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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, February 16, 1981

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 the stars and stripes february 1981 klan joins protest against Viet fishermen Santa Texas a a blazing 25foothigh Cross burned in a wooded Field saturday night As the Kun flux klan and Galveston Bay fishermen joined in a protest against an influx of vietnamese refugee shortly before the Cross a Small boat labelled uss Viet was set about 250 people showed up for the rally on the 30 acres near this Gulf coast Community about 45 Miles Southwest of hous but Louis grand dragon of the Texas told the we arc will ing to enlist any american fishermen to Send to our training Camp and then you will be ready to handle the he also said in an that if the state or Federal government did not take action in the next 90 Days to help the american All of Are going to find some Way to do beam would not Gene a Fisherman from near by said the Kkt rally was not one of racial hatred but one of economics for me and the people i Fisher said he sought the help of the Kkt because of the desire for publicity about the plight of who say Viet namese immigrants have refused to obey traditional local customs regarding fishing the Justice department has tried to mediate but the dispute erupted into a shooting incident last year that killed one pointing to a group of Fisher said he asked the a White ship remiss to help because this was one Way to get your i want the attention of the state govern ment and the Federal government and i want them to understand How we Are Hurt ing along Galveston there Are no fish Ermen that i know of that Are Kkt Mem but this is one Way to get people to listen to our he Fisher said vietnamese refugee Fisher men were moving into the Gulf coast area at an astounding rate and if this keeps up we Are going to be Frozen out of our jobs As american the approach to the rally led Over a bumpy Road where armed klansmen stood one Small boy walked among the crowd with a toy Rifle on his challenging anyone to face him in a about 250 people had assembled for a fish Fisher let us understand that if the vietnamese we rent Here and taking so much of the Federal there would be funds for the Blacks and for bilingual Edu Many of we fishermen Are not Here because of racial i must i dont like those turkeys from Viet he said the Justice department has done nothing to help the situation along Galveston the Best thing that could happen would be if we could take vietnamese fish ing Hook them All put them behind an aircraft Carrier and Tow them Back doctors Check building in army studies birth detect complaints Marie ii a army doctors arc investigating a building in a Large military Industrial area where women employees have reported a High number of birth defects and authorities said ten women have suffered miscarriages and four others gave birth to babies with birth defects in the past 18 said one of the women who asked that her name not be the army said no connection has been made Between the building and the birth All of the women worked in a building housing the regional office of the defense contract administration located Between Dobbins fab and Lockheed Georgia the birth defects included Eye defects and spinal said the woman involved in the one of the four babies she Richard Tezak of the army Environ mental Hygiene Agency was called in by the defense Agency to Check the building Leonberg is scene of Black theater show Stuttgart Black theater a nonprofit organization de signed to improve and Foster relations among will present a variety pro Gram at the Spital of school in Leonberg at 8 Bill a prominent opera Singer and television performer in Europe and the organizations said that the program will include a slide show featuring Middle class Blacks in american a style musical entertainment and an Audi ence discussion Cost of admission at the door is 10 Marks for adults and 5 Marks for children under 12 years and interview the said Jim Markie a spokesman for the army health services Tezak found no connection Between the building and the birth Markie Wicz although he has not yet filed his there was no apparent problem in the gospel Singer plans tour for military Heidelberg gospel Singer Alge tha Brown will present a series of concerts at american military communities through out Germany from 18 to March As a highlight of us Reurs Observance of Black history her tour is being sponsored by the office of the Usa eur chaplain to provide a religious thrust to the commands Black his tory Brown is a featured soloist on the weekly hour of Power television originating at the Garden Grove Community Garden and Broad cast throughout the Canada and aus hour of Power is also a featured presentation sunday mornings on stops on her tour of Germany include Hohen Wildfi Ecken and the 5th general Hospital at bad dates and locations of Browns appear ances in these communities will be announced by the local army chaplains of work environment that would relate to the alleged Markiewicz said in a Telephone interview from his san Antonio Tezak declined to be a spokesman for the National Center for disease control in Atlanta said it was not unusual that no connection was those Cluster studies Are hard to said spokesman Don even at love there Are no Good studies show ing those people were adversely it was a horrendous place to but there Are no studies saying Why those people were the cd was not involved in the mar Ietta Berreth Addison regional Deputy of the said he would wait to see Mezaks report before commenting on the he said it would take up to three months to be if we have a problem or if we Well talk to the ladies involved both he Glover said 550 people work in the build which also houses the defense contract audit Agency and a selective service of he could not say How Many Are Wom defense contract administration serv ices is responsible for Cost onsite Industrial Security and equal employment Opportunity 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Washington a direct fed eral Aid should be used to cover the billion Cost of cleaning up the contaminated three mile Island nuclear Power a presidential committee on nuclear safety has the plan was proposed by the nuclear safety oversight an organization created by president Carter to Deal with the High Cost of cleaning up the crippled unit 2 reactor at the near out of commission since the nations worst commercial nuclear Accident March is owned by general Public utilities of and operated by metropolitan Edi son the panel delivered a letter con Taining the proposal to the White according to sundays editions of the Philadelphia assessed trial costs Chicago a a District court judge has ordered the Federal government to pay in court costs to Frank a Chicago Man cleared last fall of accusations that he was a nazi War Charles Walusis said judge Prentice marshalls award puts an end to the Nixon said his client has no Chance of recovering the he spent in Legal fees during a fou year court Battle to Clear Walus was convicted in May 1978 in District court on civil charges of misrepresenting himself while applying for but a Federal appeals court earlier this year set aside the conviction and ordered a new the government then re investigated the Case and found new evidence that Walus had been mistakenly identified As a Gestapo the Justice depart ment said the undeniable weight of Evi Dence tended to indicate Walus actually had spent the War years As a forced farm worker in As Walus had con tended All jail surprised Dwyer a Cynthia who came from a Small town where its easy to Trust says her arrest and nine month imprisonment in Iran was a Complete Surprise even though 53 americans already were be ing held hostage when she went i  have gone into a Lions in a she said in her first interview since returning believe i was convinced nobody was going to bother because i was just a very Little Dwyer said she became interested in Iran while listening to iranian students at the University of Buffalo alter the takeover of the embassy in on april Dwyer headed for planning to write about the lives of Middle level and then i in Case none of this panned 1 would write some travel she said the also wanted to pass a message of Hope to the hostages in no ambush retaliation Zamboanga Philippines a army troops have been ordered not to strike Back at the moslem Popula Tion of a Remote Island where moslem rebels staged the biggest ambush in the history of philippine a Mil itary spokesman said but three Days after the authorities continued to withhold information about the ambush in which military sources said 118 to 124 soldiers led by a battalion commander were news papers in Manila were ordered not to publish any account of the the incident occurred thursday on Pat a Island in the Sulu 80 Miles Southwest of Here and 540 Miles South of one week before the scheduled visit to the Southern Philippines of Pope John Paul  
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