European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page he stars and stripes sunday september 8, 1985 s up Maya in t Over for refugee by of Mapother  Bureau  a year Apo Ngoc Sang Mai was struggling to gel his children nut 0" Vietnam. This fall they Tan join the halloween trick or Treater Mai will give Candy u from his guard Shack at this Hillside american air station. Working the night shift gives the former vietnamese army major ample Ime to 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 Mai was released from a political re Cauca 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 Agai i. On Mai is Buck in . Her he talks about present Day life inside Vic for Mai 53, inc upheaval of War a of ended. Mai is Active in vietnamese refugee circles. He is particularly concerned about the More lharuwj.000 people he says arc stranded in Camps in the of least because they cannot find Host country to accept them. Me keeps up his  contacts. When Mai was sent to the re education Camp it was supposed Loos for a month. He stayed five years. Since release from Tai Camp was no guarantee that he a Pitt not be returned Nai and his family Dacid Cuta a t As Man of them out of inc country As Money Wolfla allow. In 1980, Mai and Rel other refugee out for free Dom in a 37-foot boat. Vith my i 35 his oldest son whom the former officers my wanted to spare from fighting in Cambodia on bal file of the vietnamese communists j after nearly to trom Gale whipped aters by the Ger Man for digit Cap an amur. Their Rescue said Mai came Jylnn time. It. Iut one half hour one hour. All we he said in people on Board the tiny Craft. V in Germany Mai again had an Opportunity to to school this time of learn enough German to allow Nap to gel a Job in engineering he said. The catch was that Rani could receive in 300 i re Sci s05 2 month Ife support his family he said. I m old he said. I have no time to go Back to  Mai found the Job As a Security guard for the air Force when he was living in a refugee Camp near Hes Swisch  where the 600lh tac control group is . Jbf the night shift he starts work at 11 . One person who comes into regular Contact with the civilian Security guards is master sgt. Scott Kabrin of inc 7160th Security police flight. Kabrin. A Vietnam Veteran decided to help the Mai family by setting no a fund in Early 1984. A year later Mai was joined by ills wife younger Aon and Ihrck daughters. Their release marked the end of efforts begun several years before to persuade Vietnam Ese authorities to allow Mai s family to leave inc coun try. My experience in Vietnam did t have anything to do with my decision to help or. Mai Kabrin said. It wet Mai s distaste for communism that motivated the ser Geant to Start the fund. He is what every american should be Kabrin told. Although the release of his family has pot a nun smile Back on Mai s face his fortunes Are still Dady tied to the War that officially ended in the  1975. Though the struggle in Vietnam is not Over for Mil some of its urgency has been tempered. A have fun he said because my family it All to greek military readiness put into doubt by refusal to Noih nato exercise Brussels Belgium a nato is preparing for mock naval warfare in the Mediterranean and land Battles in Italy simulating a Warsaw pact rive through Yugoslavia into Italy. \ the exercises Are part of the annual nato autumn forge War Gavies that Start this month in Europe. But of Ceca As it has since 1981, is refusing to participate. Gen. Bernard w. Rogers supreme Allied commander Europe has said the absence of Greece in the exercises that Start sept. 1 5 puts in doubt Greece s readiness to fulfil it commitment to the Western defense in time of crisis. The greek holdout is linked to a Ai with Turkey Over control of the Ackan sea which divides the two coup trips. Greece has not participated in Natty exercises since prime minister Andrea Papan Dicou took office in 1981. In Athens on wednesday a j 6vernment spokesman Costas Laliotis cd fired that the nato War games Are a Jere for a political aim than for military  the spokesman said Greece puts its own troops through exercises a turn More difficult than nato s. Rogers and other a to military officials put great Stock of the autumn forge exercises which Starub in 1975. Each year Rogers headquarter off in Southern Belgium holds an elaborate a icing for reporters at which officials describe the Aims of the a Nevers and Strep the importance of Unity among the Alii. This month and next More than 150,000 Allied land Sal and air forces will be fighting mock Batum practising mine laying operations Simning chemical weapons attacks and carry ring out other exercises from the icy North of Norway to Turkey and the Black sea. The Maneu vers arc a key test of Allied troops Abl by to work together. Hirleen of the 16 nato nations will participate inc fading France which is not part of naps integrated military com Mand. Incl Aflfe. Which has no armed forces and Spain which is not part of the nato  join Greece As nato Mem Jeff that will not participate. A news conference at supreme head quarters of the Allied Powers in Europe tues of who Gers urged Greece to end its holdout. Not participating in those joint combined to excises causes Greece to be less prepared to Rve within the Alliance in the Southern Region should there be a confrontation with the War ii. Saw pact Rogers said. \ Greece has said it will not participate in the w r games nor allow any to be held on its soil a Ong As nato continues to refuse to use the North Aegean Island of lemnos in the sex general fined for insulting men who plotted to kill Hitler Kau Beuren Germany up1 a former nazi general who played a key role in putting Down the 1945 plot to kill Adolf Hitler was fined 1,500 Marks s516 Friday for insulting the memory of the conspirators. Former maj. Gen. Otto Ernst Remer published a pamphlet accusing the conspirators of causing the deaths of o i nary soldiers through incomparable Lack of respect for human life and arro  the families of several victims of hit Ler s revenge for the assassination at tempt brought the Case against the 73 year old sex Soldier who defiantly told the court i shall hold this opinion until my  the conspirators tried to kill Hitler of july 20, 1944, with a bomb in his East prussian military Headquarters. Hitler survived. Renter was ordered by the con Pifa tors to attack the Berlin Headquarters of propaganda minister Joseph Goe bbb. He refused and helped round up the plot organizers. Remer founded an unsuccessful Neo nazi party after the War and was convicted by a court in March 1952 of nuking similar derogatory statements about the plotters. Maintains that by not using Lem a o is supporting Turkey s claim that Ould be demilitarized. The Island Jit base for the greek air Force. Thei is an Imp among th.21 nato War games in this year s autumn forge series is a major exercise called  to be staged from sept 15 to opt. 23 in Northeast Italy the Central and Eastern Mediterranean sea Turk ish Thrace and the Black sea. Sea air and land orces from Italy tur key the United slates Portugal and France will practice Maneu vers designed to thwart a Warsaw pact invasion of North Eastern Italy through a Oslavia and to maintain control of the a tragically important Mediterranean. T most of the exercises big � in the first half of september and end by and october and this year s european War James Are much smaller than in the past mat is be cause the annual Large scale Nort Lameri can reinforcement of Germany usually the Centrepiece of the autumn series of a Nevers was staged last Winter. Strip Protection exercise Sere record for conveys Chrysler military sales otters rebate Frankfurt the Chrysler Mili tary sales firm in Germany has announced a special Price reduction a Ogram for the . Military Community abroad the pro Gram featuring sizable rebates on nearly every Model in the Chrysler Dodge and Plymouth product line. A Chrysler spokesman says that reductions include $400 on the Omni horizon Charger Turisco and Aries reliant models $750 on vans and wagons ,000 on laser Daytona Lebaron its Lancer and fifth Avenue and $1,500 on laser be Daytona Turbo Lebaron its Premium and Lancer is. Full details on the program Are available from Chrysler sales representatives at the a a fes new car sales Points on the various bases in Europe. By j. No Cruger Bureau Northwood England Ocean safari b5, do bribed As the largest nato Convoy exer Conever conducted is proceeding on sch dul and without any surprises said one of Wito s highest ranking naval officers. British adm. Sir Nicholas Hunt nato s commander for the Jun incl and Eastern Atlantic said Friday wiring news briefing at his Northwood  tors that no ships have been forced n out of the exercise and there has i problem keeping convoys intact As. Cross the Atlantic. Hunt did say Fiat Adverse wether had11 Given the convoys some prowess he northernmost Convoy on thursday encountered icebergs South of Iceland he s exercises in the Ocean 9kfari series arc held every two years to practice plans to protect merchant ship pig in Atlantic Waters. In the past the have taken place mainly in the easier half of the Atlantic. This year the exercise will extend from the Eastern Seaboard of the United states through the rec land Iceland United kingdom gaps and into the norwegian sea As Welty is the Bay of Biscay and portuguese a tors to Lisbon. The  began aug. 28, when  ships and nato vessels sailed from . East coast a ports. A Large Force including three Carrier Battle groups a battleship Bat the group the British anti submarine Carrier group and other in groups from five nato nations too wart in the exercise. Ships of the standing naval Force Channel Aro to the southwestern approaches to no English Channel. Nato s Mulli Newial airborne warning and control so fam Force of Sentinel aircraft Are also joking part. Among the . Air assets in the exer Are b-52 bombers armed with anti ship Harpoon missiles operating from Raf Fairford England. This year s exercise is said to embody an important switch in nato tactics to Ward an offensive posture designed to con Tain the growth of soviet Scap Ower. Tact w strategy implies having the ability i in to deploy naval forces into the Norge sea to contain soviet ships and sub males emerging from their bases in the Kola Chinsula and if necessary to attack in  of the Ocean safari exercise skittle group led by the Carrier America in jail deep into the norwegian sea to sign Aluc implementation of Thi approach and practice working in an environment in Kuld be called upon to enter in War. To the exercise acc Ling to nato Brief ers is being closely  by the Sovi ets who arc employ in Lelh ships and air Craft to gather Mecl Ligac. On thursday they said soviet Bearbo of cars flew Over nato surface forces opting in the North Atlantic and in the Bay of Biscay