5-year-old boy abandoned at Australian Airport
     SYDNEY - May 23, 1998 10:32 p.m. EDT - A 5-year-old American boy
 was found abandoned at Sydney Airport with his passport and an ex-
 pired ticket to the United States, apparently left there by his
 mother, it was reported Sunday.
     Qantas Airways workers found the dazed child wandering aimlessly
 around the international terminal Thursday, clutching the ticket to
 Los Angeles and a small suitcase of clothes, The Sunday Telegraph
 said.
     "He said his mum had brought him to the airport and left him," a
 Qantas worker told the paper.
     "He seemed to think he was going home. He was pretty calm about
 it all; perhaps he's used to being left."
     Australian Federal Police officers, who guard airports, looked
 after the child for a day while they investigated the case.
     He was then placed in temporary foster care while U.S. consular
 officials contacted his father in America.
     The officials said the father was shocked to hear what had hap-
 pened and was arranging for his son to be flown to Los Angeles as
 soon as possible.
     It was not known whether the mother will be prosecuted. She is
 believed to still be in Sydney and is wanted by police in the United
 States, the paper said.
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     U.S. officials find remains believed to be of World War II
 aviators in France
     STRASBOURG, France - May 23, 1998 10:20 p.m. -- American military
 officials say they apparently have found name tags and human remains
 of the nine-member crew of a B-24 bomber that crashed in eastern
 France during World War II.
     The 15 U.S. officials from bases in Germany, accompanied by
 French experts, have sifted through clay and soil for six weeks in
 the Zinswiller forest, not far from the border with Germany. The
 search ends Sunday.
     "We've done the maximum possible for this B-24 Liberator, which
 disappeared in December 1944," said Will Bissaindhe, a U.S.
 official.
     "We have found 1,500 fragments of bones, as well as hair, teeth
 and four name tags," he said late Friday.
     He said they also found an identity card with a photograph, and
 a pair of shoes. Officials said it is likely that the remains belong
 to nine people.
     The remains and belongings will be taken this weekend to a U.S.
 base in Landstuhl, Germany. They will then be flown to Hawaii for
 further tests.
     If positively identified, the items will be returned to rela-
 tives, Bissaindhe said. He said the names on the name tags would not
 be released.
     "That's a military secret," he said.
     Witnesses said the plane, returning from an air raid on Munich,
 collided with another plane in midair. The wreckage was discovered
 only a year ago.
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