Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - June 1, 1993, Titusville, Pennsylvania Established June 14 1865 Oldest Daily Newspaper in Northwestern Pennsylvania Cool Side Partly sunny and cool today High 55 to 60 Wind northwest 10 to 15 miles per hour Partly cloudy tonight Low in the lower 40s day partly sunny High in the upper 60s TITUSVILLE PA TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 1 1993 35 CENTS US Delegation Pushes Hanoi for More Help on MIAs By BRUCE STANLEY Associated Press Writer PHNOM PENH Cambodia AP A team of US congressmen obtained new documents from the Vietnamese government in Hanoi on Monday including a list of American and other servicemen taken prisoner during the Vietnam War For the first time Vietnam also let the Americans into an archive of more than 220 military films of prisoners of war Sen John Glenn D Ohio said the US delegation saw five films that might offer leads on missing servicemen More than 2200 Americans are missing Washington has demanded a full accounting from Hanoi before it lifts a trade embargo and normalizes relations The delegation of senators and representatives accompanied by leaders of veterans groups arrived in Hanoi on Monday for a visit Their trip comes one month after retired Gen John Jr visited Vietnam to try to determine the authenticity of a Russian document that suggests Hanoi kept 614 US prisoners after the in 1975 Vietnam insists that the document a report supposedly written by a top Vietnamese army officer to the Communist Party Politburo in North Vietnam is a forgery Vessey a presidential envoy acknow ledged that the document was rife with errors but pronounced it authentic raising new questions about Vietnams honesty on the MIA issue The congressional delegation included Glenn and Sens John Kerry DMass and John McCain Speaking by telephone from Hanoi Kerry said he hoped the visit of the US mission would encourage the Vietnamese to cooperate more fully in the search for missing Americans All of them have come here on Memorial Day in the United States to try to press for answers said Kerry a navy lieutenant during the Vietnam War and former chairman of the Senate Select Committee on affairs Were trying to make sure the accountability is solid 7 Vietnam opened a new archive center where US and Vietnamese investigators will have access to documents relevant to the search for missing servicemen Kerry said The group is to meet Tuesday with former North Vietnam Army Gen Tran Van Quang the reported author of the Russian document and with Vietnams Communist Party general secretary Do Muoi Quang denies writing the report and says he never carried the title ascribed to him in the document Libyans Arrive in Israel Col May Be Next By NEIL MACFARQUHAR Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM CAP Libyan pilgrims staged an unprecedented trip to Israel on Monday that their Israeli arms agent says may be repeated by Col later this year The 192 Libyans said they did not acknowledge Israeli statehood but were forced here by Saudi Arabia International sanctions on Libya forbid flights from that country although hundreds of Libyans went by road and sea to the holy city of Mecca for the annual pilgrimage or hajj We were surprised when on our way to Mecca the doors were closed in our face which was humiliating the delegation leader Dow Salem an engineer at the Libyan News Agency said at the Rafah border crossing said he planned no politi cal meetings but only tourism and prayers at sacred sites around Jeru salem the third holiest city for Muslims Most of the visitors just mumbled when asked about Israel Still it was a dramatic policy shift for Libya one of the most outspoken enemies of the Jewish state and a staunch critic of Middle East peace talks has harbored some of the most extreme Palestinian la groups The pilgrims insisted they had chosen to come to Israel at the last minute and without approval because Libyans had been barred from flying to Saudi Arabia Israeli arms dealer Yaacov said it had taken three months of talks and the intervention of Saudi arms dealer Adrian gi to arrange the visit suggested by to a delegation of exiled Libyan Jews he invited back to Tripoli in February It is widely believed in Israel that hopes the pilgrimage will help him to rebuild stature Israeli officials appeared to be walking a delicate line between laying out a red carpet for any Arab ready to treat it as a normal nation and not violating UN attempts to isolate Tripoli We have to be careful that we wont be the ones who make kosher at a time when the whole world is boycotting him Yossi Beil in deputy foreign ministry told Israel army radio Victim Identified In Mystery Illness ALBUQUERQUE NM AP Doctors raised the death toll from a mysterious sickness mainly afflicting Indians to 11 Monday saying a patient who died in Arizona in midMay was only now recognized as a victim The first case dates to March 8 although doctors did not start recog the common link among the illnesses until two people from the same New Mexico family died in midMay The sickness is striking relatively young healthy people in and around the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and Arizona The cause still hadnt been pinpointed Monday but health officials from New Mexico and Arizona said it might bea viral infection It is not believed to be highly infectious Weve excluded the usual bacterial fungal and parasitic infections Its not anthrax its not the plague its not Legionnaires and its not related to the virus that causes AIDS said Dr Ron Voorhees deputy slate epidemiologist Officials said they had refined the unexplained adult respiratory distress syndrome and that lowered the number of cases from 25 to 18 14 in New Mexico and four in Arizona Five other cases may have been caused by the disease while four others are questionably related Voorhees said A dozen cases have occurred in Indians five in whites and one in a Hispanic Eight of the Indians two of the Anglos aid the Hispanic died Voorhees had no additional information on the victim Ron Wood of the Indian Health Service said the Navajos arc scared Theres a lot of fear Theres a lot of hysteria theres a lot of concern They want to know what is going on Wood said A handful of people appear to have recovered from the illness but doctors said they did not know whether treatment was responsible Dr Frederick Koster who treated several of the patients at Universi ty Hospital said some had few or no symptoms before collapsing while others were ill for days before developing respiratory failure The youngest and most recent victim was a 13yearold girl who collapsed at a party Friday and died the next day Of the previous 10 victims the oldest was 31 Rep Brown Tells Audience Americas Intent Has Never Been To Conquer and Suppress but To Defend and Assist Rainy skies moved the annual Titusville Memorial Day Service from its traditional setting in down town Scheide Park to the First United Methodist Church on Monday morning Keynote speaker for this years service was State Rep Teresa Brown who was intro by Master of Ceremonies George Stack of the Robert Lee Green Marine Corps League This day brings out emotions of joy for the rewards we now reap due to the efforts of our soldiers Rep Brown stated It also reminds us that some gave their lives in the process and they should be honored accordingly Rep Brown also brought up an anecdote from the Gulf War Speak ing shortly after Kuwait was liber ated a Saudi general said If the world is going to have only one superpower thank God it is the United States of America Ever since the first Memorial Day began 130 years ago America has given up its sons and daughters for the sake of world peace and human dignity Our intent never has been to conquer and surpress but rather to defend and assist As such America has evolved into an historic oddity A country willing to use its military power for the good of humankind She added Today the veterans to which we pay special homage are not just names on a gravestone Rather they are symbols of our march toward a time when the world order will stand for justice democra cy and economic freedom To end her speech Rep Brown quoted a local veteran I would like to end with a quote from James M Thomas the past exalted ruler of the BPOE Lodge 264 here in Titusville He wrote a very good article in a letter to the editor in The Titusville Herald about todays services And I would like to end my speech the way he letter He said God bless America and all who love her and defend her The Honor Roll of veterans deceased in 1992 was read by John Noel Sr of the Marine Corps League and Harold Bond of the American Legion as follows Richard L Ames John J Anthony Sr Lloyd W Anthony William F Atkins Stanley C Bayless Jr Edward W Baney Sr Norman L Bedow Albert Broadhurst Donald A Bullock Harold F Burdick Edward B Burrows Lois Ray Childs William W Clark James C Christy Ralph B Cohen Philip L Covel Sr Donald Rex Davenport Franklin P Donner Mike Ender Jr David F Engelbrecht John H Erickson Donald Robert W Foltz Neal E Fox Ignatius J Galletta John D Geiger Pa Tick J Greene Elliott Hegedic Harold Hippie Stephen Holtz Neil F King Robert E Kirch Paul D Kytic Albert R Morrison Harold D Myers SCHEIDE PARK VETERANS MEMORIAL TERESA BROWN Margaret W Nichols Raymond Peebles Peeples Lawrence V Pierce Theodore A Reed AT Samuels Donald Shrout James Sjoden James J Snyder Hugh A Sopher Steve A Sosnowski Rudolph Steber Edward C Steffens Zerold Stuck Gerald A Sutton William P Swab Walter M Swan son Lewis A Sweetland Richard P Tesser Theodore Terwilliger Wayne L Vallimont Wayne J Vincent Andrew M Wishnock Robert J Wright Basil Wysel William P De verts Area veterans placed wreaths at St Catharine Cemetery Kerr Hill Cemetery and Woodlawn Cemetery and the Veterans Memorial in Park Welcoming remarks were by Vietnam Veterans Pa Post 58 Commander led Bahle The invoca tion was delivered by Larry Gray also of the Vietnam Veterans Pa Post 58 while the benediction was deliv ered by VFW Chaplain Martin Murray of Post 5958 The following commanders repre senting three area veterans groups also took part in the Robert Lesh American Legion Leonard Bidwell Marine Corps League and Cecil Dennis of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Members of the Titusville High School Marching Band performed the Star Spangled Banner Ameri ca the Beautiful along with Echos and To the Colors Clinton Asks Veterans To Remember Disagreement Is Freedoms Privilege By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Clinton somberly knelt Monday before the Vietnam Veter ans Memorial and traced the name of a deceased classmate Amidst cheers and jeers he exhorted veterans to remember that is free doms privilege Let us continue to disagree if we must about the war But let us not let it divide us as a people any longer Clinton said Clinton drew the loudest applause when he announced he was ordering that nearly all US military records pertaining to missing Americans in Vietnam be declassified and made public by Veterans Day Clinton said that only a tiny frac tion of the documents would remain classified and not available for public scrutiny because of nation al security or reasons He said he wanted to renew a pledge to those families whose names are not on this wall because their sons and daughters did not come home Clintons Memorial Day visit to the polished black granite wall etched with names of the wars roughly 58000 casualties was angri ly protested by some veterans who consider the monument site to be sacred turf As he began his speech there was smattering of boos and one demon strator close to the podium yelled shut up coward Shut up and get out of here A few turned their backs while others held up critical signs One said You lied You dodged Refused to Go Another said Slick Willie The artful To all of you who arc shouting I have heard you I ask you now to hear me he told the hecklers David Castillo a Vietnam veteran from Los Angeles said he was angered at the boos You boo an umpire You dont boo the president of the United States he said We all know that the Vietnam war caused deep wounds within American society Gen Colin Powell chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said He cited a pressing need to move forward together as a nation as he introduced Clinton Powell referred to himself as the senior Vietnam veteran on active today Later Powell told reporters its time for the nation to come together and heal on this issue Some hava suggested that it is wrong for me to be here with you today because 1 did not agree a quar ter of a century ago with the decision made to seri young men and women to battle in Vietnam Well so much the better Here we are celebrating America today Just as war is freedoms cost disagreement is freedoms privilege and we honor it here today the president said I ask you at this monument can any American be out of place And can any commander in chief be in any other place but here on this day I think not he said speaking under overcast skies on a muggy day with a warm breeze blowing Clinton is the first president to speak at the annual ceremony He addressed a of thousands Weve ben doing this for 12 years And for 12 years until now no president lias ever accepted our invitation said Jan Scruggs presi dent of foundation that built and maintains the memorial We are extremely proud our commander is here to honor those whose names are on this memorial It is as simple as that The president made no apology for his opposition to the Vietnam War but told the crowd No one has come here to disagree about the heroism of those who we honor He noted that four of his high school classmates from Hot Springs Ark high school were listed on the wall Afterwards Clinton took a rubbing from the wall of one of the names that of James Herbert Jeffries Earlier he laid a large floral wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery He old a crowd of about 4000 in an amphitheater at the cemetery Today we put aside our differences to better reflect on what unites us We resolve always to keep Americas armed forces the finest in the world And we resolve that if we ask them to fight in our behalf we will give them the clear mission the means and the support they need to win he said Earlier Clinton told a group of World War II veterans in an East Room ceremony This is your house You have paid the price for it and those you represent made the fact that its still standing possible He spoke as he unveiled commemor ative stamps and coins and signed a proclamation commemorating the 50th anniversary of World War II More Violence After German Teen Arrested in Death of Five Turks By ARTHUR ALLEN Associated Press Writer SOLINGEN Germany AP A teenager with reported ties to extremist groups was held Monday in the firebombing that killed five Turks The killings shocked main stream Germans and set off violent protests against hate crimes Violent protests continued for a second night in Solingen Shops repaired in the morning had their windows smashed again Monday night Speakers at rallies called for violence to be met with violence Police seemed to be losing pati ence after repeated barrages of rocks and bottles from protesters who included German anarchists and Marxist Kurds Rumors were swirling in Solingen that a Turkish extremist group sent in shock troops to stir up protesters About 20 people were injured Monday with more than 20 arrests and damage to about 50 shops Some Turks and German leftists went on a looting spree through Solingen The teenager was held on counts of murder attempted murder and arson A government news release said more arrests were possible but did not say when the boy was arrested or Rive other details News accounts described him as a 16yearold extremist from Solingen about 15 miles northeast of Cologne A 70member task force had ques dozens of rightwing radicals before the arrest said Rolf Hannich spokesman for the chief federal prosecutors office Witnesses said youths in neoNazi dress ran from the firebombing site Fresh swastikas were painted on a nearby building The Saturday blaze at an apart ment house in Solingen was the deadliest attack since unification Two small girls were among those killed and four people were serious ly hurt The attack resembled one in that killed three Turks in November Politicians called for steps to assi 18 million Turks and other foreign resi dents Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said that he advocated giving long time residents the right to vote in local elections and hold German passports Germany rarely grants citizenship to people who cannot prove German ancestry When the German sees that his kids play soccer with the Turks children and go to school with them and when they vote together in elec tions he will feel Hes one of us said Schnoor the interior minister from North Rhine Westphalia state Ignatz Bubis the leader of Jewish community told reporters in it was time the government clack down on right wing radicals the way it did on the Red Army Faction in the 1970s The government banned four rightist groups in December but there are dozens of others Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the attack a disgrace and said he was worried it would damage relations with Turkey He appealed to the German people to help with the investigation Acting on oders from the Interior Ministry polko did little to hinder a rampage early Monday After gathering i nd a bonfire of Sooted tires and mattresses rioters smashed hundreds of shop windows and burned or br kc the windows of buses and cais Elsewhere protesters blocked superhighways and entrances at the airport The Turkish premier Erdal Inonu appealed to Turks in Germany to act with restraint
