European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 b the stars and stripes sunday july 14,1991 us. Abandoned pos Helms says Washington a sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., said Friday the United states a knowingly left american prisoners of War behind in Southeast Asia after negotiating an end to the Vietnam War in 1973. The senior Republican on the Senate foreign relations committee cited a report prepared by his staff and released in May. Helms said the defense department is a still singing that tawdry song. There Are no americans still left Over Helms told the National Alliance of families a year old organization of relatives of missing servicemen that the report and the resignation of a top government official on pow Mia issues May propel a wider Senate inquiry. Army col. Millard Peck resigned in february As director of the defense intelligence Agency a special office for prisoners of War and missing in action charging that senior officials Only wanted a a a charade to put the pow Mia Issue to rest. Since then the Bush administration has negotiated with Vietnam on opening a . Mia office in Hanoi As a precondition to normalizing relations Between the two countries and Calls have mushroomed for a special Senate committee to investigate the Issue. The Senate rules committee is scheduled to hold a hearing july 25 on a Bill sponsored by sen. Bob Smith r-n.h., Helms and seven other senators. The Bill would establish a 10-member select committee on pow Mia affairs. A there is no doubt in my mind that the . Government knowingly left men behind in Southeast Asia a Helms said. A a that happened to them we do not yet know but i Pray that we Are Well on the Way to learning the truth at Long the administration contends that seven inquiries by the defense department or Congress already have been conducted and another one is not needed. Smiths Bill has attracted 16 Republican and 13 democratic co sponsors. But it is opposed by several key senators including Claiborne Pell d-r.i., chairman of the foreign relations committee and Virginia a John Warner senior Republican on the Senate armed services on the Job a Cessna 120 dangles from a Power line As electric company linemen in Pocahontas miss., work to free it Friday. Pilot Auburn Pearman of Pontotoc said his plane became entangled in the wire after he attempted an emergency Landing. The Pilot a 21-year-old Mississippi state student was unharmed in the Accident grand jury probing Dod contractor Over test results Washington Apaydin Carp. An electronics defense contractor said its West coast division is a target in a grand jury probe of alleged falsified test results for a . Anny radio used by troops during operation desert storm. In a recent filing with the securities and Exchange commission disclosed thursday Aydin said it was notified last month by the . Attorney for the Northern District of California that it a is now one of the targets of a grand jury a we done to know who the others Are a Robert a. Clancy Aydiny a Secretary and general counsel said in a Telephone interview thursday. Clancy said the investigation resulted from test data allegedly faked by a Low level employee during a series of tests of the radio which was used by the during the Gulf War. A most All the people involved in the production and manufacture Ana testing of that contract with the have been interviewed by investigators and quite a few of them have been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury said Clancy from Aydin Headquarters in Horsham pa., outside Philadelphia. Henry Kearney a spokesman for the communications and electronics come at fort Monmouth n.j., said the Grc-222 is a microwave super High frequency radio used for voice and data communications by combat troops. Kearney said 116 of the radios were used during operation desert storm. Because of the pending investigation he said he could not comment on any aspect of their performance.400 patients to get aids notification Morgantown . A More than 400 patients will be notified that their heart surgeon tested positive for the aids Quot virus officials said Friday. Or Grady Edward Rozar or. Was diagnosed with the virus in april 1989, said Thomas Senker president of Monon Galia general Hospital. Rozar operated on about 400 patients in West Virginia from August 1986 to november 1988, at Monon Galia and West Virginia University hospitals said Bernard Westfall Wavu hospitals president. Rozar is currently director of the peripheral vascular Laboratory at the Marshfield clinic in Marshfield wis., about 150 Miles East of St. Paul Minn. He has not performed surgery since april 30, 1989, according to lab spokeswoman Brenda Johnson. Rozar also served his residency at Pittsburgh a Allegheny general Hospital before coming to Wavu Westfall said. The Only known aids virus transmission from a health professional to patients involved a Florida dentist or. David acer. Acer who died in september infected five patients with the virus. One of them Kimberly Bergalis is near death. Mother with ill child being sought for shunning Normal cancer care Detroit up police on saturday were seeking a 10-year-old cancer patient they think is being treated by his parents with a banned drug. Police believe Lucas Derksen of fond do Lac wis., was in Michigan with his Mother a 36-year-old native of Hudson Ville mich., seeking treatment from a metallurgist. The boys father Roy Derksen was arrested last week in Wisconsin and he and his wife face child abuse charges for shunning traditional treatment. The Der Sens reportedly brought their son to Michigan for a medication produced by metallurgist Edward Sopcak in Howell. Sopcak said the substance called cancell or Enteles enables the body to cure itself and will not work in conjunction with traditional treatments. Federal officials said there is no evidence cancell works and in fact a Federal court order has banned its Sale As a medication. Sopcak said he had not met the Der Sens nor their son and that he makes cancell available free to anyone who needs it. The Federal court he said a did not prohibit me from making a gift of cancell to my fellow authorities on Friday searched the Hudsonville Home of the boys maternal grandmother Tillie eerdmans but found Only the boys wheelchair and clothing. Eerdmans said her daughter and grandson had not been there for a week a does no to it sound like Russia or something a to take your child away from a Parent Call it abuse when you re doing the Best that you know How a she asked. Doctors reportedly discovered the boys cancer when he broke his right leg in an Accident in april. Doctors at the University of Wisconsin a children a Hospital gave him a 60 percent Chance of survival with amputation and chemotherapy. Eerdmans said the boy has been taking cancel for three or four weeks and was a getting positive results. Gulf War vet Dies in skydiving Accident Honolulu apr a Marine. Uhn hah hmm Hurt i _ _ Honolulu apr a Marine who was skydiving during thursdays solar eclipse was killed when his parachutes failed to open an official said. First sgt. William Boyd 40, died during a jump about 7f30 a.m., said staff sgt. Christopher Grey spokesman for Kaneohe Marine corps air station. The eclipse which covered 96 percent of the Sun on Oahu and was total on the Island of Hawaii Way Down said a woman at Skydive Hawaii Boyd a 22-year Marine Veteran who had the company that owned the plane to retd Ron a persian Gulf War in woman speaking on condition of Anonym Snori a is be parachutin8 expert to said the foursome timed the jump 1 R.I. he a fun j. ,. Happen during the eclipse. His death Waialua fire fai>t0 tie Accident happened hear Oahu Kins Laid p m per North Shore about 35 Miles North of hoi bold made the in the n. Lulu. Boyd landed in the water. A fire is the had no so l r Ife comp no apartment helicopter lifted him out and toe a y p Ned to link up on the him to a Hospital where he died. Ions
