European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday june 15.198b military Roundup Community Banks to close on Day of German Unity Heidelberg All Community banking facilities in Germany will be closed Friday due id a German Holiday Day of German Unity. All facilities except those in Heidelberg also will be closed saturday. 2 army medics get award for helping save injured cyclist Aschaffenbur West Germany two american medics from the 3rd in i2lh Field arty received the Kavalick Der Strasse award from Aschaffenbur lord mayor Willi Criland in recent ceremonies. Sol. Julia Craighead and spec. Carmen Moreno received the German award for their role in providing medical care that saved the life of a German motor cyclist. The incident occurred in july when the two medics slopped at an Accident scene on German Highway 469 near of Churg and gave medical assistance to a Man injured when his motorcycle struck a Guardrail. Craighead and Moreno also have been awarded the army commendation medal for heir actions. Of outstanding unit award goes to Torrejon a group Torrejon a Spain the 625lh Airlift sup part group was recently awarded the air Force out standing unit award. The awarded was presented to co. Jack e. Pc ctr or. By maj. Oen. Paul a. Harvey 322nd Airlift div commander at rams Cin a West Germany. The 625ill s support ranged from assisting . Forces in Anli la Marist actions in the Mediterranean to supporting humanitarian Relief efforts in Africa kept Essaid. The 625th participated in support operations for the 1985 Achilla Lauro incident for . Actions against Libya for the medical evacuation of victims of an Athens restaurant bombing and for the Relief of Volca no victims in Cameroon. World today Vietnam to expand base on disputed islands Bangkok Thailand up Vietnam plans to expand a military base in the disputed spirally islands where its forces battled chinese Navy ships earlier this year an official newspaper reported. The Saigon Giai Phong run by the communist party of to Chi Minh City said Iso construction workers were being dispatched to inc Liny Island Chain in the South China sea according to a translation made available tuesday. The newspaper said the workers would build two houses on Truong a Island for combatants who Are on duly 10 protect the  China has also reported plans to build a permanent base in the Sprat is a group of largely uninhabited islands and Low lying reefs about 250 Miles East of the vietnamese coast and 600 Miles South of China s Hai Nan Island. The islands believed to contain Petroleum deposits Are claimed by Vietnam China Malaysia Taiwan and the Philippines. Japan plans to become largest foreign Aid giver Tokyo a Japan will double its foreign development Aid to about $50 billion in the next five years surpassing the United states As the world s biggest donor of such Aid the foreign ministry announced monday. A foreign ministry official said the new five year program approved at a Cabinet session monday will More than double the s25 billion Japan gave in the past five Yean. Prime minister Noboru Takeshita will explain the Aid plan at the Toronto Summit of seven major Indus trial count pcs june 19-21, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Aid called official development assistance totalled $7.45 billion in 198 7, up 32.3 percent in Dollar terms from the previous year and i3.s percent higher on a yen basis the official said according to the latest . Figures the United states gave 19.56 billion in 1986 As foreign Aid. Aquino declares poverty perilous violation of rights Geneva a poverty and chronic underdevelopment an human rights abuses thai impede democracy and threaten to create anarchy in developing countries philippine president Corazone Aquino said tuesday in a speech to the International labor Organiza Tion s annual conference Aquino said the linkage of debt development and democracy is undeniable and is the most pressing Issue this body must  she said chronic  is the Moss systematic abuse of human rights and she challenged the Iso nation 1lo to find a Resolution to this threefold Issue some 1,800 government labor and employer delegates greeted Aquino with a standing ovation As she entered the crowded Hall and again when she departed after delivering her speech. The philippine president said the debt Burden of developing countries threatens to end All Prospect of their recovery and growth and equally threatens to create the anarchy and despotism where human rights Are the first victims she called for a narrowing of the scope of evil in the world which she said operates in the free spaces of  the attraction of democracy is also its weakness for it must Accord the same constitutional safeguards to the perpetrators Aslo the victims of human rights abuse she said. Aquino said the revolution which ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos and brought her to Power in february 1986 reaffirmed the principle that the Protection of human rights is the first duly of  she said the deliberate and systematic violation of those rights by their governments imposes on the peo ple the sacred obligation to overthrow  the Aquino government has been accused by some philippine Trade Union officials of committing human rights abuses. Crispin Beltran chairman of the May first movement labor Center charged in a press statement in Geneva thai since Marcos ouster human rights violations in the Philippines Bave increased. Another statement from by Loran handed to the press after Aquino s speech said she has betrayed the people s mandate and turned full Circle into the ways Aquino peaks it labor conference tuesday. A photo of the past  in her speech Aquino said her administration has consistently expressed a preferential option for the  she quoted from the philippine Constitution put Inlo effect after she came to Power and said it reflected the lesson which dictatorship had seared in our minds that we will not accept Progress at the expense of the workers or by exacting the Price of their  Aquino said she would take the necessary Steps to get the supreme court to approve the rules for a new philippine writ of Amparo a special constitutional remedy to enforce human social and economic rights through a speedy and inexpensive  she did not elaborate. She also said she has strengthened the philippine commission on human rights to answer fears thai democracy has proved inadequate in protecting human rights in the  Aquino s speech was inc first highlight of her euro Pean trip which will also take her to Bern Switzer land s capital and Italy.  author Nof planning sequel Sydney Australia a author Peter Wright says he has much More to Tell about Britain s mis intelligence service but plans no sequel to spy Alch or the memoirs inc British government failed to sup press Here. There Are 10 major stories which i have not put in and probably other if i thought hard enough Wright told the australian broadcasting corp. Monday. It was the first time Wright had spoken publicly since the High court ruled against the British govern ment on june 2, ending a. Three year court Battle to Block australian publication of his Story. Wright said it was the stories he had not told that led the government to fight so hard to suppress the Book. They have always been frightened of what i know and what i might say publicly and they still arc he said. Spy Catcher describes Wright s 20-j car career in the mi5 counter espionage service. It alleges that the Security service eavesdropped on foreign embassies burglarized offices stole documents plotted assassination attempts and discussed Haw 10 bring Down Harold Wilson s labor party government in the 1970s. Wright said he had not decided what to do with the unpublished material but doubled he would write a sequel. I m too tired at the moment. Well have to recover from All this and i think thai perhaps i have done my bit he said. Wright s wife Lois commented there will be a sequel to spy Alcher Over my dead  Wright who retired to Tasmania in 1976, said the court Battles in Australia helped make spy Catcher � bestseller. I thought initially we might a a print run of about �0,000 at most. Now we Are looking at More than 1 million copies sold in the .a. Alone he said. So far More than 1.4 million copies have been sold in 40 countries including the United slates despite the government s continued ban in Britain and Hong Kong. The Book is frequently smuggled into Britain and excerpts have been published in British newspapers. The British government has sought to Clamp Down on these As Well prompting outcries Over Freedom of the press. The government maintains it has pursued the Case to uphold the principle that former Security officers Are bound by a lifetime oath of silence about their work. The australian High court said australian courts have no jurisdiction to enforce a British Security regu lation. Man rescued after whales sink boat London a a cargo ship on monday rescued an English Yachtsman whose vessel Sank after a Herd of whales apparently attacked the Craft during a trans Atlantic yacht race the coast guard said. A distress message received by the coast guard in fal Routh said the yacht had come under attack by whales 1,000 Miles West of the Southwest tip of eng land the defense ministry said. David sellings 41, who was competing in the Carsberg single handed trans Atlantic race told rescuers that the 25-foot yacht Sank in seconds but that he managed to recover he Dinghy and set Ofta distress Beacon. Sellings escaped unhurt the coast guard said. A Royal air Force Nir Rod reconnaissance plane spotted the Dinghy and after eight hours. Selling was picked up by the West German coaster Bridgwater. He was expected to return to Liverpool on the Stop Friday. A coast guard spokesman said about 20 wholes apparently attacked the yacht and May have been protecting their Young. It is very unusual for whales to attack a boat bul not uni own said the spokesman who requested anonymity. The Tram Atlantic Nee from Plymouth on the South coast of England to Newport r.i., began june 9. Eleven of the 9 vessels have dropped out to Dale