European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday August 6, 1991 . Team sifts clues for mias Dong hoi Vietnam apr faint traces of 13 american servicemen who disappeared in the fog of an unpopular War that ended years ago have turned up in Indochina . Authorities say. A the focus is on the possibility that some of our men May still be Here a said James Coyle an american Mia investigator. . And vietnamese investigators Are poring Over old documents questioning witnesses and sifting through bits of air plane wreckage seeking to solve the Puzzle of what happened to americans missing in action from the Vietnam War. After two weeks of investigation in Central Vietnam Coyle a vietnamese speaking historian said his team had turned up seven leads on 13 missing men. He said the careful methods of a historian combined with the instincts of a police detective were needed to follow the Distant traces of Sec members who vanished decades ago. But the most Clever detective work would mean Little without the help of Vietnam which has Given the . Investigators Access to records officials and Remote areas of the country. A it is a Puzzle that with Good will on both sides we May be Able to solve a Coyle said. He is one of 26 americans in Vietnam trying to resolve the fates of the missing americans. A total of 2,273 men and women Are listed As missing from the War in Indochina and most Are considered dead though their remains have not been found. An accounting of the missing is among . Conditions for establishing diplomatic and economic ties with Vietnam. The team using vietnamese and . Documents interviews former prison guards villagers near an aircraft crash site or troops in a particular Battle. Coyle said he recalled Only one hostile witness since the Field investigations began in september 1988. A the told us right out that he hated our guts hated our country and hated what our country had done to his country during the War Quot he said. Eventually however he said even this witness cooperated because he understood it was in Vietnam a interest Coyle said. When evidence leads to a burial site or a crash site . And vietnamese teams hike in to painstakingly excavate the area. A we figure we will have to remove 50 cubic meters of soil for this one a said Calvin Grant a member of a recovery team working at an Mia site on a Mountainside North of Dong hoi. A vietnamese team last week found fragments of boots ammunition clips and Bones believed linked to a vietnamese Mia team worker shows off fragments of boots and ammunition dips believed to be connected to the disappearance of three . Soldiers. Three . Soldiers and three South vietnamese soldiers who disappeared 75 Miles West of Danang on the Central vietnamese coast. Ngo Hoang the Deputy director of Vietnam a office for seeking missing persons conceded there were cases that need investigation but said Vietnam was trying to help. A if the testimony is questionable or there is new information then we investigate again a Ngo said. Garnett Bell director of the newly opened . Mia office in Hanoi inspected two vietnamese prisons West of Danang because of vague reports that one of the missing americans purportedly shown in a photograph was seen at a prison West of that City. A they opened the places up to us a said Bell who is fluent in vietnamese. A they even let us talk to the  9,000 sailors Roll into Hong Kong Hong Kong apr its time to head Home but first a Little fun. The 9,000 sailors in the Nimitz Battle group descended on Hong Kong Over the weekend for Shore leave before heading Home after a six month tour at sea that included postwar service in the persian Gulf. They had a Long awaited taste of life cruising bars and packing steakhouses in one of the biggest liberties that this British Colony has experienced in a Long time. Hong Kong was not the first port of Liberty in their six month tour at sea. But Many sailors in the eight ship Battle group found the Neon lights skyscrapers and Pace of life in Hong Kong More exciting than in other ports they had visited including Dubai United Arab emirates. A it s big its Beautiful and its expensive Quot said Seaman Dan Hall 19, of Mexico to. His twin Dave agreed. For some sailors however Hong Kong a vaulted Skyline and ship speckled Bay still come up Short when compared with Home. A i can to wait to get Home to St. Louis a said Seaman Glenn Cheung 19. A i feel lost in space when we re at  officers said the Carrier Nimitz should reach its Home port san Diego in about a month. World 10,000 in Australia Honor Gulf War vets from wire reports Sydney Australia a an estimated 10,000 people lined Sydney a streets monday for a Welcome Home Parade for veterans of the persian Gulf War a year and three Days after Iraq invaded Kuwait. About 1,700 men and women involved in the War marched through the City Center to Darling Harbor parading before prime minister Bob Hawke defense minister Robert Ray and other dignitaries on a dais at town Hall. The Parade was arranged at the first Opportunity when All of australians Gulf veterans could be in the City. A few of the lunchtime crowd waved Small australian flags and cheered As the Navy band launched the Parade with Waltzing Matilda and followed with a series of other traditional tunes. Six Navy ships and a submarine arrived sunday in Sydney Harbor As part of the Celebration. The Parade preceded by four c-130 planes flying Low Over the City finished with a Barbecue for 2,500 Navy personnel family members and friends. A Man stabs 7 in Hamburg Hamburg Germany a a Man wearing just his underwear ran amok on Hamburg a seamy Reeper Bahn Avenue sunday afternoon and stabbed seven people before turning the knife on himself. A Young girl another victim and the assailant were in serious condition police said. According to police the assailant appeared at a Reeper Bahn bar and left it carrying a Large knife. The Man indiscriminately lunged at passers by and bar patrons sitting outside injuring seven people including the child who was with her Mother. The assailant then stabbed himself several times in the stomach police said. The Reeper Bahn is Hamburg a most infamous Street known for seedy bars and prostitutes. Slaying by Ira protested Dundalk Ireland a More than 2,000 people from both sides of the Border gathered in an Irish Field sunday to protest Ira violence and the slaying of a Farmer. The Irish Republican army accused Thomas Oliver of informing for the Irish police and shot him to death july 19, the family of the 40-year-old father of seven denies he was an informer. Hours before the rally Cardinal Cahal Daly called the killing a sinister and  a people in the Ira Are so out of touch with the feelings of the Irish nationalist people a he said. The Ira does not know of the a depth of revulsion people have for it he said. The peace campaigners rallied at a soccer Field near Oliver a Home outside Dundalk county Louth near the Border with the British province of Northern Ireland. The Ira has attacked police and army units in Northern Ireland in its Effort to end British Rule in the province and has killed people who it says were protestant paramilitary members informers or collaborators with British Rule. Germans kidnappers May be robbers not rebels Ami and a t1. -1 / a no. Ankara Turkey apr the gunmen claiming to be kurdish rebels who kidnapped German tourists last week stole valuables and Money officials said sunday. A Germany embassy official said the kidnappers probably were robbers not separatists. Four gunmen abducted 15 German tourists from their campsite near a Crater Lake thursday night. Five of the captives escaped. The regional governors office in Southeastern Diyarbakir province released descriptions of two of the gunmen sunday saying they were in their late 20s and wore sports clothes. The office said the gunmen stole cameras portable cassette players other electronic equipment and hard currency. A we believe that it is the work of robbers Quot Wolfgang Dik the embassy s first Secretary told the sem official Anatolia news Agency in Tat Van near the site of the incident in Eastern bit Lis province. He noted the gunmen did not steal the tourists passports. Anatolia had said the gunmen told witnesses the kidnapping was in retaliation for a trial in Germany of 104 members of the illegal kurdish labor party. It was not immediately Clear whether any party members were actually on trial in Ger Many. Dik said the party made an announcement in Germany denying involvement a witness told Anatolia that the gunmen shouted a we Are in War with Germany. They germans suck our  several party members live under refugee status in Germany and the government has cracked Down on several of their organizations for links to terrorism