European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 21, 1986 the stars and stripes Paga 3 Sag Poloi by i. Crr Nti l i Wiesbaden Hospital technician airman Diane Estep watches John fright work on a Muril Al right Brighi paintings enliven a much Vised Hospital corridor muralist softens hospitals with his Art by Wendy Bourland staff writer Wiesbaden hospitals often arc cold in Friendly places in need of a human touch and John Fri git 41 46-year-old Atlanta artist touches Hospi tals All Over the world. Feign i left a career As an advertising executive in 1984 to paint full Lime an establish he foundation for Hospital Art a non profit organization hat pro Vides Art free of charge to non profit and Charity hospitals. My an is a Way of softening a hos Pital he said. Those who can t affo Dart should have it anyway he said his goal is to Lake Art to the people and those who need in most Are people in Feight who has painted More than 3,000 murals in 95 hospitals with the help of patients and staff members tackled the Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center this week. With the help of staff members patients and Delta air lines volunteers from Frankfurt flight turned Hospital Walls into 2p landscape and Jungle scenes Complete with giraffes and a car is. Delta which is headquartered in Atlanta sup ports Feighl s efforts with free transportation to the various hospitals. Fei Juhl sought permission to paint Ata military Hospital in Europe after learning he would paint murals at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco. The former army reservist said he Al ways has wanted to paint in a . Mil itary Hospital. It might sound corny but i m proud to be an american Feighl said. Not Only Are these people in a Hospi Tal they re far from Home. That s twi Ceas bad Fig lit will travel to the far East in september to paint at army and air Force hospitals in South Korea and at the Hospital Ai Clark a Philippines. Go on exercise killed by Honda rom Soldier Tegucigalpa Honduras a a honduran Soldier shot and killed an american Soldier during joint military Maneu vers in this Central american country . Military sources said thursday. The . Sources said military authorities from both countries were investigating whether the killing was accidental. The name of the Soldier was being withheld pending notification of next of Kin said the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. A honduran military communique said the Soldier died wednesday night of wounds suffered while he participated in combined exercises but did not say when inc incident occurred or provide further explanation. This communique has the objective of avoiding speculation and tendentious information that could deteriorate the Good relations thai the United slates and their respective armies have always maintained the honduran statement said. The shooting occurred near Utica la capital of Lancho province about 125 Miles East of Tegucigalpa the . Sources said. In was believed to be the first Case in which a Hon Duran Soldier had killed a member of the american military forces Here since the two countries began holding what have become nearly continuous military Maneu vers in 1982. More than 15,000 american soldiers have taken pan in the joint exercises since 1983, training at least 20,000 honduran troops in counter insurgency activities. The United states maintains a permanent Force of about 1,100 Active duty troops at Palmerola air base in Central Honduras o help coordinate the Cje Rdse. The temporary forces include . National guardsmen. The two countries began Maneu vers nearly a week ago in Gracias a Dies province near the Border Wilri Nicaragua. The Maneu vers arc scheduled to last until the end of june. In the past 4 a years about 60 . Soldiers participating in the Maneu vers have died in Honduras. All the deaths were attributed to accidents. Notorious nazi spy s Skeleton identified Rotterdam Netherlands up dutch authorities positively identified a Skeleton they exhumed As thai of King Kong a notorious double agent who betrayed scores of Allied resistance fight ers to the nazis during world War ii. The positive identification earlier this week of it Kristiaan Lindemans alias King Kong apparently ended months of speculation that the spy escaped death in 1946 and was Stilt alive. A member of the dutch resistance himself Lindemans is known to have betrayed at least 260 dutch belgian and French resistance workers to the nazis and warned them of Allied plans for the l944batlleofanihem, although most historians believe the nazis ignored the warning they agree und emans Learned of the plan from an unwitting Prince be hard or a member of his staff the husband to Queen Juliana was commander of the Small dutch Interior forces late in the War. The catastrophic Allied defeat was portrayed in the film a Bridge too far the spy got his code name from his massive stature. A British newspaper called him a massive Man with a Hale and Hearty officials working inside a tent re moved inc remains from a rotting wooden coffin sandwiched Between those of the spy s Mother and father. As far As we Are concerned Here Isno doubt this is the body of or. Linde mans pathologist Martin Voortman said. A positive comparison of an Abnor Mally healed ankle fracture found on the Skeleton with Lindemans medical re cords cinched the identification he said Rotterdam mayor Bram Peper or dered the exhumation after historians journalists members of Lindemans fam ily and former Dieh resistance workers requested it. Recent historical research indicated Lindemans might not have died at age 33 of a drug overdose in a suicide pact with a prison nurse As history records. Willem Tiemens an Amateur historian whose research led to the Calls for proof King Kong was dead believed the spy was either liquidated by dutch authorities seeking to shield Prince Bem hard from embarrassing revelations Dur ing Lindemans trial or was spirited out of he country. Tiemens second theory gained ground when he found that the body of a pales Tinian shopkeeper who died the Day Lin demand did had soon after mysteriously disappeared from its grave. Lindemans brother claimed he had Learned from . Intelligence that King Kong was living in South Ameri Ca. I feel cheated Tiemens said after he Learned Lindemans remains had been identified. But i m glad we have an answer however other questions remain. Did Lindemans commit suicide or was he killed like the toxicologist who will examine the remains. Tiemens holds out Little Hope a cause of death can be verified after 40 years. I think we have All the answers we redoing to get now he said. The most important answer is there Tim cons said of Lindemans identification. The others will forever remain in study rooms and on the desks of
