European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday january 4, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 big american greeting a giant new year s card from 150,000 Bles As Massachusetts gov. Michael americans to the soviet people was put Dukakis the Rev. Jesse Jackson a on display in Moscow on tuesday. Thou Tress Singer barbra Streisand and Yoko Sands of americans including such Nota Ono signed the greeting card. . Vets offering laotian insurgents Cash for sabotage Bangkok Thailand a veterans seeking the release of col leagues they claim Are being held in lao tuesday said they Are offering anti communist laotian insurgents $5,000 to de stroy a government building. The veterans have formed a War Council and Are offering the Money forthe first significant government building the insurgents destroy group spokesman Ted Sampley said. We believe the Only Way the truth and any living american prisoner of War will Ever be liberated from Laos is if the epithet lao communist party Are driven from Laos he said. We re going to encourage the insurgents to take on the Patchet lao any Way they Sampley who spoke in a Telephone interview from the United states is chairman of the National steering com Mittee for Vietnam War veterans. The private lobbying group has accused . Government of failing to secure the release of americans held from the indo China War which ended with communist victories in Cambodia Laos and Viet Nam in 1975. The laotian government has repeatedly denied holding any americans from the War and has reacted angrily to Pri vate initiatives. The . Government also has criticized these private initiatives preferring official contacts with the laotian authorities whom it says have increased cooperation in recent months. A total of 547 americans Are officially listed As missing in action or mias in Laos but . Officials said All but one Are presumed dead. If the Reagan administration will encourage private citizens to help the con tras insurgents in Nicaragua then by god we can help the laotians against the Patchet lao communists said Sampley a former Green Beret from Kinston,. He said the $5,000 had been donated by a private . Citizen but he would not identify the person. Insurgents based along the thai an chinese Borders have fought the laotian government since the Patchet lao seize Power in december 1975 but do not appear to pose a major Security risk. The . Government says it gives no support to the insurgents. In october Sampley led a group of americans to Thailand. On the Mekong River which separates Thailand an Laos they floated currency notes stamped with another Reward offer $2.4 million to anyone who brings out a live prisoner. Two members of the group were detained by the laotians for 41 Days after they illegally crossed to the laotian Sid of the River. Last month . And laotian expert conducted their fourth joint excavation of a . Warplane crash site in Laos an found one set of human remains. The Mia Issue was expected to be Dis cussed during talks this week Between Laos Deputy foreign minister Soubanh Sithirath and Richard Childress director of asian affairs at the . National Security Council. Childress was accompanied on the Trilby Ann Mills Griffiths the head of the National league of pow Mia families a private lobbying group. The official laotian radio said Sou banh and Childress met in Laos capital of Vientiane on monday and were expected to meet again tuesday. The consultative meeting proceed Din a Good and straightforward Atmo sphere said a text of monday s Broad cast which was seen in Bangkok tues Day. Recruits Drunken fight forces soviet Jet to land a a i"\\t17 to Tot a a ama.i.4. 1 a1._ -. I to ,. T Moscow up an Aeroflot jetliner was forced to make an emergency Landing in Siberia when Drunken Brawl erupted among 176 Vodka quaffing army draftees heading for military service in the soviet far East a soviet newspaper said tuesday. One Crew member said the aircraft was being pitched from Side to Side As if caught in severe air turbulence As the brawlers fought in the aisles. Flight number 75565, a charter from Aeroflot Wasen route from Tbilisi in Georgia to Khabarovsk in the far East when fighting erupted in the passenger Cabin the daily Komsomol Skaya pravda the official communist youth league newspaper said. The majority of the conscripts were heavily drunk the newspaper said. It said the few officers accompanying the draftees were overwhelmed and could not control the in flight rioting. The Crew grew worried about the safety of the the Crew requested and received permission for a emergency Landing in the City of Barnaul. The Craft was met by local army and militia detachments who fought their Way into the aircraft and finally managed to subdue the brawlers. Mother 3 kids killed by pickup truck s fumes Calexico Calif. A a woman and her three children suffocated in the Back of a pickup truck As the family was driving Home from Mexico unaware car Bon monoxide fumes were seeping into the camper Shell officials said. The children Ages 3 through 6, an their Mother were found unconscious monday at the Calexico port of entry when her husband pulled up to the Bor Der station following a three to four hour wait said police sgt. Bill Matus. The discovery prompted officials Tocheck other cars and two children were found unconscious in the Back of another pickup truck. They were taken to a Hospital where they remained tuesday for observation. . Customs service officials identified the dead As Micaela Iniguez Aguilar 26 and her children Horacio Aguilar 6, Francisco Javiar Aguilar 4, and Camilio Aguilar 3. The father Horacio Aguilar 36, was unhurt and was unaware the fumes were seeping into the truck Matus said. Inspectors and paramedics tried to re Vive the four but they were pronounced dead on arrival at a Hospital Here. The pickup truck had a faulty exhaust system and the bed had holes in it allow ing Carbon monoxide to seep into tieback said John Miller a customs serv ice spokesman. Holiday traffic caused a massive Back up at the Border station about 100 Miles East of san Diego. Matus estimated traffic was delayed three to four hours and that could have contributed to the whole video game shows moms How to care for newborns Milwaukee a a new game show video for Low income mothers Willtry to make viewers winners by teaching them How to properly care for their new Borns researchers say. The 15-minute video entitled the baby game will use a game show format to convey information about infant nutrition and care. It s aimed at people who Are turned off by informational presentations. We re using the strategy that if Itcan be entertaining it will be watched therefore the information will get across said Dennis Darmek manager of television services at mar Quette University. The University is creating the video at the request of the hunger task Force of Milwaukee s infant nutrition project. The video features a Host and three contestants affiliated with a comedy troupe Darmek said. The mock game show depicts three new mothers in a Hospital being told they were Sele Tedas contestants and asked questions on child care. The video comes Complete with commercials which Are Public service announcements on infant care he said. It will be shown to new mothers at Milwaukee area hospitals just be fore they Are released. This is a last ditch Effort to get across some important information said Vickie Strattner a registered nurse and task Force Volunteer
