European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 15,. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 by the associated press. About 300 weary wives and children of Oil workers flew to Houston from their adopted saudi Homes on monday. And a businessman who fled Iraq after the Kuwait invasion said he would form a group to help stranded americans. A state department spokeswoman said monday that about 500 americans have managed to flee Kuwait since aug. 2. A. Among them were a Las vegas nev., dance troupe guests of the kuwaiti Royal family who were awakened before Dawn by their hosts to flee across the burning Sands to saudi Arabia. Another woman described being led across the Border by a bedouin guide. The group that arrived in Houston on a 20-hour flight from Riyadh via Amsterdam Netherlands included 8-year-old Nathan Gilder sleeve who said he left his father behind in saudi Arabia a because i missed my  a it s Good to be Home Quot said Linda Gunter of Elpaso Texas. A we just wish our husbands were with us a Aramco services co., a Petroleum services firm arranged for the flight to return children Home for the fall school term and to allow others concerned for their safety to come Home. Michael Saba a businessman who was in Baghdad Iraq at the time of the invasion said he would use his connections in the Region to help stranded americans get out through a group he is forming called the coming Home committee. A of course All of us who were kind of stranded in Iraq were tense wailing to see what was going to happen a said Effort starts to preserve Waldon Pond Boston it apr Rock Singer Don Henley and other luminaries from music and politics launched an Effort monday to preserve Walden Pond by buying some adjoining land slated for development. The Walden Woods project is buying a 25-acre stretch of the Woodland made famous by literary Recluse Henry David Thoreau to forestall plans for a 139-unit condominium. The project along with a group called the Trust for Public land also is negotiating to acquire another Section of Woods 700 Yards from the Pond. It is scheduled to be an office Park. Henley formerly of the eagles Rock group founded the Walden Woods project and shares the chairmanship with former sen. Paul Tsongas a mass and Michael Kennedy son of the late sen. Robert Kennedy d-n.y.�?T, and president of the citizens Energy corp. The group announced agreements with the state and private developers to conserve land around the Pond where Thoreau built a Cabin and lived for two years and also promoted an Effort to create affordable housing in nearby Concord. Henley was joined by singers Bonnie rain Arlo Guthrie Aimee Mann and the band Boston. Walden Pond is a 62-acre body of water in a 33caere stale reservation on the Edge of Concord an affluent town of 12.501 about 20 Miles from Boston. The Pond is car less pastoral than described in Quot Walden Quot la Horeaux a 1854 meditation on Solitude and the wilderness. It lies less than a Hundred Yards from a Highway it and is Neil to a garbage dump. Saba president of Gul America International business. Services of Champaign Iii. Quot but i do slant to Point out that the iraqis treated us very  Saba said he has visited families of americans still stranded in Iraq and Kuwait and would work with the state department and humanitarian groups. A a we feel strongly that private efforts need to be made Quot said Saba. Quot Well be working As individuals and wite accepting donations to pay for phone Calls postage tickets Home and the  Saba and another . Businessman paid $100 on wednesday for an eight hour taxi ride from their Baghdad hotel to the Border Between Iraq and Jordan then hitchhiked across the jordanian desert to Amman. Saba said he was staying at the Sheraton hotel at the time of the invasion and was moved by the government to the luxurious Rashid hotel. He recalled lighter moments such As eating Del Monte bananas in the hotel lounge while listening to a piped in song with the lyrics a please release me let me go a seven member american dance troupe staying in a Beach Villa As the guests of the kuwaiti Royal family were awakened moments after the iraqi invasion by their hosts and helped to flee said Shirley Rankin the Mother of one of the dancers. Suzette Rankin 19, of Las vegas and the other dancers were in Kuwait to give a performance for the . Ambassador and the Emir of Bahrain her Mother said. Af4 Marjorie Walterscheid and her daughter Raina 10, of Jacksboro Texas is awaiting word of her husband Rainard one of 38 . Citizens being detained in Baghdad Iraq by the iraqi government. Surrogate Mother begins Battle to void pact with California couple Santa Ana Calif apr a surrogate Mother on monday began a custody Battle with the couple whose test tube fetus she is carrying saying they were callous about her health and  provide a Good Home for the child Anna Johnson 29, is seeking custody of the baby that she could deliver in one to two months. Attorneys on both sides of the Case said it might establish a new Legal definition of parenthood. A it is Anna and her body that Are responsible for this child. It is Anna s position that she is the biological Parent Quot although she did t provide the baby a genetic material said Johnson a attorney Diane Marlowe. Johnson a licensed vocational nurse is on disability leave because of complications of the pregnancy that twice hospitalized her once to receive medication to Stop contractions. In the lawsuit she filed in Santa Ana Superior court monday Johnson also sought child support and damages for emotional distress. The couple in their mid-30s and identified in the lawsuit As Mark and Crispi a Calvert provided the sperm and egg to create the embryo that was then transferred from a Laboratory dish to Johnson a womb. Mrs. Calvert was unable to carry a child because she had a Hysterectomy. At a news conference they denied Johnson a allegations they had ignored her medical needs and tailed to make timely payments. Mrs. Calvert said Johnson had t i d to Speed up payment of the $ 1it id Lee that she was to receive for carrying the baby which the couple said is a boy. A i was surprised that she Dpi this to us a she said. Quot we thought slut we had a Good relationship after All in be done for  a single Parent with a 3-y ear old daughter Johnson said she had seen the surrogate contract As a Way to put he through graduate nursing . She and mrs. Calvert also a nurse worked at a couple identified As Mark and Crispina Calvert talk with newsmen in Santa Ana Calif. % or. Anna Johnson the same Hospital in the Orange county City of Santa Ana. Van doused said Johnson a Effort to pursue custody of a baby that Lias no biological relation to her is unprecedented. A a it a definitely going to he new ground turned a said Van Deusen. Gilbert agreed. Although California Law presumes that the birth Mother is the Legal Parent a judge has discretion in deciding a Case he said. In the highly publicized baby m custody Rase in new Jersey the child was conceived by a surrogate Mother Mary Beth Whitehead with the sperm of a nun whose Wile  have a Bab it. Whitehead decided to renege i the arrangement prompting a bitter custody fight. It was won in 1988 by the father Wii Harn Stein and his wife , who live with the 3-year-old Gul m i e j