European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 9, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Vietnam refugee becomes Rhodes scholar of a Cas a boy fled Vietnam with the boat people nearly a Down years ago is among 32 americans chosen As 1987 Rhodes scholars the Rhodes scholarship rust announced sunday. Others selected include 10 aspiring scientists Fourt ormer congressional interns a Pence corps Volunteer and a mormon missionary. The 32 winners will join an International group of students chosen from is countries for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England said David Alexander president of Pomona College and american Secretary of inc Rhodes scholarship Trust. A third of inc Rhodes scholars this year arc women two Are Black three Are asians and four winners Hail from Yale University which had the most graduates on the list women have been selected Only since 1976, Hoang Nhu Tran 21, who will be the second Viet namese graduate from the . Air Force Academy in Colorado and whose family lives in Rohnert Park calif., 35 Miles North of san Francisco is the first vietnamese Rhodes scholar. Tran who is majoring in biology and chemistry and is second in his class of 960 scheduled for graduation next Spring is a free fall parachutist a Wres Tler and a glider instructor. His father was a general in the vietnamese air Force before the government collapsed in 1975, i never thought of it or dreamed of this Day Tran said by Telephone sunday from his air forc Academy Squadron Barracks Tran said he will spend two years at Oxford then return to the United Stales for four years of medical school. He wants to become an air Force flight sur Geon. He and his parents a brother and an aunt fled Vietnam by boat in 1975 before the fal of Saigon. There was Mau chaos that Day i was Only 9, Buti remember everyone trying to leave the City he said we did t really know where we were  he said they were picked up several Days later by a commercial vessel near Subic Bay in the Philippines. They soon gained sponsorship from a Church in fort Collins colo., where they moved on july 7, 1975. His family moved to Rohnert Park Las july. Among the other winners were Georgetown University s Nina Bowen from Petersburg Alaska who has been a peace corps Volunteer in the african nation of Sierra Leone since 1985. Brett Gilbert Scharffs of Salt Lake City and Alsofrom Georgetown was a mormon missionary to Japan and an intern with the . Trade representative there Alexander said. San arts Learned chinese in Shanghai and plans to study the language. Finalists chosen from the 1.143 applicants nation wide were interviewed saturday in regional competitions leaning on four qualities intellectual attain ment character leadership and physical vigor Alexander said. The Rhodes scholarships were established in 1902 by Cecil John Rhodes a British politician Diamon Baron who hoped that the scholarships would con tribute to world undemanding. Holocaust survivors Mark project to construct human rights museum los Angeles a More than 100 survivors of the holocaust poured vials of dirt from nazi death Camps onto the ground sunday at the Sile where a$25 million museum for human rights will be built. There Are a lot of museums hat Chal Lenge Man s curiosity but this one will be a museum that will try to stir men souls said rabbi Marvin hic Dean of the Simon wisc meal Center for Holo Caust studies. About 1,500 people including gov George Dukmejian and other elected officials attended the ground breaking ceremonies for inc beit Nashoa museum of tolerance to be built As part of the 9 year old Wiesenthal Center. No person thai enters beit Nashoa will leave it in inc same Way. It will not be like a visit to any other museum hic said he said the seven level Complex scheduled to open in 20 months will be the largest of its kind in North America. He said it will House photographs and items to remind people of the holocaust As Well As computers that will answer historical que Lions. The plans also Call for a film Center auditorium a research Library and con Ference rooms and a memorial Garden. We Here arc committed to the Educa Tion and the Assurance that another holocaust will not happen said Rick Eaton a research associate at the Center. The museum will cover not Only the nazi holocaust but will have sections concerning the armenian and cambodian genocides As  the name of the museum Means House of the holocaust Hier said. Nazi Hunter Simon wisc Plhal called the ground breaking one of the greatest Days of his life. Our history teaches us that m remembrance lie the roots of redemption in forgetfulness the roots of destruction his statement said. Holocaust survivors attend ceremony announcing construction of new museum. 10% in poll think Reagan telling truth new York a Only 10 percent of the americans questioned in a news week Magazine poll said they believed president Reagan when he said he was ignorant of inc Iran contras arms Deal. The poll also found that Only 23 per cent of the respondents believed the president was doing All that he could to uncover the facts. By a margin of 56 percent to 29 per cent the respondents said it would be worse if the president had not known about the Contra operations than if head known and approved. Asked if it turned put Reagan knew and approved the diversion to the contras of proceeds from the Sale of arms to Iran 49percent said he should admit his mistakes and apologize. Nineteen percent said he should resign and 10 percent said Congress should begin impeachment proceedings. Fifty four percent of the Sample believed hat White House aides should waive the claim of executive privilege and answer ail questions about the controversy. Sixty four percent thought Rea Gan should urge his aides not to take the fifth amendment. Sen Bob Dole r-kan., appeared to have gained from the controversy As he narrowed the Gap Between himself and vice president George Bush for the 1988gop presidential nomination to 17 Points 50 percent to 33 percent. A Gal Lup poll taken last september gave Bush a 30-Poinl a Vanlange. Fifty one percent said they favored the resignation or replacement of while House chief of staff Donald Regan to help resolve the controversy. Forty percent said Cia director William Casey should go and 24 percent said Secretary of state George Shultz should resign or be fired. The Survey interviewed a representative Sample of 865 adults on dec. 4-5 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. Toll of beached Cape cod whales reaches 28 Boston a an attempt to transport a beached Pilot whale to an Aqua num failed when the hair ton mammal had to be put out of her misery but three others in a holding tank were showing   biologists said sunday. The Heath brought to 28 the number of whales known Shiu die in a beaching along Cape cod last " the beaching included 57 Pilot whales 26 remain whose condition deteriorated an a truck in route to Boston. Aquarium officials had better news about the other three All Young males that were brought to Boston last week. They re eating More than they were yesterday said spokeswoman Mimi Simpson. Their swimming has definitely  they re sort of Bobbing up and Down and appear to be playing in the water rolling on their backs and doing playful things she said. The whales continued to Slough off layers of skin. Necropsy is were nearly Complete on dead whale that littered beaches in East Nam and several other Cape towns. Samples were taken of tissue jaws Teeth livers stomach contents and reproductive tracts. Detailed examinations of whales that Beach them selves Are an attempt to add dues about inc mysterious and usually fatal strand Ings. Among the theories to explain the teachings Are thai whales Are thrown off course by storms that they Fol Low an ailing Leader or thai their natural radar is con fused by magnetic variations caused by geologic Faul under the sea