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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, September 24, 1985

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday september 24, 1985 envoys mexicans discussing How to Best use quake Aid wind today Mexico City a governments throughout Europe and the americas arc showering Mexico with doctors and demolition Crews search dogs and medicines food and blankets to Aid earthquake victims. Diplomats cars streamed toward the general aviation Section of the International Airport Here throughout the weekend. Ambassadors rushed to meet cargo planes arriving from their nations then huddled with mexican authorities to discuss deployment of equipment and personnel. Early sunday a giant c-5a transport plane in Camou Flage blending with the night sky roared in from califor Nia. Its nose Rose into the air and its ramps dropped to the ground revealing three lightweight firefighting helicopters and six pickup and panel trucks carrying fuel water pumps to Load their spraying tanks cots and Medicine for airlifting victims to hospitals. Fifty dogs mostly German shepherds with a few la Brador retrievers were among the arrivals. There were 12 from the Swiss government 15 from the International red Cross 19 from France and four from the United states. The first Relief shipments came in Friday morning about 24 hours after the first big earthquake and 12 hours before the second. Colombia Guatemala the dominican Republic and Cost Rica were among the first in with food clothing and blankets. From the Argentine air Force came 20 tons of Medicine and supplies plus 29 people including plastic surgeons and Burn specialists. Two members of the mexican embassy in Buenos Aires came along to help locate 1,500 argentines who had been vacationing in Mexico City. Smaller planes buzzed in do positing dozens of foreign journalists and private Relief Agency squads. A soviet Crew landed Friday with 50 tons of emergency supplies the news Agency no Vosti said. Four observers from the United nations came with the Swiss team to report Back on the most critical needs. Switzerland sent in 28 tons of medical and Rescue equip ment plus Field tents and sleeping bags. France dispatched 179 doctors and firefighters and the 19 dogs. With the red Cross canine Crews the French went straight to work. The dogs were seen scrambling Over debris in the Pino Suarez downtown Section sniffing for victims trapped in the rubble of an apartment building. West Germany sent a 130-ton Crane for demolition work plus Medicine and Rescue workers. Canada contributed clothing and blankets and Relief workers while Italy shipped 35 tons of Medicine and camping equipment. Heavy mining machines to excavate rubble was due in a later shipment from the United slates. Getty heir reportedly gave $200,000 to British miners Boston up j. Paul Getty or. Said he gave $200,000 to miners considering breaking away from the British National Union of mineworkers after he was told the soviets gave Over $10 million to the Union a published report said sunday. Getty 53, the multimillionaire who has been living in England for the past 15 Yean said he made the contribution last August after the chairman of Britain s National Coal Board requested the funds the Boston Globe reported. The chairman Ian Macgregor and the heir to the Getty Oil Fortune reportedly met secretly and the contribution has been kept quiet because the Board which runs the country s nationalized mines is not supposed to interfere in Union matters. When Macgregor and Getty met this summer Mac Gregor told Getty that the soviet Union had contributed More than s10 million to the National Union which con ducted a yearlong strike that seriously Hurt the British Economy. In August. Getty agreed to contribute is 34,000 to the approximately 26,000 Union members in Nottinghamshire and $67,000 to the 9,000 Union members in South Derbyshire for Legal expenses for their breakaway movement. Both groups Are planning an october vote on a proposal to withdraw from the National Union. There Are about 160,000 miners in England. Neither Macgregor nor prime minister Margaret Thatcher has commented on the Getty gift but no govern ment officials have denied that the gift was presented. Thatcher whose government appointed Macgregor would like to weaken the mineworkers Union the most left Wing Union in the country. Roy Lynk general Secretary of the Nottinghamshire Union Aid be was unaware of the contribution. If any Money has come from Gett yall i can say is we be not been informed. To the Best of my knowledge the Coal Board has not sent us any Money and i Don t believe they be been involved in any Clandestine Way in getting us Money. I Hope not because if it came out it would make us seem puppets of the Coal Board which we re not bomber raised from Loch Ness yields Well preserved Wii items Lochend Scotland a a Pilot s helmet a radio a Parachute a camera and a Well preserved tin of tobacco were found sunday in a world War ii Wellington bomber raised from Loch Ness where it crashed in 1940, the salvages said. The peat Laden Waters had preserved the items so Well that the Label on the camera was still legible and experts said they might still be Able to develop a 30-Cxposure film reel found inside. The bomber was hoisted from the Bottom of the 230 foot scottish Lake saturday night after a two week Salvage operation. The fuselage wings and engines were intact but most of the Canvas covering on the aluminium Skeleton was gone As was the front gun Turret. The plane s rear half dropped off in an earlier Rescue attempt last tuesday and will be recovered separately. Of the 11,461 wellingtons that were built the British twin engine bomber in Loch Ness is the Only one which saw Active service during world War ii and whose whereabouts were known. It was ditched in the Lake on new year s eve in 1940 after its Royal air Force Pilot ran into a snowstorm on a training flight. A Barge will carry the bomber to Inverness this week the Aberdeen Salvage co. Said. The plane will then be dismantled and taken by Road to an aircraft museum in Weybridge 20 Miles Southwest of London. Madrid to get some trolleys Back Madrid up socialist mayor Enrique Tiempo Galvan who brought the horse and buggy Back to Madrid now plans to return trolley cars to the City s streets. They arc hardly an alternative system of transportation Ticino told key socialist councilman. But it u an attempt to recover another of our City s old traditions Madrid s Green and yellow streetcars once decried for their noise and jolting rides were replaced by fleets of modern buses in the Early 1970s. The renovated streetcars will be put in service near Parks and used mostly for pleasure rides according to Deputy mayor Juan Barranco. They will add a Nice and Simpatico touch to Madrid he said and they Don t pollute the  in an earlier move to slow the Pace of City life Tierno returned hone drawn buggies to Madrid s retire Park in june. Nixon visits shrine former president Nixon on a sightseeing Tow of adm gestures u be carries on a conversation with an in 1 companion in the courtyard of of 6 series of a mansions with turkish leaders. Japan air lines official s death treated As a suicide police say Tokyo a a Japan air lines official assigned to help the families of victims of the aug. 12 my jetliner crash was found dead of knife wounds and police did they Are treating the death As a suicide. Police said the body of Hiroo Tominaga 59, was found with wounds in the neck and Chest at his Home in Yokohama South of Tokyo. A fruit knife and note addressed to Tominaga i family were found beside the body according to a police official. He said the note written in a Small appointment Book said i offer my apologies with my death. Mother Kayo please take  the body was found by Tominaga i 16 year old daughter Kayo. A but four of the 524 people aboard a Jal Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the mountains on a flight from Tokyo to Osaka. American will take Britain s 1st chair in parapsychology Edinburgh Scotland a an american scientist is taking up Britain s first professorial chair in parapsychology the study of levitation telepathy extrasensory perception and assorted things that go bump in the night. Or. Robert Morris said he will expose fraud where be finds it and he will apply such scientific Rigours that he might even make his Job disappear. Morris 42, a senior research scientist at the school of computer and information science at Syracuse University in new York triumphed Over about 30 candidates to be come the first Koestler professor of parapsychology at the 402-year-old University of Edinburgh. The position was established with a 500,000-Pound $665,000 bequest from Arthur Kocs Tler the nov Ehat critic and explorer of the supernatural who committed suicide with his wife in 1983. Mathematician Art historian win Balzan foundation awards Milan Italy a French mathematician Jean Pierre Serre and austrian born Art historian Ernst Hans Josef Gumbrich have been awarded the yearly Balzan foundation prizes. Serre 59, from Bages received the award for his out standing contribution to algebraic geometry and topology. Gombrich bom in Vienna in 1909 and now a British citizen was honoured for his fundamental contribution to the interpretation of history of Western Art  
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