European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 16, 1985 100 greek kids to have heart surgery in . Athens a about 100 greek children mostly from Village families will undergo open heart surgery in the United states in the next two years under a j4 million program organized by a world renowned Hospital. Twenty four greek doctors also will be trained in cardiovascular surgery techniques at the Deborah heart and lung Center in new Jersey program organizer Spero Marco pcs said on saturday. In addition to handling operations for the children we want to help development of open heart surgical skills in Greece for the future Margeotes from Bloomfield n.j., said in an interview with the associated press. The program is mainly financed by Pri vate donations but the greek government is providing free air tickets and a 54,000 Grant for each child sent to the cent Ehe said. No official statistics Are available on open heart surgery in Greece. A greek cardiologist who asked not to be identified said Only about 1.20 operations arc per formed yearly at two cardiac centers in Greece and the mortality rate is close to 30 percent. We Don t have the facilities or exper Tise needed to carry out More Complex types of operation so parents have to raise the Money to go abroad the cardiologist said. Marco pcs said children from 21 other countries mainly in latin America and the third world have undergone treat ment at the Deborah Center in the past 13 years. Fifteen greek children have successfully undergone treatment at the Cen Ter in Browns Mills already. Last year the program was expanded to include 104 children from Poland and training for polish heart surgeons. That s been going Sucic fully so we decided to broaden inc numbers for greek children. We get a lot of inquiries from Greece Many from families in  Margeotes said. Marc cites in Athens to coordinate with greek doctors on the kinds of cases the Center should give priority said the two year program also provides for Moth ers to accompany their children to the United states. Many of the children will never have seen Athens let alone grave cd abroad so we arrange free Board and lodging for their mothers to come too he said. He said six teams of greek doctors would undergo intensive training for four months at the Deborah Center. If the polish program is anything to go by each greek team could soon be performing More than 100 open heart operations every year Margeotes said Germany most probably will join Star wars project paper says Bonn up the influential newspaper die Welt said sunday that West Germany will almost certainly participate in president Reagan s Star wars plan for a missile shield in space. The paper said its sources in the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl indicated Germany would most probably sign an agreement on participation in the plan after for Mally negotiating the ground rules. The report follows the weekend return of Kohl s special Star wars envoy Horst Teltschik from Washington where he and a commission of 30 German experts spent 10 Days studying details of the  plan. The specialists under Teltschik established that the requirements for such an agreement have been fulfilled said die Welt. The report matched a similar one in the conservative newspaper s sunday stablemate Welt am sonntag. But there was no immediate official comment. Teltschik a Kohl confidant was reported surprised and pleased at the frankness of . Officials in an swering German queries on the project. The paper said Teltschik was convinced there would be a fair Exchange of technology and information Between participants. But the report did not specify whether Kohl might be willing to sign a direct government to government agreement to research the Complex project or opt to encourage or simply permit private German Industrial participation. So far Only the British government has displayed Public enthusiasm for the . Offer to its allies to share in the research phase of the scheme designed to destroy enemy ballistic missiles in space before they can reach their tar gets. Kohl s stance on the project has been wobbly. He seemed initially to be leaning toward it but Kohl has since gone out of his Way to express reservations and doubts reflecting the disagreements in his coalition government. A Section of his Liberal free Democrat allies has been cold toward the plan. The United states is thought to be interested in around 15 research Fields in which Germany could participate. Among these Are two advanced projects of the German armaments Industry a dornier radar system and an observation satellite. Evangelist Billy Graham draws Large crowds on Romania tour Bucharest a the Rev. Billy Graham the first foreign evangelist to tour Romania since the communist take Over in 1947, is attracting enthusiastic crowds and an Esti mated 150,000 people have turned out to hear him preach. The 66-year-old Southern Baptist Back from a week Long tour of the provinces was in Bucharest sunday at St. Joseph s roman Catholic Cathedral where about 2,000 romanians came to hear him. On the six stops in the provinces tens of thousands of worshippers who could t get into churches jammed the streets and squares climbed Trees or listened from their apartment balconies through loudspeakers said Graham aide de plow Man. We estimate that As Many As 150,000 romanian turned up to hear his  openly seeking converts to Faith is against the Law in Roma Nia but Church sources say the number of baptists has grown from 80,000 in 1960 to 300,000 today making it the largest Baptist population in the soviet bloc. Eighty percent of Roma Nia s 23 million people arc officially said to profess the Roma Nian orthodox Faith and 6 percent Are roman catholics. Graham s tour has not been publicized in the government run press and news of his schedule has circulated mostly by word of Mouth. According to romanian officials the biggest crowd was at Timisoara near the yugoslav Border where 5,500 people jammed into the romanian orthodox Cathedral and 30,000 stood outside for up to five hours to hear the evangelist preach. The bulk of Graham s audiences unable to squeeze into Church have listened to his sermons on loudspeakers but there were no speakers in Timisoara. Romanian Church officials blamed a Short circuit but sources in the Graham party said the loudspeakers were seen being removed two hours before the service started. In Cluj a City in Western Transylvania thousands lined the streets to catch a glimpse or the evangelist. People waved Sang and cheered Graham As he arrived at the reformed Church packed with 5,000 worshippers. In Arad Home to the country s largest Baptist Church 2,500 churchgoers were inside and about 28,000 jammed Billy Graham the Square and nearby streets. Tape recorders held High to catch the preacher s words have been a fixture in Ever crowd Graham s aides said. Graham has skirted controversial topics such As politics and religious persecution. Some protestant sects Are banned Here and All denominations Are supervised by state department of Cults. During the service in Arad he acknowledged that Livina in an officially atheist country could make it hard to be Atrue  it is also hard to be one in America because of the materialism and other temptations there he said Graham was scheduled to leave for Hungary on tues Day spending six Days there. World Tactay doctors say italian writer in coma after brain surgery Siena Italy a writer Italo Calvino is in a coma and fighting bouts of fever eight Days after brain surgery following a stroke doctors reported. It s not a very deep coma but Calvino does not re Spond to commands or. Roberto Biancotti said. Biancotti was one of the doctors assisting in the six hour brain surgery performed sept. 7 at Santa Maria Della Scala Hospital in Siena a Hill town in Central Italy. Calvino 62, suffered a stroke sept. 6. He became comatose at his Seaside summer House along the tuscan coast chess Champion takes Lead As Kasparov resigns 5th game Moscow a chess Champion Anatoly Karpov won a second straight Victory and took a one Point Lead in his defense of the world title when Gam Kasparov re signed their adjourned fifth game without resuming play. The Victory gives Karpov a 3-2 Edge a  advantage since he won with the Black pieces. It Alia la effect puts Kasparov two games behind because he Mutt do better than a tie in the 24-game series in order to win the world chess championship. India receives first Batch of coins from foreign mints new Delhi a the first Batch of some 2 billion coins ordered from foreign mints has arrived in India to help alleviate a critical com shortage a mint official said. The official who asked not to be identified said the fint shipment of 10 million one Rupee coins was sent from lie British Royal mint in Birmingham and was being distributed among regional branches of the Reserve Bank of India. On May 13, the Indian parliament approved a plan Toby coins of one Rupee As Well As 25 and 50-paises, denomination from mints in Britain South Korea and Canada after of Lohli said India s three mints were unable to meet demand. Christians should have fought Nuernberg Laws Bishop says Nuernberg. Germany a a ranking protestant Church official marked the 50th anniversary of the infamous nazi Laws that stripped jews of their citizenship by charging christians should have protested the legislation. Bishop Eduard Lolise chairman of the protestant Church Council of Germany said at a memorial Church service that the so called Nuernberg Laws belong to the darkest chapter of our entire  the Laws passed by Adolf Hitler s nazi party on sept 15, 1935, stripped jews of their citizenship and issued aryan identity cards to full blooded germans. Britain s tourist Industry issues sunny report on 85 growth London a spending by tourists in Britain grew by 28 percent in the first half of 1985, compared with tie same period of 1984. The British tourist authority said. It said 6.4 million tourists visited Britain Between Jan uary and june an increase of 11 percent and spent 2billion pounds $2.6 billion. In a report on what it called Britain s biggest growth Industry the authority said nearly 14 million Ford Nen visited Britain last year an increase of 10 percent Over 1983, and spent 5.3 billion pounds j6.9 billion13 per cent More than in 1983