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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 29, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 . Forces in Korea to get new hotel by Cunt Swift Washinghton Bureau Washington construction is scheduled 10 Start this Spring on a $40 million Complex that in about two years will change the face of hotel and recreation facilities serving the american military in Seoul Korea. Richard Belgrano a spokesman for the army Community and family support Center said the master plan for the Yon san Community Center and Lodge has Bee approved. The  will be a 276-bcd hotel u take the place of leased downtown hotels including the Large and expensive Seoul Garden which the army had lease until last August. The hotel to be built on South Post where the offi cers transient quarters arc will have three dining rooms including one labelled Fine dining two cocktail lounges an indoor swimming Pool and Jacuzo i weight Sauna exercise and dance rooms indoor and outdoor Tennis courts and racquetball courts and a pro shop and a children s play area. The plans show a 25,000-Squarc-foot retail Arcade that will contain 15 to 20 stores a gift shop a 50-Gamc Slot machine room a video game room a 2,000-Squarc foot Post Exchange a travel desk a Beauty parlor and Barber shop a Baskin Robbins ice Cream store a Burger King restaurant and a pizza outlet. Holet conference facilities will include a 450-Seal Ball room that can be divided into four to six rooms six to eight meeting rooms a 25scat Board room and a Post office. There will be parking for 400 cars. The hotel will feature 265 studio rooms including 115 with kitchenettes and 10 one bedroom suites. Many of the studios will connect to the one next door to accommodate families and Sam  travelling in groups Belgra Mosaid. The rooms will catch the Sun every Day of the year. The hotel s design Calls for red tile roofs to help it blend with  of neighbouring korean designs. The Pool featuring a retracting ceiling and Walls also will be placed to have Sun on it 365 Days a year. The Entrance will be turned so patrons do not have to fight the wind to open the door he said. Young service members will be Welcome in the hotel s in House facilities but 8th army leaders also wanted to offer a facility that would Appeal More directly to them. Belgrano said. Across the Street where the Moyer recreation Center sits the plan Calls for a $5 million main Post club that will feature two dining rooms y 100-scat cocktail lounge a 50-scat no lounge a 75-Gamc Slot machine room a video game room a 50-seat television and card room and a liquor store. It will be accessible from off Post. The plan was adopted after a study showed the army did not need the capacity of the 388-bcd Seoul Garden it was leasing for s3.4 million a year. The study showed that  and other members of the military Community on temporary duty permanent change of station leave or other travel needed about 365 rooms each Day. But it also noted that Seoul hotels actively seek military business. Commercial hotels could meet the needs of try and other discretionary travellers the study concluded. It Vas the needs of transient military families that were not being adequately  for the facilities also were shaped by the need to accommodate about 900 official and social functions at military facilities each year. Further resident surveys showed a desire for indoor facilities for swimming jog Ging Tennis and racquetball. That led planners to seek a Community Center that would include lodging dining recreation conference and banquet facilities and rental activities thai would serve travellers and residents too. An analysis of the military food and beverage Market in Yon san showed there arc nearly 6.000 scots. The Korea area Exchange s townhouse gourmet room Camp Coiner cafeteria and 21 snack bars and stands had captured half the on Post Market at the expense of the clubs. The clubs were drawing fewer . And More korean customers than desired profits were sinking and the need for appropriated fund help was growing. Tax Dollar support needed for fiscal 1986 was estimated at s2 Mil lion. The study concluded that the area needs Only 1,100 food and beverage scats at clubs. It recommended ending the lease on the Seoul Garden and closing the Naira hotel and All but three of the 14 area clubs. The saving was estimated at ,5 million to s2 million. Construction of the Complex is to Start next april and the hotel is scheduled to open in april 1988. Recycling May pay off in Stuttgart Community by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart the Stuttgart Mili tary Community is trying to convert trash into Cash in a recycling Experiment that could serve As a blueprint for recycling efforts at . Installations throughout Germany. Community officials have entered a yearlong no Cost agreement with a Ger Man firm to put Glass and paper collection containers at strategic Sites at some of the Community s military bases and housing areas. Other bins Are collection Points for hazardous materials such As used paint and Oil cans. Officials want to find out whether Community residents arc willing to use the bins and whether the bins can accumulate enough recyclable materials to justify a contractor s expenses in main Taining them said Michele Levine Energy and environmental chief in the Community directorate of engineering and housing. That s the reason it s a lest. We Don t know who wants it who needs it. Stuttgart is a big area and it s very difficult to control things under one roof said Levine alluding to the dozens of . Facilities scattered about Stuttgart. The Community s collection of Hazar Dous materials is an Effort to minimize environmental problems and to respond to warnings from the Badin Wuerttemberg state government the state prosecutor s office has warned the Community about its failure to segregate hazardous wastes properly from the other refuse buried at the american Landfill in bomb Lingua according to civil engineering director it. Col. Cliff w. Reed. They re getting ready to take us to court if we Don t get that stopped Reed said. The Community also has a positive incentive to sort its trash. The defense department recently issued regulations that allow the Community to keep any Money it generates by Selling used motor Oil and other hazardous Materi als Reed said. The Community has arranged to have a German environmental vehicle visit Patch Barracks and Robinson Barracks twice to Walesa urges . To lift sanctions Gdansk Poland up Lech Walesa the founder of Solidarity Union Friday urged the United states to lift its 4-year-old economic sanctions on Poland saying they had fulfilled their punitive role. The sanctions As such fulfilled their role and on the whole they Are causing More harm than Good from the propaganda Point of View Walesa told up in an interview in his Gdansk apartment. He did Poland needed economic Aid and Loans but stressed they should be Given Only on condition the providers Are sure the funds would not be misspent. Poland should be helped As quickly As pos sible when such a certainty exists he said. Walesa was making a veiled reference to Fanner communist party Leader Edward Gic Rock who in the 1970s borrowed billions of dollars abroad to modernize Industry which however failed to produce enough Export Good to finance the loin repayments Walesa said that in Many cases sanctions were blamed for failures of the communist government to run the Economy efficiently. The United states and Ouier Western nations introduced economic sanctions against Poland when the government of prime Minuter Gen. Wojcicch a Ruzeski crushed Solidarity Union by imposing mar tial Law in 1981.credits were withdrawn and Trade cur tailed resulting in a worsening of Poland s economic  owes Tome j28 billion to Western banker and these debts Are scheduled to Rise another $6 billion by the end of 1990. The United states lifted most of the Lect wait a sanctions after hundreds of political prison ers were released under an amnesty in 1984. But the continued denial of new cred its and the loss of most favored nation stat us arc still hurting the Economy. Everyone who is a Friend of Poland should help Poland bul also have a Guaran tee he is helping Poland in the right Way Walesa said. Before it was driven underground Soli Darity monitored abuses in government spending but Walesa said this was no longer possible. There is no possibility of social control Over any Aid Given to Poland now he said. Walesa s Call for an end to sanctions came a few Days after the roman Catholic primate. Cardinal Jozef Glemp said during a visit to the United states the measures were painful for the polish  i think that the statement by primate Glemp is fully in line with my View on the problem Walesa said. Collect logic household wastes. The vehicle made its first visit Friday. It is scheduled to return oct. 11 from 9 . To 11 . At the Robinson Barracks pm and from 1 . To 3 . At building 2504 at Palch Barracks. If the hazardous waste and recycling Experiment is successful it could prompt the defense a utilization and marketing service to solicit Long term contracts with private firms for the collection of recyclables at . Facilities All Over Germany Levine said. The firms would Benefit be cause they could sell the material they collect and the communities would have to pay less for trucking their remaining refuse to inc dump. Levine said the Stul Garl  will last a year because officials want to Chart disposal patterns of an entire season Al and military Cycle. She said the Recy cling project is saving Money already however. It s working fairly Well now. It s filling up Wilh Quality and by that 1 mean paper and not just All kinds of trash she said. Rcd said the Stuttgart Community tried a similar recycling Experiment about two and a half years ago without Success because people often did not sort Oul i hair refuse or they put items into the wrong containers. A poorly sorted bin is not Worth contractors time because they Don l have the capacity to sort  from Large quantities of of her trash he said. Glass and paper containers arc Avail Able at the Paul Onville housing area on Bastogne Boulevard and on Alsace Circle on  in ludwigs Burg by a residential army installation Al various locations on  Barracks and on  at Kelley Barracks. A paper Container also is located at Grena Dier Cavern. U.s., Greece near agreement on pact Athens Greece a a group of american officials flew Home Friday after reaching agreement in Large measure on a greek us Accord to protect military secrets a statement issued by uie two delegations said. Approval of the agreement will open the Way for Greece to Purchase 40 us made f-16 fighter aircraft for its air Force. The two sides recognized there was agreement in Large measure on a draft text and Are confident final agreement will be reached in the forthcoming talks in Washington the statement said. A greek team of negotiators will go to Washington in the near  the statement said. The billion Dollar f-16 Deal has been up in the air for months amid report that revelations by a soviet intelligence official who defected in Athens last May made the United states seek special guarantees to prevent High technology leaks in Greece. A greek naval officer and two greek businessmen were arrested Here last week on charges of Selling defense secrets and electronic equipment to soviet diplomats i Greece  
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