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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. December 23, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Friendly cosmonaut Tayna a Kilina. 16, one of nine visiting Youn cosmonaut on tour of american space installations wid sunday in new Yak that this trip has made it Clear Hal our iwo Peoples can be friends tans spoke through an interpreter at a Farewell Brunch Al a Manhattan hotel. Population of 6.2 billion expected by year 2000 Washington Dpi by the year 2000, there will be 6.2 billion people on lie Earth and on inc average 4 i people will be born every second the Cen sus Bureau estimated sunday. In a new profile of world population figures inc Bureau said that from 1990 to 2000, developing coun iries will add a whopping 828 million More people to the world s population More than three limes the current . Population. The Bureau said the population at the Millem us will be 27 percent larger than in 1985, when the birth Rale is four a second. In 2000, the Binh rate will be 4v a second the Bureau said. Developing nations which presently account for three fourths of inc world s population will be growing at least three times faster than the developed nations Al the end of the Century the Bureau said. The industrialized nations primarily North America and Europe May add Only 60 million peo ple in the 1990s and their growth rate is Only one tenth that of the developing nations. Ecsi Germany Denmark Austria and Hungary have decreasing populations and if current Fertility trends continue other european countries May join hem in experiencing a decline in population. The Bureau estimated. The world population stood Al 4.9 billion in mid-1985, the Bureau said and gained another 79 million people through mid-1986 even though the growth rate dropped to 1.6 percent from an annual rate of 1.7 percent Between 1975 and 198s. The local population is expected to reach 5.3 billion in 1990 and 5.7 billion in 1995. In 1980, the world s population was 4,8 billion up from j.7 billion people in 1970 and 3 billion in 1950. Nearly half the world s population lives in China. India the soviet Union and the United states. However Nigeria with the eighth largest Popula Tion May be the third largest by 2035, behind China and India. Nigeria s population is expected to More than quadruple from its 1985 total of 103 million Only 21 percent of the world s population live in North America Europe and the soviet Union and that percentage is Espe cled to continue to decline. The Bureau also said half the world s population will live in Urban areas by the year 2000, up from the current rate of 42 percent and just 29 percent in 1950. Tokyo Yokohama currently the largest Urban area Al 25.4 million people is Likely to be overtaken by the Mexico City area in about 20 years. Latin America s annual growth rate was 50 percent higher than Asia s in 1985, the Bureau said and be tween 1950 and 1970 its population grew faster than any other Region. Since 1970, the report said latin America s growth Rale has dropped to 2.3 percent and by the year 2000 its population growth rate should be considerably lower than it is now if present trends continue. Hall claims he was on one Man spy Mission new York us l american Sam Hall arrested 10 Days ago on a Nicara Guan military air base said in an inter View televised sunday he was in the Cen trial american country on a one  spy Mission. Hall a former Ohio slate representative and . Olympic Silver medallist also said he had been trying to organize a . Foreign legion with support from two retired . Naval officers. Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has called Hall mentally unbalanced,".but the self styled rambo remains jailed on spy charges. In inc interview raped Friday by lbs news s "60 minutes program Hall said he was the last remaining member of a once 540-Man Strong Phoenix battalion formed in the summer of 1984 to build worldwide american foreign legion. Two retired naval officers Cape. Wil Liam Hamilton and cmdr. Francis Fane confirmed they had encouraged Hall alleged Mission "60 minutes reported. Hall. 49, said the Phoenix battalion was started at a meeting Al the Pentagon on nov. 28, 1984, but he insisted he would Only reveal the name of the person who invited him behind locked doors at a congressional hearing Hall a brother of rep. Tony Hall d Ohio said he received about $12,500"to join the Phoenix battalion from cer Tain people private  claimed to have trained As a com Mando in Israel and served As a coun ice terrorist in Africa and Central Amer Ica including nicaraguan rebel Effort based in Honduras "60 minutes said. He said he went to Nicaragua shortly before his capture dec. 12 to scout what he said were soviet supported cuban military construction , "60 minutes said Hall apparently was a peripheral figure to in Contra War operation and initiated a one Man spy Effort while he was unemployed and depressed about a publisher s rejection of his autobiography. Hall complaining he had Only two hours sleep prior to inc interview Lold Mike Wallace he became interested in paramilitary work after a bout wit heavy drug use and the death of his father former Dayton Ohio mayor Dave  Borge Nicaragua s Interior minister who is responsible for Hall s incarceration said Hall May sound unbalanced but was in the country to spy."1 think thai or. Hall is trying to Cre ate a certain image for the purpose of regaining his Freedom and to try and hide his True intentions  Borge told"60 minutes through a translator. Lava spares Church 100 Homes Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. Dec. 23, 1946 the japanese government reported 946 deaths from a earthquake and tidal wave dec. 21 that ravaged More Ihnn 50,000 Square Miles of Japan. 30 years ago today. Dec. 23, 1956 the last Anglo French soldiers left Egypt under an umbrella of Carrier based fighter planes and United nations troops thereby ending the 47-Day port said occupation. 20 years ago today. Dec. 23, 1966 Jacqueline Kennedy settled out of court her lawsuit against look Magazine and agreed to its serialization of Floc controversial death of a  ? 0 years ago today. Dec. 23, 1976 the army revealed that it had conducted germ warfare tests with no disease causing substances in nine . Cities Between 1950 and 1966 to determine America s vulnerability to biological attack. Kaapana Hawaii a lava that destroyed More than a dozen Homes in his Village s largest residential area stopped and cooled sunday sparing nearly 100 other Homes and a Church where parishioners gave thanks for the reprieve. I did t think we would have mass this sunday the Rev. Larry Burns told about so members of the Star of Floc sea Catholic Church. Thank god we Are Here again together and thank god our Little Church was  molten lava that had been tunnelling Down the Volcano s Side through seven Miles of hardened lava began breaking out in several areas two to three Miles above the Kaapana gardens subdivision on saturday. The outbreaks caused lava Al the flow front to stagnate said Tom Wright the government scientist in charge of monitoring the eruption. But scientists remained wary with no let up evident at higher elevations in the eruption phase that began july 18, a new now could endanger the Community. Wright said since late last month lava has destroyed 28 Homes on the outskirts of this coastal Village on the Southeast Side of Hawaii Island. Since Friday 15 Homes in the Kaapana gardens subdivision and nearby areas have been lost officials said. No injuries have been reported. Civil defense officials have evacuated most of the Village. On sunday morning the More than 400 evacuated residents were advised by radio that they should plan to slay away from their Homes Al least one More night. A zip a Dee Doo Dah Christmas of look Sta Tinq r Johnny to smolt j i think. And a  Doo a Amie a with or umpers tand without Uncle Snow. Wei Remus j Wake this a wonderfu1-christaw9  
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