Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday July 8 1985- -5 TWA pilot gets hero’s welcome in his hometown RIPLEY NY (UPI) — a hometown celebration touched by religion and soaked by rain the pilot of the Trans World Airlines jet hijacked over Europe Testrake held hostage in Lebanon with 38 other Americans for 17 days thanked his hometown tor its greeting Sunday and said faith to God helped him survive the ordeal d The pilot wearing a yellow ribbon as a reminder of the seven Americans still held in Lebanon declared he was not a hero but “proud to be an American’’ the United Methodist Church Testrake said the combination of a letter from his mother sent to Lebanon through the church and his faith in God “boosted his morale" during his captivity The pilot also showed a family Bible that he carries on his flights The cover and several pages had been ripped off “by our captain’’ the leader of the Shiite hijackers he said “You can see it's a little bedraggled But the message inside is intact" Testrake said to the 17-d- ay grey-haire- crowd’s applause Officials in the Chautauqua County town — westernmost town in the state — declared Sunday “John Testrake Day" and gave the pilot a citation recognizing his bravery during the ordeal A restored 1960 Cadillac sedan carried Testrake and his wife through the eenter of Ripley as residents waved and cheered A brief early afternoon downpour did little to dampen the celebration A parade led by the uniformed Ripley Central Eagles Marching Band escorted Testrake from the church to the center of town to receive the citation Yellow ribbons and signs welcoming the pilot were in abundance throughout the rural town of about 3000 located 60 miles southwest of blue-and-wh- ite Buffalo A pizza and sandwich shop displayed a sign offering Testrake a free glass of beer Speaking with reporters and residents Testrake said a television interview he gave from the cockpit window may have appeared to be more menacing than it was The interview ended abruptly when a hijacker waved an autom atie pistol in front of the pilot “I knew the guy" Testrake said adding he was not concerned because the crew had developed a relationship with the hijackers Lebanese gunum who held the crew invited Testrake and his colleagues back and the pilot said he would like to return “when times are better" Vietnam agrees to release remains of 26 servicemen HONG KONG (UPI) — Vietnam has agreed to return the remains of 26 American servicemen — the largest such turnover since the Vietnam War ended 10 years ago US officials say The officials traveling with Secretary of State George Shultz on a tour of Asia and the Pacific also said Sunday Vietnam agreed to provide information on six other servicemen declared missing in action during the war Their comments came before Shultz left Hong Kong for Bangkok 13-d-ay Thailand where he is expected to sign over 83 million in US aid for Thai border villages affected by fighting between Cambodian guerrillas and Vietnamese troops The State Department welcomed Vietnam’s decision to return the bodies which resulted from four days of meetings in Hanoi last week between the Vietnamese government and a US military team “We look forward to this turnover which would be the largest since the end of the war and in line with pledges made by (Vietnamese) Foreign Minister (Nguyen Co) Thach in high-levnegotiations on this issue since 1982" the State Department said in a statement A US government el high-ranki- ng official said in Hong Kong Sunday that the remains of the 26 servicemen will be returned home within six to eight weeks The United States has the names of the servicemen but their identities will be made public only after the remains are returned the identities are confirmed and their relatives are notified the official said He said greater cooperation from Vietnam will be needed if the MIA issue is to be resolved within the two-yetimetable set by both countries and he did not rule out sending US troops to Vietnam to assist in exhumations Sinee the end of the war in 1975 the remains of 116 servicemen listed as missing in action have been returned to the United States But 2464 others are still listed as missing in action in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos and Shultz is expected to press for information about them during his Asian trip The highlight of Shultz’s trip will be a meeting Wednesday with the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast ar Asian Nations groups Thailand which Malaysia Singapore the Philippines Indonesia and Brunei Much of the focus at the ASEAN meeting in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia will be on efforts by the to resolve the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia During his stay in Thailand Shultz is scheduled to visit the volatile six-fea-r border Thai-Cambodi- an Tuesday becoming the highest ranking official to tour the area US also will discuss the Shultz Australia-Ne- w Zealand-U- alliance S which has been shaken by New Zealand’s refusal to allow US nuclear warships into its porta HUD auditors find abuse in Indian housing projects (UPI) — Mismanagement of construction housing programs for American Indians has wasted $655 million at a time when reservations face a critical housing shortage government auditors have found Department of Housing and Urban Development auditors cited “mismanagement’’ in the agency's Indian programs division in Denver for cost overruns projects and 911 homes that should have been available for occupancy by December 1983 but were never completed Grady Maples HUD’s regional dire tor in Denver said his office is responding to the inspector general's March audit with a “new management team to correct the problems and get the pipeline moving again" The Denver office oversees Indian housing programs in Utah Colorado Montana Wyoming North Dakota South Dakota and Nebraska WASHINGTON “non-existen- t” “From a social conscience point of view it’s a very undesirable situation” Maples said Despite the mismanagement in the Denver region HUD has no plans to audit housing programs in other regions an agency official in Washington said With more than 33000 homeless American Indians nationwide “the situation is soon to be disastrous" said Jim Wagenlander a Denver lawyer who specializes in Indian law “Well be back to the 608 with people living in cars and chicken coops" “There are some gaps" acknowledged John Meyers director of HUD’s Indian housing program in Washington “I don’t think anyone would try to sell you the notion that we’re meeting the need” Census Bureau statistics show that 47 percent of the 11888 residents of the Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota live below the Expert says a major Nazi war criminal is now living in Syria - A historian STANFORD Calif (UPI) asserts that notorious Nazi war criminal Alois B tinner is apparently living in Damascus where he has served as a consultant in torture for the Syrian government Professor Mary Felstiner told United Press International in an interview that Brunner apparently is living in Syria under the alias Georg Fischer He is believed to be in good health at the age of 70 even though a letter bomb cost him an eye and an arm some years ago He is accused of having sent more than 128000 Jews to Nasi death camps Felstiner is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and a visiting scholar at Stanford University She gathered her information about Brunner from documents at the Hoover Institution at Stanford other wartime archives and interviews with researchers in Europe Felstiner said she learned about Brunner while researching the career of World War II refugee artist Charlotte Salomon She died in Auschwitz at the age of 26 A spokeswoman at the Simon Wlesenthal Center in Los Angeles which- traces the whereabouts of Nazi criminals said Brunner is now the “most notorious" fugitive on their list and agreed that Brunner is in Syria Felstiner said Brunner was thought to have been a consultant in torture for the Syrian government in recent years ’’He has done jobs for the Syrian secret police evaluating torture machines” according to Felstiner Brunner joined the Nasi Party in Austria at the age of 19 He became a member of the SS riots of 1938 in Vienna At after the his own request he was assigned to the office of Jewish emigration in Vienna and became Adolph Eichman’s personal secretary Felstiner said that Brunner “was extremely violent He couldn’t speak to a Jew without cursing Every time he talked to a Jew he called the person a ’pig Jew’ He would suddenly burst into violence during an interview He had a pistol pointed at the person he was talking to throughout the interview and very often tried to strangle the person he was talking to" Felstiner said ‘ Despite his violence and hatred of Jews Brunner was able to get cooperation from some Jewish organizations “He was able to gain help from them by granting small concessions in return for which they were forced to help him round up other Jews" Felstiner said “Brunner would say he planned to deport half the staff of a certain Jewish organization Then he would say 'but I am going to let you choose who’ In that sense he got them working with him They believed they could do it more humanely more kindly more justly" OPEC oil ministers agree to maintain prices and production ministers adjourned OPEC oil OPEC’s prices and production levels in time for the Geneva a three-da- y to an with meeting agreement meeting OPEC has been steadily losmaintain the cartel’s production a ing market share to indepenceiling and prices despite dent producers even though in share of their erosion steady some members have been givthe glutted petroleum market The 13 ministers of the Orga- ing discounts undercutting ofnization of Petroleum Export- ficial prices of $2650 to $2865 a ing Countries also pledged barrel of crude oil depending Sunday to eliminate cheating on quality The cartel also is operating within their ranks on pricing and production and agreed to under a daily production ceiling meet again July 22 in Geneva of 16 million barrels a day in an attempt to reduce the world oil Switzerland to told was glut and force up prices A panel of experts Saudi Arabia as OPEC’s come up with recommendations for the creation of a new market policeman has had to disciplinary body to enforce absorb most of the decline in OPEC’s total output while other members were exceeding their quotas and offering discounts to sell more oil At the outset of the three-da- y meeting Saudi Arabia indicated it wanted a price cut but Indonesian Oil Minister Dr Subroto who presided over the talks that ended Sunday said all 13 ministers were in agreement in the end “The consultative meeting finished its work with a consensus to continue with the OPEC (price) present Subroto told structure" ers “We continue production ceiling" reportwith the Carter says US must do more for poor countries Switzerland GENEVA (UPI) - Former President Jimmy Carter today accused the Reagan administration of doing too little to help needy countries especially in the area of population control programs Carter in Geneva for an international workshop on poverty and famine said the American public “reacted very well" to appeals for aid to Ethiopia Sudan and other African countries “But the developed countries are not doing nearly enough and the United States is behind others” Carter said at a news conference While many developing countries are trying to Carter said the control their populations an aversion" to “has administration Reagan k it The Housing Assistance Council a housing group in Washington estimates 80 percent of the Oglala residents live in houses that have no indoor toilet facilities and little or no insulation Nearly all are overcrowded “A lot of them (families) are doubled up" said John Richards an official at the Oglala Sioux Housing Authority “A lot of houses nave three or four families We’ve got about 1300 units but there’s a real need for about 2600" A mother of five who asked not to be identified said she has been on a housing waiting list for seven years at the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Lame Deer Mont Her husband is unemployed mobile home with my “I live in husband and children" rite said “There are seven of us My only electrical hookup is by extension cords plugged into an outlet mi an non-prof- 60-fo- ot electrical pole “I don’t have running water There is a house next door and we get our water from a faucet outside It’s really hard but there's just nothing available’’ She said her family bathes at another home “about every other day" Richards said the Oglala reservation will get only 85 of 2000 houses scheduled for development by HUD nationwide this year Among the problems undercovered by the auditors: —Funds intended for construction of a development in South Dakota were used for operating expenses by the Oglala Sioux housing authority resulting in a $123 million loss Thirteen units were eventually builL —Cost overruns 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