European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 15, 1978 philippine landslides Bury 20 Navy rescued Viet is 98 refugee by a Tough lad Manila. Philippines api a land slide buried travellers walking along a Highway overlooking Suboc Bay. North of the . Navy s Subic base and killed at least 20 persons the philippine constabulary police said monday. Late sunday Only such belongings As shoes slippers and handbags had been re covered. The Bengue mining company said Woof its miners were killed in a slide at a cop per and Gold mine North of the Bayside slide. The Subic area 80 Kilometres Northwest of Manila has be a inundated for several Days by heavy Rains spawned by a typhoon East of the Philippines and two Low ores Vietnam on wednesday when the Bridge sure areas. Manila had 10 inches of rain spotted a Small boat to the distance. Sunday that flooded most of the streets and cmdr. James e. Auer skipper of the Many Homes. Hammond said his ship edged alongside by Denis d. Gray aboard the Hammond Thailand a she was born at the time of the vietnamese emperors took part in a mass exodus and lived through three wars butt the age of 98 Phan Thi by decided to embark on her toughest  took to the sea in a 33-foot fishing boat to flee the country where she had spent All her  might not have had a Chance for the last two wishes of her life to reach 100 and be reunited with her son and daughter if it had not been for the . Navy ship Francis Hammond and its  fast frigate and two other american naval vessels were knifing through a Squall about 65 Kilometres off the coast of victims were passengers Many of the victims of the Highway land slide were passengers on a provincial bus who were walking across a stretch of the Road made impassable by an earlier slide. The Highway skirted a Mountainside an mayor Dangal Guevarra estimated that Stout 3.000 cubic meters of mud crashed Down from the Mountain burying the Road tals feet of mud and Rock. Officials said some of the missing might have been pushed into the sea. Rain and soft Earth were hampering res at operations. The naval base sent per Nenei and equipment to help in the recon i err and rigged a 73-foot Landing Craft wit High pressure hoses to Wash away some the mud and rubble. A . Navy spokesman said the slide1 cot off a naval communications station 32kilometers Northwest of the base. Fest to feature Chuting contest bad t0lz, Germany an International free fall Parachute Competition will highlight this year s annual herbs test to be held aug. 2s-2t at Flint Cavern Here. Invitations to participate in the Competition have been sent to More than 20 coun tries according to the army s special forces Del. Airborne. The Golden knights the army Parachute team set a world re Cord for a four member accuracy teams year. Jumping will Start at noon on aug. 25 and continue throughout the festival which will also feature a bavarian band giant Beer tent plus various games. Cambodia Swiss ties set Tokyo a Cambodia and Switzer land have decided to establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. Peking official Hsinhua news Agency reported. The Craft in driving rain and Waves two meters High. Voices aboard told Auer that they were Low on fuel and food that their boat was not seaworthy and they wanted to be taken to a free country. When Auer s men clambered Down to help the 37 vietnamese refugees and pre pared to sink the reeling wave battered boat they found a thin White haired grand grandmother and 17 of her relatives. By. One of the oldest refugees to escape com Phon tally. Definitely in charge Monist Indochina was hauled up to the deck of the Hammond inside a Coal sack the sailors taking great pains that the swinging human cargo did not strike the sides of the  appeared a Little confused at first executive officer it. Cmdr. James r. Knot recalled. But not for Long. Now she comes out with a terse statement and everyone runs in four directions. She s definitely in  the third Day at sea. I Felt that i was going to die by said aboard the Ham mond anchored near the thai coast. Then suddenly someone told me that we had met an american ship. I knew that my children would be Safe from then on. I Felt delighted. I had prayed to god during the by has placed a crude wooden plaque of Mary Joseph and the infant Jesus above her mattress below the deck of the Ham mond. She is deeply wrinkled but Speaks rapidly and lucidly. None of her fellow refugees interrupt her except to laugh at her jokes about her Fertile family 66 great grand children and How she must order around All her unruly offspring., dislikes communists her 36-year-old grandson who attests to by s advanced age said she disliked the communists especially since she was a devout roman Catholic. She had also complained he said about food shortages in Southern Vietnam and the poor Rice mixed with Corn that the toothless woman could barely eat. The grandson. Tan Dinh to. Said the real drive behind her escape was reunion with her son and daughter in their 60s and 70s who fled at the time of the 1975 american evacuation of South Vietnam and now live in the United states. Tho said he had tried unsuccessful to escape twice before. The third time he told people in to Chi Minn atty formerly Saigon that he was talking his grand grandmother out to the country Side to visit friends. Instead they boarded a Small boat waiting in a tributary of the Saigon River. Other groups converged from Vari Ous Points until All 37 met aboard the larger boat and headed into the storm South China sea. Everyone seasick by the third Day at sea food water and Medicine were Short and Tho said every one was seasick except by. Two Large ships had already passed them by apparently ignoring their signals of distress when the Hammond spotted them the frigate heading from the Philip Pines to Thailand later picked up another Boatload of 40 vietnamese refugees. The Hammond s 250-Man Crew has pampered the 77 vietnamese who include v men 25 women and 25 children under 13years of age. By s relatives say she was Bora in North Ern Vietnam when the French were begin Ning to colonize the country. She came from a Well to do merchant family and he husband who died at 28, was a Farmer she never remarried. She lived through world War ii. Had her three Story borne in Hanoi when the communists took 01 and joined the mass exodus to Nam in 1954. Then came the diet and the second co mandarins colonialists piers revolutionaries american soldiers. I want to live to be  Lyl utely. Everyone cheers. She s a Tough lady Sailor on the Hammond. . Units participate in Dane games Byda Synovec Bremerhaven Tarea Ewe Bremerhaven Germany 818 one Hundred and sixty eight mental a the 606th tac control so from Here adjoined air naval and ground forces Cut Mark Germany and the u. K. For Earth oks Boel 78 that began . The exercise which end sept sponsored by the tactical air r Denmark takes places Over the ._,.and Denmark s West coast Accord Kifft Safe spokesman. The exercise will test the Friendly forces to repel a sumsion of Denmark the Safe said. . Aircraft Safe aircraft taking part to use include f-5 Nunt Erstrom fighter so Raf Alconbury phantoms from the Send Wing Span Dahlem. Gei phantoms from the 26th tac Sance Wing we Brucken Nui rib. Eagles from the 36th tac flax bub org Germany eb-57 Caa Gahnstrom air Force base Fafek f-105 Thunde Schleis from ii Force base Calif according to the i Man. .Alreentr�Abi joining the 606th tac control exercise Are 50 members of the a few control flight from Schwede Bonf Ujj Many. The air controllers will aircraft taking  the exec from the oks Boel firing Range Mark s North sea coast the said. Aerial refuelling for both exercise aircraft win be i strategic air command tankers while the Airlift Oft Eriel will be provided by command c-130 Hercules and lifter aircraft the spokesman elderly prelates to be told first of Pope select vat1fan of tits i api Fotr Fri Nat a 1 it. Vatican City a cardinals Over 80, banned from papal elections in one of Pope Paul s most controversial decisions will be told who is the new Pope before any one else outside the conclave a Vatican official said monday. Younger cardinals made the decision out of respect for their older colleagues said the officus who declined to be identified. According to the report As soon As Pope Paul s successor is elected and accepts the office an emissary will leave the conclave and carry the news to the octogenarians in Rome. Then the Public will be told the elderly cardinals have already complained that they were left out of a meeting of the congregation of cardinals running the Church in the interim period betwee Popes. The Vatican said it was a misunderstanding and it has t happened again. Several prominent theologians have said in the past week that one of the first acts of the new Pope might be to lift the ban on 80 year Olds from the conclave. Preparations for the conclave opening aug. 25 were in full swing while pilgrims and tourists continued to visit Pope Paul s Tomb in the crypt of St. Peter s Basilica the Stream of people had visibly thinned out. However because the vast majority of romans Are away for the mid summer a cat Ono Fer Ragosto. Falling on tuesday. Cardinal Stefan Wyszysnki the polish inmate. Announced 300.000 polish Calno hcs and hundreds of French German and italian students will walk 125 Miles from Warsaw to the shrine of Czestochowa to Pray or god s guidance to off Tass of it new Pope. ."s1 a s?1" including those above 80. Attended monday s session of the Greg anon of cardinals the body pre Pang the conclave and supervising cur rent business in the Church. A statement said the Cardia formal notification from two car bad health prevents them from the conclave. The two Are John Vatican based american Cunt clinic in Boston and Boleslaw. I Poland also in a Hospital. Iwas to undergo a second Eye o Ter a recent one and doctors i against travelling to Rome. A third card Al. Valeria archbishop of Bombay. India cannot come the Vatican us  leaves 112 cardinals a ? Clave. But a few have not Arris up