European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 25, 198s the stars and stripes Page 9 German radio Rolls Over to . Rock do strives for american  by v1nce crave lev  Bureau Bam Berg. West Germany accents abound in Ramburg where sunday night s mow popular radio show right Well be Higl a German nation s three hour broadcast in English to americans and the disc jockey Pete Traynor is British although it s located at 88,5 on your pm dial k i has the top-40 sound of an am station in the slates that Means plenty of court hits phone in re quests a fast talking wisecracking do and announcements Aboul local schools and sports teams. All in the heart of Bavaria. The German listen because it s Dif Ferent and the americans listen because it s what they re used to said Traynor who Calls the show his Pride and  on the studio Wall is a movie poster from the German version of Good morning. Vietnam last year s Hil Star ring comedian Robin Williams As a frustrated an announcer. Traynor sympathizes Wilh the movie hero. He could t do what he warned tomake soldiers think they re sitting Back Home listening to radio in  Traynor says Ihal s the same mood he strives for a lot of them arc homesick and Don t want to be Here in the first place. That s the impression i get. When first left Home Liverpool was Home sick too. Bui they did i have a Choice so in Between the tunes Hig strives to be local radio from the heart land. Traynor reads briefs from the local. Military Community newspaper and re lays Over he air messages to people pull ing sunday night duty. Studio Calls one recent night included report on Road conditions from a Lis Tener who d just driven Home in a Snow storm a la Fri indie romantic update from someone who called herself temptation and a teen Ager s weekly request for the 1965 song Lily the Pink by an unknown group called scaffold. Sex Deale Paul Mccartney s younger brother was a member of scaffold but if Lily the Pink is any indication Paul never Pele Traynor disc jockey on the "1 it i program takes a request during the three hour sunday algal program for americans had to take sibling rivalry seriously. Traynor works for fun boy radio group of former Bamburg disco owners who decided to buy a radio station and aim its transmitter at the younger crowd their target age group includes most of Bamberg s american soldiers so Higl seemed like a natural. Fun boy has t done a Survey yet but the show proved More popular than expected so its original two hour time Slot upped to three from 8 . To ii . Every sunday. Traynor said an the soldiers traditional radio station does t think of us As Competition be cause they Only have sports on sunday  still one listener said americans in Bamberg arc Starling to leave their dials tuned to fun boy even when the announcers Are German ninety percent of the music in Germany is in English Traynor said. So it does t really Matte what language the us Speaks Traynor also docs a Day show in Ger Man noting that americans Aren t the Only ones who find his British accent charming. He Hopes to be a do in the states one Day. In the meantime he would Settle for broadcasting to the soldiers seven Days a week but thinks the owners probably won t go for it. Tier All this is a German radio Sta Tion Traynor said. One night a week i weird  us ii a ii met Unity & Yuan Sci Lhumi m Auu Piuva Unkuri pupa Lim w m m must j Vermun la m King Jaii of Tiivi nil Ima 15 Viurma Maui Siat accied so l Trayno said soil lion e night was wha Speaks. Weir toy boats with Mia messages Senf Down Mekong Bangkok Thailand a p Ameri have died and help bring Back to their fam Are based in the northeastern province of their release cans searching for . Prisoners of War Vilics those who Are still living.", Nakhson phanom bordering Laos where Laos has repeatedly denied it hold in communist Laos had several Hundred the . Slate department lists 547 the Craft were launched and where they any american soldiers from the War. Thi a p t l that children float tiny foam boats with messages on the Mekong River across from Laos thursday a spokesman said. Or. Amos Townsend a member of the group said unfavourable winds made it unlikely Many of hit 600 Small Craft would reach the laotian Bank but he said the message would sol  the Mekong River divides Thailand and Laos each boat six inches in diameter car ried a written note thai read this boat represents one of about 600 americans who arc still unaccounted for in Laos. Mathis Effort appease the spirits of those who hav Femilic  the. Americans As missing in Laos from the Indochina War. Townsend said in a Telephone inter View the group was hoping to publicize a$2.4 million Reward for the return of any live american pow in Indochina Wuthe said the boats did not carry information Aboul the monetary Reward. The launch coincided with the ancient thai Loy Kra thong festival. Celebrating., on the full Moon each november thais set banana Leaf boats on bodies of water and offer prayers to the water spirits.  Townsend and three other americans a n province Nacho the Hope to establish a Long term presence and gather information on americans they believe arc still being held. Two other americans were recently imprisoned for 41 Days after entering Laos illegally to advertise the same re Ward which has been offered by several . Congressmen and private individuals.  Donna Long and James Copp both from North Carolina were freed after a . Veterans group paid $1,500 and cancelled a protest planned near the lao Tian embassy in Washington to demand thei lao s t s an. Recent foray by the two americans prompted criticism from the . Slate department which wants to resolve the. Issue of missing americans through offi Cial contacts with the laotian govern ment.  than 2,380 americans Are still listed As missing in action or Mia inlays Vietnam and Cambodia. The indo China War ended in 1975. In recent months cooperation has in creased Between the United Stales and the governments of Laos and Vietnam Inan Effort to resolve the Mia Issue. American veterans want to build clinic in Vietnam san Francisco a a group of Vietnam veterans is seeking donations 10 build a medical clinic outside to Chi Mph  just feel like this is an unfinished legacy of the Vietnam War army Veteran Fredy Champagne 41, told a news conference tuesday. Champagne described the project As War Repa. Rations we Are the veterans who participated in in destruction of the country and we Are the veterans who will be the labourers on this construction project the former 1st inf div Soldier said he and 12 Veter an buddies Are so certain that americans will contrib Ute $60,000 to build the clinic at Vung Tao that they have their plane tickets and tools ready for a Jan. 17 flight to Southeast Asia. The group has collected $3,000 so far he said. -.-,. -. This clinic will help the vietnamese with their health care problems and is Small enough for 12 Veter ans to accomplish in a two month time Fearne not Only to help the vietnamese but to heal ourselves. To repair the damage Hal we personally caused to the Vij Chiantese people Champagne said. ". Champagne said his group the Vietnam veterans restoration project has received All dec scary approx . He displayed a letter from Nguyen co Thach Viet Nam s minister of foreign affairs giving official per Miston to bring a 12-Man least of veterans la build a medical clinic at Vun Tau outside to Chi Minh City formerly saigon.-. _,.,.i do have a personal sense of Guill said Cham pagne who lives with his wife in Garberville Calif "1have suffered 22 years of Posl tra Simatic stress Disord to. I be had lots of problems with this and in is is a Way thai i personally will assuage my guilt.". As a 19-year-old Georgia boy. Champagne was one of the first recruits sent to fight in 196s.\he patrol cd for a year with an a 6 North of Saigon and along the cambodian Border he said