European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 26, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 . Tourists frightened off by terrorism Rome a Sweden has enlisted Tennis great Bjorn Borg As a tourist ambassador. Greece signed up actor . Marshall to do to commercials. Italy s most popular talk show hostess spoke in Praise of her country on a trip to new York. Celebrities Are making their pitches As part of million Dollar campaigns launched by some West european countries to lure . Tourists frightened by terrorism and put off by the fall of the Dollar. An exception is Spain which dropped a $2.8 million publicity Blitz aimed at convincing americans that Spain is one of Europe s safest countries for travellers. Ignacio Vasallo director of Spain s tourist promotion Institute said the Campaign was called off until americans change their attitude about travelling in the Mediterranean  hotel airline and cruise bookings by americans Are sharply Down around Europe even in such a traditionally Safe area As Scandinavia. In Italy where tourism is the biggest Industry bookings by americans Are estimated Down by at least 40 percent. According to the european travel com Mission a 23-country organization that promotes outside tourism to Europe 6.4 million americans visited Europe last year and spent $6.6 billion. Cruise line officials in Greece say Book Ings from europeans Are up 20 to 30 per cent but those from americans Are Down by half. In France which anticipates a drop of 25 percent to 30 percent in . Tourism officials Are planning a Campaign aimed at tourist agencies in the United states. The idea is to re establish the reality Marshall Borg both that France is a country that Wel comes american tourists warmly and that not every Camembert cheese is packed with a terrorist bomb said a spokeswoman for the French tourist ministry speaking under the government s Rule of anonymity. In february the greek National tourist organization not launched a $3 million advertising Campaign to try to lure Back big spending americans scared away from Greece by the hijackings last year of Twa and Egypt air jetliners that had taken off from Athens. The Campaign featured such celebrities As former quarterback Joe Namath actress Zsa Zsa Gabor and Singer Neil Sedaka and was designed to convince americans that Greece was a Safe and desirable location. Local travel officials said the Campaign was beginning to show results when a bomb exploded on a Twa plane flying from Rome to Athens killing four americans. After the april 2 bomb blast the not put out a 60-second to commercial with actor . Marshall. In the spot Marshall says the recent terrorist act against a Twa Jet was not a greek incident in deed the world s leading aviation agencies have declared Athens Airport Safe and be  the decline in . Tourism in Italy began after the hijacking of the italian cruise ship Achille Lauro last october. A . Passenger was killed after the liner was seized on a Mediterranean cruise. A convention of . Travel agents in Rome in november was so successful that officials were predicting a 20 to 30-percent Rise in . Visitors this year but these Hopes were dashed after the dec. 27 Airport massacre in Rome. Now Italy plans a $3.6 million Advertis ing Campaign with the slogan Italy has More to offer that will be aimed at promoting alternative itineraries beyond the traditional stops in Rome Florence and Venice. Raffaella Carra a Singer and dancer and leading talk show hostess took her show to new York earlier this year and lauded the beauties of Italy in a message directed at the italian american Market. Borg the five time Wimbledon Champi on skiing great Ingemar Stenmark and other swedish athletes Are working for their National tourist Board. Since Borg visited new York and los Angeles earlier this year the number of inquiries about Sweden have gone up about 50 percent a tourist Board official said. The British tourist authority estimates it spends about 20 percent of its budget of $30 million to promote american travel. Last year Britain hosted a record 3.3 Mil lion americans traditionally Britain s biggest foreign contingent. The Bra says most of the cancellations registered so far from americans have been in the group travel and cruise areas which make up about 20 percent of the Leisure travel Field. Tourist officials Are counting on visits from other europeans japanese and their own citizens to counteract the drop in americans. Junior Roth a hit at osterholz Schrambeck by Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau osterholz Schrambeck Ger Many in its first year the Junior Roth program at osterholz Schrambeck High school is already one of the largest in Europe. The students Are so enthusiastic about the program that roughly one of every three in grades nine to 12 participate in the Junior Reserve officer training corps program. We want to let them know where osterholz is at Cadet capt. Felix Santos a Roth commander said. Among the 15 defense department schools in Germany that offer Roth Only Nuernberg has More cadets 200 than osterholz Schrambeck s 130 members. There Are about 1,300 cadets in Germany said Robert Bayless director of army instruction for the department of defense dependents schools Germany Region. The osterholz Schrambeck school pro Gram registered its first appointment to a service Academy this year when 17-year old senior Mike Armondo was accepted into West Point. The program started late last summer with Only 13 students most of whom had previous a Roth experience. Sec. Fred Casanova an Active duty no was As signed to the program from the nearby 2nd army div fwd in Karlstedt. Several cadets said the Prospect of col lege Aid motivated them to join. Roth scholarship Money accounted for $2.7 million of $8 million in financial Aid awarded last year to students in Dodds Germany. Jennifer Montessi 14, said she decided to join because it was new in the school and it was a Challenge so i said Why not " Cadet capt. Scott Davis a Veteran of three year in the a Roth was one of the students that helped shape up the Oster Holz contingent. It was a real Challenge to bring 130 students together and turn them into a Bunch of Roth kids then turn them into a battalion Davis said. We weren t training a few people we were training a  marksmanship first Aid map Reading leadership and Drill and ceremony Are among the subjects dealt with during the one class period students spend in a Roth each week Day. The program was a new thing for me Casanova said. But the subjects that we teach weren t anything new be cause we teach the same things in a regi  Casanova was recently joined by Charles Hall a retired master sergeant who was transferred from the program at Patch High school in Stuttgart. Lack of an indoor firing Range is a problem facing the unit. A marksmanship unit is conspicuously absent from the teams that osterholz Schrambeck High school sends to a Roth meets. However funds have been approved for the indoor Range and officials Hope that one can be opened at the school before the end of the term. Kaiserslautern Drill Feam already thinking of 1987 by Paul Cozby Kaiserslautern Bureau it was less than two weeks after Kaiserslautern High school won the Safe Junior Reserve officer training corps Drill Competition but from the sound of the team meeting it seemed the team had not even placed. Next year it s not going to be All fun on the team warned a Stern Michael Peveto a Cadet Captain who is commander of the Drill team. It s going to be hard. You re going to have to do what it takes to be a real team Mark that final word  the Kaiserslautern team practices three Days a week two hours each Day. In the week before a contest it practices for five Days before school at lunch and after school. The armed Drill team because of the heavy weapons tossed about in its routine must practice outside regard less of the weather. Kaiserslautern took the trophy for Best Overall unit a trophy that rotates Between winners of the Safe contests. But that was last week. Next year there will be another Competition a title to defend and a trophy to try to keep. Next year Well be the ones people Are shooting for Peveto an 11th grader said. And so comes the need for teamwork. The students Learned that lesson Well the Day of the Competition. It was the first event regulation Drill. Cadet maj. Cathy Cyr was putting the unit through its motions when a command called from another part of the contest area confused her. I just blanked she recalled. I know that routine in my sleep. So i just marched us around. At that Point i thought that was  Peveto remembered it differently. She made up for that he quickly added. In the color guard she did Excel  Kaiserslautern s color guard unit won Best in Safe. But it was t until the judges announced the Overall Winner that the students realized that they had taken the title. I said that s us said Cyr a 12th grader who was participating in her last Competition. Many of the students on the Drill team never thought they would be wearing a uniform to school one Day a week and working on precision marching routines in their free time. Before i got Here i said me in Roth no Way " said Cadet 1st it. Michael Byrne. I did t want to get my hair  Byrne commanded the armed Drill team which took Best in Safe and continued a five year trend of top honors for the armed unit. Others students floated into it. Col. Kenneth Murphy s classroom for a variety of reasons. Cyr will graduate As Deputy commander of the program but her Rea son for joining Junior Roth As a fresh Man was a common one i honestly got in because i needed a filler in my sched  2 american soldiers woman injured in off Post fire by the stars and stripes Babenhausen Germany three americans were injured one seriously when a fire broke out in an off Post residence in near by Herg Hausen German police said. The fire broke out just before Midnight thursday in a three Story House where two soldiers and a woman occupied three apartments on the top floor a spokeswoman for the Darmstadt police said. The fire broke out when the refrigerator in the woman s apartment caught fire be Hind the wooden partition where it was concealed the spokeswoman said. The woman received head and leg injuries the police spokeswoman said. A visiting american Soldier of the 6th my co was slightly injured a Darmstadt military Community spokeswoman said. A 27-year-old american Soldier assigned to the 545th ordnance co reportedly fell to the Street while trying to escape the fire the Darmstadt military Community spokeswoman said. He sustained serious head injuries. The other american resident was Able to escape unharmed the police spokeswoman said. The names of the americans were being withheld until their families could be notified