European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 16, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9media thank Marine for desert delivery Washington apr a Marine a Corporal was honoured thursday for hiking 15 Miles across the kuwaiti desert without food or a Compass to provide the american Public with videotape and film snowing the first moments of the ground War in the persian Gulf. Cpl. Brett w. Beard a 24-year-old Pittsburgh native who already received the Navy a achievement medal was recognized by the White House news photographers association. A this was a War where the Media and the military did no to often get along. So when somebody does the right thing we want to take note of that a said association spokesman Kenneth Blaylock. Beard is the first Public affairs specialist in recent memory to be honoured by the Media. He currently serves with the Public affairs unit at Cherry Point Marine corps air station in North Carolina. The Freedom forum of Arlington va., also donated $1,000 in beards name to the Marine corps scholarship foundation. The foundation founded by Frank e. Gannett of the Gannett newspaper co., provides support to families of .  killed during the War. Forum president Charles l. Overby said the marines actions a demonstrated the cooperation necessary Between the military services and combat correspondents in time of  beards actions Are described in a new Book by John Fialka hotel warriors covering the Gulf War. Beard was handed a Pouch containing a Cable news network television Crews videotape and a los Angeles times photographers film Rolls depicting the first moments of the ground War which started in february 1991. He was supposed to have a hitched a ride on an ammunition truck but when that did no to work out the Marine began the 27-hour trek without Compass food or water Fialka a Book said. A at one Point almost overcome with dizziness he abandoned his pack with his personal belongings but not his Rifle or inc Pouch Quot the Book said. A the Rifle was kept to Deal with bypassed units of iraqi soldiers that he knew were still roaming the desert. As for the Pouch a i just knew that every moment when 1  get that Back people in the states  know what was going on recalls Corporal  a Youthful troupe embarks on a s life by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Bobingen Germany a if dogs awarded oscars which masters would win a prize a group of Bobingen elementary school pupils normally More preoccupied with dinosaurs tried to answer that question thursday in performances of a one hour musical called his nibs. The musical Wasny to just another school event it was the culmination of six weeks of classroom study of theater production. A everything we do is geared to class work a said Judith a. Gooden who teaches a combined class of fourth graders fifth graders and special education students. The show was entirely Home grown. Gooden wrote the script adapting an unpublished children a Book she wrote 15 years ago. The schools music teacher Martha Caulder arranged All the music and wrote the lyrics to two songs we re dogs and surprisingly the Best. In the play a tramp and a Mongrel crash the party that a group of purebred dogs is throwing to conduct its version of the Academy awards. The purebreds try to eject the visitors until the mongrels description of his woeful life prompts them to abandon their snobbish attitudes. Goodens class of 29 pupils referred to As the a Dino Den its main theme has reportedly been dinosaurs held a casting Call rehearsed built the set made costumes and performed the show with help from Caulder a 35-member chorus. Gooden and her fellow Dino Den teacher Naomi Helterbran shared directing duties. Gooden said she has written scripts for child performances in previous years. She has taught at the school for 23 years Helterbran for 17. A we were both in the department of defense dependents schools system As children a Gooden said. A my father was an air Force officer and her father was an army officer. By the time we got Here we did no to want to move  848 oomph Ottn Monique Ferguson and Curtis Wells both a do their part for the musical Mola nibs a which was performed at Bobingen elementary school in  supporter of gop to be named As envoy Washington apr president Bush will nominate Donald h. Alexander a Kansas City financier and major Republican donor to be ambassador to the Netherlands the White House said thursday. Alexander 53, contributed $100,000 to the Republican National committee in january according to Federal election records. If confirmed he would succeed c. Howard Wilkins jr., a restaurant magnate from Wichita kan., who was himself a $100,000 donor to the gop in 1988. Wilkins has held the Amsterdam Post since 1989. Alexander is a native of Amsterdam. He is president of a private investment firm Don h. Alexander amp associates. He formerly was president of Perkins industries inc., and was once executive vice president of the Commerce Bank of Kansas City. Friendship stressed As . Gives Japan okinawan land search for miners ends Plymouth Nova Scotia a hampered by rockfalls rescuers abandoned the search for 10 missing miners thursday saying there was Little Chance the men survived a methane Gas explosion that shattered a Coal mine last weekend. Search teams had recovered 16 other bodies from the May 9 disaster. Families waiting in the Community fire Hall wept and clutched each other when they heard that the search had been called off. They asked authorities to protect their privacy and were not available for comment. Exhausted rescuers removed masks used with their self contained breathing units and told in shaking voices of what they encountered during the search. A it was like a horror movie a one said.  Tokyo up a vice president Dan Quayle announced Friday that the United states will return to Japan four military facilities and a Large parcel of land on Okinawa to Mark the 20th anniversary of the return of the Island to japanese sovereignty. A we want to be As responsive and forthcoming As possible in order to help Foster the economic growth and development of Okinawa Quayle said. The United states will a continue to return areas and facilities no longer required by the . Military in Japan he said. Quayle joined prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa and emperor Akihito in a solemn ceremony in Tokyo a parliamentary museum commemorating the reversion. Meanwhile thousands of residents of the Southern Island marched through the prefectural capital of Naha and by a military Airfield demanding the withdrawal of All . Forces. Home to 32,000 american troops Okinawa has been called the Cornerstone of the . Military presence in the Region. Shouting a Okinawa needs no military bases the United states should withdraw completely a the demonstrators vowed to make the anniversary a starting Point in their struggle to end the islands distinction As the Home to the largest . Military presence in the far East. Emblazoned on shirts and placards was the Call a for a Complete .  Quayle the highest ranking . Official to visit Tokyo since president Bush a controversial trip in january said the United states will return 590 acres including a communications facility at Onna Okinawa. A controversial training Center on the Island will also be dismantled. The Imperial army savagely defended Okinawa in a last stand to prevent . Troops from reaching Mainland Japan in world War ii with the Island the scene of the bloodiest land Battle of the War in the Pacific. The anniversary ceremonies were the culmination of Quayle a four Day visit to Tokyo a trip aimed at mending frayed ties Between the worlds two economic superpowers. Bush and an accompanying delegation of High powered business leaders irritated the japanese by Strong rhetoric in which they hammered away at Trade barriers. A non binding Accord the president reached with Miyazawa to increase japanese procurement of american cars and Auto parts was criticized As insufficient by the giants of the . Auto Industry and sparked rounds of increasingly bitter rhetoric from both sides. In contrast both Quayle and Miyazawa declared the return of strategic Okinawa a Symbol of the .-Japan partnership in protecting peace. A at one time our nations met in War a Quayle said at the ceremony attended by former government officials who negotiated the return of Japan a southernmost prefecture. A today we meet As friends and partners a Quayle said. A we need each other. We Benefit from each other and no one should Ever pull us  echoing Quayle a sentiments Miyazawa said Quot our two countries have become More interdependent than Ever and developed a relationship in which we require each  . Bases cover about one fifth of Okinawa which was under . Administration from the end of the War in 1945 until its return to Japan on May 15, 1972. A the United states recognizes the Strong desire of the okinawan people to see the return of certain areas and facilities that have been provided to the . Military Quayle said noting that 42 facilities and 10,000 acres have been handed Back since the reversion. Although stressing the importance of the Range 21 Urban combat training facilities Quayle said the United states has decided to suspend the training immediately and dismantle the structures