European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 4. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 Carol Burnett aids soviet alcoholism fight Moscow apr actress Carol Burnett in mos cow to help the soviet Union Ballac its alcoholism problem said sunday thai a hoi line session taught her the disease makes no distinction Between people of the two superpowers. The problems Are inc same. The feelings Are the same. The love is the same Bumel told reporters during an informal meeting sponsored by the soviet . Join conference on alcoholism and drug and die lion. The Only difference is the language she said. Burnett the daughter of two alcoholics and Mother of a daughter who struggled with drug addiction arrived Friday in Moscow to share her experiences with the soviets. For Ihrcke hours on saturday Burnett and her daughter Carrie Hamilton talked about addiction to soviet citizens who phoned two Telephone num Bers published by the youth newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda. The same Day Hamilton marked the seventh anniversary of her decision to Stop taking drugs. Many people believed in was impossible to achieve sobriety Hamilton said to the callers i m Here As proof they re  few knew much about the actress and her Daugh Ter but it did t matter Burnett said. Callers also were Given a Telephone number they could Contact for further help. Officials said the american actress and comedian is not Well known in the soviet Union but said they value her knowledge and experience As they try new approaches to fighting the country s serious alcohol problem. Carol Burnett in his first major Campaign after taking Power in May 1985, soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev slashed alcohol production raised the drinking age and Cut the hours liquor stores could slay open. The labor newspaper Enid said in july that since 85, the number of alcoholics in the soviet union1985, has dropped 17 percent but it said the number of drug addicts has become 2.i limes higher. Some officials recently have begun to question the effectiveness of Gorbachev s program. Long lines form outside liquor stores Moons dining has created a shortage of sugar and alcoholism has come off the streets and Mlo the Home they say. Eduard droid of Moscow s chief official in charge of drug and alcohol use said in an interview that his country now needs a More sophisticated approach he said the new plan must include scientific and sociological studies of addiction As Well As greater emphasis on dealing with individuals so they recognize that it s your problem not some body else with the help of the joint conference on alcohol and drugs formed in 1986, several chapters of Alco Holics Anonymous have been organized in the soviet Union. Yuri v. Valentik head of the psychiatry of Alco holism department at the soviet scientific Center of medical biological problems of Nar cology. Said alcoholics Anonymous has provided a universally valid method ois Elf help for alcoholics. . Canty chairman of the joint conference said the Moscow groups have so far helped one person quit drinking and termed that a great Success. One life is the greatest thing the soviet Union  Burnett was. Scheduled to address students at the Moscow Institute of foreign Landau Gas on monday and to appear on a tuesday morning television news program and in a film to be broadcast tuesday eve  s visit was sponsored by slate run soviet radio and television. Mia team finds planes debris in Tough trek Hanoi Vietnam a a . Vienna mesh team embarked on a new expedition sunday after a grueling trek through Leech infested mountains in which they retrieved pieces of downed american warplanes and interview Vil lagers about the Fate of Crew members. During a search last week of Vinh Phu and Bac thai provinces Northwest of Hanoi the team found villagers who re called in detail what happened to airmen who bombed them during the Vietnam War More than 15 years ago. No human remains were recovered but the villagers accounts May help re solve the cases . Learn members said. The War is Over one american investigator quoted villagers As saying. You caused a lol of deals and destruction but i you need help we will help  two teams arc conducting the first joint .-Vielnamcsc Field investigation to try to account for 1,757 americans listed As missing in action in the country. . Forces withdrew from Vietnam in 1973. The communists Defea cd .-backed South Vietnam in 1975. The cooperative Effort is seen As a major breakthrough in an Issue marked by frequent bickering deep distrust and Hanoi s reluctance to allow . Experts to work in the Countryside. The team that searched crash Sites in Vinh Phu and Bac thai for six Days drove off in jeeps sunday to investigate an area in a Nam Ninh province South of Hanoi. The second team continued work in Lang son and a Bac provinces just Northeast of the capital. The 10-Day search ends wednesday. The teams each arc composed of three specialists from the . Joint casually Resolution Center and the army Central identification Laboratory and four experts from Vietnam s office for seeking missing personnel. They focused on six of the 70 discrepancy cases that the United slates has asked Vietnam to resolve urgently. . Officials said vietnamese authorities at some level should have information about the 70 missing men. Some Are known to have been captured but never were heard from again. Many areas of mountainous Vinh Phu and Bac thai could nol be reached by jeeps or motorcycles. The americans said they walked climbed and crawled about 30 Miles investigating two cases in the area. They showed the Marks left on their skin by the Briar patches thai sliced their arms and legs and by the numerous leeches that sucked blood from their feet. British airways to ban smoking on Domestic flights on oct. 30 London a British airways said sunday it will ban smoking on All Domestic nights beginning oct. 30, but not on european and other International routes. The surveys Tell us the longer the flights the less support there is for a ban said Jim Harris British airways marketing director British airways the country s largest airline carries about 5 million passengers annually on its Domestic flights. Harris said the Domestic ban follows the successful no smoking trials in May on the airline s Umidon to Glasgow Scotland shuttle service one of its busiest routes. Aboul 2,500 passengers travel on the 12 daily one hour lights Between London s Heathrow Airport and Glasgow. He said the ban was also supported by research con ducted among 2,199 Domestic passenger in August which showed thai 85 percent of non smokers and 42 percent of smokers supported a smoking ban on flights of up to one hour. Forty percent of All passengers including smokers said smoking should never be allowed on air planes no matter How Long the flight he said. More than half the passengers 59 percent said they would be More inclined to Fly with Bulish airways if the smoking ban were introduced compared with 12 percent who said they would be leis inclined to do so he said. Harris said the Survey results showed fewer than 30 percent of passengers now smoke of British airways Niggins. The airline s smoking ban follows a growing trend in the airline Industry. Similar bans have already been introduced on most american Canadian and austra Lian Domestic flights. The Geneva Switzerland based International foun Dation of airline passengers association has also backed smoking free nights after a worldwide Survey. Harris said trial smoking bans on British airways flights from London to Goteborg Sweden and Vienna Austria in june were inconclusive and the airline planned to carry out further surveys. The Anli smoking group action on smoking and health welcomed the British airways ban which in said is a significant step toward in Public health. Spokesmen for the tobacco advisory Council which represents the Industry and representatives of the pro smoking group Forest Freedom organization for the right to enjoy smoking tobacco were unavailable for comm Cal on sunday. Forest had criticized British airways smoking ban trials As discriminatory and said they treated smokers like social  three Small British carriers air us Logan air and Paramount airways have already banned smoking on Domestic and International nights. But British airways main Domestic Competition British Midland airways continues to offer smoking sections. Doctor what a Bill a Pelican Brut suffered injuries in a Iwens storm is being treated by veterinarians at a Bird Hospital id Sawyers Valley Australia. Veterinarians Are treating the Bird in the lounge because the rest of the Hospital b full. The doctors say it May take months before the Pelican fully recovers. Ilos Prui owners sue and Keith Smith Are helping the Bird in therapy designed a remedy Back and Pelvic injuries but doctors say in May be months be fore there s Lull recovery