European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday december 10,1991 a helpers come to town sgt. Michael s. Sullivan of he co 3rd army div at Drake Cavern in Frankfurt recently met with children at a kindergarten in Dorn Assenheim Germany. His attendant sgt. 1st class Edwin l. Cannon read to the children in German and played the part of Knecht Ruprecht Santa Claus servant in German reaffirms anti iraqi stance d1yarbak1r, Turkey a Turkey will oppose any new iraqi crackdown on kurd prime minister Suleyman de Mirel said sunday indicating . Planes could continue to use a turkish base for flights Over Northern Iraq. A we have to say to Iraq a now look buddy if you commit savagery you will find us in front of not ignoring the kurdish entity in Iraq is turkeys new policy a the sem official Anatolia Agency quoted Demirel As saying. Demirel a Veteran Center right politician became prime minister last month after the election defeat of the motherland party of staunchly pro Western president Turgut Ozal. Dem reps words seemed aimed at dispelling any doubt that the new government would stay strongly anti Iraq. Ozal is still president but Demirel had made dear that he thought Ozal was too influential during his predecessors premiership held by the motherland party. Therefore there was some speculation Demirel might change course. In the persian Gulf War Turkey allowed . Warplanes to take off from a turkish base for bombing runs to Iraq. In March right after the end of the War iraqi brutally suppressed a kurdish revolt. The crackdown sent million kurd fleeing to Turkey and Iran. A in this kurdish problem in Northern Ira we should not let the West distance itself from us a Demirel told turkish newspaper editors. After Saddam Hussein a forces crushed the March revolt in Northern Iraq a .-led Western Force occupied the area for months until kurd could safely return Home from the mountains. A Western air Force flies daily patrols from a turkish air base. Turkey had Given permission to use the base through this month but Demirel made Clear that the mandate would be extended. A continued presence of the ground Force would be a headache. But. American planes remain at the in Ciurlik air base. So the problem is solved by itself a he said. Forklift Accident kills Giessen go a 26-year-old army sergeant died of injuries suffered Friday when a 4,000-Pound forklift he was operating rolled Over and pinned him underneath. Derrick a. Holloway assigned to the 60th Ord co in Giessen Germany was freed within three minutes by fellow sol Diers using another forklift however Holloway died about 7 30 . While being transported by helicopter to the Hospital said capt. Jerry Lowe of 3rd corps support come at Wiesbaden a. Holloway is survived by his wife and 6-month-old rebels threaten to try american for spying Manila Philippines up a communist guerrillas called on the government monday to negotiate for the release of an american they kidnapped last year and warned they would try him for espionage if no talks Are held. The rebels in a statement sent to news agencies said Arby Duane drown who was abducted in the Northern province of Bagayan was a former colonel in the . Army and an employee of the defense mapping Agency of the . Defense department. The National democratic front said it kidnapped taiwanese demand Japan Honor Bonds Taipei Taiwan up a hundreds of taiwanese demonstrated monday outside the office of Japan a unofficial representative demanding compensation for billions of dollars Worth of old German Bonds that colonial japanese occupiers forced their families to buy Between 1923 and 1945. Chanting a return the blood and sweat of our ancestors Quot More than 500 representatives of compensation groups from towns and cities across Taiwan donned protest headbands and converged on the downtown interchange association. Some displaying the worthless Bonds for television cameras chanted anti japanese slogans. Leaders of the demonstration said that in the 1920s and 1930s, japanese police forced More than 100,000 taiwanese some at gunpoint to pay Gold Silver yen and agricultural produce for the Bonds. After world War i Germany paid its War reparations to Japan an Allied nation in Weimar Republic Marks. Japan in turn forced natives of its asian colonies Taiwan and Korea to buy the Bonds. Japan ruled Taiwan from 1895 until its world War ii defeat in 1945. A we have been struggling to get our Money Back for 20 years a demonstration Leader Shih Chin an said. A but Japan has ignored us and the Taiwan government revises to Shih said taiwanese still hold an estimated 2.5 trillion in old Bonds. He said his organization would demand $160 billion in compensation from the japanese government. The 60-year-old drown in october 1990 a for participating in government military operations against the communist new Peoples . Embassy spokesman Hugh Hara acknowledged drown was an american citizen but denied he was employed by the . Government. He said that drown whose Hometown was not immediately known was not registered with the embassy and that american officials were unaware of his activities in Bagayan. He said however that the embassy is working with the Manila government for the release of drown. The Adf is a grouping of 14 underground organizations including the communist party of the Philippines and the 16,500-Strong new Peoples army. The front has been waging a marxist rebellion for 22 years. Military sources have said drown was in Bagayan in search of the fabled treasure of japanese world War ii commander it. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. They said a map and some Money were found in his jeep when he was captured. Yuletide festivities St amp of arabs participants of s Christmas Parade in Heidelberg the Holiday revellers joined together for a sinn along Germany wind their Way through the streets of Pat inside the base theater and listened to Santa Claus Rick Henry Village on saturday. After the Parade Teu the Story about the first Christmas tree
