European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 28. 1987 the stars and stripes the disappearance of Venus the distinctive outline of a Crescent Moon mores in front Al the planet Venus in two photos taken 30 minutes apart Early saturday at Chicago. Venus was hidden for about an hour in the de collation an eclipse of a Star or planet by the Moon. A 600mm Lens was used to take the photos. Expos meet at River kwai to Honor victims Kanchana Buri Thailand a dozens of former australian British and new zealand prisoners of War prayed saturday at the tombs of com rades who died building a railway during world War ii. Two Christian priests conducted service at the Kanchana Buri cemetery near the River kwai asking god to re member our colleagues who succumbed la disease and hardship in the prison Camps of the veterans and their wives then Laid wreaths at the cemetery the burial ground for about 16,000 Allied prisoners of War who died of disease exhaustion and beatings by japanese guards while building the death railway in 1942-43. The japanese had the Railroad built from the Western province of Kanchana Buri to Burma to shorten Supply lines fora planned invasion of Ndia. At the cemetery. Sir Edward Dunlop an australian doctor who is credited with saving hundreds of lives on the rail Way looked among the tombstones for the names of fallen friends. After the service some veterans walked Over he Bridge on the River kwai the Sec Tion of the railway made famous by a novel and Hollywood movie. It is Nowa favorit tourist site surrounded by souvenir shops and restaurants. Saturday s gathering marked the an Nual australian and new zealand army corps Day when the two nations commemorate their War dead. On sunday the veterans were to dedicate the first phase of a project to re store hellfire pass one of the worst sections of inc railway. The project for which the australian government provided 31,000 australian dollars about 122,010is expected to a completed in 1988 As part of the official australian Bicentennial year program. Hundreds died at hellfire pass a Short Section of the Tine in mountains several mites Northwest of Kan Hanabu i. The pass was inc scene of a desperate push by inc japanese to finish the line on schedule. The prisoners named it hellfire pass because they worked up to in hours daily slaving at night by the Light of fires. French publish 600-Page Walesa autobiography Paris not Lech Walesa founder of the now banned Solidarity labor Union says he likes to com pare his country to a poor Man who occupied a Cor Ner in a Beautiful House Hal he did not suddenly Walesa says speaking of the worker uprising Hal began in Poland in 1980, it becomes Clear that the House is his old family property that he had been kept in ignorance that the House in fact belonged to so docs Walesa begin a detailed account of inc creation of Solidarity the workers movement that began in the Lenin shipyards in the Baltic seaport cily of Gdansk and in the View of Walesa and other polish dissidents remains alive As a dream and As a goal for millions of polish intellectuals and workers. The account is contained in a 600-Page autobiography smuggled out of Poland and published in French translation in Paris this week. It is being treated in France As a major literary event and is i pc cd to be one throughout the West. Some arc saying it is comparable to the publication of Alexander spa he Niesyn s the gulag archipelago As a piece of dissident literature. Walesa s Book does not have the narrative Force of great novel nor docs it contain major revelations about inc if month history of Solidarity that ended when it was banned ii u r martial Law was declared in december981.its importance is seen to lie first in the fact that it is being published at All against the wishes of the polish government and secondly in the Richness of its details As it recounts one of the major episodes of recent world autobiography tilled in French i in them in d Espir or a i ath of Hope covers virtually every aspect of Walesa s experience beginning with his childhood through his Firat Job As an cd Cir Ician his move to Gdansk his marriage his leadership of Soli Darity the declaration of martial Law and his winning inc Nobel peace prize in 1983."1 wanted to elucidate certain things Walesa said in a French television interview filmed secretly in Poland in january and broadcast in France Friday night. First of All i wanted to Tell everybody thai i am an Ordinary Man a Man like any Othni. It was the situation ii was destiny Hal cd me to undertake cer Tain actions and to discover in myself certain unsuspected possibilities. From this was born the idea of trying to Demon Strate what was Normal in the Steps i look he said so Aslo enable others to have Confidence in them selves to help them make the world we live in Walesa s Book which has a first printing of 100,000 Solidarity labor Union founder Kwh Walesa copies in France is being translated Inlo at least j2languages and is expected to be published in the United states in inc Book was three years in inc making Walesa who works As before As an electrician in the Leni shipyards in Gdansk collaborated on ii in secret with two polish intellectuals identified Only by the collective pen name Jan s narrative which is supplemented by numerous letters transcripts of notes by himself and other Solidarity activists journalistic accounts an comments by his wife Danula is a mixture of history political commentary and personal revelation perhaps for future historians the most closely Stu died portions of Walesa s Book will be the several Hun dred pages devoted to his experience As a Leader of workers including his involvement in the 1970 work ers uprising in Poland presented by Walesa As a pre Lude to the creation of 1970, i led a strike but it was badly done badly he writes in a i Lai cd account of thai 10 years 1 have tried to draw lessons from it. A strike he writes is the crowd reacting in us own diverse and changing Way. As for me. I had no scenario but i sensed the crowd. When i find myself in inc Middle of a crowd i always know what the people was arrested on the Day mama Law was declared and he spent nearly a year confined to country Villa outside Gdansk. His Book provides Ilie first detailed account of that period in his life a period he treats As a Lime of Lestino Anil in rare moments of fatigue As a needed period of did i endure this isolation he writes. First there was my Faith and the fact that i read clearly in the situation that i could Sec there in spilt of every thing our Victory secondly he writes i am at Bottom a truly Soli tary Man. Whatever happens i come out of it alone. Of course dialogue with others and their observations contribute particularly in situations in which i a Only one actor among others. But i see things and reflect on them alone
