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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 07, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Army s red Blaik Dies Page 26 shelter for refugees a vietnamese Man Anil his daughter among boat people arriving in Hong Kong on saturday Are shielded from the blazing Sun by the Man s jacket. A new flood of refugees from Vietnam has raised the number of persons arriving this year to about 6,000. Army doctors want boxing knocked out by Janet d Agos 11no Nedical writer neurosurgeon William Morris a West Point Grad uate who boxed  Academy believes the training gained by boxing is not a Good Trade off for Ilie Poten tial danger. I take care of people who Bash their brains in from car wrecks and everything else said Morris chief  at the Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center in a vast Germany. Why get up in a ring voluntarily to get your brain injured Morris a lieutenant colonel agrees with military doctors who suggested in an article in the journal of the american medical association that the military drop boxing because it causes too Many serious injun  doctors who studied boxing injuries from 1980 through 1985. Found head injuries accounted for 68 percent of All boxing related Hospital Lions of . Military Academy cadets and 81 percent of boxing re lated injuries. Instructional boxing is mandatory 31 . Service academies. At the . Mil Lars Academy at West Point. N.y., boxing helps build sell Confidence in a combative situation said col. James l. Anderson professor and director of physical education at the Academy. The boxing training program when properly con ducted and under proper procedures leaches a Man to continued on Page 23 pipes authorized unofficial publication fool the . Armed forces Good Mornin vol. 48. No. 20. Sunday May 7, 1989 from Owma Xii u 8693 a . Stance on missiles firm Bush tells Koh Washington up president Bush and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl talked on the Tele phone Friday but failed to resolve their differences Over East West negotiations on Short Range nuclear missiles White House spokesman Marlin Filz water said. The potential crisis within nato was created when Kohl moved to placate his left political flank by urging Early East West negotiations on Short Range nuclear forces. His Surprise move which won general support from Norway Denmark Greece Belgium Italy and Spain came after . Officials thought another threat to Unity had been averted by deferring firm decisions on the modernization of nato missiles in West Ger Many. Kohl opposes such a decision at this time. Of immediate concern arc missiles with ranges of less than 300 Miles the american Lance with a Range of 80 Miles and the soviet scud b. Frog-7 and ss-2i, which have ranges of from 36 to 180 Miles. The Sovi ets arc estimated to hold As much As a 4-to-l Edge in nuclear warheads on those missiles. Filz water told reporters that Kohl telephoned Bush at 9 15 . Friday and the two leaders discussed their dispute and agreed that talks on the matter should be continued among nato members. While not discussing details of their talk. Fit water see missiles on Back Page today s election in Panama colled  confess Panama City Panama a panamanians Are picking a president from among two leading Candi dates today but the election Ako has turned into yet another contest Between Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega and the United states. Noriega Panama s de Facto ruler has charged that a vote for the opposition is a vote for Washington. The opposition says a vote for Noriega s hand picked candidate is a Vole for More dictatorship. Pro government candidate Carlos Duque said Fri Day that Noriega should remain As head of the Pana Manian military forces until the year 2000" to assure that Panama gets control of the Panama canal. The United states is bound by treaty to turn the canal Over to Panama by 1999. The eight parties in the pro government National liberation coalition contend that the opposition and the United states plan to delay or cancel handing Over the canal. Opposition presidential candidate Guillermo Enda continued on Page 28 Southern storms kill 18 twisters hit Carolinas Johnny Thomas Sune a destroyed Steeple Intoccia a. B the associated press tornadoes ripped into the Caroli Nas on Friday flipping cars toppling Church steeples and wrecking Homes and businesses As thunderstorms High winds and heavy rain pounded the South for a second Day. The storms were blamed for the deaths of 18 people on thursday night and Friday including two girls who were in a car that was swept away by churning floodwaters in Vir Ginia. Four people also died in North Carolina two in South Carolina two in Louisiana seven in Texas and one in Oklahoma. You re not going to believe it when it s Daylight  Deputy sheriff Herb Bryant said Friday out Side a demolished Home in Lincoln county . It took out an entire Hill of Hardwood Trees and threw cars around so much you could t Tell where they came  three people were killed Friday when i hair Homes were destroyed near Toluca. About 50 Miles North see storms on Back Page  
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