European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 12, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 Tony Jones head of the military Salvage team that hacked its Way through dense Jungle examines a piece of wreckage. Remains retrieved at site in Jungle where Wii troop plane crashed Sydney Australia a the wreckage of a world War ii plane that vanished in 1944 with 19 people aboard has been found in dense rain Forest in far Northern Australia officials said Friday. The troop Carrier of the Royal Netherlands East indies air Force with mostly dutch servicemen aboard Dis appeared in a thunderstorm on sept. 7, 1944, in route to Cairns Australia from the air base at Mer Auke in what was then dutch new Guinea. On Board were 14 dutch military personnel including seven fighter pilots two women a dutch civilian and two austra Lian officers returning Home on leave said Tony Austin senior medical officer from the Australia s air base at Townsville 135miles from the site. He said air Force members spent the past five weeks hacking through foliage growing around the wreckage to gather victims remains. The plane appears to have hit Trees during bad weather conditions and exploded when it hit the ground Austin said. The Leader of the recovery opera Tion Squadron Leader Tony Jones said identification of the victims would be extremely difficult. He said plans were being made to have the remains interred in a communal grave after a memorial service in Cairns about 485 Miles North of Sydney. Medical and forensic specialists sifting through the site found a bottle of califor Nian poppy hair lotion that retained its distinctive Aroma a Penny minted in 1924, two wedding rings and military Issue equipment. Jones said that some items found will be sent to a military museum in Holland and that the air Force museum at Townsville was Likely to keep the rest. Nationwide assault Rifle ban urged Washington a Sale of rapid fire assault rifles like the one used last month in a Stockton Calif., shooting spree that left five children dead and 29 More wounded should be outlawed the nation s police Are telling lawmakers. In my judgment these weapons have to go los Angeles police chief Daryl f. Gates told a Senate judiciary subcommittee Friday As it opened hearings on assault rifles. The hearing spotlighted a Bill being sponsored by sen. Howard m. Metzen Baum a Ohio that would ban the Sale of ak-47s, uzis and other military style semiautomatic rifles As Well As shotguns equipped with drum magazines that can fire 12 blasts in three seconds. Sgt. William Pattison a Nassau county n.y., policeman and executive vice president of the National association of police organizations had a Blunt Mes Sage for the committee. Our streets Are becoming a combat zone he said. Prompt and decisive action by Congress is  on display was an Arsenal of grease guns semiautomatic pistols and the semiautomatic adaptation of the ak-47. Patrick Edward Purdy used an ak-47 on Jan. 17 when he opened fire on 400 children at a playground outside the Cleveland elementary school in Stock ton Calif. Five children died and 29 children and a teacher were injured. The hearing fell silent As Lori Mackey a teacher at the school told How she and her students huddled on their classroom floor while shots crackled across the schoolyard and the Shadow of the gun Man crossed Back and Forth across their window. Since then she said nightmares and fear of strangers have plagued her Stu dents. She said she has become distrust Ful and winces at unexpected sounds Metzenbaum s Bill is being opposed by gun groups on grounds that it would out Law not Only so called assault rifles but also traditional Hunting rifles with a semiautomatic capacity. Vatican condemns racism apartheid Vatican City a the Vatican on Friday denounced racism As a sin that has Long tormented humanity and urged efforts to stamp out All forms of prejudice. It said the roman Catholic Church itself shares the blame for racism. In a major document that took the unusual step of mentioning countries by name the Vatican reserved its harshest criticism for South Africa s system of apartheid. It also said much still needs to be done to wipe out racial prejudice in the United states but it cited the country As one of the most interracial in the world. Examining the history and causes of prejudice the 45-Page document warned of possible new forms of racism saying modern science could be exploited by apprentice sorcerers seeking to produce human be Ings selected by race. The document titled the Church and racism to Ward a More fraternal society was written by the Vatican s Justice and peace commission at the request of Pope John Paul ii. It said the roman Catholic Church wants first and Foremost to change racist attitudes including those within her own communities and noted that through out history Church leaders themselves have not been blameless. The document said harbouring racist thoughts and attitudes is a sin against the specific message of  racism still exists and continually reappears in different forms. It is a wound in humanity s Side that mysteriously remains  the document called South african apartheid institutionalized racism. Justified by an ideology of the superiority of persons from european Stock Over those of african or Indian origin or coloured which is by some supported by an erroneous interpretation of the  under apartheid that nation s Black majority has no voice in National affairs. Today apartheid is the most marked and systematic form of racism the document said. Change is absolutely necessary and  there was no immediate comment from the South Africa s government. The document added it would be hypocritical to Point a Finger at Only one country rejection based on race exists on every  it called anti semitism the most tragic form that racist ideology has assumed in our Century referring to the nazi extermination of millions of jews during world War ii. As if some had nothing to learn from the crimes of the past the document said certain organizations with branches in Many countries keep alive the anti semitic racist myth with the support of networks of  citing terrorist attacks against jewish people and symbols the document said anti zionism serves at times As a screen for anti semitism feeding on it an leading to  in an apparent reference to the soviet Union it noted that some countries impose undue harassment and restrictions on jewish emigration. The document said the world should not forget other mass extermination such As that of armenians after world War i and cambodians in the 1970s. The document expressed fear about new and yet unknown forms of racism that might appear As a result of artificial procreation techniques and the possibilities of genetic manipulation for racist ends. It called for Laws to prevent this. The document praised the role of the Catholic Church in contributing to the passage of civil rights legislation in the United states but it added despite ongoing efforts much still remains to be done to eliminate completely racial prejudice and behaviour even in what can be considered one of the most interracial nations of the  among other things the document condemned legislation that discriminates against religious minorities singling out the imposition of islamic Law on non moslem in certain countries. It did not name them. Cited problems of people who although living in their own land Are subjected to humiliating Condi  while not naming any people it said in a foot note the Pope has often stated that palestinians have the right to a Homeland As Well As jews. Called for revision of school history texts that falsify history pass Over the historical misdeeds of racism in silence or justify the principles behind