European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. Augusl27. 19b7 the stars and stripes Paga 3 persistence pays a Mother reunited Grapevine Texas a an army sergeant s yearlong fight with army and slate department Burt Oft tuesday when he was reunited with his italian Mother at Dallas fort wort International a Iron. Sect Lidorio Baini who is based at fort Sill okla. Seem an unlikely sup Porter of what he proudly Calls the american sym a which dragged him and his 67-Yrar-old Mother into bureaucracy deep enough to convince them hat they might never be . But the system Bent enough to allow Amelia Baini to be. Reunited with her son after she was forced to remain in Italy. I know that inc system really docs work in America. I be always believed in it and this happened to prove it Baini said. It just takes a while the Rainis problems began in july 9sa. When Vinorio 47, a naturalized . Cilia run and 18-year Vei Cran of the army s quartermaster corps was transferred to fort Sill after a sin year slim in Italy. Mrs. Faint. To had1 lived with her son Sincu 1970, wanted to return to the United slates with him but she was forced 10 slay behind because of illness. In april after undergoing two opera Lions to treat severe arthritis. Mrs. Baini contacted . Embassy officials in Rome but she was told she could not go to the United states. Apparently hey took her Green card because she had been out of the . Fur More than n year and Here. Fore jihad to reapply for a visa said Ronald c. Chandler District director of inc immigration and natural Iza i Ion service in Dallas. They May not have realized that As a military dependent she should be allowed to Baini said he appealed to he Stair department and to army superiors but officials at the stale department said they could t do anything and army officials said they did t knowhow. While Baini tried to bring his Mother to the United status she was alone in Rome apartment living on what Money he was Able to Send her. In july after Baini tiled a Federal lawsuit in Oklahoma on his Mother s behalf Federal immigration a Frici ils in Dallas heard about the family s plight and Olf Rcd a Way to bring mrs. Baini Home. The ins got mrs. Baini on a plane Loic United Stales from Frankfurt by scheduling a residency hearing tues Day. When she arrived after the cig i hour Fligh from Germany ins and customs agents briefly questioned her at the Airport filled out a few forms and then declared her a Legal resident. To Welcome his Mother Home Baini said his family planned a big italian meal in i hair new fort Sill Home. This was jus a misunderstanding Here he said if this had happened in Italy we would never have solved this a could pc taken Lone survivor of crash told about family s death Ann Arbor Mich. A four year old Cecilia Cichan asked what never again mean after an. Aunt broke the news Hal the girl s parents and brother died in the crash of Northwest airlines flight 255, relatives said. She did l understand Pauline Ciamaichela. The Arizona girl s grandmother told the Arizona la be asking the sole survivor of the aug. 16 crash Al Detroit metropolitan Airport did not cry after being lot Mon. Day night she would never see her parents or 6-year-Oldbrother again the newspaper reported wednesday. Meanwhile the Volunteer firefighter who helped find Cecilia in the wreckage has been docked a Day s pay by Northwest airlines for not reporting to work with the airline the night of the crash. Instead he helped with the Rescue the Detroit news reported wednesday. Cecilia s aunt and godmother Rita Lumpkin broke the news to the girl in her room at . Molt Chil Dren s Hospital in Ann Arbor. Lumpkin did not use the words dead or killed said Anthony Ciamaichela the child s Grandfather " Lumpkin told her that they had been in an Acci Dent and she would never Ever see them again Ever be said. She just stared for a minute and then asked for a chocolate Lumpkin told Cecilia hat she too had been in a Accident but Ciamaichela said the child did not seem to remember much about the crash thai killed her Parent Michael Cichan 32, and Paula Cichan 33,and her brother David. The Cichan had been visiting relatives in the Phila Delphia area and were in route to their Home in Tempe anz., when the plane crashed killing 156 people. Funeral services for he three were scheduled for wednesday in Maple Glen a. Family members followed the advice of psychiatrists and psychologists on How to break the news to Cecilia Ciamaichela said. Cecilia remained in serious condition wednesday a photo Cecilia a klan of temp an with her older brother David who died in the crash. After undergoing skin grafts last week on her burned hands and legs said John Turck a Hospital spokes Man. Her spirit s coming he said late tuesday bul she s still a sick Little girl after regaining consciousness last week Cecilia said her name and asked for her doll and her Mother and Grandf Alicr. When she asked for her parents monday night it was decided to break the news Ciamaichela said. The doll recovered from inc wreckage has been Luton her bed in plastic because of concern about infection Turck said. It has to remain in a plastic bag. But Cecilia understands that and accepts that about a dozen family member have been at the Hospital with Cecilia at one time or another but have not decided who will care for her when she is released Turck said. Donations to a fund set up in Cecilia s name Tot i de nearly $45,000, Turck said adding we be Only got ten through three quarters of the weekend r.-,. The girl also has received toys balloons and other gift from around the country. Volunteer firefighter Dan Kish who was the firs to hear inc girl s cries the night of the crash was listed a absent from his Northwest Job even though his wife notified an airline supervisor he was working Al the crash scene the news said. Kish 30, spent 22 hours at the she As a Volunteer member of the Romulus fire department and was unable to report for the Midnight shift at the Airport where he cleans planes for Northwest inc newspaper we pay our employees How we pay them and for what work we pay them really is an internal matter and is something we would not report North West spokesman Redmond Tyler said from the airline s headquarter in Eagan Minn. Machinists Union local 141 has filed a grievance on Kish s behalf. Harf continues to hedge on re entering race Denver a former sen. Gary Hart fanned fires of speculation thai he will re enter the presiden tial race telling reporters meeting him on his return Home from vacation in Ireland he soon will announce his plans. A Don have any kind of comment to make this evening Hart told reporters tuesday night at Sta Pleton International Airport. I warn 10 get together with my family and get caught up on the news of the last few Days and find out what has or has not gone on. Then i will cover All the Points that need 10 be covered in a comprehensive Way. Don t think the circumstances today or tonight Are the Way to do that. I la have something to say Hon j comments echoed those he made earlier tuesday to reporters when he arrived at Kennedy International Airport in new York City. Hart was met at the Airport by his wife. Lee an they drove to their Mountain Home in troublesome Gulch near Kittredge 30 Miles Southwest of Den ver. The former Colorado senator quit his Campaign for the democratic nomination on May b after the Miami Herald reported he spent pan of a weekend with actress Model Donna Rice. Speculation that Hart would rejoin the race was kindled last week after his former Campaign manager Bill Dixon said it is Likely Hart would do so. On Friday Hart left a rented cottage in the Irish fishing Village of ought Rard to avoid reporters after Dixon s comments made headlines. Another former Hart adviser Bill Shore told the Des Monics Iowa Register that Hart told him by Telephone last week that he is unequivocal about not resuming to the race. In an interview with the Register published Mon Day Dixon stuck by his statement. Hart had been considered the front runner for the democratic presidential nomination before the Rice incident. Obviously he would first have to make a statement about his intolerable behaviour said Dixon even so he said. Hart would be torn apart by the Media if he Steps Back a. Hart believes he could contribute to the Campaign and feels an obligation to do so Dison said. If Han re entered the race Dixon suggested 11 would be More an attempt to crusade on issues rather than to win the election. Former sen. Gary Hurt in new York
