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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 11, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 pressure building on Waldheim to resign Vienna. Austria api president Kurt Waldheim is faring mounting pres sure to resign after an inter National panel of historians criticised his role at a lieu tenant in the German army under Adolf Hitler. A president must he absolutely spot less Simon we Knihal. A Vienna based nazi Hunter said tuesday in his first Call for Waldheim to step Down since the controversy began in 1986. Pics Nihal predicted Austria would face hard times if Waldheim Slicks by his refusal to step Down the conservative Salzburger Nach Richlyn newspaper tuesday said Austria was being increasingly ostracized abroad while facing growing division at Home. Only one Man could change this development Kurt  he newspaper said in us front Page editorial. In an interview with British Broad casting corp. Radio tuesday former austrian Chancellor Bruno Kocisky re pealed his Call for Waldheim to leave office before his term ends in 1992. According to my personal opinion he must resign because his record is such that he cannot represent Austria in the sense of our  said Kocisky a socialist who backed Waldheim far his election in Secretary general of Lite United nations in the 1970s. The edits came As Waldheim was expecting the first stale visit since Assum ing office. King Hussein of Jordan who played Host to Waldheim in Jordan last summer was expected to arrive in Vienna wednesday Austria s Small environmentalist Green party called Waldheim s refusal to resign a Lap in the face for Lite Republic. In wednesday s Early editions the Kun Rier tabloid of Vienna said the coalition government missed breaking by a hair on account of  Waldheim 6 a has maintained he is innocent of any wrongdoing. Austrian and . News reports Dis closed Waldheim s wartime Pas i March 1986, during his successful presidential Campaign. The reports included allegations that Waldheim helped Deport jews to nazi death Carpi. Since then inc United Stales has barred him from entering the country and Israel has withdrawn its ambassador to Austria. A 202-Page report released tuesday by a six member panel of historians documented Waldheim s sections As a Ger Man army lieutenant from 1942 to 1943. The report concluded Waldheim had been in close proximity to criminal actions and said the question of whether he is guilty of any crime remains open. It also documented Waldheim s intimate knowledge of nazi atrocities in the bal kans where he served during a. Brutal Campaign in world War ii. Panel member Yehuda Wallach of is Rael decried newspaper headlines which said inc report had exonerated Wald him. That simply in l in our report Wallach told a news conference. That stands in starkest contrast to our find  Wallach did not name any newspapers but such claims were on the frontages of Many austrian dailies on tues Day including the notion1 largest Tab Loid the Cue Kronen Zeitung. The newspaper a Waldheim supporter said in a front Page headline Histo rians found no personal Guill on Wald Heim s  it underlined in a the word no Wallach suggested the commission s report on Wald Ctm could serve As the basis for Legal action against the austrian president. I think it would have Bee much More useful to have set up a Judi Cial commission rather than a historian commission he later told austrian Tele vision. Pan am forming firm with Aero of of boost tourism new York Al l i an am corp. Announced tuesday it has  into a joint venture with acro flow. The soviet air lir -. 10 bring . Tourists to the soviet Union. Pan am which up Rales pan american world airways said the partnership is designed to pro vide . Tour operators with increased and easier Access to air and ground facilities for travel to inc soviet Union. An estimated 100.000 americans arc expected to Visil the soviet Union this year pan am said. Pan Arn s commercial services subsidiary has joined with a Roffol to form the soviet pan am travel Effort or spate which will Market flights hotels and other tourist facilities in the soviet Union to . Travel agents and tour operators the new subsidiary will be based in new York. Pan am named James l. Fannan an executive of a tour operator company and a former Market ing official with pan am As Hie new managing partner for spate in the United states. Pan am and Aeroflot together will Market and operate new non Stop Boeing 747 flights Between new York and Mastaw set to begin on May 14. The pan am jetliners will be staffed with pan am pilots co pilots and Cabin Crews while acro Flot will i Ovid flight attendants on Board to serve As interpreters and to give the soviet Carrier identification with the new project. Fannan said inc partnership Hopes to serve 15,000 american tourists la is Yea r. In Ullen Snow prompts this bavarian Farmer to use a i cd to transport her Keg of milk to ils pickup Point in the Mou Nlaly Ribote Rimpau b4s photo by 8rwta he Lar special delivery West Germany. With Snow shovel in Hind she s hell prepared if Mother nature decides la go to work again. Military services list details on discharging Gays by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington the Navy has remained ahead of ils sister services in inc number of enlisted personnel discharged for homosexuality hut the air Force has led in the number of homosexual officers discharged. The services provided the numbers at the request of the defense advisory committee on women in the services dacoits. A watchdog group thai advises the Secretary of defense. The Navy re punch 634 homosexuals were discharged in fiscal 1987. Compared10 figures released by the other services the Navy has been far ahead on the number of discharges made on homosexual grounds Over the past three Yean. The army last year discharged 349 soldiers for  while the air Force discharged 265 enlisted members. The marines discharged 98 enlisted members. In spite of ill lower numbers on the enlisted scale the air Force led in inc past three years in homosexual releases from the officers ranks. The service Dis charged 15 officers in each of the last two years and is in fiscal 1985. The Navy discharged nine officers last year 13 in fiscal 1986 and 12 the pre Vious year. The army discharged in offi cers for homosexuality last year five the previous year and three in fiscal 1965. And the Marine corps discharged two officers in each of the last three fiscal years. A Pentagon spokesman said that while the number of homosexual men Dis charged far outnumbers the number of women discharged for homosexuality higher percentage of military women Are discharged on homosexual grounds than arc men. In the army there were 349 homosexual discharges 107 of them were women. But As a percentage of the total number of administrative discharges 4.38 per ten of inc Arnty discharges were Homo sexual women compared with barely t percent of the total male Force. Of the Navy s 654 homosexual Dis charges 104 were women. As a percent age of All administrative discharges 3.4 percent were women compared to 2.9 percent men. The air Force s 265 discharges included Only 71 women or 0.026 of the female Force compared to 0.014? for male Servic members. The marines Dis charged 67 male homosexuals or less than i percent of total administrative discharges with 31 women accounting for 6.9 percent Ocio Ial discharges. For officers Only iwo of the 15 Homo to vials discharged from the air Force last year were women. Similar ratios run through the other pc rivets figure. The army hat discharged Only three female officers Tor homosexuality in the last three years and none has been Dis charged from the marines on that  reports that service members perceive action taken against male homosexuals As More severe than that taken against  committee has arted for a de Lui cd report on investigations into alleged homosexual activities Over the past three years including assaults by female personnel on other female personnel in the women s Barracks at Camp Hansen,okinawa." the report is to be completed  said homosexual activity in the military affects the ability of women to function a All  most of the discharges reported Over inc past three years have not been Dis honorable. Under military regulations a discharge solely Oft the grounds of Homo sexuality normally is honorable. The exception would be if aggravated acts were involved  
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