European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 1719s4 Little Price mystery still grips French the stars and stripes Page 5 Paris apr the Pilot finished snapping reconnaissance photos of nazi forces in the Alps and flew Back toward Corsica via the French Riviera. Suddenly his Lockheed p-38 vanished off radar screens. Fifty years later the disappearance of Antoine de Saint-exup6ry, author of the Little or nce remains a Puzzle that has fascinated France despite years of undersea searches in the Mediterranean. Researchers 5 have raised the possibility that he was shot Down by the germans had mechanical trouble or even planned the crash. 5�?� a the Little Prince had warned us a i will seem i dead and it wont be Saint exp play real a the weekly news paper journal de Dimanche said sunday the anniversary of the disappearance. A i will finish my Days in the Mediterranean a Saint exp pry was widely quoted As saying. Saint-exup6ry�?Ts disappearance was being marked by ceremonies theatrical events conferences and an air leads sought in clinic Blaze race spanning the Adro Postale route he co founded 70 years ago from France to Africa. Even the Banque de France issued a new 50-franc Bill late last year with Saint-exup6ry and the tiny figure of his Little Prince. A Wreath laying ceremony was scheduled sunday at the Airport in Bastia in Northern Corsica where Saint Exupero took off that morning for his last flight. In the Alpine town of , a mass was planned in the Chapel of his family a 18th-Century chateau near the Airfield where he took his first flight As a boy. A. A if you could have seen the Little Guy when he got off he was beaming a said Georges Thibaut in his 90s, who was a childhood Friend. Saint sex up by became a commercial Pilot in 1926, flying mail routes in Europe Africa and South America. His vivid accounts of his adventures included night flight 1932 and wind Sand and stars 1939. In 1943, amid the horrors of world War ii he finished the Little Prince a fable of the innocence and idealism of a child who faces the harsh world of grown . The novel has charmed millions of readers across the world. The journal de Dimanche portrayed Saint exp dry As a troubled Man at that time and raised the possibility that his disappearance was a suicide. It noted his marital difficulties and the loss of friends in the War. Saint-exup6ry, 44, a imaged to get past the age limit for a Pilot. For the Mission he was Given the single seat p-38 lightning considered the fastest plane at the time with speeds Topping 380 Mph. The flight was to prepare for the aug. 15 Allied assault on Southern France. A the knew that Mission was his last a the paper said. 1 the unarmed plane part of the 3rd photo recon group had both . And French markings when it took off from Corsica at 8 30 sunday morning. The German forces Saint sex when his plane disappeared off the american radar screeds at"1 30 . The wreckage was never found despite numerous searches. But last year Jean Roux an expert in undersea research said efforts revived after new testimony was received from a French woman who saw a plane crash in the Gulf of Giens Southeast of the port City of Toulon on july 31,1944. Her account meshed with other reports and a new seabed search showed abnormally High Levels of metals used in american aircraft. Roux said it appeared the plane had virtually disinter grated Over the years and he stopped Short of claiming this was the wreckage of Saint exp dry a lightning. But he and his colleagues have filed Legal papers seeking to establish a claim Over the site. Falls Church a. Audlie i fed eral officials asked the Public for help  finding out who set a fire behind an abortion clinic Here. A a gasoline powered incendiary device with a timer went off Friday night outside the Commonwealth women a clinic in Falls Church said Patrick Hynes a special agent for the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. The clinic which has been the scene of numerous protests is about seven Miles outside Washington. Hynes said planned parenthood and the National abortion federation Are offering a $100,000 Reward for help in finding and convicting those responsible. Woman Marine Pilot chooses helicopter Whiting Field Fla. A the Marine corps first female Pilot had visions of thundering through the sky in a combat Jet when she began her flight training. Seven months later she a opted for a helicopter instead. A most people walk in with the of Ter buyers glowing in their eyes a said a Navy spokesman it. . Ron Steiner. As the first female Marine selected for flight training 2nd it. Sarah Deal was no different. But then she decided she wanted1 to work closer to ground troops said Marine it. Col. Dean Lucas. Deal is not giving interviews. A r Imti a what Drunken sailors do in Moscow Tipsy russian sailors visit a watering Hole Tif another sort Sun Navy Day a Holiday when present and former russian sailors Day. They Are waving old soviet naval flags and cavorting in a hold reunions to drink and reminisce about fac Days they Fountain in Moscow a Gorki Park. The last sunday a of  served  their legs German women would t hair of it by Anne Beatrice Clasmann Deutsche Presse Agenter Dusseldorf Germany a two weeks into a european heat wave Bare legs and naked armpits make it Plain that German women prefer to keep their body hair right where nature put it. Women in More Westerly and southerly parts of Europe have prepared themselves for Bikini weather by shaving their legs rubbing in depilatories or plucking unsightly hair with tweezers and Wax. Visible body hair on women arouses special revulsion in Britain France Italy Spain and the United states where visiting German vacationers flaunting it in miniskirts have to endure funny looks. One German pop Star in the Early �?~80s made the mistake of lifting her arms to clap when she Sang her hit song in concert and got roasted by the British press. One critic called her a the hairy armpits  the habit of removing female body hair goes Back to the ancient romans. Archaeologist Gisela Helle Kemper of the Rheinisch Landes museum in / Bonn said it probably prevailed in roman ruled parts of Germany but the practice does no to seem to have endured there methods of de dilation Haven to changed much since Caesars time she adds with creams Wax and j tweezers still in common use though there Are now fancy women a razors and even an electroshock device. A women a Magazine Brigitte surveyed a de dilation in Germany in january and found that Only 8 percent of Western German women regularly remove hair. In Eastern Germany the figure was just 2 percent. Since German women spend heavily on clothes coiffure and makeup this seems to be Cuiter Al rather than a matter of laziness. Many regard de dilation As a a artificial and a a unnatural and hate the naked feeling of having been shaved. Beauticians and manufacturers of razors and pastes have struggled Strvain to make hirsute German women fee bad. A i find it revolting the Way girls run around with shaggy legs a shuddered Karin Kruppa chairwoman of the German cosmetic ans federation. Kruppa Stid the Trade got a fillip Back in May when departing Allied troops in Berlin were asked what they liked and disliked in Germany. After a British Soldier opined the of he had found German women a unpleasantly hairy a there was a Rush of appointments for depletion at Kruppas Berlin Beauty Salon.  by scrupps Howad nows so vice a