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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hajje b the stars and stripes thursday. April 9,1987 a tools Roundup Usa eur dodos hot line not ringing off Wall Heidelberg a hoi line designed loan  question about the department of defense dependent schools has yet to catch fire throughput Usa eur. Dale Olson Usa eur s Liaison with the school system monday said Only two Calls have been received since the hoi line ets 370-8720. Went into operation two months ago. The people were testing me Olson said. One was doing it in a negative sense and one was doing it in a positive  the hoi line came in response to last year s family symposium when representatives from Usa eur communities had a number of ques Tion about the school system. But Olson said Community representatives in last month s symposium expressed fewer concerns giving the sys tem High Marks. A spokesman for the Germany Region said the hot line was unnecessary. We re trying to solve problems at the lowest possible level he said. The hot line refers problems first to Usa eur. Then Back to us and finally Back to the schools. It s not a Good.  Safe has a Liaison office with the school system but no hoi line. Cosmetology students to show off their skills Hanau Germany cosmetology students from six Germany Region High schools will demonstrate their skills May 1 Al the Argonne offi cers club. An estimated 23d students will compete in three hair styling categories students from Ostic Rhosiz Augsburg Ramstein Frankfurt and Wuerzburg High schools have accepted invitations to the event hosted by Hanau High school. Gerardine Pierian Al 06181-53711 has More information Ramstein Junior High wins math Competition Heidelberg Ramstein Junior High school captured first place in the final phase of the Germany Region s match Oulu Competition. A total of 76 seventh and eighth Grade Stu dents from 19 schools took part in saturday s Competition sponsored by the Germany Region and the society of american military engineers. Michael Brand an eighth grader at Bonn Junior High school posted the top score in the one Day Competition. James Clark and Albert Lowas of the winning team finished second and fourth respectively Derrick Adair of Wiesbaden mid dle school captured third place. The lop four finishers were nominated for the National mat counts Competition May is in Washington , Wiesbaden Middle school finished second and Bonn Junior High was third. Heidelberg Middle school which hosted the even finished fourth army Junior Roth units to compete in Drill contest Bremerhaven Germany army Junior Roth units from Germany Region High schools will compete in three regional Drill competitions april 23 at Karlsruhe Ostic Rhosiz and Wuerzburg High schools. Drill teams from Heidelberg Mannheim Patch and Stuttgart will travel to Karlsruhe. Bad Kreuz Nach Berlin. Giessen Hanau and Frankfurt High schools will visit Ostic Rhosiz. Al Wuerzburg learns from Ansback Augsburg Bamburg Munich and Nuernberg will match skills. Top teams in precision Drill platoon Preci Sion Drill color guard fancy Drill and individual Drill competitions will Advance to the european championships May 9 at Patch High school. Own heroic act townsfolk feel Johannesburg South Africa the religious and medical communities Art Uncertain about the propriety of a 48-year-old grandmother giving birth to her daughter s triplets but Pat Anthony is a heroine to Many in her farming town it is the first known Case of surrogate motherhood in South Africa. Anthony s 25-year-old daughter has a son but her uterus was removed after the birth because of a com plication. The couple wanted More children. According to a report tuesday in the afrikaans Lan Guage newspaper beheld excitement has gripped the agricultural town of Tancen 280 mites Northeast of Johannesburg. Townsfolk interviewed for the paper expressed admiration for Anthony and some women said they would do the same thing if necessary. The mayor was considering a town Celebration beheld said. Residents described the grandmother As a Petite energetic Young looking woman. She is three months pregnant with the triplets. The family has sold its Story to the British newspaper mail on sunday and wiil not comment to other Media except to confirm that the article carried in last sunday s edition was Correct. Pat Anthony s husband Raymond owner of a gift shop said the contract expires in two months. South african Law does not address surrogate motherhood but a Bill about artificial insemination is Pend ing in the South african parliament a Legal expert said the genetic Mother whose own ova were fertilized by her husband s sperm by the in Vitro process and implanted in her Mother s womb might have to adopt the children. The family is roman Catholic the priest in Tea a can has been quoted As saying he was not consulted about the plan and was not sure he could baptize the babies. A Vatican document issued March 10 condemns All artificial procreation and defines surrogate pregnancies As morally illicit but it also says on the other hand every child who comes into the world in what Ever Way that May occur must be accepted As a living gift of the goodness of  the Rev. Hyacinth Ennis a lecturer at St. Johns Vianny Seminary in Pretoria said the family would riot necessarily be denied the Church s support. Hein of Dyndal head of the country s leading test tube baby lab Al to Gorberg Hospital in Cape town said he opposed surrogate births. He added however that the psychological Burden of giving up the babies might be lighter in this Case because of the relationship Between the surrogate and genetic Mother. Of Dyndal said he was concerned about the risks of a Middle aged woman giving birth to triplets. The medical association of South Africa issued a statement noting its conclusion in May 1986 thai sur Rogate motherhood is undesirable because of social Legal and ethical implications the association did not differentiate Between surrogate motherhood for financial gain and surrogacy undertaken for charitable reasons it said. Spokesmen for South Africa s three dutch reformed Church branches and the methodist Church said the churches had not studied the Issue bul must a it soon. All said they doubted their churches would approve of surrogacy and were sure motherhood for profit would be condemned. The Bill in parliament deals Only with the Issue of children carried by natural mothers whose husbands agree to artificial insemination said Louise Tager a Law professor at the University of the Litwa Ternand. The Bill would make them legitimate automatically. South african Law does t have a definition of a Mother she said. We All though we knew who a Mother  but in this Issue of surrogate motherhood she said Karen Ferreira Jorge the daughter who supplied the ova May have to adopt the children. Law professor Sybrand Strauss of the University of South Africa said he Hopes he pending Bill will be amended to address surrogacy and he predicted South Africa would fallow British Law in Banning the practice of it for profit. Ferrira Jorge apparently did not pay her Mother to carry the children. Alcino Ferreira Jorge a 33-year-old air conditioning Engineer left Angola m 1975 As the country a gain ing Independence from Portugal. His wife is an exer Cise instructor who teaches special classes for new mothers according to the report in beheld four ova fertilized in a Laboratory were implanted in Anthony s uterus and three developed. In the in Vitro process More than one ovum usually is fertilized and implanted to increase the chances of it Success Ful pregnancy but usually Only one develops into a fetus. Sex civil guard officer suspected in 81 coup try arrested in Spain Madrid Spain a police wednesday arrested a former civil guard Captain implicated in a foiled military coup in 1981 at Madrid s Barajas air port. Immigration officers arrested Gil Sanchez Valiente after he presented his passport shortly after he arrived aboard an Iberia airlines flight from Miami with his English wife and a daughter police said. Sanchez Valiente fled Spain for London the Day after the feb 23, 1981, coup attempt and has since lived in England and san Antonio Texas police said. A court martial indicted Sanchez Valiente in 1981 for going absent without leave and accused him of having taken part in the coup in which civil guards held 350 members of the Spanish parliament hostage for 18 hours before surrendering. Police said Sanchez Valiente was to be taken wednesday before a military judge and later transferred to a military prison in at Ala de Henares. King Juan Carlos thwarted the coup when he or dered top generals to remain Loyal and arrest the coup plotters. The coup was the most serious attempt to under mine the Spanish democracy established after the death in 1975 of longtime authoritarian ruler Gen Francisco Franco. Several civil guard and army officers involved in the coup were subsequently court Martiale and received Long prison sentences. At the time of the coup Sanchez Valiente was an intelligence officer stationed in inc Northern Basque City Ofsan Sebastian. For sole in 1988 French tap water Grenoble France a this Alpine City encouraged by the worldwide snob Appeal of French water is making plans id bottle its own tap water and sell in to american Consumers. Our objective is to fill 100 million bottles per year said Christiane d Oman a Deputy mayor Over seeing studies on the project. She said Grenoble s City Supply is extremely pure so Why not let others enjoy it d Oman said there is a growing Market for bottled water in the United Stales. Americans already con sume 900 million bottles a year 70 percent imported from France and Grenoble water should also sell Well in Britain and Australia she said. For us it s not a question of competing with min eral Waters like evian she said. Grenoble water has no medicinal  she said mayor Alain Crignon who also is environment minister in Premier Jacque Chirac s govern ment is enthusiastic about the proposal. Grenoble charges its citizens four francs about 67 cents for a cubic Meler 264 Gallons of water. The Price per bottle for Export has not been set but the tentative plan is to Start building a bottling Plant in Early 1988, with the first bottles ready for Sale by the end of the year. The water s Brand name and Label design Are still on the drawing boards but d Oman said eau de Greno ble has already been rejected because in does t sound appropriate in English  
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