European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a the stars and stripes monday november 19,1990 Pope John Paul 11 on sunday greets soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev As the presidents wife Raisa watches. Gorbachev arrives in Rome for Brief meeting with Pope Rome up1 a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Rome sunday for a Brief visit to the Vatican before leaving for the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe Csc accompanied by his wife Raisa foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze defense minister Dimitri Yazoo and members of his presidential Council Gorbachev arrived in an Iiyushin-62 Airliner at Rome a Leonardo a Vinci International Airport at 11 10 . He was met at the Airport by italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti and other officials. An italian air Force band played the National anthems As Gorbachev inspected an air Force Honor guard before leaving for Rome in a motorcade. The motorcade drove directly to the Quirinale Palace fora formal Welcome by president Francesco Corsiga immediately after the ceremony Gorbachev a motorcade drove across the River tiber to the Vatican for a private audience with Pope John Paul ii. During the meeting the Pope told Gorbachev that All efforts should be made to avoid War in the Gulf Gorbachev repeated an invitation for the Pope to visit the soviet Union and told a soviet journalist be hoped their next meeting would be on soviet soil according to Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro. Vatican officials said the Pope in principle accepted the invitation at his first meeting with Gorbachev last december but that no such visit was expected until at least 1992. The audience was the soviet leaders second encounter with the Pope following their historic meeting in the Vatican on dec. 1, 1989. That meeting symbolized the end of 72 years of hostility Between the soviet Union and the Catholic Church. Key events of the one Day visit were being shown live on a Channel of the state run television network. After lunch at the Quirinale and talks with italian officials Gorbachev and Andreotti signed a treaty of Friendship and cooperation Between the soviet Union and Italy. Gorbachev has signed similar treaties with Spain and also with Germany and France during recent visits to Bonn and Paris. Gorbachev and italian leaders also formalized financial accords granting the soviet Union about $6 billion in credit and Aid for 1991 through 1994. Gorbachev left sunday evening for the 34-nation european Summit in Paris. That Summit will formally end the cold War through a 40 percent reduction of weapons in Europe. During his trip Gorbachev was accompanied by members of the presidential Council which May be abolished in the restructuring of Power sanctioned by the supreme soviet legislature saturday. The soviet Leader was seen off by the head of the legislature Anatoly Lukyanov communist party Deputy Leader Vladimir Ivashko and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkova who May lose his Job in the government overhaul. A Raris donors first go to enter City in Wii Paris api a the first . Soldier toe Ste Paris in world War ii preceding the main liberation Force has received the City a medal of Honor among its highest awards. Roger Provencher 67, a retired Diplomat who lives in Chevy Chase md., called himself a a simple soldiers and said he shared the award with All Allied forces. As a 21-year-old Corporal of the 1st inf div Provencher was part of a 12-member Franco american reconnaissance team that entered the City aug. 27,1944, ahead of the main Allied Force they linked up with resistance fighters Ini eluding Jacques Bellay who later became and Edi Tor of the French edition of readers digest. Bel Lay remembered provenchere a name and recently proposed that the former american Soldier re. Chive the award. A native of Manchester n.h., Provencher served As a state department Diplomat in Iran the soviet Union and numerous african countries before retiring two years ago. 5 honoured for saving Pilot sucked out window London apr five British airways Crew members who saved the life of their Pilot when he was sucked through a Jet window have received their second bravery award. They received the Hugh Gordon Burge memorial award Given annually by the Guild of air pilots and air navigators to a Crew that helps Rescue its aircraft and passengers. Earlier the five As Well As the Pilot they saved capt. Tim Lancaster received Man of the year awards. Lancaster 41, suffered broken Bones and bruises in the june 10 incident which occurred on a flight from Birmingham England to Malaga Spain with 81 passengers and six Crew on Board. He has returned to work. At 23,000 feet the plane lost part of its Windshield and Lancaster was sucked through the Hole. For 15 minutes he was buffeted against the nose of the plane while stewards Nigel Ogden John Heward and Simon Rogers took turns holding onto his legs. First officer Alistair Atchison brought the aircraft to a Safe emergency Landing. The Guild also awarded him the masters medal for distinguished conduct. Stewardess Susan Prince was the fifth Crew member to win the Hugh Gordon Burge memorial award and the Man of the year award. Islanders demand end to nuclear arms testing Papeete French polynesia apr islanders seeking Independence from France hurled garbage at government buildings and demanded an end to nuclear weapons testing on French owned islands. The protest by about 30 members of the separatist polynesia liberation front took place outside the High commission offices in Papeete Tahiti. The protesters dispersed peacefully. The City is the administrative capital of this overseas French territory that includes muru Roa and Fang Taufa atolls where France tests nuclear  grave dug up near River kwai Bridge Bangkok Thailand up remains of More than 50 human bodies apparently dating Back to world War ii have been dug up from a mass grave near the Bridge Over the River kwai built by slave labor under the japanese in Western Thailand press reports said sunday. Local residents said the area had Long been known As the site of a Hospital for thousands of forced labourers. But efforts to uncover the grave began Only last week after mystical dreams by a local motorcycle repairman. So far at least 50 skulls and a Large number of other human Bones have been exhumed from the grave by. A charitable foundation the nation newspaper reported. The Bones have not yet been examined to determine whether they Are asian or caucasian. The Bangkok Post said it is believed that More than 400 remains Are in the grave in Kanchana Buri province 90 Miles West of Bangkok. The site is not far from the Banks of the kwai River where the japanese used Allied prisoners of War and labourers from Malaysia India and Singapore to Complete a strategic railway Bridge linking Thailand and Burma. More than 300,000 prisoners and slave labourers worked on the railway line and to d a 0uoted the owner of Sompong contacted a charitable found a a Kif paii0m�?T As saying the Dation and with leks permission the dig area had been used As a Field Hospital for Ging was begun. Linuel Workie pm the hrido0 it Quot the australian embassy has express  the interest whether any o Jug Quot  remains might be those of some of to the nit Anh in by Rovn int0 thousands of australian prisoners who some Davs Bijj �1 us said died while working on the railway fed some Days More than five a by a re some 8,500 australian British dutch years her shewed by Kueht he land rebuke Sally  years later she used it to grow sugar Cane teries in the town. I sommne�cha7oeeha<trccleifpjrrnan sudden a Terest in the new ma3 ----11vjv Auu e j Toffi the dead Wilt  dream grave site comes just before the annual an estimated 90,000 died from disease. Them that anyone Hought to t0, help Iver kwai Bridge festival a major tour malnutrition and ill treatment. Thought to excavate the is event scheduled from nov. 23 to site is event scheduled from nov. 23 3