European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 12, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9toy project earns 10 million kisses by Ken Clauson Bretner Haven Bureau Bremerhaven Germany a children in former East Germany Are among the beneficiaries this year of a Charity toy collection project in the Bremer Haven military Community. The local toys for tots program has grown tenfold since its beginning eight years ago. It is coordinated by employees of the consolidated maintenance Center in Bremerhaven a division of the 2nd base support in whose Headquarters Are in nearby Karlstedt. A the first year we had about 500 toys donated but each year it has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger a said Les Thom a maintenance Section supervisor. A this year we re talking about 4,500 to 5,000 toys a the items collected Are donated to area preschools and hospitals that done to have Money to buy toys and to the local German red Cross. This year the project began donating toys to a kindergarten in Neu Ruppin a town about 30 Miles Northwest of Berlin in the state of Brandenburg. A forty percent of the people in the new states have no work and no Money a said Lutz Riekena a work Section Leader in the maintenance facility body shop. A most of the kindergartens have no toys. And if they have them they Are broken and they have no Money for new ones. We gave a lot of toys to the school in Neu Ruppin in May and they were so t Appy. They said a thank you 1,000 times. A the school staff has invited the project participants to visit the school Thom said. A a lady sent a message that if wed come they a Lay on Coffee and cake and 10 million kisses a he said. Riekena and another project Volunteer Are making a toy run to the school next week. Some of the schools in the Bremerhaven area that the project helps Are on extremely tight budgets As Well he said. He mentioned visiting a Chilly kindergarten classroom last year that did not have the funds to fix a broken window. The Glass had been replaced with cardboard until he and a co worker replaced it with plexiglas he said. A Corner of a Large maintenance building on Carl Schurz Cavern in Bremerhaven is filled with toys a classic red Wagon bicycles dolls sports equipment Board games and musical instruments. More toys fill two outside storage containers said Dale Guyor maintenance manager of the consolidated maintenance Center. The project is truly International. Riekena like several volunteers in German. Thom is British. Guyer is one of the Many americans involved. The thousands of donated playthings and pieces of dreams Are the result of Broad Community support from agencies such As army Community service and military chapels Guyer said. The 543rd area support groups he quarters company has been particularly helpful in volunteering time and transportation he said. Boy scout troop 5 also helped by collecting donations in the military housing areas Guyer said. Anyone wishing to donate toys or time May Contact Thom at 342-8055.. Troops helping haitians stranded in Cuba Guantanamo Bay Cuba a -. Troops will build schools and churches for the More than 5,500 haitian boat people living in Canvas tents and air plane hangars at the . Military base Here officials said tuesday. Most of the haitians were intercepted by . Coast guard Craft As they tried to flee their Caribbean Island Homeland in aging Leaky fishing boats. A Federal appeals court in Atlanta was to hear a government request today for a ruling allowing the United states to return most of the refugees to Haiti. The United states says they left Haiti in search of . Jobs and fail to qualify for political Asylum. . Troops at Guantanamo Bay a naval base meanwhile Are handing out hamburgers administering aids blood tests helping 51 pregnant women to give birth and processing haitians who arrive clutching Small bundles of clothes and belongings. The troops also Are trying to organize schools for the hundreds of children in the Camp. A once we reach a steady state Well set up schools where we will teach the children English. Well also have some churches Here probably by january a said Marine Brig. Gen. George Walls who began setting up the huge refugee Camp last month. A your Job is to provide humanitarian Aid and we done to know How Long this whole matter will go on a he said. Babies born at the Camp will not be american citizens since Guantanamo has occupied a Small Corner of cuban soil since 1903, military officials say. Human rights lawyers note ironically that children born elsewhere on the Island would be Given Quick entry into the United states under a special Law adopted in the 1960s to help fleeing cuban refugees. Single men make up about 75 percent of the total 5,513 haitians listed on Camp haitian refugees lunch on hamburgers and baked Beans tuesday at an abandoned Airstrip in the Guantanamo Bay area. Rolls As of tuesday Walls reported and about 100 of them have asked to go Back Home out of sheer boredom in the Dusty treeless Camp. The boat people complain about not being Able to communicate with relatives in Florida about what to them is the strange tasting food in Guantanamo and the Long lines m the tropical Sun. . Immigration officials at the Camp say 757 of the haitians at Guantanamo Bay qualify to Fly to the United states Ana have their claims for political Asylum further reviewed. The officials refused to say How they determined who qualified. The review procedure attacked by human rights activists As unfair and racist is at the heart of the Atlanta Case. Walls said interdiction of haitian boat people by the coast guard slowed Over the past week to an average so a Day. Since the sept. 30 military coup overthrew Haiti s first democratically elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide More than 6,500 haitians have jammed into boats to attempt the 900-mile journey to  considers run for philippine presidency Manila Philippines up a former first lady Imelda Marcos five weeks after her return from exile to face charges of massive corruption and fraud says she May run for president. A now there is so much confusion and so much is at stake a said Marcos who faces 80 charges for allegedly helping loot her nation during 20 years of Rule by her late husband Ferdinand Marcos. Quot i am now considering All options for the survival of the filipino  wednesday s comments were the first time that the widow of the ousted dictator publicly said she might run. She said she had no political ambitions when she returned nov. 4 from nearly six years of . Exile. Commentators earlier said the former first lady lacked the support to be a serious contender. But they said growing disunity in the major parties May have prompted her latest statement. Marcos declined to say when she would decide. Analysts said president Corazon Aquino May change her mind and run for reelection if Marcos does launch a Campaign. Aquino who was swept to Power in a 1986 revolt that chased the Marc oses from office has repeatedly said she would not seek a second term. Presidential spokesman Horacio Paredes said Marcos comments have not changed Aquino a decision. In a related development Marcos filed a petition to the supreme court in a bid to Force the government to allow the body of her husband to be buried in Manila. His remains lie in a temporary crypt in Honolulu where he died in exile in 1989. Although Aquino said the body could be flown to the former rulers Home province and buried she has barred a Manila burial fearing unrest. The petition said Aquino a refusal a is wrongful interference with private rights contrary to Good morals Good customs arid Public policy on the