European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 29, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 v for valor labourer Kubert Martini places the Fin Ishing touches on the last Section of the Vietnam veterans memorial Al Long wharf in new Haven n.h., thursday. The a shaped Monument standing for valor Wilt be inscribed with the names of 58 area men killed in the War. Ii will be dedicated nov 5. Anderson s sister wants Deal made to free hostages new York of the United Stales should make a Deal to free hostages in Leb anon and reporters should Stop looking for hints or impropriety in such negotiations inc sister of captive journalist Terry Ander son said thursday. Send the message to this administration that it is of to Cut a Deal Peggy say of Cadiz k said at a ceremony marking her brother s birthday. Never has a hostage been freed without concessions being  say and journalists also met with . Secretary general Javier pens de cd Clear who condemned the hostages1 captors As perpetrators of a crime against  say spoke at a news conference with freed French journalist Jean Paul Kauffmann and representatives of groups working to get hos tages released. Anderson s 41st birthday his fourth in Captivity since he was abducted in Beirut Lebanon on March 16, 1985, was marked at several gatherings. In the meeting with Perez do Cuellar the Secretary general also said the hostage taking was no longer a political Issue but an Issue of the rights of Man said David Aikman of the journalists committee to free Terry Anderson in Anderson s native City Lonu a Ohio his friends and relatives tied new yellow rib Bons to City mall Fla posts and ordered two birthday cakes Tor a party in his Honor at the polish legion of american veterans Hall. About 200 students at Buffalo state col lege in new York put on yellow armbands Cut a birthday cake signed a huge card and Sang Happy  he s become a Symbol of our freedoms said Donna Ruffini. A journalism student who organized the event. Another former hostage the Rev. Law Pence Junco collected birthday cards for an Derson from children and senior citizens in a los Angeles suburb. "1 t s always been a wish of ours in Ameri Ca that you la soon be released. You re in our hearts minds and prayers and we Hope you feel the love we have for you said Junco. Reading from his greetings to Anderson. In Batavia n.y., Anderson s Hometown a radio station and a merchants association planned a birthday Celebration thursday night. Residents were going id Light one can dle for each of 1,321 Days of his Captivity on a big cuke. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press has been held the longest of the 14 foreign hostages in Leb anon. Organizers in Manhattan unveiled a pos Ter size birthday card drawn by Anderson s favorite cartoonist Garry Trudeau and signed by More than 1,000 journalists from 30 organizations. You should know that at this moment As i speak to you Terry is in chains Kauffmann said through an interpreter. His eyes Are blindfolded. He does t see the Sun or inc Light of Day. The tint tree that 1 saw was on the Day of my release May 4 the first tree i saw in three years Terry suffers physically. The most Terri ble thing though Tor him and i can Tell you this because i was also a hostage. Is the reeling of having been abandoned. And i think he is right said Kauffmann. The Media said say keeps searching for another Iran Contra. We can t have that. That is totally counterproductive to bringing these people  i am not saying give in to their de mands i am saying engage in dialogue Iran offered us a Deal said say. They said release our Frozen assets and we will use our influence to bring your hostages Home we turned our Back on it. We cannot afford to do  aug thursday the militants holding an Derson denied any links to a woman who was arrested in Italy carrying a photograph of him. Alzheimer s cited in death of adm. Byrd s son Baltimore a Richard e. Byrd jr., son of the famed Arctic explorer died of malnutrition and dehydration contributed to by alzheimer s disease the stale medical examiner said thursday. Byrd 68, was found oct. 3 in a Baltimore Ware House. He took a train from Boston sept. 13 headed for Washington to attend ceremonies honouring his father adm. Richard e. Byrd who flew Over the North pole in 1926 and later led a series of expeditions to Antarctica. John e. Smialek the chief medical examiner said an autopsy revealed thai Byrd died of malnutrition and dehydration contributed to by an underlying de generative brain disease. Alzheimer  alzheimer s is an organic brain disease that gradually robs its victims of memory and other intellectual Powers. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. Smialck said he had spoken with Byrd s family who had not suspected that he buffered from alzheimer s. They were at a loss to explain what happened to him he said. When i spoke to them they were considerably relieved to have that understanding of what had  Byrd apparently Jot off the train in Baltimore and began wandering Smialck said. In his confused state he could have appeared to be intoxicated. He was t Able to seek  instead he gradually became weak from not eating or drinking Smialck said. When Byrd s family Learned that he did not arrive at the National geographic society ceremony they filed a missing person report with Necdham mass., police sept. 15. A custodian at the warehouse where Byrd s body was found told police he had ordered Byrd and another Man out of the building sept. 27. Byrd had been dead for several Days when his body was found oct. 3. He wore a Green Workman s uniform and one shoe. His Wallet Luggage and other personal property were missing. He was identified through a Boston transit authority card that was pinned to his undershirts. Faa says mandated repairs Don t mean 737s Are unsafe Washington api Federal Avi Alion administration officials arc Assur ing the Public that their new require ments for rivet replacements and inspections on aging Boeing 737s do not mean the passenger jets Are unsafe. The Agency on thursday stepped up its efforts to detect existing cracks. The Faa tightened a schedule it had imposed earlier for the replacement of 7,200 rivets on the 291 oldest 737s, including about 100 Down by american carriers. It also ordered airlines to con duct electronic inspections of inc fasteners and to Fly each aircraft at Low altitudes unlit it has been examined. These precautions arc Over and above those we feel arc needed to main Tain safety said Anthony Broderick the Faa s associate administrator if we had any question at All about the safety of the planes flying tomorrow we would t let the air planes  Boeing spokesman Jack Gamble echoed Broderick s assessment saying this in t an emergency kind of thing. There would be no massive grounding of planes under the Faa orders. Individual 737s would be taken out of service Only while their rivets were being replaced. Providence produces Only 1 Playboy hopeful Providence . A Only one woman showed up when a Playboy Magazine photographer set up shop at a Gas station to interview female provi Dence College students for a feature on the women of the big  photographer David mercy had hoped to meet with several students thursday from the roman Catholic col lege for the layout scheduled for the april Issue. He had to move his operation from a hotel to a minivan parked at a Gas station across the Street when the hotel announced he would be allowed to Steep but not conduct business on the premises. College officials said he was not Wel come on Campus and refused to place his and in the student newspaper. His assistant Ric Moore said he was t surprised by the poor turnout. There were to cameras everywhere he said referring to interest by local Media in the controversial feature