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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday january 24,1989 world today French official honors father s Wii heroism Jerusalem a the French foreign minister planted a tree at the had Washem holocaust memorial on sunday in Honor of his father a French resistance Leader who saved jews during world War ii before being executed by the nazis. The minister Roland Dumas was in Israel for Atwo Day visit during which he planned to meet with israeli officials and palestinian representatives. Accompanied by Simone Nathan Asher one of the French jews whom his father Georges Dumas saved the minister Laid a Wreath at the eternal flame kept alight i memory of the 6 million jews who were killed by the nazis. Dumas then walked through the memorial gardens to special Park dedicated to those non jews who risked their lives to save jews. He planted the foot High sapling show eled Earth around it and watered the Small tree. Rule restricting voting for new Popes to be kept Vatican City a a top Vatican official acknowledging dissent among cardinals has announced that Pope John Paul ii will keep a Rule bar ring elderly cardinals from electing new Popes a news report said sunday. Monsignor Agnelo Rossi Dean of the College of cardinals made it Clear in a letter to the cardinals that the Pope was keeping the Rule enacted by his predecessor Paul i a Vatican source said. The italian news Agency Ansa in its account of the Rossi letter said the monsignor noted that at recent meetings of cardinals there had been open criticism about the Rule which bars cardinals 80 years and older from voting for new Popes. Other italian news reports on sunday said Rossi announcement came in response to a letter to the Pope signed by 10 cardinals asking for a change in the Rule. Hungarian weekly admits giving false poll results Budapest Hungary a a Magazine falsely reported results of a popularity poll to say that communist party Leader Karoly Grosz had the highest score state radio said. The latest edition of the popular Independent weekly Reform said Grosz topped the list of its the year s Reform Man Survey with 22.9 percent of nearly 5,000votes received. Pal embed a Reform editorial Board member told the radio that not even 500 votes had arrived in the Magazine office. He told the radio that of those votes Grosz finished second to Imre Pozsgay a minister of state and leading reformer. Embed gave no figures and did not say who was responsible for publishing the allegedly false results. The Public admission of error was extremely unusual in a communist country even in Hungary where the Media have become increasingly open Over the past year. Soviet Man not afraid of the big bad wolves Moscow a a Herdsman killed two wolves with a stick and captured a third with his Lasso after they jumped out of the Bushes and attacked his horse sin the Snow a news report said. Kumagai brag Aliyev was working on the Gorovsky state farm in ust Kamenogorski a City in the Cen trial asian Republic of Kazakhstan at the time of the attack according to the report in the communist party newspaper pravda. Pravda said the Herdsman picked up the six Foo stick As a precaution when his horses pricked up their ears in fear. It said he caught one Wolf with his lass after using the stick to kill the other two. . Sailors targeted in anti aids protest a spokeswoman for anti aids campaigners i Bangkok Thailand holds a sign protesting the scheduled arrival of 9,000 . Sailors on leave from the 6th Fleet. The Campaign Leader Sumatra Troy said the regular visits by . Navy ships were fan Ning a fire that is already out of  records show that since Jan. 1, the number of people in Thailand testing positive for the fatal aids virus has increased by More than 17 people daily to a total of 3,352. Group of veterans to build clinic to help ourselves vietnamese Bangkok Thailand a a dozen . War veterans Are returning to Vietnam to build a Rural health clinic to help the vietnamese and also help ourselves members of the group said monday. Ground breaking for the project believed to Bethe first reconstruction Effort by . Veterans in Viet Nam is scheduled Jan. 31. The group which includes carpenters electricians and architects is to spend 10 weeks building an eight room clinic in the Southern seacoast town of Vung Tau. It seemed like a Way to heal the insanity of the War itself said Ruben Robert Gomez of Santa Cruz Calif. We d like to see american hands on restoration in Vietnam and put it behind  members of the veterans Vietnam restoration project a Small California veterans group say the clinic will meet an urgent need for better medical care i Rural Vietnam help Foster .-vietnamese ties and perhaps serve to alleviate individual psychological an moral problems from the War. A psychiatrist who specializes in helping Vietnam War veterans will accompany the group to evaluate the effects of the Effort on participants. Gomez said the project s Cost of $60,000 to 100,000 and the Supply of Medicine and equipment is being paid by a number of private organizations including operation California the Christopher Rey nolds foundation and the . Committee for scientific cooperation with Vietnam. Everywhere i go people say hey great Good Luck to you " Gomez said adding that More than 80 Veter ans had applied to join the group. Vietnam s foreign minister Nguyen co Thach i october personally wrote the group giving it Permis Sion to build the clinic. Gordon Smith 38, of Monterey Calif., said Vietnam Ese officials have expressed interest in the veterans carry ing out other Small scale reconstruction projects including the rebuilding of a fire damaged orphanage in Vietnam s capital to Chi Minh City formerly Saigon and another health clinic in Northern Vietnam. Smith said american veterans groups Are limited in the kind of Aid they can provide because of the . Trade embargo against Vietnam. The . Government can make exceptions on humanitarian grounds and has Al Lowed the group to spend up to $32,000 in Vietnam itself. A lot of us Are returning to finish unfinished Busi Ness Smith said. We were dealing with destruction now we want to do something constructive. American veterans have gone Back to Vietnam As tourists or to talk about problems like the missing in action. But we re going to work Well be covered with  remains of 25, believed mias handed Over Bangkok Thailand up Viet Nam handed Over 25 sets of remains monday believed to be those of Ameri cans missing in action during the Viet Nam War a . Embassy spokesman said. A . Air Force c-141 transport plane flew to Hanoi Vietnam from Bangkok to pick up the remains said . Embassy spokesman Ross Petzing. The 25 sets of remains were repatriated to the american team at 1 . And the plane left for Hawaii Petzin said. The remains Are believed to be those of some of the 1,747 americans still listed As missing in action More than 13years after the last . Troops were with drawn from Vietnam with the fall of Sai gon. Officially the last americans including ambassador Graham Martin left the besieged City by helicopter fro the roof of the . Embassy april 30, 1975. . Battle deaths in the Vietnam War numbered 47,752, total War relate deaths numbered 58,022, and another 303,704 americans were wounded. Petzing said the c-141 transport plane was scheduled to Fly the remains to the . Army s Central identification Laboratory in Honolulu. The return of the remains was the eighth in a series of repatriations that began in August 1987, after special presidential envoy John Vessey visited Hanoi and persuaded the vietnamese to be More cooperative in accounting for american mias. The repatriation took place As five teams of . Technical experts in Viet Nam concluded 10 Days of investigation and surveys into Mia cases. The american delegation include two investigation teams two excavation teams and one forensic team. The worked with officials from Vietnam s of fice for seeking missing persons. The joint efforts followed technical talks Between . And vietnamese officials last month in Hanoi  
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