European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday March 17, 1992 Worl Canadian officials gag Crew in film Deal of Arctic crash Toronto apr the harrowing tale of a plane crash in the High Arctic and the efforts of the survivors to stay alive in the worlds harshest climate has All the makings of great movie fare. The Canadian military however will not allow the three surviving air Force crewmen to profit from their Brief moment of celebrity by Selling their personal stories to a film company. Instead the defense department is backing another film and another company while putting a gag on the Crew. The drama of the 17 passengers and crewmen aboard the c-130 transport that went Down oct. 31 about 12 Miles from Alert at the Northern tip of Elle Semere Island was headline news around the world. Five people died. For 34 hours the survivors struggled to keep warm i Viva Wuy a a i we everyone testified to the heroism of the Pilot capt. John Couch who worked selflessly even going so far As to give his jacket to an injured survivor. Couch finally froze to death. The crewmen have been prevented from having fur ther dealings with Sunrise films ltd., a Toronto production company with which they signed a Deal i Ney also have been ordered not to speak to the press. A they Are telling him that he is not allowed to say anything a said Susan West wife of sgt. Paul West the flight Engineer. A a it a his personal life experience. It has nothing to do with military capt. John Blakeley a defense department spokesman said signing a movie Deal would violate regulations prohibiting personnel from using information gained from Public office for personal Benefit. A if its the Money Fine give the Money Back and let them put their Story out there a West a wife said m a Telephone interview. She would not say How much Money had been received from Sunrise. A a we re not going to be millionaires a she said. Steven Levitan president of Sunrise films refused to talk about the status of the film or the contract which West described As a letter of intent. Blakeley said that immediately after the crash the military was besieged with proposals from filmmakers evaluated them and chose that of Civ Canadas private television St. Patrick s Day Parade floats Down Street in Moscow Des Boland plays the bagpipes in front of russians who dressed As cossacks during Moscow a Parade. Moscow apr muscovites got a taste of Ireland on sunday As Green Beer flowed from the taps at the Shamrock bar in Moscow a first St. Patrick a Day. City officials sealed off a main Street leading to the Kremlin to make Way for a Parade of More than 20 floats and marchers who were preceded by a marching band and majorettes. The Parade organized by a russian Irish joint venture appeared to catch onlookers off guard while they were making their customary sunday shopping rounds. A this is amazing a said pensioner Alexander Chertov. A i just came out to buy bread. I never expected a Moscow a tribute to the 15th-Century Irish Saint lacked Many of the traditional trappings found in St. Patrick a Day parades in Irish communities around the world such As mounted police. A a it a grand a said Des Boland the parades one Kilt wearing bagpipe player. A a it a unlike any St. Patrick a Day Parade in be seen instead of mounted police Boland was accompanied by six russians on horseback dressed in the traditional Cossack uniform and waving the red Blue and White russian Flag. Workers from the Irish store the joint venture that organized the Parade darted among muscovites on the sidewalk smudging dyed Green shamrocks on the Cheeks of youngsters Ana spraying Green Dye into the hair of adults. Alexei Golov a Soldier in Moscow on a sunday pass said the Parade took him by Surprise. A i was totally unprepared for something like this. Its not that often we get to see such a from the grandstand Irish ambassador Patrick Mccabe tried to Tell How St. Patrick expelled the snakes from Ireland and used the three leafed Shamrock to explain the Trinity. He presented Moscow City officials with a Shamrock in a Crystal bowl. A i Hope this will become an annual event bigger and better each year a Mccabe said. The St. Patrick a Observance was held two Days Early in an attempt to draw a larger Leader Manley to step Down March 28 from wire reports port of Spain Trinidad jamaican prime minister Michael Manley announced sunday that he will resign As head of the government of that Caribbean Island on March 28. The ailing 67-year-old Manley also said in a statement monitored in port of Spain that he will step Down As political Leader of the ruling Peoples National party pop when the party elects his successor. Manley blamed poor health for his. Decision to quit. He Manley has undergone five operations for prostate cancer. Sources said Percival Patterson was Likely to succeed Manley As prime minister and party Disney to revamp Paris a the Walt Disney co. Is planning to consolidate All of its european units near Paris on the site of euro Disneyland officials at euro Disney sea said monday. The officials who did no to want to be named said commercial and film units in Britain Germany and Italy most Likely would move in 1994 or 1995, during the second phase of the theme Parks , 4 children die Wurzburg Germany a a couple and their four children were found dead m their apartment sunday and police said they died of Carbon monoxide poisoning. Police ruled out foul play and suspected the poisonous Gas came from a Coal powered Heater. The Man and the woman were both 26 years old. Their children were 7,3,2 and 1, police Deputy Dies Beijing a Wang Wenzhong a member of the communist party s Central committee and a former vice Premier died monday of a heart attack the official Xinhua news Agency reported. He was 75. Wang headed a party investigation of former party general Secretary Zhao Ziyang who was purged after the 1989 democracy protests.16 convicts guard killed Moscow a sixteen convicts being transported in a police Van and a policeman guarding them died m a fiery crash saturday night the itar Tass news Agency said sunday. The news Agency said the bus was travelling on a Highway in the Southern russian Region of Lipetsk when it overturned caught fire Ana a turned into a burning itar Tass said the guard St. Nikolai Grebenschiko succeeded in saving his fellow guards from the inferno As Well As sue convicts but later died from nannies blamed for corrupting Gulf muslims Dubai United Arab emirates up a foreign nannies Are corrupting Muslim society and teaching children to drink alcohol say labor officials and analysts in the persian Gulf Region. A report issued sunday by the United Arab emirates social affairs ministry Calls for a Campaign to Point out what it says foreign maids do to children in wealthy Gulf states. A the Overall Impact is negative enough to limit the flow of House maids into the country a said the report estimating there Are 25,000 asian maids for the Emi rates 47,131 National families. A study for the Gulf cooperation Council says most of the regions nannies Are christians hindus and buddhists who have no interest in islam. A about 4 percent of these nannies have taught our children How to drink alcohol a Saeed harem Secretary general of emirates University said in a recent speech. Harem said a growing Reliance on foreign labor in the Region was responsible for a Rise in the crime rate by 120 percent in 1989. Most of those recruited for household help come from India sri Lanka and the Philippines whose economies depend heavily on remittances from the wages of expatriate labourers. Gulf countries Are urging families to take on More household responsibilities amid reports of abuse of foreign maids. In june police in Dubai called for the establishment of guidance bureaus to help families rear children. Kuwait a foreign ministry has closed about 400 Nanny recruitment offices in a move aimed at reorganizing the hiring of Domestic help. Kuwait plans to help pay for the repatriation of about 300 filipino maids took shelter in the Philippines pm y after they were allegedly abused by t employers. About 1,000 maids sought Refuge in the embassy since jul y an embassy official said he re Eye about 50 complaints a month from m a mostly about non payment of wag Long working hours. Maids recruited by one go ver Quot be Quot to Agency were required to sign a co that forbade homesickness and time a
