European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday november 29, 1985 world today venture in vacations Richard Branson promotes his newly formed tour opera Tion from us boat on the River thames in London. The business venture. Virgin Holiday has just announced new vacation packages to the ., including s435 two week package to Miami Beach. Canadian circling the Globe in wheelchair meets Pope Vatican City a Pope John Paul ii on wednesday greeted Rick Hansen a 28-year-old Handi capped Canadian who is making a Globe girdling tour in his wheelchair. Hansen attended the Pope s weekly general audience at the Pope Paul v auditorium and later chatted a few minutes with the pontiff. Hansen. Who lost both legs in a traffic Accident when he was 15, told reporters that he had embarked on the tour in Vancouver on March 21 and has visited 22 countries. China using acupuncture less for operations Magazine says London up although acupuncture is still widely used in China for the treatment of rheumatism and other ailments it is less frequently used these Days in serious operations according to the weekly science mag Azine nature. The Magazine in a Section on science in China said there now seems to be a Retreat from the assertion common during the cultural revolution and believed by Many Western physicians at the time that acupuncture can be an effective analgesic in surgical  in quoted or. Jiang Zhenyu of the Shanghai Institute of physiology As saying a ministry of health decree restricts the use of acupuncture to operations on the thyroid the diaphragm and similar  general use of Anaesthetic acupuncture Hsc otherwise fallen into disuse nature said. Advanced anti tank missiles being developed by Britain London a Britain is developing new airborne anti tank missiles with infrared or radar sensors capable of homing in on their targets the ministry of defense said. The Armor piercing missiles to be fitted to harrier ver tical Takeoff fighter jets would be five times More Power Ful than current British air to ground anti tank weaponry a ministry spokesman said. They would be capable of travelling up to five Miles on their own momentum in order to pinpoint enemy tanks be said. The missiles arc being developed by the Royal air Force for use by the advanced variant harriers which Are to be deployed in Germany into the 1990s. Preliminary studies of the new weapons As yet unnamed have been carried out by British aerospace the state owned aeronautics giant and Hunting engineering and Are expected to win ministry of defense approval by the end of this year the spokesman said. The missiles would be fired from pods Slung beneath the harriers. Navy showing in donations at by Dan Wollam i Mil Stuttgart i ill bind Federal Campaign the Nav the greatest increase in donations Over last year s Campaign. Contributions from sailors As of the Campaign s 19thday arc up 15 percent from the same time last a car s the Neucom Campaign coordinator it. . Simone. The Navy total is $229,956. Ujj Safe is running a close second Wilhit percent increase. Simone said. The midpoint Ujj Force total is$885,704. The army total for Thi Brno sign s midpoint is 17 percent below last Yent jul 70,257. Simone said  Haven t been particularly  t1 1 because most of the Money usually comes in during the last two weeks of the Campaign. The Campaign ends dec. 1 1. Simone also said that Low contributions Aren t justification for Arm twisting. She said the Campaign does not biggest jump Csc midpoint have a monetary goal. There is a goal of conji4ffig very person within commands she said0rysuggestion or appearance of coercion be Itji ugh a request by a Superior or  goals is absolutely forbidden no said  feels coerced into giving to the combined fed rat Inda Ign should Contact a Legal assistance officer. For in previous years Campaign o Nim Jive extended the Campaign for units whose people spam Jet of Lime in the Field during the Campaign. But Simonen Thil year s late Start will make extensions All but impossible. Unless there s some extreme circumstance we won l authori7c any extensions Simone said. Thai s mostly to accommodate the finance folks so they can get the allotments  about 90 percent of Csc contributions Are made through payroll deductions Simone said. Reagan created pane secretly aids Union rightists Paris paper says Paris a a new foundation created by the Rea Gan administration is secretly funding France s third larg est labor Union and a right Wing students organization with More than $1.4 million the Paris newspaper liberation reported wednesday. The National endowment for democracy created by president Reagan in 1983, has a total budget of si8 Mil lion dollars and the funds Are distributed under the auspices of the Al Cio through a subsidiary organization called the free Trade Union Institute. The leftist daily which reported on documents and interviews obtained in the United states France and Switz Erland said that Between april 1984 and april 1985, Ned provided worker Force of with $830,000 and the Union National  uni with $575,000. The of which in the 1950s, broke with the communist run general confederation of labor Cutis among the most moderate of French labor unions with an Esti mated 1 million members. The Small uni with an Esti mated membership of Between 500 and 1,000, is consid ered close to the conservative rally for the Republic opposition party. President Reagan had the idea of creating an institution that helps democratic forces for Freedom against dictatorships Irving Brown the Man in charge of the Al Cio s International operations told liberation in an interview in Geneva. The total budget for the National endowment for democracy is $18 million he said. We receive the largest part of this Money which is turned Over to our free Trade Union Institute. Lane Kirkland our president is also president of the Board of directors of this  liberation quoted a confidential note from Eugenia Kemble director of the free Trade Union Institute to Carl Gersham president of the endowment explaining Why financial support must be kept secret in some coun tries. The beneficiaries of these funds would be in danger or in trouble if the financing was made Public. Because repressive governments or groups of communists could use this information against the individuals or the Union that we want to help liberation quoted the memo As laying. The newspaper said France is on the list of countries for which funding is kept secret along with the philippine Chile Brazil Nicaragua Poland Suriname Paraguay an others. France a country where democracy does not seem so fragile is in the first rank of european beneficiaries liberation wrote. The newspaper in an interview in Washington with Gersham quoted him As saying we intervene in a demo cratic country to encourage democratic debate and we therefore support organizations that participate in  Andre Bergeron Secretary general of the of told the newspaper that the Union used the american funds to help those who Are obliged to leave their country such As refugees from Southeast Asia Poland or Chile. A use these funds to help these people. I Don t want to Tel Yon More. The rest that s our  later wednesday the of put out a statement saying that we Are proud to receive financial Aid from the american Union movement. Jacques Rougeot president of the uni when first t questioned by the newspaper reportedly said that if the article was published he would deny it. Liberation Laid that later when he was shown evidence to Back the article he said no  polish government accuses  Of denying travel visas to citizens saw Poland up Poland tuesday accused the  mass visa refusals for polish citizens and charged  with continued interference in its internal aftain i i a polish spokesman charge