European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 17, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 9 Kerry urges ending Bangkok Thailand a 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. Any significant movement on mias. But he said the Issue a would be greatly furthered. If the United states would lift the embargo at least the Pentagon lists 2,273 americans As missing in action from the Vietnam War which ended in a Kerry i Cuianu Nai. Which Chuck. Kerry was beginning a we Klong visit communist Victory Over the .-backed saturday to Vietnam and Cambodia South vietnamese government in april launching a new congressional inquiry on 1975. The mias. A highly decorated Vietnam War vet the senator said he opposed . Nor Ranj Kerry chairs a 12-member Bip Arti Maliza Tion of ties with Vietnam before san committee the Senate established this month to investigate the Mia Issue. He said the main purpose of his trip was to try to determine How a Senate inquiry into the Mia Issue should proceed in the coming months. Kerry said he would ask the indochinese governments about Mia information he had received from several sources but he declined to elaborate. A there have been seven prior investigative efforts Over the years a he said. A i am determined that this Senate investigation is simply not going to be one More or that it is simply going to add to the american concern about missing servicemen intensified recently with the release in the United states of a photograph by a private american lobby group that purportedly shows three downed . 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. 1 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, 1%6. 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 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 Date 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. Clouds of steam and Ash billow from the Crater of Hudson Volcano thursday in Chile sandes town issued Gas masks in Wake of volcanic eruptions Santiago Chile up a regional chilean officials began distributing Gas masks Friday to protect Chile Chico residents from a rain of volcanic Ash and stones. Victor Serrano a provincial official in the extreme Southern chilean Region of Aysun said in a Telephone interview that town streets were blocked by a Hills As deep As 8 feet of volcanic Ash belched from the erupting Hudson Volcano a 60 Miles to the Northwest. He said the Volcano was spewing a stones Between i and 8 inches in diameter and that the town of 2,200 inhabitants located some 1,200 Miles Southeast of Santiago had been shrouded in darkness for five Days by an Ash and electrical storm that had virtually blotted out the Sun. Serrano said that officials had drafted plans to evacuate 4,000 residents in the area. In Argentina officials ordered the evacuation of an estimated 1,500 residents in the Ash covered town of los Antiguas located 60 Miles Southeast of the Volcano on the Border with Chile. The Volcano began venting Gas and Ash last week and erupted with a series of More violent explosions on sunday. Since then officials report that the heat of the eruption has begun to melt huge chunks Oil a Glacier that lies in the bowl like Crater of the Volcano. Police patrols in the immediate area of the Volcano As late As thursday said underground rumblings and actual quakes were frequent.. Doctor credited with saving norwegian girl s life Oslo Norway a an american physician pulled an unconscious girl from a Lake and revived her after she had been submerged More than 10 minutes in a boating Accident newspapers reported Friday. Dag bladet a major Oslo daily devoted its front Page to the Story and said Gerald Kiedrowski of Fargo n.d., was a hero. A i was just doing my Job a Kiedrowski 42, told the newspaper. The 10-year-old girl had stopped breathing and her heart had stopped beating before the doctor leaned Over the Side of a Lifeboat thursday and pulled her out. Crewmen held his Ankles As he ducked under the surface of Chilly Lake Moesa in Southern Norway. Police in the Mountain town of Lille Hammer said the girl remained unconscious but in stable condition in a Hospital Friday. Her name was not released. M a i think she is going to be Fine Kiedrowski said. A six years ago 1 saved a boy who had been underwater for 45 minutes. Now he a completely Kiedrowski of St. Johns Hospital in Fargo was in Norway with his songs ice hockey team. He was sightseeing aboard an old paddle Wheeler Skib Ladner when a 20-foot-Long Sailboat became tangled in the paddle wheels and capsized. The sailboats 66-year-old norwegian owner bleeding from a facial injury Clung to the boats upturned keel and was rescued by a Man in a Motorboat. His granddaughter and a dog were trapped in the sunken Hull. The Man in the Motorboat shouted that he saw a face under the water. Kiedrowski got into the Lifeboat lowered by Skib Ladner crewmen and they rowed to the wreck. A i could just see the girl. Under the surface a Kiedrowski said. Kiedrowski began artificial respiration and showed a crewman How to perform heart Massage while the Lifeboat headed for a Lakeside ambulance. A that trip to land seemed awfully Long a he said. As the Lifeboat reached a Dock the girls heart began to beat on its own
