European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page Al the stars and stripes sunday March 1.1987 women deacons Del Friday. A Church Synod last week decided to ordain women priests within five yens. The women will not be Able to wire communion. Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Rande ppe with mine of the 15 women who were ordained Dea cons in he Church of England at Canterbury Calpe soviet Consumers now get news of shortages and Why they occur Moscow a soviet Consumers Long accustomed to deficits of food and other goods Are getting a remarkable abundance of one commodity that used to Bein Short Supply news about shortages and Why they occur in recent weeks soviet newspaper readers have been told Why it s been difficult to find potatoes in Moscow inexpensive Cologne in Kharkov and Yaroslavl and warm sheepskin Coats throughout a country famous for its frigid Winters. Each Story about hard to find consumer goods give sits readers a glimpse into one of the Many problems plaguing the soviet Economy. For example Coffee temporarily disappeared fro stores Here late last year when the Price of soviet Oil exports plummeted thus culling into hard currency available for imported luxuries a crackdown on drinking aimed at increasing worker productivity caused shortages of several goods veal Cologne even toothpaste As soviets sought substitutes for hard to find Vodka. And supplies of a popular medicinal Oil grew scarce when authorities cracked Down on its production by Black marketeers. Such shortages used to be ignored by the official soviet press which gave readers volumes of reassuring data on factory production but few explanations forthe sparse offerings in retail stores. But under soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s Glas nost or openness policy which has lifted some restraints on Public debate shortages have become Rou Tine news. Officials in charge of factories stores or government ministries frequently Are asked to explain Why con Sumers cant find a product. Their answers May not satisfy frustrated shoppers. But they illuminate entrenched features of the soviet Economy some of which Are targets of Reform by Gorbachev. Moscow s potato deficit for example is a result Ofa traditional labor problem the Lack of incentives in system that guarantees work Brail citizens and usually Doest pay them according to  warehouses have plenty of potatoes to satisfy Moscow s demand concluded a reporter in the Jan. 30edition of Moskovskaya pravda the capital s communist party daily. Bui deliveries Are erratic and stores often have nothing to sell to would be potato customers. One frustrated Moscow store manager told the paper that be routinely turns away morning shoppers warehouse delivery trucks Don t get their daily Load of vegetables until 11 . And the trucks Don t arrive at his store until afternoon or evening the manager  the time the produce is delivered lines have formed to buy it the manager identified As a Zubkov said he is helpless to change the delivery problem. The vegetable truck Drivers know they will receive their wages even though they spend hours idling at the warehouse each Day. They Are their own masters Zubkov said. Several recent shortages have been blamed on the Kremlin s Sharp cutback  store operating hours. While Gorbachev seeks to increase worker productivity by curbing drinking soviet citizens Circum vent Bis measures by purchasing yeast to make liquor at Home or alcohol based toiletries to be consumed in place of Vodka. World today Man defends aids free pleasure Park proposal Perth Australia u i a Bui inhuman seeking to set up a nationwide Chain of aids free pleasure Parks defended his proposal As essential in the fight against the deadly disease. Allan Cooke an environmentalist specializing Ingrid land reclamation said the Parks would include health spas jogging track adult pleasure houses an professional hostesses for sex. At the moment if you go into the City to a night club or hotel meet someone and go Home for casual sex you cannot be sure that person Tias not got aids Coots said. He said no one would be let into Hii Parks Lew r _ _ More than up Market brothels. Man sentenced for attempt to Hijack polish Airliner Warsaw Poland apr a court sentenced a 19-year-old Man to five years in prison for  Hijack a polish jetliner last August by threatening a flight attendant with a razor Blade the official news Agency Pap said Friday the Case was heard in the southwestern City of Wro claw but Pap did not say when the trial took place the defendant Dariusz Piskorek was convicted of trying to Hijack a Domestic lot polish airline flight from wroclaw to Warsaw on aug. 28,1986, the hijacking was foiled by Security guards aboard the plane who overpowered Piskorik and look him into custody Pap said. Seven s. Koreans arrested for secret labor activities Seoul South Korea Dpi police said Friday the arrested 10 people and were looking for seven others for organizing a pro North korean underground labor net work to topple South Korea s capitalist system a police spokesman said those involved were All self educated pro communists and had no direct relationship with North  members of the group now under arrest including the ringleader Kim Young Jin 26. Face up to15 years in Anson on charges of violating the Tough National Security  others in the group who were considered secon Dary can expect a prison Terra of up to seven years each under the same Law. The group wag uncovered in january and All of us members were either College dropouts or expelled from a University far anti government activity the spokes Man said. Belgian colleges requiring aids test from some students Brussels Belgium a Belgium said Friday about 1,500 third world students attending belgian universities must submit to a test for exposure to aids or lose their scholarships. The health ministry said spouses of the students or their sexual partners if they Are unmarried also will be tested to determine if they have been exposed to the virus causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The fatal disease destroys the body s immune sys tem. One of the ways it i spread is by sexual Contact. The ministry said students who refuse to Lake the aids test will forfeit their scholarships. Neighbor state fears aids influx from Bavaria Stuttgart a the Baden we Kruemberg state government said Friday it fears an influx of aids victim from neighbouring Bavaria which or dered compulsory tests of High risk groups last week. Bavaria s decision wednesday to Star immediate mandatory checkups of prostitutes drug addicts and others for the deadly viral disease Drew Strong criticism from Federal officials and every other stale in the country. In Stuttgart Baden Wcurt Tumberg social affairs minister Barbara Schaefer. Said she feared bavarian aids victims might Start flocking to her state to escape official persecution.1 it would be an extraordinarily selfish thought to relocate this problem beyond one s Borders Schaefer said in an inter View on the Southwest German radio network. In apparent reference to Bavaria she said it was important to work against an atmosphere of hysteria and really Hel these people aids victims instead of discriminating against  Schaefer is a Christian Democrat. Bavaria is governed by the Christia social Union a Sisler party of the Chris Tian democrats who head Germany coalition government. Bavaria now requires aids tests for prostitutes intravenous drug addicts homosexuals prison inmates and applicants for Public service jobs. Testing for aids acquired immunodeficiency syndrome also is required for foreigners seeking bavarian residency permits except for european economic Community nationals. Bavarian police were authorized Lobring in for testing anyone who does not voluntarily comply. Rheinland Pfalz s health minister Klaus Toepfer a Christian Democrat also termed Bavaria s measures an  Friday and called for a Fedenis slate Summit conference to coordinate the aids fight. In West Berlin the City stale s opposition social democrats called Bavaria moves a medieval approach to a new and difficult health problem. Bavarian government spokesman Wolfgang Lazik defended the policy Fri Day saying it was aimed at protecting the health of the population at Large. Federal health minister Rita  has publicly urged the use of con Doms As an anti ads precaution. She said thursday that Bavaria s compulsory testing was a false  Federal health authorities rejected bavarian Calls for National registration of aids Vinis carriers saying this would drive people in High risk groups under ground