European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday july 7, 1991 sgt. Dale Brown and his wife a Cousin Angela Hickman arc among the visitors and visit yes this summer in the annual summer game called Here come the relatives. Sec sunday Magazine. That ainu to peanuts the Peanut butter lobby breathed a sigh of Relief when president Bush agreed to sharply raise the import quota on peanuts to 100 million pounds. A Page 4 Home for the fourth a yellow ribbon was on the door of Minnie Pearl Jurnett a Small Wood Frame House and five american flags flew from the rooftop As she and her five Gulf War Veteran sons had their first reunion since the War a Page 5 cult figure caught Tony Alamo former head of a $60 million religious cult was picked up by Florida police on 1988 child abuse charges after a flood of tips prompted by coverage of his Case on unsolved mysteries and other television shows. A Page 6 scared japanese nearly it a Quarter of japanese believe the United states has replaced the soviet Union As the top threat to their nation a Survey shows. A Page 8 Graffiti Valley _ four months ago it was a gruesome Road North from Kuwait City littered with enemy vehicles and the dead. Now Quot death Valley Quot is littered with Graffiti a some triumphant some remorseful a from american soldiers who came through. A Page 14 curio user and curio user now even the shopping carts retelling you what to do in some stateside supermarkets a cart mounted computer flashes advertisements for the products you Are about to pass a Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers. 17 commentary. .13 letters. A. A. Ltd 12 Money matters. 20 Mutual. 18-19 sports. 21-28 weather. 11 flying tigers in memo los Angeles up More than 45 years after world War ii the . Government is expected to announce that the fabled Volunteer flying tigers who battled japanese invaders in China had secret Federal backing the los Angeles times reported saturday. A defense department finding quietly signed May 3 acknowledges the . Pilots who flew into action in 1941 a and whose exploits were immortalized on film by John Wayne a had the Clandestine support of the Roosevelt administration the newspaper said. Approximately 200 pilots and crewmen of the american Volunteer group As the flying tigers were officially known served on a a Active duty and May be recognized As . War veterans. Such status and accompanying benefits have been denied the tigers since 1945 because Pentagon officials envied the groups Leader said Richard Schriebman an attorney who represents the flying tigers. Formal disclosure of the groups newly won Veteran status was scheduled at its 50th anniversary reunion in san Diego this weekend Schriebman said a fall they want is a Flag on their Headstone a he said. A they want to be recognized As american fighting men and not a Bunch of mercenaries who went to China for glory and  creation of the flying tigers a has the China for glory and Money. Richard Schriebman approval of the president and the War department a according to an August 1941 memo for the chief of the army air corps Gen. Henry a a Hap Arnold Schriebman said. Secret government backing of the ostensibly Volunteer Force was necessary to avoid violating the . Neutrality act which barred the United states from taking sides Between warring nations such As Japan and China. Over a six month period ending july 4, 1942, the flying tigers outdated Clumsy but heavily armed p-40 planes destroyed 296 More nimble japanese planes losing Only four. The flying tigers were led by the outspoken Claire Lee Chennault of Waterproof la., who resigned his Pentagon Job in the late 1930s and became an adviser to chinese Leader Chiang Kai Shek. He is still honoured in Taiwan for his and the flying tigers exploits on behalf of the chinese. The group was financed by the chinese government along with a $100 million . Government loan. The squadrons front group was the Central aircraft manufacturing company. The recruiting pitch to Young pilots was pure capitalism $600 per month plus another $500 for each japanese plane shot Down. The prevailing Junior pilots monthly wage was $125. The pilots gathered in san Francisco in july 1941, travelled on forged civilian documents to Burma and were still in training when the attack on Pearl Harbor on dec 7, 1941, spurred them to an Early Start shooting at japanese planes within Days and defending Rangoon from bombers. After the War 10 of the flying tigers founded the air freight service of that name which was acquired by Federal express. Others Rose to prominent jobs in private Industry and Public service. Christian scientists lose Appeal in child s death san Francisco a an appeals court has upheld the convictions of a Christian scientist couple who tried to treat their 8-month-old daughters meningitis solely with prayer. The child died. The convictions of Mark Rippberger and his wife Susan Middleton of Healdsburg were the first in California to be tested since the state supreme court ruled in 1988 that a belief in spiritual Healing did not shield a Parent from prosecution for a child a serious illness or death. Exempting parents from prosecution in such cases a would permit a Small segment of our society with impunity to endanger the lives of infants who arc helpless to act on their own behalf a said Justice Robert Merrill in the 3-0 appellate decision Friday. The appeals court said there was overwhelming evidence that the death of the couples daughter Natalie was a the direct result of her parents failure to give her any medical attention treatment or care. A a sincere belief in the Efficacy of Christian science spiritual Healing practices is not a defense to a charge of Crimi Nal negligence when the jury finds that belief unreasonable Merrill wrote. The Parent in the earlier Case Laurie Walker was convicted by a Sacramento county Superior court judge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 4-year-old daughter from meningitis an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain or spinal Cord. Sentenced to probation and Community service she is appealing the conviction. In both cases doctors testified that the children probably could have been saved by conventional medical treatment. Rippberger and Middleton were acquitted of manslaughter but convicted of the lesser charge of felony child endangerment in the december 1984 death of their daughter Natalie who had been ill for 15 Days. Superior court judge Lloyd von Der Mehden placed the couple on five years probation and ordered them to take a class in family health report any illness of one of their children lasting More than 24 hours and allow emergency medical treatment of any minor child with a life threatening condition. Plane sought in damage Case Babylon . Ufi authorities Friday were tracking Down six airliners to try to find out1 which one dropped Frozen waste on Long Island hitting a parked car and narrowly missing a child in a Playpen at a backyard Barbecue. Shortly after 3 . Thursday the debris fell on a parked 1986 Ford owned by Robert Peterson causing a quite extensive damage to the Hood and roof said Suffolk county police spokesman Mark Ryan. Debris also fell in the Yard of a nearby neighbor who was not identified missing a child in a Playpen and a Barbecue by 20 feet Ryan said. A a it a one of those rarities that happens every once and a while and nobody knows How to work it a said Ryan adding there Der a aviation administration was called to investigate. Faa spokesman Robert Fulton said Friday a computer Check determined that six planes were in the Vicinity of Babylon about 30 Miles East of new York City. Salvador rebels Call for probe of killings san Salvador Al Salvador up a salvadoran rebels Friday called for an investigation into the killings of nine guerrillas they say were wounded and then executed by army soldiers in an ambush. The rebel Faramundo Marti National liberation front asked for an investigation and autopsy by an Independent Laboratory to determine if the rebels including a commander were shot to death at close Range after they were wounded. The rebels said the june 30 ambush with mines and grenades by the 5th inf brigade was aimed at the rebel commander opening the possibility of Feln retaliatory strikes against army officers and government officials. A we assume that the government with these killings has Given its approval to irregular operations against its leaders in its own zones of control a the rebels said. The Feln said area residents and survivors of the ambush saw soldiers kill the nine wounded guerrillas near san Vicente 33 Miles Northeast of san Salvador minister of defense Emilio Ponce said authorities at san Vicente exhumed the bodies and found that they were not executed. But san Vicente officials said they Only determined the identity of the victims and no autopsies were performed. Relatives of seven of those killed in the ambush said the Feln recruited them by Force the same Day. The Feln and the government of president Alfredo Cristiani Are engaged in peace talks aimed at ending the 11-year-old War that has taken some 75,000 lives