European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday october 27, 1985 Vith cars Rock looming behind them two Voung australian bos walk hand in hand across the desert Sand. Government of Australia returns Ayers Rock to aborigine tribes Rock., Australia payers Rock inc Monolith in Australia s Outback thai is famous for its brilliantly changing colors at Sunrise Anil Sunset was Given Hick saturday to the aborigines who live on the red desert Sand around it. A chorus of Black women sitting in the red dust Sang ancient chants As aborigines celebrated their most Monifi cant land rights Victory will dancing around a campfire hut political opponents of the move by prime minister Bob Hawse s labor government pledged to overturn it if he gain Power. no mistake about what is happening Here said Ian . Chief Miniver of the Northern territory. Or. Mawk has sold out the majority of All australians. As the Sun goes Down i want All australians to know this was the last Day on which we All owned the ind officials of his government boycotted the ceremonies. Ayers Rock named for a barely remembered 19th-Cen Tury politician is an 863-foot Monolith within he boundaries of the Northern territory. It one of its biggest tourist attractions with 100,000 visitors this year. As governor general sir ninian Stephen presented the ownership documents to the Barefoot members of the 200 wrong local Community a Small plane circled overhead towing a sign which read avers Rock for All austra lians hut the Happy Croud of about .1,000, the majority of them aborigines in to shirts proclaiming this is aboriginal land appeared not to notice. The aboriginal Community who claim descent from the earlier tribes which lived around the Rock some 30.000 be irs ago according to Scimeni ivly immediately leased the Rock and the 511.45-Square-mile National Park around it Back to the Federal government for 99 years. They will be paid 52,500 . Dollars a year and will get 20 percent of admission fees. They also will be on the Board of management of the Park Bui they will not be involved in the s140 million resort 20 Miles from the Rock which was built by the Northern territory government. In his speech ninian who is Australia s head of state said the Rock stands not Only at the Center of Australia but at its very Ami Lester a Blind aborigine who conducted the Cere Mony ridiculed critics of the Transfer saying i am glad you were All Able to make it to see the Rock today for the last time. It la be missing tomorrow. The aboriginal people Are going to Lake it philippine military official detects after 27 years to join Marcos foes Washington a a lop. Philippines military official blasting president Ferdinand Marcos government us riddled with Alio civics and graft announced he is leaving his Post to join the anti Marcos forces. Alexander i. Bacalla assistant Deputy chief of staff for civil military operations on i he was announcing my defection after 27 years in the military. I can no longer Wear with Pride the uniform i once so proudly wore Bacalla said under the Marcos dictatorship Ihal uniform in the yes of our people drips with bipod the blood of count less victims of military atrocities and the blood of Ninoy Aquino he added in reference to slain opposition Leader Binigno Aquino. Bacalla made the remarks to a conference of about 250 supporters of the movement for a free Philippines a 12-year old anti Marcos group that seeks elections in the Philippines. Bacalla called Marcos the Man most responsible for the deterioration of the armed forces of the Philippines in integrity competence and morale from what it was when i entered the service in 1958." our people under the Marcos dictatorship associate that uniform with abuse of Power and authority with graft and corruption with distorted loyalty with loss of Honor and dignity Bacalla said. Gen. Fabian Var head of the armed forces and 25 other people arc being tried for alleged involvement in the death of Aquino who w As Fatall shot two scars ago at the Manila Airport. Bacalla claimed that although Var has been removed from his Post while the Aquino trial is going on Var remains in effective control of the armed forces of the Philippines and the numerous civilian and military Intelli gence Bacalla charged Marcos used the armed forces As an instrument of personal Rule and said that without the support of the armed forces. Marcos cannot stay a Day longer in Bacalla s announcement followed the return last week end of president Reagan s emissary to the Philippines. Sen. Paul , r-ncv., who was sent to warn Marcos of administration concerns regarding the Marcos regime. The two largest . Navy bases outside the United states arc in the Philippines. Laxalt reported on his return that Marcos had promised to relax control of the military. Bacalla said he had Given up on Hopes of reforming the military from within. Woman born without ovaries gives birth Hospital reports i Rusalem up1 a woman born without ovaries has Given birth to a baby in what has been declared the first such Case reported in medical history the Hadas Sah medical Center said. It said the procedure administered to the woman holds out Hope for women suffering from premature menopause or whose ovaries were damaged by radiation As. For exam ple in Hodgkin s disease. The woman in her late 30s and married for 18 years conceived after an ovum Donald by a Volunteer was Ferliel i cd with her husband s semen in a test tube the Hospital said. The resulting embryo was implanted in her uterus after 4k woman suffers from .1 congenital defect Turner s syndrome which is by the absence of both ovaries. Such women do nol menstruate and Lack female hormones. One in 5,000 women suffers from the condition the Hospital said. Plane hits mine while Landing near Guatemala City killing a Guatemala City. Guatemala a four peo ple including Norway s honorary Consul in Guatemala narc killed when their private air plane exploded after touching off a mine As it landed at a Coffee Plantation Southwest of Here the military said. The army said the four who were killed included the honorary Consul Norman Linds his son in Law Klaus Harold of West Germany the Pilot Arturo Garcia bran and a Coffee technician Erasmo Sanchez of Costa Rica. The military said the Plantation in Santa Barbara 80 Miles Southwest of the capital is in an area of guerrilla activity. 1 australian Sailor killed 40 injured by toxic Gas leak Darwin Australia a a toxic Gas leak aboard an australian Navy ship killed one Sailor and sent More than 40 others to hospitals. Australian Navy officials said. The sailors were overcome by fumes while the Stalwart a australian Navy destroyer support Craft was at sea off , Navy spokesman Barry c asian cd said. C asian cd said one Sailor was dead on arrival at a Dar win Hospital. Four others listed As very seriously ill were airlifted to the intensive care unit of Sydney s Prince i of car Hospital. One Navy source who spoke on condition she not be identified said 48 sailors had been taken to hospitals. Chunking festival Marks fog that protected City during War puking a a 10-Day log festival is under Way in chunking commemorating the fog that shielded the City from japanese air raids during world War ii the official Xinhua news Agency said. The festival began in the Central City and Marks the 40th anniversary of Japan s defeat. Chunking was Hina s capital during the War. Four festivals were held Between 1941 to 1945 in chunking to boost wartime morale. The City s famous. acted As a screen to shelter festival goers from Japa Nese air raids. The news Agency said More than 50 of China s leading writers and performers who lived in the City during the War were invited to the festival. Londoners enjoy subways More since smoking ban Survey finds London a most commuters think a smoking ban on the London subway system has resulted in cleaner trains and stations according to a Survey. London regional transport said an Independent Surveyor 500 commuters found 84 percent thought the ban has made trains cleaner and 65 percent said it has mad stations cleaner. But 14 percent of the commuters said they found travel ing on the subway system known As the underground less pleasant because they could nol smoke. The Survey was conducted by inc Harris research Center. The smoking ban was introduced on subway trains on july 9, 1984. It was extended to subway Stalions feb. 17 after a fire at the Oxford circus station. Although the ban was originally prompted by inc need o make the underground As Safe from fire As possible it us " a much cleaner travelling environment said Keith Bright chairman of the transport authority
