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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 13,1972
Page 20
Ping pongers dined
By MELANIE DEEDS
DETROIT (UPD—Members
of Chinese touring table tennis
team, vowing to work towards
improving Sino-American
relations, were wined and dined
on their first day in the United
States but didn’t get to meet
many of its people.
Today was to be different,
however, with a tour of auto
plants and a luncheon with
Chrysler Corp, workers the
main items on their agenda.
Graham Steenhoven, head of
the United States Table Tennis
Association and promoter of the
visit, said the Chinese were not
overly impressed with their
first view of America.
"They were not over
whelmed,” Steenhoven said.
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“Being world champions, many
have been in many other
countries. They have seen
automobiles before. Things
aren’t new to them and they’re
not awed.”
The 14-member team, accom
panied by 14 Chinese newsmen
and translators, was ushered to
a downtown Detroit hotel for a
lunch most couldn’t finish a
short time after its arrival at
Metropolitan Airport Wednes
day.
Then it was up to their rooms
for a rest before a cocktail
reception and buffet dinner at
Manoogian Mansion, the official
residence of mayor Roman S.
Gribbs and his family.
Newsmen and photographers
were in abundance all day—as
were police—but mingling with
the visitors was at a minimum.
About 50 representatives of the
media turned out for the
dinner, spent about 2*/i hours in
the mayor’s backyard and were
treated to a news conference
that lasted no more than 10
minutes.
Chuang Tse-tung, leader of
the Chinese table tennis play
ers, was the main spokesman
for the group.
“Our delegation has come to
the United States in the spirit
of ‘friendship first, competition
second,”’ he announced a short
time after their arrival.
At the evening news confer
ence, Chuang expressed “the
thanks of everyone on the
team” for the cordial welcome
they received.
Ulster
leader
eyes force
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(UPl)—William Craig, a 47-
year-old lawyer who heads
Ulster’s extreme Protestant
Vanguard Movement, said to
day he would resort to force to
prevent the province being
handed over to the Irish
Republic.
He said organizations associ
ated with Vanguard have
military contingency plans,
75,000 armed men and the
weapons for an armed
takeover.
“I think this would be a very
remote contingency,” he said in
an interview with United Press
International. “I think we have
sufficient political power to
make the British government
see reason. But we would be
prepared for an armed
takeover as a last resort.”
Craig, a deceptively soft
spoken lawyer and one-time
home affairs minister in the
suspended Northern Ireland
government, launched a two
day general strike that brought
life in the province to a
standstill after Britain imposed
direct rule from London March
30.
Germany’s guest workers
settle down for long stay
By CHARLES BIERBALER
Written for NEA
BONN, WEST GERMANY
— (NEA)—West Germany’s
economic miracle of the
post-Berlin Wall era is not
purely a German phenome
non.
It has been heavily de
pendent on help from the
Gastarbeiter, foreign work
ers, with about two million
of them now making up 10
per cent of W'est Germany’s
labor force.
The use of imported labor
is widespread in Europe to
day, with France, Austria
and Switzerland, among
others, joining West Ger
many in welcoming foreign
workers into their under
employed economies. But it
is here that the practice is
most noticeable.
Nearly 500,000 Yugoslavs,
almost as many Turks and
Italians and a smattering of
workers from northern Afri
ca, Korea, England, Poland.
Romania and even the
United States have come in
to fill the labor gap left when
the Wall cut off the flow of
workers from East Ger
many.
Some of the imported
workers are professionals —
a group of Americans was
brought in by a Hamburg
school district to fill a short
age of math and science
teachers — but for the most
part they are unskilled.
An executive at the Ford
Motor Co.’s Cologne plant
says: “The German — and
I think this a trend every
where — thinks that he
shouldn’t do the dirty low
job and a foreigner can still
do it. You will find that the
city garbage collectors are
60-80 per cent foreigner.
You wouldn't find a German
to do the job.”
With the West German un
employment rate a micro
scopic 0.7 per cent, the im
ported workers are taking
no jobs away from Germans
and in the event of a reces
sion the government could
dispose of the foreign work
ers by refusing to extend
work permits beyond the
normal two-year period. So
the Gastarbeiter provide a
handy cushion against eco
nomic problems.
The situation is not with
out its difficulties, however:
• Ma n y of the foreign
workers do not speak Ger
man and show no burning
desire to learn. The big com-
g ?.
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YOUNG ITALIAN WORKERS man the Volkswagen
assembly line at Wolfsburg. Big German companies
have divided the Gastarbeiter supply according to
nationality.
panies have, in fact, tried to
divide up the Gastarbeiter
by country so that Ford has
hired mostly Turks, Opel
mostly Spaniards and Volks
wagen mostly Italians.
• The experience of work
ing in West Germany spoils
many foreigners when they
return to their native coun
tries and find opportunities
limited. Many foreign work
ers — especially among the
Yugoslavs — find nothing to
do when they return home
and end up on the next train
headed back to Germany.
• The foreign workers
like making money here but
are unhappy about their
often crowded, exorbitantly
priced living quarters, their
social isolation, their lan
guage problems. A group of
foreign workers in Wiesloch
even formed a “parliament”
to bargain with their em
ployer.
• Foreign workers come
into contact with exiled
groups from their home
countries too often to make
Bomb truck starts
fire; kills woman
By JOSEPH FLEMING
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
(UPI)—A 100-pound bomb in a
panel truck set fire to an
adjoining building today in
Ballymoney, 40 miles northwest
of Belfast, killing a woman and
injuring her husband, an army
spokesman said.
The victim, not immediately
identified, died in an apartment
above a store in the mainly
Protestant village. Her hus
band, roused earlier by police
when they spotted the truck,
was in the store doorway and
suffered cuts and bruises, the
spokesman said.
Bomb experts estimated the
truck contained at least 100
pounds of gelignite.
In Belfast, William Craig,
head of the militant Protestant
Ulster Vanguard Movement,
told UPI Chief European
Correspondent Joseph W. Grigg
that Protestants would resort to
force to prevent unification
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their home governments
back home feel comfortable.
Members of an exiled Yugo
slav group killed Belgrade’s
ambassador to Sweden last
year and are suspected of
blowing up a Yugoslav air
liner this year. And Arab,
Spanish and Greek radicals
are also active outside their
own countries.
As for the workers them
selves, some of them have
married German women,
compulsory schooling for
foreigners has been insti
tuted in some German states
and Balkan and Oriental
and Italian restaurants are
springing up. Meanwhile the
Gastarbeiter seem to have
found a niche for themselves
in West Berlin, where young
Turks and Yugoslavs are
moving in to take the place
of the German young people
who are leaving.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
(Charles Bierbauer is a
European correspondent for
the Group W radio stations.)
with the Republic.
He said organizations associ
ated with Vanguard have
military contingency plans,
75,000 armed men and the
weapons for an armed
takeover.
In other incidents Wednesday
night and today, the spokesman
reported several bombings, and
at least eight snipings at troops
in Belfast and near Londonder
ry, none of which caused
casualties.
An army squad on mobile
patrol outside Londonderry
near the Irish Republic border
escaped uninjured when am
bushed by eight gunmen. At
Newtownbutler, 40 miles south
west of Belfast, a small bomb
extensively damaged an auto
matic telephone exchange, and
at Killea, near Londonderry, a
bomb Hew up an unoccupied
trailer being used as a customs
post, the spokesman said.
Belfast officials said the
center of the city will be barred
to all civilian motor traffic soon
to prevent explosions by bombs
left in unattended vehicles.
They said the steets will be
closed from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
every day except Sunday.
TAINT TRUE
RECIFE, Brazil (UPl)—The
owner of a small store in the
municipality of Caruaru has
told newsmen he will take his fl
year-old son out of school
because he has been taught
that man has landed on the
moon.
“Nowadays they teach things
that don’t happen,” said
Severino Salvino da Silva, 45.
Silva said the space trip was
an invention of newspapers and
“professors who do not believe
in God.’’ .
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By DICK KLEINER
HOLLYWOOD—i NEA> —lt begins to look as though Jo-B
seph Wambaugh can't be both a cop and a writer. |!|
He managed to combine the two careers while heH
wrote The New Centurions” and his just-published "Theg
Blue Knight.” But he says he can't do both any more.
The demands of being an author are just too much.” I|
Wambaugh says. There are letters to be answered, in- ■
vestments (he’s made a lot of money on his two booksi l|
to be tended to, and such details as helping the Japanese E
translator of "The New Centurions” find the right words ■
for his slang. ■
"Between all that and a full-time job as a policeman,” I
Wambaugh says, 1 just can't find the time to write I
another book. 1 want to write more books My wife and ■
my publisher both want me to quit the force but I still like B
police work."
As it is, Wambaugh is living in two worlds As a sue- B
cessful author and a member in good standing of the B
literary community, he mingles with people like Truman B
Capote. Simultaneously, as a policeman, he is part of the B
admittedly sleazy world he associates with in that work I
"I have to have a command of two separate languages,” B
he says, “and the people I talk to in one world don't un- 1
derstand the language of the other "
Now there is a third world intruding—the world of I
movies. He’s been hanging around the set where they're I
making the movie version of "The New Centurions.” I
which stars George C. Scott and Stacy Keach.
He’s enjoying that. too. but he doesn't want to be a real I
part of it He will not, for instance, write the screen play I
for "The Blue Knight,” when that inevitably becomes a I
movie.
"I saw what Stirling Silliphant went through," he says. I
"when he did the Centurions’ screen play He wrote 14 1
drafts and then he quit and they had to bring in some- 1
body else to do another one."
"The Blue Knight,” Wambaugh’s latest, is. many I
reviewers believe, superior to his first novel It tells the I
story of one man—a 50-year-old, 275-pound policeman who I
is three days from retirement Casting that part is a I
favorite game these days.
"Bill Conrad’s name comes up most often." Wam
baugh says, "but I’ve also heard them mention Orson
Welles and Marlon Brando. I sort of lean to Edward
Asner of the Mary Tyler Moore Show ”
Wambaugh’s life style has changed since his books
made him wealthy
"Nowadays I buy suits retail,” he says "I went into
a clothing store with Dick (his police partner. Dick Kalk,
who has an acting role in Centurions') and bought some
shirts and suits and paid retail and Dick was astounded
“Cops just don’t do that —cops always have places to go
for cut-rate stuff. We used to have this old Arab who
came around to the station house with a station wagon
full of suits. Lots of times one sleeve was longer than the
other, but it was cut-rate.”
Wambaugh wrote a pilot for a police series called The
Head Hunters. He sold it to Screen Gems but they
couldn't sell it to the networks
"Nobody would touch it,” he says "They all said it was
too controversial because it was too realistic.”
The show will one day revert back to Wambaugh, and
he thinks then he’ll try again By that time, maybe TV
will be more ready for it.
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