European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday june 11. 1980 Canadian Homes will test Slobof flan new two Way info service Toronto not Bell Canada and the Canadian government arc preparing a major Field test of a new iwo a communications service using Home television sets to link private users who a vast array of computerised information Banks. The new service called Vista has already successfully completed a Small Pilot project and will begin an $11 million trial this fall with Between 500 and 1.000 users in the cities of Toronto and Quebec. Using hand held keyboards the size of a pocket calculator these individuals and businesses will have Access through their to sets to 75.000 pages of computerized information and services ranging from making dinner reservations and Selling airline tickets to display ing metric conversion tables video games and soap opera summaries. Bell Canada will provide $7.8 million of the two year study s Cost while the Federal department of communications will cover the rest according to Charles gravel la of Bell. This will be one of the largest such experiments in the world he added. This form of two Way interaction Between sub Scriber and computers is under study and Experiment in Many countries including the United states. While researchers study the Best computer systems. To adapters and services to offer businessmen eagerly con template the creation of a whole new information marketplace. In Canada alone for instance there Are 7.3 million households 9.6 million Home telephones and 10 million television sets. If just half the households spent $200 a year Cyprus chief in Prague Prague Czechoslovakia a pres ident Spyros Kyprianou of Cyprus has arrived in Prague for an official Chi at the invitation of president Gustav Husak the czechoslovak stale news Agency reported. Through such a so Stem. A new $700 million indy sir would be created. And this docs no include another 4 1 million business  for both Bell and the Ca  government which is eager for can Ada to take a leading pos Iii in inc development of such acc uni u g. Arc designing a simplified and cheaper terminal. Many of Canada s provincial Telephone companies Are also developing programs. The theory is to Combine the convenience of the Telephone with the immediacy and graphics of the color television right in the Home. The potential combinations Are end less said gravel la. Governments for example could offer tax advice Legal and health guides and even local Community Bull Lin Board services. Companies could sell tickets or make reservations for Heaters sports events and lot  could offer regular courses and a variety of self improvement lessons on car Pentry boating gardening even mixing drinks. Knovs. Records tapes insurance and Gro Ceries could be ordered and billed by push ing a combination of buttons in the living room news weather sports and business information updated frequently would be offered along with tourism guides and cer Tain information and reservation services geared to specific business groups such As travel agents. Two areas with Strong immediate application Are real estate and want ads. Poten tial Home buyers will be Able to read All or screen out some descriptions of Homes for Sale As Well As ordering up a to sketch of the Home and its rooms. Through the computers Sellers and buyers will be Able to find each other instantly by programming key  re trying to teach the widest Possi ble  said gravel la. Private groups actively involved in the program include the Toronto Globe and mail the Toronto Star Dominion supermarkets to guide ramada inns Hudson s Bay company the Onta Rio weather Center and the University of Quebec. Garner Midway leaves Japan for Korea wafers report says Tokyo a the . Aircraft car Rier Midway left Yokosuka naval base South of Tokyo tuesday for Waters off South Korea Japan s Kyodo news service reported. A Navy spokesman at Yokosuka refused to confirm the Kyodo report saying inc destinations of seagoing ships arc not made Public. He did say the nuclear powered Cruiser Long Beach left Yokosuka tuesday. Kyodo said inc 51.000-ton Midway with a Crew of 4.000, would conduct Normal operations off the South korean coast until returning to Yokosuka its Home port around june 20. On May 23 the . Navy ordered the aircraft Carrier Coral sea and its Bailie group of ships from the Indian Ocean to South Korea As a warning to North Korea to keep hands off the South during the political turmoil there. The Coral sea and three accompanying ships left for the . West coast on june French president Vil cry is card d Usu be left inaugurates the Kinly restored King taxis Xiv bedroom in the out restored Royal bedroom teau de Vonu Milln in air Burtrum parts. France s first Tad ant Waymone Cis cd d a Slang stands to Center with Jean Philippe a Cit Fitch minister of culture 10 tits right. Giber officials ire not identified. A surplus seen Tor open Basel Switzerland i i specs surplus this year May exceed a massive $100 billion the  of the Bank for International settlements Bis. Pc Lac Zijlstra said  told inc his annual meeting which also marked the Bank s 50lh anniversary that non Oil developing countries shoulder an increasing share of the corresponding  open surplus in 1979 was $65 Bil lion with $38 billion or 60 percent of the Oil Bill met by those third world nations without Oil resources. Zijlstra said. The share of the Overall deficit of these countries was 35 percent in 1974, when Oil prices first  Zijlstra and the Bis annual report said Western Industrial nations have to meet the rising Oil Bill with Tough anti inflation measures. Zijlstra said these nations have yet to experience inc full deflationary effects of the new Oil  wage increase restrictions arc vital Zijlstra said and a lower level of economic activity must be accepted. The Bis annual report for its part said economic prospects for 1980 arc less Gloo my than originally thought but Clouds seem to be gathering on the horizon to Darken the Outlook from next year on  it is not enough for governments to make the fight against inflation their first priority the report said. They should also make it Clear that they will persist in using All available anti inflationary tools until rates of inflation have fallen significantly below the level that be fore the Oil Price explosion was considered to be the underlying inflation rate in the various individual countries it said. Unless such a commitment is made quite explicit the present policy stance will not be  the Bis report said governments must adopt income policies and must also step up efforts both to conserve Energy and develop alternatives to Oil. The Bis said there will inevitably be higher unemployment in the Western coun tries resulting from lower economic activity but this must be accepted if inflation is to be beaten. . Cutter grabs russian fishing boat Juneau Alaska up the coast guard Cutler midget seized a soviet fish ing vessel off the coast of Alaska for alleged violations of the Federal fishing conserva Tion and management act. The vessel a Large Stern trawler was seized 65 Miles Southwest sum Ign Island in the Gulf of Alaska after allegedly under logging its catch of Mackerel by As much As 65 percent a coast guard spokesman in Juneau said. The seizure was made after a boarding party compared the ship s log to its actual catch the spokesman said. He said the midget would escort the so Viet ship to Kodiak and urn it Over to a . Marshal pending Legal action by the . Attorney s office in Anchorage. Car hits Gas truck 4 Hurt St. Rosk la. Up a car careened into a loaded gasoline tank truck touching off an inferno that engulfed the truck in Hamas and injured four persons one critically slate police said. The Accident closed . 61 for More than seven hours As inc gasoline fed fire disintegrated the Asphalt surface on the Roadway in St. Charles Parish. The Blaze was so intense that the Linker s tires were burned away and a wrecker was dispatched to right the vehicle