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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes wednesday july 23,1986 Flag burners penalty Madison wis. A of five teen agers accused of Burn Ings hundreds or miniature  at a cemetery on memorial Day have agreed to make restitution. Dane could assistant  Don Garber said monday thai the youths have each agreed Topay $443 in re Simian. Perform 200 hours of Community service an write an essay on the experience. Two other teen agers involved inthe May 26 incident at Forest Hilf cemetery will be offered the Sam agreement when they return to mad Ison later this summer he said. The five youths were named i delinquency petition accusing them of Flag mutilation a felony and property damage a Mise Meanor. T my put study b Rah it Matt my mum Triau Hitre re non Loti Miel mid army identifies go killed in Accident Schwabach Germany army official tuesday identified the Soldier killed last week in a training Accident near is Obenau North of Nuernberg u spec 4 Daniel r. Walter. The 22-year-old Soldier was killed when the m163 Vulcan air defense sys tem be was Riding in suddenly veered off the Road and rolled end Over end Down a Hill said capt. Dak Bryson 1st army div spokesman. Waher apparently tried to get out of the vehicle before it fluted rolling but he was thrown into toe vehicle s Pathan was crushed by it Bryson said Waller was assigned id c buy 2ndbn, 59th air defense arty he was a native of Pem Vauken no. He is sur Vived by his Mother Katherine Walter aloof Pennsauken. Classes beamed by satellite expand learning opportunities byjoe Mapother staff writer Boston University is experimenting with beaming lectures by satellite to improve education in Remote locations. Robert Lamb vice president for Over seas programs said the University is evaluating the satellite lectures technical and financial feasibility balanced with educational benefits. The German Federal Post office an Boston University Are cooperating in the Experiment that has been tried this sum Mer with computer science and Market ing classes Lamb said beaming classes by satellite brings lecturers to locations where class size does not permit the expense of sending a guest lecturer Lamb said. In Berlin the marketing management class of Boston University professor Dale Snook took part in a Tri covered experimental seminar with classes in Frankfurt and Ludwig Stafen Germany. The lecture was beamed in june from a Post office studio in Ludwigshafen Toich other locations. The six hour pro Gram was spread Over two class period Sand minded lectures by european executives of a German airline company andean american computer manufacturer. Students in the Berlin marketing class had an Opportunity to question the executives in Ludwigshafen using a Telephone Hookup among the three classrooms. This is the wave of the future Inmany ways Shook said it gives the students Contact with people who Are actually doing this stuff 1 graduate students in Snook s class were cautious about assessing the Bene fits of lectures by satellite. I did t feel very Good about watch ing a to said Doug Leonnig 39, and the budget officer at the . Embassy in East Berlin. But it was probably the most effective Way we could get Access to fairly High powered  Steve Wolf a 24-Yearoid who expects to finish work on a business degree this summer said because i grew on in the time period i did. I m probably Man accepting of the , no matter How valid satellite classes Are As teaching instrument they can never replace the professor in the classroom Wolf  Contact with a professor is particularly important at the graduate tev because the Cess subject matter a de bated rather than simply imparted. Wolf said. Wolf favored the interaction betwee the classes because it gave him the Opportunity to glean ideas from the other students he said the University is renting the satellite dishes and television monitors said Jin Kammermeyer academic coordinator for business administration and closely involved with the satellite  officials will evaluate the Experiment at the close of the semester Kanu Nenneker said. About 2,000 Stu dents Are enrolled in Boston University programs in Europe she said. Unseemly tourists to face fines under new venetian Law Venice Italy of declaring that Venice won tolerate unseemly behaviour by visitors the mayor of this Lagoon City has issued list of taboos that include Sampins Sloppy dressing and put aug in the canals. We cannot permit the historic areas of Venice to become transformed into a camping round mayor Nereo Lafoai said in a to emf it monday. In no othe City ii this  the forbidden pursuits which a Fol become punishable by Tow thursday fall under the heading of Coo Pott ment that could disturb the Iraq oily and  . A Gociu m Welcome Bat the guests of Venice must be respectful of the City Lamm said noting Many tourist exhibits seemly behaviour by unit Huj bags in so Mark s Square Stroo int around ing suits and littering. Under the new rules All of the above will be barred. Along with bathing in the canals and changing clothes or nagging in Public places. In addition no paying of Lou music on portable radios or tape decor Deli win be Al Lowed in St. Mark i smart which is i favorite haunt of Young tourists. For some time we have followed a political course favouring tourism by those who Ait lets wealthy particularly Young peo pfc Lamoni said we have in fact opened an office for that our objective is to maintain clean Bassand order in the City those who ignore the restrictions will face fines of Between 20,000 to 200,000 lire is 3 to 1150. Damaged id cards can be conf scared visitors to rein main a Germany who present damaged military or dependent id at the Gale could be denied Entrance to the base and have their id taken Way. Mutilated ids Are showing tip More and More Anrhein main said staff sgt Stewart Tyson of the 21st  by at Rhein main. People Are  ids trimmed on the edges to fit their cadets. They re using glue to hold cards together. Some cards the split Down the Middle be said. Tyson said 20 to 25 mutilated id cards Are confiscated each Day. Military people and dependents Wilmont records at Brcin main must go to the Abrau comp Lexia Frankfurt for a new id if theirs is taken. Confiscated id cards could prove inconvenient for military Airlift come passengers on their was to the Rheum main flight terminal. Tyson said several people have roused i ghz for this reason. Economic growth Sank to 1.1% rate in second Quarter Washington a economic growth slumped to to annual rate of i. J percent Fonro april through june the stowes Pace smog the end of the last recession 3u Yean ago the government Kim led tuesday. The weakness in tie Gross National product toe broadest measure of the nation s economic Hearth meant us Economy expanded in Riv to befit half of i486 at a sluggish 14perc5tannual rate far below the Dion Uratio s Hopes for growth this year at u annual Rale of 4 percent the Commerce department add the Gnu Slid to lest that on tend of the 3.8 percent rate for the first three months of Meyetr. Growth in the april june Quarter was the slowest since a l6percent increase in Ike final three months of 1982, when the 198t-82 recession was coming to an  news on inflation remained positive however. A Price Index tied to the Gnu Rose at on annual Rale of 2.1 percent inthe april june period the lowest increase in almost two dec  administration has already said that the weaker economic growth win add about $10 billion to the budget deficit this year and will Force a downward revision in growth estimates for the whole  administration economists insist that growth will still rebound in the second half of the year Many private economists Nave been revising their forecasts downward to Snow sluggish growth for the rest of toe  3.8 percent growth calculated for the first three months of the year represented a substantial revision from an estimate last month that growth during this period was at a much slower 2.9 percent  analysts said the figure was revised because new data showed strength in earnings by us. Compau abroad and because of positive changes in business inventories and government defense  government also revised its estimates of growth for the last several Yean. The changes had the effect of boosting growth for All of 1985 from on originally estimated 12 percent to 17 percent. This followed 1984 growth now estimated at 6.4 per cent. The Economy has been in a period of basically sluggish activity since the summer of 1984. For the last two years the Gnu has been rising at an average annual Rale of 2.5 percent. By contrast the Economy surged ahead at an annual Rale of 7 percent in the first 18 months of the current  principal reason for this Sharp slowdown has been a huge deterioration in the country the Domestic manufacturing  foreign Trade per adm Industry has been in a virtual recession As foreign Competition has stolen sales of a Good both in this country and abroad. That situation continued to Worsen from april through Juneas imports surged at an annual rate of 20.1 percent whue us. Exports were rising  
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