European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday july 14,1988 world today 5 fishermen rescued after 7 Days in Lifeboat Sydney Australia a after their trawler Sankoff the North coast of new South Wales state five fishermen huddled together for seven Days in a tiny life raft before being rescued one of the survivors said five men four new sealanders and an austra Lian had been missing in rough seas 140 Miles fro the nearest land. They were plucked from the sea tues Day by an australian Navy helicopter after their raft was spotted Drifting off the town of port Macquarie. They had no radio and their rubber raft was equipped with meager food rations said the ship s Captain. Bob said the fishing trawler Lohlein had sunk so quickly on july 5, there was no time for a distress Call. Mercy killing common chinese forum reports Beijing a mercy killing is common in Man chinese hospitals according to a National forum recently concluded in official China daily wednesday said one Shanghai Hospital reported 28 percent of the 563deaths in its medical surgical and gynaecology depart ments in the past three years were the result of Eutha ill patients were allowed to die at the re quest of relatives who wanted to end the patients suf Fering it said. The report on the controversial Issue said most cases of euthanasia in chinese hospitals were passive meaning the withholding of life preserving treatment to terminally ill patients. Volcano on Java erupts after 30 inactive years Jakarta Indonesia up mount Slamet vol Cano on the crowded indonesian Island of Java has broken 30 years of relative silence in a spectacular fireworks display officials said wednesday. Thousands of townsfolk from pure Overto some 200miles East of Jakarta and the nearest City to Slamet stood spellbound in front of their houses As the second highest Volcano on Java shot plumes of fire and molten Ash 300 feet into the sky. It s like a giant Sparkler said a police sergeant awed by the show of volcanic Force that began tuesday from the 11,213-foot Peak. The last eruptions were inthe 1950s. World s largest aquarium opens in Sydney Australia Sydney Australia a the $24 million Syd Ney aquarium the world s largest in terms of volume of water opened wednesday at the Darling Harbor i downtown Sydney. Aquarium director John Burgess told a news Confer ence that he expects a million people to visit the aquarium annually. The aquarium s 792,500 Gallons of water make it the world s largest according to the guinness Book of world records. It includes two Large oceanarium a Crocodile poo with three Saltwater crocodiles and 50 tanks housing More than 5,000 fish and other Marine life such a turtles stingrays and Coral. Remains of 25 americans on Way from Hanoi to . Bangkok Thailand a a . Honor guard paid tribute wednesday As a military team in Hanoi Vietnam retrieved what Vietnam has identified As the remains of 25 american servicemen killed in the Viet Nam was one of the largest turnovers since . Forces withdrew from Vietnam in 1973, after the War Cost 58,000 american lives.. Officials said the vietnamese handed Over a list of names and associations relating to the said some of the names appear on the official list of 1,761 americans missing in action or Mia from the a 25-minute ceremony the plane carrying the remains took off for Guam in route to Honolulu where the . Army Central identification Laboratory will try to identify the remains. A Large proportion of remains returned by Vietnam Are subsequently identified As those of mias. As usual the remains were turned Over during a simple solemn ceremony at Hanoi s Noi Bai Airport said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. . And vietnamese officials first signed documents transferring custody of the remains then experts of the two sides jointly examined them. The remains in individual caskets topped with a folded american Flag were then loaded one by on conto a . C-14i military transport plane As an Honor guard saluted under overcast skies. The 23-member . Team was from the joint casualty Resolution Center and the army Laboratory Honolulu based agencies entrusted with resolving the fates of missing servicemen. It was led by it. Col. Paul Mather head of the Resolution Center s Bangkok office. The turnover was the fifth since retired Gen. Johnw. Vessey acting As a special presidential envoy reached an agreement in Hanoi last August under which communist Vietnam would accelerate the search for remains especially several dozen on the Reagan administration s top priority list. In return the United states encouraged private humanitarian agencies to help Vietnam with medical problems including rehabilitation of veterans who lost limbs in the War with the United states. The last return of remains on april 6, was the larg est Ever. Vietnam returned 27 sets of remains it tentatively identified As those of americans and three other sets that it said were those of ethnic asians who might possibly be among the missing americans. Since the War ended Vietnam has returned More than 150 sets of remains that the army Laboratory has confirmed As those of americans. In harm s Way american John Riley is hooked then tossed by a raging Collarbone 6 other youths were seriously injured. A total Spanish Bull in a barricaded Pamplona Spain Street As of 25 were Hurt tuesday during the seventh and most fellow runners try to distract the animal from its intended dangerous Day of the running of the bulls at the Weelon victim. While the american escaped with Only a broken san Fermin festival. Soviet deserter s up and Downs end in Freedom Moscow a a soviet Soldier who deserted in Afghanistan five years ago travelled to the United states an then returned to the soviet Union Only to be thrown into jail has been freed Tass reported tuesday. The state run news Agency said Niko Lai Ryzhkova was released from a labor Camp under an amnesty announced july 4 for soldiers who turned against their country during the soviet army s 8 /2 year intervention in Afghanistan. In a january 1985 dispatch Tass said that after he deserted Ryzhkova was drugged nearly starved and visited by lovers of both sexes with Cia links in an at tempt to get him to make anti soviet statements. It said he left a military construction unit in Afghanistan in june 1983, was brought to Pakistan by rebels and Given Choice slander the soviet Union in the West or be executed or sent to the soviet Union where As a deserter he was told no mercy would be shown. In new York City Tass said he became the Lover of a soviet emigre working under Cia cover who prepared anti soviet statements for him including descriptions of soviet atrocities in Afghanistan. At a new York news conference in1984, Ryzhkova said he had deserted be cause he had tired of the dirty War i Afghanistan where soviet troops have been battling anti marxist came to the soviet embassy in de Cember 1984 and asked to return to the soviet Union. His request was granted. At the time Tass did t say what became of Ryzhkova. But on tuesday the news Agency quoting a report in the weekly newspaper Litera Turnay gazeta re ported he was in a labor Camp. Ryzhkova t9ld the newspaper he Felt much easier in a labor Colony than in alien America that he Felt Calm Accord ing to Tass. The newspaper wrote that the release of Ryzhkova snows a fear of punishment should not deter soviet deserters from returning Home. This act cuts the ground from under those in the West who put every obstacle to the return of soviet servicemen Home lit Era Turnay gazeta wrote. The name of Nikolai Ryzhkova was rehashed in the mass Media Over a number of years and it was sought to make his arrest an example for the intimidation of other prisoners of War so that despite their wish to return Home they should be unable to Muster civic courage for a decisive soviet prosecutor general Alexander Sukharev gave this explanation for the amnesty in a july 4 news conference those who could not resist hostile propaganda who failed to withstand suffer ing and privations of Captivity and committed offences damaging our state All of them will be amnesties out of supreme considerations of socialist soviet solders entered Afghanistan i december 1979, replaced one pro soviet government with another and remained in the country to help fight anti marxist insurgents. The troops began withdraw ing May is
