European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page s the stars and stripes monday August s4,1987 Dodds Roundup school information hot line attracting few callers Heidelberg a hot line designed 10 answer questions about inc overseas school system has failed to generate much heal from the Public. The Usa eur phone line has attracted Only 17 queries since april and Only two of those dealt with policy. Right now i d say it s a failure Saij Dak Olson the Liaison Briw can Usarek and the department of defense dependents attributed the Lack of response in part to phone maintenance which closed the hot line to callers for More than iwo months. Calls have ranged from queries about school dress code and students rights to requests for employment opportunities with inc school sys tem. has. Promised to return All Calls with in 4s hours. Olson said he has no intention of speaking for the school system i m not the answer Man he said. But. I will put callers in touch with the right the to line was established following the 1985 Usa eur family symposium where representatives from major communities within the command requested assistance with school prob lems. U5afe has no such hot line. The civilian Exchange for the hot line is 06221-57-8720. Callers using military lines Mancall ets 370-8720. Germany Region starting drug prevention program Wiesbaden the Germany Region has announced plans to adopt a drug prevention program modelled after a similar project instituted in 1983 by the los Angeles police depart ment. The program called drug abuse resistance education is aimed at fifth and sixth graders under the project police officers will visit class rooms one Day a week for 17 weeks 10 Leach youngsters How to counteract peer pressure thai might induce them to Experiment with drug Sand alcohol. The Region will offer a 12-Day training sem Inar beginning oct. S in bad kissing in Ger Many to instruct military police officials and educators on How to implement the program. Science coordinator to give talk in Miami Wiesbaden a science coordinator fro the Germany Region will outline a High school course before a regional meeting of the National science teachers association in Miami. Kent Rossier will speak to science teachers oct. 13-14 about the science and technology in society course offered in Germany Region High schools. The course was offered As a Pilot project last year but should be available in most German Region High schools for the school year begin Ning aug. 31. Orientation scheduled for Reading specialists Wiesbaden the Germany Region will offer newly assigned Reading specialists a one Day orientation at regional Headquarters. Those interested in attending can Call Fannie Kelly at civilian 0611 .88242 for Morf information. 4 teachers return Home from smithsonian program Wiesbaden four Germany Region teachers resumed this month from the smithsonian institution in Washington d.c., after help ing draft a curriculum for the leaching of science to elementary schoolchildren. Alan Ball of Schwa Ebisch Gnu and Elemen tary. Marti Rossier of a Amerberg elementary indie Ibadan Paul Treml of fran Mun Elm in tary and Charles Van of Hahn elementary helped design the curriculum under the auspice of the National science research Center. F photo vietnamese refugees Wail for their return to China at a factory urn no Deli nation Center in Hong Kong. Hong Kong begins repatriation of 7,000 vietnamese to China Hong Kong a Hong Kong on saturday began sending More than 7,000 vietnamese boat peo ple Back to China and a chinese official said they would not be penalized for leaving. A Convoy of 10 police Rucks carried 74 men 68women and s6 children Over the Sha Tau Kok Border checkpoint in a 40-minute operation chinese immigration officials and Public Security Bureau officers took charge of the refugees who were surprisingly subdued As they crossed he Border said Hong Kong police spokesman Terry Coombs Hong Kong and chinese officials agreed during talk sin Canton last week to streamline repatriation of the vietnamese most of them ethnic chinese. The Refu gees sailed into the British Colony from China during the past seven weeks seeking resettlement in Hon Kong or in the West. Most of them had fled from Vietnam to China in 1978-79, when relations Between the two communist neighbors deteriorated the refugees apparently came to Hong Kong be cause of rumours that the government would let them stay in the British Colony or resettle in the West. Some Olio were escaping poverty on state farms in China. The refugees repatriated saturday had fled the Zhu Wierig overseas chinese farm about 60 Miles from Hong Kong in China s Southern province of Guang Dong said Hong Kong government spokesman Mark pinks one. Chinese authorities will not penalize the resuming refugees and will allow them to resume Normal lives on their state farm said . Chen a spokesman for the Xinhua news Agency. Chen also is China s diplomatic presence in Hong Kong Bui Chen said China would severely punish the vietnamese and chinese who encouraged or aided the refugees to leave the farm. Hong Kong expects to repatriate All of its Vietnam est refugees from China in about two months pinks Lonc said Pinkstone and Chen said they hoped the return of he refugees would help Stem the flow of vietnamese to Hong Kong by squelching rumours that they can easily Start new lives in Hong Kong. No refugees reportedly had arrived in the Colony since thursday after several weeks during which hundreds of vietnamese poured in almost daily. China has ordered its Southern provinces to crackdown on the refugee flow by stepping up Marine patrols crushing rumours circulating on resettlement farms and punishing those who encourage refugees to leave chinese officials said. Hong Kong considers the vietnamese illegal Immi Grants because they already have been resettled in China. The Colony holds them in detention centers pending their identification by China. The process could Lake up to a year severely Strain ing the Colony s resources. Hong Kong officials said but the new agreement streamlines the procedure. Increasing numbers of refugees sailing directly from Vietnam also have been arriving in Hong Kong. About 9,000 were waiting in Camps to be resettled overseas before the latest wave from China. Long threat israeli missile reported London Jap Israel is developing a nuclear War head for a missile which can reach Arab capital cities. London s weekly Owr Var newspaper reported sunday cuing unidentified intelligence sources in Washingion the report said the missile known As Jericho was test fired with a warhead from Israel s Negev desert into the Mediterranean sea on May 6, it flew nearly 600 Miles and has a potential Range of 900 Miles the report said. The weekly said Israel not need to explode in warhead to lest it As the development is being carried out with the help of computer simulation which calculates the characteristics of nuclear explosions. Developing without testing also allows a govern Mem to maintain secrecy the observer Saij. 11 reported thai the . National Security agon cd eavesdropped on the test night and that the Agency Esti mate Kracl has Between -15 and 65 Jenchol m ii Siles. The Reagan administration is concerned about the lest because Israel has refused to sign the 1968 nuclear non proliferation treaty the observer reported. The newspaper said the military significance of the missiles is that Israel will soon be Able to hit Arab capitals including Baghdad Iraq with missiles fired from its own territory that Are capable of carrying i ther conventional or nuclear the weekly said attention will be focused on Israel nuclear program when Modecai Sanunu a former atomic Energy technician goes on trial sunday in Tel Aviv for espionage and treason. Sanunu claimed in a British newspaper last year that Israel was secretly producing nuclear weapons in Chi Southern Visnu i town of dimona and had the world s Sinh largest nuclear Arsenal. Sanunu disappeared from London Las sept. 30.while in custody in miracl later he managed to tit reporters he was abduct a from Koine after flying there from London the observer said Sanunu t brother. Men. 31, who 11 in London will ask Britain fur Pul Liral i Plum. Liuji that Sanunu s brother. Mar. Who is in Lon Don Haj Stead cd to Aik Britain for political Asylum following his statement that Hii brother was lured my London b Mosul agents
