European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday september 20.1987 exercise area has grim gardens of Stone by Jokema Poitier staff writer traversing the certain strike Man Cuvir urea occasionally stumble across Green and yellow signs that Point the Way to War s Saddest legacy tombstones of those who did not make i l Home. The burial plots Are scattered across the North German Plain Man Euver area to them repose the remains of cer7ai&strike German soldiers russian prisoners of War concentration Camp victims and slave labourers. Some plots arc Liny. Some arc not. In of bks. Not far away from a Brit ish Man Euver bivouac he bodies or thousands of russian pow Sand polish and yugoslavian workers tic in a Ceme Tery tucked away in the Woods. The dead were buried where they fell said Adalbert Mark manager of inc German War craves federation in the Hannover area we had no Opportunity to collect the bodies so they were buried in Field  Mark said. His organization look on the task of cd humping the bodies trying to locale relatives and setting up burial plots for the unclaimed bodies. The federation handled 470,000 re quests for information about missing Kin after world War it. Identifications were made in 139,000 cases Mark said. Teams is ill go out and search for bodies when they receive information from persons who remember Hasty burials As War surged through their streets and villages. Each year a nationwide door to door fund drive raises Money for the federation. The Graves federation tried to group the unclaimed bodies with their com rades. Some of the burial plots contain Only soldiers. So me con lain Only civilians. And Many contain bodies about which nothing is known. Headstones simply slate thai seven unknown per Soni Are buried below. At the russian cemetery headstones arc clustered in groups with names listed Frum grass level to their tops. But there Art Many More bodies than names. A Stone Relief depicts a russian pow with one Bare toot Nigger clothes and a Blanket with us stencilled on it. Russians received far worse treat ment than their Allied counterparts when they Tell into German hands. The situation of the slave labourers was not much better. They were imported largely from Eastern Europe to keep inc German War Effort going on starvation rations. The federation no longer cares for the Graves inside Germany. They care for Graves pcs outside Germany and the German Sites arc cared for by focal governments Mark said. More than four decades after the close of world War ii the Sites Are still visited. This year a group of British paratroop ers returned to Essel on the Aller River and unveiled a Monument at the site of the Bridge blown up by inc germans As the paratroopers crossed it in 1945. Twenty eight paratroopers died. But time can heal old wounds the paratroopers stopped by a burial site for More than 100 German soldiers in nearby Noustadt to Lay a Wreath and Plant Flowers. We would like to reach the stage where these Graves no longer mus be erected Mark said. A cemetery for russian pos in of bks Germany. Central american ministers make peace plan Progress world today Managua Nicaragua a Central american foreign ministers on Friday wrapped up two Days of meetings saving they had made some Progress on How to put a regional peace plan into effect by the nov. 7 deadline. There Are some Points thai were left not totally re solved nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel d Scolo said at a news conference after the meeting ended. D Escoto said he and his colleagues failed to agree on one Point How to arrange for the peace plan s provisions to be enacted simultaneously throughout the five nation Region. The ministers decided a special commission would meet oct. 15 to work on that problem. D Escoto read a final document saying that the ministers had agreed to create a commission to Deal with refugees and displaced people to reactivate a group to wort on regional Security verification and control and to find ways to Speed up economic and social development the ministers from Nicaragua Al Salvador Guate Mala. Costa Rica and Honduras seek to implement the loosely worded but historic agreement. The plan signed aug. 7 by the presidents of the five nations alts for cease fires amnesties democratic re forms and an end to foreign Aid to insurgents ii has a nov. 7 deadline. In an interview thursday vice president Sergio Ramirez of Nicaragua urged the United states to accept the free will of the five Central american presidents and Stop funding the Contra rebels fighting Nicara Gua s leftist sandinista government. He said he hoped the . Congress would reject further Aid to the contras so As nol to con Trad it the peace  president Reagan has called the peace initiative fatally flawed and reportedly will ask Congress to approve $270 million in Aid to inc rebels. The 1100 Mil lion Aid package approved by Congress last year expires sept. 30. Nicaragua says it will abide by the peace plan which would mean lifting a state of emergency in effect since 1983 and allowing opposition Media to operate. The peace plan also would require neighbouring Hon Duras to allow an International verification committee to prove there Are no Contra Camps there. Ramirez said there Are 5,000 contras fighting in Nicaragua and that they maintain bases in Honduras. Honduras claims there Are no Contra bases there the sandinista government which came to Power in a 1979 revolution has set up reception posts for contras who want to take advantage of amnesty. It also has released some political prisoners and Given permission to three exiled priests to return. Talks Between the government and internal opposition Are scheduled to begin oct. 5, but the sandinista have said they will not talk with he armed rebels. President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica author of the peace plan has called on Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo archbishop of Managua to mediate the talks. Obando y Bravo Heads Nicaragua s National reconciliation commission set up to Monitor compliance with the peace plan. Arias also is pushing for dialogue Between the government in Al Salvador and leftist guerrillas who have been fighting nearly eight years to salvadoran government has refused to negotiate with the rebels unless they publicly accept the peace plan. They have not. Also Friday Nicaragua s education minister Fer Nando Cardenal issued an open letter to . Educa Tion Secretary William Bennett protesting what Carde Nal called american backed aggression toward schools and students. Bennett made a one Day trip to Managua on thurs Day to speak at ceremonies marking the Bicentennial of the . Consin Lugiori. Bunni in charged inc nicaraguan government with tyranny. Cardenal said that during the five year Contra War there have been 411 teachers killed 96 Slu dams Mur dered 66 professors kidnapped and 67 schools destroyed or damaged. Eating cobra head is cure for bite african avows Machakos Kenya up a Man bitten by a venomous cobra came up with his own antidote the Kenya news Agency said Friday. He beat the hooded Snake to death and ate its head. The National Agency said the 30-year old Vil lager was bitten on the leg by the Large Snake in a Bikini near Machakos 30 Miles Southeast of Nairobi. He beat the re Pilic to death with a club. Rav ing from the effects of the bite but refusing hos Pital treatment he ran off into the Bush and returned shortly after chewing traditional herbs saying he Felt belter. The following Day he Cut off inc cobra s head and ale it raw claim ing otherwise he would have died. I am not a Snake eater but i had to do it after the Snake bite. It was my cure he told friends. Soviet Harvest hampered by inclement weather Moscow a supplies of fruits and vegetables Are Down and farm workers Are running out of time to bring in the fall Harvest because of wet weather that Caps an inclement growing sea son Media re Pom said Friday. Front Page reports in the communist party newspaper pravda and other publications added to a daily dose of bad weather news for the key Harvest period. The forecast is not heartening precipitation and the possibility of Frost pravda said Friday