European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday april 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 . Begins 5th Mission in Mia Hunt Bangkok. Thailand a a . Military team arrived in Vietnam wednesday for the fifth join Field investigation 10 account for american service members missing from the Vietnam War a . Spokesman said. The. 10 specialists hew from Bangkok 10 Vietnam s capital of Hanoi for a mis Sion expected to last until april 30, said Ross Pitzing spokesman of the . Embassy in Bangkok. The . Investigators arc from the . Joint casualty Resolution Center and the army Central identification Laboratory both based in Honolulu. During their Field missions american and vietnamese investigators interview villagers and inspect . Warplane crash Sites to try to resolve discrepancy cases that the . Considers top priority. The . Defense department previously announced thai on april 27, Vietnam would return 11 sets of remains that May to those of missing americans.. Troops fought with South Vietnam against North Vietnam from 1965 to 1973, and the communist North took Over the South in 1975. Vietnam has resumed Large numbers of remains since August 1987. When it agreed to accelerate cooperation on the mias in return for . Help in encouraging private humanitarian Aid to Vietnam. More than 1,700 americans arc Lis Tedas missing in Vic Nam and others arc unaccounted for in Laos Cambodia and pro vietnamese government in Cambodia claims to have found the re Mains the 83 . Service members missing there but a senior cambodian official said last week thai there was no Progress in arranging their i the Best Way to realize potential is through education b William .1, Bartman Washington Bureau Washington Alejandro Torres grew up amid poverty in mexi co City one of six children in a typically Large family. He was an admittedly uninspired student failing courses in math social science and natural science before completing the mandatory nine years of school. Facing nothing More than ing jobs at Home Torres at 16, made his Way to the United slates where his father s resident status gave him Hope. But bad Fortune coupled with an in ability to communicate left him unemployed. He found some Basic work in Texas As a hotel housekeeper in furniture and paper making and with a meal Packer Bui was quickly furloughed Fromica Chob. ,. I was unemployed most of the time during those two years recalls Torresin still broken but dramatically improved English. By thai time 1 knew i. Needed inn education to get and Torres knew a Way to get that education. Today at age 26, married and with two Young children. Staff sgt. Torres has become the first service member to be named one of the nation s out standing adult learners of the he and seven civil Jam were selected by a committee of educators gathered by the american association for adult and continuing education. Lie Washo nored in a Pentagon ceremony March 17, Well on his Way w a Bachelor s de Gree the part Lime student with healthy a average also has a Chance for officer candidate school. Army Alejandro Torres goal minded knew the education benefits of the Torres said. I had met military friends who told me about it.", tones who served As an ordnance Soldier several years ago with the 141st signal in 1st army div in Ansbach West Germany began his education immediately after he joined the army in May 1981. The first hint of the special weapon technician s potential occurred when he took a general education development lest the dropout s Way to com plete High school. He tested at 109paints, considered a High score. A year after entering the army Torres became a us citizen and received his ged certificate. That fall he enrolled in a College history course offered at fort Polk la through Northwestern University of Illinois. Torres continued night after night semester after semester stateside and abroad taking courses offered through the University of Maryland Central Texas College and Embry Riddle aeronautical University of Daytona Beach Fla and he finally acquired an associate degree. By the end of this year High years after starting his education Torres expects to receive a Bachelor of science degree in How the poor student from Mexico became such an outstanding learner Torr. Who Learned to speak and read English on his own before beginning College says the military made you now stationed at Seneca army Depoix n.y., Torre says without Hesi tation that he will put 10 years in the army he s not sure he will go to offi. Cer candidate school even if he s to Cep cd but last month he was shocked and delighted lobe told he will become Recruiter next year in san Antonio the uncertainty Over pcs is per haps understandable Given the fact that Torres sole reason for joining the army was to get an education. But he says be has no problem with army anything he says if you make something Good of ii it s going to be Good. I m a firm Bel ver in what you put into som Ching you re going to get Navy denies link Between nuke subs cancer by Norman Black Al military writer Washington a the Navy denied tuesday that there is medical evidence Hal sailors who so cd aboard nuclear missile submarine were More Likely to contract cancer. Responding to a report monday m a Trade publication that alleged increased risk the Navy released a 140-Page statistical study performed by the Yale school of Medicine that tracked Boih them scr Mccand Post service Ileath rates for nuclear submariners. The study conducted at a Cost of s600.000, was originally completed in August 19s5. Then updated and revised in april 1987. The Navy insisted there was no reason to Challenge the Yale study s conclusion that submariners were not placed at higher risk As a result of their occupation adding in a statement it would stand by the work of the Yale researchers the . Naval medical command finds that there is no basis in the Yale study to conclude Here is any health concern related to cancer rates and submarine service on either alack nuclear pow Rcd submarines or ballistic missile nuclear powered submarines the statement said. Lion had failed to take into account that All such mortality statistics arc developed with a Range of numbers. Navy news and undersea technology a weekly Trade while the numbers cited by the publication Are car publication reported monday that the Navy s statistical reel As drawn from one table the observed rate of 54a. Mio Jno i
