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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, August 19, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1985 races places napalm victim still in pain despite surgery from press dispatches Kim whose picture was splashed around the world 13 years ago when she was severely burned by napalm and was photographed running screaming and naked Down a Road in still is in pain after two operations i would be willing to go anywhere where they can relieve my including the United she said in an interview in the Young now was critically burned in when aircraft of the South Viet namese Hunting for communist mistakenly rained napalm bombs on her Village of Trang near a widely distributed news photograph of the then 9yearold screaming and fleeing Down a High Way with her clothes burned away from her body As bombs exploded in the came to Symbol the suffering of the Kim Phuc said she bears no grudge against the United slates and would accept any offer for medical treatment she said she has been Able to move her heavily scarred left Arm More freely since August when she underwent surgery in West Ger under the sponsorship of the West German Magazine Stern and the Aid Agency Terre Des she said she still suffers from searing head aches and a painful reopening of her wounds whenever the weather she also has since developed a Tumo like growth in her Throat that makes it difficult for her to with her pain Kim Phuc was forced to abandon her medical studies shortly after returning from West Germany and decided to study English at the University at to Chi Minh formerly she Hopes to become an English teacher when she graduates in four things jumping in England its Greg Caswell was leaving a pub in Crow when he saw the he really haunt had that much to a Kangaroo or about three feet Caswell after describing How he swerved to avoid the after chasing the animal in he i got Back in the car and went off in search of a turns out Caswell want the Only one seeing things in the West England the police soon confirmed Caswell sighting when a caller reported a Kangaroo had knocked a bicyclist to the ground just outside the he want Kim Phuc fleeing napalm attack in 1972 left and today As a Young woman in a photos Constable Michael Slatford checked in to report sighting the animal and chasing it Over a hedge and across a Field before being we think it must belong to someone who lives said detective inspector Dave he said checks have been made with local safari Parks and but no one seems to have lost an up there with fhe nuts a 42year old Man in is Refus ing to climb Down after spending 20 months atop a Coconut tree for fear of facing his the daily sinar Harpan the report said that in january last the Man climbed the tree in the Village in South Sumatra saying he was afraid that the authorities might arrest him because he failed to repay his farm the villagers and the District authorities have tried in vain to persuade him to come the report relatives have used a rope to deliver his Toonerville hello hello and Welcome to the 20th a dozen Miles of Cable were Laid and the first Tele phones installed last month in 11 Homes in the two Remote Kitsap county towns about 50 Miles from there a real said Leslie who moved to Toonerville without realizing it was a mile outside Pacific Northwest Bells service Inland Telephone Laid the necessary Cable and hooked up the first we got interrupted for the first time during Din Ner uie other night and we it was kind of she it sounds crazy but youve got to be without one for awhile before you appreciate Nace and her have been without a phone since they moved to Toonerville from port Orchard six years it was frustrating and real she if i broke Down somewhere i  Call for if one of the kids had gotten we had no Way to Call an Marilyn Thayer said she feels part of civilization Many of the areas 50 Homes still have not signed up for phones because of the monthly Bill for local Inland expects to add to its present 11 customers when rates drop to about next lbs West 57th Jane Wallace Bob Sirott Meredith Vieira Ferrugia a innovative and inescapably controversial new Magazine show its a knockout Tom Shales times tonight  
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