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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, September 20, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday september 20,19bb voters pick sex Voa chief As Hawaii demo candidate Honolulu a Mary Bitterman a former voice of America director seeking her first elective office beat two other democrats in Hawaii s stale Pri Mary and will face first can Republican rep. Plancia sail i on nov. G. Former democratic City councilwoman Marilyn North Oral won inc right to face Republican Honolulu mayor Frank Fasi afar defeating three other former Council members and a Community activist in sat urday s a Eccl Ion. Voters also chose nominees for 100 Federal slate and local offices Ditterman. 44, received 51,942 votes. Honolulu City councilman Leigh Wai Doo had 35.s79 and John Kad clinic. A former teachers Union executive trailed withl5.2s8.saiki, 58, was unopposed in the gop primary for the Urban Honolulu District. . Sen. Spark Matsunaga 71. Had an easy time with his Little known democratic opponent Honolulu writer Hob Zimmerman. Matsunaga gather cd 180,853 votes or 82 percent to Zimmerman s 27,360, or 12 percent. He laces libertarian candidate Ken schoo land in november. Sii term . Rep. Daniel Akaka whose District includes outlying areas of Oahu and the neighbor is lands was unopposed in the democratic primary. His Only Competition in november will come from Liber tarian Lloyd Mailan. Fasi. 68, received 35,608 Voles almost 90 percent to easily defeat iwo relatively unknown candidates in the Republican primary. Gordon Nelson finished Sec Ond with 1,167 Voles and Charles Hirayasu had 1,0.15 vote. Bornhorst 61, received 57,097 votes to defeat for Mer Council members Patsy Mink Randall Iwase and Dennis o Connor and activist Jerry Souza. Mink got 48,771 votes Iwasco and o Connor trailed with 22,90ft and 21,585 Voles respectively. Souza had 3,469. Bornhorst Iwasco and o Connor were required by Law to give up their City Council scats to run for mayor. Mink resigned from her Council scat two years ago when she mounted an unsuccessful Campaign for governor. There was Little bad blood in inc two major demo cratic primary races. In fact the three democrats who sought to Challenge Saiki became known As the three Amigos because of their reluctance to criticize one another and their general agreement on the issues. The democrats stressed their professional Back grounds and government experience in their Appeal to voters. Bornhorst a 13-year City Council Veteran is the front runner in the Honolulu mayor s race according to a recent Honolulu advertiser Channel 2 news poll although she leads Fasi in the poll Fasi was narrowing the Gap and Many voters were still undecided. Fasi served three terms As a democratic mayor be fore losing in the 1980 primary. He came Back As a Republican and won in 1984. Polish girl mauled by Bear arrives in . To get artificial left Arm Philadelphia up a polish preschooler to was mauled by a Bear at a zoo and lost part of her left Arm will not need an operation to be filled with an artificial Arm a philanthropist who is helping with her recovery said. Grazino Marks 4, of Nakolo Poland arrived in Philadelphia from Warsaw saturday with her Mother Barbara. After an initial examination at sinners hos Pital for crippled children doctors determined that an operation to fit a prosthesis would not be necessary Marks lost her hand july 18, 1986, while visiting the Fauna Garden a zoo in Myslic cinch Poland said ban Rusk National director of inc polish american Congress based in Buffalo . Polish doctors had been unable to fit the child with an artificial limb. Rusk said. The humanitarian trip was organized by inc polish american Congress of Buffalo ., and financed by the Harbor healthcare foundation of Cherry Hill nj., a charitable group founded by businessman Earl Waxman. She s with her Molher and she s at inc Hospital and they doctors have examined her Waxman said. It Semi they will not have to do  Waxman said the prosthesis will give the preschooler some degree of  publisher Stern to donate $25 million to Nyu new York a publisher Leonard Stem plans to donate $25 million to new York University the largest single gift it has Ever received Accord no to a published report. The Money will be used to move the Nyu business school from lower Manhattan to the University s Greenwich Village Campus and the graduate business school will be named for Stern new York business reported sunday. Stern 50, owns the Village voice and the Man Hattan weekly 7 Days. He is chairman of the Hartz group which includes Hartz Mountain Pel products of Secaucus no. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in business from Nyu. Howard Rubenstein a spokesman for both Nyu and Stem said negotiations were continuing on the gift s size scope and  whooping Crane count expected to top 200 Albuquerque. . A the world s whooping Crane population Down to 16 in 1941, probably will exceed 200 this Winter perhaps the highest num Crof the regal while Birds this Century. They have taken a Nice jump in the last few years said James Lewis whooping Crane coordinator for the . Fish and wildlife service in Albuquerque. We have to give nature an awful lot of credit for that. This is our Best year. Since probably Early this Century or late last Century. We re not sure really. We did t have Good figures Back then but i d say it s probably the Best since Early  Lewis said he expects about 145 cranes from Canada at their Winter grounds at the Arkansas National wildlife Refuge on Texas Gulf coast. A flock of is Birds from Grays Lake National wildlife Refuge in Southeastern Idaho is expected at its Winter grounds primarily along the Central r to Grande Valley in new Mexico Lewis said. 2 no workers trapped 7 hours on scaffolding Newark no. A two construction workers were rescued sunday evening alter spending seven hours trapped on scaffolding dangling As High As 18 stories up a building res Cue officials said after the motor used to raise and lower the Appa Ratus failed fire department rescuers and slate police lowered ropes with safely Bells to the workers. But plans to lower the men by rope and using a helicopter were rejected As too risky. Rescuers finally decided to Tell the workers to disengage inc motor and manually lower the scaffolding. The men had lowered themselves by about 7 . To a position along inc first Fidelity build ing where fire ladders could reach them. The names of the two men who were re caulking the building were not immediately available. Grazyna Murks philippine official optimistic about bases pact Washington a philippine foreign Secretary Raul Mang Lapus said he is pleased with unofficial . Response to a new plan for resolving stalled talks about . Military bases in his country and is optimistic agreement will be reached soon. Mang Lapus also said during a . Visit hat he Hopes both he United states and the soviet Union will agree to reduce forces in Southeast Asia but he said soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s proposal to abandon Cam Ranh Day in Vietnam in Exchange for a . Pullout from its huge philippine facilities is unbalanced since the . Facilities Are much larger than the soviet base in Viet Nam. Philippine officials described some de tails of a new proposal for bases compensation after Mang Lapus told a filipino american group saturday night that Treasury department and congressional officials arc interested in his plan to in clude . Help in bringing Down the Philippines s28 billion debt. Speaking on the condition of Anonym Ity a philippine official said the proposal requiring close to $560 million in . Assistance May be made formally when talks resume in the Philippines next month after Mang Lapus return. In the talks in Manila covering the final two years of a bases agreement the Philippines had been asking for up to si.2 billion a year the official said. Current . Aid lied to inc bases is $180 million a year although total american Aid approved by Congress has averaged More than $440 million annually since president Corazon Aquino ousted Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Aquino has said she is keeping the country s options open on whether the bases will be allowed to stay after the agreement lapses in 1991. Some members of Congress have said Aid should not be increased without assurances on the future of giant Clark a Subic naval base and smaller . Facilities in the Philippines. The philippine official said the new proposal would include $100 million for the Philippines to buy . Treasury Bonds that would be used to Back a debt reducing philippine Bond Issue similar to those issued by financially troubled mex Ico and Brazil. The other requested Aid would include si60 million in economic assistance $200 million in military Aid and More than $100 million in other programs including food Aid. The ultimate Benefit could exceed $1 billion including interest that would not have to be paid on the debt the official said. . Sources have said the american negotiators in Manila offered the Philippines a $489 million package for fiscal 19b9, but it was rejected before Mangla pus s trip to Washington. I would have to say that i am much More positive Mang Lapus said after a week of meetings with administration of facials and several members of Congress. The Washington Post reported on sat urday that the administration is consid ering the proposal but said state depart ment officials Are not certain that it is practical or affordable. Both Secretary of state George Shultz and defense Secre tary Frank Carlucci have said the United states will consider pulling its bases out of the Philippines if the demands Are too High. Rep. Stephen a Solarz. D-., chair Man of the House foreign affairs sub committee on Asia said Manga apus proposal was worthy of the most serious and sympathetic consideration the Post reported. Mang Lapus answering questions at the filipino american gathering said Gorbachev s proposal for closing superpower bases in Southeast Asia should be Dis cussed Between the two countries Point ing to the .-Soviel nuclear missile reduction treaty. If they can do thai Why can t they it Down and achieve the same symmetry in Southeast Asia he asked  
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