European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday april ,1939 vets search for Little buddy ends happily Naples Italy a a British world War i Veteran will be reunite with the neapolitan show Shine boy he befriended 44 years ago newspapers reported thursday Thomas Robinson of Darlington i South Durham county. England wrote a Leller to a Naples. Newspaper asking help me find this link boy. The letter was accompanied by a faded photo of Raf a Young boy in a military uniform. A relative recognized the photo As being thai of Ratacic de Benedetto now a 55-year-old owner of a cleaning firm in  said the two would meet soon in Afragola 5 Miles North of Naples where de Benedetto was born and raised can t ," de Benedetto said to see my Friend after such a Long  he recalled that he was one of a group of children who used to hang around the British army Encampment shining shots and doing other Odd jobs far sweets and chocolates the soldiers took an immediate Lik ing to him and adopted him As a sort of Mascot. They gave him free Access to the officers mess and let him stand in the front line during parades proudly displaying his uniform Robinson a sergeant took a fatherly interest in the boy and on the eve of departure approached do Benedetto s family and asked if he could Mac the boy with him. The parents refused and raft acc spent the next three Days cry ing Over the loss of his Friend. Prognosis poor for ailing Sphinx Giza plateau. Egypt a patched in White Limestone bandages the Sphinx had a checkup thursday by antiquities officials ". The Sphinx is in no danger of collapse ing minister of culture Farouk hos Nivins after a 45-Minulc, detailed Examina Tion of. The Monument with the face of a . Lie admitted its problems arc severe however and said Egypt is willing to listen to any suggestions on How to solve them. The Sphinx belongs to Egypt but even if someone on the Moon has a suggestion Thrift would help us. We will Lis  said. Saved Tawfik chairman of the egyptian antiquities organization predicted in would Lake at least a year before a team of International and local experts can agree on a permanent solution 10 the 4.60p year old Monument s deteriorating condition. The Lour by Hosni Tawfik and others was to counter local press reports that yearlong emergency restoration Effort has failed to Stop deterioration the talk thai inc restoration work is bad was. Made Only to cause a crisis.", Mosni said these Are personal rivalries and 1 Don t want them to interfere with scientific  officials have known for years that the Sphinx fashioned from layers of Lime Stone piled on a natural Knoll was i trouble. In february 1988, a chunk of Rock tumbled from its right shoulder and inc Patch up began. Restorers shored up a critically weak portion of the endangered shoulder witha Limestone retaining Wall. Limestone blocks have been placed alongside the body As braces. It s the clash of the Bright White Limestone against ancient Brown Stone that causes visitors to say inc Sphinx Jusi does l look the same. Hosni said he s determined to find a balance Between the Subtle beamy the ancients built into  and the need to save it by introducing Modem touches Enesco the United nations education and scientific Agency has donated 5100,000 for equipment to Monitor harmful  wind. Towfik said discussions for technical a cup Are under Way with the Getty conservation Institute of Marina Del Ray egyptian antiquities experts thursday give Sphinx a thorough checkup. The calif., and the smithsonian  Rock has been sick Ever since it was Hen. There s been repair and restoration work for thousands of years Hosni said. Under the pharaohs rider the romans under subsequent reigns we be been trying to restore this Rock because it is not firm. It has been affected by erosion by atmosphere climate or by subterranean  Hosni said antiquities officials Are trying to protect the relic As its builders did without using Cement. Nevertheless he said nothing we have done can not be reversed japanese to network will open door to space of Lucky applicant Tokyo up Japan s Bigg cil comme cml Tele vision network. In Ai Surprise announcement Friday threw open the floodgates 10 the world to apply to taxi orc the first Ordinary sightseer in space on asst Ici flight to an orbiting space station in 1991. The Tok o urea Cailing system or Tbs and the soviet Glav Kunos space Agency signed a commercial agreement in Moscow on monday to Send a person of the network s Choice on an eight Day Mission to the Mir orbiting space station. The this producer who signed the Deal. Ichiro Sasaki declined1 to disclose How much inc network is pay ing for the trip which will coincide with Tbs s 40ih anniversary but said it is less than the figure of 112 million mentioned in the japanese Media when the Deal was struck Early reports said Tbs would select a journalist to go aloft angering soviet space journalists demanding that a russian be the world s firs reporter cos Mohani. Do Sasaki said Trier so i that All 1,000 employees of the network Are Welcome to apply for the working Vaca Tion in space ranging from accountants and sales person Nello technicians cameramen and sports reporters. On Friday Tbs spokesman Toshio Nakanshi said that although network personnel will be considered first any adult can apply regardless of nationality or profession up to age 4s, As Long As they Are generally fit v. Ill food eyesight. Applicants have to Rene swiftly sign-up1 for the. Allex Ponse paid space trip Are scheduled to end at the Start of May Sasaki said applicants must be willing to sacrifice More than two years of their ii Eslo the project a a tuning spending More than a year in the soviet Union to learn russian and undergo cosmonaut training but they will be paid Tor the year. World today japanese jobless rate remained at 2.3 percent Tokyo a Japan s seasonally adjusted monthly unemployment rate remained at 2.3 percent in february for the third straight month while Job offers inched up the government announced Friday. Japan s unemployment rate would be about double if it was calculated according to Western methods japanese officials say. In Japan armed forces personnel and people work. Ing More than one hour in the last week of the month when data is tabulated arc counted As  the United slates military personnel arc not consid. Cred part  labor Force and those working less than is hours a week Are considered unemployed 1 killed when rebels attack Ore train in Peru Huancayo Peru a leftist guerrilla saboteurs blasted an Ore train off the tracks thursday on the world s highest Railroad line killing a conductor and injuring three other Crew members police said. The saboteurs believed to belong to the maoist. Shining path organization exploded a 35-Pound Dyna mite bomb As the dual locomotive train roared past. Police in Huancayo a major provincial capital 140 Miles cast of Lima said the blast sent the locomotives and All five cars careening off the tracks. The train was hauling Copper Ore to a nearby refinery when it was derailed near Carah Sacra a Village in the High Andes mountains 60 Miles Northwest of Huancayo according to police. Pregnant italian wife gets husband out of China Beijing a China bowed to the Iron will of pregnant italian woman on Friday and said it will allow her chinese husband to join her in Italy. The woman had threatened to give birth in front of 1 he chinese embassy in Rome. The foreign ministry Friday said it has decided for humanitarian reasons to let former Diplomat Zhu jul Wang 28, rejoin his wife Patrizia Riccardi 33. She has been living outside the embassy and has threatened to go on a hunger strike unless China issues a passport to Zhu. Her baby is due at any time and she has pledged to give birth in her camper outside the embassy. The ministry said in a statement that her father talked to the embassy and guaranteed that Zhu Wouldhave a Job in Naples. Duke urges Steps to Stop destruction of wildlife London a the Duke of Edinburgh Hus Hind of Queen Elizabeth 1 and president of he world wide fund for nature warned thursday that All life on Earth is threatened unless urgent action is taken to Sam mammals plants and insects from destruction. Mankind is at the lop of a fragile natural Structure and if  to erode the infrastructure it will be like sawing off a Branch of u try while Silling Onil he told a London meeting to Giunch a wildlife Appeal. Lie said in was slowly beginning to Dawn on people that in is the diversity of living things that made the Earth habitable. The Swiss based world wide fund for nature has launched an International Appeal for 35 million pounds j60 million la preserve wildlife. The Appeal concentrates on the Ned to protect biological Divoni