European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday january 6, 1992wwi spy s mementos end Long journey Leeuwarden Netherlands apr Mata Hariss scrapbooks have come Home 96 years after she left this quiet farming town to become an exotic dancer seductress and world War is most famous spy. The two scrapbooks include photographs newspaper clippings playbills and calling cards collected by the woman who wooed High ranking officers of the Allied and German armies while apparently spying for both sides. Mata Hari born in Leeuwarden As Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in 1876, ordered her servant to destroy the albums along with All of her possessions after her execution in 1917. But the servant  bring herself to do it. Instead the servant sent them to Hollywood in the 1930s for researchers to use in making a film based on Mata Hariss life. The newly founded Mata Hari foundation recently bought the scrapbooks from a former Mem employee for 546,000, according to the Rotterdam based arc handels Blad newspaper. Like their subject the scrapbook collection is daring. Photos show the dutch javanese Beauty in seductive Joses wearing Only jewelry and a Bikini top. One signed portrait taken in 1915 is believed to be the last taken of Wata Hari. The photos were apparently taken during Ter engagements As an exotic dancer in various european capitals. The albums Are being kept in a Safe at the frisian province literature museum and documentation Center where officials plan to make them the Centrepiece of a permanent Mata Hari exhibit the newspaper said. The museum has also obtained a scrapbook put together by a local admirer after Mata Hariss death. Mata Hari left this town at the age of 19 when she married a Captain in the Royal dutch East indies army and accompanied him to the former dutch Colony currently Indonesia. Their relationship quickly soured. In 1903, she left him and went to pans where she began dancing in nightclubs and exotic reviews. She chose Mata Hari javanese for a Eye of the morning a As her stage name. Mata Hariss sense of adventure led her to become involved with men in the most powerful circles and brought her prize military secrets. Because of that both the French and the germans reportedly enlisted her As a spy. But the French army apparently grew suspicious and executed her in the Paris suburb of Vincennes in october 1917. She insisted on wearing her trademark Black silk stockings before the firing  beef on its Way to Moscow London up with fears of mad cow disease abated 360 tons of prime beef left Britain on saturday in an Airlift aimed at easing food shortages in Moscow and St. Petersburg. A plane bearing the first Load of meat a some 10 million 8-ounce steaks a left for Moscow from Stanstead Airport 40 Miles East of London after red tape holdups in Russia prevented it leaving Friday said an Airport official. A second shipment bound for St. Petersburg was scheduled to leave two hours later after being held up by fears of mad cow disease and the difficulties of arranging transport for the meat upon its arrival in Russia. The beef was part of an emergency Aid program organized by the european Community to ease the hunger faced by millions of russians during the Peak of its icy Winter As food subsidies were phased out. The meat part of a 2,200-ton dec consignment for Russia was to be auctioned to shopkeepers in the two russian cities giving dec officials effective control of the nascent Market. The meat shipment from Britain remained in 10 refrigerated trucks parked at the Airport until saturday when it was loaded onto giant soviet made transport  words Worth a thousand pictures Over 7,000 japanese took part in a calligraphy contest held at wielded their Brush and Ink in Hopes that the martial ails Hall in Tokyo on sunday. Contestants who earn them recognition in the first writing ranged from kindergarten pupils to 70-year-old pensioners an event held once a year. A bold stroke would of the year contest Mubarak rejects pleas for author Cairo Egypt apr saying religion must be respected president Hosni Mubarak has refused to intercede on behalf of an author whose blasphemy conviction has worried Egypt a intellectuals a newspaper said sunday. Novelist Alaa Hamid his publisher distributor and his Printer were convicted last month and each sentenced to eight years in jail. The rulings handed Down by a special Security court can be appealed Only to the prime minister. A if there Are people who say 1 should relieve him from the conviction 1 say 1 am sorry i cannot forget the Law. You cannot come and harm religion and then say a never mind a a Mubarak told a group of writers at the opening of a Book exhibition saturday. Hamid was judged to have erred by writing fictionalized humorous stories about islam a prophets. The Book a distance in a Many a mind has been confiscated. Writers including Nobel laureate nagib Mahfouz have protested Hamidas conviction and some called the Case a sign of the increasing Power of islamic fundamentalists Over Egypt a once Lively literary world. Mubarak said authorities were looking into an Appeal filed on Hamedy a behalf. Iran surprised by Snow soaked with floods Nicosia Cyprus apr the iranian town of Asre Shirin and several surrounding villages were buried saturday in their first Snow in 22 years Tehran radio reported As an unusual Middle East blizzard seemed to be fading. The radio monitored in Nicosia said up to 33 inches of Snow blanketed the Western Iran Region near the iraqi Border. Frosted Palm Trees a sight rarely seen fascinated residents it said. Floods in Chaha mahal Bakhtiari province in Central Iran Cut off 150 villages from the Central town the radio said. There were no reports of casualties or damage. Severe storms also flooded villages in Northern a Zandera province off the coast of the Caspian sea the radio said. It said several piers in the port of turkoman and the Gulf of Gurgan were submerged. A blizzard swept through the Eastern Mediterranean Region on the first Day of the new year dumping Snow or plunging temperatures in Lebanon Syria Jordan Israel Egypt and Sudan before moving  activists kill n. Ireland Man Belfast Northern Ireland apr an outlawed pro British extremist group claimed responsibility saturday for the first killing in Northern Ireland this year. The Ulster Volunteer Force said in a statement that its gunmen had killed Kevin Mckeamer 32, on Friday in the Butcher shop operated by his family in the Village of Moy. The group which was responsible for 19 of the 94 deaths in political and sectarian violence last year in Northern Ireland did not say Why Mckeamer was chosen As a target. Two of Mcke Ameyl a Brothers died in Ira attacks and a third is serving a prison sentence. His Mother Maura Mckearney said on saturday that her son had no connections with political violence. The Royal Ulster constabulary said two men drove up to Mckear Neysa Butcher shop in Moy about 30 Miles Southwest of Belfast on Friday evening. They killed Mckearney and seriously injured Nis Uncle 70-year-old Jack Mckearney. The gunmen also fired at a parked car and a 10-year-old girl inside was Cut by shattered Glass police said