European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday August 19,1988 news updates Singapore election Singapore a parliament was dissolved wednesday to prepare for a snap election on sept3, More than a year before prime minister Lee Kuan Yew s govern ment was required by Law to do so. An official announcement said nomination papers would be filed aug. 24. Lee s people s action party is favored heavily to retain Power facing Only Token opposition. The party has ruled this is land Republic since 1959, winning six general elections in a Row. Laser Patent Battle Palo Alto Calif. A coherent inc. Has entered an agreement that will end its status alone of the last holdouts in a protracted Patent fight Over who in vented the laser the company said. The Palo Alto based company said tuesday it will pay tiny Pat Lex corp. Of Chatsworth Calif., License fees on the Sale of most of coherent s lasers. The agreement leaves Spectra physics inc., As the last major . Laser maker refusing to pay fees Topaz Lex. Nursing walkout san Francisco u i negotiators for 2,200 striking nurses at six hospitals Early thursday reached tentative contract agreement hailed As a real breakthrough that will make them among the highest paid in the nation. If ratified by the Californi nurses associate in members Fri Day the pact will end a 16-Day strike that closed operating room Sand moved critically ill patients to other hospitals. Nurses would begin returning to work monday. The new three year contract will give some nurses a $10,000 pay increase by 1991. Nurses who earned $31,000 to$35,000 a year under the old con tract will be making $35,000 to$40,000 this year. By 1991, five year nurses will top out at $43,541on the Day shift $50,072 at night and 15-year nurses on night duty will be making $52,095. Eagle scout Ramstein West Germany a for Mer Ramstein High school student was awarded the rank of Eagle scout the highest Honor in boy scouting in a re cent ceremony. Ryan Tull 16, has been in scouting for five years. For his service project reorganized and directed the distribution of Organ transplant cards in conjunction with Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center s donor program. Tull individually distributed More than 4,000 donor cards. Tull recently completed his soph Omore year at Ramstein High school and will begin school in Albuquerque n.m.,this fall. He is the son of it. Col. Edward and Sherri Tull. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes at least 21 Merit badges and an average of 100 hours on a Community project. Correction an article yesterday incorrectly stated the duty title and unit of the  of the year. Spec. Thaddeus Nich Olson works As an intelligence specialist clerk with he Btry 2nd in 77th Field arty in Augsburg West Germany. Botha hints that ailing Mandela May not have to return to prison Durban South Africa a president p. W. Botha thursday said african National Congress Leader Nelson Mande la May not have to return to prison from the Hospital where he is being treated for tuberculosis. Botha said Mandela had been cooperating with the government and he now expects positive results from his stand ing offer to free the 70-year-old Black Leader in return for renunciation of Vio Lence. In his speech to the provincial nation Al party Congress in Natal Botha did not explain what he meant by , it was seen As a Strong Sugges Tion of a change in the Way Mandela Scase is being viewed possibly because he is being treated for tuberculosis at tyger Berg Hospital in Cape town. The outlawed african National con Gress is the major guerrilla group fighting the while ruled government and apart Heid its policy of racial segregation. Mandela has been in prison since 1962and is serving a life term for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the govern ment. The government in a responsible Way will consider the matter and if we get the cooperation we have so far got from or. Mandela i believe we will get positive results Botha said. Personally i Don t think that at visage and condition it would be Wise for him to choose to go Back to prison and Hope he will make it possible for me to act in a humane Way so that we can have peace in South  Botha s speech followed a meeting with Justice minister Kobie Coetzee who visited Mandela at the Hospital on wednesday. He appears to be comfortable and appears to have taken the first Steps to Ward recovery. He appears to be satisfied with his treatment and surroundings Coetzee said of Mandela. He looks As though he is almost his old self and he is already enjoying jokes. I think it will be in his own interest to remain in the medical care of the specialists who Are attending him at the to  asked what up operation Mandela had Given information minister Stoffel Van Der Merwe said for example Mandela did not try to use the occasion of his hospitalization last week As a propaganda  he said it was not Mandela but his lawyer and friends who demanded out Side medical attention and revealed the nature of his illness. The information minister said the government was not expecting Mandela to sign anything or even publicly disa vow the guerrilla group s policy but it expected that he would not participate inor promote violent activities. Mandela has rejected previous offer by Botha to free him if he renounces Vio Lence responding that the government must end apartheid and legalize the Afri can National Congress. In a major policy speech thursday Botha said he was unwilling even to Dis cuss the possibility of a Black majority government in South Africa. We Don t want to be a second Rhode Sia we Don t want to be a second  Are standing Here in a firm Way he said to loud applause from the crowd of about 500. Under apartheid South Africa s 26million Blacks have no vote in National affairs. The 5 million Whites control the Economy and maintain separate districts schools and health services. Bodies of Zia . Envoy recovered from wreckage of pakistani plane Bah Walpur Pakistan a air Force teams thursday recovered the bodies of president Mohammed Ziaul Haq and . Ambassador Arnold Raphel from the charred wreckage of Zia s military plane. Parts of the .-built c-130 transport Lay strewn across a Sandy Plain near the Indian Border in Punjab province. The plane exploded wednesday after taking of from a nearby Airport. Soldiers Slid the Flag draped coffins Fzia Raphel and 28 others onto planes bound for Islamabad and other Pakistan cities where relatives of the victims were waiting. The government originally put the death toll at 37. Secretary of state George Shultz will represent the United states at Zia s funeral on saturday the state department said. Dan Howard the defense department Schief spokesman said one team of eight civilian and military Accident investigator already had departed the United states and will arrive in Pakistan on Friday. They expect to be in Pakistan for about two weeks. The second team will include six .military forensic specialists who will help the pakistanis in identifying victims of the crash. That team is being sent from West Germany Howard said. The head of Pakistan s caretaker govern ment Ghulam Ishaq Khan said he could not Rule out sabotage but was awaiting for the probe to be completed. A pakistani air Force crash investigation team flew to the scene thursday in search of the plane s flight recorder. A similar . Team was also expected but details of its visit were not disclosed. Unofficial reports and rumours circulated that the c-130 was hit by an anti aircraft missile or a helicopter or was shot Down by India. The United news of India news Agency thursday quoted a highly placed Paki Stani military official As saying a sophisticated time bomb May have caused the explosion. It quoted the official who was not identified by  As saying the Pilot did not radio any message to the control Tower. He said the Pilot probably would have had time to radio if the plane had been attacked by a missile. Ishaq Khan declared a state of emergency thursday and businesses were shuttered in official mourning for Zia. It was not immediately Clear what civil rights were cur tailed by the state of emergency. The people killed aboard the plane included . Defense adviser Brig. Gen. Herbert m. Wassom and five top Pakistan generals. The group had been inspecting a military unit near Bah Walpur. The Indian Border states of Jammu an Kashmir were placed under curfews thurs Day after pro pakistanis tried to set two badges ablaze. Indian news reports said three people were killed and nine wounded by Security forces when a crowd defied the curfew. Pakistan was created from moslem dominated areas of predominantly hindu India when the subcontinent became inde pendent of Britain in 1947. The two coun tries have fought three wars. Afghan foreign minister Abdul Wakil also expressed condolences but declined to say whether it could affect Islamabad s pol icy. Rajiv Gandhi India s prime minister said he was deeply shocked and distressed by the death of Zia and sent condolences to the president s family. The in Dian government declared three Days of mourning for Zia. Ishaq Khan pledged to continue Zia foreign policy of close ties with the United states and with fellow moslem nations. Major s daughter 18, killed in car Accident Heidelberg West Germany an18-year-old family member died wednesday in a German Hospital of in juries sustained in a one car Accident tuesday. Susan c. French suffered head and internal injuries when her car hit a guard rail and Bridge abutment near Bammen Tal a Heidelberg Community spokesman said thursday. French a june graduate of Heidelberg High school was driving alone  toward Bam mental shortly before 6 . When the Accident occurred the spokesman said. She was taken to Heidelberg s surgical clinic and died shortly after noon. She is survived by her parents  and Jane French Brothers Kevin 14, and Ryan 8 and sister Jenny 1. A memorial service has been set for 2 . Friday at the Mark Twain Village Chapel in Heidelberg. Arc names new executive director Garmisch West Germany is James Mccrindle has been named executive director of the armed forces recreation Center a Job he has held on an interim basis since March is. Mccrindle s selection from a Field of More than 500 applicants was announced wednesday. He initially was brought on Board when the army took direct control of arc from Usa eur As part of a plan to centralize management of the three major hotel and recreation complexes operated by the service worldwide. Originally from Ayr Scotland Mccrindle immigrated to the United states in 1960 and later joined the army. After his discharge in West Germany he took a position As assistant manager at arc s Hausberg Lodge. He later returned to the civilian Homeland recreation Industry spending nearly a decade in various management positions before returning to Europe an government service in 1976