European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 gypsies feel left out of holocaust Observance Washington a an american Gypsy representative says his people Are being excluded from Days of remembrance observances even though gypsies were exterminated by nazi Janies vice president of the romanic me Morial Council said on Friday that gypsies were not Al Lowed to participate in thursdays Days of remembrance ceremony in the Capitol six candles were lit in memory of holocaust we were not allowed to participate in the Marks we wanted to Light the Candle alongside the we still mourn our Micah acting executive director of the holocaust memorial said gypsies tried to disrupt our Days of remembrance ceremony after they declined an invitation to participate in the gypsies were invited to the and a Gypsy Clergyman declined an invitation to deliver the Naftalin extensive discussions were held with gypsies about their participation in the ceremony and other Days of remembrance Naftalin said the Council rejected a proposal that a Gypsy Light one of the six this has traditionally been a function of the survivors themselves and All of the members of the Council Felt that Naftalin a delegation of gypsies invited to the ceremony asked to participate about rive minutes before the event was scheduled to Naftalin they wanted to bring a bucket and some wine to pour into the this was their symbolic Way comparable to lighting a Candle of Naftalin we just Felt at that late moment it was just mind we just didst know How to accommodate that with All the planning with the the presentation of the it just didst seem on the Capitol a group of gypsies wearing concentration Camp uniforms carried placards to protest their exclusion from the traditionally a nomadic gypsies Are believed to have migrated from India to Europe in the 14th their practice of Fortune telling and magic was a source of romantic yearnings about a More passionate it was also the cause of ostracism in Many some 2 million gypsies live in mostly in Eastern Marks an estimated people of Gypsy extraction live in the United Naftalin said gypsies Are not represented on the 66 member holocaust Council even though gypsies were one of the principal targets of the i believe it was an oversight when the Carter administration made these appointments and neglected to include the gypsies for the purposes of symbolic and real bal Naftalin in there was no conscious Ness in the Gypsy Community about the whole activity at the the Council was set up in 1980 to raise million for a holocaust memorial museum that will be built in downtown challenger Crew eager7 Tor next flight april 29 Cape up1 the Crew of the space shuttle challenger is eager to take off april 29 on a seven Day science expedition that follows the shuttle discovery Friday Landing by just 10 the accelerated launch Pace was prompted by a string of technical prob lems that forced the cancellation of two shuttle missions last a dress rehearsal countdown thursday to Clear challenger for launch ended at est with the compute Simu lated ignition of the ships three main the seven member Crew then practice emergency escape procedures at the launch were really eager to commander Robert Overmyer we obviously have been waiting a Long this vehicle has been rescheduled a couple of times so were we think the vehicles Copilot Frederick Gregory and Crew members Don Norman William Lodewijk Van Den Berg and Taylor Wang plan to spend seven Days in orbit on a space lab who at 56 is the oldest Active said in just glad i lived another two years to be Back he first flew in joining the Crew aboard challenger will be two dozen rats and a pair of Squir Rel monkeys for a test of sophisticated cages that will be used on future life Sci ence space lab challengers the 17th in the shuttle will Mark the second flight of the european built space lab Sci ence a manned Laboratory mod ule carried in the shuttles payload the astronauts plan to conduct exotic experiments to learn More about Materi als processing in fluid earths atmosphere and astronomy throughout the with challengers launch coming on the heels of discovery ground Crews at the Kennedy space Center will be hard but project officials say few problems have cropped up and work is proceeding As pay another in faxes for her it does t make cents a Kentucky Treasury officials Are accustomed to off the Wall tax protests but 92 checks for a Nickel each and one for a Penny credit the account of Gina who makes a year and Ungro Tes tingly paid of it for and local then she got Dunne for in unpaid state it really made me she i dont make that Richerson hit on the Check writing spree and called on three who scribbled furiously for about 15 minutes to write the 93 checks to the Kentucky instead of angering state Revenue offi Richerson protest apparently amused spokeswoman Marva Gay she said the department regularly receives unusual forms of citing cases where taxpayers have settled their Bills with but this was the first time Gay had heard of someone submitting a wad of chief Ironside up photo Ronald Muschong will make history when he is sworn in As the police chief May reportedly will be the first police chief in the state to run a department from a a 22year Veteran of the he broke his spine in a motorcycle Accident in Pacific Island coconuts contaminated by nuke tests Washington up coconuts grown on six uninhabited Pacific islands Miles West of Hawaii Are contaminated with radioactive cerium from nuclear the Interior department has the contaminated Coconut Trees Are on the Northern islands of eniwetok and do not affect the South Ern where 600 people Interior department spokesman Larry Morgan said the problem poses no threat to the health of those he none of the coconuts containing cerium has been eaten or taken off the Morgan the affected coconuts were grown to produce copra such As Coconut Oil or charcoal not for the people of eniwetok depend on coconuts for in food and at this Point we dont know what were going to Morgan it was suspected that Coconut Trees planted on eniwetok in 1980 might absorb cerium from the but the government  be sure until the nuts were mature enough for they were tested this Andy Trust territory director of the govern ments million cleanup project at is on his Way to the after learning april 9 of the pres ence of cerium in the the United states conducted 42 atmospheric nuclear tests from 1948 to 1958 on the vacated eniwetok which consists of 39 islands and tiny when the tests the Southern 20 Miles from the contaminated were cleaned up and re settled with 116 the government planted Coconut Trees on the islands for copra production at the request of eniwetok the compact of free association Between the United states and the Republic of the Marshall now pending before contains provisions for compensation to eniwetok residents because of the nuclear under terms of the submitted to Congress in More than 700 eniwetok residents Are eligible for million in plus health serv ices and other