European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 27, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 . Team in Vietnam for new talks on mias Bangkok Thailand up a . Military team arrived in Hanoi Vietnam wednesday to receive new information on american servicemen listed As missing in action in Vietnam and to set a Date for recovering at least14 sets of remains. The four Man delegation will participate in the first technical level talks since Vietnam began investigating live sighting reports of americans last month the Start of a two year program to resolve the ii year old Mia Issue. Vietnamese officials told visiting congressmen in the past two months they would hand Over information on some 70 Mia cases during the technical talks. The information was the result of a Public awareness Campaign that launched the two year program the Viet namese officials said. They also told the congressmen they were ready to repatriate at least 14 sets of remains of . Servicemen. During the talks we probably will set a Dale for turn ing Over the remains said it. Col. Paul Mather delegation Leader and Bangkok  of the joint casualty Resolution Center in Hawaii. The Center is a military Agency that spearheads Mia investigations. More than a decade after the Indochina War ended 2,441 servicemen arc listed As missing in action in South East Asia. Nearly 1,800 Mia cases arc associated with Vietnam. All but one missing . Serviceman is presumed dead but defense intelligence officials say they arc investigating about 100 unresolved sightings of americans in Indochina Between 1975 and 1983. Earlier this month Deputy foreign minister Hoang Bich son told a congressional task Force on mias that . Servicemen May be in Remote areas without Viet Nam s knowledge. He said three groups of vietnamese were investigating live sightings and extended an open invitation to american authorities to join in the investigation according to the House task Force. After years of slow movement Vietnam accelerated its cooperation on the Mia Issue last year it Hopes to improve relations with the United slates which withholds both diplomatic recognition of Vietnam and the financial Aid needed to repair Vietnam s War shattered Economy. This week s technical talks Are the first of six scheduled sessions this year. The meetings focus on locating and recovering remains. In Laos a joint .-laotian team continued searching for remains in the wreckage of an ac-130 gunship shot Down in March 1972 with a Crew of 14. Remains were found in the Early stage of the excavation last week in the Jungle Foothills of Southern Laos. The operation is expected to end Early next week. Is Pho lot by Cut  on the wintry scenes of London photo opportunities abound in London even in the Gray of Winter. With the Sun just barely penetrating the Winter Cloud cover at the Tower Bridge left photos Call for High Speed film. A camera War could develop among japanese tourists who seem to outnumber others by far automated camera makes one handed during the Winter months As they sight snapshot possible right while the other see at the Tower of London Center. An hand keeps warm in a pocket. Politburo members ha/7 Gorbachev speech Moscow a ruling politburo members took the floor wednesday at the communist party Congress praising Mik Hail s. Gorbachev s opening address on policies at Home and abroad and answering the soviet Leader s Call for self criticism. Cuban president Fidel Castro polish head of state Wojciech Jaruzelski and Viet namese Leader be Duan also spoke. Castro was accorded the Honor of being the first foreign guest to speak the official news Agency Tass said. Tass quoted Castro As denouncing the aggressive policies of imperialist  he cited the Vietnam War As an example of what the so called Low intensity conflicts can Cost  Castro who was shown speaking on Tele vision was followed by be Duan and Jaruzelski. The proceedings were not Tele Vised live and Only excerpts were shown on an afternoon news program. At the opening tuesday of the 27th con Gress Gorbachev the party general Secre tary called for a streamlined bureaucracy and a reduction in Central controls on Agri culture and Industry and he said he will give priority to easing the country s persistent food Supply problems. On the International front Gorbachev rejected president Reagan s new arms control proposals and said timing of the next superpower Summit hinges on an under standing about Banning nuclear tests or eliminating medium Range missiles in Europe. In the nationally televised speech Conven ing the 5,000 delegates in the first Congress meeting since 1981, Gorbachev also Laid out the soviet Union s plans for making a Clear break from what he called the inert Ness and stiffness of the leadership of the late Leonid i. Brezhnev. Brezhnev who ruled the soviet Union for 18 years until his death in 1982, has been criticized for mismanaging the Economy and placing elderly leaders in High govern ment posts. Vitaly i. To Sotnikov one of 11 members of the politburo and chairman of the coun cil of the russian federation Republic was apparently the first politburo member to speak wednesday. Tass said he discussed development prob lems in the russian federation the largest and most populated of the soviet republics. He said the party has drawn lessons from the past mistakes particularly concerning economic management. To Sotnikov repeated Gorbachev s criticism of the Brezhnev Era when an under estimation of objective economic Laws began to be increasingly Felt in economic  in the new party program to be adopted at the Congress Gorbachev has called for huge advances in Industrial performance. Moscow party Boss Boris Yeltsin who in december succeeded longtime City party chief Viktor Grishin Analysed the causes of a lag in Industry and construction in Moscow Tass reported. Grishin was ousted from the politburo last week and Moscow s mayor also recently was removed from office. On tuesday Gorbachev criticized the former Moscow leadership. In his speech wednesday Yeltsin made reference to party officials who lost their positions. Politburo member and ukrainian party chief Vladimir v. So Cherbitsky rumoured to be in political trouble also addressed the delegates repeating Gorbachev s criticism of Reagan s arms proposal. The . Reply has Given Rise to the understandable sense of distress and disappointment on the part of soviet people Shcher Bitsky said. Kohl says probe won t undermine his authority Bonn up German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in an interview released tuesday said a investigation into an accusation he lied to a committee will not undermine is authority. Kohl told the Hannover newspaper Cue Presse he faces with equanimity and Faith in Justice an investigation by a Public prosecutor into an accusation by a political opponent that he gave false testimony to an official state committee looking into a slush fund and political funding scandal. He accused Otto Schily a member of parliament of the left Wing Green party of making the accusation with the thought some mud will stick and with the aim of Poison ing the political climate. My authority certainly will not be undermined by this because it is based on the Trust of the majority of citizens and on the majority of parliament and last but not least on the excellent record of my government Kohl said. He said there is no basis to the accusation made against him because he testified before a state parliamentary com Mittee to the Best of his knowledge and with Good con science. The Public prosecutor in Koblenz notified parliament last week that he has started an investigation into Schily s accusation that Kohl lied when he told a committee of the parliament of the state of Rheinland Pfalz last june he did not know illegal tax deductible contributions to his Christian democratic party had been laundered by a front organization based in Koblenz. Kohl was formerly minister president of the state