European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday May 6, 1977 envoy to Chile says treatment of prisoners by Junta has improved Santiago. Chile a treatment of individuals by Chile s military government has improved significantly in recent months but there is still More to be done says retiring . Ambassador David h. n Farewell speech wednesday before inc american chamber of Commerce Popper stressed the Carter admin isl ration s human rights commitment. Our chilean friends should be in no doubt about it this is by now a major Cle ment in american foreign policy said the ambassador who was once reported criticized by former Secretary of stale Henry a. Kissinger for speaking out on human rights issues Here. This is True As regards our Altitude toward countries of the left As Well As countries of the to Secretary of state Cyrus r. Vance s speech on human rights policy last saturday in Athens. Popper said the United Stales docs not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries but that human rights Are at the heart of any improvement in Urcla chilean Junta has released hundreds of political prisoners during the past year but. Popper said there is an Opportunity for diplomatic efforts to improve the existing 65-year-old career Diplomat. Popper is returning to Washington later this month after a z years in dealing with human rights issues the United states will consider proper Mea sures of help and encouragement to others As Well As possible restrictions in our assistance in specific instances he said. . Military and economic assistance to Chile has already been virtually eliminated. This resulted in part from . Con Gressional reaction against the imprisonment of political opponents by the military Junta that overthrew the late president Salvador Allende in 1973. And partly from Chile s reaction to what it considered undue . Pressure on the human rights Issue. According to reports published in the United states and tacitly confirmed by the . Embassy Here soon Afler the coup. Popper was chastised by Kissinger for stressing human rights matters in meet Ings with Junta officials. An embassy source at the time said Kissinger s Cable told Popper to Knock off the political science University of Michigan study caffeine habit found to increase anxieties Toronto a a new study link ing caffeine and menial disturbance has found that among a group of psychiatric patients those with a Large Caf Feine habit were More study of 83 psychiatric patients also showed that patients who drank Large amounts of Coffee containing Caf Feine were More anxious and tended to use Tranquili Zers More conclusions by researchers at the University of Michigan were drawn in a paper presented thursday to the american psychiatric association in this Canadian City. The doctors concluded that the higher the caffeine intake this include cd Tea. Cola drinks and pills that contain us stimulant the More Likely it was that the subject would report symptoms of mental the researchers emphasized that because their subjects were under treatment for psychiatric disorders they did t know in what Vray the re sults could be applied to the general population. They also said they could t definitely link caffeine consumption with depression. Previous studies have linked High caffeine intake with increased anxiety. For purposes of the study High Caf Feine consumption was arbitrarily classified As 750 milligrams or More a Day from All sources. The average cup of Coffee contains about 100 milligrams but can vary widely. Tea contains so to 75 milligrams of caffeine per cup. Brazilian cultists say god ordered ritual drowning of 8 children in sea Rio de Janeiro map we Felt a Little bad about it. But the pastor said god ordered said Dario Lima de Jesus a member of a religious cult police say is responsible for ritual drownings of eight Chil Dren in the Northeast pm City of Jesus 26-year-old father of three children whose bodies washed up on Ipi Tanga Beach said in a Telephone interview Brando and Superson Marlon Brando who is made up for his role As Jor i. Holds seven in Only old Lute Quigley on the set of Superman in London. Lee plays the role of the infant son of Jor i a leading scientist on the planet Krypton. When their Galaxy k threatened with destruction Jor i launches the baby the future Superman to safely on Earth and continues to control his offspring s fight for truth Justice and the american Way of use. Associated press photo wednesday he was present on the Beach when the children were cast into the sea by members of the Universal Assembly Church of the saints. He and 20 other cull members Are being held in preventive arrest at stale police Headquarters in Sal spokesmen said no formal charges had been filed against them or their pastor Jose Maurino Carvalho 28. A former appliance Salesman who founded the cult about two years ago. Do Jesus said he had been a member of the cult about a believe in god and it was the will of god that the children be he to police members of the cult gathered at about 8 . Saturday on Ipi Tanga Beach and eight children were handed one by one to Carvalho who threw them into the ceremony suspected the sea was really rough thai said Antonio Medrado Alcantara a Divi Sion director of the state police. He said the group performed what must have been a very macabre ceremony and members burned their clothes following the drown Ings. Fishermen at Salvador capital of Bahia state spotted five bodies washed up on the Beach sunday. Another body was discovered tuesday and two More were found wednesday. The children ranged in age from eight months to eight years. Police said they were holding the parents of All the Chil spokesman Alberto de Miranda said the 21 persons being held 16 adults and five minors would be Given psychiatric examinations during investigation. Miranda said this is a difficult Case. These Are Semi literate persons and they admit they threw the children into the he said police Are searching for a Possi ble ninth victim a missing 9-year-old girl. Maria Nilza. 25. One of the women being held said in a televised interview. The children had to die or they would become delinquents robbers. We received a message from god. Several cult members were interviewed on National television the Day of their arrests speaking calmly about the deaths. Alcantara said police closed in on the group tuesday morning at their encamp ment of two months in Sand dunes near the Salvador Airport which they called the mount of olives. He said cult Leader Carvalho who came to Salvador from Mundo novo. 185 Miles Southeast had been a roman Catholic until two years ago then changed to protestantism but without direct links with a specific is a major Center of Brazil Candy male voodoo cult which involves ritual sacrifices of goals and chickens and ceremonies in which Flowers arid other offerings Are tossed from boats into the sea. Alcantara said Carvalho had absolutely nothing to do with Candom ble. He hated it. Up until now there is no evidence he was involved in any other killings. He threw the children into the sea himself. There has never been anything like this in Salva unc presses for probe of Korea ambush Seoul up the United nations command proposed thursday that a korean military armistice commission meeting be held at the truce Village of Panmunjom Friday to discuss a Border ind Deal in which one South korean Soldier was killed and another wounded a unc spokesman said. The unc proposal was in reply to North korean counterproposal to hold the meeting monday. There was no immediate communist response to the latest unc suggestion the spokesman said. The unc said it hoped to hold the meet ing As Early As possible because the Inci Dent is too serious to delay discussion. Until the unc originally sought the meeting for thursday but North Korea wanted to have it delayed until monday without giving explanations. Patrol ambush an unidentified number of communist infiltrators tuesday ambushed a South korean army patrol South of the Southern Boundary of the Border near Chorion about 45 Miles Northeast of Seoul Accord ing to the unc. A spokesman said one Soldier was killed and another seriously wounded by communist Rifle fire. Unc officials said investigators found spent cartridges from ak4t rules chief infantry weapon of North Korea at the scene
