European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. January 19, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 Vietnam open to Mia search Bangkok Dpi the United slates should Lake advantage of Viet Nam s new openness to Send in Large numbers of american visitors As the Only Way in find out whether there still Are us. Prisoners of War alive in indo China a u.5. Congressman said sunday. "11 would appear that there is a major Campaign under Way to sell a new Vietnam said rep. Chester at Kins d-mass., after a five Day visit to Vietnam and Laos but he said it is not yet Clear whether the new openness or the vietnamese government is genuine. But i feel that it ii extremely important that we Tuple re lest and respond to that new  he told a news conference. He said vietnamese leaders admitted they tailed with he old product and now Cronl to open i m country to a Many congressional visitors As want to come As Many Exchange group academician tourists and As Many Trade delegations they can get the main reason for Vietnam change of policy is to attract foreign investment and Trade for it ailing Economy but Atkins said in would also Benefit inc search for the is. Me Meti missing in Vietnam since the War. V Ftp Chester Atkins Atkins said Many americans will re fuse to believe either . Government or vietnamese assurances that there Are no More american prisoners of War alive in Vietnam. Really the Only by thai this Issue will be settled conclusively is. If Large numbers of americans Ore Al Lowed to visit there and if various americans through their Access can ascertain that there Are no live Ameri cans in Vietnam he said. A total of 2.411 americans arc listed As Las in Indochina including nearly 1,800 in Vietnam but Hanoi has repeat edly denied by were alive and held in the indochinese communist nation. Aliens said Nguyen co Thach who holds both pos i of foreign minister and vice prime minister offered to let Atkins go with him to any place in Vietnam without Advance warning in search of mias an offer Thach also it made to other . Legislators. He said Thach offered to pay for such a search by the congressman but was reluctant to allow american technical expert to participate Alvinj said Thach expressed Hope vietnamese investigators would be Able to resolve All 70 Mia cases cited by american officials As the most Lilily to be prisoners. Alkins said later the Viet namese told him 10 of those cases had already been settled. Tuiach also reiterated vietnamese commitment w a two year plan to account for As Many mias As possible the congressman Laid. Thai plan stalled because of Viet namese dissatisfaction with inc Lack of . Response to Vietnam s humanitarian problems. Kalkini warned dial vietnamese officials Are impatient fora tangible result from an agreement in August last year with presidential envoy Gen. John Vessey la help Vietnam get private american charitable Aid for id humanitarian concerns. If we do act see in the next several months some tangible american commitment through non government organizations to the Vessey Mission i think that there is a Good Chance that they the vietnamese will Wail for the next administration to resolve that  Alkins said. I think thai would be most  three government medical team and one private delegation have visited Vietnam to study Way of helping disabled Vieu Hamem but no Aid has yet been received. Vietnam has turned Over eight sen of remains believed to be Mai since the Vessey Mission but . Officials have expressed disappointment that More remains and information were not yet forthcoming. Cause of Gagarin s fatal crash told Moscow up the communist party daily newspaper pravda admitted monday that faulty information on Cloud cover from a control lower and the unexpected Jet Wash from another fighter were to blame for inc plane crash thai killed the tint Man in space Yuri gaga Rin almost 20 years ago. Gagarin whose ashes Are buried in the Kremlin Wall became an International hero following his april 12. 1961, space flight of Iod minutes the first Ever by Man. But mystery and hint of a cover up have always clouded his death at the age of 34. His first and Only space flight beat american Alan Shenard by 13 Days and John Glenn s Orbital night by 10 months. Full information about inc exact circumstances and causes of the fatal crash of Gagarin s Mig-1j Sci fighter during a routine training flight March 27, 1968, has never been made Public leading to speculation thai a cover up had Laken place. Speculation ranged from faulty equipment to rumours the Playboy Cosmo naut May have been drunk during the flight. Yuri Gagarin in March 1987 pravda made Public for the first time partial findings of the government commission assigned to look into the crash but monday s article pin pointed the exact cause of the crash that also killed Gagarin s co Pilot. Vladimir Sery Ogin. That Story hinted at some of the causes behind the crash but still termed As unexplained the sudden nose dive Laken by Gagarin s Jel monday s Story finally pinpointed inc causes of the crash saying that Gagarin s aircraft was forced into us dive by a Iel Wash from another aircraft whose Pilot never saw Gagarin s plane. But still the hero cosmonaut May have lived if he had been Given proper information on the Altitude of surrounding Cloud cover by n military control lower near Moscow pravda said monday. The article based on the government commission s findings was written by professor Sergei Bolo Crkovski a scientist and Engineer. He said Gagarin and Sery Ogin were coming in for a Landing from a height of 4,200 meters about 13,000 feel and were Between two layers of Clouds with no nil ural visibility of the horizon. They had been informed by the control lower that height of the lower Cloud a Over was 900 meters 2.voo feel when in fact in was Only 600 meters 1,800 feel. A they were making heir approach a Mig-21 Jet fighter much larger than Gagarin s Mic-15, suddenly appeared in front of the cosmonaut s plane passing at a distance of a few Hundred feet ii being in the Tail of the other plane Gagarin s Jet was hit by a Jet Wash and began to dive pravda said. The Crew started to take the plane Oul of the dive but being Between the Clouds they had not restored visibility or orientation. They spun five or six limes. 11 was difficult to control the Dight the newspaper sail. The pilots mistakenly considered that they had a sufficient Reserve of height to pull Oul of the dive. They came out of the Clouds at 600 meters 1.800 fee diving at a 70 10 90 degree Angle. They could nol Parachute. The Crew s actions were quite Correct Bill icy lacked Only two seconds or 250 meters to pull out of the diet pravda said. Because of the rapid dive the pita were pinned in their scats under a Force 10 limes that of Normal Gravity. Some afghans get id cards Peshawar Pakistan a soviet authorities in Kabul have issued cards to Wocet members of Afghanistan s ruling marxist party allowing them to enter military air bases in Case of emergency it was reported monday. The afghan Media resource Center a .-Fundcd training Center that teaches Western style reporting to afghan resistance fighters said in received a photocopy of a card from one of its sources to  took Osman for the Center who uses the single name Masood said he source told him the card is printed in red in both rus Sian and Dari an afghan dialect and bean a soviet stamp. Britain s Tabor party chief asks voters for guidelines London up in the Shadow of a leadership crisis Britain s opposition labor party Leader Neil Kinlock bunched a new Campaign monday asking voters to write or Tell him and his deputies How they personally think the party should run the nation if in wins an election in the 1990s. Kinlock old a news conference he will be asking Voten what they think Aboul key issues ranging from nuclear defense and the Economy to the crisis in Britain s health service where spending and standards Art Low compared w ill neighbors in the 12-nation european Community. The Campaign dubbed labor Lis  will be conducted at nationwide meetings Over the nent two years during which party leaders will pfc voters for their views. The party is also sending out questionnaire to voters who arc invited to return them to Kinlock at the party Headquarters. But As he launched the Campaign weeks after prime minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated More than tight years in Power As inc longest serving British prime minister this Century Kinlock found himself having to Deal with a leadership crisis in his party. Labor member of parliament John Prescot issued a Challenge for the Pott of Deputy Leader currently held by Roy Tattersley. Kinlock Wai dogged with u Many questions on the Cansis at on his new Campaign. Neil Kew wok