European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday. July 21,1986 head Gardener Les Bridge has tended the 30 Tern of the Madingley american Millarjr cemetery for Many Yean. American military cemetery in . A place of Well maintained Beauty Bidav Odiehl , Bureau Cambridge England Les Bridge knows the place. He knows that wherever you stand you can see a Row a straight line of while Marble crosses or stars of David that Mark the Graves of the american War dead. And he knows a lot More about the 30 acres of roses Trees Ponds shrubs Marble and grass that american architects in 1943 put together to make one of the most Beautiful pieces of real estate in East Anglia. Some 100,000 people visit the Madingley american military cemetery each year. Bridge a Gardener by profession and 11 other men trim prune Cut polish paint and Plant on the grounds of the memorial and cemetery which is dedicated to All the americans who were based in the United kingdom and killed during world War ii. The ground was donated by Cambridge University. It is run by the american Battle Monu ments commission in Paris. Remains of 3,811 men and women Are buried there. A 472-Root Wall lists the names of 5,125 who Are miss ing in act ton. There will be no More burials. Few names if any will be added to the Wall. It s mid july and the Garden is just about getting past its  the 3,900 Rose Bushes around the grounds Are show ing their last bits of color. The headstones mostly crosses some stars of David need trimming around every two weeks an washing twice a week. Two men spend every working Day of every year polishing and sanding the headstones. The b h mites of hedge always needs trimming. Bridge whose Gardener s suntan stops at the neck and begins again at the base of his rolled up sleeves has been doing this work Tor 38 of his 56 years. He has been head Gardener at the cemetery for the past 18 years. He moves among the Graves with a tempered respect appropriate for the place. And although he s English in an american memorial and his Job is tending grounds he has t lost sight of the purpose of the plot of land that sits on one of the highest Points of the Cambridgeshire Countryside. Generals vice presidents mayors important people have come id pay tribute and read the names on the Wall. Names like Glenn Miller and Joe Kennedy. But Bridge says the most vivid memory he has is Ofa Vietnam vet a double amputee who visited a few years Back. He remembers that he was such an individual person. You could Tell he was going to flight his own Way through  in a nation of gardeners a Job like Bridge s is one with a certain prestige one he said that ranks with being the head Gardener for places like the col Leges in Cambridge renowned for their Beauty. He can reel off Tongue twisting latin names for his shrubs he knows when they Bloom and Why they Bloom from what he says is a lifetime of working at it not from a classroom. That experience tells him things. He does t like the Type of grass he was told to Plant around the base of the flagpole the grass around the headstones lakes Loo much fertilizer. He s afraid the soil around some of the Rose plots is getting Rose sick and won t support any More roses. His experience recognizes the Beauty. The views of the reflecting Ponds. The Panorama you can see from that certain Point. The Lead Cathedral roof 16miles away a Point from where if you went North you would t reach a higher Elevation until the soviet Union. It s the Little things. Little things like knowing that the lilies have been Good this  talks begin on Fate of spy suspect Bonn a the West German government said sunday it has begun negotiating with East Germany Over the Fate of Herbert Cissner a suspected communist spy holed up in East Germany s Mission in Bonn. East German attorney Wolfgang Vogel met saturday near Bonn with a senior West German official Ludwig Rehlinger to discuss the Meissner Case a Bonn government spokesman told the associated press. The spokesman refused to provide details. Meisser 39, has been staying at the East German Mission since tuesday. Wen German authorities seek his arrest on suspicion of espionage but police cannot enter the Mission because it has extraterritorial status. Police continued to Monitor cars in front of the East German Mission sunday indicating that Meissner was still in the building. Friedhelm Ost spokesman for the Bonn govern ment denied saturday that an East West spy Swap was being prepared to Settle the tug of War Over Meissner. West German Media said such a Swap was possible after Vogel took Over Meissner s Case. Vogel has handled numerous East West prisoner exchanges. Meissner says he fled to the East German Mission in Bonn after police kidnapped him in West Berlin drugged him and forced him to sign a defector s statement West German officials have called the allegations absurd. World today groups in Cyprus launch anti sewage Plant drive Nicosia Cyprus a cypriot Environ mental groups began an International Campaign sunday to Stop the government of Cyprus from locating a sewage treatment plan on the Edge or Krotin Salt Lake in Southern Cyprus. The Lake is used by millions or migratory Bird on their biannual journeys from Africa to Europe and Western Asia. The protest Campaign was launched by the Cyprus association for the Protection of the Environ ment and by uie Cyprus ornithological society. The two private groups appealed to the  environmental program the Council of Europe the world Bank which ii financing the sewage project and International environmental groups asking them la petition the Cyprus government. The Appeal said the government has ignore expert advice that the sewage Plant would dam age the  International Union Tor the conservation of nature and natural resources based in Switzerland has sent a protest to Cyprus presi Dent Spyros Kyprianou slating concern Over the location of the Plant. At 99, he remains oldest to reach Fuji s Summit Tokyo a a 99-year-old Man climbed to the lop of it Fuji Japan s highest Mountain sunday breaking his own record As the oldest person to climb the 12,461-Root Peak the Kyodo news service  in Aishi began the final image of hit climb at 7 . Saturday and was congratulated at the Summit vhf hours later by some 20 Otter climbers Kyodo Laid. He had stayed at a Moun Tain Lodge Friday and saturday. It was the 11th it. Fuji climb for Igarashi who is to celebrate his 100th birthday sept. 21.he was accompanied by a son Toshiichi 61 a daughter Fumiyo 64 and a grandson Kunichi Haga 27, it said. My key to Success is the Strong will to climb Kyodo quoted Igarashi As saying. At the Summit 1 prayed for a Long life for the peo ple who cheered me  dormant Volcano often depicted As a Symbol of Japan is about 60 Miles West of Tokyo. Taiwan panel proposes martial Law be lifted Taipei Taiwan Jap the ruling nationalist party or Kuomintang is considering a plan to lift the 37-year-old martial Law and replace i with a Security Law before a National election scheduled dec. 6, a newspaper reported sunday. The mass circulation unite daily news quoting unidentified sources said an and hoc commute set up by president Chiang Ching Kuo May recommend an end to martial Law which has been in Force since 1949, when the nationalists retreated to Taiwan after their defeat by the communist on the Mainland. Party officials expect Concrete action on mar tial Law before the december election As an answer to the people s fervent expectations the newspaper said. Britons still rank highest among world Tea drinkers London a Britain remains in world s lop Lea drinking nation averaging l,35i cups a year per person says a report issued Sun Day by the Tea Council. The Council which regulates the Tea Industry in Britain places Britain Well ahead of its near est rival new zealand which averages 889 cups a  consumption is 642 cups the soviet Union 325 and the United states 321, in report says. Britons consume 3.77 cups a Day on average compared with 1.8 cups of Coffee 1.3 cups of alcoholic drink 1.03 cups of Sod drinks and0.19cups of milk it says Tea accounts for 45 percent of the average briton s liquid intake compared with 21 percent for Coffee 19 percent for alcohol 12 percent soft drinks and 3 percent other fluids it says