European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. February 24, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 3 railway system offers tickets to savings by the stars und sprint to the German Federal Hailun Wii begin a new Price Structure for Tram tick ets within the country March i. The regular fare remains a pfennig about 11 cents put Situm Clur second class and 30 pfennig about 16 a cols first class Bill ticket Prim will no longer be rounded up id he next full Mark several new prices Are being Infra Ducco. They include the Milan scr or macs Siung special Price for people Raveling together the spar Paris Sav Ings Price and the super Sharp acis super savings Price. Ail three plans inc offered for two Losi people Raveling together round trip. With a minimum of one adult and one child aged 4 to ii and a maximum office adults and one child aged 4 to 11. Under the Mil Fahrr plan the first person pays full fare. The second person pays full fare for distances up to 200 i to milers and half fare for distances More than 200 Kilometres the others pay full fare up to 50 kilo meters and half Price fur distances More than so Kilometres. The Sharp acts is Good for round trip when the distance is More than 450 kilo meters in one direction. It costs 180 Marks about $100 second class and 270 Marks about $150 first class for the first person. The second through fifth persons in the group pay half Price. Chil Dren travelling with adult pay 25 per cent. The super Sharp acis is Good for roundtrip when the one Way distance is More than 300 Kilometres and less than 450 Kilometres. The first person pays 120marks about 167 second class or Iso Marks first class. The second through fifth people pay half children pay 25 percent. With reserved scaling under the super Sharp acis six people can have a compartment for the Price of five thai is for 360 Marks about 1200 second class or 540 Marks about $300 first class. The German Federal railway is a popular Way id Sec inc country and the system is introducing some Cost saving Ravel plans. The ticket is Good for 10 Days and there Are restrictions As to Lime of travel Uncertain Days. Trips to inc Netherlands and Denmark can be included after May the Cost of inc annual family pass has been reduced to 130 Marks about $73 from 200 Marks. With the pass families receive reductions on ticket prices. The senior citizens pass previously Good monday through thursday be comes Good for saturday As Well and will Cost 75 Marks about 142 instead of 65 Marks. It entitles them to reduced fares. Commuters also Are being offered a year s travel for the Price of 10 months. To take advantage of inc Olter travellers must fill out forms available at Der travel agencies or Abo centers at the main railway stations in Essen. Frank Furt Hamburg Hannover Karlsruhe Cologne Munich Nuernberg. Saar Bruecken and Stuttgart. Travel from Page t cause people seem to be saving for Long weekends to gel the most travel Lime for their Money. Also we Haven had a recent big i so permanent change of station move and therefore no last minute panic shopping she said referring to people who Rush in to Book one last trip before heading to the United slates. People Are saying up for trips they be always wanted to go on instead of saying what the Heck let s up there for the weekend " said Robin Cannon of the Rhein main a itt. Our Day Tours arc More popular and Paris is still requested even with the visa Brigit a Colantonio of top Tours foresees longer hours being popular. I would say people will travel not As often and will select their Tours More carefully she said. But last year when we also expected a trend of less travel our longer Tours sold very Well. People arc More careful about How they spend i hair Money on a trip. They Are cutting out shopping and luxury entertainment when they Margil Lee of prime Tours said travel agent arc being cautious but she does not plan to Cut Back on the number of hours her company offers. But we will sell in Marks because the customer can gel a better Exchange rate than we can she said. . Jimmy Ramos recently visited the Rhein main itt for information about Brussels Belgium. The Dollar cuts Back but my time Here is drawing to an end so what the Heck he said. What 1 do is get together with friends and drive. When you get four or five people to share it s nol As Bui , Beverly Bowman assigned to det 7011. Air Force office of special investigations Pitburg a describes the Dollar situation As scary. Bowman who is single said being Only an airman first class i Don t gel paid that much. If it gets any worse i might have Lomove on Bowman said she has not had to cancel any travel plans Cyl. I m interested in travelling As much As i can. And the acc Center on base has put up a notice saying that with the decline of the Dollar prices of trips from the acc Center could go up she said. A morale welfare and recreation spokeswoman at Pitburg said there May be a minimal increase in tour costs with inc decline of the Dollar the increases would affect those trips that use local contractors such As bus companies. Sum Tell Leif a Jpn Welsh do Tia butt Jig Buie Itu contributed in this report author ordered to remove passages from Book Dusseldorf Germany a a German court on monday ordered author Muenier Wallraff to remove two passages in All new editions of his Best Selling Book about exploitation of for eign workers in Germany. A lawsuit brought by the giant Thys sen steel firm had demanded the Dele Tion of seven passage in the Book Ganz Unton at the very Bottom. The company shared thai Wall rafts descriptions of working conditions for foreigners employed by Thyssen were untrue. However the head of a three judge panel. Chief judge Gerhard Winorr Berg ordered the removal of Only two Pasman saying the court was not competent to judge the others. Under threat of a 500,000-Mark j278.000 Fine Wallraf tand his pub Lishers Kiepen Cuer and Witsch of co Logne can no longer print in the new editions of the Book that Thyssen has Long been reducing ils German work Force and substituting foreign labor. They must also remove a passage that says so called loaned workers from labor lbs hire companies accused by Thyssen under health threaten ing conditions such As without masks for Protection against dust. Winter Harg said editions of the Book that had already been printed would nol he affected or confiscated As a re sult of the ruling. A statement released by Kiepen Heuer and Witsch after monday s ver dict said that Wallraf tand the publish ers would Appeal the court decision. Wallraff a crusading journalist went underground posing As a Turk for two years to research the conditions faced by turkish workers in Germany. He was accompanied by a camera Man. Jorrge afro Orr who posed As an italian worker but kept a hidden Cam Era wit i him to record Wall rafts experiences. The film was later used to pro Duce a movie version of Ganz the Wallraff Book which went on Sale oct. 21, 1985, quickly soared Lothe lop of Germany s bestseller list where it remained for More than a year some 2.5 million copies of the Book have been sold since then along with translation rights in at least 10 other countries. Last year a German businessman was Given a suspended 15-Momh Pris on sentence and a line of 3,600 Marks s2,00 for hiring turkish workers illegally and renting them out to Large companies a cheap labor. Thai suit was brought by stale prosecutors in the mate of Nord Rhein we i Falen Afler the businessman s name was revealed through Wallraff Shook there arc about 4.2 million foreign ers in Germany. About 1.4 million of them Are turks
