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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a news briefs the stars and stripes monday november 5,19903 sailors among 8 injured in blast at Chile restaurant Vina Del mar Chile apr a bomb exploded at a restaurant injuring eight people among them three sailors from the . Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln police and the . Navy said sunday. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing which occurred shortly before Midnight saturday in this Seaside resort 180 Miles West of Santiago according to a police statement. In Washington Navy cmdr. Stephen Honda said two of the sailors were treated at a local Hospital and released while the third was treated on Board the Abraham Lincoln. About 40 people were in the restaurant the Max Moritz when the bomb went off. They included a group of sailors from the Nimitz class aircraft Carrier docked in the neighbouring port City of Valparaiso on a five Day port stop.8 senators Call for end to Viet Trade embargo Washington not the Senate foreign relations committee chairman and seven other senators have written president Bush urging the lifting of the 15-year-old Trade embargo against Vietnam. The letter comes at a time when the  is slowly building relations with Vietnam having recently opened talks with Hanoi to help resolve the cambodian civil War and reinvigorating joint efforts to identify and return the remains of american servicemen still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Two weeks ago the vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen co Thach became the first vietnamese official of Cabinet rank to visit Washington since the War. The administration had no immediate comment on the  from Page 1 signed to overseas areas. Only the first three numbers Are certain now because postal officials Are still working with military commanders to identify mail channels. Zip codes now in use overseas Are often the cause of dissent mail said George Shipman from the postal service. For example Riyadh saudi Arabia has a military zip code of 09038, and Uxbridge United kingdom has 09083, the new numbers Are expected to allow for More accurate sorting by workers until machines take Over the Job Shipman said. Mail addressed to the old Apo and Fpo addresses will be delivered for up to a year after the new mailing procedures take effect he said. About 40 percent of the 160 billion pieces of mail delivered daily by the . Postal service is being. .6 cocaine found at facility on Kennedy space Center Cape canaveral Fla up a a Small amount of cocaine was found in a hangar at the Kennedy space Center where space shuttles Are readied for launch Nasa officials said sunday. Agency spokesman Karl Kristofferson said the drug was found Early Friday in an a orbiter processing facility a of a one of two at the sprawling Florida shut Teleport. A cocaine was discovered in the of a minor Quantity of it and an investigation is under Way a he said sunday. A we can to comment on it until the investigation is  it is the first time cocaine has been found at the Kennedy space Center. In 1985, a Large number of marijuana plants were discovered growing in isolated areas of the Merritt Island wildlife Refuge where the space Center is located but it did not involve Nasa personnel. Nasa spokesman Hugh Harris said the cocaine was found under a desk inside one of two orbiter processing facilities where space shuttles Are prepared for flight. The desk is used by More than one  it is a very Small amount a Harris said. A a Security does no to want to talk about any details until they do mow of their  Nasa spokeswoman Lisa Malone told the Florida today newspaper saturday the drug seizure a is considered an isolated  Malone said she did not know How much cocaine was involved. Officials did not yet know who owned the Drue and no arrests have been made. The investigation is led by Security officers from Nasa Lockheed space operations co. And leg amp a Florida inc. Lockheed is responsible for Overall shuttle processing at the Kennedy space Center under a multimillion Dol Lar contract while leg amp a is responsible for base operations including Security. Malone initially said the cocaine was discovered by drug sniffing dogs during a routine sweep but Harris said no dogs were involved. No other details were immediately available. A the  done to want to say How it was found a Harris  from Page 1 boy who never wanted to grow up. Martin who was born dec. 1,1913, made her first stage appearance singing at a fireman a Ball in her Hometown of Weatherford Texas. Her father was a lawyer and her Mother a violin teacher. After a year at the University of Texas Martin married Benjamin Hagman in 1930. They divorced the following year after the birth of her son Larry Best known for his role As . Ewing on tvs  Martin left Texas to pursue a singing career in California and made her professional debut As a nightclub vocalist at Hollywood a Trocadero. It was there she was seen by producer Charles Schwab who put her in Cole porters a leave it to  the musical which opened on Broadway in 1938, made the unknown performer a Star. Each night she stopped the show by doing a Coy striptease while singing the musicals Best known song a my heart belongs to  Martin journeyed to California for a series of less than memorable movie musicals and married Story editor Richard Halliday in 1940. He later became her manager. They had one daughter Heller. In 1943, Martin returned to new York to play the title character in a one touch of Venus a a musical fantasy that had music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ogden Nash. In the show Martin was a statue of Venus that comes to life. She charmed audiences by singing the show big hit a speak  after touring As Annie Oakley in the National company of a Annie get your gun a Martin was chosen in 1949 by Joshua Logan Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ii to Star opposite Ezio Pinza in their musical a South  As Nellie Forbush the naive army nurse from Little Rock ark., Martin Sang some of Rodgers and Ham Merstein a most buoyant and warm hearted songs including a a cockeyed Optimist a a a in a Gonna Wash that Man right outa my hair and a a in a in love with a wonderful  she won a Tony award for her performance a the first of three she was to receive during her career. A Peter pan a which opened on Broadway on oct. 20, 1954, had a relatively Short Broadway run a Only 152 performances a but it was immortalized on television. The musical which also starred Cyril Ritchard As capt. Hook was televised live on Abc in 1955 and was done again live the following year. Martin won an emmy for her portrayal of Peter pan with the Advent of videotape and color Abc taped a Peter pan in 1960 while Martin was appearing in a the sound of music on Broadway. Since then a Peter pan has been shown on Abc four More times. A the sound of music a which opened in november 1959, was conceived As a Star vehicle for Martin who played the irrepressible Maria. It was taken from a eth. Trapp family singers a the autobiography of Maria Voi Trapp. Rodgers and Hammerstein were brought in to write an original score that included such songs As a pm favorite things and  the show ran of More than three years in new York. Martin retired in the Early �?T70s, but came Back to Broadway in a Short lived comedy called a do you Tun somersaults a she then worked two years As co Host o a Over easy a a Public to series for senior citizens. Her last show a legends a in which she toured wit Carol Channing in 1986, did no to make it to Broadway. A a it a one show i did no to like a Martin said. She did it Shi said a because Larry said to me a Mother you be been of Long  j scanned by optical readers which place a bar code on the mail signifying the letters destination. After the big a i Quot d code is attached other optical readers sort the mail until it reaches its destination. Unique bar codes will be assigned for each delivery Point including military unit mail rooms by 1994, Shipman said. The bar coded system should be in full operation by 1995, he added. From Page 1 a bar codes have greatly improved productivity a Shipman said. A the optical readers Are Able to sort More accurately than people a because of the Large volume of mail handled daily by postal carriers even a 1 percent error rate in sorting can mean a lot of misdirected mail. In Mvi Viu Utu Iii aids it Yuu Nusum die roughly 1 billion pieces of mail each Day a Shipman said. A machines Are More accurate despite trouble in Reading bad handwriting or when there a some garble because of Ink smears on a bar  when an optical scanner can to make out a Clear address on a letter it is sent to another computer that attempts to Analyse the handwriting. If the address is still unreadable a photograph of the letter is sent to a person who either tries to make it out or sends it Back to the sender he said. The Start of a Middle East and european tour to discuss the Gulf crisis with Arab leaders saying he would a play the foundation for possible military action against Iraq if sanctions failed to persuade it to leave Kuwait a unprovoked aggression should not be rewarded. Unprovoked aggression should not be permitted to succeed a Baker told troops in a trip to the saudi desert in what has become a familiar refrain since Saddam Hussein conquered Kuwait and seized its Oil Fields. A the world made a terrible mistake in the �?T30s when we were unable or refused to stand up to unprovoked aggression a he said referring to Hitler. Bahrain is the first major Stop of an eight Day tour by Baker in the latest diplomatic initiative to end the 3-month-old Gulf crisis. In Bahrain he will meet with Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa and other leaders of the regions min states. From there Baker moves on to saudi Arabia where More than 200,000 . Ground troops Are defending the world s richest Oil Fields. He will see saudi leaders and the ousted Emir of Kuwait Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah. Baker also plans to visit saudi Arabia Egypt Turkey Britain and France hold a meeting in Cairo with chinese foreign minister Qian Lichen and meet thursday in Moscow with soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. In Brussels on sunday Belgium urged a special euro Community meeting to discuss Potentia problems in the front against Iraq following a slew of missions to obtain the release of hostages. A Saddam is creating this Royal court of All sorts of Western pilgrims who visit him to obtain the release of hostages a foreign minister Mark Eyskens told Brt television when discussing the upcoming trip of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to Iraq. Brandt was preparing to Fly to Iraq on monday. Eyskens complained that the 12 dec member states had agreed last week to refrain from solitary missions to Iraq to maintain the Trade blocks credibility and cohesion. Only Days later Brandts trip was announced. Germany maintained Brandts visit remained within the dec framework since it would be a humanitarian action during which he would work for the release of All european hostages not just germans. In Cyprus three of four former american hostages who were released by their iraqi captors arrived sunday on their Way Home. The French soldiers were flown Home and arrived in Paris Early sunday  
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