European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes sunday november 17, 1991mia-pow data cover up denied Vietnam hands 6 sets of remains to . From wire reports Washington a a senior defense department official on Friday denied any conspiracy to cover up information on any american pos left behind in Vietnam and said Many who claim live sightings arc Quot preying on Quot the families of the missing. A family Confidence in their government has been further eroded by the unsubstantiated and specious claims of government conspiracy a said acting assistant Secretary of defense for International Security affairs Carl w. Ford or. A there have been egregious incidents of preying on these poor families Quot Ford said during hearings of the Senate select committee on pow-m1a affairs. Ford and two other Mia officials said evidence does exist that americans were left behind when North Vietnam repatriated 591 american pos at the end of . Military involvement in Vietnam int973. They reflected a shift in official position revealed last week when Garnett Bell the head of the . Office for pow Mia affairs in Hanoi said As Many As 10 . Servic members were left in enemy hands after the War. Previously the government has insisted there was no evidence that any mias had been kept against their Hill tells women to slay beast Coronado Calif. A Anita Hill whose charges nearly derailed the . Supreme court nomination of Justice Clarence Thomas urged about 1,000 women politicians to help slay the sexual harassment  Hill s Friday night speech was interrupted by wild applause chants and table banging. A we arc angry because we have been betrayed a said Hill the University of Oklahoma Law professor who appeared before the Senate judiciary committee in octo her to accuse Thomas of sexual harassment a decade earlier. Thomas later was confirmed. The audience stood to chant a we believe Anita a a after Hill finished her 20-Minutc speech to a forum sponsored by Rutgers University Scenter for the american woman and politics. During her Senate testimony Hill accused Thomas of making lewd remarks and pressuring her for dates when she worked for him. He denied the allegations. In answer to written questions Hill said her life had changed dramatically and that she would work now to educate people about women a issues. Hill said women must work together to help victims of sexual harassment to come Forward and find a Means of a slaying the  Hill ended her speech saying she had received letters from woman who were harassed on the Job As Long As 6b years ago and were just now talking about it. A it is something that we can do for ourselves. It is a tribute As Well to our mothers and  will or were still alive. Meanwhile Vietnam has handed Over six sets of remains believed to be those of . Service members missing in action from the Vietnam War Hanoi radio reported. The defense department had announced earlier that the remains would be handed to . Officials on saturday. The radio broadcast monitored late Friday in Bangkok Thailand said Vietnam on thursday handed Over the remains and material evidence of six . Service members listed missing in action to the . Joint casualty Resolution Center in Hanoi. A the remains were collected in the recent unilateral searches conducted by the vietnamese Side and in the joint Vietnamcse-. Search Quot the radio said. A this was the 35th return of Mia remains since March 1974, bringing to 458 the total number of remains turned Over the . Side Quot it said. The Pentagon said Friday the remains will be flown to Hawaii where an army forensic Laboratory will work to identify them. Altogether 2,273 . Service members were listed As missing or unaccounted for from the War in Indochina. Of that total 1,656 were lost in Vietnam. The United states has insisted that Vietnam must put More Effort into helping it resolve the Mia Issue before Washington agrees to normalize diplomatic ties. Ford and other Mia officials sought to refute testimony by Mia family members and interest groups made to the committee last week that the government has been wilfully negligent in pursuing live sightings. Ford said three separate investigative teams have been sent to Cambodia to seek information of a photo turning up last summer that family members say shows air Force maj. Albro Lundy jr., col. John Robertson and Navy it. Cmdr. Larry Stevens. Robert Sheetz head of a special office for pow Mia affairs in the defense intelligence Agency said investigations into a the most compelling photo of recent months purporting to show army capt. Donald g. Carr had run into a Stonewall because the american who provided the photo had failed to come up with promised leads. A i find this whole Case frustrating a said Sheetz who said he used his own credit card so it. Col. Jack Bailey. Could Fly to Thailand in an attempt to obtain further information on Carr who was shot Down Over  at the top each year the lighting of Rockefeller centers tree heralds the Start of new Yorkus Christmas season. Friday workers carried a huge Star while others prepared to erect the strapping 65-foot Norway Spruce it will take 200 workers to raise the Evergreen and then decorate it first with the Star followed by 20,000 coloured  s no sweat town tells gym students Akron . A a Village Short on water has asked a school to Cut Down on water usage. So the school has asked students to Cut Down on sweating. Akron Central High school is trying to help the Village save water by asking students not to hit the showers after gym classes. School superintendent William Bolton said teachers have been asked to discourage students from showering unless it is necessary. Bolton said coaches Are trying to have students participate in activities that done to require showering. A if you re playing Badminton you might not need a Shower a said Ronald Blackman the school s principal. A if you Are playing Bas Coball you  film director Dies of aids complications by the los Angeles times los Angeles a Oscur winning British director Tony Richardson one of England s angry Young men of the 1950s, has died in los Angeles of complications of aids his publicist said. Richardson 63, died at St. Vincent medical Center with members of his family at his Side said publicist Melanie Hod a i on thursday. A leading filmmaker for More than 30 years Richardson won an Academy award in 1963 for Tom Jones. He launched the careers of Albert Finney Tom Courtenay and Alan Bates lie also directed Laurence Olivier in the entertainer arguably Olivier a Best screen performance. As artistic director of the English stage company in the 1950s, Richardson chose John Osborne a look Back in anger a stinging attack on contemporary British society As his first production. Richardson and Osborne became part ners in Woodfall film productions and went on to develop screen versions of several plays Richardson directed on Broadway. Among them were look Back in anger of Homes the enter Tainer and Shelagh Delaney a poignant exploration of an interracial love affair i a taste of Honey. Richardson Richardson a 23 films also included the loneliness of the Long distance runner 1962. The charge of the Light brigade 1968hamlet 1969 and the Quot hotel new Hampshire 1984. Orion pictures is scheduled to release his Blue skies starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones next year. In 1962, Richardson and actress vanes a a Redgrave were secretly married but Redgrave was granted a divorce five years later on grounds of her husbands adultery with French film Star Jeanne Moreau. Richardson is survived by three daughters Katherine Crimond and Natasha and Jolly Richardson from his marriage to Redgrave. Born Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley Yorkshire on june 5,1928, he grew up in a a withering Heights a part of a town called Bradford. He was sent away to what he once called a one of those hell on Earth boarding schools Ashville College Harrogate which was evacuated during world War u. The solitary running of the Reform school boy whose Story is told in the loneliness of the Long distance runner reminded Richardson of his own lonely hikes at boarding school. Richardson a television credits included penalty phase a death in Canaan a Shadow on the Sun and the phantom of the opera miniseries