European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stateside Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday january 16, 19b6 Vietnam withholds information Uii i wimp Bill legislator plans on mias investigator believes to o promote study again Honolulu a the head of inc government learn which investigates All reports about americans miss ing in Southeast Asia old members of a congressional delegation tuesday tie believes Vietnam is withholding information about Mas. I. Col. Joe Harvey chief of the joint casually Resolution censer. Briefed the 16-Tnembcr congressional delegation including two senators and two representatives on his 19-Meitiber Cam s efforts to account for All 2,441 Ameri cans still listed 83 missing in Indochina. The delegation was in route to Vietnam and Laos to press far slip cd up Resolution of the Mia Issue and oquestion the vietnamese about he possibility that Ameri cans Are still alive in Cambodia Laos or Vietnam rep Bob Mcewen a Ohio asked Why the vietnamese have repudiated american remains on a sporadic basis and Harvey replied their repatriation seems to be limed to their Vietnam s own political goals. We very definitely believe he vietnamese know much More about this Issue than they appear  the vietnamese government recently pledged to investigate 95 live lighting report of missing americans and Harvey said Hii office has always investigated such report with the highest priority the Jarc lists a Tola of 806 Jive sighting of Ameri cans from indochinese refugees since the fall of Saigon in 1975 but says All but 9s of those Hare been resolved. Of tie 95,47 involved people the refugees described As being in a non prisoner environment while the Jarc says the remaining 48 reports Are of people who bad been held a prisoners of War. Of those 48 reports the Jarc says 32 Are under investigation 14 have information described As too vague and the remaining two Are from what the Jarc Calls unbeatable  sen. Frank Murkowski a Alaska who chairs the sen ate Veteran affairs committee and conceived the idea of the first official Senate visit to Vietnam since he end of the War called Harvey s briefing very reassuring. There s tremendous detail and analysis of information that is on  Murrow Sci s party includes sen. Dennis do Coracini d Ariz. Rep. Michael Birlirakis a Fla rep. Bob Mcewen a Ohio their wives staff members and a specialist fro the state department. The group visited the Jarc and the army s cd neral identification Laboratory Here on an Over Nigell Slop before leaving for Clark fab in the Philippines on the second leg of the fact finding trip. The Jarc takes the Lead with the vietnamese and laotian in presenting Mia cases for discussion with the vietnamese and laotians. The Laboratory s primary mis Sion is o recover and identify remains. The 2,441 americans classified As missing in Southeast Asia arc about 4 percent of the is. Casualties during the Indochina War. By comparison government figures list 78.773 Ameri cans More than 20 percent of Trie casualties still Unac counted for in world War ii. There Are 8,177 us. Mias remaining from the korean War also More than 20 per cent of he total number of americans killed there. When he returns to Washington Murkowski s commit tee will hold hearings on the possibility that americans May still be alive in Indochina nearly 13 years after . Troops left i m going to Tell the vietnamese of the hearings and i Hunt hem for their willingness to follow up on reports sent to them by the United states government he said. Tutu receives Freedom medal "thrilled1 to touch Liberty Bell Philadelphia a South african Black Leader Desmond Tutu touched the Liberty Bell tuesday and called it a very great thrill just overwhelming like Adream and one i Hope wit come Rue for us  Tutu anglican Bishop of Johannesburg and the i9b4 Nobel peace prize Winner slopped at the Bell during a Day of activities and speeches on the second leg of Hie 12-City .tour. Tutu walked from Congress Hall to the Pavilion thai houses the Bell. In Independence Hall mayor w. Wilson Goode gave him the City s Freedom medal. "1 accept this in the name of All those who strive for Justice in our land those who have been killed those who have gone into exile and those who have gone to prison Tutu said. The Bishop started off the Day at an interfaith breakfast sponsored by the Black clergy of Philadelphia the jewish Community relations Council and the Board of rabbis at the Bright Hope Baptist Church whose senior pastor i democratic congressman William Gray i chairman of the House budget committee. Cray last week resumed from a fact finding Mission to South Africa. Speaking from the pulpit Tutu chided critics who com Plain he mines religion with politics because he does t like the Reagan administration s position on sanctions against South Africa. I have never heard a victim of oppression say i m to political Tutu said declaring that god has a special concern for those the world tramples  after the breakfast. Tutu went to Temple University to accept an honorary doctor of Laws degree which president Peter Liacouras said was conferred because of your moral leadership in the permanent struggle to rid this world of slavery servitude and persecution and their ves Tiges wherever and by whatever name they  . Retail sales Rose in december Washington apr retail sales powered by he return of attractive Auto financing incentives Rose 1.9 percent in december for the strongest gain in three months the Commerce department reported tuesday. The Strong sales Advance coming on the heels of a big Rise in employment prompted he Reagan administration to proclaim that the Economy is enjoying a significant rebound in growth. However some private economists said they do not see evidence for such optimism the december increase helped boost retail safes far the entire year to 11.38 trillion 6.3 percent above 1984. This boost was substantially below the gland 10.5 percent gain recorded in 1984, and Many analysts have cautioned that sales in 1986 Are Likely to Rise at an even slower Pace As Consumers straggle with a record High debt Burden the strength in december came from a 5.7 percent jump in Auto sales from november. The rebound reflected a new round of incentives instituted by Genera motors corp. And Ford motor co. Hat included financing As Lowas 7.9 percent on selected can and trucks the 1.9 percent december Rise in Overall sales followed a revised 0,7 percent increase in november and a 3.9percent drop in october a month when car sales Plum meted after the first round of Cut rate Auto financing was removed. The report on retail sales followed news last week that non farm employment increased by a sizable 320,000 jobs in december As the civilian jobless rate dipped to 6-9percent. At the White House presidential spokesman Larr Speakes called the december figures exceptionally Good news with sales booming and the unemployment Rale at its lowest level since 1982, the health of the nation s Economy can be readily observed Fay even the most casual observer he mid. Bui private economic forecasters were split Over whether the december upturn was signalling stronger growth. Chase Econometrics. Shaber said Chase is still expecting sluggish growth of around 1.s percent for the first half of the year less than half the Rale in the final six months of 19bs. However some optimists Are calling for growth to top 4 percent in coming months the Best performance since he the strength of the december retail sales figures coming on lop of the bullish employment figures for december should mean that we ended 1965 with a bang not a whimper said John Albertrie president of the american business conference a coalition of High growth companies. Annapolis my. A a legislator whose pro Posillo study the problems of contemporary men a Fly derided last year As the wimp Bill said he expects better treatment for the idea when he tries again his year. Our men Are in trouble. Don t kid yourselves they Are in trouble said a Elijah Cummings a Baltimore demo crat. He said that after he initial reaction last year when his proposal was called among other things the quiche Bill legislators began to approach him to say he had a Good Point. This year s Resolution sponsored by Cut Ming and Del. Anne Perkins a Baltimore head of the women s caucus in the House of delegates Calls for creation Oft Maryland task Force on manhood fatherhood arid family. The task Force would be charged with ensuring that state agencies Are aware of inc pressures nun face in contemporary society and offer help in dealing with those problems. Cummings said government has examined society problem from the woman s viewpoint and in is time to take a look from the Man s perspective. He noted that men commit suicide at a much higher rate than women. Martin Luther King s heirs Spur recall of firm s greeting cards Kansas City to. A hallmark cards Ine said a greeting card for Martin Lush or King or s birthday was recalled after the estate of the Shin civil rights Leader said another greeting card company had rights to hit speeches and writings. The cards which have the words i have a dream on the cover have been collected from distributors said Hall Murk spokeswoman Pally Moore. The words Are from a speech King made on aug. 28,1961, to 250,000 people in Washington , a National Holiday honouring King will be celebrated farther first time Ian. 20. Representatives of King s estate asked lint the cards be withdrawn because rights recently had been licensed to Gibson creeping cards inc., Moore said. Hallmark had a License to King s speeches and writ Ings but had not used it for several years Moore said. She said the company was told its License was no longer valid. Nebraska senators Don t share colleague s regard for khad Afy Lincoln neb. A Twenty nine Nebraska hate senators have written an open Leller to emphatically stale they Don t share the regard of their colleague sen Ernest Chambers for libyan Leader Doummar Kha daiy. Chambers called khad Afy a great Man and said tie United states is a bastion of racism his remarks came As he opposed a proposed legislative code of ethics hot he said would allow his colleagues to punish him for remarks they found offensive. He praised khad Afy for bringing health care Andt Duca. Tion to Libya. He called president Reagan to Arnbo Esquo caricature in the last stages of senility Chambers an Independent is the Only Black member of he legislature. He has often expressed his View hat America is a racist society. 9-year-old boy stuck in Chimney held in burglary investigation los Angeles a a 9-Ycar-