European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday february 11,1989 of returning Vietnam War veterans John Rogers left who is starting a Halfway House for amerasian children and Gordon Smith far right who is helping to build a Rural health clinic pose with their amerasian friends in to Chimoh City. . Vet plans Halfway House in Vietnam for amerasian Bangkok Thailand a a . Veteran who fathered a daughter during the Vietnam War plans to Start a Halfway House in Vietnam for the hundreds of vietnamese americans who roam the streets an dream of a life in the United states. John Rogers a 43-year-old businessman from Honolulu who spent six years of military service in Viet Nam said Friday that he has rented space in a Down town building in to Chi Minh City and obtained official permission to allow 40 amerasian to live there. More than 200 others he said would be Able to use the facility to take showers or Refuge from their lives As vendors and beggars in the streets. The amerasian have chosen two seniors among them nicknamed Raymond and Charlie Brown to act As administrators. The vietnamese authorities Are willing to go along with just about anything these Days to show they Are on the Good Side Rogers said after his most recent trip to Vietnam. He said City officials even gave him permission to buy a House for the amerasian but the Price was to High. Rogers said the single room and adjacent bathroom facilities which he Hopes to expand would serve give the Street children a sense of some permanence before they Are accepted for entry to the United states. Most of the amerasian he has befriended have applied to leave Vietnam. Rogers said he first returned to Vietnam last May to find his daughter 19-year-old Gloria and ran into crowds of other amerasian in the Parks and streets of to Chi Minh City formerly Saigon. Rogers promised them he would to return and help. They were sceptical said Rogers who is fluent i vietnamese. They told me a lot of americans had come and promised to help them but All they did wastage their  Rogers daughter and her Mother Are scheduled to leave Vietnam this month. He said he would return in March and Hopes hell have More raised funds to expand the project. Rogers served in non combat duty during his army Tours. He met a vietnamese woman in 1969 to whom he is still married. He fathered Gloria during a brie Liaison. Since 1982, More than 5,000 amerasian have de parted for the United states under a  departure program. An unknown number of others have fled illegally since the War ended in 1975. . Officials said 8,000 to 12,000 remain in Viet Nam but other estimates Range far higher. Rogers believes As Many As 50,000 remain and recalls seeing in a Remote Village near the cambodian Border a dozen amerasian who had no idea that a resettlement pro Gram existed. Although Vietnam and the United states have no diplomatic ties cooperation has increased significantly Over the past year on a number of issues including the amerasian. Vietnam also has allowed private groups and individuals like Rogers to initiate activities that Wouldhave been unthinkable a few years ago when suspicion of outsiders ran High within the communist officialdom. World today France says Gorbachev will visit from july 4-6 Paris a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev will visit France from july 4-6, French presidential spokesman Hubert Vedrine announced Friday. Gorbachev and French president Francoi Mitterrand had agreed to Exchange visits but the Date of the soviet Leader s trip to France had not previously been announced. He visited France in october 1985, several months after being named head of the soviet communist party. Mitterrand visited the soviet Union last no vember. Asia urged to combat economic discrimination1 new Delhi India up Australia prime minister Robert Hawke urged asian nations on Friday to unite against economic discrimination by Europe and the United states warning that a failure to Correct global financial imbalances will Breed political  addressing a news conference on the second Day of a four Day visit Hawke said continued disparities in the International economic system could undo Progress being made by the super Powers to reduce tensions around the world. History has shown economic discrimination is the precursor of political instability the 60 year old australian Leader said. We should. Make the economic super Powers especially the european nations and America see reality. Time is critically Short. Behave got to bring them to their  . Envoy to Italy to resign this Spring Rome a Maxwell m. Rabb the longest serving . Ambassador to Italy announced Friday that he is leaving government service this Spring. Rabb 78, who entered political life in 1937 and was Secretary to the Cabinet of president Eisenhower has served As ambassador to ital for nearly eight years. He plans to return to new York practice Lawand pursue other private interests. Derailment of train in Sicily injures 16 Agrigento Sicily a a train travel ing from Catania to this Southern sicilian port derailed Early Friday injuring 16 people. Investigators said they believed that heavy tools left on the tracks caused the Accident. But they did not exclude the possibility that a local mafia gang May have caused the derail ment to intimidate the company that won the contract for work on the tracks according to the italian news Agency Ansa. Police said that six passengers were hospitalized and that 10 others were treated and re leased. Mrs. Mandela s bodyguards anger Clergyman � Ato t�t1�-�� its of a � n  9johannesburg, South Africa a an anti apartheid Clergyman denounced on Friday the vigilante actions of youths who served As Winnie Mandela s bodyguards and a newspaper said the body of a boy allegedly abducted by the group had been found. The Fate of the missing 14-year-old, sep i has been at the Center of the controversy surrounding mrs. Man Dela wife of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela and the so called Mandela United soccer team. Community leaders in Soweto have accused team members of abducting and beating four youths who were living at a local methodist Church. One of the four Tompie has been missing since Jan. 1. The weekly mail a prominent anti apartheid newspaper quoted an unidentified Soweto activist As saying Tompie s body was dug up thursday inthe Black township outside Johannes Burg. Police Headquarters said Friday that the report could not be confirmed. Bishop Peter Storey regional Leader of the methodist Church said that if Stom pie s body had indeed been found the worst fears of the Church and Community have been  some of mrs. Mandela s supporters have contended the four youths were taken from the Church to the Mandela Home because they were being sexually molested by a White minister the Rev. Paul Terryn. Methodist officials said they investigated that claim and deter mined it to be false. The National Leader of the methodist Church the Rev. Stanley Magoba issued a statement Friday saying Church leaders noted with anger and concern the vigilante actions of Mandela United. He described the allegations against Terryn As a transparent attempt to divert the attention of both Church and Community away from the ruthless actions of the football team and the disappearance and possible death of  the events Point to an increasing Lack of respect for the rights and free Doms of people and a vacuum in leadership in the townships through the de Tention of authentic leaders under Testate of  the african National Congress has asked mrs. Mandela to disband Mandela United. Law and order minister Adriaan Vlok said thursday that police were investigating All aspects of the controversy including the alleged abductions the disappearance of Tompie and the charges of sexual abuse. Vlok said police were wary of appear ing vindictive against mrs. Mandela and expected difficulties finding witnesses who were prepared to testify in court against her. Widely regarded abroad As an anti apartheid heroine mrs. Mandela has been entangled in several controversies in recent years. She was criticized for authorizing construction of a palatial Home in Soweto and for  in which burning tires were used to execute suspected collaborators. Last year her Home in Soweto was set afire by local High school students an gered by actions of Mandela unite members