European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday August 3, 1991 Washington a a Senate committee voted 9-0 Friday to establish a temporary panel to investigate the Fate of servicemen missing in action from the Vietnam War. The rules committee sent the matter to the full Senate which was not expected to act until Congress returns from its summer recess in september. The Mia panel would be made up of 11 members six democrats and five re publicans. Senate foreign relations chairman Claiborne Pell d-r.i., said it will be headed by a member of his committee and other sources said the Choice Likely would be sen. John Kerry d-mass., a Vietnam Veteran. While the vote was unanimous there were some misgivings. Sen. John Warner r-va., said his a main concern was that we not elevate unduly the Hopes and aspirations of the families who be waited so Many years. To do that would be a disservice.�?�. But immediately following the action sen. Jesse Helms , said a i am relatively certain that within the next 60 to 90 Days we May have one or More living pos or i  Helms declined to elaborate. A primary sponsor of the legislation sen Bob Smith r-n.h., noted that the select committee would have subpoena Power and the Power to put witnesses under oath. The executive Branch which he said has resisted giving Congress intelligence on pos and Silas is a either going to provide it willingly or we Are going to subpoena it. Its that simple. We want to see the intelligence As soon As Possi ble.�?�. In a related development Friday cambodian Quot officials told . Investigators a photograph that american families of missing servicemen say shows their loved ones in Captivity is fake. Cambodians state news Agency spa monitored in Bangkok Thailand said cambodian Deputy foreign minister Long Visalon met thursday in phenom penh with . Military experts who were trying to determine if the photograph was genuine. It quoted a foreign ministry statement As saying Long Visalon said that there is no possibility of any american prisoner of War still living in the state of  a on the recent publication by foreign Media of a photograph of those . Servicemen he said it was made up by world someone to serve their own  the photograph recently released by a private lobbying group in the United states shows three caucasian men in a wooded setting holding up a cryptic sign. Sources in Thailand said it was smuggled out of Cambodia last year and passed through the hands of a Well known cambodian Fabricator of Mia information. . Officials in Bangkok said at least five families of mias from the Vietnam War say their loved ones Are in the photograph. The vietnamese government said the photograph was a fabrication when asked about it by Deputy assistant Secretary of state Kenneth Quinn during his Mia Mission to Hanoi Vietnam last week. Senior . Officials also cast doubt on its auth entity. Firefighters sift through smoking nibble Friday after a fire gutted the Palm Grove Hostel near Dungog Australia.12 feared dead after Blaze sweeps Australia care Center Sydney Australia up a twelve people were feared dead and another 28 fled or were helped to safety Early Friday when fire engulfed a Center for mentally incapacity de patients in new South Wales police said. The fire raged through the More than 100-year-old building before fire Crews from the nearby town of Dungog could arrive. There was no Hope of saying those patients not awakened or rescued by the facility a owners firefighters said. Palm Grove Hostel owners Michael and Ann wills live in an adjacent House. They said they ran to the burning building after they were awakened by screams for help shortly before Midnight. They said they managed to awaken some patients who then ran outside but others had to be assisted be cause of their disabilities. Most of the patients aged from 34 to 80, were described As suffering from alcohol or drug abuse. A there was nothing we could do a fire brigade capt. Wayne Redman said. A by the time we arrived the building was  firefighters said it was three hours before Rescue teams could begin searching for bodies in soldering ruins. Police believe nine men and three women were killed in the Blaze. Dungog ambulance officer Barry Baker said All of the survivors had been rescued by the time he arrived. A Day care Center attached to the Small Hospital was turned into a makeshift dormitory to House the rest of the survivors until More permanent accommodations could be  charged in vandalism at 4 jewish cemeteries from wire reports Stuttgart Germany a four men were charged with overturning tombstones and spraying nazi Graffiti in four jewish cemeteries near Stuttgart officials said. The Stuttgart prosecutors office said thursday that the men Ages 20 to 23, were charged with incitement and disparaging the memory of the dead. The four Are accused of taking part in vandalism sprees Between december 1989 add august1990 at jewish cemeteries in Kuster Dingen Lankheim tub Ingen Stuttgart and Hechinger fires ravage Valencia Valencia Spain a fires raging out of control in the Region of Valencia in Eastern Spain for six Days have burned More than 49,400 acres of Brush and Small Trees an official said Friday. Regional agriculture chief Lluis Fon Demora called the fires the worst ecological disaster in the area in the past decade. No injuries were reported but 200 people living around Requena were evacuated Friday. The fires briefly Cut traffic on National Highway 3 As thousands of vehicles headed out from Madrid toward Mediterranean  1 St class on metro Paris a All passengers Are now equal in the metro but most will end up paying More for the privilege. The famed parisian subway system on thursday officially terminated first class service introduced with the first wooden trains when the underground was inaugurated in 1900. However prices for the new Standard fare Rose to 5.50 francs 92 cent from 5.20 francs 86 cents. Authorities decided last Spring to bring Down the class system acknowledging that the elite who paid 7.80 francs $1.30 for a first class ticket got Little extra for their  Marks on raft prompt italian Riviera shark warning Santa margher1ta, Italy up a shark sightings spread alarm among thousands of tourists on some of Italy a most exclusive beaches this week and local authorities issued warnings to bathers and fishermen. The scare started tuesday when a 40-year-old italian woman reported Liat a shark at least 13 feet Long knocked her off a plastic raft on which she was sunbathing Only 30 Yards off a Beach Between Santa Margherita and Portofino on the italian Riviera in Northwestern Italy. A i saw a Sharks Fin approaching and. Then i Felt it crash against my raft Quot Ivana Acaccia vacationing from nearby Rapallo told Beach guards. A i fell into the water and saw that enormous head pass dose to my Knees. 1 done to know How i am still  the big fish Sank its Teeth into the raft. Professor Fabio Fiorentina an expert from a University in nearby Genoa confirmed the Marks appeared to be caused by a shark. Beach supervisor Giorgio Catassi 27, said that after the attack on the woman the shark circled around two pedal powered water Craft one with children aboard but vanished after he and an attendant went to the Rescue in another Peditto. On thursday morning another vacationer Alessandro Ferrari 50, reported that he had sighted a shark about 100 Yards offshore while cruising in his Motorboat from Portofino to Santa Margherita. A it was at least five meters 16l/2 feet Long a he said. Other shark sightings were reported from beaches As far away As the Island of Lipari off the Northern coast of Sicily and the Island of Lampedusa Southwest of Malta. Shark scares in Italy crop every few Summers. The last big one was in 1989 when a skin diver vanished off the port of Piombino also in Northwestern Italy and witnesses said he was attacked by a shark. His body was never found. Experts of the Rome based . Foo and agricultural organization reporte in 1987 there Are 51 species of shark i the Mediterranean but said most c them Are harmless to humans and rare come close to crowded beaches. Authorities in Genoa did not sped Mically ban swimming in the Region but i sued a warning to tourists and Fisherman to take precautions. They told them to avoid skin diver and sunbathing offshore on rafts or sur boards and to keep close to the Beache they told Fisherman not to Wash the nets near bathing establishments at asked everybody to report any suspect shark sightings immediately