European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday july 29,1988 vets1 Convoy crosses Nicaragua Border Managua Nicaragua a . Reagan s policies in Central America War veterans driving 20 vehicles loaded at a Rio Grande Bridge crossing in Lare do Texas. Trucks must return to the United states within 30 Days or Convoy members will leg of a journey their government resisted. The veterans peace Convoy com prised of 44 people crossed the Border from Honduras late wednesday do Reasoner a leading member of the com Mittee of . Citizens living in Nicara Gua said in a Telephone interview. The committee opposes president Saemg plans to leave sandinista government. Washington has backed the Contra re Bels who have been fighting the Sandi nistas. Eight of the veterans group s members were arrested july 9, when they refused to leave the Road leading to a toll Booth med ical supplies carried by the veterans is Totake place Friday in the capital. The . Treasury department accepted that the food and medical sup plies carried by the group qualified As humanitarian Aid exempt from the 1985embargo. But it said the vehicles were barred from remaining in Nicaragua. The . Customs service said the sign forms promising they would return the trucks. In june the original Convoy of 38 vehicles was stopped by . Customs officials from crossing into Mexico. About100 participants in the Convoy drove to Washington d.c., to rally against the decision circling around the White House and in front of the state depart ment in three Days of protest. World today tenants should t sweat because of babies crying Cologne West Germany a apart ment tenants need not fret for fear their bawling babies will prompt Legal action by angry neigh Bors a renters group says. But the group s guidelines do strongly advise against letting youngsters ride up and Down apartment House elevators just for the fun of it. The German tenants association which re leased its guidelines to tenants on wednesday said children s laughter and crying Are not legally justified grounds for complaints by other rent ers. The same goes for noise from Normal play activities inside the children s own apartment the Cologne based group said. Behaviour outside the apartment is another matter though. The group advised keeping thrill seeking children out of elevators and off roller skates and bicycles around stairwells and in basements. Bavaria warns vacationers on dangers of aids Munich West Germany a bavarian state officials Are warning people leaving on vacation to avoid sex and French kissing with strangers As a precaution against aids. The recommendations carried in a travellers brochure issued wednesday unleashed an angry debate Over How the deadly disease is transmitted. Aids help a West German group that gives advice on acquired immune deficiency syn drome accused state officials of trying to legitimize  the group said the Sali vary gland cannot transmit aids. However Michael Koch an aids adviser to the bavarian government said tests indicate it might be possible for the deadly virus to be transmitted through mucous membranes. Aids which attacks the body s immune sys tem is spread mainly by sexual Contact the use of contaminated Needles among drug abusers and transfusion of tainted blood. Dec officials announce parliament election in 89 Brussels Belgium a elections to the european parliament will take place june 15 and 18 next year european economic Comuni to ministers decided tuesday after consulting with parliamentarians it was officially reported. The vote will take place on june 15, a thurs Day in Britain the Netherlands Denmark and Ireland countries where elections Are held on a weekday. On sunday june 18, elections will be held in the eight other member states West Germany France Italy Spain Greece Portugal Belgium and Luxembourg. This will be the third time that the 518-Mem ber european parliamentary Assembly which sits in Strasbourg France will be elected direct  first direct election took place in 1979. It is held every five years. Oleg Khan left and Nikolai Ryzhkova former soviet soldiers at their news conference on thursday. Sex Powys urge fellow soldiers of take soviet offer of amnesty Moscow a two former soviet soldiers who were captured in Afghanistan and went to the West appeared in Moscow wednesday and encouraged others to come Home to accept an offer of amnesty. The two sex prisoners of War one of whom was re leased recently from a labor Camp where he was serv ing a 12-year sentence for treason now Are tractor Drivers in their Home villages they told a news Confer ence. The appearance was sponsored by a newly formed soviet committee seeking the release of soviet pow sin Afghanistan. The Kremlin began withdrawing its troops from its War torn neighbor on May 15 and has acknowledged that 313 of its men Are missing or believed held prisoner by afghan rebels. Stanislov Rostowsky a noted film producer an member of the committee noted that after world War ii soviet pos who were freed from nazi concentration Camps returned Home Only to be banished to labor Camps by dictator Josef Stalin. Many he said were War heroes but Stalin thought they could t be trusted. Referring to veterans of the afghan War who did return with their units Rostowsky said we want them to know it s different this  Alexander Sukharev the chief soviet prosecutor announced a general amnesty on july 4 for deserters and prisoners who committed wrongdoings to the detriment of the .s.r." after being captured or separated from their units. Committee spokesmen said 40 former servicemen Are known to have gone to Western countries after leaving their units in Afghanistan and 22 of those have since returned Home. One of the pair presented wednesday Nikolai Ryzhkova has been described in the past by the soviet Media As a deserter who left his unit in Afghanistan five years ago and was taken to Pakistan by rebels battling the pro soviet afghan government. He said wednesday he actually was ambushed by five guerrillas while returning to his unit. He did not resist an was taken prisoner. He said a representative of a .-based Organiza Tion called Freedom House visited him in Pakistan and told him he risked death at the hands of his Cap tors or a firing squad if he returned to the soviet Union. The woman whom he identified in an article published in the soviet weekly Litera Turnay Gazetta As soviet emigre Lyudmila Thorn reportedly promised he could have All the creature comforts and Joys of life if he would go to the United states and take Partin a propaganda Campaign against soviet military involvement in Afghanistan. Ryzhkova told reporters he participated in news conferences at which he invented soviet atrocities and claimed to have witnessed them. Lonely for his family and Home he returned in 1985 knowing he faced up to 15 years in prison. Tass the official soviet news Agency reported july12 that Ryzhkova had been freed under the amnesty program. He said he appeared at the news conference wednesday at his own request to help my friends at least one of whom is still in the United states. Litera Turnay Gazetta quoted Ryzhkova As saying his Friend identified Only As Alexander got entangled with the Cia attempted suicide and is now ruining himself with  the other sex Soldier who appeared at the news con Ference was identified As Oleg g. Khan. He was said to have been taken prisoner in 1982 and illegally transferred to Britain the following year. Khan gave few details of his experience. Nikolai Golovin one Soldier who sought Refuge i Canada after being taken prisoner in Afghanistan re turned to the soviet Union a week ago to take advantage of the amnesty offer. Golovin did not appear at the news conference but a film was shown of him at Home in his Village standing with his Mother and swimming with children