throughout the society Jim said. Large companies in particular have been successful in resisting an alternate jobless Rale including the 1.7 million members of the armed forces stationed in the United states also fell 0.2 percentage Point last month to 5.3 percent. T birthday greetings planned for hostage Nashville. Tenn. A the sister of the longest held Middle East hostage is asking Hank Williams or. And other country music stars to sign a birthday card to Choc her brother during Captivity. Peggy say is asking performers to sign the l a-by-2-fool card during rehearsals for Mon Day s 22nd annual country music association awards show. Terry a. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent of the associated press was abducted March 16. I9s5. He will be 41 on oct. 27. The card will read Happy birthday Terry from music City Usa. We love you and Are praying for your i be asked particularly to have Hank Wil Liams or. Sign it because he is Terry s say said from her Home in Cadi by she said the card would be displayed at a. Ceremony on Anderson s birthday and details would be released to newspapers in Beirut Leb anon in Hopes of reaching her brother. Hopefully Terry will Sec it and know that he s truly not forgotten say said. Owner of Las vegas Casino apologizes for Hitler parties Las vegas a the owner of a Las vegas resort has apologized for holding two parties to Mark the birth Date of Adolf Hitler saying the events were not Only stupid but insensitive Ralph Engelstad told a news conference thursday that the parties and reports of a room full of nazi Memorabilia at his Imperial Palace hotel and Casino had resulted in a living Nightmare for his family friends and employees. Let me say once again for everyone to hear i despise Hitler and everything he stood for Engelstad Tola a news conference of can to Tell you How much i regret my insensitivity on this Point. It was innocent but it was very very bad judgment and it was in very bad taste. I now realize that and i deeply regret it and apologize for Engels lad read a seven Page statement then left with out answering questions. Reporters were then allowed 10 go in the room where the Memorabilia was stored. Included were 20 world War in Era vehicles including German staff cars and murals picturing Hitler with his staff and at the opening of an autobahn and German soldiers March ing through the streets of Paris. Engelstad has one of the largest antique Vutci collections in the world which has been open to the Public for years the room of nazi Memorabilia is adjacent to the antique cars but has not been opened to the Public. The resort owner said he was preparing to open new exhibits including one featuring cars of former presi dents one on Rolls royces made in the is. And one focusing on the ails Powers during the world War ii Era. Engelstad has been under fire for two weeks follow ing reports of the nazi Memorabilia room and the Hitler birthday panics. The hotel owner said the re ports were leaked by people who were out to get him. Gaming control Board chairman Mike Rumbolz declined thursday to comment on Engelstad s admission that the parties were conducted. Gaming agents have visited the resort at feast twice to Check on the displays. In one visit they found a printing Hitler was Engelstad said thursday that someone else ordered the bumper Slicker printed and he ordered the stickers destroyed when he teamed of their existence. He declined to identify the person saying enough people have been pilloried by this whole
