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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday january 15,1989 no this oh-58 Kiowa helicopter did t poop out at Sickels army Airfield in Fulda. Nor Are these soldiers pushing it across the runway thursday for their health. One word explains All training. The question is Why aircraft maintenance soldiers of t troop 4th so Lith army Cav regt Are escorting the chopper through a training session for nuclear chemical and by plug Diers could learn to use new equipment ical decontamination. In a non training without having to contend with a Whir situation the Kiowa would be flown from station to station but it was pushed during the dry run so that Soi Ling chopper. At left spec. Ross Turner holds the Kiowa s Tail Between stations. In the other photo pfc. Paul Burdette from left pfc. Joseph Parker and Turner push the chopper into position. Group asks soviets to appoint panel to track rescuer of jews Ottawa a a Canadian jewish group has asked the soviet Union to set up an International panel to Trace a swedish Diplomat who disappeared while in soviet custody after saving thousands of jews from the holocaust. Many believe Raoul Wallenberg credited with Sav ing 103,000 jews in world War ii is still alive in a soviet prison. If so he would be 77. We re not confident we know everything that could be known David Matas vice president of b Nai b Rith Canada told reporters Friday. This would be a True test of the new soviet policy of  when soviet troops liberated Hungary in january1945, Wallenberg was arrested for espionage and sent to Moscow. The soviets say he died of a heart attack Ina Moscow jail in 1947, but soviet dissident sources have reported seeing him at various times during this decade. Matas discussed the Issue Friday with Alexei Maka Roy minister Counselor of the soviet embassy. Mat Assaid Makarov called Wallenberg a hero and said he regrets what happened to him. B Nai b Rith asked the soviets to appoint a commis Sion of historians from Canada Hungary Israel swe Den the soviet Union and the United states. The com Mission members would interview surviving witnesses review soviet archives and make a report. In 1944, Wallenberg volunteered for a Mission to save jews in Budapest from nazi death Camps. He is said to have rescued the jews by providing some with swedish passports hiding others in Safe houses an pleading with nazi officials to spare their lives. The nazis killed an estimated 6 million jews during their 1933-45 Rule. If Wallenberg is still alive he will have been i Captivity for 43 years. 8 workers killed in Cable car crash Grenoble France a eight technicians try ing out an ultramodern Cable car plunged to their deaths Friday in an Accident near the ski resort town of1 alpe d Huez local officials said. The victims All from the surrounding Region we reemployed by a tourist association and the Domagalsky construction company based in this mountainous Southeastern town. The Cable car which c9uld hold 125 people unhooked from its overhead line and dropped 660 feet to the Bottom of a Ravine. There was no immediate explanation Why the car became unhooked from the Cable which was intact the officials said. Although it was difficult to reach the spot rescuer found the car quickly. No one was alive when they arrived at the crash site. As soon As we got Down there we knew we would t find any survivors said one  were literally part of the Metal and the  Nightfall and the other difficulties hampered the Salvage operation. The Cable service was scheduled to open Jan. 21 an was described As one of the longest in world at 1.6 Miles. It was the Pride of the 450 inhabitants of the Hamlet of Vau Jany North of 1 alpe d Huez. 48 officers not allowed to keep gifts from Sheik Aachen West Germany a forty eight police officers will apparently have to Settle for a Job Well done instead of the expensive watches they received from the president of the United Arab emirates in gratitude for guarding him. It was not deemed Correct that officials receive extra compensation for fulfilment of their Normal duties an Aachen police spokesman said. The president Sheik Zayid bin Sultan Al a mayan gave the Swiss watches to police who guarded him during an August 1987 visit said the spokesman on condition of anonymity. Kangaroo meat ban lifted and activists hopping mad Sydney Australia a a decision by new South Wales state to allow consumption of Kangaroo meat has provoked the Wrath of Ani Mal rights activists. What other country in the world Slaughters its National Symbol said Richard Jones a new South Wales parliamentarian who was elected on an animal welfare platform. Conservationists called the decision disastrous for kangaroos and potentially dangerous Lor humans because kangaroos carry a Host of  Jan. 6 decision lifted a longstanding Banin Australia s most populous state on consuming Kangaroo meat and raising kangaroos for  health minister Peter Collins said the decision is not intended to endanger wild Kanga Roos  
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