European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday december 30,1908 news briefs Mao s widow ill Beijing a jeans Zinb inc 74 year old widow of Mao tsp lung a it critically ill in prison where she is serving a life term for her role in inc Radical leftist cultural revolution an official daily said wednesday. Tie China luny quoted a jus ice ministry official As saying Jiang is receiving treatment in prison for unspecified diseases re lating to old Igic. Jiang was arrested in october 1976, a month after Mao died and was branded inc chief villainess of inc 1966-76 cultural revolution during which millions of chinese were persecuted or found i hair lives disrupted by warring Ultra leftist factions. She was accused of being the ringleader of the gang of four who tried to seize Power after Mao s death. She was sentenced to death in 1981, but the sentence was commuted to life imprison ment in 1983. Chinese protest Beijing Tuple China criticized the United states thursday for an Coli rely unreasonable Deci Sion to restrict travel by chinese diplomats and accused Washington of starting a lil for lat tightening of restrictions on diplomatic travel. The , stale department announced wednesday it would impose new restrictions on travel by chinese diplomats in the United states in response to recent restrictions on movements by . Diplo Mats at american consulates in Northern Shenyang and Shanghai. It is entirely unreasonable said chinese foreign ministry spokesman i Zhaoxin at a news briefing. He said the stale department in october further lightened travel restrictions on diplomats at the chinese consulate in Chicago say ing Beijing was then forced to impose similar measures on . Diplo Mats in Shenyang and Shanghai a fourth round of talks was held on dec. 7 without result  said but he added that he hoped he matter could still be resolved checkup for Duart Washington up Saiva Loran president Jose Napoleon Duarte suffering from liver cancer has been released from Walter Reed army medical Center where he received a routine evaluation a Hospi Tal spokesman said thursday Duurt 63, was admitted to the Washington Hospital monday eve Ning and was released wednesday. Lie received a scheduled evaluation and doctors seemed encased with his condition Walter Reed spokesman James Stueve said add ing that Duarte went Down to his car and caught a flight to Miami during his visit to Walter Reed in May 1988, Duarte was diagnosed As having unbeatable liver cancer. Since Llin he has received Chorno therapy. V v Duarte is a Strong supporter of president Reagan s Central Ameri can policy and is a harsh critic of Nicaragua s leftist sandinista  Crim Cal. Despite millions of dollars of . Aid i Salvador continues to be plagued by civil War and economic turmoil correction the new principal at a Schaffenburg elementary school was incorrectly identified in a Story on the dec. 12 education Page the new principal is Jean Silver Nail formerly assistant principal Al Avi Ano High school Italy Dod plan to remove cigarettes from commissaries still studied by Chuck Vinci i Washington Bureau Washington a Pentagon plan to remove cigarettes from military commissaries and raise prices on alcohol and tobacco sold in exchanges remains under review military officials said. The plan announced in october by i Puly defense Secretary William h. Tail in. Called for removal of All tobacco from commissary shelves beginning Jan i l at inc same time tobacco sold in Mil i tary exchanges would be priced Only slightly less than stateside off base Levels. Prices for liquor sold in military pack age stores currently at on average of 10 percent below off base Levels also would be raised to an average of Only j percent below those Levels. Taft s decision however brought on what some military officials called a con Gressional  rep. Marvin Lealh a Tenas who Heads the morale welfare and recreation panel under the House armed services committee and 92 other House and Senate members sent a strongly worded letter to defense Secretary Frank Carlucci opposing inc action tall has been reviewing the plan since then officials said. It s very unlikely that anything will happen Jan. 1," one official said wednesday. It anything docs happen it will probably be As part of the next Bud get request. Bui he Way Congress has come on they re sure to take legislative action against anything of this nature they  in the budget the administration s defense budget request for fiscal 1990 is due on Capitol hilljan.9. Even the defense department is split Over Taft s decision. Tad essentially agreed with William Mayer assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs in Mayer s longstanding assertion that restricting Access and raising prices on Al Cohol and tobacco would reduce con sumption., David . Chu chief of the defense resources Board said in a memo to Taft that higher prices on tobacco and alcohol would also boost mar revenues. But Grant Green jr., the Pentagon s manpower chief opposes the move claiming the new policy might provide a Short term funding increase but thai the end result would he a net loss of mar funding  Green argued that because the Mili tary s consumption of alcohol and Tobac co is decreasing anyway As a result of other health policies the Taft decision would result in a diminishing return in terms of additional mar funds. Additionally military consumer would be less Likely to go out of their Way to buy alcohol and tobacco on base i prices were raised closer to off base lev Els further cutting mar income. Greensand. Lawmakers can reverse any deep Ikumi made by Taft a military Folicu said by Law the commissaries mint tuck certain items and tobacco u one of Thea items he said. Added a staffer from the House mar panel you can t deny military people resale items that arc freely enjoyed by the civilian sector none of this Tuff a illegal. We May not like it it May cot be healthy  2 French girl hostages Home at lost Paris a two French children held hostage in Lebanon for 13 months returned to France thursday six Days after i hair captors the palestinian guerrilla group commanded by Abu Nidal first promised them Freedom. Their Mother. Jacqueline a Alcole five belgians and a baby sister born in Captivity were left behind in the hands of the Fatah revolutionary Council. Marie a narc 7, Virginie 6, and their father Pascal Metille arrived at 9 13 . In a special government plane at a military base in litres near Marseille a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry said. They came from the libyan capital of Tripoli where the girls were handed Over to French officials. Libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi had called for the girls release on Christmas eve and they were transferred to Libya. The Fatah revolutionary Council has tics to Libya. Deputy minister for foreign affairs Edwige Vicc and other family members greeted the girls and their father upon their arrival. The children were then taken in a Marseille Hospital for medical examinations the spokeswoman said. She could not be named in keeping with French practice. Earlier thursday evening libyan Tele vision seen in pans showed the reunion Between the girls and their father. Marie Laura and Virginie dressed in dark Robes with plaid scarves draped Over their shoulders received goodbye kisses from two other girls apparently libyan in dress costumes with bangles. In Beirut a statement by Walid Khaled. Spokesman for the Council said the children s release was a gift to the French authorities and president fran Cois Mitterrand in the name of the Chil Dren of  l France. Welcomes Hitt humanitarian gesture in appropriate measure said a statement by the foreign ministry. It thanks foreign authorities who con  ii did not elaborate earlier thursday he official libyan news Agency Jana said in a dispatch that inc French girls had arrived in die libyan port of Benghazi ending nearly week of speculation As to i hair whereabouts. They were then taken to Tripoli and turned Over to French officials. V corps clerk gets 5 years for paycheck thefts forgery Frankfurt West Germany a v corps finance clerk was found guilty of stealing army paychecks forging signatures and Cash ing the checks at the Cash ice s Cage he operated a corps spokeswoman said thursday.  spec. Anthony banter of he co v corps finance group was convicted by a general court martial on four counts of larceny dec. 23, said Marianne Zepp. Baxter intercepted 14 . Army paychecks to taling $ 16,920 hat were bound for various soldiers she said the 20-year-old Indiana native was sentenced to five years confine ment at fort Leavenworth Kan. The sentence includes a dishonourable discharge forfeiture of All pay and allowances and reduction to he lowest enlisted Grade Zepp said. Chinese flu rages in Italy Rome a a Quick spreading outbreak of chinese flu has ruined the holidays for tens of thousands of italians filled hospitals and clinics and left Many  italian newspapers report. The outbreak surprised health officials who had predicted the annual flu season would begin in  wednesday White health officials do not consider this year s virus which they think originated in chinese pigs lobe More severe than recent types its timing has caused . Throughout Italy family doctors understaffed emergency rooms an clinics were unprepared for the onslaught or people seeking Relief from he virus which is considered dangerous Only to infants and inc elderly. There have been no reports of deaths in Italy from inc flu. In Rome weekend Calls to the City s main emergency Center poured in at almost twice the Normal rate. An estimated 15 percent of the City s doctors and 35 percent of its nurses were unable 10 work mostly due to the virus. Funeral service planned for family killed in crash Sembach a West Germany Sas a memorial service will be held tuesday for an air Force family killed in last week s explosion and crash of pan american flight 03 in Scotland. The service will be held at the base Chapel Al 2 . For sgt. Dedera Lynn Woods 27, of the 66th consolidated aircraft main so her Hus band Joe a Woods 28, a civilian warehouse worker for the general support Center in Kai scr Lauvern and their two children Joe n. Woods jr., 2, and Chelsea Woods 10 Mouths. Sembach no found dead at Home in apparent suicide Sembach Al West Germany is an air Force no assigned to the 66th civil engr so was found dead Al his Home in nearby Mehlinger base officials said thursday. The body of staff sgt. Warren l. Daniel 26, of is. Germain wis was discovered by a co worker at i Frlj  after Daniel failed to show up for duty and did not answer his pager said spokesman senior airman Jimmiel. Turner the sergeant apparently committed suicide Turner said. Daniel is survived by his wife Kathleen and 1-year-old son. Aeon. Officials arc investigating the death Turner said