European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page8 b the stars and stripes monday january 6, 1992wwi Leeuwarden Netherlands a Mata Hariss scrapbooks have come Home 96 years after she left this quiet farming town to become an exotic dancer seductress and world War los 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 Gertruida 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 $46,000, 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 poses wearing Only jewelry and a Bikini top. One signed portrait taken in 1915 is believed to be the last taken of Mata Hari. The photos were apparently taken during her 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 Han 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 squad. Beef Airlift again halted by red tape London up a russian red tape and fears of mad cow disease grounded a second air shipment of British beef aimed to ease food shortages in Moscow and St. Petersburg a spokesman for Britain a agriculture ministry said sunday. Quot we done to know Why the russian authorities Are afraid of mad cow disease from this meat a said the British spokesman. A British beef meets the stringent european Community  a first flight had landed saturday in Moscow after leaving Britain As part of an Airlift package of some 10 million 8-ounce steaks from the european Community. The plane bearing the first 120 tons of Frozen beef left for Moscow from Stanstead Airport 40 Miles East of London after earlier red tape holdups in Russia prevented it from leaving. On arrival in Moscow russian veterinary authorities prevented saturdays beef shipment leaving the Airport de a. Manding certificates declaring it free of mad cow disease British broadcasting corp. Television reported sunday. The 2,200-ton beef consignment 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. One words Worth a thousand pictures Over 7,000 japanese took part in a calligraphy contest held at the martial arts Hall in Tokyo on sunday. Contestants who ranged from kindergarten pupils to 70-year-old pensioners wielded their Brush and Ink in Hopes that a bold stroke would earn them recognition in the first writing of the year contest an event held once a year. 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 i 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 Man s mind has been confiscated. Writers including Nobel laureate nagib Mahfouz have prote de 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  pullout lags Magazine reports Berlin up the planned withdrawal of 225,000 former soviet troops from Eastern Germany cannot be completed by the agreed deadline of december 1994, partly because of Quot administrative chaos a a German Magazine said sunday quoting government sources in Bonn. Russian diplomatic and military officials in Germany however rejected the report and said that the withdrawal was running according to the timetable agreed Between the soviet Union and Germany in Advance of the oct. 3,1990, German unification. Bunte Magazine said the withdrawal was being delayed because German companies involved in the construction of 36,000 apartments for the returning soldiers no longer knew who to Deal with in the former soviet republics. The Berliner Morgen Post daily claimed that some local authorities in the Cis were refusing to allow returning soldiers to move into the German built apartments arguing that the soldiers had enjoyed enough privileges while in Germany