European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes Friday May 24, 1991 one survivors paid by Marilyn Quayle Kutub Dia Island Bangladesh a. Siddiq Ahamad sat on his Hospital Quot bed thursday and showed Marilyn Quayle How he Clung to a tree for More than six hours during the Cyclone that killed his Mother and 13 other relatives. ,. ,. Holding his arms in a wide embrace the 55-year-old farm labourer described to the wife of vice president Dan Quayle How he drifted about eight Miles South to Mahe Khali Island Bobbing in and out of the Rushing. Water. A a a a a a. �?~1 was not afraid. I was praying to Allah Quot the Farmer said earlier. A i feel like in be been reborn. Allah saved  a a a a Quot a y a a. A mrs. Quayle stopped to Chat with Ahamad during a visit to the Only Hospital on this Island in the Bay of Bengal one of the worst hit by the april 30 Cyclone which claimed some 139,000 lives. \ Between 15.000 and 20,000 of to Tubia s 110,000 inhabitants died according to the Bangladesh military. . Navy it. John Koella told mrs. Quayle that Ahamad suffered serious bruises on the inside of his  arms from clinging so tightly to the tree. Kocl la 32, of Oceanside Calif is part of the 7,000-Strong . Military task Force sent to help the Relief opera a Tion. A a a Ahamad a wife six sons and five daughters survived because they went to one of the Concrete Cyclone shul tors. On the Island that withstood the storm Lle stayed Home with his Mother and other relatives. At a news conference after returning to the Island mrs. Quayle said Bangladesh needs More multipurpose a buildings that can he used As schools or hospitals and double As Cyclone shelters. A a the permanent solution is disaster planning a emergency preparedness shelters a i think that a going to help the country a great Deal a she said. Mrs. Quayle said she will submit a report on Bangladesh to president Bush As soon As she returns to Washington. She is a member of the Council of the . International decade for natural disaster reduction and chairman of the . Agency for International developments disaster advisory committee. A a in a very impressed by the resilience of the Bangladesh people and their ability to fight Back when nature has Given them such an incredible blow a she said. Some . Service members praised mrs. Quayle a. Decision to get a firsthand look at the Relief operation but others said her visit tied up aircraft and manpower. She said she was assured she would not be a a disruptive Force and noted that the . Task Force moved about 200 tons of supplies on wednesday the same amount As earlier in the week. Mrs Quayle flew to dharma for lunch with prime minister Khaleda Zia and was then heading for Jakarta Indonesia to join her husband. He was to represent. The United states at fridays funeral in new Delhi for indians former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated tuesday night. A my heart goes out to India and the tragic situation there and i know the world mourns the loss of Rajiv Gandhi a mrs. Quayle said Marilyn Quayle Waves to Cyclone survivors while tour ing a food distribution Center on Sandip  files uncovered in former East Germany Berlin apr a trove of files from the nazi Era has come to Light in former last Germany where the secret police once used the documents for blackmail and propaganda. A. The files were originally in soviet. Hands after world War ii and were transferred to the former communist government of cast ,3vhich put them under control of the. Ministry of state Security the  it e r g e pm a n i n i f i Ca t Ion i n october the Federal Archive took custody of the files which fill most of a four Story building in Eastern Berlin. Der Spicci Magazine said in its latest Issue that the files equal in historical terms the .-administered Archive of nazi party records held in the Berlin world document Center. V a Federal Archive spokesman Tilman bops said the former East German documents differ in Content a shut the. Value of the information is As great As in the Center a a he said the .-run Center to be handed to the germans by 1994 after microfilming is a a pure archives of genuine nazi party records the Stasi Cache includes nazi records and material added later by the cast germans. The stash a had these files brought to get her to put them to political use or propaganda use or secret police use a a Koops said in a Telephone interview from Koblenz. Some files were removed he said. Der Spiegel said the Stasi used nazi records to blackmail people in West Germany into collaborating with the communist East. It said evidence of some nazi War crimes was covered up allowing criminals to resume careers useful to East Germany. This group included Doe tors who had taken part in medical experiments Oil prisoners. The files cover investigations of anti nazi resistance groups such As the Rote Kapelle or red orchestra euthanasia experiments and reports on shipping the mentally ill to death Camps. Der Spiegel reported nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal said from his Vienna Home that he doubted the files contain information not already known. One Case documented in the files was a massacre late in world War ii of inmates of Dora concentration Camp near Nord-300 tunisians arrested in alleged coup attempt. From wire reports. Tunis Tunisia a at least 300 people including 100 soldiers have been arrested and accused of taking part in an fundamentalist islamic plot to overthrow president Zinc abiding Ben Alt the government said wednesday. Some of the military men arrested held ranks As High As commander and came from All branches of the service. Interior minister Abdal Lah Kallel said. He said More people will be arrested. A. Spanish Jet Pilot killed Las Palmas Canary islands a a Spanish air Force fighter Pilot was killed wednesday when his Mirage of i Jet exploded during an exercise Over the Atlantic Ocean. The Accident occurred minutes after capt. Rafael Sanchez left Gando air base with another f-1 Jet the defense ministry said. Sanchez a Jet had just begun  when the explosion occurred Abou 75 Miles South of Las Palmas. The Canary islands which arc Spanish territory arc off the coast of Morocco. Hausen about 120 Miles Southwest of Berlin Wiesenthal said. Inmates were herded into a barn that was set afire killing about 1,000 people. The nazi commander was Gerhard Thiele whose Fate is unknown. A we looked into this Starling in 1950 and could find nothing. Then the cold War began  East Germany never responded to one letter from us a Wiesenthal said. The files Are expected to reveal details of Stasi operations and to provide information on the nazi Peoples court presided Over by Roland Freisler. The court often issued death sentences to foes of Adolf hitlers dictatorship. Freisler was killed in 1945 when a . Bomb hit the court. Captain says women Noin space Moscow apr a soviet space commander whose Crew includes a British chemist was quoted As saying that she and other women did not belong in space. In an interview with a soviet newspaper conducted before saturdays launch of the soyuz flight flight commander Anatoly arts Barsky said Helen Sharmann a male backup was better qualified for the voyage. A i still think that its not a woman a business to Fly into space Quot arts Barsky was quoted As saying in wednesdays editions of the newspaper Moskovsky Koms molets a publication of the Young communist league. Quot More work can be done with a  Sharman is the third woman to Fly on a soviet space Mission. The soviets broke the gender Barrier in 1963 by launching the first woman into space Valentina Teres Kova. Arts Barskyh a comments were unlikely to raise much of a stir in soviet society where the conventional attitude is that women Are unable to handle professional jobs As Well As men. Sharman a 27-year-old chemist and Andy maker was chosen for the soviet space flight after she beat out 13,000 other applicants in a contest sponsored by the London based Moscow Narodny Bank. A. A arts Barsky said Shari Nan a backup Timothy Mace would have been better on the flight because he is a professional  it is Clear that As an operator of a space Mission he is the most suitable person a arts Barsky told Quot the newspaper. V. Arts Barsky noted that Sharman was More Independent minded than soviet women. V a a she can change clothes in our presence a he told the newspaper. A she has no barriers that Are known to our  he also seemed amazed at the emotional containment of his British Comrade. A Helen is by herself. Its impossible to understand if she is in a Good or bad mood Quot he was quoted As saying. A she comes and works like and Iron lady a. There has been no evidence during the soyuz flight of any serious tensions among Sharman and her Crew mates. She was shown on soviet television wednesday night aboard the Mir space station surrounded by the four cosmonauts including arts Barsky. During a preflight news conference Sharman stressed her importance to the Mission noting that she would be conducting medi Cai and agricultural experiments monitoring spacecraft systems and speaking by radio with children from nine British schools