European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday March 16,1987 Japan fills whale quota ends last Antarctica Tokyo a japanese Crews on saturday killed their 1.941st Minko whale of the year in Antarctica tilling their quota Tor inc season and marking the be ginning of the end of Japan s 400-year whaling history a news report said. The Kyodo news service said the filling of the quota closes japanese whalers 50-year chapter in the Antarctic. When Japan stops Hunting sperm whales in its coastal Waters next Spring the curtain will fall on an Industry once vital to this Island nation. Many environmental groups have pressured Japan and All other nations to Stop whaling claiming that several species arc in danger of extinction. The japanese Fleet hauled a record 10,000 ions or whale meat in the Antarctic this Winter before reaching the quota set by the International whaling commis Sion according to the Kyodo news service there was cheering aboard the whaler no. 3 Kisshin Maru at the news of the 1,941 is Mink catch Kyodo said. The Mother ship and its four Catcher boats now will head for Home and arrive in mid april six months after departing to the music of brass bands. Japan decided late last year to comply with a 1982 International whaling commission moratorium on whaling after concluding an agreement with the United Stales. Tokyo agreed to Stop commercial whaling sometime in fiscal 1967, which begins april 1, and Washington said it would not Cut the quota for Japa Nese boats fishing . Coastal Waters. An estimated 1,200 japanese now depend on. Whal ing for their livelihood compared to 1s.ooo employed in the Industry in the 1960s, when annual catches of 20,000 of Hie mammals were common. Japan s whal ing Industry is still the largest in the world. Today whale meat is a delicacy Here but in inc lean years after world War ii it was an important source of  still will continue research whaling saying much about the mammals such As life expectancy remains unknown. The fishery Agency has said that based on the results of its research Japan May at a later time seek a resumption of commercial whaling. Moral support Asp two a baby Bay bundled against he cold Waits patiently Tor his Mother at a polling place in Helsinki sunday the first Day of Finland s two Day parliamentary elections. Family issues Are a important election topic. Rid today stolen Art found on boat italian authorities report Rome a police on the Trail of stolen artwork found two rare pieces aboard a Renoi Orbat an Lake Como. Authorities said saturday that they thwarted smugglers who hoped to transport the works Ima Switzer land. Officials of the Carabin Leri Italy s paramilitary police displayed to the news Media several religious Art works stolen in the Las few years and recovered Over the past three months. They said inc artworks were Worth hundreds or thousands of dollars but they gave no precise figures. The recovered pieces which were displayed at Cam Pinieri offices in Rome ranged from a Yjih a Colury byzantine altar Picicc stolen from a Church in Viterbo a year ago to a Bronze sculpture designed in 1823 and stolen in 1982 from St. Mary major s Basilica in Rome. Bulgaria reports 1 Man died of aids 22 infected Vienna Austria a one person has deed of aids and 22 people 19 of them africans Are at pre sent infected with the deadly virus in Bulgaria Sofia press a government run information Agency reported. Saturday s report is the tint official word on the number of cases of acquired immune deficiency syn drome in Bulgaria. Infections with the deadly virus have recently been reported by authorities in other East european countries including Hungary and Czechoslovakia. According to the Sofio press report available in Vienna the first aids victim also was an african. The Man already infected reported travelled to Bulgaria 10 months before his death. Sofi press said blood Testa for aids have been con ducted in Bulgaria since 1984. Long struggle expected against Western ideas Beijing a Premier and acting communist party chief Zhao Ziyan said China s Campaign against Western style ideas will be a lengthy struggle out it should no affect the country s economic reforms. We must resolutely carry out Tor decades the straggle against Bourgeois liberalization the state run evening television news reported Zhao said Friday at a meeting on party propaganda. This straggle cannot depend on one or two campaigns or a few meetings for resolution.1 Bourgeois liberalization is a term chinese Leaden use to refer to Western style economic and political ideas. Zhao said the Campaign should be continued in a sustained and healthy  soviets turn to Black Market for software m Moscow a p a shortage of so Viet software is driving the nation s computer buffs to copy ideologically suspect foreign games like raid on Moscow Ana to Deal in Black Market programming a newspaper reported. Buying a computer is just the half of it Komsomol Skaya pravda said Friday in a review of the soviet per Sonal computer scene. Without pro Grams it s just like a tape player with out cassettes the soviet Union which uses pow Erful computers to guide its Cosmo nauts into orbit and to run its defense apparatus has repeatedly stressed the importance of broadening inc nation s computer culture. We must build a program some what like the one we developed la eliminate illiteracy alter the october revolution a program thai is probably no less important in today s world Anatoly Aleksandrov. Ihnn president of the Academy of sciences said in 1984. But Home computers such As the by remain in notoriously Short Supply in stores and the Abacus is still More widely used than the pocket calculator. The ruling politburo called in 1985 for All round and profound mastering by Young people of computers and decreed that computer classes would begin in the nation s 60,000 High schools. But the soviet leadership has placed limits on Access to compel cars apparently out of reluctance to allow the in formation revolution s technology to make All information More available. Two reporters from Komsomol Skaya pravda set off across Moscow to study the soviet computer scene. They met with officials programmers and Hack ers known in russian As sink leists apparently after inc British Mude sin Clair computer the journalists reported that it is Lough enough 10 Purchase a Home com Puter bit that finding suitable soft Ware is nearly impossible. It s been torture with it Denis Komarov told the reporters. Komarov is a student who had to wait i year to buy a computer and Ihnn decided to sell it one san Kleist Idun lifted As Vasily Antonovich showed the journalists a list of 277 computer programs he bad copied that he was Selling for five rubles about 18 apiece. In his catalogue there was not one nationally made program the report ers noted. Another Black marketeer said a packet of 10 programs costs 80 to 200 rubles $125 to $312. The 1312 figure represents More than the average soviet factory worker makes in a month. Because of foreign made programs that have been copied soviet children can remake their country s history by playing the Battles of j917" or pre tend they arc the anti communist Cru Sader  the daily said. In the computer Gumc raid on Moscow inc goal is to obliterate strategic targets in the soviet Union while dodging fighter interceptors and anti aircraft Fin the paper said. In each Fame Komsomol Skaya pravda said unexpectedly like a piano in the Bushes you can select politics with definite ideological  the paper said some soviets Are dealing with the shortage of programs in other ways. Two Moscow groups the interface club and the International computer club have taken Steps to set up a free lending Center for programming. Another student group wrote More than 30 original scientific and game programs themselves. Komsomol Skaya pravda said. The newspaper said dozens of programming stockpiles Cist across the soviet Union but they arc nol Avail Able 10 the average computer Buff. Komsomol Skaya pravda suggested a National contest could be held to choose the Best soviet made programs for duplication and Hal Young enthusiasts could organize clubs nationwide to set up lending libraries of soviet programs. If it s hard to buy a computer it s still possible the paper said in sum Ming up the problems of soviet com Puter owners. But programs arc Sim ply not sold