European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March b 1987 bomb threat interrupts Berlin Trade fair Bylinda White Towel editor Berlin a noontime bomb threat put a Tempo Rary Damper on saturday opening Day festivities or the International tourism fair its the . Booth the tar i of the threat was closed for several hours while a bomb squad and dog searched he area. They found nothing and the stand was Back in operation by 2 ., As a crowd of people stood listening to a country music band. The Hall where the threat was made contain exhibits from the United Stales and Canada. Business in other areas of the Fairground was not disrupted the world s largest Trade far had started on an opt Mistoc note with predictions of an improving tourism season Tor 1947, More than 2,000 exhibitors from Over 900 countries up 13 percent from last year have setup shop at the City s Fairgrounds. The big travel Industry marketplace is where professional Exchange information on what is available on world Market sign contracts and establish business Contact. At a sidelight the Public can visit the stands to get vacation ideas. Many countries provide Folk entertain ment or demonstrate local Craft the Swiss always imaginative with their showcase Are featuring a Jolly Ball machine brought Over from the Vancouver exhibition. It is a sculpture of optical and sound effects thai highlights attractions hat await tourists to the country. However Austria usually one of the biggest exhibitor has Cut the size of its  year the fair is dealing with overcoming the damage done to tourism in 1986 by the libyan crisis and the chernobyl nuclear disaster. Even though 1986 was Shaker by fear of flying Many countries report thai they had recouped travel losses by the year s end. The Netherlands for example reports a 3 percent increase in tourism Yugoslavia finished i percent higher in 9ft6 than in the Boom Yearou 9s5. The sign for the 1987 season Are encouraging officials say. The German Market alone backed by Strong currency is expected to Lead the Boom Tavel for europeans in be affordable while american tourists arc suffering from the weak dollar.. Travel agents say it will be along time before the american Tounsi Boom of 198i is repeated but they arc predicting a 15 to 21 percent increase in overseas travel by americans this  that in the past relied heavily on Ameri can business Are looking elsewhere Tor their tourist income. America is hoping for an upsurge of International  it is open through thursday from 10 . To 6  Admission is 25 Marks about st4 for a single ticket and 3s Marks about $19 for the duration of the fair. Medical Exchange program scrubs differences by Janet age Steno medical writer one of the things spec. 4 Richard Sharron remembers most about German medical care is How the aur Geona was their hands Sharron an operating room technician at Lan Stuhl  regional medical Center spotted Sise difference while watching doctors scrub for surgery at a German military Hospital in Koblen where he was on Exchange. American doctors he said scrub fro the fingertips to the elbows washing the germs away from their hands. The Ger Man doctors though started washing at the Palm or some other area of the hand temperatures s7 � 70s to do a  � it it 61 Hiram 4 14 hmm a u40 71 a a european weather Nam to sunny a to Bratu.  woke. Moray Kun is a mute  new uni 2w1 Jet to Snow us intr we Hon lir ts4 our of Tor Momut. U a univ Clowry Tomt wifi Hen Inovia to Tfir we huf at of Tawny to 19 a 12 m 40 to new us re Nam stun Ltd 43 4t  to � few i i � u Lon fun. Rib m  14 73 ugh Wal ii a Sim. I h m Hoik i to rub to of a d 4 imuiw.i41 4t Aua. I f 11  St 49 Tolub. H 79 � Vinowa. R u 19 and scrubbed in no particular direction he said. In january Sharron and sgt. Christo Pher Denczek a practical nurse became the first from Landrt Uhl 10 participate Inan Exchange program of enlisted person Nel among american belgian French and German military hospitals in Ger Many. The Exchange program was  affairs director Marie show s idea to promote camaraderie and understand ing among the hospitals. The Exchange which allows participants to observe Only takes place every month and will include ail medical specialities Shaw said both Sharron 19, and Denczek 17.who Are from co a said the medical care at the German and american Hospi tals was basically the same but they noticed some differences in equipment an Hospital procedures. For example Denczek noticed that German doctors gathered on the wards in a group every morning and were accompanied by other Hospital personnel As they went on their rounds. Denczek said this contrails sharply with american hospitals where doctors usually visit their patients alone at any hour of the Day. When the German doctors entered the rooms he said the patients hopped Oul of bed and seemed to snap to attention some holding up their Pajara tops so the doctors could see their bandages or Inci Sions it was one of the funniest things Iever saw he said Denczek found the attitudes of staff and other military personnel More relaxed he said. Ii was t a military atmosphere atall Denczek said. The military Courte sies were Laid Back and i rarely saw peo ple Salute someone of a higher rank Denczek said the control of narcotic was less stringent than in american hospitals where nurses must sign for every Koehler loses new Job called a victim of feud Washington up president Reagan s communications director John Kenler was fired on Bis fifth Day artwork and White House sources said sat urday he was a victim of staff upheaval and the feud Between Donald Regan and Nancy , a Veteran foreign correspondent and editor with the associate press before he became a consultant to the . Information Agency Usia in 1 go killed 2 injured in crash near Hanau Hanau Germany a 3rd. Support Corad Soldier died and two others Wen injured in a traffic Accident Early sat urday morning near Hanau. The two injured soldiers Are being treated at the Frankfurt  Hospital a 3rd support come Public affairs spokesman said. The sojdiers1 names Are being with held pending next of Kin notification. German police told the associate press the car hit a truck head on and crashed into an embankment the Accident happened on a two Lane Federal Highway at about s ., police said the tick Driver and a passenger were Only slightly Hun the police spokesman said. Damage was estimated at 150,000 Marks about 183.000. The Highway was roped off and barred to traffic for about three hours a reported military authorities Are investigating the Accident. 1985, replaced Patrick Buchanan Las monday the sane Day Howard Baker began work As White House chief of staff replacing Regan. Baker brought with him a coterie of aides from his Yean in the Senate and two presidential , said Baker told Koehler Fri Day that he is reorganizing the staff an that the Job description of his Post might  will be Given a Job with the Usia the source  i appointment in mid february caused a 24-hour Mir when it was revealed that the Dresden Germany native had been a member of a nazi youth group when be was 10 years old although hit past was not a matter of concern and something Koehler had Al ways talked about it was a Surprise tothe White House which announced his appointment before getting routine feb background reports Regan was bitter because he had had Little influence in making the appoint ment to such an important Post. He blamed mrs Reagan for Rushing it through according to news  could not be reached far com ment anniversary noted Brussels Belgium a at the invitation of the italian government the european economic Community will meet in Rome March 24 to Mark the 30th anniversary of the secs founding treaty of Rome. Narcotic that is Given a patient and the count the amount of drugs remaining at the end of each shift. In me German hos Pital the nurses Are required to count and sign for the narcotics Only when the Yare first brought to the Ward he Laid. Sharron said that in Koblenz the patients scheduled for surgery were transferred from their unseen be Beds into the sterile operating room by a sophisticated system of machinery using convey roads and Hydraulic lifts a system he had never seen. They had some equipment that was More advanced and updated than we have Here he said. I was impressed bythe  it was the Exchange of cultures an language though that the two men valued most i Learned More about German Cus Toms and the people and the language than anything else Denczek said i Hope when they come Here we willbe As hospitable to them a they were to news update Reagan proclamation Washington a presi Dent Reagan Friday formally declared Nicaragua Paraguay an Romania ineligible to Export goods. Duty free to the United  action in a proclamation strikes the three countries fro those receiving preferential treat ment under the generalized system of preferences in Trade regulations Reagan had notified co Gresson Jan. 2 that he planned to take the action because the countries have not taken and Are not taking Steps to afford internationally recognized worker  in the same proclamation Rea Gan made Micronesia and the mar shall islands eligible for the duty free preferences. Engineer fired new York a the Engi Neer of a metro North Hudson line train that struck another of theline s trains in the Bronx East month has been dismissed metro North announced. An investigation has confirmed that Daniel o Brien 35, of Cartel ran a red sign and thereby Trig gered the crash metro North said. The brotherhood of locomotive engineers will Appeal a spokes Man for the Union  empty southbound train with o Brien at the throttle collided feb. It with a train carrying 500 passengers. Dozens of train were delayed or cancelled delaying 30,000 people. Twenty seven peo ple suffered minor injuries