European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pagso the stars and stripes thursday december 25,1986 Headstrong stunt Man in Malaysia mighty Man ocl Chumann uses his hair cd pull a Malaysia. The 35-year-old Lelch Tumanan pulled the bus loaded with 25 passengers in Kuala Bumpur. Bus More Thun 65 feet before to cameras. Turkish mayor has Sharp reply to new yorker s gibe at Istanbul Istanbul Turkey a remarks by the chair Man of an exclusive Manhattan department store who unfavourably compared new York to Istanbul on a Sun Day evoked the following response from this City s mayor May god not let Istanbul look like new York mayor Bedrettin Dalan noted that during a recent visit to the big Apple i saw How the human Factor got lost among the Gigantic buildings of  the mayor was responding to comments last week by Ira Neimark chairman of the fifth Avenue store Berg Dorf Goodman and one of Many new York retailer complaining about the proliferation of Street vendors outside their stores. This City is being put in a position of looking like Istanbul on a sunday Neimark said in demanding action against the paddlers. The standards of this City Are really going to the  in Istanbul however residents quickly Point out the changes that have been made in recent years. Under Dalan s 2-year tenure derelict buildings along the Golden Horn a 4-mile stretch along the bos porus River have been razed giving Way to Parks and playgrounds. The bosporus has been the target of a cleanup Campaign. Istanbul still has paddlers even on sundays which is not a main marketing Day in Turkey a secular nation where the main religion is islam. A recent Lour of the City of 6 million on a sunny midwinter Day showed a marked decrease in car and Pedes Trian traffic from the Busy weekdays. Top Kapi Square whose Bazaar attracts a few thou Sand people and pm Inonu Square close to the spice Bazaar were centers of activity. Shops Selling second hand or scrap items and cheap clothes were open. Street vendors offering goods ranging from shirts sweaters socks boots toys radios and Cas settes line the streets with their makeshift carts. Others place their wares on plastic rugs along the sidewalks. Hundreds of other paddlers hawked their wares by the ruined byzantine Walls while vendors Selling sea Sonal fruits and vegetables could be found in most any neighbourhood. One enterprising 13-year-old, turan Dagli sold flatbread sandwiches stuffed with boiled eggs for 200 lire 2$ cents apiece. He said he was pleased with the roughly 100,000 lire 1130 he earns a month but would prefer a permanent Job Many turks Are forced to take on marginal jobs to earn a living. About is percent of the work Force or More than 3 million people arc unemployed. Necati Zinc Kiran a 57-year-old columnist for the daily Gunaydin believes the increase in sires paddlers in new York signals economic problems. Since the Street vendors emerge As a result of a de Mand there must be something wrong with the Ameri can Economy he Aid besides Neimark s remarks Hurt me As they were unjustified. Because under mayor Dalan this City is undergoing fundamental changes with colossal projects like the Golden  Dalan said new York should examine its priorities. The real Street vendors of new York Are drug pedal ers who come out after 8 . And sell their stuff in the open said Dalan new York should get rid of them first before taking after the innocent Streel  world today Berlin mayor urges end to shooting at escapees Berlin of West Berlin mayor Ebert card Dick gun in a Christmas message addressed id Boi parts of the divided cily urged communist Easl Ger Man soldiers to Stop shooting at a uld be escapees. I Appeal to members of the Border troops in the separated part of Germany to Stop shooting it escapees Dick gun said in a message broadcast by West Berlin radio and television. The broadcasts Are easily heard in communist East Berlin divided from West Berlin by the Berlin Wall which was built 2s years ago by Easl German authorities to prevent  to Easl Germany s pledges of openness and readiness for dialogue for the Celebration of Berlin $ 750th anniversary next year. Wiengen said the shooting orders end the Berlin Wall do not belong  Kentucky Fried Chicken winging its Way to China Louisville by. Up Kentucky Fried Chicken said it will become the first Western fast food company to open restaurants in the people s Republic of China. The company says it has signed a join venture agreement with the Beijing corp. To operate in  first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant is scheduled to open in peking China s capital next year. All of us in the worldwide Kentucky Fried Chicken system Are anticipating a Long and constructive relationship with our new partners in this eliciting High population  said Richard Mayer chairman and chief executive officer of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The menu will feature traditional Kentucky Fried Chicken products. Kentucky Fried Chicken is the world second largest restaurant Chain with More than 6,500 restaurants in the United states and 54 countries. Frankfurt plans relocation of City s red Light District Frankfurt a a two year project to Relo Cate prostitutes and bordello from the downtown area of Frankfurt to less Central areas of the cily will begin in january officials said. Formal approval of a plan to clean up the area near Frankfurt s main Irain station where thousands of visitors to the cily arrive daily will be announced dec. 29, spokesman Karl Heinz Hoffmann of the South District of Hesse state  is Legal in Germany but Frankfurt governed by the conservative Christian democratic party has been trying for years to move the bordello fro the City Center to keep tourists from getting a bad impression of the major banking City. Hesse slate is split into three districts thai Rule on the legality of changes to local ordinances. Frankfurt comes under the Southern District based in nearby Darmstadt. Thieves take paintings by Vuillard from theater Paris a burglars broke into the comedies de champs Elysee theater and stole several paintings by the Post impressionist artist edouard Vuillard the director of the comedies Des champs Elysee Guy desc Aux. Was not immediately available to furn ish details on the paintings and an employee said she did not know the value of the works three Large paintings and three or four Small one were carried off the employee did. Some of the paint Ings of Vuillard 1868-1940 Are on display in the newly opened d orsay  also decorated Many Heaters including the comedies Des champs Elysee. Britain joins plan for High Speed train network the Hague. Netherlands a Britain has joined four other Western european nations in a scheme to link up major cities with High Speed trains Andice five Are 1c make a final decision on the plan next october. At a meeting of transport ministers from Britain Germany Belgium France and the Netherlands British transport minister David Mitchell announced his country would Lake part in the preliminary planning As an associate  dutch transport minister Nellie Smil Kroes told reporters the five nations had decided to order additional studies into the routine financing an operation of the planned network. In october we Hope to meet to make some definite decisions Smit Kroes said adding that she did Noi Rule out private financing for the new rail system. The British move marked a significant change of stance for the government of prime minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain which had previously stalled on any commitment to being part of a pan european High Speed rail net. Britain has attended past meetings on the High Speed system Only As an observer and a British commitment to take part would mean a totally integrated High Speed system Over Northwestern Europe s most heavily travelled routes. We re already committed to the Channel Tunnel project and we re pleased 10 see the development of a new concept of High Speed trains into which Channel trains will run Mitchell said after the meeting using the popular term for the Tunnel. At Issue is a plan to link up Paris London Brussels Belgium Amsterdam and Cologne Germany via a network of High Speed trains similar to the train grand Viesse lines currently operating and under construction in France. In a study prepared for this week s meeting the Cost of the five nation net work was estimated at the equivalent of 19 billion excluding the Cost of the Channel Tunnel which is to be completed in 1993. Trains would run at speeds up to 183miles per hour reducing the trip from Amsterdam to Paris from More than five to less than three hours