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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, February 28, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Looking for a bargain try the demo Sale by Joseph Owen if Ethel Barf Burn ludwigs buro Germany you May not need a beekeeper jacket Hospital Scales microfiche Reader bumper Pool table punch clock or a lifetime Supply of Brown Boxer shorts. But if you did you could have found them All under the same roof at a recent defense re utilization and marketing office Sale in ludwigs Burg near Stuttgart. The demo Sale held every third Friday of each month is a place where hardcore bargain Hunters sift through the flotsam Ana jetsam left in the Wake of the . Military draw Down. The Sale at the  a osterholz storage area begins at 8 a.m., but customers line up much earlier. They Are the indefatigable seeking the improbable among the disposable. Once inside they act quickly and ask few questions. A you got to make sure you keep your jacket on or somebody will walk off with it a said military Retiree Wayne von Hawker a demo equipment analyser As he watched a swirl of buyers descend on battered typewriters Dusty computer system parts outdated encyclopedia sets and dented Power tools. The typical Patron arrives with a Flea Market attitude a no specific expectations and a Knack for spotting something useful or novel. A you can get some Good prices on equipment that s Good to Nave like a new pair of boots. They be never been walked in Quot said sgt. 1st class Francis h. Connor of the Stuttgart  airfields Neucom flight det. He proudly displayed a pair of boots which Cost $5, and a collapsible $5 entrenching tool with which Quot you never have to worry about getting stuck in the  Connor described the Sale As a  t 1 off Sam ii Wmk mme a or i Cha 11 to Wax Tony ate Werhan right opens a recent demo Sale at ludwigs Burg by asking for . Id card holders. A amps Joseph oven mass Quot we re always looking for a bargain the Kitchen with demo appliances. We go once a week to something or other Quot Stoh  clientele is As varied As the merchandise. The Motley group looks like a United nations of the working class. A i try to come out Here every month. Troops bump elbows with civilians Amer there a always something different Quot he icons with germans turks ethiopians said. Quot i Don t think enough americans and other nationalities. Come out Here and take advantage of  a Middle aged German couple Erwin americans not to buy equipment and use Kay Erickson a housewife at Kelley and Rosemarie Kohler said they live a few it to cover shortages in their own work Ere All ers to test electrical goods by despite local advertising attendance at them in. Quot otherwise wed be the sales was modest until a German Tele Day Quot von Hawker said. A vision Crew filmed a news segment about the staff watches for customer tricks them. Then the numbers climbed. Tony such As switching Price tags which Hap ate Werhan a demo sales contracting pens often ate Werhan said officer said 200 people showed up at one As tedious As it is to play enforcer How a Atric make Sale. The sales have few rules. Signs warn Barracks in Stuttgart said she waited two Hundred Yards away from the draft Ware hours in line at one Sale to buy electrically House but their concerns Are 60 Miles lighted fireplace logs for $1 As a Christmas South where they plan to retire decoration. Quot we re building a House in Sigma ring her Friend Carmie Stoh also a Kelley in and we be got to furnish it. Its very dec resident said she was buying a $35 set of Ono Mical Here Quot said Erwin Kohler add woodworking tools on this trip. Ing that the couple already had outfitted suspected Ira bomb explodes in Busy North London Market Ever the free theatrics make up for it. Quot its sort of exciting to see what people like to buy Quot von Hawker said noting that one Man had picked up a Craft show Kiln place inventory. Non americans have to that morning. He watched a woman fish pay first get a receipt and go to a customs about a dozen pillows out of a wire sales office about 500 Yards away. There they Basket. Need to get the receipt stamped and pay Quot we can to buy anything Here because any customs fees. Then they can pick up we work Here Quot von Hawker said their purchases. Quot otherwise id be the proud owner of the demo staff does t allow custom some of those pillows for  London apr a bomb exploded on a Busy shopping Street in North London saturday seriously injuring two women and hurting several other people authorities said. Police said the explosion followed two Telephone warnings which included code words used by the Irish Republican . No group immediately claimed responsibility however. London ambulance service press officer David Smith said 12 people were taken to hospitals. A we Only expect five to be kept in of whom two have serious injuries a Man with leg and neck injuries and a woman with leg injuries Quot Smith said. None of the injuries appeared life threatening he added. Witnesses said the explosion at 12 52 . Was in a rubbish bin on Camden High Street near a popular weekend Market. On Friday the Ira claimed responsibility for three explosions which destroyed a huge Gas storage tank and seriously damaged another in Warrington 200 Miles Northwest of London. Teen faces stiffer punishment in review of his rape Case London up the Case of a 15-year-old convicted rapist who. Was ordered by the judge to pay his victim about s/30 will be reviewed attorney general sir Nicholas Lyell said Friday. At the trial at Newport Crown court in South Wales earlier this month judge John Prosser put the teen Ager on probation for the rape of one his classmates also 15, Ana ordered him to pay the Money to allow his victim to have Quot a Good  the names of both teen agers were withheld by order of the court. The sentence raised a storm of protest from lawmakers and the Media who considered the punishment too lenient the attorney general came under pressure in the House of commons to review the sentence. Lyell agreed Friday that the sentence should be referred to the court of Appeal and that he had applied to do so. While the teen Ager already has been sentenced the court can increase his  launch rockets into Israel Security zone Marj Ayoun Lebanon a iranian backed guerrillas lobbed rockets into Israel and its self proclaimed Security zone in South Lebanon on saturday drawing retaliatory artillery fire from israeli affiliated militiamen. Security sources said no casualties were reported in the exchanges which began late Friday and continued into the next morning. In Israel the  command said a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon struck the Galilee Panhandle Friday and another hit the Region saturday. Guerrillas of Hezbollah or party of god lobbed at least 60 soviet designed rockets into the Security zone said the Security sources in Lebanon speaking on condition of anonymity. The rockets the sources said were fired from the Vicinity of Yater a traditional Hezbollah stronghold above the Security zone. They hit and damaged a number of houses in the towns of Maija Youn Khiam and Bilal Sari. Militia gunners of the South Lebanon  pounded the terrain North of the zone with 130 my Howitz ers. The duels followed an attack Friday by israeli helicopters in which a one Story House used by Hezbollah members was destroyed. No one was Hurt in the attack because the House was vacant at the time. Earlier Friday three militiamen of the South Lebanon  were wounded in an ambush by unidentified guerrillas  
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