European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 12, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 Over Here 62-mile March across Sand takes True grit by Ron Jensen staff writer a walk along the picturesque North sea beaches of Western Denmark sounds like Well a Day at the Beach. But Fol lowing Holge Meyer across the Sandy landscape for 62 Miles is a Challenge for soles and souls. Your feet will Hurt. Bui if you have the willpower. Of will make  Meyer a s. My or. A former danish Soldier de Vised what he Calls a psychological walk that can be described As a Volks March for the insane. During the walk. No talking Calm. Drinking or smoking is allowed except during one of the few Breaks. The Only thing in big Supply it seems is pain. I want to gel Strong people. They can Lake the  says Meyer who devel oped an anti Ler Ronsi training regime for the danish army spec. Perry l. Ulley of the 2lsl re placement in Ai Rhein main a. West Germany is a Veteran of Meyer s Pun Ishing scroll. She was on the 1989 ver Sion. We did t Start until dark the first night. And we marched the whole night  she says la was  she would have made it. She says. But several marchers got lost and the walk had to be called off so Meyer could round up the stragglers. Utley is deter mined to Complete this year s March which is scheduled for feb. 23 and 24. Meyer who leads the procession along the Sand says that More than 100 people have tried the walk bul Only five have finished. Walkers can carry Only a liter of water which can be consumed Only Dur ing Breaks. They can carry 20 cigarettes or 100 Grams of chocolate again for Breaks Only. Marchers who talk eat smoke or drink during the walk arc dismissed. Meyer has reasons for his strict rules. For example if people arc permitted to talk their concentration is diverted. You talk about girls or something and you forget your pain he says. He prefers his participants to feel every step to sense the Muscles tiring. And when someone drops out. He wants the others to think. If he s finished. I m finished  to Tulcy says the Meyer restrictions have the desired effect. Is ice is a killer. I was going Cray she says. In my mind i was saying the alphabet Forward and backward in German and Spanish and russian. I was doing multiplication tables. I was reciting every Nursery rhyme i every  and she was still walking when Meyer had to Call it off to find the weaker ones. Her determination earned her the Nick name dynamite lady from Meyer who says she has explosives in her  if All goes right the marchers Stop around Midnight at the Halfway Point for a few hours of sleep. At Dawn they continue. And. Remember this is a walk across the Sand. It s not like walking on the ground or walking on the Road says capt. Frank Bryceland. Also of the 21st replacement in. Bryceland will be making his first appearance in the walk. I m airborne and i m always looking for a Challenge he says. Actually this is the least challenging of four psychological walks Meyer has devised. The next roughest is a 62-mile walk across Sand dunes that lasts three Days. Next is a 124-mile March along the Beach that takes 48 hours. The most challenging is a 186-mile walk on the Beach Over Sand dunes and in water that takes 4 j Days to Complete. I have done All of  Meyer says. This is a Small  anyone interested in participating can Call spec Perry Utley at Eftem Mam a. West Germany at 33o-7302 or 330 7392 end Start a Chip and a hat off the old bloc for those people Nho mint some re minders of the cold War a Vendor near the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin is offering in addition to pieces of the Berlin Wall an officer s Cap from the East German National people s army. Police seize drugs Worth $20 millions a Antonio i l l authorities confiscated an estimated s20 million Worth of illegal narcotics from storage lockers on saturday in what May be Testate s Laigast drug seizure officials said. Undercover agents Cut locks on two storage lockers and found 132 pounds of . Or Speed said Sumner Bowen. A supervisor Wilh the Alamo area narcotics task Force. Me said the Sci ure could be the largest in state history. The discovery followed Friday s raid on a san Antonio Home thai netted numerous weapons ammunition and a Small amount of Mcthaine Philamine and marijuana. Weapons Sei de from the Home included three assault rifles five assault pistols one Shotgun. 13 handguns and two .22-caliber rifles task Force sgt.  West said. Based on information from the raid agents secured additional warrants to search the storage lockers. We knew they had a lot More drugs but we had no idea How much Bowen said. Arrested in the House raid were an Drew and Kathy Locke both 35. After the House raid Andrew Locke was charged with two counts of aggravated Possession of drugs and was re leased on $50,000 Bond. Kathy Locke was charged with unlawfully carrying concealed weapon and aggravated drug Possession and was released on $45,800 Bond. Bowen declined to say if the drug Sei Zure could be linked to the locks. The seizure capped a two year investigation