European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 28 tits briefs the stars and stripes wednesday april 27.1988 Arafat Assad end talks aimed at reconciliation Damascus Syria a Flo chief Yasser Arafat concluded a three Day reconciliation visit 10 Syria tuesday and said his talks with presi Dent Haft Assad to end a five year feud were constructive. Arafat s 3v-hour meeting with Assad on monday night was aimed at reviving a hard line Alliance against Israel and . Middle East peace efforts and at ending the till that has hampered efforts o forge Arab Unity. Sources said the Palestine liberation organisation chairman left by plane for Libya after meeting for one hour tuesday with syrian vice president Abdul halite Kli Aldam one of As sad s closes advisers. As he Rode in his limousine to the Airport Arafat shouted to reporters pressing him for comment on the talks with Assad they were useful and will have positive results on Ine palestinian and Arab  Canadian forces Soldier collapses on hike Dies Nicosia. Cyprus Sis a Canadian forces Soldier assigned to Trie . Peacekeeping forces died monday in a Hospital in the United kingdom after collapsing during a 10-mile hike pal. J. Tool tier of Lake cow Chan British co Lumbia died a i 10 . Said army it. Martin m. Kenneally a Canadian forces spokesman Trottier was assigned to 3rd in Princess Pat Ricia s Canadian Light inf which arrived in Cyprus in March for a six month tour As part of the peacekeeping forces. The battalion s Home Post is in Victoria British Columbia. Ken Scally said to attic who was not married. Lapsed into a coma after collapsing during the hike his second such hike in two Days. The sol Dier was transferred to Queen Elizabeth military Hospital in Woolwich England where he died without regaining consciousness. The cause of death is believed to be associated with complications brought about by the heat but is not yet confirmed Kenneally said. Soviets to Speed up visas for foreign businessmen Moscow a new procedures begin Ning Neil month will make it faster and easier for foreign businessmen scientists and technicians to obtain soviet visas in Many cases with in 48 hours a government official said tuesday under communist party chief Mikhail a Gorbachev the soviets have been wooing for eign investors proposing joint projects with for eign firms and seeking to use Western capital and expertise to revitalise the state run econ omy. For years securing an entry visa to the soviet Union has been a time consuming affair with delays that often stretched into months. Starting May 1, however it will be the prac Tice of soviet consulates abroad to Issue visas within 48 hours to foreign business people technicians and Scioni its who already have established contacts with the soviet Union. A ramen Mosaid. There will also be a maximum broadening of the granting of multiple entry visas documents valid for two or three years that allow bearers to enter and leave the soviet Union As Many times As they want the Diplomat said. North s diaries subpoenaed for panel s narcotics probe Washington api the Senate foreign relations committee voted tuesday to subpoena the Pri vate diaries of fired White House aide Oliver l North after sen. John Kerry d-mass., said the diaries May prove essential to the panel s investigation of International narcotics smuggling. The subpoena which the committee voted 16-1 to Issue Calls for North and his attorney. Brendan Sulli Van to produce 2,848 pages of diary notes with no deletions of any kind. Kerry said that of that tola1,269 pages have been heavily edited or censored by covering the contents of copies of the diary pages with heavy Black Ink. He said the pages arc studded with intriguing references to narcotics to Kerry own continuing investigation and to possible links to Anli sandinista Contra rebels in Nicaragua most such references Are followed by Large blacked out sections Kerry told the committee. Kerry said the diary notes Cov the period from september 1984 to november 1986, when North was a key member of the National Security Council suit censored versions of the diaries were provided to the congressional Iran Contra committees lad year under the Grant of limited immunity from prosecution granted to North. Kerry said that in order to Speed up the process the Iran Centra panels permitted North and Sullivan to Block out sections they deemed to be irrelevant to that investigation. But Kerry said that John nicolds chief counsel of the House Iran Contra committee agrees with him that there Are Many sections Hal appear to be relevant to the Kerry narcotics investigation. Kerry has made it Clear he believes there was a connection Between drug running and efforts to Supply and Arm the contras. Some testimony has focused on that possibility. North was in daily Contact with Contra Leaden Dur ing the period involved and visited them in the fiend. Those contacts and visits Are reflected in his notes. Ceremonies Honor 8 who died in try to Rescue Iran hostages Washington eight american service men who died in a failed attempt to Rescue in Ameri can hostages in Iran eight years ago were honoured monday at a ceremony attended by relatives friends and military officials. Time is a great healer of pain said air Force capt. Richard Holmes the brother of Cpl. George Holmes or. Of Pine Bluff ark., one of the eight men who died during the abortive Rescue Mission in the iranian desert on april 2s, 1980. Those feelings of sorrow have been replaced with feelings of Pride he said. The men rive from the air Force and three from the Marine corps died when a helicopter collided with a transport plane after officials decided to aban Don the Mission before entering Tehran where the hostages were being held in the . Embassy. The hostages were freed in january 1981 after 444 Days in Captivity. Army Secretary John o. Marsh jr., and former hos tages Bruce Laingen and air Force col. David to Cdr were among those attending the 30-Minutc ceremony at Arlington National cemetery across the Potomac River from the nation s capital. Roedfr said that when he Learned of the Rescue attempt while still being held in Tehran he tried. He has great Pride he said in remembering those who were willing to die for Freedom. After a presentation of colors by the Marine corps color guard participants placed yellow roses on the Headstone where three of the eight maj. Richard Bakke of Long Beach Calif. Joel c. Mayo of Harris Ville Mich. And Harold Utris of Fon Walton Beach Fla. Are buried. A Wreath was then put near the plaque commemorating death of the eight. Besides Holmes he others were sgt. John Harvey of Roanoke a. Staff sgt. Dewey l. Johnson of Dublin a. Capt. Lyn d. Mclntosh of Valdosta a and Capi. Charles Mcmillan of Corr Tott Tenn. Doctor who went to chernobyl predicts up to 30,000 deaths Washington a or. Robert Dale an american leukaemia specialist who treated victims of the 1986 chernobyl nuclear plan disaster in the soviet Union predicted tuesday lha 3,000 to 30.000 people will die of cancer As a result of that Accident. He also said he expects another major nuclear Acci Dent somewhere in the world in the next 25 years maybe in the next 10 years Gale s forecast was a revision of his prediction a year ago that there would be As Many As 75,000 Cher Nobyl cancer deaths. Last year British radiologists said they expected that the delayed effect of the radiation would add about 1,000 deaths to the estimated 30 million cancer deaths that can be expected to occur in Western Europe in the next 50 years. We re predicting at the moment somewhere be tween 3,000, and maybe As Many As 30,000, Elri deaths from cancer Over the next 50 years Gale said. He was interviewed from Boston on lbs Thil morning on the occasion of the second anniversary of chernobyl and the publication of his Book final warning the legacy of  half the be Mobil fatalities will occur outside the soviet Union mostly in Eastern and Western Europe Gale said. When you have an Accident in one of these Power plants it s an International event he said. And it always going to happen Hal at Tost half of the events Are going to occur outside of the country of the Acci Dent we re All in this together in a nuclear  Poison from Page 1 were not aware of the report and were pulling the produce from shelves. At Comiso As Sicily the store Man Ager was not aware of any problem and planned to Contact her Headquarters for guidance. The store at Rota is Spain stocks israeli Grapefruit on occasion said chief Petty officer Manuel Gonzalez assistant store manager. Although he had not been notified of a problem he was suspending sales while awaiting guidance from his military sup pliers. Commissary officials at other . Military installations in Italy could not be reached for comment. Last week an organization saying in was supporting the palestinian uprising in Israel and calling for a Boycott of israeli products claimed to have poisoned israeli Grapefruit on Sale in Milan but Laboratory checks found no Trace of Poi son. The first seizure order was made by health authorities in Rome s Region of Lazio and in was quickly followed by an order by the National health ministry for the seizure of Alt Grapefruit on Sale or in warehouses around the country. In Turin the Northern Region of pied Mont issued a separate announcement earlier that As a precautionary measure it was ordering All israeli grown Grapefruit seized and appealing to citizens to de stroy any Grapefruit they have at Home. Israeli grown Jaffa Grapefruit in cellophane wrappers Are sold widely around Italy. Authorities in the Region of Lazio which includes Rome said health officials inspected the Grapefruit in one Rome supermarket after a newspaper received a warning Telephone Call. Of the 11 Grapefruit on Sale six were found to have been injected with a bluish Poison so powerful Fiat it immediately killed Laboratory mice the italian news Agency Ansa said. The caller to the newspaper said he was speaking in the name of the previously unheard from organization of metropolitan proletarians and oppressed people. Ansa reported that authorities had already stepped up controls on Grapefruit following an Anonymous tip thai grape fruit imported from Israel had been Poi soned