European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages a the stars and stripes saturday january 6,1990fleeing the flames a Kangaroo runs for its life As fire rages across the 1,000 firefighters battled fires that swept through three Albury area of new South Wales Australia where 100 states thursday destroying vast tracts of the Outback degree temperatures fanned the flames. More than thousands of people were forced to flee their homes.., Laos to jointly excavate crash Sites for Vietnam War mias Washington api a the United states and Laos will conduct a joint excavation of two . Aircraft crash Sites trying to account for american soldiers missing in action from the Vietnam War the Pentagon said thursday. The excavation of the Sites in Southern Laos surveyed by . And laotian officials in March and August 1989, was scheduled to begin Friday the Pentagon said. Last november . And laotian officials agreed to conduct the joint excavation to determine the Fate of american soldiers listed As missing in action from the Vietnam War which also involved fighting in Laos. Quot the United states government appreciates this positive step by the lao government and looks Forward a romanian touch the romanian embassy in Beijing flies the new romanian Flag As two chinese soldiers ride past sharing a bicycle. The embassy disclosed that it has received Many cards letters telegrams and phone Calls congratulating the romanian people on their overthrow of the communist dictatorship last month. To Early consultations to establish an expanded program of cooperative pow Mia activity for 1990,�?� the Pentagon said. About 2,300 americans arc listed As missing in action from the Vietnam War about 545 of them in Laos. The War ended in 1975 with communist victories in Vietnam Laos and Cambodia. The United states has diplomatic relations Only with Laos. In March 1989, the defense department said a . Team found human remains at a site in Savannah it. Laos where a helicopter with seven crewmen crashed in 1968. Another search team visited Laos in May. The joint Field Effort Marks the seventh such operation Between the United states and Laos since 1985.Walesa donates peace prize Cash Warsaw Poland apr Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa has donated the $200,000 he received for winning the Nobel peace prize to a fund created by the National Assembly to rebuild the country. Walesa made the announcement in a statement released by the Solidarity Trade Union in Gdansk on thursday. Quot the Nobel prize i received in 1983 was at the same time a prize for the w Hole movement of reforms called Solidarity. The desire to give the prize Money for a most worthy purpose held me Back against a Hasty decision Quot Walesa said. Quot today the fact that Solidarity has taken Over responsibility for the country in such a difficult period for society makes me donate the sum of $200,000 to the National gift  he said. Revis ing a prewar tradition of appealing to the nation for help the National Assembly approved the creation of a National gift fund in Early december. Citizens can donate anything from Cash to Gold to jewelry to Stock the fund which will be used to assist those areas or people in society endangered by the reforms. Last year was one of Triumph for the Independent Trade Union movement founded More than nine years ago in the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk and later banned after martial Law was imposed in 1981 to crush the Union. Solidarity was re legalized in april 1988, swept to Victory in parliamentary elections in june which paved the Way for the election of Walesa a adviser Tadusz Mazowiecki As the East bloc s first non com Munsil prime minister aug. 24. But despite its political victories the Solidarity led government faces a major Challenge in introducing Market oriented economic reforms that Are almost sure to leave poles worse off in the Short run. World today Domestic sales of autos top 5 million in Japan Tokyo up a Japan a Domestic sales of four wheeled vehicles in 1989 climbed above 5 million units for the first time in history the Japan automobile dealers association reported Friday. The association said sales totalled 5,561,594 units up 11.9 percent Over the preceding year. Imported cars accounted for 182,168 units up 35.2 percent Over a year ago the association said. It said the 1989 sales included 4,011,265 passenger cars up 12.6 percent 1,526,799 trucks up 10.3 percent and 23,530 buses Down 0.1 percent. Sales in december hit a monthly High of 472,539 units up 17 percent Over a year ago the association  rebels steal 22 government elephants Dhaka Bangladesh apr rebel tribesmen hijacked 22 government owned elephants in the Chittagong Hills. United news of Bangladesh said Friday. The elephants trained to carry lumber vanished along with their Drivers last week in the bag Achari Forest 135 Miles Southeast of Dhaka the news Agency said. The Forest is in the ran Amati District part of the Chittagong Hill tracts where rebel tribesmen have been waging a Bush War against the government since 1976. Government troops were searching the forests for the missing elephants and men whose Fate is not known. United news of Bangladesh said. The elephants belonged to the government s Bangladesh Forest industries development corp. Rebels from the Chama and other tribes seek autonomy for the Hill Region which is Rich in Timber and natural Gas and lies along the burmese and Indian  cases of aids passed 200,000 in 1989 Geneva apr the total number of reported aids cases worldwide passed the 200,000 Mark in 1989, a year in which 36,942 new victims of the deadly disease were registered the world health organization has said. In its aids update who said 5,434 new acquired immune deficiency syndrome eases were reported in december bringing inc cumulative total to 203,599 by the end of the year. The number of new cases last year was Well below the reported total of 64,673 for 1988 and 47,582 for 1987, but who experts have predicted that the struggle against aids will become much More difficult in the 1990s. In the United states a total of 113,211 victims were registered in december 2.878 More than at the end of november. The United states accounts for some 56 percent of the global  victim found in France identified Abbeville France apr an amnesiac Man found wandering in Northern France has been identified As a 45-Ycar-old British born Dane police said. Police said the Man had been treated in a psychiatric Hospital in Colchester but disappeared dec. 23. He was pulled from a canal in the English Channel City of Calais on dec. 24 and taken to a Hospital there but again disappeared the following Day. The Man turned up soaking wet on the Banks of the Somme River in the Center of Abbeville 101 Miles North or Paris. Police said he had been identified As William James Macfetrich 45, bom in Britain but now a danish citizen living in Copenhagen. They said his wife who identified him from photographs circulated in Denmark planned to travel immediately to  of bureaucrats to be fired in Philippines Manila. Philippines apr about 126,000 government employees will be dismissed this month in a bid to Weed out unqualified civil servants who entered the service through political patronage an official said Friday. Patricia Santo Tomas chairwoman of the civil service commission said the affected employees Are All holding Tempo Ray positions and were employed through the intercession of politicians. Santo Tomas said government employees without civil service eligibility but who have served for 10 years or More Are not included. The government the country a biggest employer has about 1.6 million workers