European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 24, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9magazine says hostage to be freed Beirut Lebanon up a a prominent weekly lebanese Magazine said Friday that a Western hostage held by pro iranian extremists in Lebanon will be freed in eight Days. A one of the kidnapped foreigners will be released on the first of september a the Ash Shiraz Magazine quoted an unidentified ranking Security official As saying. A the captive will be released in line of efforts which have been exerted to end this Issue a it added. Ash Shiraz the first to reveal the Reagan administrations Iran Contra scandal did not identify which Westerner would be freed. The Magazine has close links to High ranking syrians. Three foreign nationals american Edward Tracy Frenchman Jerome Peyraud and briton John Mccarthy were recently freed reportedly because of pressure from Iran and Syria. Pragmatic iranian leaders have said they Are anxious to resolve the hostage plight and remove a major Stu Canadian ruling by Tamar lew1n the new York times the supreme court of Canada ruled thursday that the sexual history of rape victims May be offered As evidence in court at the trial judges discretion. The 7-2 decision struck Down part of a 1983 Law shielding rape victims from intrusive questioning about their past sexual behaviour. The judge May allow such evidence the court said where it is useful and is not being raised simply to imply that the victim was More Likely to have consented to the sexual conduct or is a less believable witness bling Block in their efforts to re establish Good ties with the West and rebuild their country s ailing Economy. But a key shiite Muslim figure said thursday that Hezbollah the lebanese fundamentalist group believed responsible for hostage taking was concerned Over its Fate once All Western hostages Are freed. A some militant leaders Are hesitant to drop the captives card which they had considered As an element of strength in political manbevers and bargains a the shiite said on condition his name not be used. A the groups political role in the future in Lebanon is on top of the topics being discussed in Tehran a he said adding a Hezbollah leaders have privately expressed concern about the groups future in the event the hostage problem was  ranking shiite sources said talks in Tehran Iran Between the leadership of the iranian backed group and iranian leaders focused on Hezbollah a status once the hostages were free. Women a groups in Canada and the United states immediately criticized the decision saying it would discourage rape victims from reporting sexual assaults and open the door to prosecutor Al harassment. A women once again Are going to be subject to inquisitions by defense lawyers a said Roz Currie of the National association of women and the Law in Ottawa. A i think we re going to see a dramatic decrease in the number of rapes that arc  Currie said her group would lobby the minister of Justice for new legislation protecting women and children who Are victims of sexual assault. Also thursday the German ambassador to Lebanon Peter Kewit met sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlal Lah Leader of Lebanon a shiite Muslim fundamentalists to discuss the plight of two germans held hostage in Lebanon since 1989. German Relief workers Thomas Kemptner 30, and Heinrich Striebig 50, were kidnapped May 16, 1989, hours before a Frankfurt Germany court sentenced Mohammed Hamadi 32, to life in prison for hijacking a Twa flight in 1985 and killing . Navy diver Robert Stethem. Hamadi a brother Abbas Hamadi is serving a 13-year sentence in Germany for engineering the kidnapping of two other germans in Lebanon. Those two germans were freed. Another Hamadi brother Abdel Hadi Hamadi sought to use his influence As a Hezbollah Security official to Block the release of the two German hostages in a possible package Deal to free All Western hostages and israeli prisoners of War in Lebanon. In the United states Over the last two decades every state has adopted a shield Law generally prohibiting the introduction of evidence about a rape victims past sexual history with some exceptions made Lor previous consensual sex with the defendant or other specific categories. But Helen Neuborne executive director of the now Legal defense and education fund said the pendulum might now be swinging Back with some states beginning to Lessen victims Protection. For example she said in May Massachusetts made the psychiatric background of victims admissible in certain cases. Princess Diana leaves a London Hospital Friday  s Friend Dies of aids London apr Adrian Ward Jackson governor of the Royal Ballet and a close Friend of the Princess of Wales died Early Friday of aids hours after she paid a final visit to him. Ian Robertson manager of the Lindo Wing at St. Mary a Hospital in Paddington West London announced the death of 41-year-old Ward Jack son who was also an Art dealer and aids campaigner. Princess Diana interrupted a vacation in Balmoral Scotland with the Royal family tuesday to be at his bedside after being told he had Only a few Days to live Buckingham Palace said. She spent six hours at St. Mary a Hospital on thursday and returned Early Friday when she was told the end was near. She arrived just minutes after he died Robertson said. Diana remained at the Hospital for 6i/2 hours with Ward Jackson a relatives and looked grim faced and downcast when she left the Hospital Friday morning. The Princess who has close ties to the Ballet world is Patron of the National aids Trust and has campaigned to dispel Public prejudice against victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. . Group planning peace walk in Vietnam Bangkok Thailand up a group of 40 americans were to leave for Vietnam today Over the objections of the United states to begin a 1,000-mile a peace walk to protest the . Economic embargo against Vietnam. But for some of the Vietnam War veterans on the walk the trip also represents the Chance to finally purge the demons that have tormented them since they served in the War two decades ago. The a peace walkers a Ages 19 to 75, will not actually be doing much walking. The itinerary of the 1,090-mile trip from Hanoi Vietnam in the North to to Chi Minh City formerly Saigon in the South Calls for them to take buses most of the Way. They will actually walk Only during formal marches through some of the towns and cities along the Way. A the walk part of it is a symbolic statement a said Kermit Dorius a world War ii Veteran who has also taken part in peace walks through the soviet Union. A the main purpose is to Call attention to the .-imposed Trade embargo and the difficulties it has created for the vietnamese and their Economy a said Dorius of Newport Beach Calif. A we Hope to put the sanctions out of action a he said. A we believe it is the main reason the country is still suffer my. The United states has maintained the embargo which bans All commercial contacts with Vietnam since the War. The government has also vetoed Loans to Vietnam by the world Bank and the International monetary fund. The 40 walkers who come from All Over the United states will be joined by vietnamese veterans for parts of the  group plans to visit War Sites and Plant two a peace poles Quot 8?foot totems inscribed with peace inscriptions at the site of the my Lai massacre and in the former demilitarized zone where there was heavy . A opting. The peacemaking part of the Mission has special significance to the six Vietnam veterans on the tour three of whom Are making their first trip Back to Vietnam since serving there. Quot my most compelling reason for going Back is to close this period of my life. I have a lot of guilt about what i was ordered to do and my life was pretty messed up a said Stephen Stratford who plotted bomb targets for the . Military a secret War in Laos. Since leaving Vietnam Stratford from Napa Valley Calif., said he had suffered from traumatic stress disorder. He said he blamed the effects of his Vietnam experience for addiction to narcotics that led to a term in san Quinton prison on drug and fraud charges. On rape victims draws criticism2 drinks a Day cuts heart attack risk study shows London apr two drinks a Day it reduces the risk of heart attack by nearly a third according to a study of 44,059 men published in this weeks lancet. Among 27,717 men who have never been diagnosed As suffering from heart disease or a related illness those who drank Between a half and 21/ drinks a Day reduced the risk of heart disease by 26 percent said or. Eric Rimm who directed the study. A we found a dose response with the More alcohol consumed the More reduced the risk for heart disease a said Rimm of the Harvard school of Public health. Or. Norman Kaplan director of the hypertension division at the University of Texas southwestern medical school in Dallas and renowned expert on High blood pressure applauded the study. A for the 85 percent of people who can drink without abusing it our message should be keep it up Luxuriate in the Likely benefits that Are going to be obtained a said Kaplan. Or. Arthur Klatsky chief of the division of cardiology at the Kaiser Perma Nente medical Center in Oakland Calif., commented that a the Caso is growing stronger All of the time that a few drinks a Day reduces the risk of heart disease. One drink is equivalent to a can of Beer a 4-ounce Glass of wine or a shot of spirits. Rimm said previous research has shown that drinking More than six drinks a Day increases the risk of heart disease