European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes monday december 2, 1985 Richard s. Ondrik of Kokomo did., pauses on a so Eccl in Harbin China after his recent release from Jil. Chinese treated american As vip while he was in prison Harbin China a for Richard s. Ondrik confinement As the Only american in a chinese jail was hardly Lor Turc. The Warden made dumplings for him and a trustee hauled hot water for his weekly Bath. But Ondrik sentenced for allegedly accidentally Sel Ling a fatal fire in i Harbin hotel says he is Happy to be out. He was released last week after serving five months of an 18-month term. China s official press said he had been Given Early release because he had shown remorse while in jail and had made Greal efforts to a Cage is a Cage no matter How Golden Ondrik an Energy specialist for a Hong Kong firm said sat urday in an interview in Harbin 1,634 Miles Northeast of peking. Ondrik said he plans to leave China for Honolulu and a reunion with his parents. Ondrik said his jailers aloof and Correct at first warmed As weeks passed with the Harbin jail s very important prisoner. He was the Only american confined in a medium Security facility where chinese prisoners Laboured in a sewing shop and electric switch factory and also went to school. The 34-year-old american was arrested on june 26 and convicted on aug. 13 on charges of criminal negligence in the april 18 fire at the Swan hotel in har bin. The court alleged that Ondrik s smoking in bed started the fire which killed five North korean guests four chinese staff members and Ondrik s chinese american business colleague. In prison Ondrik said he had his own room and a activity room for lifting weights and watching color television. He had the constant company of two prison trustees and a guard at first they were As terrified of me As i was shocked with being there Ondrik said. After a few weeks they the Warden would drop by once a week to play pingpong and he took me 25 straight games Ondrik said. Later he said the Warden and his family made Jilozi chinese dumplings Lor him. Their whole notion was to keep me Distant from the prison population Ondrik said. Ondrik said he Rose daily at 6 30 . And ate a chinese breakfast of Bra or Rice with vegetables brought to him from a cafeteria where other prisoners dined. I d spend a few hours studying chinese and Reading Oil Industry journals then lift weights with the trustee or play pingpong he said. Later a guard gave him chinese calligraphy lessons and Ondrik helped his warders with English a language they were studying at the prison school. His duties included sweeping and mopping his room and the adjacent exercise chamber. A trustee who later became a close Friend carried hot water in a bucket from a boiler across the com Pound he said. On Friday night they brought me my. Bathtub and we d fill it with hoi water he said. The weekly Bath took place in the barely heated exercise room. On Irik said he would slide Down with my feet hang in out and just Start to world today Aquino s wife May seek presidency Man. A philippine a More Len 15,000 people crowded e found a roman Catholic Cathedral sunday to show support a apposition Leader Corazon Aquino As she promised you will h. A what Yon want to hear when the decides next week a Beth. To run for president of the Philippines. On the eve the Reading of the verdict in the trial of 26 mostly military men accused in the killing of her husband former sen. Benigno Aquino a priest sprinkled holy water on stacks of 1,700,286 signatures urging Aquino to run. I have to admit to you i am a Little nervous Aquino said in the same suburban Church where funeral services were held for her husband in August 1983. In fact i am very nervous thinking of the very difficult Days that lie ahead of thousands of people holding candles marched through streets around the Santo Domingo Church shouting Long live president Cory Aquino As vendors hawked buttons with her picture on them. Supporters handed Oul a leaflet entitled now More than Ever we need an Hon est rockets went off and the crowd cheered swarming around Aquino As she left the Church at dusk. Aquino said she would announce her decision on whether to run when president Ferdinand e. Marcos signs a Bill Likely Early nest week setting up a special feb. 7 presiden tial election. Marcos already has announced that he will run in the election called 15 months Early in a bid to prove to local and foreign critics that he still has popular support. Peres Memoir reveals arrest by British troops in 1945 Tel Aviv Israel up prime minister Shimon Peres has disclosed he was arrested and jailed by the British while leading a Camelback spy Mission into the no gov desert in 1945. Peres 63, made the disclosure in a Memoir written for a historical Magazine published in Jerusalem. The Memoir included a photo showing him Riding a Camel and wearing an Arab Kaffayeh head dress. Peres then 22, led a group of israeli youths belong ing to quasi military jewish organizations. They ventured on Camelback into the Negev where they mapped tracks and oases. The Region was a restricted military area during the British mandate on Palestine. Peres said his group was discovered and arrested by British troops at umm rash Ash site of the present Day israeli resort of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba. The numbers were taken to Beer Sheba sentenced and jailed for two weeks. Peres said the information gathered on that Mission proved valuable to israeli commanders in the 1948 Middle East conflict. Kung fun expert pulls 2 trucks with rope Needle stuck in Taipei Taiwan up with a rope twisted around a Long Needle in his a chinese Kung fun expert dragged two 19-ton trucks More than 20 feet in a bid to set a world record a Taiwan paper reported. Chang Chang Chich 4.1, pulled the trucks with a single strand of rope twined around the Points of a Long Needle pierced through a Pinch of skin in his left said the Taiwan Shin Sheng daily news. The trucks really weren t very heavy. In fact. I Felt of if i could have pulled at least one More says Chang who has been a student of the chinese martial arts since he was 13. Next time maybe i should try pulling a it was not immediately known whether the Effort earned Chang a world record. Chang teaches Kung fun in South Korea and Japan. I Don t do anything special to prepare myself Siisi my everyday Kung fun breathing exercises said Chang. And 1 eat five bowls of Rice at every bundestag oks 1986 budget of $104 billion after debate Bonn a the lower House of West Germany s parliament dominated by the government s Canter right coalition has approved a 263-Blllion-Mark j104 billion budget for 1986. The debate Over the budget passed in the bundestag on its third Reading was marked by heated debate Between finance minister Gerhard Stoltenberg. A Christian demo crat and opposition Leader Willy Brandl a social demo crat and former Chancellor. Brandt acknowledged economic growth in Germany in recent years but he said that unemployment meanwhile has grown to Heights that were unknown during his 1969 74 period in office. The jobless rate was 8 6 percent i october. He said Chancellor Steu Kohl s has taken care of the people who stand in the but maintained he has overlooked the people standing in Greece announces Price hikes for Dairy products and fuel Greece up hikes in the prices of fuel and Dairy products have been announced by the socialist government Only weeks after a devaluation and economic a Verity measures sparked a nation wide general strike. Even with the new hikes fuel prices remain 20 percent lower than the european economic Community average while diesel is still 50 percent cheaper a government spokesman said. The Price hikes which Range Between 7 9 and 15 per cent come into effect immediately. Gas prices go up ii percent for super and 15 percent for regular with a 7.8 percent increase for diesel a announcement said. "8 " a by pc Cen � a by 5 the announce Raf Nalio at 20 or no. Is the highest in
