European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 24, 1992 . The stars and stripes Page 5 senator told pos vanished in China Concord . A North korean officials have confirmed that american prisoners of War were taken to China during the korean War and never returned sen. Bob Smith said tuesday. Smith vice chairman of the Senate select committee on pow Mia affairs said hundreds of americans perhaps More were taken to China when american forces pushed the enemy Back to the Yalu River Between China and North Korea. A it gave us Goose bumps to hear this a said the new Hampshire Republican who returned tuesday from a weekend visit to North Korea. A it was something we be Long suspected but we be never had the proof. Every single korean official we talked to confirmed  the los Angeles times reported in july that dozens of . Pos from the War May have been subjected to medical in the stars and stripes 10 years ago dec. 24,1982 a the Senate voted to increase the Federal gasoline tax by a Nickel ending a filibuster struggle. 20 years ago dec. 24,1972 a a severe earthquake rocked Managua Nicaragua leaving behind widespread destruction fire and up to 5,000 dead. 30 years ago dec. 24,1962 a longshoremen from Maine to Texas went on strike rejecting a personal Appeal from president Kennedy for a 90-Day truce. 40 years ago dec. 24,1952 the last of 292 survivors and Crew members were rescued from the French liner Champollion whose Christmas cruise ended in a Nightmare Shipwreck in which 26 persons perished. 50 years ago dec. 24,1942 a american soldiers sat Down to Christmas dinners As guests of British families in places left empty by sons who already had gone to War overseas. C world War ii 50 years ago today dec. 24 1 a 9 a 4 �2 soviet troops push Back the German tank Force trying to Rescue the German army trapped in the Stalingrad pocket red army soldiers recapture the red october factory inside the City. In Tunisia the allies cancel their offensive because of heavy Rains and German resistance. Japanese and american soldiers Battle fiercely on Guadalcanal a mount Austen source 2194 Days of War w h Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War Bison books corp1981 a experiments in China and some executed. The chinese have insisted they kept no american pos not counting 21 who asked to go to China. Smith the first . Senator to visit North Korea said he was told the chinese oversaw pow Camps in North Korea and in Manchuria China. Smiith said he saw photos of chinese soldiers guarding americans. A this is where the answers lie. The answers lie with China. We be got to press them for information a Smith said. A i think the evidence is Clear. They did go to Manchuria were held and weren to returned. The chinese owe us an  Alan Ptak Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for pow Mia affairs told the Senate committee last month that it was possible americans were transferred to China and the soviet Union during the korean War. Bush Yeltsin appear near arms Accord Washington up . And russian negotiators Are Down to a hard bargaining and a nuclear arms agreement could be signed by Jan. 20, the Day that president Bush leaves office a White House aide said tuesday. The aide who asked not to be identified said there Are still obstacles to the signing of the strategic Aims reduction treaty a Start ii a but held out the Prospect that the pact could be completed by the time Bill Clinton is sworn in As president. Bush and russian president Boris n. Yeltsin talked by Telephone sunday and monday in an Effort to Nail Down the Accord which would reduce the arsenals to less than one third their present Levels an estimated 3,000 rockets each. The aide said Progress was made in the Telephone Calls. Yeltsin has said he will have a Summit with Bush on Jan. 4 in Anchorage Alaska to sign Start ii. But the White House has said no Date has been set and the treaty has not yet been completed. There was speculation that if an agreement is reached before Bush goes to Somalia Over the new years Holiday he will meet with Yeltsin and sign it. The russian Leader has been pressing for Start 11 before Bush leaves the presidency. A Summit with the . Leader also May be a diplomatic Boon for Yeltsin who is under heavy pressure from the former Kremlin hard liners opposed to his reforms. Last june Bush and Yeltsin announced an agreement in principle on the treaty that would eventually eliminate multiple warhead missiles and the silos. A mosaic of 53 filtered images recorded by the Nasa spacecraft Galileo shows the Moons pockmarked surface. Nasa puts on show filmed by Galileo Craft Pasadena Calif. Up Nasa on tuesday released still pictures and three Short movies collected by the Galileo space probe when the Craft passed Earth and the Moon this month. Along with other scientific data Galileo gathered an array of images including detailed pictures of the unexplored North pole of the Moon and pictures that were compiled into mosaics to make Short films of the Moon and Earth moving through space. Galileo passed within 189 Miles of the Earth on dec 8 As part of the crafts circuitous journey to explore Jupiter. Officials used the dose encounter to calibrate the probes sensors and cameras by studying and photographing the Earth and Moon in the most extensive such observations Ever. Along with pictures officials released a Short tape of sounds the probe recorded that would suggest the presence of intelligent life if the probe were exploring Earth As another world. The sounds May have come from a maritime radio navigation Beacon. A it sounds a Little bit like my kids when they were practising musical instruments a joked project scientist Torrence Johnson during a briefing at the Jet propulsion Laboratory. A but i assure you had we heard something like that. At some other planet you would definitely have some real headlines to write about and we would furiously be trying to decode  named after the italian astronomer credited with discovering Jupiter a four brightest Moons the 5,990-Pound Galileo is the most sophisticated interplanetary spacecraft Ever built equipped with 10 state of the Art instruments. Galileo was launched from the space shuttle Atlantis on oct. 18, 1989, kicking off a six year three planet celestial billiard shot requiring the probe to sail once past Venus and twice past Earth for velocity boosting Gravity assist flybys required to propel the probe on to Distant Jupiter. Orphans created by aids deaths forecast to soar Chicago apr the number of healthy american youngsters orphaned by aids will double by 1996 and reach More than 80,000 by the turn of the Century threatening to cause a social catastrophe researchers say. Thirteen percent of the 21,000 children under age 13 who became Parent less last year were orphaned because of aids researchers estimated. Nine percent of the 28,000 children Between Ages 13-17 suffered a similar Fate they said. By 2000, those proportions will Rise to 30 percent and 22 percent respectively the researchers reported in wednesdays journal of the american medical association. A even if we were Able to Stop All new infections tomorrow through some magic Wand almost All the children we re projecting to be orphans would still be orphaned a said the reports chief author David Michaels. Michaels is an associate professor at City University of new York medical school Sophie Davis school of biomedical education. In an article accompanying the report drs. Stephen Nicholas and Elaine Abrams of Harlem Hospital Center in new York called for action to Deal with the mounting problem. A the sobering estimates. Which probably underestimate the True extent of the problem Are noteworthy because of the tragic Aura that surrounds these Young survivors a they said. A most of them living in that Complex place called poverty have a whole Range of unmet social educational and health