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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday August 19,1989 in this famous 1972 photo Phan Thi Kim Phuc runs screaming from her Nap Almed vietnamese Village. At right she shares a smile with the photographer Nick it in july. Napalm victim plans Mission of Hope in . Havana Cuba a the Nap Almed Vietnam Ese girl in a pulitzer prize winning picture that came to symbolize the atrocity of War is planning a trip to America with a message of reconciliation. Phan Thi Kim Phuc was a terrified 9-year-old run Ning from her Nap Almed Village in South Vietnam injure 1972 when associated press photographer Nick it captured her moment of agony for the Ages. When the gripping picture appeared on front Page nationwide. Rim became the personification of Viet namese suffering a suffering that ravaged the Amer ican conscience. Unseen in the photograph were the ghastly  whole Back and neck and Arm were Black like Barbecue it recalled. There was terrible heat said Kim who is plan Ning a six week trip across America sponsored by the committee to Welcome Kim Phuc part of a Campaign to normalize .-Vietnamcse relations. I was running running running away i Tore off my burning clothes but the burning did t Stop. I was alone with that terrible  on july 26, Kim now 26, and us were briefly reunited in Havana where she lives. It was their first meeting in 17 years. The Havana reunion was a Shock for it. The wounded child he photographed and took to a Hospital in 1972 had grown up and the scars on her Back Chestand Arm were concealed beneath a to shirt. To me she s part of the family said it whose famous picture hangs in the Den of his suburban los Angeles Home. I Tell my children Buttina and Michael who were born in America How Lucky they arc to escape  it fled from Vietnam in april 1975 and worked for two years in the a s Tokyo Bureau before transferring to the los Angeles office where he continues to work. Kim accepted a vietnamese government invitation to go to Cuba in 1986, where she eventually began studies in pharmacology. She now lives in a student apartment within a Havana High Rise. I want to live my life marry have children she common Sis propose rewriting agreement forming soviet Union Moscow a the communist party thursday suggested a rewrite of the agreement that formed the soviet Union opening the possibility for Complete change in the nation s Structure. Party leaders also said the 15 soviet republics might be Able to question National Laws before a High court with greater Powers according to a draft policy published in the communist party daily pravda. It appeared to be a partial Concession to the Baltic republics of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania which have amended their constitutions to have the right to reject National Laws. The Kremlin has said this violates the soviet Constitution. The draft policy also Calls for a Law Banning nation Alist and chauvinist organizations which could be used against groups demanding Independence from the Central government. The party s Central committee is to act on the Mea sures at a meeting in september. The party said that to achieve a transformation of the soviet federation the question has been raised of working out and signing a new Union agreement in Stead of the treaty on the formation of the .s.r. Of 1922." that could be limited to expanding the Powers of the 15 republics but it also opens the possibility that radicals could push through a Complete change. Human rights activist Andrei Sakharov has suggested a Loose confederation of Sovereign states and Many nationalists in the Baltic and Georgia have called for secession from the soviet Union. Many of the More than 100 nationalities in the soviet Union have formed groups to agitate for changes ranging from restoration of their native languages to secession. The proposed Law against nationalist and chauvinist organizations could target pro secession group such As the party of National Independence in Georgia russian strikers protesting a new language Law in Estonia or the mass membership estonian pop ular front which supported the language Law. The communist party proposal says the republics can raise the question of rejecting National Laws the believe exceed the authority of the Central government. But it says the Central government has the Power to cancel unconstitutional Laws passed in the republics. The party suggests that such disputes be settled bythe constitutional control commission a new quasi supreme court created in last year s political Reform. Publication of the draft proposal was highly unusual in that it came prior to its adoption. Until recently the party did not. Announce the dates and agendas of i scentral committee meetings until they were under way., the draft which was approved by the ruling Polit buro is expected to be discussed by party officials inthe republics prior to next month s meeting. Said adding she s a Joyful Young  when the photograph of her appeared Gen. Wil Liam Westmoreland commander in chief of . Forces in Vietnam called it a fake. The general said Kim had been burned in a Hibachi  Kim however wants reconciliation not recrimination. She Hopes her . Visit tentatively set for this fall will attempt to soothe bitterness Over the bloody Southeast asian conflict of two decades ago. If i Ever Sec those pilots who dropped the bomb son me or any american pilots i would say to them the War is Over. The past is the past " she said. I m coming so americans can meet the girl in the  she can forgive Why can t anyone asks Merle Ratner of the committee to Welcome Kim Phuc. Kim also wants to see the statue of Liberty and the Golden Gale Bridge. But More important she Hopes the trip will raise Money for her family in Vietnam an for her return to the United states to study and get medical treatment. World today w. German photographer released on bail in Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland a a free Lance photographer from West Germany who was arrested on a weapons charge was granted bail Friday and ordered to stay out of Northern  High court judge said that Nick Vogel 22, of West Berlin would be permitted to return to the British province Only for court appearances. Bail was set at 1,000 pounds j1,560 dollars Vogl was arrested Early tuesday in West Bel fast and was charged with Possession of a nil Magazine under suspicious circumstances. Turkish consulate attacked by protesters Frankfurt West Germany a about two dozen protesters attacked the turkish consulate in Frankfurt on thursday breaking win Dows and smearing the front with paint police said. Police added that they suspected the protes ters were kurd seeking to draw attention to prisoners on hunger strikes in Turkey authorities said they could not confirm re mors that a nearby Vendor was stabbed during the melee.,. The protesters fled immediately after the at tack and there were no arrests made Frankfurt police said  
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