European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 14, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 76 orphans sent Back to Mexico after Accident Mexico City a six mexican orphans whose Mother died in a hit and run Accident in san Diego have been brought Back to their Homeland after their Grandfather an illiterate farmhand rejected an american family a offer to adopt them a Don t want to go a 13-year-old Guadalupe Martinez said Friday moments before mexican consular officials in san Diego came to take them away. The two girls and four boys aged 1 to 13, arrived at Mexico City Airport Ater Friday accompanied by Alfredo Martinez 54, their maternal Grandfather. The children refused to answer reporters questions. A they Are not Well. They do not want to talk a Martinez explained. He said he was taking them to Zamora in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan but refused to say More. A a a a a. V. A a a a a. A Martinez told reporters in san Diego that he was a farmhand in Zamora and lived in a St a House be Side a plot where he grins onions radishes and potatoes. A a. Martinez who said he is illiterate used his thumbprint to sign a document saying he wanted he children to return with him. Mexico welfare authorities were to determine who will be named Legal guardian. Luz Maria Martinez their 32-year-old pregnant Mother a hotel maid in san Diego county was killed in a hit and run Accident april 4 and the Fate of the children had remained Uncertain. A seventh child Jose Manuel Martinez 14, has been missing since lie ran away soon after the Accident. A a a a a Dennis and Jeanne Meehan a Carlsbad calif., couple offered to take them and the children apparently were willing to stay. Meehan is a realtor and tax preparer and four of their five children have grown and left their Large Home. We wanted to Oiler the children the Opportunity to stay Here As a family Quot he said. Quot did no to know exactly How were going to meet expenses but were willing to assure it would be done without any Burden to the . Immigration officials similarly said they were ready to stay their deportation if a responsible local family was willing to become their guardians. Hut the mexican consulate in san Diego managed to Contact the Grandfather and brought him from Mexico to take charge of the orphans. Quot children who Are available for adoption Are those who Don t have any families or those whose families reject them i hat s not the Case Here Quot mexican a Consul Merino told reporters in san Diego. Earlier after visiting the Meehan Home Martinez verbally agreed to Lei them slav the Sandiego Union reported he later changed his mind saying one of his daughters asked him to bring the children Home to Mexico. V Kremlin flier trial on stabbing charge starting by George Boehmer Frankfurt Germany apr in May 1987, an audacious German teenager flew through soviet air defences and landed a borrowed single engine plane on Moscow a red Square. Mathias rust was feted As an International celebrity when he returned Home after 432 Days in a soviet prison. The 19-year-old received a Large Stilt undisclosed sum for exclusive rights to his Story from Germany a Stern Magazine. That was then. Now rust is faced with another possible prison sentence. He is charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a student nurse who did no to want to kiss him. His trial is scheduled to begin monday in Hamburg. The november 1989 stabbing of the 18-year-old girl identified Only As Stephanie w., occurred when rust worked with her at a Hamburg Hospital a she is still affected by the severe wounds psychologically and physically a said her lawyer Falk Vogler she was stabbed once in the stomach and once in the Chest but has since returned to work. Jurgen Daniels spokesman for the Hamburg court where rust is to stand trial said he expects a decision in the Case by the end of the month. The Rise and fall of the awkward Book ish looking rust has. Defied categorize lion. He underwent psychiatric examinations after the stabbing and was declared capable of standing trial. According to the prestigious die Zeit newspaper before the stabbing rust had trouble convincing girls to go out with him even when he resorted to reminding them he was the a Kremlin he apparently took the rejections As Quot ingratitude for the risks he believed he had taken the newspaper said in a report this flew from Helsinki Finland in a borrowed Cessna-172 to the Kremlin on May 28, 1987, the flight penetrated More than 400 Miles of the soviets vaunted defense systems. The feat produced disbelief and Arnii ration in much of the world. German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher said he Quot almost laughed himself to death Quot when he first heard of it. Moscow officials were not amused. Soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev quickly retired then defense minister Sergei Sokolov and fired air defense chief Alexander Kordunov. Rust later told a soviet court he Only wanted to deliver a message of peace to Gorbachev rust was convicted of hooliganism and sentenced to four years in a labor Camp in september 1987. But he was kept at Moscow a Lefo Tovo prison and released in August 1988. He returned to a heroes Welcome besieged by Magazine and television reporters. The vip treatment soon evaporated however and German news Media said rust was too naive to Cash in on the sudden Fame. Rust resumed living with his parents sharing a room and bunk Beds with his younger brother Ingo die Zeit said. The newspaper described rusts parents As so self sacrificing that they even sleep in bunk Beds themselves so their sons have room for desks. Mathias desk is in their bedroom. _. The modest sized rust Home in Wedel just West of Hamburg is decorated with a poster of Gorbachev and photographs of Mathias with Genscher with the Cessna and at the Moscow trial die Zeit said. Mathias rust shown in a 1988 photon Moscow apr president Mikhail s. Gorbachev is going ahead with this weeks visit to Tokyo despite concerns Over continuing Domestic turmoil. The visit would Mark the first time a soviet Leader has visited the Island nation. Just Days before the tuesday departure planners worried Gorbachev might have to Back out with soviet Coal miners on strike demanding his resignation the Republic of Georgia declaring Independence and the parliament about to consider his Appeal for an emergency ban on strikes and demonstrations. But Gorbachev decided to leave the country anyway. And he. Tacked on a Stopover in South Korea. The need to improve relations with Japan and to win badly needed economic assistance is too important for him to ignore sources said. Some people have speculated Gorbachev might return to Japan the four disputed Kuril islands in Exchange for japanese Aid and investment. The islands were seized immediately following world War ii. Berlin apr teachers Union officials from Israel and Germany promised Friday to tackle Eastern germans ignorance about jews and Israel a shortcoming some israelis warn could fuel a revival of Neo nazism. Shalom Levin president of the Israel teachers Union said alarming signs of a resurgence of right Wing extremists already had surfaced in Eastern Germany since the two Germany United. A now its mainly anti polish but there a Only a Small step to becoming anti jewish especially if Community Here grows a Levin said at a news conference. A teachers Here should consider it an actual last week for instance a Small group wary of German ignorance of youths chanting a Germany for germans Quot hurled rocks and bottles at buses carrying polish visitors. Levin was among 16 israeli unionists who met with 16 German colleagues for a week in the 15th of a series of Union sponsored seminars held alternately in Germany and Israel. For the first seminar held after Germany a unification they travelled in Eastern Germany. The participants reported that Young people in that Region knew Little about Israel or jews. Erich Tangren a participant from Potsdam in the former communist East Germany volunteered How Little he was taught about Israel in its state directed education system , its capital is Tel Aviv and it has a communist party. That a in fact. Israelis capital is Jerusalem. Such knowledge gaps exist in Many subjects studied by the 3.6 million Young people in Eastern Germany hut the topic of jews and Israel is especially sensitive Given the holocaust and the close relations the Federal Republic has pursued with Israel while paying reparations to holocaust survivors. A one of the greatest problems for teachers of history and geography in Eastern Germany is the Lack of materials Swangren said. A have Little guidance on How to Correct the picture of 200 filipino bar girls rally for bases Angeles Philippines up a some 200 filipino bar girls waving placards and shouting a want the bases a blocked anti american demonstrators saturday marching toward Clark air base. The women barricaded the Road leading to the main Gate of the . Facility in Angeles 50 Miles North of Manila and engaged some 100 anti base protesters in a shouting match. After an hour Long standoff police Al Lowed the protesters including students peasants and priests to proceed to within 100 feet of the Gale where they took part in a mass. . Officials closed the Gate and warned servicemen stationed at the facility to avoid the area. The protesters joined a Small group of world War ii veterans who were Quot holding a peaceful rally commemorating the infamous death March to prison after the fall of the Bataan Peninsula on april 9, 1942, to japanese invaders. As word spread that the anti base protesters were arriving the women some of them wearing nightgowns and shorts massed at the approach to the Gate waved pro american signs and yelled a want the the lease on Clark and nearly Subic Bay naval base expires sept. 16. Negotiations Are continuing on the renewal of the pact covering the oldest and largest . Facilities overseas. W
