European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. September 1, 1989 the stars and stripes Pago 7 woman wins bottle to be listed of Block on her birth certificate  a a woman who said her parents named their kids to make it Anil listed her As while on her birth certificate won her quest wednesday to be designated a Black. I m ver thrilled. I m very Happy about  said Man Christine Walker 39. After a Denver judge ordered the Kansas department of vital statistics to issui1 her a new Hirth certificate. I m glad it s  the former denser Public school teacher a native of Cir eat Bend kan., said she s always called herself Blac despite the Well intentioned deception her patents began when she was born. My parents wanted their kids to make it. And Lii v picked the easiest a  Walker said. They knew what in was to he Black. They knew the problems " her father who is Black and her Mother whose Mother was White and father was Black endowed their Daugh Ter Wilh a fair complexion Green eyes and Light Brown hair that allowed perpetuation of the secret. In those Days passing for while was risky but financially rewarding for Blacks. Mom really stressed the White world on the kids education manners and she was very paranoid about the secret getting  Walker said. In was t her parents fault she said. I resent that this society is set up in such a Way that someone would Havel pass for another race. It s a Dis Grace that this country is so screwed up racial she said. Walker said the deception never both ered her until she applied for a Job and officials pointed out the while on her birth certificate and the Black she wrote under race on the application. Mary Christine Walker s parents listed her As while on birth records. The officials accused her of lying to take advantage of policies thai encourage minority hiring. Her claim of civil rights discrimination following the incident was rejected too. Because of the birth certificate. The Federal government Pui in writing that i was not Black and thai was too much she said. In just Hurt that this was the Federal government saying the history of my family did t mean  so she pursued the change. Her attorney i Enfield tale ii. Said it was the first such request he s heard about. I had a hell of a time filing  Tate said. Nobody wanted it. In the20 years i be been practising Law i be never seen anything like it and fro some of the reactions i got. I Don i think anybody else  lutherans adopt varied resolutions Rosemont. Iii. Al  newly merged lutheran denomination ended its first National Assembly wednesday with resolutions on social and political concerns including South Africa strik ing Coal miners and hunger. In addition to resolutions urging . Economic sanctions against South Africa and backing the appalachian miners delegates to the evangelical Church in Ameri Ca approved a measure accusing Israel of abusing palestinians. The nation s fourth largest protestant denomination also urged participation in a Burger a month Campaign in which each person gives $2 a month the approximate Cost of a hamburger to alleviate world hunger. About 1.040 delegates representing 5.3  . Lutherans expressed special support for Small Rural and Urban congregations on the final Day of their meeting in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont. The Assembly called for vigorous . Efforts to determine the Fate of y a. Prison ers of War and those missing in action i Vietnam and asked lutherans to be Alert to advances in science and technology. Regarding the israeli palestinian conflict the Assembly said achieving peace required ending abuses against palestinians but also stressed Security for the jewish state and confessed past sinful complicity of lutherans against jews. The miners backed by the lutherans have been on strike against Pittston Coal group since april 5. The Assembly was the first since the Jan uary 1988 merger of the lutheran Churchin America the american lutheran Church and the association of evangelical lutheran churches. Bishop Herbert w. Chi Stroni of Chi Cago said the Assembly s decision to join the major Christian ecumenical bodies the world Council of churches and the National Council of churches were signs of great  report May partly Clear . Mayor i of Angeles al1 City investigators appear ready to conclude Thul Mavor Tom Bradley could face civil fines nut committed no crimes when he was paid by Hanks doing business with the City no spa Peis reported   Angeles times and  Angeles Herald examiner quoted unidentified sources As laying the report from City at Torney James Hahn is due in two weeks. Hut the sources also cautioned that new information could change the recommend  still faces an investigation h the i . Justice department into his finances. Hahn plans to recommend the City sue the mayor to collect about $200.000 in fines for financial reporting violations the newspapers said. Such fines Are subject to negotiation. The mayor has said. He will answer questions once the report is distributed Bradley spokesman Bill Chandler said wednesday. He will still Wail for the final  spokesman for the City attorney s of fice declined comment. The mayor a former City policeman an councilman won an unprecedented fifth term april  investigators Are analysing Bradley s Many investments with or excl Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken the former junk Bond King who recently resigned from the investment firm after he was indicted on fraud charges. Vlahn s inquiry focuses on the 71-year-old mayor s connection to far East nation Al Bank. The Bank paid Bradley $18.000 for consulting. After some inquiries by Bradley Cit treasurer Leonard Rillon Borg subsequently had $2 million in City funds deposited with the Bank. Both Bradley and Ritton Bergden pressure was applied to make the  returned the $18.000 consulting fee after allegations of favouritism surfaced. The City attorney is also looking int whether Bradley violated conflict of inter est Laws by accepting payments from a Sav Ings and loan association and is examining More than 100 errors in the mayor s disclosures regarding his extensive Slock portfolio and property holdings. Sources also said Hahn s report will no make any recommendations related to Jua Nita St. John who is being investigated for failure to account for $180.000 in City funds allocated to the task Force for Afri Ca  Angeles relations. St. John a longtime Friend and business partner of Bradley ran the mayoral task Force before it was shut Down because of persistent debt problems. Report links Waldheim to nazi intelligence new they were shot by the Gestapo after their Inlet lion by a i intelligence officers. In written testimony presented by his lawyers to the slice department Waldheim denied taking part in y interrogations saying no ques lining of prisoners Washington a an unpublished British report rejects Lesli Mony by austrian president Kurt Waldheim to the Justice department and includes a secret Cia file that identifies Waldheim As a nazi intelligence officer the world jewish Congress said wednesday. The British defense ministry announced tuesday that the report ordered by prime minister Margaret Thatcher to determine whether Waldheim was linked to the execution of six British commandos in world War ii will be released in a few weeks. Speculation has risen in London thai some evidence May be suppressed because of possible postwar links Between Waldheim and British and . Intelligence services. But world jewish c ingress exc Culive director Elan Steinberg said he has Learned the report will include a Cia file of april 26, 1945, which contains an interrogation conducted by British military intelligence of a nazi officer who identified Waldheim As an Intelli gence officer. Steinberg s organi ution found out about the file by petitioning the la under the Freedom of information act. But he said the Agency refused to release the document because in was obtained from British Intelli gence. The file proves that British and . Authorities knew about Waldheim s a i past when they supported his nomination for in. Secretary general in the 1970s, he added. Waldheim was elected president in 1986 and placed on a list of undesirable foreigners by the Justice department which found he had assisted and otherwise participated in deportation of jewish prisoners to deals Camps and execution of Allied prisoners. An International commission of historians appointed by the austrian government found Waldheim lied Abdul his activities in world War ii and knew about nazi atrocities bul did nothing to Slop them. The commission said it could not prove a connection Between Waldheim and the British commandos captured in the Balkans in 1944. Bul suggested he justic i was conducted Al the Field Headquarters where he was stationed near the greek town of Salonika. But the British report shows the commandos were interrogated at the Headquarters where Waldheim served and that some of them were subsequently handed Over to the Gestapo for special handling the euphemism for execution Steinberg said. Among documents made available to the British investigation Are papers with Waldheim s initial showing he was clearly aware the commandos were handed Over to the Gestapo Steinberg said. He said the world jewish Congress had gleaned its information about the British report from documents it had supplied at the investigators request and from people who have seen the completed findings. The report will not make any judgment of criminality about Waldheim s activities Steinberg said