European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes april Welcome to America a photo John Henry Peckham carries 16monthold Hoang Gia refugee Hoa Van Nguyen and his Joan at thay As he and his Welcome vietnamese los Angeles International bottled message answer to prayer for Freedom of vietnamese family los Angeles a a vietnamese refugee family arrived in the United states Friday to a Welcome from an american couple whose message in a bottle floated Miles to Thailand and answered a prayer for Welcome to the United states of Dorothy Peckham told the family As reporters and photographers swamped the group at los Angeles International Hoa Van a former South vietnamese sol told reporters that Hes the most Lucky Man in the he said he Doest know Why what he called a sixth sense prompted him to pick up the bottle carrying the message from John Henry Peckham and his travelled from Singapore with his Joan their 16monthold son and Nguyen 17 year old Cuong Peckham took the sleeping Hoang Gia thay and grinned widely despite tears that streamed Down his Nguyen then gave the Peckham a picture he had taken while in a refugee Camp in the family was whisked from the Airport by officials from the Catholic welfare who settled them in an Echo Park apartment rented for them by the the Peckham had been on a 1979 Christmas cruise to Hawaii when they drifted away from a Bridge game and joined other couples who were tossing bottles messages inside invited the finders to write More than three years later they received a response postmarked we have received a floating Mailbox by a bottle on the Way from Vietnam to wrote who apparently Learned English from the bottle had drifted about Miles to the coast of where Nguyen and his brother had escaped As we thought it was kind of a fun rather than just having some dumb idiot find it who would have used the Dollar inside the bottle for a couple of Peckham when we got his second he told us from the minute they saw the they Felt it was a prayer that this bottle was somehow their Way to the Peckham corresponded with who lived in three different refugee Camps during the time the letters were the former Soldier fathered a and eventually asked their help in emigrating to the United impressed us so much about this fellow was that he was escaping from Vietnam in one of these shallow River and he saw this bottle and used the Dollar Bill Dorothy put inside it for postage to Send us a rather than using it for All the other things they must have said an so we eventually decided to sponsor him and his family to come to the United the Peckham live in a suburb of los Peckham said a Job offer has already come in for a from an Auto Well have a Celebration party in due she we have to let them Settle in its a fun she because this silly bottle that goes into the water ends up doing somebody some abortion data noted in Survey new York up most of the nearly million abortions in the United states Are performed yearly on White and single but a greater proportion of nonwhites seek the a prominent population research organization said in 70 percent of the million abortions were obtained by White the Alan Guttmacher Institute but the abortion rate was higher among there were 56 abortions for every nonwhite com pared to 24 abortions for every White this higher abortion rate is the result of a higher preg Nancy rate among Stanley Henshaw and col leagues reported in the Marc april Issue of family plan Ning a Guttmacher Institute the frequency of abortions in various groups of women did not change much Between 1980 and 1981 and 1981 and they the Institute said unmarried Whites Are More Likely than unmarried Blacks to have an but married Black women Are More Likely to choose abortion than mar ried teenagers obtained 28 percent of the Legal a slightly lower percentage than in thirty five percent of the abortions were in women Ages 20 to according to the there Are about 30 abortions a year for every women in the United with higher rates found in new Idaho and the information for the report was obtained from the Cen Ter for disease control abortion surveillance system and from an Institute Survey of abortion clinics slightly More than one in four pregnancies is Termi through with about on third of those abortions being a second or third abortion for the there stateside thieves Hijack armoured make off with million in Cash a thieves hijacked an a Mored car from a shopping Center parking lot and made off with More than authorities it was a very professional said police Gavin he said the thieves broke into a locked truck owned by the armoured car of East Orange while two of the firms employees went into a supermarket to pick up the stores two police officers found the truck 15 minutes later about half a mile Rooney said although the trucks rear compartment was locked when police its contents had been he said the Driver and his assistant had made at least 40 stops before going to the grocery and police believe the vehicle contained about million in plus monkeys to get survival training before being returned to Jungle new Orleans a no More the cushy life for some of the new Orleans zoos Golden lion with humans to serve up the fruit and insects loved by this rare Breed of there off for survival because of a population seven of the Mon keys have been sent to the National zoo in where they will undergo a two month course that includes finding food and telling friends from said Sam curator of graduates of the program will be sent to a protected area in the Jungles of Winslow there Are about 400 of the Golden yellow monkeys in Captivity and about 200 in the where they Are considered Winslow the first ones arrived at the new Orleans zoo in and 17 have been born there since Huey Newton pleads innocent to grand embezzlement a former Black Panther Huey Newton has pleaded innocent to charges he embezzled from a nonprofit educational program he served As chief financial officer and faces a May 24 pretrial a 1960s entered the plea to charges of grand being a Felon in Possession of a concealable weapon and Possession of Bur Glary he is accused of fraudulently obtaining in state Aid for the school in 1982 and diverting up to for his own the other charges were added after police said they found a pistol and a Shotgun in newtons House this officers also said they found key and a tool to open car doors and pick Newton was convicted in 1964 of assault with a deadly a abandoned baby inf hard to Deputy says a a baby abandoned on the Doorstep is unusual but when Lewis and Clark county sheriffs Deputy Ray Hitchcock opened the sack on the City jail he was Eyet Eye with a Black Bear the 10pound cub in the Canvas sack was quite Well though confused and lonely a real Hitchcock he put the Bear in a jail cell and called state wildlife the 4monthold female cub was taken to the Missoula office of the state department of wildlife and Parks and will Likely stay at the main office in Helena with other orphaned said the Agency Larry the cubs Mother May have been shot during the current Hunting and the cub found by someone who took it to the Davis Marine corps chief of staff nominated by president Reagan Washington a president Reagan has Nomi Nate George Crist to become the new chief of staff at Marine corps the Pentagon if confirmed by the would replace Dwayne who was recently nominated to be come commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force in the Crist now is the Deputy chief of staff for installations and logistics at Marine the Pentagon also announced that Charles now commanding the Pacific Fleet Marine will retire on july 1 after More than 35 years of Active