European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 8 the stars and stripes August 1977 China claims 215 air kills in Korea War Tokyo a the chinese air Force shot Down or damaged 215 enemy aircraft during the korean War in the offi Cial Hsinhua news Agency said in a review celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Peoples liberation a Hsinhua said the fledgling Peoples air officially established on july was put to its most rigorous test and course of maturing inthe at the a Hsinhua the Odds were overwhelming in favor of the air which had expanded tremendously during world War ii and the postwar it said the chinese had a numerically weak Force and inferior the a Hsinhua report from peking one chinese air division bagged 123 enemy including nine each by air heroes Wang Mai and Yuti and their division and 92 enemy planes downed or damaged by Chang Chuhui and his air Divi Sion during the korean Pilot identified the Hsinhua report said among those shut Down by described As an air Force combat hero first was a air Force Jet fighter Pilot named George it did not say when Davis was shot the chinese air a Hsinhua has also kept up its record of defending chivas territorial air Over the past 20 years and More by adding to their tally varied types of aircraft flown by the nationalist chinese on Taiwan such As the Thunder us u2 and regardless of whether they intruded in Broad Daylight or under cover of night at High Altitude or double Ace Pilot another double Ace Pilot of the air Hsinhua was Harold Fisch who was taken prisoner in Northeast China in after being shot Down by 19 year old Han Teh a Hsinhua said Han was a Cowherd when he was a Hsinhua said the chinese Peoples air Force is stepping up its revolt ionization and modernization under the leadership of the party Central committee led by chair Man Hua besides serving As a defense Hsin Hua the air Force often helps by spraying creating artificial making Aerial geological or Rushing drugs and medical apparatus to the sick and wounded trapped in out the Way it said during the Tangshan earthquake disaster july lost air Force trans ports flew mercy missions in 14 a Hsinhua also said two chinese pan Kuohsin and Sun flew their Jet lighters through various layers of nuclear Cloud which were Orange yellow and Cream White after a new Hydrogen bomb was successfully exploded last autumn riots in Britain second largest City left Wing demonstrators break through a Fence around a school in which the rightist National front was holding a rally monday night in Britain second largest More than 400 leftists hurled stones and bottles at some 500 police who were guarding the meeting a number of policemen were photo uncured Russ buildup prompts Haig warning up Al expander Haig supreme Allied com Mander in warned monday that the Security of Western nations will soon be in jeopardy unless arms limitation agree ments arc enacted to reduce the soviet unions military Haig made the comment to reporters after a speech at Sacramento Comstock Haig said the soviets Are increasing their military spending by 4 or 5 per cent a year without a corresponding increase by Western if we dont arrest the increase in soviet capabilities through arms limitation he we will be put in jeopardy in the not too Distant the general our defense is viable but he added that the military spending trends compared with the soviet Union Are we Are faced with increasing our i Mili tary spending to prevent these trends from tipping the he noting the soviets arc spending 11 to 13 per cent of their Gross National product for military compared with s per cent for the he said military experts agree that the so called military Quality Gap favouring the West has narrowed because of the in creased soviet military with the russians surpassing the in several but he in they the soviets Are still Haig will address Utah graduation rites Belgium a Alexan Der Haig will receive an honorary doctor of Laws degree from the University of Utah at the 10 commencement for the University 225 graduate students in supreme Allied and commander in chief of will deliver the commencement address at Ramstein air yanks Send Carter bloodied Sheet Mexico City Lap american prisoners said monday they sent president Carter a Sheet stained with their blood to protest the delay in transferring them to the prisoners said they Cut themselves and dripped blood onto a shift bearing the legend americans in jail in Mexico a woman who claimed to be the wife of a prisoner said she smuggled the Sheet out of the prison monday identifying herself As Yolanda Ramirez of san she showed the cloth to reporters outside the Santa Marta prison in Mexico about 70 male prisoners were said to have participated in the accompanying the Sheet was a letter a dressed to Carter that began it is the blood of Over 600 american citizens in jail in Mexico whose years of agonizing misery and suffering you find evidenced on this the letter referred to delays in enacting legislation to carry out the requirements of a treaty to Exchange and mexican prisoners so they can serve out their terms in their own both the and Mexico have ratified the but the mechanics of fulfilling it have not been the letter was signed with the names Dean Brown and Ernest Frank of los has less than three years to serve of a seven year prison term on a conviction of cocaine of san is serving a seven year sentence for convictions of drug Possession and last ambassador Pat Rick Lucey told a Tijuana news Confer ence about half of the 600 citizens jailed in Mexico Are eligible for Transfer to he a substantial amount of those will be Back by governor on safes of fight canal pact Baton lust Edwin Edwards monday called on All state Legislatures to oppose the Carter administrations proposed treaty on the Panama Edwards said acceptance of the treaty giving up rights held by the 74 years in Panama would erode National in asking you to consider a joint Reso Lution asking our senators to resist any efforts to erode our rights in the Panama canal by adopting a new Edwards said in an address to a joint ses Sion of the Louisiana and in asking other state Legislatures As soon As possible to follow you Are being had As a Edwards its one thing to provide am Nesty for those who dont deserve it and another to provide citizenship for people smart enough to stay Here for 10 but 1 think this is going too he said there was nothing to Stop a future panamanian regime from demand ing yet another treaty 10 years from now that would give the even less authority and Cost millions of dollars More legion opposed the National commander of the american legion said that Carters proposal to relinquish ownership of the canal by the year 2000 would sacrifice vital Security interests of the no conceptual agreement serves the Public interest when it gives the canal zone to the government of a dictator whose tenure is tenuous and whose meth ods Are said William Rogers in a letter to in Denver for the legions 59th National called the agreement a Giveaway and said panamanian strongman Gea Omar Torrijos Herrera has a poor track record in human fair labor practices and financial