European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday october 5,1989 military Roundup 814th engr group to thank City for world War wll Aid Hanau. West Germany is a detachment from the 814th engr co in Hanau will travel to Rodange Luxembourg on saturday to thank the City s citizens for billeting members of their unit during world War ii. Four veterans from the original 511th engr co which was a designated the 814th after the War will also attend ceremonies to unveil a me Morial plaque thanking the residents of Rodange for their past assistance. About 175 soldiers stayed in the City s Homes and hotels for 2 a months during 1944. The american Engineer troops left four Days after the beginning of the Battle of the bulge to build a strategic Bridge near Bertone Belgium. Kef Lavik wins award As Best mid size Exchange Nas Kef Lavik Iceland the Navy Exchange at Nas Kef Lavik won the 1988 Bingha award for medium size overseas exchanges. The award recognizes excellence in customer service operations and management in overseas and stateside exchanges. The award honors the late Cape. . Bingham the chairman of the Navy panel that established the Navy resale system in 1946 and later president of Macy s department store in new York. Four Safe units take top honors at Competition Semb Achab. West Germany four Safe units won top honors during the annual 10-Day sure fire munitions Competition that ended sept. 29. The 52nd tac fighter Wing from Span Dalem a West Germany took the William l. Kirk munitions loading award while the 20th tac fighter Wing of Raf upper Heyford England was the Overall Winner for combat ammunition production. The a file tac fighter Wing of Ramstein a West Germany won the weapons maintenance category and the 81st explosive Ord disposal flight of Raf bin Waters England took top honors in its category. Twenty five other awards were presented by the commanders of Safe s three numbered air forces. Leader of jewish Community in Belgium slain by gunman Brussels Belgium a a gunman ambushed and killed the Leader of Belgium s jewish Community and authorities wednesday were investigating whether the attack was anti semitic. Israel s ambassador to Belgium speculated that Neo nazis were behind the shooting of or. Joseph Wybran tuesday evening. This was a terrorist attack. There is no doubt about that said a police official on condition of anonymity. He did not elaborate. Wybran 49, was shot in the head As he got into his car outside Brussels University Hospital where he headed the immunology department police said. A Hospital spokesman said he died Early wednesday. No one has claimed responsibility for the slaying. Prime minister Wilfric Martens called the act revolting and wretched and expressed his indignation at violence and  in addition to heading the country s jewish Community Wybran was chairman of the belgian Auschwitz commit tee. The committee recently urged Poland s roman Catho Lic primate. Cardinal Jozcfa Glymp to remove an order of carmelite nuns from a Convent on the perimeter of the former Auschwitz death Camp in Poland Wybran had recently returned from Poland where he urged authorities to publicly oppose racism andante semitism. Jewish leaders complained that the Convent and its religious symbols were offensive at a site where 2.5 million jews were killed As part of Adolf Hitler s Campaign to Exter Minate european jews during world War ii. Police said they have found no witnesses to the at tack. Israel s ambassador to Belgium Avi Primor told israeli army radio he has been in touch with authorities to discuss the attack and Security for embassy staff and jews in Belgium. He speculated that among those behind the shooting were Neo nazis. Police said Wybran was apparently ambushed by a gun Man from behind Wybran s car in the Hospital parking lot. He had been on his Way to a ceremony at the University Martin Buber Institute a jewish studies school. In december Wybran became head of the coordinating committee of jewish organizations in Belgium which rep resents about 30,000 jews from 30 different groups. Until last year he was head of the Brussels chapter of b Nai b Rith the jewish Charity and social organization. Mrs. Pollard asks Shamir to intervene Jerusalem a Anne Pollard whose Hus band was convicted of spying for Israel and is serving a life sentence in a . Prison has asked prime min ister Yitzhak Shamir to intervene Wilh president Bush on the american couple s behalf. Mrs. Pollard also serving time in prison said in a radio broadcast monday night Johnathan and i arc appealing to Shamir to put an end to the Pollard affair once and for  a spokesman for Shamir s office said he was work ing to have them freed on humanitarian  Jonathan Pollard a former civilian intelligence analyst for the Navy was Given a life term in 1987 for supplying classified documents to israeli agents. His wife spoke monday night from a new York City apartment during a furlough from a Federal prison i Danbury conn., where she is serving a five year sentence on related charges. She is to return to the prison next week. Court oks Japan s screening of textbooks for War references Tokyo a a japanese court tuesday ruled Legal a government program of screening school text books including deleting references to some japanese military actions in world War ii. Such government screening brought protests earlier from China and other countries which accused Japan of trying to cover up military brutality. Despite its ruling on wartime operations the court held in one Case that a government ordered rewrite distorted history. The Tokyo District court ruled in professor Saburo by naga s 25-year Battle against the education ministry s textbook screening. It ordered the ministry to pay him $711. By naga who writes textbooks plans to Appeal to the High court said District court spokesman Akira Saito. By naga. 76, had demanded $14,235 and wanted the screening system overturned. His complaint dealt mainly with government ordered rewrites concerning Japan s actions in world War ii. The court rejected that portion of his argument. However judge Kazuo Kato said the education ministry abused its inspection authority and contradicted mainstream academic theories in ordering Lac naga to rewrite part of a 1980 textbook dealing with an attempted coup by Farmers against the Tokugawa shogunate government in 1868 the court ruled against Iyenaga on his complaints that in writing textbooks he could not use the terms invasion banking massacre no. 731 regiment and Battle in Okinawa in describing wartime actions by japanese troops. China says More than 300,000 people mostly civil ians were killed or raped by japanese soldiers in de Cember 1937 after banking then China s capital fell to japanese invasion forces. Western historians have estimated that 200,000 were killed in the massacre. The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was Japan s last and bloodiest stand during world War ii. Okinawan officials said japanese troops killed 800 okinawan civil ians because they were an obstacle to military operations and ordered others to commit suicide. No. 731 regiment refers to a unit alleged to have conducted germ experiments on War prisoners. Kato said textbook inspection was justified to pre serve accuracy and neutrality in education. He held that textbook inspection docs not violate the constitutional right to Freedom of expression because material rejected by the ministry still can be published. He said in his ruling considering students inability to evaluate educational contents the Little Choice of educational tools allowed to teachers and the need for equal Opportunity for education the government can not allow teachers Complete Freedom to publish their own studies As  education minister Kazuya Ishibashi the adequacy and necessity of the textbook inspection system were reconfirmed by today s court ruling and we in the education ministry will work even harder to make the contents of textbooks More  he said however that he objected to the court or dered payment and said the government might Appeal by naga told reporters we Are very disappointed by the ruling. But the education ministry should take it seriously and blame itself for having gone too far in its  am also disappointed by the court s backward and biased  lawsuit filed in 1984, was Iyenaga s third against the screening system. Anne Pollard s father rented the apartment for her. She is said to have a rare stomach disorder that has caused her to lose considerable weight. She said the Case could be resolved if the prime minister would either privately or openly and most importantly candidly discuss our Case directly with president Bush. We strongly believe this would be in the Best interests of the United slates and  she said first and Foremost on behalf of my be loved husband Jonathan and i we wish to thank each and every citizen of the state of Israel for their tremendous support of us throughout our plight and we arc eternally  the pollards have received support from some jew ish groups in Israel and the United states that advocate israeli government intervention in the Case. Mrs. Pollard spoke in English and an announce translated her remarks into hebrew. The israeli government has said it did not know of Pollard s spying. Trunk Stop eleven elephants from the German circus Krone Are treated in Eindhoven Netherlands to a Spe Cial Buffet provided by a local hotel. Each of the big freeloaders got fruit vegetables bread and a four Pound cake