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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 22, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 amerasian teens United with fathers Tran Thi Tuyet Mai right arrives in in nut do App hold ill her father tuesday. San Francisco a a for Mer . Army medic brought Home the daughter he fathered in wartime Vietnam 15 years ago and had recently rescued from a tire peddling pea nuts on the Beach. Barry Huntoon and his daughter. Tran Thi Tumcl Mai arrived at san Francisco International Airport on tuesday with two other amerasian teen agers. Huntoon inet his half vietnamese daughter for the first time oct. 12. When he went to to Chi Minh City to bring her out of communist Vietnam. He Tost Contact with Mai and her Mother in 197but then saw his daughter s photograph in life mag Azine two years ago. The two other amerasian teen agers. Loan and Van Nguyen Vemon. Were reunited with their father. Marc Vernon who had not seen his two daughters since 1972. Vernon of Albuquerque n.m., left Vietnam in 1972, and his vietnamese wife Lien left several Yea 13 later. They said they had made Many at tempts Over the Yean to gel the girls out of Vietnam Mai loan and Van Nguyen Art among thousands of children fathered by . Servicemen and government employees during inc United states military involvement in Vietnam. Hanoi has rejected inc children Asle facies of a bitter War and said they ail should go to the United states. Despite frequent bickering with vietnamese authorities inc United states has resettled about 4,000 am asians in an official migration pro Gram in recent years. . Officials say about 10,000 remain in Vietnam. Huntoon said Mai who was poor and Hail no education had been Liv ing with her Mother in the port of Vung Tau near to Chi Minh City. The City was called Saigon when it was the capital of Lite .-Backcd South Vietnam government which fell in april 197 5. Her life s been really Tough really hard Huntoon said. Huntoon said Mai s Mother Tran Thi Tumcl Nhung is  to leave Vietnam for the United states soon. Intruder leaves Yale plans Gay conference House spotless Gilroy Calif. Up an intruder who Brake into a House in California has brought new meaning to the term cleaned the place  the intruder did not Lake anything except the old curtains which were replaced with new ones. Not Only did the intruder not steal anything police said he made the bed did the dishes stacked the newspapers and vacuumed. He vacuumed and washed the dishes and put up the clothes and generally tidied up said commander Mem Gardner of the Gilroy police department. We be had cases where people with guilty consciences resumed stolen stuff but we be never had anything like  a five Page note written with a fat. Purple Marker was found pinned on the front door. It read in part dear sir i Hope you Don t mind. I cleaned your House. Don t worry i won t Lake anything because my father is a Duke in Spain. Don t worry. Iii clean your House for As Long As you live  it was signed Prince  the mysterious break in at the residence of a Man not identified by police happened oct. 14, but by tuesday Eddie had Aoi resumed Gardner said apparently he changed his mind or else he Only cleans once a  Gardner said. Police believe the perpetrator might be a mentally deranged Man who lives in the same neighbourhood. Even if they catch the suspect Gardner said they would have trouble keeping him behind bars. To have a burglary you have to break in with the intent to commit a crime Gardner said and clean ing someone s Home in t a crime. So. Apparently All we have is a  new Haven Conn. Nearly a month after a Public flurry Over an Alumna s Contention that Yale was a Gay school inc University has announced plans Tor a conference on homosexual studies. The conference to be held oct. 30-31, involves scholars from across the country and is co sponsored by the University s new lesbian and Gay studies Cen Ter. Yale president Benno c. Schmidt jr., a noted Legal scholar is scheduled to participate in a discussion tilled Gay people and the  this conference will ask what Gay studies arc As an intellectual Mailer and As a possible area for scholarly research and leaching said Peter Brooks the director of Yale s Whitney humanities Center the other co sponsor of the event last month Schmidt sent a letter to alumni rebut Ting a newspaper opinion article by a 1977 graduate who wrote thai Yale has a reputation As a Gay  Schmidt criticized the article and the Wall sired journal which printed it in August. A conference organizer Ralph Huxter said tuesday that Schmidt was scheduled to participate in the panel several months ago. It s Mil coincidence Huxter an associate professor of classics said of the scheduling of he conference so soon after the controversy. I think the idea of a Gay school or not a Gay school is quite absurd. 1 Don t know what that Means hex ice said. Representatives of homosexual groups on Campus have said they Don l think Yale has More homosexuals than other schools. They have also said they were Dis pleased with Schmidt s letter which was mailed to about 2,000 Volunteer fund raisers. Blanton s citizenship rights restored Nashville. Tenn. A a judge tuesday re stored former gov. Ray Blanton s citizenship rights despite a prosecutor s objection. "1 Don t see How in the world it would help anybody for me to deny your citizenship rights circuit court judge Harry Lester said in handing Down the decision. Blanton who was governor from 1975 to 1979, lost his rights to vote and to hold Public office after being convicted in 1981 of extortion and conspiracy while governor. The former governor freed in july 1986 after serv ing two years in Federal prison had sought the court s assistance after being turned away from the polls ear Lier this year when he attempted to Vole in a local election. . Attorney Joe Brown opposed restoring Blan ton s rights claiming that to do so would be an insult to the citizens of this  at the trial the government proved Blanton and others accepted Money in return for the granting of liquor licenses and preventing Oll Iarj from competing Brown told the court in a written response 10 estonian s request. An Appeal of Blanton s conviction is pending in the . Supreme coun. Blanton said he has no immediate plans to re enter politics although he said some supporters have suggested lie run for Congress. Blanton whose family s multimillion Dollar construction Empire was liquidated to pay Legal fees finished his term in 1979 under a Federal investigation into allegations of a clemency for we operation. Blanton was never charged but three aides pleaded guilty in 19si. 4 million american workers owe jobs to exports Washington a while grow ing sales of imported products have drawn close attention recently More than 4 million americans owe their jobs to exports the census Bureau reported tuesday and More than half those jobs Are in manufacturing industries providing work for one in nine american production employees. Connecticut lops the list with 6 per cent of All its workers in expo related jobs. Ohio Massachusetts Indiana and Michigan also rank High. The share of Export related employ ment has a lot to do with where the Hale is located and Che industries that comprise it Bruce Goldhirsch of the census Bureau said. Exports Are higher from industrialized. Stales he said although it depends on what they Are producing. A state largely involved in heavy steel production lends to have a lower share of exports for example while one turn ing out computers Don belter in Over seas Sain Goldhirsch said the study using figures for 1583 and 1984, shows a slight increase in. Export related employment Over the years he said figures for 1985 and 1986 Are being compiled and Wilt be published in a later report. Of the 2.2 million manufacturing jobs related to exports Haw were in plants producing huh a goods for Export and the my were in businesses providing materials and services to those Plant. Machinery manufacturer led Ibe Export list with 408,000 jobs followed by those malting electric and electronic equipment 381.000, and transportation equipment 218,000. To non manufacturing Trade was the leading provider of work with 875.000 jobs while 197.000 were in Biu Iascu services 158.000 in transportation and communications Antl 583,000 in mining agriculture and other industries  
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