ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, January 31, 1996 TAG: 9601310078
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
Okinawa wants U.S. bases out by 2015
TOKYO - Okinawa gave the Japanese government a proposal Tuesday that calls for ousting all U.S. bases there by 2015.
Japanese leaders will discuss Okinawa's proposal with President Clinton when he visits in April, an official in Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's office promised. But the initial government response to the plan was cool.
``The views of Okinawa and the government are not in complete agreement, but there was a willingness to work together,'' said Masashi Nakagome, an official at the prime minister's office.
- Associated Press
Grave may hold Holocaust victims
VIENNA, Austria - Workers building a power plant unearthed what appears to be the mass grave of Holocaust victims, state television reported Tuesday.
Two trenches filled with skeletons were discovered during earth-moving work for the hydropower plant near Lambach, about 140 miles west of Vienna.
There was no independent confirmation of the report. The Interior Ministry sent officials to the site to investigate.
The construction crew exhumed six skeletons believed to be of men in their early 20s, state television said. It was not known how many more remains the trenches might contain.
The construction project is near the site of the Gunskirchen concentration camp, set up as late as March 1945 as part of the infamous Mauthausen death camp, where Nazis killed thousands of prisoners.
- Associated Press
Britain to study Gulf War syndrome
LONDON - The British government said Tuesday it will commission independent studies of veterans' claims that they suffer from the wide range of symptoms called ``Gulf War syndrome.''
About 51,000 British soldiers served in the 1991 Gulf War., and hundreds are suing for compensation for health disorders in themselves and their children that they suspect are related to their service.
``We accept that a number of Gulf veterans are ill, and that there is public concern about the possible effects of Gulf service on those children of veterans,'' Armed Forces Minister Nicholas Soames told the House of Commons on Tuesday. have accepted the government's offer of medical examinations, Soames said.
- Associated Press
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