European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday september 5,1987 team backs vietnamese proposal says . Should help rehabilitate War wounded Washington a a . Medical learn that went 10 Vietnam to discuss vietnamese programs to rehabilitate War wounded believes there should be a favourable american response to Vietnam s request for assistance. We re going to make a positive recommendation said Fred Downs a veterans administration official and member or the study group. We believe there should be some  at the same time he made Clear that any assistance that docs result from the Survey would come from private organizations not the . Government which has no diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Downs who Heads he a s prosthetic and sensory aids service joined two other rehabilitation experts on a four Day trip to Vietnam last month. They talked with foreign ministry and health officials and toured a Center near son Tay Vietnam where artificial limbs orthopaedic devices and other rehabilitation equipment arc produced and fined. The panel was sent under an agreement worked out in Vietnam earlier in August by retired Gen. John w. Vessey jr., president Reagan s special emissary. The pact called for Vietnam o resume help in accounting for the 1,776 americans still listed As missing in Vietnam during the Indochina War. The United slates pledged to took into some of Vietnam s humanitarian concerns. The medical team was led by or. Carllon Savory of the Hugh stun orthopaedic Genic in Columbus ga., and included or. Larry Ward an expert on non government organizations involved in International Relief efforts. Thrif report is expected to be in pc secy s hands by he beginning of next week. Private american groups have talked with Vietnam about humanitarian issues Over the past decade but this was the first official medical Mission. There was a special Clement to Savory s and Downs expertise both Are army combat veterans of the Vietnam War in Telephone interviews thursday the two discussed the specific Points in their report and slate depart ment officials have declined to answer questions about the Mission pending review of the findings. The team members made Clear however that they agree wholeheartedly with the . Refusal to Grant assistance As a condition for vietnamese help in solv ing the question of what happened to the american mias such linkage the administration has said would be tantamount to blackmail Money for information on America s missing. Only after Vietnam accounts for the missing and pulls its troops out of Cambodia and after consultations with other Southeast asian nations would the United states consider relations with Viet Nam he administration has said. Downs said that during their talks in Vietnam none of the vietnamese officials sought to link Resolution of the cases of missing americans with their desire for . Assistance. Rare . Stamp up photo this rare $1 stamp with the infected stamp nuke misprints very valuable. It candlestick is one Al 95 Stamps Pur was reported tuesday that nine Agency chased by the Cia us regular Kosuge. Employees resold 86 of the Stamps to � mistakes in a few copies of a single dealer for thousands of dollars. Dodson $ parole revoked in woke of wife s charge Chicago a the Illinois prisoner review Board voted Friday to revoke parole for Gary Dotson. Whose sentence had been commuted after the woman he was convicted of raping said she had fabricated her testimony authorities said. Cov. James r. Thompson who com muted Dotson s 2s to 50-year sentence in 1985, could order Dolson Back to Pris on. Thompson said in 1985 that he did not believe Dotson was innocent but that he dad served sufficient time for the crime. Poison 29, has been in the Cook county jail on a parole hold order since aug. 2. When his wife Camille accused him of beating her. Since his release Dotson has been arc std five times including a Drunken driving arrest in january. Board spokesman Kent Steinkamp said Dotson would be turned Over immediately to the state department of corrections which has authority to imprison Dotson. Poison Drew National attention two years ago when Cash Len crowd Webb whose rape allegation led to his conviction recanted her testimony and sought to free him after six years in prison. Dolson s most recent arrest on the Misdemeanour Battery charge occurred after his wife told police Dotson struck Gary Poison her after he had been drinking and threatened to harm the couple s Young daughter. That charge however was dropped a week ago after she refused to testify against her husband. The bulk of Friday s hearing entered on his Battery arrest said Steinkamp. Dotson failed to obey All municipal and stale ordinances and statutes Steinkamp said. He did not elaborate. Tipsy Sailor rescued by coast guard Miami a a Man who said he was adrift at sea in a 40-foot boat for 12 Days was rescued by the coast guard for the third time since july hungry and apparently a Little Tipsy officials said. He was coherent said coast guard it. Michael Cosenza. But i think he was a Little intoxicated. He said the Only liquid he had an Board was  Eric a Swenson 37. Was airlifted from his 40-foot boat to Jackson memo rial Hospital. Hospital spokesman Mark Santo said Swenson appeared to have no serious health problems. . Vehicle sales Down 17.9% from August 86 Detroit a Sain of Domestic cars and trucks fell 17.9 percent in late August compared with a year earlier when the first buyer incentive programs lured an onslaught of customers to dealer showrooms. The big three and most automakers who follow them returned to the incentives beginning aug. 5 with most vehicle loan rates As Low As 1.9 percent. That is lower than the 2.9 percent offered last year but the rates were proving far less of a lure to buyer grown accustomed to the campaigns. Companies that build can in the United stain re ported thursday that they sold 369.597 Domestic cars and trucks in the nine Selling Days from aug. 21-31, Down from 450.295 a year ago. Automakers sold 248,873 Domestic cars Down 22.5 Jet Lam from 320.480 a year am. And 120,724 Domestic trucks Down b.6 percent from 129,315 Lyca Rago. Domestic car sales moved at a seasonally adjusted annual Rale of 8.2 million for the period. For the month of August Domestic car sales reached an 8.6 million seasonally adjusted annual Rale White import car sales reached a 3,7 million rate for a total rate of 12.3 million. For the month imports held a 28. T percent snare of the combined . Car and truck markets 31.4 percent of the car Market and 20.5 percent of the passenger truck Market. Automakers sold 978,977 Domestic cars and trucks and 383.131 imported cars and trucks for a monthly total ofl.j6j.tog passenger vehicle sates in the United states up from 972,979 a year ago. General motors corp s Domestic car sales fell 34 percent in late August to 126,629 from 191,922 a year ago and ill Domestic truck sales trailed 8.4 percent at s0.82dfrom 55,455 a year ago. Pm s share of the Domestic car Market fell to s0.9 percent from 59.8 percent a year ago. The share of the combined August import and Domestic car Market held by the nation s largest automaker fell 10 36.2 per cent from 39.9 percent in August 1986. Even no. 1 Ford motor co., the Only big three automaker to sell More cars ibis year than Lul year suffered a slight late August drop from a year ago. Ford sold 66,515 Domestic curs during the 10-Day period Down 0.2 percent from 66,660 a year ago. Ford s share of the shrinking Domestic car Market continued to grow however to 26.7 percent from 20.8 percent a year ago. Ford s Domestic truck sales fell 15 percent to 39,774 from 46.813 in late August year ago. No. 3 Chrysler which bought american motors corp. Last month sold 31,388 Domestic cars in late August Down 32.8 reran from Chrysler and am a combined sales of 46.676 a year ago. Chrysler s Domestic truck sales Rose 23.3 percent to 27,420, from the two companies year ago total of 22,233