European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 7, 1985 War s upheaval in t Over for refugee b of. Mapother Khromc thatch Bureau . Germany a year ago Ngoc Sang Mai was struggling to gel his children out of Vietnam. This fall the can join the halloween trick or trial cars  will give Candy to from his guard Shack at this Hillside american air station. Working the night shift pics the former vietnamese army major ample Tunilo reflect on the course of history that began a decade ago. Mai was arrested by North vietnamese authorities after Saigon. South Vietnam fell to the communists. Only five years ago a was released from a political re Educa Tion Camp and began a trek that nearly Cost him his life. The journey led thousands of Miles from a country and a profession Mai May never Sec again. But Mai is Back in Saigon when he talks about present Day life inside Vietnam. For Mai 53, the upheaval of War has not ended. Mai is Active in vietnamese refugee circles. He is particularly concerned about the More than 10.000 people he says arc stranded in Camps in the far East because they cannot Mai find a Host country to accept them. Me keeps up his vietnamese contacts. When Mai was sent to the re education Camp. It was supposed to be for a month lie stayed five years. Since release from the Camp was no guarantee that he would not be returned. Mai Anil his family decided to get As Many of them out of he country is Money would allow. In 1980. Mai and 131 other Rufu Gocs set out for free Dom in a 37-foot boat. With Mai was his oldest son. Whom the former officer said he wanted to spare from fighting in Cambodia on behalf of the vietnamese communists. After nearly two weeks afloat without food or water they were pulled from Gale whipped Waters by the Ger Man freighter Cap an amur. Their Rescue said Mai came just in time. " my it one half hour one hour. All die he said of me people on Board the tiny Craft. In Germany Mai again had an Opportunity to go to school this time to learn enough German to allow him to get a Job in engineering he said. The catch was that Mai could receive Only 300 Marks about ji05 a month to support his family he said. I m old he said. I have no Lime to go Back to  Mai found the Job As a Security guard for the air Force when he was Liing in a refugee Camp near hcs . Where the 600th tac control group is headquartered. On the night shift. He starts work at 11 . One person who comes into regular Contact with the civilian Security guards is master i it. Scott Kabrin of i he thoth Security police i Light. Kabrin. A Vietnam Veteran decided to help the Mai family by setting up a fund in Early 19x4. A year later Mai was joined by his wife younger Ion and three daughters. Their release marked the end of efforts begun several years before to persuade Vietnam Ese authorities to allow Mai s family to leave the coun try. My experience in Vietnam did t have anything to do with my decision to help or.  Kabrin said t was Mai s distaste for communism that motivated the ser Geant to Start the fund. Lie is what every american should be Kabrin said. Although the release of his family has put a sunny smile Back on Mai s face his fortunes arc still closely tied to the War that officially ended in the late Spring of 1975. Though the struggle in Vietnam is not Over for Mai some of its urgency has been tempered. I have fun he said because my family is All to  greek military readiness put into doubt by refusal to join nato exercise Brussels Belgium a nato is preparing for mock naval warfare in the Mediterranean and land Battles in Italy simulating a Warsaw pact drive through Yugoslavia into Italy. The exercises Are part of the annual nato a run forge War games that Start this month in Europe. But Greece As i has since 198 1is refusing to participate. . Gen. Bernard w. Rogers the top Allied commander in Europe has said the absence of Greece in the exercises that Start sept. 15 puts in doubt Greece s readiness to fulfil its commitment to the Western de sense in a time of crisis. The greek holdout is linked to a feud with Turkey Over control of the Aegean sea which divides the two countries. Greece has not participated in nato exercises since prime minister Andreas Papandreou took office in 1981. In Athens on wednesday a government spokesman Colas Laliotis. Charged that the nato War games arc More for a political aim than for military preparedness.". The spokesman said Greece puts its own troops through exercises much More difficult than nato s. Rogers and other nato military officials put great Stock in the autumn forge exercises which started in 1975. Each year Rogers Headquarters in Southern Belgium holds an elaborate briefing for reporters at which officials describe the Aims of the a Nevers and stress the importance of Unity among the allies. This month and next More than 150,000 of sergeant sentenced on sexual assault charges Span Dahl 1m a Germany is an in Force sergeant has received a five year prison term for sexually assaulting a male airmen said base officials. Sgt. Bernard Howe jr., of the 2137th information systems so sexually assaulted an airman in the dormitory on two separate occasions and was charged with forcible sodomy and indecent assault said capt. Johnathon Neville assistant trial counsel. Howe pleaded not guilty to both charges Neville said. Howe was reduced to airman Basic or dered to forfeit All pay and allowances and Given a dishonourable discharge. Allied land sea and air forces will be fighting mock Battles practising mine laying operations simulating chemical weapons attacks and carrying out other exercises from the icy North of Norway to Turkey and the Black sea. The Maneu vers Are a key test of Allied troops ability to work together. Thirteen of the 16 nato nations will participate including France which is not part of nato s integrated military com Mand. Iceland which has no armed forces and Spain which is not part of the nato military Structure join Greece As nato members that will not participate. At a news conference at supreme head quarters of the Allied Powers in Europe tues Day Rogers urged Greece to end its holdout. Not participating in those joint combined exercises causes Greece to be less prepared to serve within the Alliance in the Southern Region should there be a confrontation with the War saw pact Rogers said. Greece has said it will not participate in the War games nor allow any to be held on its soil As Long As nato continues to refuse to use the North Aegean Island of lemnos in the exercises. Greece maintains that by not using Lam nos nato is supporting Turkey s claim that the Island should be demilitarized. The Island is an important base for the greek air Force. Among the 21 nato War games in this year s autumn forge series is a major exercise called display determination to be staged from sept. 15 to oct. 23 in Northeast Italy the Central and Eastern Mediterranean sea Turk ish Thrace and the Black sea. Sea air and land forces from Italy tur key the United states Portugal and France will practice Maneu vers designed to thwart a Warsaw pact invasion of North Eastern Italy through Yugoslavia and to maintain control of the strategically important Mediterranean. Most of the exercises begin in the first half of september and end by mid october and this year s european War games Are much smaller than in the past. That is be cause the annual Large scale North Ameri can reinforcement of Germany usually the Centrepiece of the autumn series of a Nevers was staged last Winter. The largest of this year s War games called True Zinc Sachsen begins sept 14 and will involve about 60,000 troops from Germany the United states Britain and the nether lands. It will be held on the North German Plain Between Hamburg and Hannover. Bavarian Milmer president Franz Josef Strauss shows off � Saber be received for his 70th birthday. Making a Saber for Strauss the presentation in Munich on Friday were two members of be North Tiro lean guard. Reagan resumes drive to overhaul tax system Raleigh. . A president Reagan resumed his Campaign for an Over haul of the income tax system thursday playing the underdog challenging the vested interests he says Are the enemies of change. The special interests May think Thuv have this one locked up tight and we May be starting this Battle for tax fairness As underdogs Reagan told More than 13,000 students and faculty members at North Carolina state University. Reagan said he wanted to remind the nay Sayers people who Tell you it can t be Don that this is Amanca and there Are no Limi s except those that we put on ourselves " a lot of cynics in Washington arc laying Odds against our fair share tit plan " Rea Gan said. Our plan hot a a. A economics he said. Although Many of the provisions he now complains about were initiated or expanded by his massive 1981 tax Cut Bill Rea Gurt new plan generally would lower individual tax rates notably for those in the highest brackets while Climer. Ting Many deductions and credits that give preferential treatment to some groups. While Reagan did t name the nay yen to whom he referred leading member of both parties in Congress have been Skepi Cal about the prospects for passage of major tax overhaul plan this year. Even one of Reagan s hosts sen. Jemo Helms , told reporters aboard the presidential plane in route to Raleigh that the lax Bill is not an Issue in his state. With All due respect to my president i i ave not heard one person in North Carofini mention it except in a deprecating Way Helms said. As for his own View. Helms said he of flu to wait until he sees the final Bill