European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday february 11.1987 world today oldest Gator in Captivity Dies at 65 in Sweden Stockholm. Sweden a the world s oldest living Alli Galnor in Captivity died monday in a maritime museum in the Western swedish City of Goteborg. Smiley listed As the oldest living Alligator in Captivity was born in Mississippi 65 years ago the Stock Holm morning newspaper a ens Nylic Ter reported. The Alligator became ill to weeks ago. She came to Goteborg in 1923 when the City celebrated its 300th anniversary. Italian foundation plans new award in science Rome a an italian cultural foundation will award a prize in july to a scientist in he Field of Medicine or biology. Foreign minister Jiulio Andreotti president of he Fuggi foundation far culture announced the establishment of the new Piuggi International prize. The foundation is sponsored by the Piuggi spa an Mineral water co. The Cash award was described As one of the highest of its kind in the world. The jury for the prize will include Rita Levy Mon Al Cini be italian american who won the 1936 Nobel prize for Medicine Daniel Bovet the italian who won the 19s7 Nobel prize for Medicine John Eccles the australian who won the 1963 Nobel prize for Ruedi Cir and Runato Dulbecco the italian who won the 1975 Nobel Price for Medicine. German teachers urged to hold aids discussions Bonn a health minister Rita Sussmuth. Saying she was concerned about the spread of aids monday urged schoolteachers to discuss in their classes the dangers of the deadly disease. We have to do everything possible o inform peo ple about aids and we have to warn Young people especially Sussmuth said. She announced that the government will distribute some 8 million leaflets in secondary schools in coming weeks informing teachers parents and older students about acquired immune deficiency people have to realize that they Only need one unsafe sexual Contact to become infected with aids and ruin the rat of their lives she said. Israeli Spanish officials sign cultural agreement Madrid Spain a Israel s education and culture minister Isaac Navon monday signed a cultural Accord with Spain that he called the first line of a new Page in the history of relations Between the Span ish and jewish people. Navon. Former president of Israel arrived earlier in the Day on the first visit to Spain by an israeli govern ment official since he two countries established Diplo Matic relations last year. After signing the Accord with his Spanish counterpart Javier Solana Navon said the Accord is quite comprehensive and will allow for an Exchange in the Fields of literature Art and education As Well As a Exchange of students and japanese firm develops translucent solar cell Tokyo a Sanyo electric co. Of Japan said monday it has developed the world s first translucent amorphous solar cells which generate electrical Power Tram the Sun s Energy while also letting Light pass through. Sanyo spokesman Shigehiko Masuda said one use of the new solar cells could be in an automobile Sunroof to Power the car radio with solar Energy. He said the new celts also can be used for Home windows skylights and outdoor and indoor Green houses. Chinese divers Rescue 23 trapped Coal miners peking a Navy divers rescued 23 Coal min ers who had survived almost three Days in a near air Jess pocket of a flooded mine in Central a Hui prov Ince a newspaper said tuesday. Two miners died in the mine disaster in Lale Decem Ber the China daily said in an unusual full Page chronicle of the dramatic Rescue Mission. It said the miners were trapped about 330 feel underground by a flood of icy Waters on the morning of dec 29 at the 1,000-year-old Logu Hill mine in Qiaoxian province. Antarctic rubbish Heap Creen Peare artists unfurl a Burner in front of dump it the untied states Mcmurdo buc in the Ron us area of Antarctica the demo tuntion by the Greenpeace Antarctic expedition was conducted to draw it Lanteon to the group s aim of having Antarctica declared � world Park. ., Sorf of officials recess talks on limiting nuclear arms testing Geneva Switzerland up . And soviet experts recessed talks on limiting nuclear testing tues Day with each Side blaming the other for blocking an substantive Progress. But they agreed to resume the current fourth round of talks on March 16 after a five week break to Consul with their governments. The United slates insisted that the talks Center on ratifying the 1974 and 1970 nuclear test treaties but the soviets demanded negotiation on lower limits and an eventual ban on All testing. American delegation Leader or. Robert b. Barkers id the United states wants to negotiate improved verification measures to permit ratification of the 1974 and 1976 agreements the soviet delegation was not prepared to begin negotiations on such improved verification to pre vent violations Barker said in a statement issued by the . Diplomatic Mission in Geneva. The old accords put a ceiling of 150 Kilotons on the size of underground explosions equivalent to 150,000 ions of int or around 10 limes the Force of the Hiroshima bomb. Barker assistant Secretary of defense for atomic Energy said that once those treaties Are ratified the two sides could immediately engage in negotiating fur ther test reductions and their ultimate elimination. He said that could Only be done however in association with reduction in nuclear weapon arsenals under discussion at the separate but similarly dead locked Geneva talks on space and nuclear arms. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev rejects such link age and has repeatedly called for sharply reduced nuclear testing leading to b comprehensive Tut ban treaty the soviet Union charges the United states with wanting to continue nuclear testing to develop new weapons for its strategic defense initiative or Star wars anti missile space defense program. The Reagan administration in turn says testing i necessary to ensure the effectiveness of existing nuclear weapons until they arc reduced and eliminated. The soviet delegation Leader at the test limitation talks Andrunik a Petro Syanos reiterated the soviet Union s position at a news conference after tuesday s recess Pilro slants said the soviet Union wants full scale negotiations covering verification and ratification of the 1974 and 1976 treaties As Well As new limits on the yield and number of nuclear tests. Bui the United states refuses to discuss anything except the old treaties and rejects soviet proposals to establish working groups on All issues he said. Petro Syanos is chairman of the soviet state commit tee on the utilization of atomic Energy a vide body of scientific opinion in both East an West holds that advanced seismic technology can detect underground nuclear explosions Down 10 10 Kilotons or even less which would be of Little military value. ., Vietnam end talks aimed at reducing emigration backlog Bangkok Thailand a vietnamese and . Officials on tuesday concluded talks aimed at reducing the backlog of vietnamese trying to emigrate under a program that has allowed More Ihnn 121,000 of them to resettle in other coun tries the United states says it is disturbed by a decline in the numbers leaving Vietnam under the orderly de parture program and fears More will resort to danger Ous and illegal sea journeys. Hanoi halted All . Interviewing of new top applicants in january 1986. The talks were conducted with a View to reducing satisfactorily the backlog of persons who have already been interviewed a statement by the office of the . High commissioner for refugees said. Another goal of the meeting was to define new procedure to be Fol Lowed. And vietnamese officials declined to provide details of the two Day meeting the fourth Between the two countries on the subject vietnamese embassy press Auche Nguyen Van Quan quoted . Delegation chief Bruce Beardsley As saying the vietnamese had put Forward useful and interesting proposals thai the . Slate department would study. He did not elaborate. Quan said the iwo sides agreed to meet again but did not fix a time or place. A four Man vietnamese delegation was led by Nguyen a Khuyen an official of Hanoi s foreign ministry. By Ardsley Heads the Odd program at Trie . Embassy in Bangkok. The Odd was started in 1979 to Hall the boat people exodus from Vietnam by providing a Legal Channel for emigration
