European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday thursday january 1/2, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7witty witches spell out 92 predictions new York up a in their annual a look at what a up next year american witches monday predicted president Bush will lose the 1992 election Christopher Columbus pantaloons will be a hot fashion item and the dodgers will return to Brooklyn. Square bagels also will be big in 1992, along with glow in the dark toupees and Escargot a nuggets. The witches 18th annual Survey compiled by the new York Center for the strange is usually issued on halloween but this years results got zapped in a computer. Could it have been a curse by a rogue Witch director Richard Blaine  say. He Only repeated his annual Appeal for better understanding of witches who Are a victims of unremitting hostility and  in their new year predictions the witches said Madonna Michael Jackson Luciano Pavarotti barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra will team up to record an album of country Western songs. In addition to divining that Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton will beat Bush next year the witches also predicted a sen. Alfonse do Amato r-., will become a supreme court Justice. A Arnold Schwarzenegger will Star in a remake of it s a wonderful life. A russian president Boris Yeltsin will admit he dyes his hair. A Art historians will discover a Large collection of a rated drawings by Norman Rockwell a Donald Trump will boast he still makes More in a week than Mother Teresa earns in a lifetime. A when he takes Over for Johnny Carson As Host of the tonight show Jay Leno a comic sidekick will be former White House chief of staff John Sununu. A Geraldo Rivera will ask Lloyd a of London to insure his personality for $10 million. A new York gov. Mario Cuomo will be offered the vice presidential nomination at the democratic convention but will have great difficulty deciding whether to accept. In commenting on the Tongue in Cheek predictions the Center for the strange a a a non profit organization involved basically in research a also noted that there were 370 witches surveyed this year an increase of 15 Over last year. Blaine said among the country a practising witches Are a former first lady a network to executive and the chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 company. But please no  Nanny charged with murder freed on bail the new York times Valhalla . The 20-year-old Swiss Nanny charged with arson and murder in the death of a 3-month-old girl was released monday from county jail Here. Awaiting her were her parents who posted her $350,000 bail. Olivia Riner smiled excitedly As she embraced first her father and then her Mother. The family then climbed into a White Sedan and evading reporters left for an undisclosed location where Riner will stay with her Mother. Riner has agreed to Wear an electronic ankle Bracelet or monitoring device to ensure she does no to flee. Riner has been in custody since her arrest dec. 3. The police say that the Day before she set three separate fires in the split level House of William and Denise Fischer in Thumwood killing their Only child Kristie. The Fischer found Riner through . A pair a cultural Exchange organization in Cambridge mass. The organization provides working couples with Young european women who care for their children for a year in Exchange for room and Board. The parents have told police that they had been pleased with Riners performance since she arrived nov. 1. Judge John Carey of Westchester county court agreed to the bail package presented by the defense. The package included a number of provisions aimed at preventing Riner from fleeing to Switzerland. Because there is no extradition treaty Between the United states and Switzerland the court had expressed concern that Riner would seek Asylum in her Homeland. The Case has generated a storm of Media attention in Switzerland prompting strangers to contribute most of the $350,000 bail. Riners parents were Able to raise Only $75,000 from family and friends. Riners Mother is a Secretary in an Auto repair garage and her father is a civil defense administrator. The bail was originally set at $500,000 by another judge but then lowered making Riners release possible. The Case will be presented to a grand jury in late january. Laura a. Brevetti Riners lawyer said monday that the defense a strategy would be to try to poke holes in the prosecutions circumstantial Case. Riner has surrendered her passport and monday her Mother who is to stay for the duration of the Legal proceedings did the same. / in addition Riner affixed two thumb prints in court to a sworn statement that she will not a seek repatriation nor Sanctuary in the Swiss consulate or embassy. The statement also said that Riner waived the right to contest extradition were she to make her Way to Switzerland. That statement was presented to Carey along with one by the Swiss government saying in effect that Swiss authorities would not Issue Riner a new passport and would make no Effort to help her return to Switzerland. Swiss Nanny Olivia Riner left leaves jail in Valhalla ., monday with her parents. Vietnam accused of holding 2 . Citizens Washington a two vietnamese born . Citizens have been arrested in Vietnam on charges of fraud and theft of state property according to the state department. The vietnamese government confirmed the arrests Only after repeated . Queries the state department said monday. The two a re identified by their families and the state department As Robert Lam 51, who disappeared from to Chi Minh City in late september and Giang Pham 27, who was arrested there nov. 22. Relatives in California said the two had returned to Vietnam for humanitarian reasons and were missing for weeks before the vietnamese government acknowledged detaining them. Vietnam a has not informed us of where the men Are being detained and has a provided no response to our frequent request for Access to the pair department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Lam Heads a private organization called Vina american Volunteer organizations for Indochina affairs inc., according to a news release issued by the two families. He arrived in Vietnam sept. 19 to apply for a visa for Cambodia where he planned to meet with . Aid officials and make arrangements for a health care project for children according to the release. Luu Pham brother of the other Man arrested was reached by Telephone at his Home in san Jose Calif. He said lamps family asked his brother to go to Vietnam to search for their missing relative. He said his brother had travelled to Vietnam several times without incident since acquiring american citizenship about 10 years ago. The Phams fled Vietnam with their Mother a week before the fall of Saigon in 1975. A the Hanoi government has been reluctant to. Give us any information which is a violation of human rights a Pham said. A the families Are entitled to know about their safety and what a going to happen. The government cannot ignore that Basic right i done to care whether its capitalist or  Pham said his brother flew to to Chi Minh City from Hong Kong on nov. 21, and learning of lamps arrest telephoned his family and the nearest . Embassy which is in Bangkok Thailand. In those Calls Giang Pham suggested the arrest May have been a politically motivated based on some misconception that Lam was involved in subversive activity a Luu Pham said. He said his brother was arrested the next Day. Boucher told reporters that . Officials a have repeatedly stated our concern about the welfare of these  he said however that since the United states has no diplomatic or consular relations with Hanoi a a we re not in a position to Accord Normal consular protective services to . Citizens who Are in  corps to Aid republics by the Washington Post Washington the peace corps is planning to Send 500 volunteers Over the next two years into the republics of the former 9�-Viet Union. The plan fulfils a 26-year-old goal of the corps of having americans help transform the communist states into capitalist democracies peace corp director Elaine l. Chao said monday. The goal expected to be included in the Bush administrations fiscal 1993 budget is double the number of volunteers that administration officials had suggested would be in the initial wave of peace corps volunteers to the new Commonwealth of Independent states. A this is an Opportunity to be shaping an important piece of history Quot Chao said in an interview