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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday. July 25. 1987 few go families taking offer of free trip Home by William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington a Pentagon offer to let some financially troubled Scricc members overseas Send their families Home for free has attracted few lakers after five months. The offer is for  who brought their families Over at their own Cost without military com Mand sponsorship. As of july 16, Only 56 out of the thousands slim died to qualify for the program have used it. The Best guess is probably thai those military members who decided to bring non command sponsored dependents overseas with them have a Cornil mint 10 Slick together even during rough limes a Pentagon spokesman said thursday. Most of those taking advantage of the program came from Japan and Okinawa. Defense officials had said Europe was the most critical hardship area. Since Many service members Don t report that they be brought their families with them defense officials estimate the number of people overseas without command sponsorship at about 10,000. The program was initiated for humanitarian As Well As morale reasons after defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of the army John o. Marsh or were disturbed by reports of  financial troubles caused by the Dollar s sleep decline Early this year. Persons qualifying for the help must have brought family members overseas before May 1, there is no deadline to the offer but a family or family member cannot me the free space available military aircraft for a return trip if the Servic member is within the last Sis months of a tour. For those who just cannot absorb inc decline of the Dollar and other unforeseen economic drains inc department of defense wanted to offer them a Low Cost Way out the Pentagon spokesman said. The pro Gram is Low Cost both for the dependents by lowering the Cost of their move and for the government / a fans of thrills and spills a Pupio Royal visitors Andrew and Sarah Britain s Duke and Duchess of York near appropriate garb in Canada As they eel caught up in the excitement of a rough and Tumble Rod i event at Medicine hat Alberta. Israel dismissed soldiers with aids Jerusalem july 21 up Israel has thrown eight soldiers out of the military because they were found 10 carry the aids virus a military source said thursday. They Are believed to be inc first known aids re Lak a dismissals from the 540,000-Slrone israeli de sense forces. Aids is not considered a widespread problem in hrad. A nation of 4.5 million people. According to government statistics 45 cases of aids have been diagnosed. Of the 45, 33 have died. In addition. 239 people have been diagnosed As carrying the Aidi anti body. Three soldiers and five reservists were dismissed from the if because they Are earners of the aids antibody said the source who spoke on me condition Ofano Zymny. The source declined to say when the soldiers were dismissed or if the dismissals reflected an israeli de sense forces policy. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome attacks the body s ability to fight off disease and is generally transmitted through sexual Contact intravenous drug abuse and transfusions of tainted blood. Researchers have found that not Alt carriers of the antibody known As a Tiv in. Contract the syndrome. Krattli a Cash minister Shoshana Arbeli Almoslino earlier this week said in an address to the Knesset. Israel s parliament that officials were considering test ing pan of the population for the disease. Among groups being Consic cd for mandatory test ing Are volunteers coming from abroad to work at collective farms known As Kib Bui in military cons Cupit and pregnant women. According to unofficial estimates sum 540,000 israelis serve in the armed forces Ano third of whom ate career officers and conscripts drafted after High school to serve at least three years. The other to thirds arc reservists who serve until at 5 world today chinese Leader s son to visit ., Canada Beijing Apt Deng Zufang. The disabled son of chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping will visit inc United Stales and Canada in october a  Embassy official said thursday. Deng Zufang. 43, chairman of the China welfare fund for the handicapped will arrive in the United slates on oct. I for a private three week visit after spending iwo weeks in Canada embassy official Nancy Tucker said. His itinerary is Likely to include slops in new York Washington Miami los anodes and san Francisco where he plans to meet with leaders of groups for the handicapped and sigh Sec she said. Deng the eldest son of Deng Xiaoping became a paraplegic after he was forced out a fourth floor win Dow by Radical red guards in i9&s during  l cultural revolution. River floods Coal mine killing 8 miners in Chile Santiago Chile up eight miners drowned thursday when a River flooded a Coal mine in Southern Chile and trapped the men inside six others managed to escape authorities  River swollen by heavy rainfall eroded its bed and flooded the mine near the mining town of Coronel 335 Miles South of Santiago mayor Victor Herrera said. The disaster came hours Afier to miners were res cued alive from another mine 300 Yards away where they had been trapped under tons of Earth for More than iwo Days. Rescue workers managed to push a Hose through the debris and keep the miners alive by pump ing them oxygen and milk. Yeats love poems sell for twice appraised value London u i a notebook that belonged to love Lorn Irish Pool . Yeats with verse dedicated to the woman who a pumped his marriage proposals for 25 years was sold thursday at an auction for 34,100 pounds $54,Soo More than twice the Prosale estimate. Rotheby s auction House said an Anonymous Ameri can collector bought the notebook containing Early ver Sions of seven later published poems and one unpublished verse to Yeats unrequited love when he was 26. The poems written by hand in a vellum bound notebook with the title flame of the spirit were penned at the Lime Yeats first proposed to Maud Gonne who was an ardent Irish nationalist opposed to British Rule in Ireland. 1987 death toll at 61 after two attacks by Ira Belfast Northern Ireland up suspected Ira guerrillas thursday staged a bomb Bullet attack on police and in a separate shooting kilted a Driver raising North Ern Ireland s sectarian death toll in the past six months to 61 the total for All of last year police said. Police said a gunman opened lire on a Man driving his car through the Irish Republican army stronghold of West Belfast hitting him in the neck and killing him. But they released no further immediate details on his identity. However the Ira s Belfast brigade claimed responsibility for the killing and said he was a member of the Crown forces its Lerm for members of the Security  gunman escaped police said. Shortly after inc Belfast slaying suspected Ira guerrillas opened up with a Salvo of gunfire at a police station in an attempt to lure them into a bomb trap in the City Center of Londonderry 85 Miles Northwest of Belfast. No one was injured police said. Greek spying for soviets indicted in stinger Case Athens. Greece a a greek businessman who allegedly sold details of the .-made stinger anti air Craft missile to the soviet Union has been indicted on espionage charges a judicial spokesman said thursday. Michalis Mesa Iconomou j9, had been employed As Deputy director of Standard electric Hellas a greek company affiliated with itt of the United states said the spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity. He quoted to Ltd indictment As saying Mega Economou As trained in espionage in inc soviet Union and gave informal Ion on the Sungur to an official of the soviet commercial Mission in Athens in 1984. I Milci Conomou was arrested in september 19s5 on informal Ion provided by a senior soviet Diplomat Sergei Bokjanc. Who defected in Athens in May of that year. He later was fiend  incs ligation  
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