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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. March 6, 1987 the stars and stripes Unicof names Page 3 United nations up actor hairy Ticla tattle the consummate entertainer was appointed Goodwill ambassador by the in. Children s fun wednesday o help promote the Agency s child and Molher care program around the world. Unicof executive director James Grant told news conference introducing the Well known american actor the Lime was appropriate for bad fondle to join  Grant said Bola font will embark immediately on his new role is v Nice representative when he Chain a tour Day meeting or african intellectuals and artist sin Dakar. Senegal March 20-23. Envoy Belafonte the second american to become a Ojni Cef Goodwill ambassador has been called the consummate entertainer As recording artist concert Singer Broadway and television Star and producer. Actor Danny Kayc was the firs american Unicof ambassador and held the Post for More than 30 years until i j death tuesday in los Angeles. Belafonte said he has mixed feelings about Assum ing his Unicof position because Kayc had urged him to Lake part in the child care program for Many years. He said Kaye died without knowing he had accepted the Job. The Agency s other Goodwill ambassadors Are norwegian actress lev Limann British actor i Etc Ustinov and japanese television personality Tetsuko Kusayanagi. Lorii Becker the German Tennis Ace. Is one of  sports ambassadors. A Unicof statement said a Lafonte i devotedly fight injustice and became the first member of the entertainment Industry to be named As a cultural adviser to he peace corps by president Kennedy he has been a leading architect of the civil rights movement and a Strong figure among the responsible voices of purposes and clarity it said.  is currently vice president and spokesman for United support or artists for Africa Usa for Africa. Soviets reportedly to publish 2 Solzhenitsyn works Copenhagen. Denmark up two previously banned works by exiled soviet author Alexander  his epic account of prison life the gulag archipelago will be published in the soviet Union a Creek author recently returned from Moscow said wednesday the author it Kis Michas said so Viet authorities had already decided to allow the publication of Solzhenitsyn s cancer Ward and Long term plans Cal for the release of the gulag archipelago perhaps his Best known work. "1 a Given the information from two separate sources in Moscow both of them in High positions in he soviet liter Ary Hierarchy Michas said wednesday. Michas report also was published recently in information a danish daily newspaper. Michas said Sergei Malygin editor in chief of the literary journal novy Mir had informed Jim of the imminent re lease of the novel cancer  tie added that he had been Given the same information by a High ranking member of the no Vosti press Agency whose name be asked not be mentioned. Micha had Bis soviet contacts had been categorical in their claims that Solzhenitsyn s forbidden works would now be published the decisions appear to have been taken at a very High level and Are being pushed Michas said. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has recently instituted policies of economic and political reforms allowing unprecedented criticism of corruption and inefficiency novy Mir next year also plans to Publ ish Boris Pasternak s or. Zhivago Aspan of Gorbachev s new policy of Glas nost or openness. Born in 1918,  was arrested by Josef Stalin in 1945 and sent to work Camps. He was rehabilitated in 1956. Most of Solzhenitsyn s work including cancer Ward the first Circle August 1914" and the six volume gulag archipelago have Only been published in the West.  fell out of favor again with soviet authorities following the publication of the gulag archipelago in Paris in 1974, he won the Nobel prize for literature in 1970, in 1974, fallowing the publication in Paris of gulag the author was de ported from the soviet Union.  6s. Now lives in the United Stales. Belgium requiring aids testing for some students Brussels Belgium up the government has decided that students coming to Belgium on a scholarship will have to undergo an aids test before Leav ing their country. Students already residing in Belgium with a scholarship will have 10 take an aids test every year officials said. The number of registered aids cases in Belgium atthe end of 1986 was 207, one of the highest percent Ages in Europe As the country has just under 10 Mil lion inhabitants. Officials have repeatedly pointed out that this percentage is inflated by the number of non residents for Eigners who have resided in Belgium less than five year mainly from african countries. Among the 207 cases identified at the end of 1986, there were 69 belgians or people residing in Belgium for at least five years health ministry statistics showed. The 138 others were persons from Africa among whom were 20 persons of belgian nationality. Because of the rapid spread of aids particularly among people emigrating from Africa the government decided to Institute an aids lest for foreign students who had obtained a scholarship in Belgium officials said. The governments of the countries involved will be informed that students found to Cany the aids virus will be refused. Officials said the belgian government which holds the presidency of the 12-Nalion european economic Community in the first half of this year wants to con sult other dec nations on the problem because aids is spreading faster than had been expected. The Sovereign of the seas under construction in the Cybor of Saint Nua Lre France will be the urges liner afloat when completed. Ordered by the norwegian Royal Caribbean cruise line the ship 1$ due to Sovereign in the making App How be launched april 4. J98& the Sovereign will be 293yards Long 54 Yards Shorter thin the Norway the largest and longest liner nan1 on the seas. But �l74,000 tons it will outweigh the older ship. British couple returns to Florida to thank Hospital Hollywood Fla  
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