European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8the stars and stripes thursday july 26,1990 6 sets of remains found May be my As phenom penh Cambodia apr . Military experts wednesday announced they will repatriate six sets of human remains collected by cambodians that Are believed to be of americans reported missing in the Vietnam War. A. 1 a a a the remains were to be flown to Hawaii on thursday in the first repatriation of suspected Mia remains from communist Cambodia said . Army col. Joseph Harvey who led the Mission. A we came and did our work and the cooperation was everything we asked for a Harvey told reporters after meeting with Dith Munty first Deputy foreign minister of the vietnamese backed government. Eighty two americans Are listed As missing in action m Cambodia from the Wai which ended in 1975. The . Specialists examined 28 sets of remains that were collected by Cambodia in recent years. Harvey said the six sets of remains warranted further investigation to reach a positive identification. Four were found in outlying provinces and two were from an area Southwest of phenom 14-member . Repatriation team was scheduled to arrive in phenom penh Early thursday to transport the remains to the joint casualty Resolution Center and the army Central identification Laboratory in a Wau agencies that account for americans wartime missing. The Mission involved Little ceremony and the Only Public stir arose when the . Air Force Crew of seven that flew the experts to phenom penh made a tour of the City s open Market. Dressed in flight suits and aviator glasses they attracted a crowd and seemed to startle merchants and shoppers for whom americans in uniform once were a familiar sight. A the Mission which started tuesday broke a Long political stalemate Between the United states and successive cambodian governments. It was the first Contact Over americans missing in action since the. United states broke relations with Cambodia in 1975 at the end of the War the communist Khmer Rouge ruled from 1975 until 1978, when vietnamese backed communist forces toppled the government. A week Agot the Bush administration announced it was withdrawing recognition of the Khmer Rouge dominated Guella coalition that is fighting the cambodian government and would open talks with Vietnam on ending the cambodian War. Most of the americans missing Are airmen whose planes were downed during bombing raids on the to Chi Minh Trail the major Supply route for the North vietnamese communists into South Vietnam that wound through the mountains of Eastern Cambodia. The americans bombed the country heavily from 1969 to 1973. A a a total of 2,299 americans Are officially listed As missing in action in Indochina. Aside from those in Cambodia 1,678 Are missing in Vietnam 533 in Laos and six in China a coastal Waters. Dressed for the Beach a fan aluminium University professor allows cows to stay outdoors Lonc Froni the Sec Rattli 1 w 8? t Ali k f Nimal or t0 1u� a Ndu a hush p�1 to milk. It also is from the Sun the jacket developed by a japanese tests the animals from insects and diseases military Roundup Sembach office honoured for promoting flight safety Sembach a West Germany a the air Force has recognized a Sembach office for its work in promoting flight safety. The 66th electronic combat Wing flight safety office was Given the 1989 , air Force flight safety plague. Safety officials noted the wings record of four straight Accident free years with air Crews Bavin flown More than 26,486 hours without an Accident. The 42nd and 43rd electronic combat Sis Fly mis Sions for the Wing. The Sembach flight safety office also provides support to det 1� 81st tac fighter Wing which has flown in years without an Accident airborne unit in Vicenza wins army stinger shootout Darmstadt West Germany a according to a statement released by 32nd army air defense come soldiers from an airborne unit in Vicenza Italy have won the first us. Army Europe stinger shootout. The five Day event was held in Podendorf West Germany and featured the first live firing of the shoulder supported stinger missile in West Germany. The winners Are assigned to the 3rd in airborne. 325th inf regt in Vicenza. They Are sgt. Robert l Carter team chief and spec. Jonathan r. Lovine gunner second and third places went to teams from 5th in 3rd air defense arty from the 8th inf div in bad Kruez Nach West Germany. Sgt. David Pelikan team chief and pfc. Brendan Kelly gunner took second place spec. Christopher Howard team chief and spec. Noel Hudson gunner placed third. These teams scored direct hits on a rocket that was approximately 15 feet Long and 1.5 feet in diameter. The Competition which ended Friday featured 27 stinger missile teams competing in 12 individual and team events. World today 43,000 germans died in postwar soviet Camps Berlin apr the East German news Agency Sam tuesday that More than 43,000 germans died in soviet internment Camps after world War ii. However nearly All of those who died in the Camps which were set up in East Germany succumbed to illnesses such As tuberculosis adn reported. The news Agency said its report was based on inform of blamed by German Interior minister Peter i a f?1 during a i cent t0 s0� Union. According to the information quoted by the news Agency More than 122,000 germans were interned by the soviets from 1945 to 1950. Of those 42,889 died of illness and 756 were condemned to death by a military court the Agency said. Nasa satellites to Aid tracking of asian turtles Malaysia apr ten leather Back turtles will be fitted with transmitters and tracked m International Waters with the help of Nasa satellites an official said. A vs51 a department director general Shah rom Majid said the project would provide accurate illsf7l?i0nj0n i movements of the giant leather Opacic turtles during their annual nesting in Malaysia. Nijst Kinin a Spe Jesi which has been around for i years extinction due to pollution Ana pilfering of their eggs which Are a delicacy in malay Sla. He t0 5 fast i1 diameter and can weigh 900 pounds. They live for about 100 a me y Uve for a now i us years. Cuba braces for possible cutback in soviet Aid Moscow map a pro Chi it milk Oil thaw a Moscow apr president Mikhail s. Gorbachev said on tuesday that soviet Aid to developing nations will be reviewed to take into account the a real capabilities of our Gorbachev made the statement in a decree released by the official soviet news Agency Tass. It could be primarily aimed at Cuba one of the soviet unions biggest recipients of Aid and May signal the end of an Era during which the Kremlin propped up the economies of its marxist allies at the expense of its own. Gorbachev is under pressure to Cope with such pressing economic problems As a Low Standard of living the huge budget deficit and a poor credit rating on International financial markets. The soviet Union spent $19 billion or 1.4 percent of the Gross National product on Aid to developing countries last year the labor daily trud reported in february. This figure does not include Mili tary Aid. Gorbachev s decree said fut ure eco atomic relations with developing countries will be based on a the principles of Mutual advantages and Mutual a economic Aid must be Given taking into account the real capabilities of our country Quot he said. Earlier Trade agreements based economic Aid on the principle of a socialist cubans bracing for a cutoff Are using oxen instead of Gas guzzling tractors an doing without air conditioning. Deliveries of bargain priced soviet o supplies to Quot Cuba averaging about 9 million barrels annually Are Alread being reduced. The soviets had also helped subsidize the cuban Economy by buying Cuba sugar at prices substantially higher tha world Market Levels. . Sources hav said there has been a marked decline i such purchases
