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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday january 23,1968 world today hungarian Plant pipeline cracks causes Oil spill Budapest Hungary a Hungary s main nil pipeline carrying crude ail from i he soviet Union id two of Floc country s in of refineries has sprung a Irak and some 300 to 350 metric to Lull Oil have been spilled so far Luda pest radio reported Friday. The report said the crack of an As Cyl undetected  occurred tin wednesday " s 11 Alec Csc in Sra hulls satmar county in North Eastern Hungary. The  quoted hungarian experts on the Silc As saying that maximum efforts were deployed in Hopes of plugging the leak by sat urday. Efforts have been directed at locating the Ciaci ipod where the spillage started and halting the leakage and the pollution effects the radio said. It said tank trucks were operating in convoys and thai precautions against fire and explosion bad a can taken. 16 million to lose jobs in soviet push for efficiency Moscow All about 16 million soviets will be Laid off in the Noti 12 years because of campaigns Tor Job efficiency and discipline the newspaper pravda said thursday. The communist party daily said it had or eci Ved letters from readers who worry that soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s drive for per Stroika or economic and social restructuring will revive the Specter of mass unemployment. The article was the Lales indication of wide spread concern Over tic consequences of eco nomic changes. The paper said that some layoffs or preparations for layoffs have begun in Facto Ries and office. French radicals attack Public offices in Brittany Rennes France a the tiny Clandes Tine Breton revolutionary army Are claimed  Early thursday for two Small bombings which caused limited damage and no injuries in the Brittany towns of Rennes and Quimper. In b phone Call to a local radio station the organization said this is our response to provocations by the French  we do not accept that the Breton language an integral part of our National Breton heritage should do destroyed by the  the attacks which occurred about 4 . Were against an office thai administers National education in Rennes and against the Bureau that dispenses Federal family funds in Quimper. The Are the action  of the Breton liberation front has a Long history of bombing pub Lic buildings in its Campaign for autonomy for the Northwest Peninsular province. They claim the area is neglected by policy makers in vans and that their Collic based local culture is disappearing. Military team flies to Hanoi for talks on tracing of mias Bangkok Thailand a a . Military team flew to Hanoi Friday amid new .-Vietnamcsc differences for technical Alks on racing the 1,774 servicemen who never returned from the Vietnam War. . Embassy spokesman Ross pc zing said the Sis Man team led by it. Col. Joe Harvey commander of the joint casually Resolution Center and la. Col. Johnnie a can. Commander of the army identification Laboratory in Hawaii went to the vietnamese capital aboard a is. Embassy plane. The american Side will provide the vietnamese with information concerning specific cases of Ameri cans unaccounted for from the Indochina War Pulz ing said. We will also give the vietnamese details on the Progress we have made in identifying remains they Nave previously resumed to us he said. The technical meeting the first since october comes amid new Public differences Over an agreement worked out last August by . Presidential envoy Gen. John Cesscy. Vessey agreed to address Vietnam s urgent humanitarian concerns while Vietnam agreed to renew cooperation in accounting for the 1,774 americans still missing in Vietnam. The . Stole department however said it was dissatisfied with vietnamese efforts on mias since the agreement resuming Only eight sets of presumed american remains in nearly six months. Only two ids of those remains have so far been officially identified in missing americans. Vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen co Thanh tuesday told reporters in Hanoi that . Intentions to help Vietnam Only through private Aid agencies was not  president Reagan has Willen to private charities urging them to help disabled vietnamese am he Dis patched government learns to Vietnam to Survey the needs of the disabled. The third such team resumed from Vietnam on monday. Thach however indicated that Vietnam wanted direct . Government Aid and said . Actions so far do not completely conform to the Vessey agreement. Vietnam has been accused of holding Back information and remains of hundreds of mias in an attempt to win . Trade and economic assistance for its stagnant Economy. . Investigators also say that despite frequent vietnamese denials they do not have sufficient information to Rule out the possibility that Vietnam is hold ing live americans. The United Stales embargoes Trade and Aid to Viet Nam except for humanitarian assistance. It also trin to discourage multilateral institutions such As the world Bank from helping Vietnam. Waldheim to address gathering on 50th anniversary of anschluss Vienna Austria  
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