European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Monday july 18,1994mia activists protest at White house12 arrested after spotlighting Indochina Korea Quot Washington a Mia activists pressed their grievances about an alleged cover up Over americans lost in the indochinese and korean wars with a White House demonstration saturday that produced a dozen arrests. Organizers acknowledged that they had not sought the required permit for the demonstration. They announced in Advance that activists would Chain themselves to the White House Fence and seek arrest to focus attention on More than 2,000 americans missing in action in Indochina and More than 8,000 in the 1950-53 korean War. The 12 detained included a 74-year-old Mother in a wheelchair Jane Duke Gaylor of Al Dorado Kan. She has been trying for 24 years to learn the Fate of her flight technician son Charles Duke jr., who disappeared in Vietnam in 1970. She accuses the government or withholding for a a decade information indicating he could be alive. By evening All had been freed after spending about three hours at a police station and cited by the National Park police for demonstrating without permit which carries a $50 Fine. Quot they did no to seem to want to arrest us asking us about six times if we would leave and again at the Paddy Wagon said Dolores Apodaca Alfond of Bellevue wash., head of the National Alliance of families. About 50 demonstrators marched outside the White House Fence with an american Flag carried upside Down in the International signal of distress. They chanted and carried placards with such messages As a no More dead Bones give us live pos a Quot jog Clinton a brains on pow Miaso and a Send Clinton to work in Vietnam in a  a similar group demonstrated in Lafayette Square across Pennsylvania Avenue. The 90-minute demonstration and arrests climaxed a three Day meeting of several Hundred members at the National Alliance of families annual forum. Participants said it produced a Hope for learning the Fate of a few of the americans unaccounted for from the 1950-53 korean War some of whom were believed sent to work in the former soviet Union. A demands that an accounting of americans missing in Korea be Given equal priority in expected High level negotiations with North Korea Over its suspected nuclear arms project. A emerging cooperation Between pow Mia activists and the vietnamese american Community to press for democracy in communist ruled Vietnam. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago july 18,1984 a the United states and the soviet Union initiated an agreement negotiated in near total secrecy to upgrade the Washington Moscow crisis hot line White House officials said. 20 years ago july 18,1974 a a terrorist bomb exploded in the tourist packed armory of the Tower of London killing one woman and injuring 36 other people Scotland Yard said. 30 year Sago july 18,1964�? gov. Nelson Rockefeller and other gop moderates angrily reacted to Barry Gold Waters acceptance speech for the Republican nomination for president when the candidate said Quot extra miss in the defense of Liberty is no vice. Moderation in the Pursuit of Justice is no  40 years ago july 18,1954 a French Premier Pierre mends France warned the communists that he was firm on his july 20 deadline and that failure to break the Indochina conference stalemate would mean an intensified conflict. .50 year Sago july 18,1944 the . Navy a Challenge at the Gates to the japanese Mainland reverberated with Toyko radios announcement of the second shake up within the past few months in the japanese naval High command. World War ii 50 years ago today july 181 a 9 4 4 Gen. Hideki Tojo is forced oui As head of Japan s government and is replaced by Gen. Kuniski Koiso reflecting increasing japanese concern about . Advances in the Pacific. British and Canadian troops open a big offensive near Caen Normandy but it quickly bogs Down. In Italy american troops begin to attack leghorn on the West coast and the poles capture the port of Ancona on the East coast. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smitti a publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a 3 Virginia candidates for Senate target Robb on strikers hot Springs a. Apr . Sen. Charles Robb fought off his three challengers during a debate saturday night defending his positions on a striker replacement Bill and tobacco. In their second four Way debate Republican nominee Oliver North and independents l. Douglas Wilder and Marshall Coleman ganged up on the democratic incumbent. The challengers All said they would vote against the striker legislation which would prohibit companies from permanently replacing striking workers. Robb has taken no stand on the Bill. Robb refused to say How he would vote v on what he called a symbolic measure with no Chance of passing. He said his Neutral position allowed him to be More effective on labor issues with More substance. A Chuck i think you really let us Down a Coleman told him during the de a Bate in front of the Virginia bar association. Quot at the risk of sounding like a lawyer i did no to hear the answer to your question a North said to Robb ridiculing him. On whether the government should Wilder North Coleman Robb regulate tobacco As an addictive drug Robb said he has not fully studied the Issue. But he added a a in a willing to consider putting it under the food and drug administration if a Case can be  Coleman North and Wilder said strict regulation could cause Job losses in a state dependent on the tobacco Industry. The four debated for the first time last month on in no a Larry King live in a poll released this week by. Mason Dixon political Media research inc., Robb was supported by 29 percent of the respondents North by 23 percent Cole Man by 22 percent and Wilder by 17 percent. The poll had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage Points. Wilder a former democratic governor and Coleman a former Republican lag far behind the two. Party nominees in raising Money reports filed Friday show. Both officially entered the race in june while North and Robb have been campaigning for months. North a former Marine lieutenant colonel had raised $8.4 million through june 30 Robb $2,5 million Coleman $135,000 and Wilder $67,000. The election is nov. 8, a Chicago a about a third of All . Adults Between 1988 and 1991 were overweight a a 31 percent increase from the previous decade according to a study by the National Center for health statistics. The study to be published in the july 20 Issue of the journal of the american medical association found that obesity varied by race sex and age. Mexican american men were More Likely to be overweight than White or Black men. The study showed that 35.5 percent of mexican american men were obese compared with 32.3 percent for. Non hispanic Whites and 30.9 percent for non hispanic Blacks. For women the differences among racial and ethnic groups was larger. The percentage of overweight non hispanic White women was 32,9 percent compared with 46,7 percent for mexican american women and 48.6 percent for non hispanic Black women. Obesity was defined As being 20 percent or More above a person s desirable weight. For All race and ethnic groups in the United states 31 percent of adult men and 35 percent of adult women were estimated to be overweight. Figures from 1980 showed 24 percent of adult men and 25.9 percent of women were overweight. The study compared results of the National health and nutrition examination Survey conducted from 1988 to 1991 with a similar Survey conducted Between 1976 to 1980. In an accompanying editorial or. F. Xavier Pisunyer of new Yorkus St. Luke Roosevelt Hospital Center said alerting the Public to the problem of obesity has been difficult. A your physical activity level is remarkably Low As Sedenta riness has become a Way of life a Pisunyer wrote. Owner of sex Bush Home opposes Marker Milton mass. Apr read her lips no Marker. Nina Graves who lives in the House where former president Bush was born does no to want the town to Honor him with a Granite Marker on the sidewalk in front of the Home a usually they done to do something like this until the person Dies a said Graves a Republican who said she twice voted for Bush. A i do have a lot of respect for the Man but 1  Call myself a big  she said she does no to want her House to become a tourist Magnet. A this is a private Home. In a a private person Quot she said. Bush said he understands Graves concern. A we have tourists driving by our houses in Houston and Maine All the time and it can be annoying a he told the Boston Globe in a statement. A somehow though i done to think Shell get too much  Graves suggested that town selectmen put the. Marker on the town Green instead. But James Mullen clerk for the town just South of Boston said plans Are proceeding to erect the Marker directly in front of Graves House. It will be 3vk feet Long and 2 feet tall with a Bronze plaque in the Center. Bush was born in the victorian style House 70 years ago and lived there until he was 6 months old before his family moved to Connecticut