European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday january in 1988 Argentine rebel Leader escapes captures unit Buenos Aires. Argentina a a rebel Leader i col. Aldo Rii of who escaped from House arrest on Friday has taken Over an infantry unit in Monte Casc or. Hie army said Early sunday. Sympathizers who joined in the takeover included he chief of an army garrision. The army chief of staff Gen. Jose Caridi said in a communique that Rico the head of a three Day revolt in a military school last april along with some Fol Lowers began occupying infantry regiment 4 in Monte castros. 450 Miles North of this capital at 4 . Saturday. The army has Mobili cd troops from Ine Sec Ond army corps to initiate the March to recuperate the military installations and capture the rebels the communique said. The communique stressed thai the rest of i the army was following Caridi with absolute i  . Col. Hector Alvarez Garza bal head of infantry regiment 4 near Llie Uruguay Argentina Border on the Uruguay Kivor. Issued a radio Gram minutes earlier saying he sided with Rico and would incl adhere to c Mariji orders. Rico escaped Friday morning from House arc so in a country club in suburban Buenos Aires just before army officers arrived with an order to return him to military confinement racked by about 40 supporters he vowed he would avoid detention until a minimum of Justice is guaranteed. Rico was charged with being in rebellion in con Naclion with the april revolt at the military school in Campo a  had been held for eight months in confinement Al Campo de Mayo until he was put under House arrest on dec. 30. He then began making statements ques lining Caridi s authority. He said also that the government had never thanked soldiers for helping win inc dirty wit against leftist subversives during the 1976-83 military regime. Rico in a radio Gram issued earlier saturday said he was searching for a political solution to the sequels or he War against  it also said he wan cd to restore the dignity and Unity of the Argentine army. Rico 43, said he was continuing with operation dignity the name he gave to his bottle o end prosecution of officers charged Wilh he Man rights abuses during the former military regime. He said he wanted to gain Thanki from the govern ment for their role in fighting subversion that swept Argentina in he 1970s. Seven weeks after Rico s revolt the most serious of three Brief revolts to convulse Argentina during easier week Lasi april president Raul Alfonsin signed a Law granting amnesty to most officers accused of rights abuses during the former military regime. Rico is particularly admired by younger military officers and was twice decorated for bravery during the 1982 Falkland islands conflict with Britain England marking anniversary of defeat of Spanish Armada Plymouth. England a spam let bygones be bygones and chivalrous by Scal a Diplomat to the Stan of yearlong celebrations in Britain of tic defeat of the Spanish Armada 400 years ago. It is our common  said the envoy Jose Ignacio bin Avidus minister Counselor Al the Spanish embassy in London. Buna Vics opened an exhibition of salvaged treasures from two Armada warships inc Giranda and Trinidad valences wrecked off i Roland on their Way Home. Sneaking in Plymouth the port from which sir Francis Drake and his fellow admirals set sail in list to meet he threat of Spanish invasion and Conquest bin Avidus added i am sure that Drake is not turning tonight in his grave and that those spaniards who died looking Down on us wonder Why we could nol Goon peacefully together. Felipe pc Mandycz Armelo an Oxford University Histo Rian of Spanish descent who attended the exhibition told the associated press it was an enormous achievement of Plymouth 10 get a Spanish Diplomat Here. There s a feeling in Spain thai by appearing to participate in what englishmen popularly regard As a great Victory the impression would be Given that Spain docs t care about issues still to be resolved mainly Gibraltar Brit Ain s Spanish Mainland Colony and arguments Over Trade Quolas in inc european economic Community. Furna Nycz Aroi eito said he thought Britain should respond to inc Spanish gesture by restraining chauvinistic excess and try to perceive what this anniversary is about the common legacy of a great maritime tradition in the Atlantic Ocean. Plymouth and other communities plan extensive celebrations of events in 1988. A Chain of beacons will be lit in july As they were 400 years ago to warn the Nalion that the Armada had been sighted. King Philip ii of roman Catholic Spain intended to conquer England and crush is Young protestant Reli Gion. But inc skill and gunnery of the English Fleet and Hie Armada s failure to embark a Spanish army wait ing in the Netherlands mined Ine Enterprise. Storms wrecks wounds disease sickness and Hun Ger put an end to the Armada bid. Only s4 of the original 130 Armada ships Gol Back Home. Of the 8.000 seamen and 19,000 soldiers who set out Only 7,000 survived. English losses were about 1,000, mostly from disease Anil malnutrition after the Battle. The Armada anniversary is mainly an English Cele bration became Scotland was then a separate country and Philip hoped for allies among scottish catholics. Plymouth England curator Tristram its Lemon with relics included in the exhibition All Europe held i s breath in that year because Spain called us Fleet invincible and everyone thought inc Armada would overwhelm inc  said James Mildren author of an anniversary Book Invin Cible  defeat of the Armada was a historical mile Stone for the protestant Faith because it allowed people to think for themselves Mildren said in an interview. There arc Many legends like Drake refusing to Stop his game of bowls Lawn Bowling when the enemy was sighted but the fiction Wai More important than the reality because it lifted men s hearts in the darkest  treasures of the Armada exhibition with All the relics loaned by the Ulster museum in Belfast Northern Ireland runs in Plymouth through March 26. La will then be included in a larger show about the Armada at London s National maritime museum april 20-sep .4. World today Vietnam to Export workers in foreign labor plan Bangkok Thailand a Vietnam will Send More than 10,000 worker including sever Al thousand construction worker to toe soviet bloc and other countries this year put of ill labor Export program the Vietnam new Agency said saturday. The Agency said that 1,100 will go 10 Siberia to work on conjunction projects while 4.000 Are being teat la East Germany. Worker will also be tent to Bulgaria Czecho Slovakia Algeria and Iraq. The workers Are paid higher salaries than at Home but must pay a portion of their wage to inc economically ailing Hanoi government interviews with a number of returnee Indi Cate hat Many want 10 work abroad became of higher salaries and the availability of certain goods such As radio and televisions . And in South Africa bars White applicants Pretoria South Africa a the . Embassy has placed an advertisement seeking construction bids and Only non while need apply the and placed in the Pretoria news asks for bid on a Small building to be constructed on property owned by the . Embassy. The and Calls for response from Black or non White South african individuals or companies. An embassy official who requested anonymity said Friday the wording of the and was in keeping with the affirmative action Ruid Luiea set Down by the . Congress in the 1986 comprehensive anti apartheid act. The legislation Calls for an affirmative action program by the embassy. Its other provisions ban the importation of some South african goods and Cut direct air links Between the two countries if the . Professes to be Colo Blind How would it be Able to distinguish the race of applicants an unidentified White building contractor was quoted us saying by the South african press association. Foreigners visited Greece in record numbers in 1987 Athens Greece a a record 8 million foreigners visited Greece m 1987. For an increase of 11.2 percent from 1986, tourism undersecretary Nikos Skoulas said saturday. Skoulas told a group of government official that foreign Exchange earnings from tourism in 1987 totalled s2.2 billion a 22 percent increase Over the previous year. While in Greece each tourist spent an average of $290, compared to 1269 for Spain and $215. For Yugoslavia Skoulas said. Palace near Leningrad damaged by Braze Moscow a a fire broke out in tie throne room of the i8th