European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Can Athen be saved traffic pollution choking City few my a Athum it to we hmm to pm Puth Wpm by Lee Stokes United press International Hen a visitor approached ancient Athens to saw a View dominated by the City Wall and the sparkling Marble Parthenon on he acropolis. Today s visitor i still Sec a wan but it s a wait of seemingly impregnable traffic. He May Lave difficulty spoiling he Parthenon because of thick smog. Pericles the ruler of Athens in the 5th Century ., gained Fame by spending targe Mima turning parts of the City into an architectural jewel Lor the Parthenon Temple was Buth during his . Modern athenian Petti dans Are a quaff wily mailing pre election promises to match those of Peri Tea. But the question being asked by 3.5 million athenians who elected a new mayor oct. 19 is can Athens become a by ate City again when the socialists were first elected in 1981. They pledged to remove the Root causes of pollution and Orve the City s serious traffic problem. Five years later the Blanket of smog totally tin own a the Nefos is still there. The streets Are As traffic choked As Ever. Athenians their rents rocketing Are Stefl complaining that their City is " he Wisest Concrete Jungle with the Smalt esl area allotted to Parks in outgoing socialist mayor Dmitris Beia claims he did a a Tot to help the greek capital. We planted nearly 1js million he says. Is Laid out hundreds of pedestrian precincts. We opened kindergartens. We encouraged athenians to grow Flowers on their Msj cows. We tried to turn this Beautiful City some athenians admit Beis successes. He removed the Gas factory from Athena. And the socialists denied up the Plaka District just under the acropolis. Those am achievements said Maria dim Leriou 40. Plata shopkeeper. But to change Athens tar the better you must take drastic measure. And thai Beis could not the standing joke in athenian cafes is that improving the Quality of be can Only happen i the City is bombed and rebuilt from scratch. When lord Byron visited Athena in the 1800s it was just a romantic steal town of 5.000," said local historian Ange Tob May critters. There were shepherds near the acropolis. The City remained pleasant until the 1950s and 19603, when a massive building Boom to accommodate refugees alter he Chi War took priority Over planning he said Many athenians complain about their City because they Ere used to a different lifestyle. Most people m Athens were either brought up in a Village or Are first generation peasant Stock Makridas said. So they still Pine Lor what they think is the idyllic. Here comes comte French promote 1,000-year-old cheese by Laralyn Sasaki United press International ars give the right of Way to cows ambling across roads in the Jura mountains of France. For cows Are the milk of life to makers of comte cheese in a Region where cheese is so important you can earn a doctoral degree in h. Comte pronounced Cohn Teyia trying to catch up in the work marketing game with a frenzy of self promotion sponsored by the Region s cheese Board. The United states is a special target coolie s a Good cheese it s a marketable cheese in the United stolen but it s an says Ben Vitos Cowie a new York cheese importer and former prescient of the . Cheese importers association. East Central France is come country and Little in it has changed in centuries. Houses of thick Grey Stone shelter families who work ram Sunrise to Sunset in the making of the cheese. Their ancestors developed a unique method of curing As a Way to store wbk after cows ran dry in the Winter. Even today each Day s hazelnut Flavoured cheeses Are begun with samples of the previous Day s acid cultures continuing an unbroken Chain of Days and years and decades. Comte is called the 1,000 year old the Honor of Banj one of 27 French cheese designated of guaranteed origin by the stale to upheld by a network of traditions. Ortyn from the wife and bum Kurano tart Briard Kiwata Usika in comte a Iveese. The rat Turr Eri Flar twi Are allowed to eat Only grass and dried Hay Iran the Region Sec to cred or tormented f Ted Are f forbidden delicacies. Come made i fhe autumn is the richest tar the cow have Ted Ona summer s grass interdependence among milk poor new. Cheese motor and rns Sretha a support system in . Today it also control Laboratory Mandati rational school for them a Dusty. Mayor Herret Ger Offu Igor is try scoots headmaster. K awards master s degrees and doctorates in cheese making an Industry which now uses Modem skimming processes and huge Copper denies. It takes a Tot less strength and no air touches the Mak . But Modem technology cannot hurry the cheese. The Region 5,000 a daily to 300 Costa or Magerie or cheese Tector Iea. They past the podurtfo2qlwhfcfc age the cheer Chatara fora my Umof three Mon ins. Pastoral Village Anctot Athens tar All its glorious reputation was not a Paradise for its inhabitants. One must nol think of even St Century Athens As a City of splendid buildings and gleaming Marble,1 said re Wycherley a lecturer in classics at the University College of North Wales. The nobler Monument stood out against a sober background. The houses in which the growing population lived were mealy huddled together in irregular groups Between which the narrow streets insinuated Wycherly said ancient Athens had Little or no planning other than the position of the Market place and the streets radiating dam it. Yet the ancient greeks were aware of the advantages of town planning. The 4th Century Philosopher Aristotle Speaks highly of Holpp Damus the Milesian who discovered the method of dividing cities and Cut up the port City of piraeus.". Athenians today frustrated at the problems of an Ever quicker Way of life have placed their Hopes on Miltiadas even 47, a former Economy minister and the new Athens mayor whom they have nicknamed the the Bulldozer will make Athens Nilca again with lots of Parks less noise and less cars said Haria Papadatos a 63-year-old grocer bom on the Island of cephalonia. Only time win Tell if he can turn Back the Athena Kje cheese and Sonafr orangerie produce ony tour cheeses a Day. Each Day s milk to partially skimmed and acid Are added to begin the Obde Are Culillo curd the at of airs Ortof wheat and the Iquo whey Are in ,tetnelef1r�rre trough Sabto acids. In Efler Case a curds am to afoot most so Madal rom Wood after fee cheese is bom from the met the cheese wheels Are stored he uncalled turned period scaly and rubbed win Ortto form a in tech Rind Dienese is made from in Laboratory Elk . Production methods and the resulting cheese. 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