European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes sunday november 2. 1986 Vietnam plans to return More remains of mias Bangkok Thailand a Vietnam will return what Are believed to be the remains of three missing americans and says in ii investigating 19 new reports about locations of other remains a . Military offi Cial said saturday an his return from Hanoi. Col. Joe Harvey two sides again failed How Ever 10 agree on a second joint excavation of a War plane crash site. The excavations Are designed to uncover remains of some of the nearly 1,790 americans listed As missing in action in Indochina. Harvey led a four Man military team to Hanoi for three Days of talks with foreign ministry official Nguyen can and Oiher members of a special Vietnam Ese office on resolving the Mia Issue Harvey is com Mander of the . Joint casualty Resolution Center based in talks held on a regular basis since december 1982, focus on technical Means of searching for re Mains investigating reports of americans sighted in Vietnam since the War or otherwise accounting for the course of our meeting which was both positive and productive the vietnamese announced that they have recovered the remains of three Ameri cans and we look Forward to their being in the net several weeks Harvey said. Harvey declined to give any details on the three remains. They also gave us information thai. They have received new Riporti. ,. Aboul missing americans and they were investigating those reports Harvey said. He did not elaborate. Harvey two sides have not set a Dale for second joint excavation and declined to say whal May be blocking an agreement. Harvey s team As Well As More senior american officials have pressed for another excavation since the his such project a year ago. Hanoi has agreed in principle to multiple joint excavations. In the first excavation in an agricultural commune near Hanoi american soldiers and vietnamese state workers toiling Side by Side for the first Lime Rince the War ended More than a decade ago. Unearthed human Bone fragments and the wreckage of a . B-s2 bomber. The excavation was regarded As a Milestone in the Mia search Effort. Philippine commit Ines leaders Antonio Zundl left and suture Ocampo make cease fire proposal during a saturday news ran Feren at an undisclosed location in Manila Philippines. Proposal for cease fire made by philippine communist rebels Manila philippine a communist rebel saturday offered a cease fire before Christmas if the government agrees to five conditions including the disbanding of private armies and some regular military units. A statement issued by the National democratic front rebels who have waged a 17-year insurgency could agree to a 100-Day cease fire As Early As dec/10. The statement cease fire would extend through president Corazon Aquino s planned National plebiscite on a new Constitution As Well As the first anniversary of Ferdinand e Marcos ouster feb. 25. The statement was read to reporters by Carolin malay Ocampo wife of National democratic front negotiator slur Ocampo. In the statement the front which has been negotiating with the government on behalf of the rebel new Peoples army conditions include cessation of All military operations by either Side against the other. Disarming and disbanding of civilian Home de sense units and the deactivation and disposition of some regular units of the philippine army. Disarming and disbanding of private armies religious fanatical sects death squads and armed Marcos i chords. Confinement of local police forces strictly 10peacekeeping functions directed a Amsl Ordinary Crim Inal activities away from Active participation in Mili tary operations against the new Peoples army and its mass supporters. Definition of whal constitutes a hostile. Human rights groups have accused some army unit Sand the civilian Home defense units of committing atrocities against civilians and murdering suspected communist sympathize is. The paramilitary civilian Home defense units operate in conjunction with the military to guarantee stability in neighbourhoods. Australia plans to Cut air links with s. Africa Canberra. Australia up1 the austra Lian go eminent Friday notified South Africa that air service Between the two countries would be terminated in one year a move Ful filling one in a series of previously announce sanctions against South Africa. Foreign affair minister Bill Hayden Laid the decision had been taken after careful consider he added the government might later opt to terminate air links with South Africa even sooner if development move is in line with Australia s agreement with Commonwealth nations to impose a series of sanctions against South Africa to protest its apartheid the time prime minister Bob Hawke said Australia intended to terminate air links wit South Africa but the Liming would depend on provisions of the air services agreement Between the countries. Sex guerrilla resigns As president of Laos Bangkok Thailand a so Phanou Vong the red Prince former guerrilla fighter who renounced his Royal title and has been Laos president since the country adopted communism has resigned Laos official radio transcript of the broadcast obtained Friday from a Western embassy that monitors laotian radio decision was based on the requirements of the december 1975 communist revolution and on Soukhanouvong s proposals on his physical Soukhanouvong is 74 Soukhanouvong has been ailing with High blood pressure according to a senior official atthe laotian embassy in Bangkok who spoke on condition of anonymity thursday s radio report said Thoumi Songvi chit a member of the Patchet lao communist party Central committee s political Bureau Anda vice chairman of the Council of ministers was appointed acting president tamil plot to blow up sri Lanka base foiled Colombo sri Lanka a Navy troops killed three tamil rebels Friday and foiled an attempt to blow up a naval jetty base in the troubled Northern province a government statement statement Mili Ianu were detected by underwater monitoring equipment a they tried to swim through a Channel leading to the naval Jelly. Navy troops killed the rebels an recovered three Large packages of explosives from them it Jeny is about 186 Miles North of Colombo the guerrillas tried to blow up the same base last year from land but the attack was re pulsed by Security militants have been fighting a 3-year old ethnic War against the government fora sep Arate nation in toe Northern and Eastern regions Britain unveils Model of ship honouring Australia London
