European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 28 the stars and stripes wednesday August 23, 1978 329 mias Are dead group says Hanoi. Vietnam up the Leader Ofa . Congressional delegation to Vietnam said tuesday his group has concluded that 329 american servicemen still listed As missing in action from the vietnamese War Are dead. I think it s the general feeling of this group that there Are no americans still alive in Southeast Asia said rep. G. V. Montgomeryd miss. Vietnamese officials told the eight con Gressmen monday that Farmers had located the bodies of 11 pilots who crashed in Remote areas and would return the re Mains to the no but after a series of meetings with top vietnamese officials Montgomery said it was time for the families of the remaining329 missing men to give up Hope. Six of the eight lawmakers concurred. "1 believe we should close the chapter on Hope Tony won Pat Guam s Delegate to Congress and a member of the House armed services committee congressmen who met with Viet namese Premier Phan Van Dong and other Hanoi officials said Vietnam appeared Al most desperate to normalize relations with its former enemy. One major reason the vietnamese said was that China has supplied troops and artillery to Cambodia which is fighting a bit Ter Border War with Vietnam. Vie manese spokesman Ngo diem told . Reporters accompanying the Dele a lion that peking sent advisers and cadre As Well As heavy 130mm artillery to Hel the cambodians. Asked whether chinese troops were Tak ing part in the fighting diem said diem told the americans that peking is making trouble for Vietnam because Hanoi is an obstacle Tor them. We will not follow their line. They want All the Peoples around them to be enemies of the the . Delegation will receive the re Mains of 11 mias and Fly them to Clark air base in the Philippines in route Home sat-1 Only two congressmen still willing to 1 hold out Hope for finding missing Ameri can servicemen were rep. Sam Hall d tex., and rep. Henson Moore a just have a gut feeling that one of these mias will show up some Day Hal said. Rep. Ike Skelton d-mo., said logic drives us irresistibly to the conclusion that none Are alive. Any american survivor would have been used by Hanoi either for propaganda or As a bargaining decline of Dollar worries . Residents poll finds new York up americans Are worried about the recent decline of the Dollar to nil time lows. Harris poll re sults released monday nationwide poll of 1,553 americans found that 80 percent of those polled Are worried about the decline of the Dollar in relation to Strong currencies in West Germany Japan and main reasons were cited a 57 percent majority indicated they Are concerned because the United states imports too much foreign Oil. A51 percent majority said the present . Trade deficit is the main reason for their concern Over the situation. Tote poll found that 46 percent. Of those polled Are worried about the Dol Lar because the country has not con Vinced people abroad that we have inflation under control at Home and a 41 percent majority thinks foreigners feel the country has not taken Tough Energy poll Calls the worry Over inflation the fastest growing concern in the pub Lic s mind and says the Dollar s decline has become a Symbol of president car Ter s ineffectiveness in economic and foreign policy. Kenya s revolutionary Leader Kenyatta Dies continued from Page encouraged Prosperity and stability in be later years As he aged he became increasingly Remote and a personality cult grew up around him. Young politicians be came impatient with his gradual approach to the problems of a developing nation. But Kenyatta s shrewd and often ruthless a neutering undercut any serious dissent. His earliest Days were shrouded. I Donot know when i was bom what Day what month or what year he said. Most authorities agree he was born be tween 1890 and 1895 in Kambur District heartland of the kikuyu Kenya s doll Tiant tribe and Kenyatta s Power base for a half Century in politics. Kamau a Ngengi was his name when in his Stepfather s words he was a Clever boy playful and ambitious who was Given to running away and spending whole nights in the Bush whenever anything upset the youth immersed himself in tribal lore announced that a love spell he had tried proved he also walked six Miles daily to a Mission school where he helped with the chores after classes. He was baptized in 1914 with the Chris Tian name of Johnstone Kamau. But fre quent wearing of the beaded belts or i Nyala of the Masai tribe game him the last name of Kenyatta. And he later took the african first name of Jomo which mean burning Spear. By 1922, Kenyatta was bicycling to work As a 135-a-month municipal meter Reader in Nairobi. He took the first of his four wives and became Active in the kikuyu Central association which was demanding title deeds from the British colonial gov eminent to protect tribal lands against White settlers. He went to England in 1931 to present kikuyu views to a parliamentary land commission and did not see Kenya again for 15 years. Kenyatta roomed with Paul Robeson the Black american Singer with pro communist views while a student at the Lon Don school of economics. After a spell As a student in Moscow he became prominent in the pan african movement seeking to rally Blacks everywhere toward Independence for african colonies. He published facing mount Kenya a sociological study of the kikuyu and spent world War ii working on a farm in South pm England. Returning horns Kenyatta found Kenya s Best land in the hands of Whites. Racial bars restricted Blacks to inferior jobs and kept them out of White hotels. Encouraged by the British asian settlers bad in stalled themselves As a commercial Buffer class Between Whites and Blacks. Tensions were sharpening. Kenyatta dominant personality and Salty forceful speaking style gave africans the Leader they needed for the coming push to free Dom. In a year he became president of a group that was forerunner of the Kenya african National Union today Kenya s Only political party. The British arrested him and convicted him in 19s3 of leading the Mau Mau rebel lion in which 13,000 africans and fewer than 100 Whites were slain in a four year period. Kenyatta denied he was a terrorist and historians still dispute his role in the rebellion. In 1959, he was moved from jail to House arrest in Northern Kenya and in 1961 he was freed to a drum thumping dancing Welcome in Nairobi. Independence came 28 months later on dec. 12,1963.judge orders Fla. To return millions to treasure divers construction Miami up . District judge William 0. Mehrtens monday ordered Testate to return $2.3 million Worth of trea sure to the company that found it in a sunken 17th Century Spanish Galleon near the Marquesas keys. A spokesman for the state attorney Gen eral s office said the state plans to Appeal the decision to the 5th circuit court at appeals in new Orleans. At the Center of the controversy is part of a King s Ransom in Gold coins bars and artefacts from the 355-year-old Spanish Galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. Found45 Miles off key West in 1971 by treasure Hunter Mel Fisher and his band of deep sea divers. Fisher s company treasure salvos inc., contracted with the state to excavate the wreck and give the state 25 percent of All the treasure he found. But a 1975 supreme court ruling on sub merged land near american coastal areas placed the wreck outside state territorial t0"? and mlva8e company claimed the state had no rights to any trea sure at Al. They ceased dividing the treasure wit the state and sued for the return of More than $2 million already in state museum vaults. Mehrtens ruled treasure salvos inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary Armad research inc. Have sole rights to All trea sure found at the Atocha wreck the wreck of the Atocha is estimated to be Worth Between $100 million and $400 Mil Uon on today s retail Market. Treasure salvos has already excavated $18 million Worth of artefacts. Continued from Page i projects in the Panama provision says that before re programming any Money the president should certify the need for such a project to the House and Senate appropriation committees. The House Bill had or loosed that a vote of the full House be remora before the Bill went to conference the Senate had approved $3.965 billion and the House had approved $3.h5 billion. Me Oure said he voted against the final ver x flan Dull 3-ml Buran a Dollar in eur Upina London Cupi slipped lower on t tuesday but hit a i in Frankfurt where it
