European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page s the stars and stripes thursday february 1990 Vatican restores relations with hungarian government Black history month Vatican City a after a 45-year break the Vatican has announced restored diplomatic tics with Hunjan. The second East bloc country to re establish relations in less than a year. Also tuesday. Hungary annulled a 1950 Accord that limited the number of roman Catholic seminaries and religious orders the country s official Mai news agon c reported. The government plans to Rancil similar agreements with other churches in line with a Fri com of con science Law enacted in january the Mai report said. The dramatic improvement in the Vatican s relations with Eastern european countries was further underlined tuesday by the nomination by Pope John Paul ii of a new Bishop in Czechoslovakia. The Bishop. Jan Chry Zoslow Korcic. Had been imprisoned in the 1960s under a predecessor of the hard line c of Munsil government ousted in last novem Ber s peaceful revolution. Hungary whose then communist leaders broke tics with the Vatican in 1945. Will follow Warsaw pact ally Poland in restoring relations. Poland did so in july. Negotiations Between the Vatican and Hungary for restoring lies have been going on for months and it has been agreed that the Pope will visit Hungary next Jear. In the announcement spokesman Joaquin Navarro said Cardinal Agostino Casaroli. The Vatican Secretary of state would leave wednesday for Hungary and would sign the agreement for restoring relations during the five Day visit. Casaroli will also Lake part in ceremonies unveiling a statue of the late Cardinal Josef Mindszenty who was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in a stalinist show trial in 1949. Mindszenty who became a Symbol of Church opposition to communism was freed from prison by Hun Garian revolutionaries during the 1956 uprising. After the revolt was crushed by soviet tanks. Mindszenty took Refuge in the . Legation in Budapest where he remained until the Vatican and Hungary worked out an agreement in 1971. He died in Vienna in 1975. The ousted czechoslovak communist regime had been among the most hostile to the roman Catholic Church in Eastern Europe blocking the nomination of new Bishops for 15 years. But Prague s non communist government has said it wants to restore ties with the Vatican and the pol ish born Pope plans to visit in april. With a series of recent appointments including the nomination tuesday of Korec in Nitra Only four of 13 dioceses Lack Bishops. The announcement noted that Korcic was secretly consecrated a Bishop in 1951, a practice used by the Church to ensure it has a Hierarchy in a country where it can t operate freely. Korcic 66, spent eight years imprison and then was barred from working As a Bishop. Japan boosts 2 satellites into space off in september after repairs. The Marine observation satellite dubbed mos la will enter its orbit at a height of 568 Miles and use a variety of sensors to study the oceans. Nada  earlier Ocean Oscr vation satellite. Mos i was launched in 1987 and is still in service. Also aboard the he rocket was a satellite for communications Between Amateur radio operators and a separate payload to be used for experiments on mechanical movement in space. Nada said. Japan has two space agencies. Nada specializes in applied uses of space such As the launching of satellites while the smaller Institute of space and Astro nautical science focuses on space science. A satellite launched by 1sas on Jan. 23 from it space Center in Kagoshima prefecture is scheduled to pass near the Moon on March 18. Tokyo a a two stage rocket carrying a Ocean observation satellite and a communications sat Ellne was successfully launched wednesday from space Center in Southern Japan officials said. Eijiro Hirohama. A National space development Agency official said tracking stations have received signals from the spacecraft but added that it would take Sci ral hours to determine whether the satellites were in proper orbit the he rocket the mainstay of Japan s space pro Gram lifted off at 10 33 . From Nada s space Center on the Island of to Nagashima. 616 Miles South West of Tokyo he said. Nada. Japan s chief space Agency has had Only one launch failure since 1975. In that incident the first stage of a he rocket did not properly ignite in an August launch attempt. The rocket successfully lifted military Roundup Berlin brigade officer wins leadership award Heidelberg. West Germany a Berlin brigade company commander has been awarded the Gen. Douglas Macarthur leadership award for performance leadership and achievement. Apt. Dana . Pillard of co f. 40lh Armor was chosen out of 14 nominees from  units throughout Europe. The 30- car old West Point graduate is an Arror Branch officer with More than eight Jears of military service. Pillard has been with the Berlin brigade since june l 88. Selection for the leadership award is based on performance throughout the pc v Imus Calendar year. One officer from each of the major army commands the re scr i s and the National guard is chosen to receive the Honor. Petard received the award tuesday from it. Gen. John m. Shalikashvil. Usar eur Deputy commander at the Heidelberg officers and civilians club. Founder s Day dinner scheduled for March Heidelberg. West Germany a founder s Day dinner will be held March 10 in Heidelberg for graduates and friends of the . Military Academy. Tickets Cost $25 per person. Attire for Active duty personnel is army dress or mess Blue uniform with Bow tic. Civilians should Wear a dinner jacket business suit or West Point Blazer. Reservations should be made a March 5. For More information Contact capt Raymond e. Freeland at ets 370-7024 or 7120. Or German civilian 06221 -57-7024 or 7120. Kef Lavik translator cited by Navy for service Mas Kef Lavik. Iceland a management adviser for the Iceland defense Force was recently awarded a lop Navy service award. G. Ingvar Magnusson. Staff management adviser at Force Headquarters was Given the Navy meritorious civilian service award for his 35 years of service to the base. Moreover. Nas Kef Lavik received the Navy s meritorious unit commendation for its support to . And nato military operations. Maritime patrol forces and other military units Are supported by the station. Nas Kef Lavik personnel also provide support during exercises and deployments of nation Al guard troops. Charles Drew and Daniel Hale Williams surgeon Charles Drew left born in 1904, devel oped techniques for processing and storing blood plasma for use in transfusions. Drew was a fellow in surgery at Columbia University where he received a doctorate in medical science in 1940. In 1941, he resigned As director of an american red Cross program for the . Armed forces to pro test a military ruling that the blood of Whites and non Whites would have to be stored separately. Daniel Hale Williams born in 1858, was credited with the first successful heart surgery in 1893 at a time when medical opinion disapproved of Surgi Cal treatment of heart wounds. Williams per formed the surgery without Aid of blood transfusions modern aesthetics or antibiotics. The patient lived for 20 years following the surgery. In 1891, Williams founded the provident Hospital in Chicago the nation s first interracial Hospital to provide training for Black interns and to serve As the first school for Black nurses in the United states. This is another in a series of paintings by spec. James Scott that will appear in the stars and stripes this month. Voters in Palau reject More self government kor or. Palau a voters in this Remote Western Pacific archipelago rejected a political arrangement that would have brought them More self government and nearly $500 million in . Aid. Early returns wednesday showed about half of the voting Palau ans supported a compact of free association and subsidiary agreements with the United slates but the results clearly were falling Short of the required 75  23 percent of the Vole counted from tuesday s polling. 51 percent opposed the compact and 49 percent approved. Final results weren t expected until at the earliest Friday. Vice president Kunizo Nakamura who backed the compact conceded it would  a result. Palau will continue As the world s last United nations trusteeship under . Administrative authority. Ten other territories formed in 1947 under the trusteeship system have achieved Independence or self government. The United states captured the islands in 1944 from Japan. The plebiscite was the seventh in seven years on the  the latest plebiscite. Sen. J. Ben Nett Johnston d-la., had asked the department of Interior to review its policy toward Palau if approval was t attained. Interior officials have said they May bolster their presence. Palau is a collection of 200 volcanic is lands the westernmost Cluster of six major groups making up the Caroline islands. An estimated 15,000 people live on its eight inhabited islands about 500 Miles East of the Philippines City of Mindanao and 4.500 Miles Southwest of Hawaii. Several factors apparently led to the is sue s defeat perhaps Foremost among them anti nuclear sentiment. One of the provi Sions on the ballot would have allowed .nuclear-capable aircraft and vessels to Tran sit Palau. Larry n. Garston a san Jose state University political science professor found a Strong anti nuclear feeling in an exit Survey of 1,235 Palau  no voters 49 percent said it was because of the possibility of . Nuclear materials in Palau. Gerstyn said. Another 35 percent said they voted no because there was not enough Money in the  was not immediately Clear what Palau s government will do  a Jan. 29 letter to Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Johnston recommended that Interior officials exercise greater Law enforcement and financial management of Palawan  said the government would persist in trying to get the compact approved perhaps by holding a referendum to lower the 75 percent requirement to a simple majority