European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday september 8,1987 news updates thai airways crash Bangkok Thailand a divers have found the cockpit voice recorder in the sunken re Mains of a thai Airliner and recovered the last body of the 83 people who died when it plunged into the Andaman sea officials reported. The thai airways Boeing 737 crashed aug. 31 off the resort is land of Shuket 540 Miles South West of Bangkok. Everyone aboard was killed including an american and his thai born wife. Capt. Nikom Boonprasert of thai airways said divers found the voice recorder in Good condition on the seabed about i i Miles offshore. The recorder contains the conversation in the cockpit and Between the Crew and control Tower. Blind Sailor Portsmouth . A Jim Dickson thwarted in his Effort to become the first Blind Sailor to Cross the Atlantic alone was greeted with hugs and kisses As he returned to his Point of departure. I set out because i wanted to get people thinking Dickson 41, of Washington d.c., said shortly after his 35-foot yacht Eye opener pulled into Bend boat Basin. I be succeeded far beyond what i wanted. Being the first in t a important As getting people to think about what disabled people can do he said. Faulty equipment aboard the Sloop bad weather and Low finances forced Dickson to abandon his voyage and at Hamilton Bermuda on aug. 14, 10 Days after he d left Portsmouth. Temperatures i h 64 7656 64 61 77 51 60 67 74 70 8071 76 74 9349 77 76 6266 69 71 7950 79 65 6167 65 h5.2 8861 78 62 77 48 70il 57 7844 75 65 64 42 5971 75 64 8040 63 79 93 Man amm Anchorage Punk Craum ctw1ttton.sc. Cn�mton.wv4. A Tom Chuigo . 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Beardsley who is chief of the refugee and orderly departure program sections of the Embassy in Bangkok said there were an estimated 10,000 Chil Dren of mixed vietnamese and american parentage still in Vietnam. The talks follow High level talks in Hanoi last month by Presidential envoy Gen. John pc secy. Those negotiations appear to have improved bilateral co operation on various humanitarian questions including americans missing in action in Vietnam vietnamese crippled during the War and would be emigrants. It is a matter of a Subtle change in the psychology of the relations an improvement in Trust said one Western Diplomat based in Hanoi. The program to allow amerasian to go to the United states ran into problems in january 1986 when Vietnam ordered a halt to interviews of prospective emigrants to the United slates under the program. Vietnamese officials said they were unhappy with procedures that allowed the buildup of a backlog of 20,000 peo ple waiting to depart. The bait to interviewing gradually slowed the departures of amerasian to a trickle. Talks last month Between beards Luyand the vietnamese revised procedures for the program and interviewing is expected to resume later this week. But at vietnamese insistence the amerasian program has been made a bilateral operation Between the two governments separate from the program. Vietnamese officials have suggested Spe Cial interviewers for amerasian and a reduction in the documentation required. Refugee sources said the amerasian caucasian or Black features make them easily identifiable but there Are suspicion about the identities of Many of the rela Tives to apply to accompany them. One source said there was evidence that amerasian children had been sold to adults who pose As their relatives in order to go to the United states. More than 4,000 amerasian children emigrated to the United states under theold procedures that began in 1979. Doctors slightly encouraged by separated twins Progress Baltimore a a surgeon said monday he was slightly encouraged by the condition of 7-month-old twins who shared a vein at the Back of the head until they were separated in a 22-hour operation. Or. Mark Rogers surgery coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital said Patrick and Benjamin Binder of Ulm Germany would be kept in a drug induced coma for five to seven Days to give their brains a Chance to recover from Shock. In an interview monday on abcs Good morning America Rogers said doctors were slightly encouraged they re doing Well this but he added we will not know How this turns out for several a team of 70 doctors nurses and technicians separated the Binder babies during the operation that ended at 5 am sunday. The fair haired boys who were joined at the Back of the head were in critical but stable condition monday at the hos Pital s children s Center officials said. While the infants have separate brains they shared a vein in the Back of the head that helps Drain the brain. Surgeons said they had to separate and then reconstruct the blood drainage system in each boy. Siamese twins joined at the head occur in about one per 2 million to 2.5 million births. The survival rate of such twins who have been separated Are normally no greater than 50 percent said or. Ben Carson chief of paediatric neurosurgery. Using dolls and diagrams doctors explained the Complex techniques they used to accomplish the separation including lowering the infants body temperature to68 degrees to bring their metabolism to a near halt. This state of suspended animation Al Lowed surgeons to Stop the infants hearts and blood flow without causing brain dam age and reconstruct the blood drainage sys tem doctors said. We knew we were under pressure to accomplish All this in less than an hour since any longer would increase the risk of brain damage and other Organ damage Carson said. One or both babies either died or suffered serious neurological problems in All known previous attempts to separate siamese twins joined at the head doctors said. The biggest risk after such an opera Tion is formation of a blood clot in the newly constructed blood vessels As Well As bleeding inside the Skull and heart complications physicians said. The critical period is the first three to four Days after surgery they said. The twins Are expected to remain at the hos Pital for several weeks. Departing envoy warns austrians on danger of growing anti semitism Vienna Austria a departing Ambassador Ronald Lauder said Inan interview published monday that anti semitism in Austria will grow if austrians do not publicly condemn it. In an interview with the weekly Profil news Magazine Lauder who is jewish illustrated anti jewish sentiment among some austrians with a personal anecdote. He said a viennese shopkeeper told his wife and daughter that jews were be Hind the controversy surrounding presi Dent Kurt Waldheim s wartime past and practically told them they were not Welcome in his shop. He told Profil the incident happened in june 1986. Waldheim was elected president that month by a 54 percent majority follow ing a Campaign overshadowed by allegations that he was involved in nazi atrocities in the Balkans As a Soldier in the German army in world War ii. Wald Heim denies any wrongdoing. A latent anti semitism surfaced Dur ing the Campaign and jewish Leader shave complained recently of increased incidents of harassment of orthodox jews in the capital. Lauder said that although the shop Inci Dent was an isolated Case it had a Shock ing effect especially on his daughter. I know that the majority of austrians detest anti semitism i also know that Many austrians Are ashamed of the things that happened Lauder was quoted As saying. But if they the austrians Don t stand up and publicly denounce anti semitic comments this will continue to grow he added. Lauder said he was worried not by the fact that there Are anti semitic austrians but rather that too Many people in this country ignore anti semitism and tend to sweep things under the thus they silently encourage anti semitism he concluded. Lauder has announced be will leave his Post to return to the United states sometime this fall. He a expected to be replaced by former time editor in chief Henry Grunwald. 25 polish tourists remain behind in Munich Munich a most members of a polish travel group on a weekend visit lowest Germany did not return Home. West German Border police said Mon Day. Only six of 31 polish tourists who entered the Southern slate of Bavaria from Czechoslovakia Over the weekend were on a bus that crossed Back Over the communist Border sunday bavarian Border police said. According to police 18 men and seven women were among the group of poles that remained behind in Munich. Eight Days ago another polish tourist bus returned Home from West Germany nearly empty police said. Police say most polish tourists who abandon travel groups Here apply Foras turn in West Germany where Many have relatives and friends
