European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 26, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 3polhill gives Little people big  card Sparks meeting with freed hostage by Crystal Laureano staff writer Wiesbaden West Germany a fifteen of the smallest people at Lindsey air station made a big impression on Robert Polhill this week a so big that the released hostage invited the kindergarten students to visit him wednesday at the air Force Hospital Here. Polhill a release from Captivity sunday and arrival in Wiesbaden on monday morning created a deep sense of caring among the 5 and 6-year-old kindergarteners of Haine Berg elementary school in Wiesbaden. And they decided to let him know it by sending him a card. The card made from construction paper and with a Teddy Bear on the front carried the message a Welcome Home with  it was signed by each child. Polhill impressed by the gesture asked the children to visit him. The youngsters got to Polhill just in time. . Military authorities said Polhill and his family would leave for the United states on thursday. They gave no further details. The children came up with the card idea on a bus ride monday said Kim Miller a caregiver with the Lindsey child development Center. Miller makes the bus trip with the children from Haine Berg elementary to the Center where they spend afternoons. The bus route takes the children past the Hospital where throngs of reporters have been camped out since the weekend. Six year old Richard Houser Iii told reporters what he thought Polhill a feelings were like in Captivity. A i think he Felt like he was scared and that he was worried about his family and he wanted to see his family again. I feel sorry for him a he said. A people who done to like americans always Kidnap them when they get a Chance and that a what i done to  Houser the son of sgt. Richard Houserjr. And Carla Houser planned to carry a message suggested by his father to Polhill a that when i see him i shake his hand and Tell him that in a glad he a  the children arrived at the Hospital about 3 . Inside the Hospital Polhill received a yellow Flower from each child and a packet of pictures they had coloured. After the Brief meeting Polhill his wife and sons and the kindergarteners went to the Balcony of the Hospital to wave to reporters. Polhill hugged the children. And kissed several of he clasped his hands Over his head then gave a thumbs up in response to a question about How he was being treated at the Hospital. Hospital officials said that tuesday night was a restful one for Pohill and that he was still eating Well. On wednesday he underwent More medical tests and met with a state department debriefing team. A source speaking on condition he was not identified told the associated press the . Debriefing team was impressed with Polhill a observant recollection of the conditions and surroundings in which he was held. The source said officials had Learned More from him than they had from previous hostages. But it was not immediately Clear whether Polhill had provided information that would help . Officials determine where the other 17 Western hostages Are being held in Lebanon or what kind of physical condition they Are in. A amps Michael Abrams Young visitors line a Hospital railing wednesday As Polhill Waves to the Media. Canadian officer says women found infantry touch by Janet Howells Tierney a. By Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington a women in combat positions in the Canadian armed forces have performed Well except in infantry jobs a Canadian general said tuesday. A for some i think they realized what a dirty Rotten Muddy Job being an infantryman was a said Canadian Brig. Gen. Daniel Munro. A i certainly would never have volunteered for such  the naval officer made the comments to the Spring conference of the defense advisory committee on women in the services in Alexandria a. Munro a appearance came five Days after the . Army rejected the committees Call for a four year study of women in All combat related Fields. Canada opened up All military jobs to women in february 1989. Ten percent of the 86,000 people on Active duty in the Canadian armed forces Are women. Munro praised the performance of women in combat positions but cited a High attrition rate for those who volunteered for the infantry. Of 48 women who completed a 10-week Basic course Only one made it through the additional 16-week Canadian army a infantryman course he said. The unidentified woman Soldier serves As a machine gunner. Two others still Are in training he said. The dropout rate for Canadian men entering infantry school is 30 percent. Munro said stamina and endurance were the major causes of the High failure rate for women candidates. A those who made it to the final week of the course became too fatigued by the third Day of the final 10-Day Field exercise to continue a he said. A most of the Young women had just run out of  women have had More Success in other combat jobs. Of 56 female soldiers who volunteered for signal corps combat positions 38 arc on Active duty. Women Are continuing to enter the army artillery Field and the service has eight who Are members of gun Crews for m-109 self propelled mechanized howitzers Munro said. The Canadian air Force has trained two women pilots to Fly the Cf-18, and 58 women hold combat sup port positions on a Canadian naval destroyer with a 260-Membcr Crew. Canadas armed forces will continue to study Why women Volunteer for combat roles and How successful their careers arc he said. By . Law women Are barred from serving on combat ships and planes in the Navy the air Force and the marines but it is army policy that bars women from serving in the combat related Fields such As infantry Armor and some artillery units. Wei vets return to site of failed Gallipoli Campaign Fiji i Toht i tar Aznif and cairam4 j uni no a. Gallipoli Turkey apr seventy five years to the Day they hit these beaches to begin the Battles of Gallipoli survivors of the ill fated Allied Campaign joined world leaders wednesday in Calls for peace. Honoured guests at the memorial were 56 veterans of the failed Effort to take the Dardanelles and constantinople now Istanbul in what Winston Churchill envisioned As ending in a rout of the ottoman Empire in world War i. Medical supervision was provided for the veterans Many of them frail whose Ages ranged from 92 to 103. The largest contingent of veterans 46, made the Long voyage from Australia. Flying Over australian prime minister Bob Hawke and other officials sat in the coach Section while the veterans stretched out in first class. Jimmy Page 94, kissed British prime minister Margaret thatchers hand during one of the memorials and said a please forgive me for crying but the occasion is too much for  some of the men walked with the Aid of an escort and Page watched the ceremony from a wheelchair. Remembrances began at Dawn at Anzac coves named after the Australia and new zealand army corps whose soldiers came ashore at the Beach on the North coast of the turkish Peninsula april 25, 1915. The invasion ended after nine months and thousands of deaths. About 5,000 australian tourists attended the ceremonies at the site where 70,000 men had been based during the Campaign. A was Dawn broke on this Day in 1915, a terrible Slaughter began a Hawke said. A today As Dawn emerges from the blackness of the night let us Hope that the nations of the Earth Are emerging from the self destructive practices of enmity and will build in sunlight a world of  the Gallipoli Campaign ended in stalemate when the allies could not capture the Hills overlooking the beaches to Advance to take control of the Dardanelles Strait. The forces were withdrawn in december and january 1916. A total of 1 million men fought on both sides. Allied casualties totalled 55,000 killed 10,000 missing and 21,000 deaths. Turkish losses were never publicly acknowledged but historians estimate around 250,000 were killed in Battle or from disease. A the Campaign was a mistake. Lots of blood shed for nothing really a said Howard a Celcy 96, a Veteran from Australia. Many historians think that had the Campaign succeeded it would have shortened the War by several years and slowed or prevented the bolshevik takeover in Russia