European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes August 1985 Belgium in by Dan Wollam Stuttgart Bureau Belgium driving in Bel Gium could be an expensive experience for anyone who violates the belgian code of the the belgian government began a new system of imposing traffic fines july under that violators who Are not residents of Belgium can be saddled with an on thespot Fine of belgian francs about for committing what police consider to be a grave according to a spokesman for the National Mili tary representative at grave violations include such infractions As not heeding a policeman not respecting rules concerning priority passing where not permitted or Al most any other moving nonresidents must pay in Al though they can use the currencies of Bel the Britain or the United fines can also be paid by using euro Che ques made out in belgian if a belgian resident commits a grave nonresidents face on thespot tines the matter will be referred to the belgian judicial the spokesman said the belgian govern ment changed the system because police authorities were having trouble collecting fines under the old traffic violations were and the picture was sent to the violator with a notice of the amount but that process took so Long that police authorities had difficulty finding the especially those who lived outside whether military people stationed in Belgium Are residents or not is in ques the spokesman said foreign military personnel in Belgium Arent issued belgian identification so they can be consid ered foreigners by belgian he said there is Hope that discussions Between Bel Gian and american officials will result in belgian police recognizing military people stationed in Belgium As until those discussion Are officials Are advising military personnel in Belgium to carry the equivalent of belgian francs whenever they any visitor to military or will be treated As a paying the on thespot Fine is an admission of if a nonresident chooses to dispute the he can refuse to pay the Fine and face the belgian judicial sys but if a nonresident is accused of a grave violation and disputes he must pay a Deposit about As insurance he will appear in less serious violations that Are disputed carry a Deposit of francs about if a violator refuses to pay either the Fine or the the belgian police can impound the car for up to 96 after that the car and the Case Are turned Over to judicial if the violator Doest appear in judicial authorities have the right to sell the if the amount the court receives for the Sale is More than the Fine and court the balance will be refunded to the original the spokesman less serious offences such As parking violations carry a Fine of 750 belgian francs about residents must pay those by using special Stamps available at belgian Post nonresidents who Are present when the citation is Given must pay in nonresidents who Arent pre sent when the citation is Given must also use the Here is a list of grave driving violations in Belgium failing to heed the signal of a failing to respect rules and signs governing prior falling to respect rules concerning priority at Road passing on the left a Driver who has signalled hip intention to turn left and who has placed his vehicle in the proper position to turn overtaking with insufficient space in relation to oncoming overtaking where not double overtaking passing a vehicle that has Cuil overtaken another changing direction and placing other Drivers in causing difficulty for Drivers of vehicles com ing in the opposite direction or falling to Grant prior ill to other Drivers where placing a pedestrian in exceeding the posted Speed limit by More than 10 Kilometres per falling to drive with head and Tail lights when conditions using Cross roads on divided making turns on divided highways or backing up on divided failing to respect a red Light or fixed Orange Light crossing a solid White line that separates lanes of crossing a Railroad track after the Barrier has begun to descend or has fully while the red lights Are on or while any audible warning is its raining again a photo summer in Germany of a Green tinted or downright wet As these Pedes Tri German poet Heinrich Heine wrote in the ans in downtown Frankfurt have quickly discovered weather lately has held True to the saying As they Are caught a a sudden downpour russians convict peace worker Moscow a a member of Moscow Only known Independent peace group was convicted thursday on a charge of malicious hooliganism and sentenced to three years in another group member Vladimir a member of the committee to establish Trust Between the and the was sentenced after a trial lasting four hours at a Moscow group member Nikolai Khramov told the associated Brodsky wife told Western reporters in a separate Telephone Call that an Appeal was her husband will not be released before any Appeal is Khramov said Brodsky wife was the Only one of his relatives and friends allowed into the Brodsky was one of the original members of the peace group when it was set up in some group members have since Brodksy and others who have remained in the soviet Union have repeatedly been detained and harassed by soviet Brodsky was sentenced under article second Sec Tion of the criminal code of the russian the charge of malicious which is defined As disrupting Public order with exceptional impudence or resist ing carries a minimum sentence of one year and maximum sentence of five soviets turn Back americans for carrying russian Bible Finland up an american couple who planned to spend 22 Days in the soviet Union were turned Back when customs officials found they were carry ing a russian one of the tourists and Richard Meholsky from Seattle said they spent their 21hour visit in a Small room at the Leningrad with no food or drink and no place to they were part of a group that planned to travel to the soviet cities of Kiev and said Richard who added that each of the visitors brought a russian Bible and a new who has visited the soviet Union on several previous said the whole group was searched and detained because they brought personal 20 antinuclear protesters arrested in West Germany Germany 15 up police arrested 20 demonstrators while breaking up an antinuclear protest at the proposed site of West Germany first com Mercia scale recycling Plant for spent atomic reactor spokesmen for the group of 250 demonstrators complained that police used tear Gas on the crowd and slightly injured 10 three parliamentarians of the country antinuclear Green party took part in the Swiss propose to end jailing of conscientious objectors Switzerland a the Swiss government has initiated military Law reforms designed to end the jailing of conscientious which has earned the nation repeated criticism from human rights the Cabinet formally proposed that imprisonment be replaced by a labor service lasting a total of 18 compared with an average service of 12 months in the militia officials 2 Hospital officials suspended after deaths of 5 newborns Poland a the chief doctor and nurse in the maternity Ward of a Hospital in Central Poland have been suspended from duty following the deaths of five Newborn infants who were stricken after receiving an intravenous feeding of a sugar protein a state prosecutor eleven infants in the maternity Ward at the regional Hospital in the City of 100 Miles Northwest of became seriously ill on the night of 89 a solution of glucose and albumin Given to babies suffering from Bash Elk Deputy director of who clawed s Mcants were being treated in Intel of re Foo to atae Hospital in the nearby City of Bydgoszcz and the childrens health Center in War