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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday decembers 19b8 news updates rites for Harpe Madrid Spain a an estimated 2,000 soldiers and civil ians attended an open air memorial service for the commander of the . 6th air Force who was killed earlier this week when i he f 16 fighter bomber he was flying crashed and burned an air Force spokesman said. Sgt. Cliff Washington said the service for maj. Gen. Winfield s. Harpe is took place at 11 . On inc Tarmac near a hangar at the joint use .-Spanish air base at Torr Jon. Just cast of Madrid. Harp a native of Thomaston,ga., died monday when his Singec Seal f-i6c aircraft dropped out Ofa Bur plane formation at inc end of a 90-Minutc routine flight and crashed in ,1 held in Guadalajara province in Miles Northeast of Torrejon a. Plea for Mandela Johannesburg South Afri Ca a friends of african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela renewed demands thurs Day for his unconditional release saying his Transfer to a House on a prison farm was simply putting him into a More luxurious cell. The 70-Yearjold Black Leader imprisoned since 1962, was moved wednesday night from the private cons Lantinberg clinic where tic had been recovering from tuberculosis the government said. Mandela was taken to a suburban style House at the Victor Var Star prison farm in Pearl. A Sce Nic win growing town Northeast of Cape town where he govern ment says he can have unlimited Access to his wife children an grandchildren. Mandela s wife Winnie said in a statement through his attorney Ismail a Yob hat she would not Lake advantage of the prisons service s offer of unlimited visit with him Duarte released Mexico City a presi Dent Jose Napoleon Duarte of Els Alvador has left a military Hospi Tal where he spent six Days alter falling ill during inauguration Cere monies for Mexico s president Duarte who suffers from incur Able liver cancer was released wednesday. He was hospitalized with Stom Ach pains shortly after Carlos Sali Nas do Gortari was inaugurated last week and doctors said he was suffering from an intestinal infection. He s in High spirits he feels. Good and we i be going to Al Sal Vador soon said Duane s doctor Jose Luis Saca. He s reacted Well to a Bland  in june doctors diagnosed Duarte with cancer and gave him from six to 18 months to live. However they said recently thai his condition had improved remarkably. Oft Calls housing pact sellout to teachers seeking arbitration by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington a competing teach ers Union opposes an agreement Between he overseas education association and the department of defense dependents schools that will provide housing benefits for some locally hired educators. Marie Funaro president of the Over seas federation of teachers called the pact a sellout to teachers who Are seek ing a Lega Resolution of the Issue. Our recommendation to the teachers who were litigating is that they file against the sea for failure of fair representation and they also file against Dodds for this settlement she said. Last week s agreement Grants a hous ing allowance transportation Perks and other benefits to locally hired Ticac Hermonce they Transfer to a school beyond commuting distance. Bui because inc agreement ii not effective until the 1990-91 school year and is not retroactive for teachers who already have transferred Funaro said it gives nothing to teachers who Are seeking arbitration. The sea said teachers who have transferred in the past would receive first priority for future transfers. But that did no please Keith a Roche a music teacher at Vincnza elementary school in Italy who filed grievances through both unions. I m very concerned about this an quite  said a Rocic who Iran pc Rcd from Croughton Middle school in England this year. I d be very doubtful i d gel transferred. I want to be treated like everybody  Funaro said locally hired teachers like a Rocic Are losing tens of thousands of dollars. If you re in High Cost areas you re talking probably $50,000 in the scope of three years she said. Such losses have troubled locally hired Dodds teachers since 1971, before Ihsen. Local hires received the benefits upon trans Ferring. And after 1990. All the focal hires will gel them again a Roche said. But where Doc that leave All of us in Between rep. William Ford chairman of the House Post office and civil service com Mittee has sought to lift Dodds local hires out of what he termed a second class  John Sample. Dodds director also has expressed concern. A Roche and Funaro cited a recent Federal labor relations authority Deci Sion that framed benefits to two teacher who transferred to Korea and Okinawa from West Germany. They were both sea cases Funaro said. So i can t understand Why they sea would have accepted this agreement. We re going to go ahead and  an sea spokesman said inc for decision cannot be applied carte Blanche for All employees. It was based on inc 1977 contract language and the two teachers had been promised a hous ing allowance and foreign Posl differential. But when they got there they found they weren t getting  but Funaro said the decision is certainly a Case and a decision from the Flora that indicated teachers should be getting these benefits when they Transfer. We still believe they could have gotten a belter  problem with the settlement Funaro said is that i will have All these teach ers thinking they Are eligible for a Transfer. It will overload the Transfer  citizens from 7 european countries no longer need visas to visit France Paris a France has decided to drop its visa requirement for visitors from seven european countries Latare not members of the european economic Community the foreign ministry announced thursday. Citizens of Austria Sweden Norway Finland Iceland Cyprus and Malta will again be Able to enter France without visas As they were before emergency measures were enacted in september 1986 during a wave of terrorist bomb Ings in Paris. This decision was taken in recognition of the reinforcement of cooperation in Europe on Security and the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking said a foreign ministry spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity. France began demanding visas from people carrying passports of All nations except inc 11 other members of the dec plus neighbouring Switzerland the Deci Sion was bitterly contested by officials from other european countries especially Sweden and Austria. Government officials have said recently they May also rescind the visa require ment for , passport holders but there has been no official announcement. War crimes prosecutor Dies in Frankfurt Frankfurt West Germany a longtime Frankfurt attorney who served on the prosecuting team at the War crimes trials in Nurnberg died on thurs Day his 77ih birthday. Walter w. O Haire died about 2 . Thursday in a Frankfurt Hospital after a lengthy illness a Law partner said. The attorney and senior partner with o Haire Fiore and von Maur was one of the tint american attorneys to receive permission from West German Chan cellar Conrad Adenauer to open a Pri vate practice in Germany after world War ii the partner said. This was in1950 " o Helire served As a first lieutenant in the artillery in France and Germany from 1941 to 1946. He then joined the . Prosecution team in a Turnberg. In 1949, he served As Legal adviser to Gen. Lucius Dclay in the office of the . High commissioner for Germany. The former president of the bar association of american lawyers in Ger Man was a graduate of holy Cross col lege in Worcester mass., and Temple Law school in Philadelphia. O Haire Wilt be remembered for his willingness to help anybody with Lega problems said Victor Cronthall retired chief-or-. Forces Liaison offices for Hessen re Inland Pfalz and Saarland. He was very generous always want ing to help. Still he was a Little Lough irishman but truly american and loved his country above everything -.,Cronthall worked with o Haire in the military and later As they served together on the executive committee of the us Council of Germany the Pilston pa., native is survived by his wife Helen of Frankfurt Daugh Ter Anne Christine Draper of California and son Walter o Hairejr. Of washing Ion. A memorial service will be held at 1 . Tuesday at is Sebastian Chapel in Frankfurt.  U. Of Maryland offers seminar on Hessen memorial being held for Dodds teacher Wor burp West Germany memorial service will be held Ai 3 30 . Saturday for george1 litters a teacher who died tuesday morning. Liu Cral who laugh French and English at Wil Ryburg High school died Fol lowing a Short illness. He was 48. The service will be at the Leighlon Barracks Chapel. A Wiesbaden West Germany a University of Maryland seminar sponsored by the vice president of the Hessen parliament will be held saturday and. Sunday at the Biebricher Palace the seminar will feature four guest speakers who will discuss Modem Hes sen economics an culture and politics. The class is Worth one upper level credit in history government or economics seminar organizer George neb lilt said " speaking at the iwo Day event will be parliament s vice president Ruth wag Ner on Hessen culture economics Secre tary Otto Kint on politics in the state University of Frankfurt professor Gott Fried Kiesow on Hessen Art and Neblett on Hessen economics. V tuition for the course is $82, and no textbooks Are. Required. Registration closes today. More information is available by Call ing ets 339-3030,.,37/000 pounds of marijuana seized . Charleston . Up a coast guard Cutler arrived in port wednesday with 37,000 pounds of Mari Juana seized in what officials called one of the la jest operations of its kind this year the coast guard said the marijuana was discovered tuesday on a fishing ves Sel known As the or. Ted eight colombians on Board the Craft were arrested on drug charges. The seizure was the second largest marijuana haul of 1988 for the 7th coast guard District which conducts More than 90 percent  coast Guantt drug related Law enforcement  largest seizure of the year involving 37.000 pounds of marijuana occurred in january off the Florida  said tuesday s seizure was con dulled about 100 Miles East of Charleston by three coast guard cutlers. They were assisted by aircraft from the us. Customs service and coast guard air stations in Savannah ga., and Miami  
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