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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                President visits Duarte in Hospital Washington a president Reagan accompanied by vice president George Bush tuesday paid a 15-Minutevisit to salvadoran president Jose Napo Leon Duarte who is undergoing treat f ment at the Walter Reed army medical Center for cancer. Duarte was first admitted to Walter Reed on May 31 and underwent three to hours of surgery on june 7. Center spokesman Peter Esker said Duarte re entered the medical Center june 26 for chemotherapy treatment. Asked about Duarte s condition Esker said he s got a pretty Good  the spokesman said that within the next several Days Duarte s doctors would decide if he should go Home or return for additional treatment. White House spokesman Marlin Fitz water said Reagan invited Duarte to visit the White House before leaving Washington. Fitzwater said the salvadoran president said he would like to if it  Fitzwater also said Duarte has accepted Reagan s offer to provide a government plane for his return to Al Salva Dor. Thursday july 7,1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 president Reagan and vice president George Bush at president Jose Napoleon Duarte s bedside. At left mrs. Duarte. A photo anglicans Ponder women clergy by the new York times the governing bodies of anglican churches meeting on both sides of the Atlantic Are struggling to find ways to open religious offices to women without splintering their denominations. In the United states the Issue is women Bishops i England it is women priests. Tuesday in Detroit the House of Bishops of the episcopal Church the 2.8 million member american offshoot of the Church of England voted to endorse a intricate arrangement that it Hopes would placate episcopalians who object to woman Bishops. The american Church has ordained More than 1,200women As priests since 1976, and the election and consecration of a woman Bishop is highly Likely in the near future. The action by the 200-member House of Bishops of the episcopal Church now goes to the 900-member House of deputies made up of an equal number of elected clergy and laity from across the nation. Meanwhile the Church of England to which the episcopal Church and other anglican bodies Trace their roots took a preliminary step toward ordaining women As priests a development that has been bitterly opposed by segments of laity and clergy. Tuesday the annual general Synod which bring together Bishops clergy and laity approved a draft of legislation that would admit women to the Priesthood but also provide those opposing such an action the right to exclude women priests from serving in their parishes and dioceses. The draft legislation approved after intense debate in Westminster England must be approved by a majority of dioceses throughout the country before it i scheduled to be returned to the general Synod in 1992. Marina fire destroys 150 boats in Ohio Lorain ohi9 a fire broke out at a Lake Erie Marina in this Northeast Ohio City tuesday night destroying about 150 recreational boats and injuring two people officials said. About 100 firefighters from Lorain and five nearby communities remained late tuesday at the Copper Kettle Marina where two storage buildings collapsed after catching fire before 7 30 . You could hear Little pops when the Gas cans of the boats went up said Loren Barnheiser who lives across the Street from the Marina. The fire also produced thick smoke because of the fibreglass Content of the boats. Lorain safety inspector Richard Yepko estimate damage at $3 million to $5 million. The cause of the fire was not known. The two injured people apparently were in the building working on their boat when the fire broke out said Lorain Community Hospital spokeswoman Thelma Price. Bakker says pal tried to bar him fort Mill . A Jim Bakker an Dpt officials disputed the reception the former television evangelist received when he appear Dat the ministry s heritage Usa theme Park Over the Holiday weekend. Bakker said tuesday that pal chief of Secu Rity Gene Ervin asked him and his wife Tammy to stay away from fourth of july ceremonies a heritage Usa monday night after earlier week end appearances caused a commotion. Bakker said Ervin told him that pal . Benton was worried because of the num ber of people who would gather around us that it would be  but Ervin said i Only advised them that i they came on the property we did t want any Type of disturbance. That was it. There was no talk about prohibiting them from the  Bakker who is seeking to buy Back heritage Usa said he and his wife Drew 2,400 supporters in afternoon visits sunday and monday. On sunday night he said he and Tammy went out for ice Cream and were surrounded by supporter sat a shopping mall connected to the heritage grand hotel. It was so overwhelming Bakker  started saying we want you Back they followed us to our car. We decided to go  vietnamese emigre wins memorial design contest Holmdel . A a Vietnam Ese emigre selected to design new Jer sey s Vietnam veterans memorial says he wants to show veterans and his adopted country his gratitude. I want to thank the country for Tak ing us in and making us americans said Hien t. Nguyen at a ceremony at the Garden state arts Center where the memorial will be built. I feel like i be done something Good said Nguyen a 35-year-old architect from Marlboro whose entry was selected from 425 proposals. Referring to Vietnam veterans he said if not for them i might not be Here today. They gave us new life. Weare the Lucky ones. He said he will donate his $5,000 award to efforts to return mias to the United states and reunite amerasian children with their american parents. Nguyen s design features an Oval witha 200-foot-diameter set Flat on the ground. A 9-foot High panel of Black Granite lining the Interior will be inscribed with the names of 1,419 new Jersey residents killed in Vietnam and 63 Lis Tedas missing in action. An Oak tree will stand in the Center of the two tiered me Morial. Nguyen who became a . Citizen five years ago was evacuated from Sai gon in an american Airlift on april 30, 1975, with his Mother and sister. The family was taken to a refugee Camp in Arkansas before Nguyen moved to Blacksburg va., where his brother Han was a student at Virginia polytechnic Institute. Nguyen an architecture student i Saigon received an undergraduate de Gree in the Field from Vii and went Tonew Jersey with his brother who works for at to s Bell labs. His parents live i Montreal. Funding for the $2.5 million memorial will come from several sources including veterans groups private corporation Sand the state said state sen. Edward o Connord Hudson chairman of the memorial committee. In Salt Lake City meanwhile ground was broken monday for a memorial to the 364 Vietnam War dead or mias from Utah. Utah county commissioner Bren Morris a Vietnam Veteran and purple heart recipient said during a ceremony at the state Capitol that the memorial would help release years of bitterness. The Utah Monument will feature an 8-foot statue of a Young infantryman slog Ging through a Rice Paddy carrying disown Rifle and that of a fallen Comrade. The Monument will be 60 feet in Diame Ter with four polished Black Marble plaques listing the names of Utah s dead and missing. The organization behind the Monu ment the Utah Vietnam Era Veteran s memorial committee has raised almost$70,000 to fund the project and Hopes to reach its goal of $231,000 by year s end  
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