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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 28,1986 a photo norwegian archaeologist Helge Ingstad is helped from the Norseman in new York. At left is his wife Anne. Norwegians celebrate anniversary of Viking discovery of n. America new Clrk apis in a i. I i. � new York a Christopher Columbus can take credit for colonizing North America but Viking adventurers discovered it 500 years earlier according to norwegians honouring the 1,000th anniversary of the event. The Norseman a replica of a Viking ship sailed into a berth Friday at the South Street seaport to Cele brate what norwegians consider the discovery of North America by Bjarni Herjeu lesson in the year 986. He could not avoid discovering America said Helge Ingstad an archaeologist who located what recalls the first Norse settlement in the new world. The site at l Anse Aux Meadows Newfoundland was Only 200 nautical Miles from Greenland he Julfs son s intended destination Ingstad said. To celebrate and enshrine what they say is their rightful place in history the norwegians built the rep Lica of a Viking Craft similar to those used when Leif inc soon briefly settled in Newfoundland in the year a six member Crew sailed the Spruce and fir Norse Man feet Long and i2w feet in the beam from Halifax Nova Scotia to new York via Boston. It arrived on schedule to sprays of a fireboat Many limes its size. Its Square sail made of tightly Woven egyptian col ton billowed and its Crew worked four oars. The vessel was scheduled to leave sunday by truck for Florida where it will join the norwegian exhibit a Disney world. The norwegians do not intend to diminish the significance of Columbus role in discovering nor America said a spokesman for the project. Columbus he was the colonizer said Paul Lund Roland. The Vikings were  that the Vikings lived in this part of the world 500 years before Columbus is indisputable he said. That should not be in conflict with Columbus As the discoverer and colonizer of North America. The norwegian Consul general presented the Viking Craft to the United states during Friday s ceremony held aboard an Ocean liner also docked at the seaport. I had tremendous admiration for these people Ingstad said of the Vikings. They set out in their boats without a Compass some with women and children. They were looking for better land to  the Norseman s Crew however had a radio for its Shorter voyage said Aric Adolph a Disney world employee and the Only american Crew member. In bad weather which continues for Many Days it requires stamina said Crew member Jon Teigland 41. On this trip we had one period when no one slept for 36  none doubted the value of the grueling sometime dangerous journey. I think it s very important to make the history accurate said capt Jon Godal 49. Not Only to read about but also to make an emotional Contact to Thetie in the  to coincide with the anniversary Ingstad and his wife Anne have published the Norse discovery  among the findings at l Anse Aux Meadows was a spinning whorl a part of a spinning wheel. Ingstad cited thai As evidence that Viking women accompanied the men. Mrs. Ingstad said the Norse sagas told of the birth there of a child Snorre who would have been the first caucasian born in America. Stateside belgian carrying leftist literature detained in . Newark . A immigration officials ordered a correspondent for a belgian newspaper held overnight after they found leftist Litera Ture in his Luggage As he entered the unite states authorities said Friday. Tom Kronsc a reporter for the socialist newspaper do Morgan was allowed to remain in the United Stales Friday pending a review of the pamphlets typed documents and Handwritten notes said an immigration and naturalization service official. Ins officials thursday ordered people express the airline on which Kronsc travelled to detain him overnight after he landed at Newark International Airport on a flight from Brussels Belgium said James Pulco ins Deputy District director in Newark. Execute terrorists says judge who was hostage on ship Atlantic City no. A terrorists should be executed says a Philadelphia judge held hostage last year aboard the italian cruise ship Achil in Lauro. If there Are no terrorists in prison then terrorists won t seize innocent people As hostages in an Effort to get them out common pleas judge Stanley u Kubacki said Friday at a seminar on terrorism. Kubacki and his wife Sophia both 71, were among 11 americans held hostage by palestinian gunmen on the ship in october 985. The gunmen had demanded that Israel free 40 imprisoned com rades. During the hijacking Leon Klinghoffer 69, of new York was shot to death and thrown overboard. Pilot parachutes to safety from of Reserve Jet fighter Belle Chasse la. Up an air Force Reserve Pilot ejected safely from a Jet loaded with ammunition that crashed and burned shortly after Takeoff Friday a military spokesman said. Maj. Bruce Casper 40, of Cordova tenn., was taken to the Belle Chasse naval As clinic for a checkup but reported no serious injuries sgt Ben Campbell said. The a Ioa Thunderbolt ii aircraft from the 7 -.1 a f a so crashed and burned about1 21 . Less than a mile from the runway air Force Reserve spokeswoman Betty Ritchy Laid. Hispanic groups ask acc to halt Sale of 5 to stationslosla1gllfs hispanic groups petitioned the Federal communication commis Sion Friday to Block the Sale of five  i,.i,. ,.-. 0 a Syndicate in to coalition representatives said they asked the Fecto Stop the proposed $301.5 million Sale of then Lions largest Chain of Spanish language television stations because Only hispanic own Tould main Tain the stations commitment to the hispanic com r"ipjvc5? by of programming can Only be accomplished through diversity of ownership " said Armando Duron president of the mexican am bar association of los Angeles county army Hospital exonerated in woman s death Tacoma Wash. Api a woman sri Natl nah int  ,4 a i. I -. Wash. A a woman who died under anaesthesia at Madigan army medical Center might have lived had a More Complete checklist of proce dures been followed a doctor who investigated the Case said Friday. But Madigan should be commended rather than blamed because it was ahead of other institutions in using any sort of checklist at All and the death was the result of an incredibly rare complication said or. Richard Ward a staff member of the Veteran s administration medical Center in Seattle. Ward a professor of Anaesthesiology at the University of Washington medical school and col. Brian Condon a Walter Reed army Hospital physician were called in by Madigan to investigate the sept. 8 death of spec. 4 Debbie Coates. Coates a Mother of two was to under o surgery to remove her Gall bladder but cd when she was improperly hooked to the anaesthesia machine. The disconnection Cut off Coates ability to exhale causing a buildup of pressure in her lungs. A Junior physician resident in training had set up the connections while the senior Anaesthesiologist had briefly left the room Ward said. The senior physician checked the machine upon resuming but did not physically lest it to Sec that All valves were functioning properly Ward said. Ward said use of a checklist for Anes thesia administration recently developed by the Federal food and drug administration would have revealed the prob Lem. A Complete checklist would have included physically or artificially breathing through the Gas administration tubes to make sure they were working properly had this been done Coates death could have been avoided he said. But Madigan should be Given a lot of credit because they were using a Check list although incomplete for a Long period of time and that s commendable. Aus in Slitti is Ding � Oales Dalh was not nyc but  the result of an in credibly rare  Ward and Hospital officials declined to name the doctors involved. A Ike fenced a string of a in  
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