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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday july 20,1990 news updates Cambodia revisited Bangkok Thailand up1 a John Gunther Dean the last . Ambassador to Cambodia was Wal corned Back on a private business trip to the country he fled in the waning Days of the War in Indochina 15 years ago the government news Agency said wednesday. Prime minister Hun sen a former Soldier in the Khmer Rouge that ousted the .-backed gov emment in 1975, held talks with Dean who is looking into invest mint opportunities in Cambodia the spa news Agency said. Dean who has retired from the state department said he was interested in a establishing a hotel and doing tourist business in Cambodia a the Agency said. Death of journalist Lusaka Zambia apr a British nurse on her first full Day of Freedom from an iraqi jail professed her innocence tuesday and said she did not believe executed journalist Farzad Bazot was a spy. Daphne Parish 53, acknowledged that she drove Bazot to the site of an explosion near an iraqi military installation and saw no wrong in their action. A it did no to appear improper at the time. We did no to do anything i considered illegal a she told reporters in the zambian capital of Lusaka. Unclaimed baggage Offenbach West Germany a warehouse personnel arc trying to match up some newly Arrild service members and civilians in Europe with their unto Companick baggage a v corps spokesman said. I baggage left unclaimed after 300 Days is subject to disposal so those who find their names listed Ari urged to act quickly to arrange for deliveries. The following pc Cpl should Contact the Altenbach warehouse Ito Box 44, Frankfurt military Community Apo 09710. Or they Mayg Call ets 320-5008 or 7309 or German Tyilian 069-1515008 or 1517309. A baggage unclaimed altar a James Boykins Bruce William Brown Earl j. Cullington Timothy Fleming Larry Flemister Sean Franklin James Edward Fuller James Hamilton Jeffrey hoes Shawn David Hudson Robert Johnson Frederick Johnston Days Aig Steven Jones bed Kennedy Jel Munoz legs Najj Perkerson mice Serrano. Druco Skinner tired Smith Lodney Spencer a a Elma Taylor Matthew timer Lonaghan Wentz a unclaimed Atter 120 Days Sterling Bland Wililam Lucas Frederick Corbin sol Minler James Crumbaker Lloyd mum Dell Wyatt Damon Toranda a. Poissant Martin Dusan Lell David p. Robinson Cynthia Hail. Marshall Sanders Lisa Hendricks Audrey tavern White Patrick Kaough Trian White 3rd inf Soldier Dies after his Cdr hits truck Wurzburg West Germany a amps a a 3rd inf div so tier was killed monday night after the car he was driving struck an oncoming truck a division spokesman said wednesday. The Soldier 35, was travelling on Highway b-22 near Wil Ryburg about 11 30 . When he apparently lost control of his car capt. Sieved Shively said. The soldiers car spun ground crossed the Center line and struck an oncoming truck he said. German medical authorities pronounced the Soldier dead at the scene. The trucks Driver find passenger were taken to a Wurzburg Hospital w Here they were treated and released he said. The soldiers name is being withheld until relatives can be notified. At in Philippines 1 More by the Washington Post Cabanatuan Philippines a More bodies were recovered wednesday from the rubble of a ruined College building Here and from two collapsed resort hotels in Baguio City bringing the death toll from mondays earthquake to 376 confirmed dead and nearly 700 injured. Government officials and Rescue workers said the casualty toll is Likely to climb with at least 170 people still believed trapped inside four Baguio hotels. Late wednesday rescuers there were concentrating their attention of the Hyatt terraces hotel where 60 people Are believed trapped and the Nevada inn where 40 people Are said to be trapped. The Rescue Effort was still hampered in Baguio however As three of the four roads to the town remained blocked by boulders and other debris and the Airport was closed to fixed Wing aircraft because of damage to the runway. Food and gasoline for Rescue vehicles were scarce in the City and the population spent a third Day without electricity Tele phone service or running water. President Corazon Aquino wednesday flew by helicopter to inspect the devastation in Baguio. Aquino a press Secretary Tomas Gomez Iii said 28 buildings and 132 Homes were destroyed by the quake and at least 142 persons were known dead there in Cabanatuan the capital of Nueva Ecija province and close to the epicentre of mondays quake More than 290 . Marine and naval engineers and medics in Battle fatigues appeared to be directing the Relief Effort with heavy cranes and other equipment brought in from Subic Bay naval station in Olon Gapo City. The americans set up a Mobile Field Hospital using an old football Field for a helicopter Landing zone to bring in medical supplies and to ferry the most seriously wounded survivors for treatment at the . Base. Luzon continued to be jolted by powerful aftershocks All Day wednesday. The aftershocks could be Felt As late As 5 . In Manila where buildings swayed. Medical officials warned of the spread of disease because of the unburied bodies at the provincial Hospital at the funeral Homes and still under the debris. As the dimensions of this tragedy gradually became clearer wednesday More attention focused on the governments Rescue efforts which filipino reporters at various Sites have criticized As badly disorganized. Television footage of the devastated areas showed filipino rescuers crudely pulling survivors from the rubble with ropes tied under their arms. In Baguio the Rescue Effort was delayed because cranes were prevented from reaching the area by boulders littering the Highway and filipino soldiers from the Philippines military Academy stood by helplessly while relatives of victims pleaded for help. When rep. Raul Roco the assistant majority Leader of the House of representatives begged soldiers to help him find his wife trapped inside the fallen Nevada inn one Cadet told him a sir we want to help your but what can we do How can we with our Bare hands a Baker outlines assistance Paris apr Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii on wednesday gave the soviet Union an outline of the areas in which the Bush administration is ready to offer technical help. A senior . Official said that includes technical assistance banking and tax administration techniques and housing construction advice. Inc a Laker made the offer in a meeting with soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze at the . Ambassadors residence. The official disclosed the . Offer on bakery a flight Home. President Bush has ruled out direct . Assistance to the shaky soviet Economy unless three conditions Are met a the adoption of free Market procedures. A a decrease in spending on the soviet military. A less involvement with countries accused of promoting regional unrest such As Cuba. Baker gave the printed outline to Shevardnadze. The official said the soviet foreign minister is expected to respond when the two next meet aug. 1 in Irkutsk Siberia. On another subject the official said the soviet foreign minister responded favourably to a proposal by Baker to establish Contact with some of president Mikhail Gorbachev a sharpest critics. A the had no problem with that Quot the official said of Shevardnadze a reaction. But Shevardnadze told Baker the idea of political opposition is Only beginning to be understood in the soviet Union. A the said there Are younger people who Are emerging right now who Are quite serious a the official said. Bush withdraws recognition of rebels in Cambodia plans Vietnam talks Paris apr in a major policy shift the Bush administration announced wednesday that it is withdrawing recognition of the rebel coalition trying to oust cambodians Hanoi backed government and is opening a new dialogue with Vietnam. The change is prompted by fears of a resurgence of the Khmer Rouge which is the strongest faction in the tripartite rebel coalition and has scored a string of recent Battlefield victories. The Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of cambodians during a 1975-78 reign of terror. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii said the september withdrawal of vietnamese forces from Cambodia has made it possible for the administration to take an approach thai Many members of Congress have favored. The talks with Vietnam could be the first step toward normalization of relations two decades after the United states gave up its military intervention in Indochina and accepted the spread of communist control to what was then South Vietnam a . Ally. Bakery a announcement reflected a growing conviction within the administration that the communist Khmer Rouge forces Are on the verge of taking Over Cambodia. He called Khmer Rouge control of the country m the mid-1970s a extraordinarily  the group ousted by a december 1978 vietnamese invasion had tried to turn the country into a primitive agrarian commune. For years the United states backed the Khmer rouges partners a forces led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk and former Premier son Sann a in the insurgency against a pro Vietnam government in Phonor Tipeni. The americans had argued that the cambodian government was a puppet for Hanoi and by Extension the soviet Union. But Many analysts have concluded that Cambodia although it May be aligned with Vietnam has demonstrated increasing Independence from Hanoi. The departure of vietnamese forces strengthened this View. The Khmer Rouge receives most of its military backing from China and the rebel coalition has a seat at the United nations. Weapons Transfer bumps porsche rally by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Pir Masens West Germany a the porsche club of americans Germany Region chapter is having to take a Back seat to the Transfer of army chemical weapons this summer. The club which had planned rally at Pir Masens Airfield this weekend has been banned from the Field until the army Fin moved on a weekend a we done to want to Block our Airfield at any time said Warren Field a spokesman for the Pimia Sens military Community. To Hal Anoy has t0 d the dub it can probably schedule its next rally at the Airfield on sept. 22 and 23. The dates Are tentative Field said because the chemicals May still be in transit at that time. R be a Ai s second to the Mission of the army said Charles Statham the car club s president. Despite the cancel wishes shipping out 100,000 artillery shells filled with a deadly nerve agent. _ although army officials said none of lation of this Weeke Iida so slalom we re the chemical weapons stored at nearby very thankful to those people there a he Clausen army depot Are due to be said. Quot Pir Masens has been very Gener oust in flt owing the club to use the Airfield for rallies. Only Pir Masens and Wil Flecken military installations allow use of their airfields for the dubs safety training and slalom Statham said. The dub has been in operation in Europe for 28 years and hosts eight slalom and 32 other events a year. Although the group carries $1 my in in liability insurance there a never been an injury. The Only casualty Sainani could remember was a runway Light thai broke when a car accidentally Slid into d a we replaced the Light a he said  
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