European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes Friday october 19,1990 world . Navy ship rescues Viet refugees from boat Manila Philippines up a a . Navy ship on routine duty rescued 50 vietnamese refugees aboard a crippled wooden boat in the South China sea a Navy spokesman said thursday. It. Lee Saunders of the 7th Fleet said the guided missile frigate Curts took in the refugees tuesday 350 Miles off the philippine coast after determining their wooden boat was a Sun seaworthy overcrowded and unable to  Saunders said by Telephone from the Subic Bay naval facilities North of Manila that Curts seamen spotted the ship after the refugees lit a Small fire. The refugees a 34 men and 16 women a told the sailors they had been at sea for 10 Days Saunders said. They received initial medical treatment by Navy doctors dispatched from the command destroyer Saunders added. He said the refugees will be turned Over a to the appropriate  he declined to say where the ship was  manuscript stolen during Wii returned Berlin apr a second precious manuscript stolen from its hiding place near a medieval Cathedral during world War ii was returned to Germany from Texas earlier this month. The German cultural foundation of the states announced on wednesday that it received the 1513 Evan Gelista manuscript on oct. 1 without paying any Money. The manuscript is the second missing treasure recovered by the foundation which acquired the older Samu Hel gospels in april. The que Linburg treasures Are enmeshed in an International lawsuit seeking the return of artwork that disappeared during world War ii. Joe t. Meador a former  army lieutenant who was among the . Troops who entered the German town of que Linburg in april 1945, is believed to have stolen a Cache of artefacts belonging to the Church. Meador died in 1980, but the Cache of 15 treasures is believed to be in a Bank vault in Texas. Burglars set off alarm heard across Scandinavia Stockholm Sweden apr burglars breaking into a danish life raft factory Drew a Little unwanted attention setting off an alarm heard across Scandinavia. They accidentally tripped an emergency transmitter on a life raft which sent out distress signals wednesday from Southern Sweden to Northern Norway the swedish news Agency to reported. Among the first to notice were passenger plane pilots who reported the signals a used by life rafts aircraft and ships a to the air sea Rescue station at Stockholm a International Airport at Arlanda to said. The Arlanda station  locate the source of the signals and alerted Norway a main Rescue Center in Bode in Northern Norway which was Able to pick up the signals. The Bode Center found the signals emanated from the danish City of Esbjerg and alerted the danish Rescue service at Karup which in turn told Esbjerg police. Truckers strike continues truckers have plenty of time on their hands As they wait out the National strike in Spain on thursday. One trucker houses a fire after cooking up his lunch while others wait by their lined up vehicles in Pamplona. The strike has clogged the Borders to Portugal and France and Cut off the transport of most  nations won t be asked to join nato Worner maintains Paris apr Eastern european nations will not be invited to join the North Atlantic treaty organization despite their adoption of democratic values a newspaper quoted nato Secretary general Manfred Womer As saying wednesday. In the interview published by the left of Center French daily liberation Worner also said that the 12-member european Community cannot replace the Atlantic Alliance even in the Long run. Worner maintained that rapid Western response to iraqis invasion of Kuwait would not have been possible without nato structures even if the Alliance refused to act directly. Liberation asked Worner if nato might someday include newly democratic countries of the former Warsaw pact. A we constitute an Alliance Between Europe and North America. In the goal of assuring supplementary stability we want to build a network of bilateral relations Between the soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw pact. But that has nothing to do with the question of becoming a member a he said. Liberation quoted Worner As saying that nato is the Only conceivable counterbalance to a soviet Union that will remain the sole military superpower on the european continent. A the european Community cannot replace nato a Worner said. A it will take a Long time before it can really establish a defense Structure. And even then Are you sure that the europeans could with their forces alone balance soviet Power a nonetheless Worner described the threat of a direct soviet attack on Western Europe As  greater threats Are posed by internal instability of the soviet Union itself he said. The 34-nation conference on Security and cooperation in Europe scheduled to discuss a new european Security order in Paris next month will remain too unwieldy a tool to replace nato Womer said. A with 34 very different countries each with a right to veto what can we do if a real conflict Breaks out a he asked. A even the Eastern europeans a they be told me a say that nato will be the decisive Security pillar in the new european  May inherit scandalous landmark in Paris by the Washington Post Washington while Uncle Sam was looking the other Way one of the Federal governments most valuable pieces of property in Europe apparently has served As a Brothel a gambling House a Black Market Money Center and a bar with a reputation for Drunken brawls. While any one of those scandals alone typically would have caused a major uproar in Washington few officials have seemed to care what happened at 49 Rue Pierre Charron in the heart of Paris. Never mind that the 111-year-old, five Story building a which the Federal government accepted in 1936 As a memorial to world War i Gen. John j. Pershing is in one of the most fashionable districts of Paris. Located next to the famed Cartier jewellers in a Block off the champs Elysee its value is estimated by some . Officials at anywhere from $80 million to $100 million. Never mind that the american legion which was supposed to manage the property for the Federal government became so disgusted with its operations in 1982 that it walked away from the building. Since then a a it a been in limbo a said Robert Spanogle the legions National adjutant. The years of neglect May be ending. Fifty four years after the Federal government took title to the property the House gave unanimous approval this week to legislation directing the department of veterans affairs to take charge of the three Story building known As Pershing Hall. If the Senate agrees to the legislation As a officials expect the department will take $1 million from its Hospital construction fund and refurbish the building. More important the legislation will for the first time place a . Official directly in charge of building operations. Spanogle and a officials acknowledge there Are Many tales of misdeeds at Pershing Hall that have been reported in the French press. But Spanogle is Quick to distance the legion which grew out of a 1919 meeting of . Servicemen in Paris from those accounts. A if those allegations Are True i done to know if they happened on our watch a Spanogle said. He said the legion based in Indianapolis withdrew from operating the building because of logistical problems. A the main problem was trying to administer the building from 3,000 Miles away a he said. A a report completed this summer said the legion withdrew a following reports of mismanagement and irregular activities at the  under prodding from rep. . A a Sonny Montgomery d-miss., chairman of the House veterans affairs committee the department earlier this year reversed its opposition to running the building and agreed to endorse a takeover Bill similar to legislation that was first introduced in 1963. A officials including Secretary Edward j. Derwinski who visited Pershing Hall this month have been uniform in their Shock Over How the building has deteriorated. A i found the building to be in a terminal state of repair. I was aghast a said Deputy Secretary Anthony j. Principi. Many of the buildings artefacts and paintings some of them gifts of american colleges were apparently missing. A bust of Lafayette by French sculptor Jean Antoine Loudon apparently was destroyed when a pipe bomb exploded in a restroom in the building. Even the american legions pans Post no. 1, which had been shunted into a rear room now faces loss of its legion charter according to a a report. The legion acquired the building in 1928 but it had to turn to Congress during the depression for help. It was allowed to borrow funds from an account established with proceeds from the Sale of the stars and stripes. Principi said that once the department takes charge of the building it will place benefits officer there to serve As to building manager