European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes . Tuesday november 10,1992 keep be this Branch of government to remain a state secret from wire reports Cass Lake Minn. A somewhere in the Chippewa National Forest a 62-foot White Spruce has about two weeks left to live. The tree will be Cut nov. 23 and shipped to Washington d.c., to serve As this years National Christmas tree. Until then the local sponsors Are trying to be the location secret fearing that branches might stripped for souvenirs. The Honor of producing the National Christmas tree rotates among the 156 National forests. . Forest service employees nominated 23 Trees this  House fire kills 5 South Jordan Utah a House fire Early sunday killed five people including three teenagers. Police chief John Parker said the dead were two girls Ages 14 and 15 two women Ages 50 and 80 and a 17-year-old boy. Two victims were visiting from another country Parker said. The victims names were not released and the fires cause is under  your language Washington a the Justice department says a special counsel that deals with immigrants employment problems can now communicate in More than 140 languages. The special counsel for immigration related unfair employment practices said interpreters Are available 24 hours a Day seven Days a week with the assistance of at amp to language line services. The at amp to service gives the office Access to languages As varied As haitian Creole laotian or  chief has surgery Royal Oak Mich. A ousted general motors corp. Chairman Robert Stempel was in Good condition sunday recovering from heart surgery a pm spokesman said. Stempel 59, was recuperating at William Beaumont Hospital in suburban Detroit after the operation saturday Bruce Macdonald said. The surgery was described As elective and was not life threatening. But further were being withheld at the family a request said Hospital spokeswoman Colette  out of Hospital Santa Monica Calif. Veteran Abc reporter Gary Shepard was released from a Santa Monica Hospital sunday about one week after he was beaten and robbed by five men who left him for dead in his Malibu Home. Santa Monica Hospital medical Center spokesman Ted Braun said Shepard was in Quot Good condition and Good  a a at this Point his prognosis is excellent a Braun said. Braun said Shepard 53, still has no recollection of the attack but has no Long term memory loss. Santa Monica police arrested five suspects wednesday after the men allegedly tried to sell Shepard a car and other personal  Man held in killing Piscataway . A 23-year-old unemployed Man was charged sunday with the abduction and murder of a woman whose car was hijacked at a red Light and with kidnapping her 3-year-old daughter. Scott Richard Johnson of Plainfield was being held without bail in the Middlesex county jail. He was arrested about Midnight saturday Little More than 12 hours after Gail Shollar a body was found in a ditch near a lumberyard. Prosecutor Robert Gluck said Johnson was linked to the crime by a Palm print on Shollar a minivan by witnesses who saw him in the area where Shollar was abducted tuesday night and by a knife believed to be the murder weapon found at a House where he used to live in Piscataway. Vietnam War veterans and others listen sunday As the Reading of names on the Vietnam veterans memorial is begun. Roll Call of America s dead being read at Vietnam Wall Washington a the names of 58,183 americans who died in the Vietnam War Are being read in a poignant ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Black Granite Monument where the names Are inscribed. At noon sunday the first of 1,000 volunteers stood at the Vietnam veterans memorial and began Reading names. The Reading is to continue around the clock until 9 . Wednesday which is veterans Day. Among the volunteers were activist Jesse Jackson can correspondent Peter Arnett who covered the War Abc reporter Jack Smith and Jan Scruggs a Vietnam Veteran who worked to get the memorial built and organized the 10th anniversary ceremonies. Some Vietnam veterans visiting the Wall of names were choked with emotion. Quot it was a very traumatic experience for me. My fellow schoolmates that we went with. The four of us that went Over there three of them did no to come Back. It was like really moving for me a said Stewart Green who served from 1967 to 1968 and in 1969 to 1970. Another Veteran William Wright said Quot i can see troops in formation and it All comes Back. It hurts it hurts a  about 2.5 million people visit the Wall every year Mak ing it the most popular memorial in the nations capital. It also has become an emotional shrine for Many Vietnam veterans their relatives and friends. Other events planned for veterans Day and the memorials 10th anniversary include a Parade wednesday and reunions for service members. In 1979, Scruggs fearing that those killed in the War would fade into obscurity began working to build a memorial that would list each one by name. And for the last year Scruggs has worked full time organizing the 10-year commemoration which began Friday. Quot last summer i began thinking about the 10th anniversary of this memorial and How this was realty an Opportunity to finish the Iob i had started a this whole idea of Healing the nation s wounds of doing something positive to help the nation put Vietnam behind it a said Scruggs who lives in Columbia md., and makes his living As a motivational speaker. One project that makes it easier for people to be reunited is an electronic data base set up near the memorial and at hotels. Veterans can Register their names addresses and their locations in the Washington area so friends can find them. Campers find body of suspected spy who was sought in his family s deaths i i. _ from wire reports san Diego Calif. A hikers on sunday found the body of a British Man wanted for questioning in the deaths of his wife and three children. Campers walking through a desolate portion of the Anza Borego desert about 150 Miles East of san Diego found the body of Ian Stuart Spiro a purported spy in his locked Ford explorer. Philip Brust a san Diego county sheriffs Deputy said Spiro a body seated in the Drivers seat did not show visible signs of trauma. Medical examiners planned a autopsy to determine whether Spiro committed suicide. Police had been searching for Spiro 46, since thursday. The Hunt began after investigators found the bodies of his family a his wife Gail Spiro 40 her daughters Sara 16, and Dina 11 and son Adam 14. The bodies were found in separate bedrooms of the family a suburban san Diego Home. Each had been shot in the head. Brust said Ian Spiro was considered a suspect. Detectives also were investigating published reports suggesting that Spiro a commodities broker had worked for British and . Intelligence agencies and that his family May have been killed in retaliation for his alleged involvement in the lebanese hostage crisis sheriffs Deputy Victoria Reden said. Former hostage Terry Waite on sunday termed British newspaper reports that he had worked with Spiro during the hostage crisis Quot half informed and dangerous. The sunday Telegraph and other newspapers said Spiro worked for the Cia and British intelligence before moving to san Diego last year. The sunday Telegraph said Spiro helped arrange meetings for Waite with leaders of islamic jihad a fundamentalist Muslim group in an attempt to secure the release of Western hostages. Waite himself was abducted while visiting Beirut in 1987 and held until november 1991. In a statement Waite said he had met with Quot hundreds of people prior to my first face to face meeting with the kidnappers in  a Many contacts preferred to remain Anonymous a Waite said. Quot most adopted a false identity. Some were helpful. The vast majority were