European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday. February 28,1983 Waldheim cancels anschluss speech Vienna. Austria a president Kurt Wald Heim has cancelled plans to address a solemn ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the nation s annexation by nazi Germany inc president s office announced thursday. Several leading politicians had called on Waldheim id give up inc plans to deliver a speech on March 11 because of he juror Over his service in the German army during world War ii Many political Leaden had said thai a Waldheim speech would Mil he inc Way to Lead austrians in reflecting on the Alro cities of inc nazi past. Organi cars of the March ii ceremony including Chancellor Franz Rani try met with Waldheim thursday morning later lire president s office released a statement saying that Waldheim would deliver a televised address to commemorate the 19jb annexation known As the anschluss. Austria became an Independent Republic again in 1945, in Light of thai and in inc interest of efforts aimed at a harmonious Day of commemoration the president will not speak at this March 11 event the statement said. It did not specify a Day for the televised address. Earlier thursday the 69-year-old president was quoted As again rejecting Calls for hit resignation. He said it was his duly to remain in office despite the juror Over his wartime past. To not glued to my scat but t consider it my duty to slay to the end in the Homburg the Neue Kronen Zeitung quoted Waldheim As saying. The former Impe rial Hof Birg Palace in Vienna is Wald licit i official residence As president. You cannot accept inc simple undoing of the re sults of free elections the newspaper quoted him As saying. Waldheim was elected to a six year term As president in june 1986. The newspaper also quoted him As saying what would my voters think if i just threw in the Towel just because of organized pressure against ust Waldheim has consistently denied any wrongdoing As a first lieutenant in a German army unit in the  International historians commission report re leased earlier this month presented no evidence that would dearly Back allegations Waldheim committed nazi atrocities. But it left open the question of whether he was guilty of any  report said we Helm was in dose Phi Milf to some nazi atrocities in the Balkans knew they were going on and made no attempt to prevent them. Ii also said Waldheim concealed his wartime past. Reagan administration officials have barred Wald Heim from visiting the United states because of his wartime past. News updates Argentine officer suit san Francisco a former Argentine general accused of kidnapping and killing civilians in his country was told Nis Refu Sallo answer lawyers questions would harm him in a . Civil 511 in . District judge Samuel Conti told Carlos Suarcz Mason on wednesday that if he continued his silence any fact he was asked about would be considered True for the purposes of the s20 million lawsuit brought about by a former prisoner. Suarcz Mason who is fighting extradition 10 Argentina defied an order by a Federal magistrate ear Lier this week and refused id answer questions about his alleged responsibility for atrocities in Mili tary prisons during the late 1970s. The proposed questions include whether Suarez Mason had authority to order Lor Turc and executions at prisons run by the first army corps which he commanded from 1976 to 1979. The former general said Mon Day he would not answer questions without having a lawyer. The Issue of whether the lawyer Suarcz Mason has hired for the extradition Case must also represent Himin three civil suits without additional pay is now before the 9th . Circuit court of appeals. Sex is Man gets life Wuppertal West Germany apr a former is sergeant was convicted thursday on five counts of murdering nazi concentration Camp prisoners and sentenced 10 life imprisonment by a Wuppertal court. Gottfried Wcislo 66, was charged with shooting it death five prisoners when he was head of a work detail at the Auschwitz concentration Camp in what is now Poland. Weise who lost an Eye in com Bat and was nicknamed by the in mates the Blind one was As signed to Ausch Iii because of the impairment. Witnesses testified during the 15-month trial that Weise killed an 8-Yoir-old boy and a 17-year-old girl after forcing them to place tin cans on i hair Heads which he used for target practice. Wisc was also found guilty of killing two male prisoners who tried to escape the Camp by hiding on a Supply truck. The fifth victim Weise was found guilty of shooting to death was a prisoner who did not report quickly enough for a head count or inmates. Legislation allows incentive pay for some Dod medical career areas b William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington to head off Possi ble wartime shortages of military nurses. Congress is considering legislation offer ing More pay for certain medical career areas. Sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii. Introduced legislation that would provide incentive pay for periods of one year pro Viding nurses agree in writing to remain on Active duty for at least that Long. The Active and Reserve forces Are shun More than 1,700 nurse anaesthetists according to or. William Mayer assist ant defense Secretary for health. Despite projected improvements through various recruiting retention and educational incentives aimed primarily at the re serves official still expect to be Short 200 nurse anaesthetists by 1992. In is a serious problem a spokesman for Mayer said. Mayer has been warning fur More than a year that in the event of full mobilization medical support units would be hampered by shortages in critical skills such As Anaesthesiologist operating room nurses and nurse anaesthetists. Pentagon health officials wednesday had no immediate reaction to Inouye s Bill. But some noted that the real Short age problem is in the reserves upon which the military counts for 65 percent of its nursing staff during full mobilization. Bouye s legislation Only would Autho Rize incentive pay for Active duty nurses. But an aide to the senator said the Bill would be changed to include Reserve nurses if the Pentagon requests it. Some doctors receive 112,000 tos15,000 in annual incentive pay. Inouye s aide said the Bill gives in defense department flexibility to offer the incentives to those nursing areas where shortages exist. They be told w that yes there s problem Hui we have no authority to offer nurses More Money he Saia. Officials could not say How much the nurses could get if the Bill were passed. The aide added that with Hie National shortage of nurses he expect Congress to be receptive to inc legislation. Con Gress also is awaiting a report on the use of military nurses which the general accounting office should finish this year. In mid-1987, the Pentagon entered into an agreement with the american association of nurse anaesthetists to use that organization s resources to either re Cruit nurses or get them to Volunteer i Advance to provide part Lime services in soviets using propaganda to Battle ski Santa Monica Calif