European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday novembers 1990 news briefs3 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 administration 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 arc 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 arc 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 scanned by optical readers which place a bar code on the mail signifying the letters destination. After the 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. A bar codes have greatly improved productivity 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. A if you re 99 percent perfect that Means you mishandle 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 s 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. Cocaine found at facility on Kennedy space centers Cape canaveral Fla. Up 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 Quot orbiter processing facile of a one of two at the sprawling Florida shut report. A cocaine was discovered in the of a minor que anti 3 of it and an investigation is under Way a he said Sun a. A we can t 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 person. A it is a very Small amount a Harris said. A Security does no to want to talk about any details until they do More 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 drug 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 Security people done to want to say How it was found a Harris said. Martin 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 televisions  Martin left Texas to pursue a singing career in California and made her professional debut As a nightclub vocalist at the Trocadero in Hollywood 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 daddy a 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 shows 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. Martin later appeared in the London production of the show. 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. The last broadcast was in 1989 and a videocassette version was released this year. 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 the Trapp family singers a the autobiography of Maria von Trapp and a German film version of that Book. Rodgers and Hammerstein were brought in to write an original score that included such songs for Martin As a my favorite things and  the show ran for More than three years in new York Martins husband died in 1973, several years after the couple retired to their huge ranch in Brazil. Martin eventually sold the ranch and bought a place on Martha a Vineyard and another in the California desert. In 1978, Martin came Back to Broadway in a Short lived comedy called a do you turn somersaults a it ran Only two weeks. She then worked two years As cohost of a Over easy a a Public television series for senior citizens. Her last show a legends a in which she toured with 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 she said a because Larry said to me a Mother you be been off Long enough a Baker from Page 1 feed to free All 4,000 estimated foreign hostages in iraqi custody if at least two . Security Council members promised not to launch a military strike against Baghdad. In other developments sunday three French soldiers arrived in Paris after Iraq captured them near the saudi iraqi Border Cairo radio said. A French officer and two non Quot commissioned officers May face punishment for allowing themselves to be captured. The French soldiers returned to Paris via the jordanian capital of Amman the same route used by four ailing american hostages who left Iraq saturday. In efforts to free japanese hostages in Iraq former japanese Premier Yasuhiro Nakasone held talks in Baghdad with iraqi Deputy Premier Taha Yassin Ramadan and was scheduled to meet iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz later sunday. Nakasone who had asked for a meeting with Saddam on monday said he was pleading for All hostages not just japanese. Former danish social Democrat Premier Anker Jorgensen left sunday for Baghdad where he was ejected to meet with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and together plead for the release of danish and German hostages. In Damascus local radio quoted syrian newspapers As saying the military option against Iraq for its aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait was a a must after iraqis rejection of All diplomatic efforts to reach a peaceful settlement to the Gulf standoff. Iraq will have to Bear full responsibility for the outcome of War a the state owned syrian radio said. The radio quoted syrian Leader Hafez Assad who with Egypt and Morocco has sent troops to the Gulf As saying Iraq s aggression against Kuwait had distracted attention from the Arab israeli conflict. In Alexandria wept Ian president Hosni Mubarak told visiting French president Francois Mitterrand that the International Community had to make sure Iraq s aggression against Kuwait paid no dividends