European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes tuesday. December 29, 1987 . Adviser to rebels killed in Afghanistan Tass reports Moscow a afghan author incs claim government mops kilted an -\meril1.m adviser m a Coon Iceni pensive against anti mams guerrillas in North Eastern Afghanistan. Hit1 Tass new Agency said. Las said afghan it. Gen Mohammad Nabi a inti reported thai 1.500 guerrillas were killed wounded taken prisoner or had Hal during recent operations in Afghanistan s Klios District. Among those killed there was Al Leas one amen Tan  a Imi was quoted As ii Iling a sunday news conference in Kahili the Tass report gave no additional details and in was. Nil possible i verify the report the United slates provides stinger missiles and other material Aid to the  lighting against the pin Uviel government in Kabul hut has not reported sending military advisers to the area the soviets however claim the United states and other Western nations Are interfering in afghan affaire. Vii was quoted by Taw As saying guerrillas in the Khom District were being helped by armed pakistanis and 5 1 foreign advisers hut did not say where the and users came from sunday marked the eighth and Mcreary of the dec. 11, l 79, military one into alg Haslan by the soviet army. Soviet troops intervened ostensibly at the request if the Moscow hacked afghan communist regime and under the auspices of a Friendship treaty. The soviets presided Over the i place Mcnol of one marxist Leader by another. The Kremlin still has an estimated 115.0 10 troops in Afghanistan in help the government combat the insurgency. A Imi Afghanistan s first dip us minister of de sense said the offensive to drive counterrevolutionary bandits from the Khost area was developing Suc  he said that government troops enjoyed a 4 to a advantage hut he did not mention the involve ment of any soviet troops. Gennady i. Gerasimov. The soviet spokesman said that the Campaign in lift the siege of Klios was a joint operation involving soviet military units. He did not say How Many soviet troops were involved and he refused to disclose How Many had been killed or injured. Ocra Simov said the guerrillas had suffered More than 1.500 casualties. In was not immediately Clear whether he was referring to the same kisses As . Khosla near the Border with Pakistan has been under siege by resistance units since the april i97k revolution that brought a marxist government to Power in Afghanistan a Imi said the guerrillas were trying to sever inc District from the rest of the country in establish a provisional government there and turn inc area into a Supply base for operations in the rest of Afghanistan. It our i Noih weather conditions and time itself have taken their Tell on the 2,500-year-old Temple of Epi Koa Rios Apollo at Bassat. Greece. And now the Temple is encased in a tent so workmen can repair and replace covered for a time a photo Slanc columns and do other work necessary to undo the deterioration the Structure has suffered Over the centuries. It s a project that will require at least five curs hut for Lime s Sake it s Worth i he Effort. World today Man who coined phrase Gung to Dies in China iui1 Reni Alle. A left Wing new Zea land writer who lived in China for 0 Jears As a Friend of chinese communism and coined the phrase Gung in to mean work together died sunday of heart failure the chinese news Agency reported. Alley died less than a month after his kith birthday on Pec. 1. Which he celebrated at a Parl attended by senior chinese officials led by communist i arly chief Zhao Xizang. Who paid tribute to his decades of Loyal support. Alley coined the phrase Gung  or work together in the 1 930s As a shortened name for a movement led by american journalists Helen and Redpar Snow to set up Small Industrial cooperatives for chinese made impoverished and homeless by the japanese occupation. The phrase was later adopted by a Friend of the snows. Marine it col. Evans Carlson As the slogan of his world War ii battalion Carlson s  after the 19-13 movie Hung to Lioni de Carlson s exploits the phrase was identified with inc marines. Pope names Arab priest As patriarch of Jerusalem Vatican City a i Ope John haul ii on monday appointed a i ales inc born Arah priest Aspa Triach of Jerusalem for latin rile catholics. Vatican officials said they believed it was the first time an Arab had been named to the Post which was first established by inc crusaders in 1099. The new patriarch is Michel Lahhah 54, Horn in a Archt. He previously served As a Parish priest in Amman. Jordan and As president of the Catholic University of Bethlehem. He succeeds patriarch Giacomo Giuseppe a Cirilli 77, an italian whose retirement for reasons of age was announced monday. 2 die As Tornado blasts Transki Homeland area East London South Africa a a Tornado devastated a three mile area of the Rural trans Sci Tri bal Homeland monday killing at least iwo people and leaving 400 homeless. The South african press association quoted Resi dents of Tokstad 1 8 Miles from the Tornado site As saying a woman and child had been killed and 18 people were being treated for injuries. They also told inc news Agency that farm animals had been struck by flying pieces of roofing and sheets of corrugated Iron roofing had been scattered Over a Large area. Everything in sight was ripped to  said Andre Erasmus adding thai the wind had flattened a school and Many Homes. Japan to pay families of taiwanese War dead Tokyo a Japan has decided to pay 2 million yen $16,000 each to compensate for about 30.400 taiwanese who were killed or seriously wounded while fighting for Japan in world War ii inc in my min ister s office said monday. An official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Said the Money would be paid As soon As possible in fiscal 1 98s to the families of 30,000 dead and 400 wounded soldiers. Fiscal 198k starts on april i. I Lativs of the victims in Taiwan had asked for compensation of up to 3 million yen 124.0110 for each dead or maimed Soldier. 65 Amero Sions leaving for . On new year s eve Bangkok Thailand up the first group of amerasian children to leave Vietnam for the tinned slates under a new agreement with Hanoi is expected to depart on new year s eve. A . Embassy spokesman said Mon Day thai the As children fathered by Ameri cans during the Vietnam War and 91 of their relatives along with 226 vietnamese joining family members in the United slates arc scheduled 10 leave thursday. These Are the first amerasian to leave under the new arrangements with the sri socialist Republic of Viet name the spokesman said. The new procedures meant to Speed the processing of amerasian and other vietnamese leaving fur the United Stales were agreed upon in August and september. They allow . Officials to interview applicants and make i immedi ale decisions in accept or reject them. The group members scheduled to leave this month were interviewed b to. Officials in october ending a 22 month Hall in interviews. The halt was ordered by inc vietnamese who said they Here uti Happy with c a. Immigration procedures. . Officials conducted More inter views earlier this month and approved Annie or i.5-1b vietnamese including 767 amerasian and their Rei Alives. For even Tual resettlement in the i United states the spokesman said. The people Lolk gals i spoke to were Quile upbeat about the was the Vietnam Ese arc handling  he said. The ski seems particularly anxious to Clear up the am asians As fast As