European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Club seeks answers to tall problems London apr being tall can be a real shortcoming emotionally and physically according to members of Britain a first tall persons club. A oddities in a world built for Short people a is How members describe themselves. According to the 6-foot-8-Inch club founder Phil Heinricy there a nothing funny about tall jokes a such As a a what a the weather like up there a it is unfair to have to sit with your Knees pressed into your Chin on air planes he says or to sleep with toes dangling Over the Edge of hotel Beds. Heinricy 38, launched Britain a chapter of the tall persons club in August after hearing about american groups and the european federation of tall persons club. So far he has More than 100 members and reports dozens of inquiries. A a we re Way behind As usual in Britain he said. A a it a a Case of the Good old tradition of stiff upper lip you put up with things. You recognize you re an oddity in a world built for Small people. But now that people found me they re coming out of the  Heinricy said he plans to use the club to delve into the psychological aspects of being tall and sharing practical tips such As hotels that have Long Beds. A in California they have a tip toppers club but its More of a social affair a Bunch of tall people who jump in the car and get social a he said. Heinricy also wants to form a lobby group to demand that major hospitals have a few extra Long Beds and that movie Heaters Reserve a Section for the Long of leg. A Many tall people try to disguise their height. They look broken Bent and that destroys Confidence in later years a Heinricy said. A Many Intelli gent tall people Are stuck in dead end jobs simply because they Haven to Learned to Cope with  there a no minimum height requirement to join the club. The average female member is 6 feet and the average male member is 6-feet-5, Heinricy said. Government statistics in 1984 showed that the average height of British women was 5-feet-3vi, while men averaged 5-feet-8v. Britain a tallest Man 7-foot-4 Christopher Greener said being tall never bothered him but he sympathizes with those who do have problems and will be an Active club  planning various appeals on Brazil trip Rome up a Pope John Paul ii left saturday for a nine Day visit to Brazil expected to be highlighted by appeals for the poor support for the dwindling Indian population and a probable Call for Protection of the Amazon rain Forest. The Popes special Boeing 747, provided by the italian airline a italia left Rome s Leonardo a Vinci International Airport at 12 28 . For the nine hour flight to the port City of Natal on brazils northeastern coast. In Natal the Pope will launch his tour of 10 cities of the South americans largest country by presiding sunday Over the closing ceremony of brazils 12th National eucharistic Congress. It is John Paul a second visit to Brazil and his 53rd trip outside Italy since he was elected head of the roman Catholic Church in october 1978. During his previous visit from june 30 to july 12, 1980, the Pope visited nine cities. Much has changed in Brazil in the 11 years since that previous visit. A democratically elected president took Over in 1985 from the military leaders who had ruled since 1964, but the country a economic situation has become desperate. Brazil now has the largest foreign debt in the world at $120 billion and inflation had risen to 15 percent in August this year. Other problems the Pope is expected to tackle in his speeches include a violence against the native Indian population estimated at 220,000 As against 5 million when the first portuguese colonists arrived in the 16th Century. The brazilian Church and other International reports com fila in of torture and expulsion from their lands of whole families in areas being developed including the Amazon rain forests. A the Catholic churches current losing Battle against protestant sects. Church sources estimate the Catholic Church to which some 112 million of brazils 155 million population belong has lost some 17 million adherents to the sects and the defections currently amount to around 600,000 per year. A damage to the environment particularly that caused by the destruction of the Amazon rain  settlement continues a jewish settler family visits a House occupied by a group of jewish squatters in the East Jerusalem Arab Village of sit wan on Friday. Settlement leaders from the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip Are stepping up jewish settlement activity before Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii arrives in Israel on  opens party to religious group passport visa fees to increase nov. 1 Frankfurt Germany a fees to obtain passports and visas will go up nov. 1, according to Robert s. Ayling chief of the consular Section at the consulate general in Frankfurt. Some of the new fees will include application for passport $10 issuance of passport to an adult $55 issuance of passport to a minor $30 application for an immigrant visa $170 and issuance of each immigrant visa $30. Washington up a the Congress of the cuban communist party on Friday voted to abolish the party a nine member secretariat and allow religious groups to join the party radio Havana reported. The secretariat is one of the main structures that has helped president Fidel Castro retain unchallenged control of cubans communist party since 1959, radio Havana reported in a dispatch monitored in Washington. About 1,880 delegates to the Congress meeting at the Heredia theater in the Eastern Cuba City of Santiago also approved a Castro supported initiative to allow a honest revolutionaries with religious ideas to become members of the 600,000-Strong communist party. After two decades of official hostility toward churches the cuban regime has been opening a dialogue with catholics and protestants. The party Congress originally scheduled for april is Only the fourth in three decades. After the failed attempt to overthrow president Mikhail s. Gorbachev in Moscow the cuban authorities decided not to invite foreign journalists or delegates from other communist parties to attend the Congress. In the opening sesion thursday Castro in an improvised speech reviewed the Story of the cuban revolution and emphasized the pressures brought upon his regime by the crumbling of communism around the world. Americans fleeing Haiti reach Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay Cuba a american medical missionaries who fled Haiti a violence in three borrowed sailboats arrived at the . Navy base Here Friday in Good shape with some coast guard assistance. A god blessed us a said John Leininger of san Antonio one of the leaders of the 17 americans who so feared for their lives they took to the sea despite having no sailing experience. The americans told their Story to reporters brought to Guantanamo Bay by the Pentagon. The group had intended to Fly Home to the United states from port a Prince Airport. But haitians with machetes had set fiery roadblocks on the route from their Remote Mountain clinic in Jean Bouline Southwest of the capital. A French couple who owned one of the boats gave the americans some instruction and then guided the Little flotilla out to the open sea on wednesday morning. They had favourable winds and current but by late in the Day were battling seasickness auxiliary engine trouble and broken Bilge pumps. A when we got out of haitian Waters we did no to know what was ahead of us a said Miriam Frederick of West Palm Beach fla., who said she had been leading medical missions to Haiti for 18 years. The Cutter durable was ahead. The coast guard had been tracking their course form the Start and was already on the Way with help. On wednesday night two Man Crews were sent to each boat to help and most of the group were taken to the Comfort of the coast guard ship. The durable towed one boat the 90 Miles to the . Naval base on the Southeast Comer of Cuba while the other two motored behind