European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 17, 199.1 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Kerry urges Bangkok Thailand apr sen. John f. Kerry on Friday said lifting the . Economic embargo against Vietnam would help solve Mia cases. With open Trade . Businessmen and other americans in Vietnam could pick up information on missing servicemen by just being there the Massachusetts Democrat told a news conference. It would also give Vietnam Access to International Loans and Aid and act As an important incentive to obtaining vietnamese cooperation in settling the cases of americans missing in action in the Vietnam War. Kerry was beginning a we Klong visit saturday to Vietnam and Cambodia launching a new congressional inquiry on the mias. The senator said he opposed . Normalization of ties with Vietnam before any significant movement on mias. But he said the Issue a would he greatly furthered. If the uni red states would lift the embargo at least  the Pentagon lists 2.273 americans As missing m action from a the Vietnam War which ended in a elem no communist Victory Over the .Aucaeid South vietnamese  an Andrii 1975. A highly decorated Vietnam wan Veteran Kerry chairs a f2-member  committee the Senate a Matt amp de political exiles Given amnesty in South Africa Geneva apr South Africa has agreed to a general amnesty for political exiles Clearing the Way for the United nations to help an estimated 40,000 of them return Home. The South african Cabinet gave final consent at a meeting Friday said a spokesman for the South african Mission to the United nations in Geneva. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. The spokesman said the document would be initiated by the South african ambassador and . Representatives in Geneva later Friday and that a full signing ceremony would be held As soon As possible. Under the agreement the office of . High commissioner for refugees would set up a Center in South Africa to help returning exiles the newspaper business Day reported earlier quoting Unher sources in Geneva. Many leaders and others who opposed the White led governments system of racial discrimination were forced to flee South Africa Over past 40 years. They began to return last year when president . De Klerk began to dismantle apartheid. Nicolas Wakera at the office of the . High commissioner for refugees said the pact would allow South african exiles to return Home without fear of prosecution for offences committed either before or during exile. But he told journalists that anyone who had fled the country after oct. 8, 1990, would not automatically be included in the amnesty As a result of a Cut off imposed by the South african government. He said political detainees in that country also would not Benefit from the agreement As they were outside the Purview of the . Refugee Agency. South african officials said earlier this year that the Unher could play a role in repatriating exiles. It is the first time in 30 years that the refugee Agency would have a presence in the country. Wakera said the Unher office would also Monitor government compliance with the terms of the amnesty. Most returnees were expected to come from neighbouring Southern african nations confirming that the Deal could affect about 40,000 people Wakera said. Thib month to investigate the Mia Issue. I said the main purpose of his trip was to in to determine How a Senate in Vii in into the Mia Issue should proceed in the coming months. 3vern said he would ask the indochinese governments about Mia information he had received from several sources but he declined to elaborate. 1 Here have been seven prior investigative Elioroso or the years a he said. �?~�?~1 arc determined that this Senate investigation is Simp not going to be one More or that it is simply going to add to the mys Len a a a american concern about missing servicemen intensified recently with the Rem the tax cited states of a photograph by a private american lobby group to Jim purportedly shows three downed Tus. Fliers from the Southeast asian War. . Military experts Are conducting an excavation in Northern Vietnam in a bid to dose the Case on one missing american flier whose family claims he appears in the mysterious photograph. The official Vietnam news Agency said a .-vietnamese team was trying to determine the Fate of air Force col. John Leighton Robertson whose plane was downed near Hanoi which was then the capital of North Vietnam on sept. 16, 1966. The vietnamese news report said the americans began an excavation in Hai Hai Hung province outside Hanoi a in the area where Robertson a plane apparently went Down a after visiting two prisons in Central Vietnam and concluding no foreigners were detained there. A a a it of owe tag theme Ami a amp 1fflfaw Feam fee Crater of Hudson Volcano thursday in Chile s Andes mountains. Lava spewing Glacier Volcano forces 1,500 argentines to flee Santa go a Orile Opl a lava and Ash spewing Chi it Clie  Iqba fined him Ikon a Mem no a Mon Tige oif Eam fecund or in tithe Andes mountains forced the Evacula Maib off Lam Ereain Donots in Argentina and officials in Chile Prepa Jned mgt Eva tie a Norai if a 4jq00. A Bice pasta Eufis dings a Fth amp a it a the Remote frigid area Neair Che Luik Jig Mai sir to thursday reported frequent  fend  noises sul uric Gas pm to Susana Ami a Mmark Dleo Nical storm in the blackened asic fill Edl Alky. The Volcano began erupting last w in it Argens suing Kilili Crafe ordered if he evacuation of an estimated ls3� Reaa dents in Tihe Ash covered town of los Antigen Ftp fat Canad nodes Southeast of the Volcano chilean officials were ready to evacuate some 50 families living on the Banks of the Ibanez River which flows Down the slope of the immense cratered Peak said Victor Acevedo a government official. He said As Many As Many As 4,000 people May have to be evacuated from the area. Police have warned residents in the in dried Community to stay on High ground because a new eruption could bring molten lava Down the River bed Acevedo said. Officials evacuated some 20 residents wednesday after lava spilling from the Volcano broke off Large pieces of ice from the huge Glacier located on the Volcano. As much As 18 inches of dark Ash accumulated in the Steets of Chile Chico a chilean town of 2,200 inhabitants located near Hudson. Claim that German tourists faked kidnapping rejected Ankara Turkey apr the German embassy has angrily dismissed suggestions by senior turkish officials that 10 German tourists faked their abduction by kurdish rebels out of sympathy for the kurdish cause. Hayri Koz Kacioglu the official in charge of the 11 Southeastern provinces where the rebels Are Active said he had evidence the germans allowed themselves to be spirited away by the rebels on aug. 1. The illegal kurdish labor party claimed responsibility for the abduction of the tourists who  Chil Dren. It said the Lod napping wan be or Oslo ligation for the prosecution off Mem fees off the party in Germany. The captives were Sib Saedi Mai Dayt later. In the meantime them Sago use Drew widespread attention in Tom Man and focused attention on the be Haggle off the kurdish rebels for a separate Homeland in Turkey. The tourists reportedly seized Tohe a campsite in the mid rile at Gragin i a took cameras video recorder Aad to amp at possessions with them and Huixi Luik phone numbers for kurdish publications in Germany Koz Kacioglu said wednesday Ai a news conference in the provincial Center of Diyarbakir. He said that after their please the tourists tried to hand a bag of exposed film and cassettes to German policemen who had come to assist in the search. Koz Kacioglu displayed photographs he said showed the abducted germans posing and dancing with their captors. German embassy spokesman Walter Lindner said it was a absurd speculation to Sai the tourists had faked their abduction. A to me the Points made by Koz Kacioglu appear convincing. Because he is a serious and responsible Man who would not speak unless he had hard evidence a turkish government spokeswoman Imren Aykut said thursday. But Aykut said this was her a personal View and the government had not made a formal statement. The kurdish labor party has been fighting for a separate state in turkeys mostly kurdish Southeast for seven years. About 3,000 people have been killed in clashes