European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday november 29, 1987 handicaps Don t faze Model student by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Ramseck. Germany Tracy Lynette Cash is probably the most unusual cosmetology and Model ing student at Stuttgart High school. I d like to Model said 17 year old Tracy Dii cussing career plans but i Don t know How that s going to come  Tracy was born with a deformed left Arm and a club foot which later was amputated. But while the handicaps make her goal harder to reach Tracy is used to blowing through obstacles. She has had 42 leg and Arm operations and she expects to have More. Childhood was a succession of braces pins casts crutches infections and Long hos Pital visits. When her father. Master sgt. Jerry Cash of he co 2nd support come was serving on Okinawa. Tracey was airlifted to Hawaii where doctors removed her right foot and part of her leg. She missed the entire third Grade that year. But she i Nally began walking with a prosthesis at the age of 8, and she did t Stop there. She soon mastered Bicy cling roller skating and dancing. If you Tell her she can t do something Shell prove you wrong in a heartbeat said older sister Christina Harman. Tracy also has conquered embarrassment she said often giving detailed explanations to people who ask about her Arm and leg. It was t always that Way. Tracy said she rarely had playmates in her earlier years and her family was very protective. And if she wanted to get de pressed by wondering How she would appear with Normal limbs she Only had to look at her twin sister Lori. So Tracey hid her deformities or described them As something they weren t. Before i got Over Here i lied she said. I told people my leg s not amputated i be got a cast. I said my Arm got messed up in a motorcycle  arriving in Stuttgart in april 1986 did t make matters easier. School officials placed her in a class for disabled students and she Drew unwanted Atten Tion. When i first got Here everybody says you gotta look at the twins then they said one of them s limping " Tracey recalled adding that some Stu  it Stoft r ass photo by to. Owen cosmetology and modelling student Tracey Cash is used to coping with obstacles to her aspirations. Dents then declined to associate with her. They say like she s not Normal. Why should we hang around with her " her class assignment ended after a year however. She did so Well she was taken out learning disabilities teacher Randi Mcyoung said. Tracy also said she has Learned to Cope with troublesome Peers and her physical deficiencies have inspired her to help others who Are handicapped. She did Volunteer work with Blind and deaf students while in Middle school on Okinawa and now she helps teach mentally retarded teen agers. And she does t like to remain a stranger to fellow students. I m not the quiet Type she said. I meet people when they re new because i know How they re feel  work with handicapped children is Tracey s second Choice. But her chief goal is a combined mod cling and acting career. "1 had some people say you can t Model be cause you re handicapped " Tracey said. My parents my sister say give it a try. You can do anything you  so Tracey enrolled last year in a daily two hour class. Now As a second year student she helps instruct first year students. Wearing a Long Glove or concealing her deformed hand in a pocket to avoid distracting an audience she also participates in class modelling projects such As a three hour dance modelling show at a hair Salon that opened last week in Stuttgart. She also works 19hours a week at a Robinson Barracks fashion boutique and plans to seek admission to Model ing and acting schools. While acknowledging her limitations Tracey said a lot of modelling jobs such As those involved in hair care product advertising Don t re quire the use of arms and legs. And Many actors and actresses have taken advantage of their own handicaps by starring in films about characters with similar problems she said. She d be willing to give that a try. What you put into it is what you get Back Tracy said. Book finds Waldheim innocent but says he was an opportunist Vienna. Austria a the authors of a Whitebook on president Kurt Waldheim s wartime past said Friday that the former wehrmacht officer broke no Laws but that he May have been an opportunist. The 300-Page Book published in English and Ger Man under the title Kurt Waldheim s wartime years Kurt Waldheim a documentation refutes charges made against the austrian head of state that he was implicated in War crimes or knew of War crimes. It was presented to journalists by Karl Gruber a one time austrian foreign minister who hired Wald Heim As a foreign service officer and two foreign ministry officials. The Advance text of the books had been made available to reporters this past summer. The Book presentation came a Day after Waldheim told the Vienna mass circulation newspaper Kurie that the findings of an International commission of military historians will be certainly not binding on him. The six member panel began in september investigating Waldheim s military service in the Balkans Dur ing world War ii. The panel was to have another ses Sion in Vienna on sunday. It is expected to finish its work in january. Gruber and the other two officials told reporters that the relatively Low rank of second lieutenant Wald Heim held in the German army rules out the Power to order War  he also said it was unlikely Waldheim could have prevented War crimes had he known about them. Gruber said it was not the task of the White Book to establish whether Waldheim could be reproached for opportunism. Gruber said during the nazi years opportunism was the Normal behaviour of every  in reply to questions the authors of the Book said austrian representatives had seen a file compiled at the end of world War ii by America s Oss the organization preceding the Central intelligence Agency. World today jewish cemetery defiled by pro nazi vandals win Weiler Germany a vandals broke into a jewish cemetery destroyed some gravestones and Drew pro nazi slogans on others authorities said. The incident occurred late thursday in the town of Winn Weilor about 50 Miles Southwest of Frankfurt. The vandals turned Over about 30 gravestones break ing some of them the Rhineland palatinate state Inte rior ministry said in a statement. The vandals also Drew swastikas and other pro nazi Graffiti on gravestones and memorials the statement said. No arrests were reported. Greek court cuts term of red brigades terrorist Athens Greece a an appeals court Friday reduced the prison sentence of a convicted italian terrorist from four months to 40 Days for entering Greece with a false passport. Maurizio Folini. 34, a member of the red brigades was arrested in Athens on june 22. He had entered Greece with a false French passport 12 Days earlier. Folini was convicted by an italian court in absent a on terrorism charges. Following his arrest in Athens italian authorities requested his extradition. A court official said that time already spent in Pris on counted toward Folini s sentence on the Fahe pass port charge. However. Folini was remanded in custody until the ministry of Justice confirmed the greek supreme court s decision to extradite him to Italy