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Show s? I PmFS SPECIAL edited by LLOYD SHEARER BECAUSE CF VOLUME OF VAIL RECEIVED CflllAS HOI star from Brooklyn, dumped by Aristotle Onassis for Jackie Kennedy, make her long-await- may soon ed film a druggist named Caloge-ropoul- os has long enter- tained film ambitions. In the late 1940's when she married Giovanni Batista Meneghini, an Italian rector Roberto Rossellini, building material tycoon and millionaire 20 years her senior, it was expected that Meneghini would pro- title eghini debut. Franco Rossellini, nephew of Italian film di- and a leading producer in his own right, wants to sign Miss Callas for the role in she has opera. Medea, a role sung many times in mote her to screen stardom. He di'd not. later when she left Men- for Onassis, it was again expected that the Greek shipping magnate would finance her Negotiations are underfilm career. He, too, if Miss Callas to terms, production declined. agrees will begin in Rome within Now, however, that she is a few months. bereft of lovers, Maria Miss Callas, 45, born in Callas may find she has New York City of Greek acquired what she always wanted screen stardom. parentage her father was way, and PARADE REGRETS IT CANNOT ANSWER QUERIES ABOUT SPY SCANDAL per square foot in West Germany than in any other European nation an estimated 10,000 of them. Their job: to transmit to communists in East Germany and Soviet Russia any useful tidbit of information about the NATO allies. Most of these spies are worthless. Several are even comic. What is not comic, however, is the number of highly-place- d West German officials, admirals and whom the Soviet Union has managed to convert to their side. In a sentence, West German security is about as bad as Great Britain's, which is pretty awful. generals included, The net result is that Soviet Russia possesses today practically all the top secret NATO documents, war plans, and nuclear weapons locations. Rear Admiral Herman Luedke, 57, one of the West German government six officials implicated in latest NATO spy scandal, the was caught a few months ago a Bonn photo shop discovered nine copies of top when secret NATO the same documents on roll of film with his family vacation shots. Obviously this was an intelligence frame-u- p leading to Luedke 's murder by in- telligence agents and not as reported, his suicide. What it proves, of course, is that in the spy war, the Soviets continue to beat us. Tlfini C ITV IllltUalM Resident Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam is glad to have his vice president and political rival, MARIA CALLAS WITH ARISTOTLE ONASSIS 4 Nguyen Cao Ky, working in Paris as a member of the peace delegation. Thieu, who is a Catholic, THIS COLUMN Ky, who is a Buddhist, and trusts him just about as far as he can throw a piano. dislikes Thieu has dismissed from command positions all senior officers around Sai- friendly or on to the suspiKy loyal cion that Ky has long harbored secret plans for an eventual coup. Thieu has stationed near Saigon his old regiment, the 5th, plus the 18th gon who were Division in Phuoc Tuy Province, to protect him rather than to take an active role in the war. ARVN Like Syngman Rhee of South Korea who wanted Eisenhower to continue the Korean War indefinitely, Thieu and Ky are determined to keep American forces fighting in Vietnam as long as takes them it to exact the concessions from North Vietnam they want. Under such circumstances, one may expect them to drag out the peace negotiations for years. will Nixon have to use a strong hand in Paris if he expects to end the war. II. S. VISITOR Blaiberg', 59, the South African dentist who at this writing has the distinction of being the world's longest-livin- g tient, heart transplant hopes to visit U.S. next' spring. The dentist old pa- the retired each day, takes long walks, says he's even thinking of returning to dentistry. Blaiberg has been offered a pretty penny to appear on American now swims television and describe his experiences. He hopes to take advantage of the opportunity. When Dr. Christiaan Barnard first performed a on Blai- - heart transplant PARADE DECEMBER 29. !' |