European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August 1985 of Central african Republic a Pope John Paul ii brought his african pilgrimage to this impoverished country wednesday and made a Strong plea for self Reliance and a fight against armoured cars sped along both sides of the runway As the pontiffs jetliner touched Down after a 75mmute flight from Camer crowds were barred from the which was ringed by combat ready French and National after a six hour John Paul was to Fly to Zaire the fifth of seven countries on his 12day tour of welcomed by tribal Drums with african the Pope celebrated an open air mass before several thousand people along the Avenue of the without denying the need for National and International it returns to to make the Best of All of your by organized the Pope said in the Central african a former French is among the poorest on the with per capita income of ruled until 1979 by emperor the country was recently described by a roman Catholic missionary Magazine As a place where corruption is one National John Paul said christians must be in the first ranks of those fighting corruption and educating people for the common they will see to it that they accomplish their professional work if they have Public Dis charge them in the service of first of All the least rejecting in tolerance Between ethnic groups and Cor the Pope Freedom is not a John Paul told the which included president Andre a roman Catholic and a former army it has to be reject division and prepare a better life by your work and your Devotion to crowds were kept at least 150 Yards from the makeshift altar and a vip and soldiers pushed Back people who tried to move the Pope also delivered a veiled attack on a widespread practice in Afri Ca that the Church has been trying to Eli i he said that africans should not neglect the sacrament of marriage and warned couples against succumbing to certain negative aspects of Only about 15 percent of the nations million people Are roman protes Tants number 11 percent and moslem 4 the rest Are in 43 percent of Aires 30 million people Are roman on tuesday John Paul ii apologized to Black africans for the four centuries of suf Fering caused by christians who traded manufactured goods for slaves along West Africa so called slave news u Date Spain allows abortions Spain up doctors have per formed Spain first Legal abortions in 40 years just one week after the socialist government lifted a ban on the health authorities two whose identities were not received the abortions at the state run Nuestra Senora de Covadonga Hospital in the Northern City of both women complied with the limits set by a new Law allowing the termination of pregnancy in the Case of danger to the mothers health or when the fetus is believed a Hospital spokesman said the who asked not to be volunteered to perform the abortions after gynaecologists at another Northern Hospi Tal refused to operate for reasons of abcs response London a the chief editor at the Brit ish broadcasting said he intends to re edit and broadcast a to documentary on Northern ire land extremists that was banned under government trying to limit damage to the abcs reputation for Milne said in a lunchtime Pep talk to staffers he had told Home Secretary Leon who requested the that the bbl would continue to make programs on Northern following its lon established that policy extends to the exploration and explanation of the views and motives of those who avow terrorist activity and their he it on the use of broadcast Vietnam gives remains of 26 believed to be mias Vietnam a officials of the communist government met american experts at a simple Airport ceremony and turned Over the remains of 26 people believed to be missing american marines and airmen saluted As the re packed in separate Flag raped were carried aboard a air Force c130 transport plane for a flight to the Philippines and on to where experts will Analyse and try to identify vietnamese specialists said tests indicated at least 17 of the sets of remains almost certainly belong to americans missing in action in the Vietnam if All the remains Are positively identified As those of it would be the largest single return of remains and equal the total number returned by Vietnam in the past three Twenty two sets of remains were returned in the United states lists military personnel and civilians As missing in Southeast of them in the ceremony at Noi Bai Airport culminated a series of recent vietnamese efforts to show their concern on the Mia Issue and vietnamese officials said they accepted in principle a proposal for senior state and defense department As Well As the National Security to visit Hanoi soon to discuss the Mia to the vietnamese forensics expert who made the preliminary opened the crates one by one to show them to the american Twenty one of the crates contained what appeared to be Large parts if not one contained what appeared to be a set of false thu showed the Ameri cans How he reconstructed the faces from photographs of servicemen supplied by the United the delegation from the Hawaii based joint casualty Resolution Center declined to make any official thu told the associated press he was very certain that of the remains were those of three other remains which he examined without the Aid of photo graphs probably were the Bones of he thu said that he reached no conclusion on five and that the last set of remains belonged to an asian who probably was not an cd Dinh head of the foreign ministry american desk and the top vietnamese official dealing with the Mia said in an interview that 18 of the casualties were airmen shot Down Over North while the other eight were found in the where they were either killed in action or died in he said this information came from documents and from inhabitants of areas where the remains were All the remains were recovered in recent he Vietnam has repatriated the remains of 99 mias since the 1973 peace agreement in Paris that ended direct involvement in some Indochina analysts regard Vietnam action As an attempt to seek better relations with the United with which it has no diplomatic Vietnam has prom ised to resolve the Mia Issue within two bad Check remedial class to be on offenders own time by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau Germany beginning in a program to Stem the tide of bad checks in the Ansbach military Community will no longer take away from sol Diers duty it is the first major change in the pro Gram since it began last were no longer going to take away the commanders valuable training Clifford Carmichael it will be on the soldiers own Carmichael is the director of personnel and Community activities for Ansbach and oversees the installation Check control he said attendance will still be although attendance has never been a problem because people who have passed bad checks want their names off the bad Check and the Only Way to do it is to attend the Carmichael says the two pronged program consist ing of education and enforcement is showing Good results among soldiers who have been around the ans Bach military Community for More than two but he said the assessment is based More on Faith than on last a Check control official quoted a figure for Community losses from bad checks passed in the first six months of Carmichael would not quote a figure for this because of the transient nature of the Suft a comparison would not reflect an accurate picture of the programs he adding that such Statis tics can mean whatever the person compiling them wants them to Carmichael that there has been a significant decrease in repeat offenders who have been in the Community for More than two soldiers in grades e6 and below who Are assigned to Ansbach must attend a Check maintenance class As a Normal part of Community those who later write bad checks Are required to at tend the remedial much like stateside remedial Driver training courses required for often ticketed drive the names of firs time abusers who make a simple human error Are put in the installation Check control office files for one a second instance of bad Check writing within that year gets a closer look and could result in an ave stamped identification card and a one year suspension of Check cashing three offences and the suspension could be extended for two or three a fou time abuser would be banned from using pm facilities for six except for Basic human and then Only under the Eye of an a change to the program is the inclusion of a Quick reference fact Sheet in each soldiers acs Welcome it gives practical advice on How to maintain a Check ing the fact sheets tone is not although most soldiers already know if a checking account is it could result in the end of an army among the first things to do in the event of an Over it Are to inform your first sergeant and commander and inform the Check control Carmichael said All bad checks come through the Check control so theres no escaping from a rub Ber Check written in a government he also said there Are two situations in which people Are most Likely to write bad the first is during an overseas when a Soldier is in the spouse is in the United and there both trying to write from the same checking the second is when a change of pay option is being processed through especially when the Soldier is transferring his sure pay Deposit from one Bank to an too often the Soldier will submit the pay change after the monthly cutoff hell get overseas and Start writing american express checks on a Deposit that is still going to the stateside Carmichael if he Doest make that his sure pay wont be credited to his new account until the end of the next month mid month if Hes getting mid month Carmichael mentioned a third form of abuse a simple human he said even though the program is each bad Check writer is looked at Case by were More interested in catching the Soldier with a pattern of Carmi Chael he insists that no matter Why a Check fails to the writer must accept if you get into financial get he we have budget and financial and the Soldier s commander should be informed so he can there is no excuse for writing bad checks As a financial