European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday june 24,1977 Turk tribulations red Cross volunteers prove avid Able problem solvers by Mike Spear Suh writer in Ciurlik. Turkey Sis a service Man comes into the office and he needs help. Ilis problem is Mayonnaise. No kid Ding Mayonnaise. He has written to his wife in the . And asked her to Send him a Jar of Mayonnaise. Now he sees nothing but trouble ahead. Don t laugh. Sometimes Mayonnaise is wry hard to get in Turkey. And when you want Mayonnaise nothing else will do. But in the meantime he has read some where that he might be taxed As much As 300 per cent on it. So he wants to get word to his wife quickly not to Send it now. Lie still wants Mayonnaise but 300 per cent tax so what does he do 1 he goes to the red Cross for help i told that him 1 did t think it was an emergency that he probably would t have to pay the tax and if he did it would Only be about s3." said Barbara Davis one of five Volunteer Hod Cross Case workers Here. It was one of the More unusual cases she has dealt with since she became a Case worker Here More than three years ago. Davis is one c f five Case workers under the direction of i Ltd Cross Kielo direct Ord Macarthur and his assistant Mike Lanse. And they arc aiming Only a handful of Ltd cribs Case workers on this Side of the at Lam in lie came about through a in Nitina Ion of several Yvars a of there is More isolation for de a and fils in this part of the world. Families Don t if. Out As easily As they do in Ger i Wiy. Macarthur said. And there arc few jobs on inc base. Consequently Many wives arc looking or something to do. I m climbing the Walls with boredom is a phrase that Macarthur often hears. The Volunteer Case workers started under the Field director before , seeing a Good thing continued it. Most of us arc pretty Well educated and financially secure enough so we can get by without paying jobs but we need some thing that is stimulating something that gets us out of the House said Davis. Macarthur said the Case workers arc unique. They do pretty much what the Field director does and therein lies the rub in other places but not Here Davis said. I think the Only thing that can keep this program from being successful anywhere death messages Are always hard to Deal with but the birth announcements. Balance it out i Lse is Field directors and 1 think the officials in Germany Urc aware of Davis said. In other words the Field director s attitude often is this is my Domain my Power and i Don t want anyone else infringing we have been Able to do pretty much what we want Here and has been Good about what do inc Case workers do they work on the whole Gamut of cases that come to the lied Cross emergency leave and financial hardship cases deaths in the family and birth announcements. And they Are All Quick to Point out what they feel is a major misconception about the red Cross we Don t decide whether a Man or woman goes on leave we Don t decide if an Extension of leave is granted and we Don t give out leaves Davis said. We just communicate. Those arc All military decisions. We lust make decisions in terms of Finan Cial Case worker s responsibility includes everything from conducting the initial interview of the person seeing help to Fol lowing it through until it s closed said Rose Marie Brockman. It May mean making a loan or counselling. Or it May mean sending a message Back to the vs., she rare occasions it May mean notifying a person of. A death but usually that s handled by the first May mean talking to a husband about failure to communicate with his wife or Rice versa she said adding that the Ini Octant thing is providing an open pipe line of communications Between two per sons and usually that s Between a person Here and one Back in the . It s very difficult for a person to Call tack to the . From Here and extremely expensive. The phonies Are few according to Chris can pretty much Tell right she said. If his eyes Are shifty if he s Ner Vous and up Light and not answering my questions that s a pretty Good indication that something s wrong. The volunteers who also include Mary Tyler and Lucia Mckinney. Work about a Day to a Day and a half a week death messages arc always hard to Deal with but the birth announcements balance it out Davis said. Then the amusing Inci dents that occur in dealing with people Day to Day make it fun. Koa Nilca one woman writs to her . Doctor spent 21/2 years in country torture in Rhodesia described Nav Ohk in i i or. Selwyn Spray Silys he became an expert at treating Vic Tims of Clicc Treshock torture and Calls in an ambulance equipped with Armor plate and a Roll bar. He did t mind the strange ambulance the american doctor said in an interview. It was necessary in Ullh Docsia in Case he hit a land mine. Anyway we never hit any. You hear things you of Blacks by police and Security forces to obtain information on guerrilla movements was another matter the police Are ruthless brutal and the 38-year-old doctor from la Grande. Ore., said. "1 saw people who had been tortured in my Hospital. I had the Opportunity to observe several Spray expelled this week from Rhode Sia for alleged cooperation with the guerrillas said a common torture technique was to make people lie on the floor and beat them Over the Back or buttocks with a stick or also used electroshock Tor Ture on Blacks suspected of aiding guerrillas attempting to overthrow the White regime in Salisbury. Spray said. They had a chair with a Metal Back hooked to an electrical outlet. The victim would sit in the chair and his feet would be placed in water. They d simply switch on the current and switch it Spray a graduate of the University of Oregon medical school spent More than 2 years running a 155-bcd clinic at the mount Vilenda Mission in Chipenda prov Ince near the Mozambique Border. He said the Mission was funded jointly by the a rhodesian government and the United Church of Christ and also took Small fees from patients who could afford treatment. Spray was in new York to Brief Church officials before leaving for Switzerland next week to join his wife and children. He attributed the alleged use of torture by authorities to a while supremacist mentality of White Wilho designs. They feel that Blacks Are subhuman and the god Given purpose of Blacks is to provide labor for june 5. Two guerrillas were shot to death near the Mission and Spray was arrested on suspicion of collaboration for two weeks. Spray said he was held in Soli tary confinement but otherwise treated Well before being sex \ pelted from the country. Spray admitted having numerous contacts with guerrillas and said he had prepared a medical Booklet in tended for use by the 1 guerrillas in the he said he i first came into con Spray tact with armed guerrillas during medical errands in the Bush country. Anyone who drives in the Bush meet them. The guerrillas have nearly 100 per cent support from the people who look upon them As their Mother about the conditions in Turkey and somehow the Mother got the idea that there were weasels in the turkish flour. The overprotective Mother contacted the red Cross Here. The Case workers in formed her that it was Weevils and nol weasels that were living in the turkish flour and Little could be done about it. Another time a Case worker delivered a birth announcement of a son to a father gave him the weight health condition and the fact that the son was named after him. A Little later the Case worker got a phone Call from the Man s commander saying the Man had gone bananas and had to be restrained and injected with something to Calm him. He had been Here 11 months. Macarthur praises the work of his volunteers saying they Are All capable and dependable and they be got Weir feet firmly planted on the ground everyone of child Slayer Dies on the Guillotine Boal. France a Jerome car rein. 3fi. Died on the Guillotine at Dawn thursday for the murder of an 8-year-old Kirl. He was Tho second person executed in France since president Valery discard d stain look office three years ago. C a rein was beheaded in the prison courtyard in this Northern French town. I was sentenced to death twice for the slaying in 1975 of Cathy Petit daughter of the owners of a tavern he frequented near Paul Luel. 10 or Les from Douai. According to testimony at his trial he met the child after school persuaded her to accompany him to a swamp tried to rape her and drowned her when she resisted the Man returned to the bar and reported the child died accidentally. The parents wore suspicious and called the police. Carcin was convicted last july 12, but the court of appeals found a technical error in the trial and ordered a new trial. The Douai court of assizes on feb. 1 sentenced Carcin to death for the second Lime after again finding him guilty of kidnapping a minor attempted rape and murder. The death sentence is mandatory for persons convicted of murder unless the jury finds mitigating circumstances. It has been the practice in France since the time of president Charles de Gaulle to refuse clemency when children and prison officials Are the victims. An estimated 4,600 persons have been guillotined since the machine came into use in France about 200 years ago. It was invented As a substitute for hanging which often left victims to strangle slowly. It has a 132-Pound Blade which Falls nine feet be tween two grooved beams. Study says seat belts Cut toll Stockholm api the number of a Lally and severely injured car Accident Vic Tims has been reduced by 51 per cent since a Law snaking safely belts compulsory became effective 30 months ago a study made by the Volvo Auto manufacturing firm showed. Detainee freed by East was is Man paper says Bonn a one of the East German political detainees freed last week in a prisoner Exchange is a former nazi is offi cer who was jailed for alleged intelligence work on behalf of the United slates a West German newspaper said thursday. Nedrich Weihe 73. Was among 11 prisoners from East German jails freed last saturday at the same time Chile s anti communist military regime released communist sen. Jorge monies 51, to East Ger conservative daily die Welt which circulates nationally said East German agents kidnapped Weihe in West Berlin sept. 19. 1957. An East German court sub sequently sentenced him to life in prison on charges of carrying out intelligence work for the United Stales. The East germans accused him of actions clearly aimed at toppling the German democratic Republic East Ger Many die Welt reported. The other prominent prisoner the East germans exchanged for monies was Bast German physiologist Adolf Henning Furcht. The newspaper reported wednes Day. It said release of the other nine prisoners coincided with the Swap of Furchland Weihe for monies. Neither Easl nor West Germany has been Able to try Weihe for War crimes. Die Welt said the West German Effort having broken off for Lack of evidence. The newspaper said he joined the nazi storm troopers in 1926, seven years before Hitler took Power. After 1933. He belonged both to the is the nazi elite guard and the Gestapo or secret police. Weihe was assigned to the Eastern front during world War ii. Die Welt reported and by 1945 was a lieutenant colonel in the Sam Hilary Section. The East germans sentenced Furcht to life in prison in 1968 for alleged serious crimes on behalf of imperialist secret serv apparently an accusation that he disclosed details of East German research into bacterial warfare. The West German government has re fused comment on the Exchange other Tanto acknowledge it took place
