European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes tuesday August 6, 1991  team sifts through clues for mias world Dong hoi Vietnam a 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 service 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 . Condi Lions 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. S 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 clips 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 Huberty 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 a United Arab emirates. A a it a big its Beautiful and its expensive a 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. �?o1 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.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 an 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  stabs 7 in Hamburg Hamburg Germany a a Man wearing just a a 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  by Ira protested Dundalk Ireland 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 Fanner. 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. Quot tire 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.. Doctor operates on lithuanian survivor Moscow up a an american army neurosurgeon has operated on the Lone survivor of an attack on a lithuanian customs Post that left seven people dead last week a lithuanian spokesman said  surgery performed by the . Specialist was the second Strong indication of the seriousness with which Washington views the still unsolved assault. On saturday the . Consul in Leningrad Jack Gosnell attended the funeral of the seven lithuanians who were slain at the customs Post at medi Sinkai on the Border with the soviet byelorussian Republic. Rita Dapkus spokesman for Lithuania a parliament said the surgeon was brought from a . Military base in Germany but she would not give the doctors  said the american surgeon and lithuanian doctors Are optimistic that Tomas Sernas will recover from his wounds. A she told a news conference in Vilnius that from time to time he regains consciousness but tires quickly the balt fax news service said. Balt fax said officials Hope Sernas can help identify the killers of his colleagues in wednesdays attack the latest and most serious in a series of assaults on the customs posts. At his Summit with president Bush soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev promised a full investigation to determine what a really happened at the Border Post