European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Explosives Detector installed at Heathrow by the new York times a screening system to automatically Check airline Luggage for explosives has been installed at London s Heathrow Airport. The system can screen up to 20 bags a. Minute according to the Baa the operator of Heathrow and six airports in Britain. It uses three techniques to search for. Explosives. Bags Are sent through a computerized a Ray machine that analyses the atomic weight and density of their contents. About 8q percent of the bags Are typically cleared using this technique. Any Luggage with materials that match the characteristics of explosives Are then diverted to a second screening process in which the materials Are highlighted by color coding and studied More closely. If the contents Are still suspect they Are sent on to a third stage in which sensors Check for Vapours Given off by certain explosives the 53d ask amp 41 oth bib Are hosting the i 994 Usa eur Battle of bands on saturday july 23ro in bad Kreuz Nach Germany. Century club bldg. 5351, Rose Barracks the Competition begins at 2 . For More information Contact your local entertainment Branch office or Call Dan 490-5909 or Civ 0671-792909. Co hosted by a a Sass the state of Saxony Germany is trying to drum up $55 million to restore Colditz Castle once a notorious Camp for Allied pos. Past key to future struggling town Hopes tourists will be drawn to infamous pow Camp by Simon Burnett. Deutsche Presse Agenter Only an Accident of history prevented the Small Eastern German town of Colditz from remaining As unknown to the world As neighbouring towns such As Grimma Rochlitz or Yves Shelburg. A a a but Colditz with its Castle towering above a. Renaissance style town Hall and Market perched on the Hillside above the z Wick a her Mulde River was chosen to be the ultimate no escape Camp for Allied prisoners during world War ii. About 800 pos a mostly British / French dutch and poles a were interned in the town s Castle with nearly the same number of soldiers posted to guard them. Of nearly 300 escape attempts 19 ended in according to the parlance of the Day Quot Home runs Quot a where prisoners made it Back to Allied or Neutral territory. Colditz remains totally unknown to most germans. Most Are surprised to learn that it became part of the folklore of non German schoolboys in the postwar generations through such books such As the Colditz Story an account by Patrick Reid which was turned into a film and later a television series and they have their exits by Airey Neave. Neave a British officer was wounded and taken prisoner in Calais France in 1940. He made two unsuccessful escape attempts before being transferred to Colditz a Quot a on Jan. 5, 1942, Neave and a dutchman called Toni Luteyn disguised themselves As German officers and went out into the cold night air of Schloss Colditz s outer courtyard. It was snowing. "1 Felt Luteyn grow tense beside me. We passed beneath the Tower were saluted by the sentry and came to the fateful Wicker Gate. As Luteyn opened it i watched the under officers their Heads bowed to the driving Snow March on across the Moat Bridge. Down we went into the Moat stumbling and slipping. We made for the outer Stone Wall. We jumped and fell heavily on the hard. Ground it the Woods outside the Castle grounds. Let s go i  shortly after 5 . On Jan. 8, Neave and Luteyn sneaked across the German Border into Neutral Switzerland. Reid also scored a Quot Home run Quot in 1942. Neave later a conservative politician in Britain was assassinated by Irish terrorists in 1979. The name of Colditz was first mentioned in 1046 when it was just a fort. In the eighth and ninth centuries the slavs had marched from the East and in the 10th Century the first German King Heinrich i and his successors established military outposts to turn Back the Advance. Colditz was one of these outposts. By the 13 the Century it had become a walled off settlement. Over the centuries the fort became a Castle was attacked and burned and rebuilt and destroyed until it attained pretty much its present late gothic and Renaissance forms in the 15th and 16th centuries. After the peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended the thirty years War the military significance of Colditz Castle declined. For a while it was a residence for aristocratic widows. By the time Napoleon spent the night there on May 5,1813, after his disastrous Campaign in Russia the Castle had become a Hunting Lodge. In 1829 it was turned into a Home for the incurably mentally ill. When the nazis came to Power in 1933, they killed most of the patients and turned the. Castle into a prison for local anti fascists. Then it became a pow Camp. After the War the Castle again became a Hospital of the East German health service housing about 50 mentally ill patients As Well As 200 elderly along with the other towns Strung along the gentle winding River Valley with its forests of firs Pines and Birches set Between undulating Farmland Colditz has been badly hit by economic decline since the collapse of East Germany in. 1989 the Region s industries a textiles paper electronics engineering and crockery a Are dying. Colditz s largest employer used to be the crockery works Volks Igener Betriex pore Llanwern Colditz which employed 1,500 peo pee. It now pm p foys a me re 200 workers. Unemployment is estimated at 25 percent with the real rate much. Higher. A 1 a a a tourism is seen As the rescuer and the Castle with its Odd infamy is seen As the key to recovery. The problem is Cost. The Castle is badly dilapidated a and parts of it have been sealed off. The Castle s owner the state of Saxony would like private Money to develop it. The  plan has been fora Hotes off ice and co n Ference Cen Ter Complex a at a possible Cost of $60 million a by two British property. Development firms milling tons and. Trafalgar House construction. Milling tons has now withdrawn but Trafalgar House officials said recently that they remain interested in a revised plan and Are still in Contact with Saxon officials. Colditz Castle s importance to the area s Economy was made Clear when the movie the Colditz Story was shown a in English a As a prelude to a Public meeting in March. It was eerie watching this Vintage Black and White film in a Small auditorium just a few Hundred Yards from the Castle itself especially with a thunderstorm outside lending some unscheduled drama. The audience was silent throughout a seemingly bemused that this strange old film in another language a with unfathomable humor and quickly spoken dialogue that was sometimes hard to follow even for a native speaker a might. Be crucial to their future. A  by Scripps Howard nows service 14 stripes Magazine july21,1994