European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 25, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 a rom pent Ponio Perot a Efna Mese discussed mias Washington a Texas billionaire Hross Perot travelling on his own initiative met with top officials in Vietnam last month about the Issue of american servicemen still listed As missing in action a while House offi Cial said. Perot who held three Days of secret meetings with officials in Hanoi said he was treated with every Courtesy but declined to discuss the sub stance of his talks. The Washington Post reported. I still believe we left men behind he told the newspaper. A while House official speaking on condition of anonymity on thursday confirmed Perot s trip but stressed that Perot had travelled As a private citizen or. Perot did this on his own initiative but we were aware of it and he briefed us on his travels after his return the official told the associated press. Confidential aids records missing from Federal clinic Washington a City officials arc searching frantically for a confidential log of people who under went aids testing insisting at the same time that Security Tor medical records has been tightened since inc Book disappeared our goal right now is to retrieve the Book and prevent anything like his from Ever happening again Public health commissioner or Reed Tuckson said. Tuckson and other City officials would not confirm anything about the contents of the log saying any Dis closure of its contents would violate Federal Law. Sources close to the investigation speaking Only on condition of anonymity Tola the associated press the Book concerns tests for exposure to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. La is considered a criminal offence to publish or discuss confidential information that May be contained in the document in question acting District of Columbia corporation counsel Frederick Cookjr. Said. The log has been missing from the clinic at the Alco hol and drug abuse services administration since last Friday. The Washington times quoting Anonymous sources said it contained about Sod names. Private health care providers said they Are concerned not Only about the tog s disappearance but also about its very existence. If this is All True Why was a log even Kepi said Jim Graham director of the private Whitman Walker clinic which does a Large majority of aids testing in the City. It demonstrates the need for Anonymous testing said Steve Smith chairperson of the metropolitan Washington committee on aids issues. There s a world or difference Between confidential testing and Anonymous testing.1 the alcohol and drug Agency is located in the City s Industrial corridor near Capitol Hill and its patients generally arc Low income City residents who come in for alcohol or drug abuse treatment. Some City officials said use of the log for blackmail was a theoretical possibility but others said it is unlikely anyone treated at Adasa is subject to such a threat. You re talking about people most of whom need Public assistance said Graham it s not Likely if there is such a list that prominent persons subject to blackmail Are on  aids is a contagious fatal disease that attacks the body s immune system rendering h incapable of re sisting other diseases and infections. No cure has been found. The chief victims have been homosexual men and intravenous drug users. Pm s is Quarter earnings fall 23% Detroit a general motors first Quarter earnings fell 23,1 percent from a year ago As falling sales forced the automaker to Cut production and add buyer Incelli ves pm said thursday the nation s largest automaker earned $922,5 Mil lion or 12.62 a share on revenues of j2s.i billion in the firs three months of 1987, compared with earnings of j1.20 billion or $3,52 a share on revenues of 126,8 billion in the same period a year ago. The lower production Levels combined with the Cost of sales incentive programs instituted in response to competitive Market forces adversely affected first Quarter results the automaker said pm said its worldwide car and truck sales fell 10 percent in the lint Quarter of 1987 from a year ago. More than half or $481 million of pm s first Quarter profits were earned by general motors acceptance corp., of s financing Arm. Two other pm subsidiaries earned $87 million leaving earnings of pm s automotive operations at s354.5 million pm s quarterly operating income fell 49.7 percent from a year ago to $687.4 million from s1.37 billion a year ago. Net income was also Hurt by the Cost of starting up five new North american car and truck plants the company said. In the third Quarter of 1986. Pm suffered an operating loss of $338.5 million which it blamed on the Cost of widespread incentives that lured buyers with bar gain basement interest rates. Shortly afterwards it announced plans to close All or part of 11 . Assembly and stamping plants in the next three years eliminating at least 30,000 jobs. Since then it has added five operations to the Hsu pm wrote off the costs of closing 11 of the Tanu As a one time charge against its 1986 earnings. More nazi tainted . Residents face ouster Washington not More than a dozen for eign born residents of the United states who have been accused by the Federal government of lying about their involvement in nazi War crimes could face deportation to the soviet Union a Justice department official said thursday. The official. Cal m. Scr director of the office of special investigations the department s nazi Hunting unit said that about half the 27 people the govern ment is now Irlyn Glt oust from the country for lying to immigration officials about their nazi pasts Are accused of committing War crimes on territory now controlled by the soviet Union. The accused arc either naturalized american Citi Zens or people who have acquired permanent resident status because of what the government contends were lies about War crimes they participated in that would have prohibited them from entering the country. Karl Linnas a Long Island resident was deported on monday to the soviet Union where he faces a death sentence. He was accused of commanding a concentration Camp in Estonia in world War ii and of supervising the mass execution of jews. The deportation of Linnas sends a very Strong signal that the United states is serious about this she said in an interview thursday. Among those in the final stages of deportation proceedings is Boleslavs Maikovskis of Mineola n.y., who has been accused of ordering the mass arrest of residents in the latvian Village of Andrini and then burning the town. The 200 or w villagers were later murdered. If Maikovskis and others accused of nazi War crimes exhaust their Legal appeals they could be sent to the soviet Union unless another country is willing to accept them Sher said. The 82-year-old Maikovskis who has been living in the United slates since 1951, was sentenced to death in absent a in the soviet Union in 196s. He s in essence in the same boat us Linnas in that no country has agreed to accept him Sher said. Several others now facing deportation orders who have so far resisted going to another country might decide to depart quietly rather than face Linnas Fate she said. Me said that if people facing deportation for their nazi pasts left the country quietly rather than engaged in highly publicized court challenges they had a better Chance of a third country taking them. Since 1979, when the special investigations office began operations the government has prosecuted More than 50 europeans who entered the United slates alter world War ii As refugees became naturalized americans or permanent residents and then were found to have lied about their nazi pasts to immigration officials. The office has never lost a bid to have any of those found to have illegally entered the country stripped of their citizenship and expelled. Many however have settled their cases with the government by voluntarily leaving the country. According to court documents Maikovskis was chief of the second police precinct of the Rezena District for the nazi created police Force in Latvia in world War h. In june 1985, the supreme court paved the Way for Maikovskis deportation to Switzerland which he had designated if he were deported. But Switzerland re fused to accept him and be now faces possible deportation to the soviet Union. Another Case cited by Sher involves Kazys Palciauskas a St. Petersburg fla., resident who is now appealing an order deporting him to the soviet Union. According to government prosecutors Palciauskas is a former mayor of Kaunas Lithuania. The prosecutors say he lied to immigration officials when he entered the country in 1949, hiding the fact that he was mayor from 1941 to 1942 by listing his Job As office clerk in the meat and milk ministry. As mayor the government said Palciauskas began a program to place All jews in Kaunas in a Central area or ghetto. The purported reason for the establishment of the ghetto was for the pre Lection of the jews from the anti semitic lithuanian partisans terrorizing them but respondents knew of the general policy and ultimate plan for the jews the government said in a court paper. Palciauskas lawyers insist he was nol a sympathizer with nazi Germany and was nol a party to any nazi persecution of jews. They say he is a victim of a soviet smear Campaign. Earlier this month the . Supreme court rejected an Appeal by Conrad Schellong a Chicago Man who faces deportation for concealing his role As a guard and later commander at the Sachs Enburg and Dachau nazi death Camps from 1934 to 939. Schellong entered the United states in 1957 and when he was granted citizenship in 1962, he said he had been Only a Soldier and had never served in a concentration Camp. He gave up his German citizenship when he became a . Citizen. In 1982, he United slates stripped him of his citizenship. In appealing Schelton s Case to the supreme court his lawyer Charles w. Nixon said la is a foreseeable possibility that the soviet Union will be the Only place that will offer to accept him Sher said the United states has a request pending with the German government to Send Schellong there. So far he said. The soviet Union has indicated no interest As i