European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 29, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Gorb Burger please soviet immigrant Kostantin Bokov poses in front of his portrait of soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa which along with other examples of Bokov s artwork Grace the glasnost cafe in Greenwich Village. The new York eatery is owned and run by soviet immigrants. Pentagon Balking As veterans group asks for Mia files Washington a a veterans advocacy group has asked president Bush to declassify files on americans missing in action in the Vietnam War but a Pentagon spokesman said no Pur pose would be served by such a move. Ted Sampley of Kinston n.c., chair Man of the National steering committee for american War veterans said Friday the request to Bush was in part a response to a report from the state and defense departments just before the Reagan administration left office that . Agencies have yet to find conclusive evidence of the existence of  in another development Bob Dumas of Canterbury conn., speaking for the korean War veterans association said a delegation from that group would meet North korean officials in new York seeking an invitation to visit North Korea for discussions on returning the remains of . Soldiers killed there. The Pentagon still lists 2,383 Ameri cans As missing or unaccounted for in Southeast Asia or nearby Waters. Dumas said remains of probably several Hun dred americans were in North Korea As a result of the 1950-1953 korean War. Last week the vietnamese govern ment turned Over remains believed to be those of 23 americans killed there. Sampley in his group s letter to Bush said use your Powers As president to help us liberate the truth. Or. Presi Dent you cannot just wish that the issues of the Vietnam War will go  he said he was responding to the president s inaugural address and Bush s references to a new Breeze  Sampley s group has Long maintained that americans Are in Captivity in South East Asia. Last fall it sponsored an incur Sion into Laos by two americans Jim Kopp and Donna Long to spread word of a $2.4 million Reward being offered by 21 members of Congress for anyone who frees an american. The two were caught by laotians on their first Day and held for 41 Days be fore being released. At the Pentagon army it. Col. Keith Schneider chief spokesman on issues affecting the missing said of Sampley s proposal i Don t feel a proposal like you re talking about will do anything to enhance these ongoing efforts for the fullest accounting of what happened to . Service members. It s quite obvious that declassification would jeopardize intelligence sources and collection techniques Schneider said and your sources quickly begin to disappear when that Hap pens. Information bearing on individuals in the files has been shared with families without revealing sources and techniques he said. Midwest experiencing unusually mild Winter by the los Angeles times Chicago Winter is missing much of the mid West this year. Unusually mild temperatures Balmy for the sea son and unusually Low snowfall have combined to make the past two normally frigid months among the Mildest on record. Across the great Plains the unseasonable weather i threatening the nation s Winter wheat crop. In parts of Northern Illinois Canada geese thinking it is Spring have begun their mating rituals weeks Early. In Michi Gan and parts of Wisconsin Winter resorts Are having Tough sledding. What happened to Winter it s up in Alaska an that s a Good place for it said Clem Goushas a National weather service forecaster in Chicago. Winter i had to go to upstate new York to find it said Jack May the government s chief meteorologist in Topeka Kan. It is the fourth warmest january in More than a cent Ryin St. Louis the ninth warmest in Milwaukee and the fourth warmest in Youngstown Ohio. There has been 18percent More Sunshine than Normal in Cleveland this month and Detroit experiencing its third sunniest Jau nary Ever has had less than half its Normal snowfall. This month is definitely going Down in the record books said John Haase a government meteorologist in Milwaukee. The nation s Snow capital Buffalo n.y., has had17.3 inches of Snow less than a third of the total it normally gets by the end of january. In Kansas the nation s biggest producer of Winter wheat warm temperatures Are allowing aphid like Green bugs normally killed by the cold to luncheon the tender Young wheat planted last september. And Lack of snowfall is robbing the plants of moisture and a protective Blanket that normally would shield the crop from Winter wind damage. Central Kansas has recorded tempera Tures that aver age almost 11 degrees above Normal so far this month while snowfall this Winter is almost 11 inches below Normal for this Date. If nothing changes it could be a disaster for the wheat crop said Kansas Extension agronomist Jack Brotemarkle. We could see a 25 percent reduction inthe  the temperature has not dropped below Zero in Chi Cago this Winter. If that record holds it will be Only the 10th time that has happened since 1872. Normally there Are 14 below Zero Days in the Windy City during december january and february the three ninth the National weather service officially Calls Winter. Cleveland which averages seven Days below Zero each Winter has also missed the Zero Mark so far. January usually Chicago s crudest coldest snowiest most miserable month has been Early Spring warm. Temperatures have averaged 9 degrees above Normal. Trump group fire fens suit Over loud Jet noise in Florida West Palm Beach Fla. A an organization founded by millionaires Donald Trump and George Petty has announced it will sue the county in 30 Days unless it acts to Lessen the noise fro Palm Beach International Airport. Jets from the Airport pass Over pos Palm Beach and Many West Palm Beach neighbourhoods at Low altitudes causing deafening Roar that residents say makes it impossible to carry on a conversation. In an open air news conference interrupted periodically by jets screaming to Ward the East members of the Goodneighbor Council for aircraft noise control said thursday that they had taken their first Legal Steps to try to Force Palm Beach county and the Airport to quiet Down. They also advocate Banning stage 2aircraft noisy older planes such As dc-9s and Boeing 727s. Trump s own private plane a boeing727, might be banned from the Airport should the guidelines proposed by the anti noise groups be enacted. If that Means or. Trump has to get anew air plane hell bloody Well have to get a new air plane said Petty a Ca Nadian born pulp and paper executive who lives a few houses away from Trump s mar a Lago estate in Palm each. At the anti noise news conference however such arguments would have fallen on deaf ears of the residents Man of whom wore to shirts emblazoned with the command Shah huh in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today Jan. 29, 1949 after More than three years of control by . Military officials radio Frankfurt was turned Over to German management in a ceremony officiated by Neucom commander Gen. Lucius d. Clay. 30 years ago today. Jan. 29, 1959 Yves St. Laurent the 22-year-old successor to the late Christia dior surprised the fashion world by revealing the highlights of the new dior Spring collection 24 hours before the first Paris showing. 20 years ago today. Jan. 29, 1969 Judy Garland and Mickey Deans announced that they had gotten married in a London Church even though the entertainer was not yet divorced from her fourth husband. J 0 years ago today. Jan. 29, 1979 a 49-year-old woman who claimed she was carrying Nitro Glyce pm was overpowered by an Fri agent after commandeering a jumbo Jet on a flight from los Angeles to new York