European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday july 17,1990 stateside soviet eskimos visit Alaska Crews without visa requirement  Mission to Mars Nome Alaska apr two soviet Eskimo dancers Are visiting Northwest Alaska in the first instance such travel has been permitted without visas since 1948, authorities said sunday. Misha a Karin and Yakov Kagiok arrived in Nome on saturday on a special waiver granted by the . State department. The men were invited by the Nana native corp. In Kotzebue to spend the summer performing with that City a Northern lights dancers. Kagiok told reporters he hoped the visa free connection Between . And soviet eskimos would make future visits easier. / the agreement for visa free travel among eskimos from the two nations was signed last year by Secretary of state James a. Baker if and soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze. The Accord is still being finalized and the visit by the Eskimo dancers was made As a Goodwill gesture. Alaskan eskimos have yet to be allowed to visit the soviet far East without visas. The agreement affects natives of the Bering Strait area of the soviet far East coast and from the Kobuk and Nome areas in Alaska. A Karin and Kagiok Are visiting friends and relatives in Nome and plan to stay in Alaska two to three months. They said they also May take trips to Anchorage and Fairbanks. Brawling courtroom lawyers get schoolchild s penance Houston up a two attorneys whose hostile exchanges in a courtroom turned into fisticuffs have been ordered by a judge to submit Handwritten 2,000-word essays on professionalism. A if they act like Little children in a going to treat them like Little children Quot state District judge Dan Downe yay said. In addition to writing the essays Houston attorneys Tom Tarpey and George Neely were ordered by the judge to perform free Legal work at the Roseate a shelter for battered women. Tarpey who also was fined $2,000, refused to comment on the sanctions. Neely said he was surprised at the order but does not intend to Appeal. A i will take my Medicine and i will do what in a told to do a Neely said. Underwater music festival goes swimmingly in keys Looe key National Marine Sanctuary Fla. Tap a More than 600 scuba divers and schools of colourful fish were treated to a three hour concert in the Scenic Coral reefs of the Florida keys. The selections for the 6th annual underwater music festival broadcast from five speakers into the underwater preserve ranged from reggae to Tchaikovsky. They included the theme from the motion picture  Quot i just wanted to give them something to think about a laughed disc jockey Barry Scot of wus radio which sponsored the festival to educate divers about reef Protection. And conservation. Each of the speakers was connected to above water receivers that picked up radio signals from the nearby station on big Pine key. Quot it was like listening to music in three dimension Quot said Kelly Lacomb of key West. A the sound was so Clear. It seemed like it was going through your  Seattle apr the cosmonauts and astronauts whose Apollo and soyuz spacecrafts were linked in space 15 years ago predicted sunday that a  Mission will Fly to Mars within the next 20 years. Retired air Force it. Gen. Thomas Stafford said the july 15, 1975, Mission in which the Apollo docked with the soyuz and the Crews moved freely Between the two spacecraft cleared the Way for further cooperation in space between1 the superpowers. Quot the two most notable times in relations Between these two countries were world War ii and the Apollo soyuz Mission Quot said Stafford 59. Donald Slayton 66, who served As Docking module Pilot for the three member Apollo Crew said the members of the Mission had expected the Hookup to Lead quickly to greater  cooperation but that has not occurred. A i would have hoped wed see some changes happening sooner than this. But its very positive now a Slayton said. They spoke at a ceremony marking one of the More auspicious anniversaries of the Docking in terms of future  cooperation. _ Slayton said a  Mars Mission is a inevitable. It s just a matter of when. We re probably 15 or 20 years away from that because of resources. But it will be a major International  Stafford and soviet Mission commander Alexei Leonov 56, said sometimes Cool relations Between the two countries have prevented full space cooperation Over the last 15 years. The men Are members of the association of space explorers formed to Foster International Good will Quot if America will do Mars alone it will be very expensive Quot Leonov said. Quot we Are going to work together because the soviet Union and America have very Good  Leonov said one of the existing soviet space stations could be used As a Way station on the voyage from Earth to Mars. A in a Way its a very simple thing that we commemorate today. Very simply hands from the East and hands from the West clasping in Friendship Quot said Howard Lovering a local flight museum director. After an air show of soviet and american fighters the four Mission members Shook hands with each other and with children in the audience. Slayton said the soviet and american Crew members have met Many times since the 1.975 Hookup. The american Crew members were guests of the soviets for a few weeks after the initial Mission and Leonov and fellow crewman Valeriy Kubanov 55, Are currently touring the United states with Slayton and Stafford. Leonov told the Magazine soviet life after the 1975 Mission Quot i believe our flight will be considered the beginning of Broad cooperation Between our countries. In the future humanity will Settle space and our flight will be a reminder of How it All  reminded of those words on sunday Leonov said soviet american cooperation after overcoming setbacks during the invasion of Afghanistan and generally Cool times in the 1950s, seems to be reflecting the optimism he knew at the time of Apollo soyuz. The third Apollo Mission member command module Pilot Vance Brand 59, was unable to attend the ceremony As he was preparing to command the space shuttle columbian a upcoming Mission. In tune with cancer patients former president Reagan and his wife Nancy sing songs with children at Camp Ronald Mcdonald for Good times which offers recreational programs to Young cancer patients and their families. The reagans visit last week was their third in four years to the Camp located at Pacific Palisades  of Honor museum to bring deeds alive Chattanooga Tenn. Up a the nation s first medal of Honor museum is taking shape in an abandoned office building but volunteers Are already enlisting sponsors to build a larger Hall. The medal of Honor museum of military history in downtown Chattanooga will be opened in two weeks said retired army sgt. Maj. Leo Smith the museums executive director. Smith a 27-year Veteran was a driving Force behind the project that was conceived three years ago. Friends and colleagues say Smith has gone into debt to see the project realized. At the museum housed in an abandoned state office building guides will Tell visitors dozens of stories of valor from wars going Back to the revolution the museum houses an array of military Memorabilia including uniforms ranging from those of nazi Mountain troops to West Point cadets japanese sniper rifles and american special forces daggers Vietnam a rations models of naval ships and video stories about those who went beyond the Call of duly to earn the medal of Honor. Smith said that if the museum had More room More would be on display. The museum also honors americans Only woman to be presented with the medal of Honor. Mary Walker was awarded the medal for her work at a makeshift Field Hospital As Battles raged in and around Chattanooga during the civil War. Congress later look her medal away because she was a civilian but it was restored posthumously in 1977. The stories of Gen. Douglas Mcarthur and his father Arthur Mcarthur the Only father and son to win the medal Are in the museum. So is the Story of world War i flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker and James h. Doolittle who conducted americans first daring assault on Tokyo during world War ii. The heroism that won those medals keeps Smith and his Small band of volunteers on the move to raise Money for a better museum site. They dream of a building nearly the size of a football Field shaped in the form of the raised five Point Star that is the medal of  we done to have that much now but i know we can raise enough to do it Quot museum Board chairman Charles in Rev land said. He like All others supporting the museum receives no pay. A this is something that has to be done. There a no real medal of Honor museum in the United