European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine we tour cuff Center Ftfe Hyfae and kiss a Wilholm manorial Church background in West brain. A divided City celebrates its history 750 Jahre berlin1987 by James m. Markham new York times Magine thai inc Island of Manhattan 13 divided by a Wall cunning Down film Avenue with Tim Square and Lincoln Center in the hands o a pro Western government med to a ire it Public entrenched esl of Iho Mississippi River. A communist regime. Though dominates the Eastern half of the Island it also cd ilo1 a of Iho Union re slates Easl of the Mississippi occasionally desperate residents of East Manhattan arc Shol As they Liy to flee across the Wall to inc Freedom of the go ahead Coli Iaian entered on Eire huh Avenue yet despite such deep ideological differences. Inc two sides of Manhattan jointly a Rac i j celebrate in 199-1 the 360tn anniversary of the first dutch settlement of the Island. I propose Chr Andlor not in the apocalyptic spirit of Abc s Maria Tun a remind Ihu Roedfr 1nit a Usi Berlin 15 in cry  cd. Surrounded by tast Gorman t on Jill sideband sop Ralond irom Wesl Tiu Iran i j Miles during five y a a in Germany i he kor Lund to unsettling to discover  Many americans  lir to school diplomas ind College Dpi gifts Are . Be to describe the physical cil Nalion o act Berlin in 931, in a Small tics Lurenl Rocone Gliadon. Lire  us in it Berlin want  i  Weihn a Tell Cir lit slate Cosby Thor Rojt Kait Fiedrich Stirr rec a f he arc dried  19lhccntury enl it Tiloi i. Hocom Munirul aijthont.c.5 restored Thon Virv   to he places Hoy had occupied on a Gratcof h re re which today Bear a the names c Marx and Enrid. On in grand Boulevard known As Unter Den pm Dan in Tel urn he Asl Gurmani Send to he Woi a Ftp archives of Iho prussian state  Enterprise which was Pul in Itic Charlottenburg  in Whyl is now a Csc 8er?in tha Vracr i fuds a of War find loll statues and archives on the wrong sides of a Metropolis that  carved up by the victorious n fies after world Var and physically sundered by Iho erection of the Wall in 1%1 the politics of a divided Germany often occur Al the level of symbolic winks and  Between two groups of German politicians who Don t quite Trust each other but know at the Ersmo time that whenever they Gal together  Trust them even less Tho cultural Swap six years ago was such a gesture pregnant with Sigli canc of scrim and for visitors to this fascinating cily since in Laid the group to Rork Lor an agreement Between its communist and capitalist sides to Mark the 750th anniversary of the foundation of her m in 1937. In 1933, Richard i on Weizsacker mayor of West Berlin at the Lime slipped Over o Panf cow he met with Erich Honecker. The fast  communist Leader who in 1961 As an up and  functionary had personally directed Iho building of the Wall. They firmed up the 1987 Dale while informally concurring that each Side of the City would have its own festivity As a result of this quiet Accord germans on Bolh sides of Berlin arc doing shia year what germans generally love to do celebrate Bill Days and anniversaries. In tie two Gem Tanys he two Hoys of Cihos Are a collective projection of this earnestness 35 Well As being me excuses to spend a lot of Money restoring buildings and monuments and organizing lectures exhibit ions and cultural Lesli Vals. From symphonies la Rock concors Wesl Berlin has a special birthday budget of $48 million half of it a subsidy from Bonn in the East they Are not saying How much they Are spending but Char ambitious restorations of bomb blasted   cos considerably More. In Berlin tast and West a very gov run form of organized enthusiasm has byen unleashed it is coloured by a curious spi i of Competition and Hafi acknowledged cooperation Between communists and non communists. Tor tourists and political commentators it Means an intriguing year in the heart of Europe. A joke going around East Berlin has it thai the communist half of the i a is celebrating Ine 700in, nol Trie 750th, anniversary Why because we re 50 years behind the Wesl actually no one is really sure to void Berlin is the tas big Celebration of this kind occurred in the i curl year of he thousand year Reich but it is inexact to say thai it was the nazis who inc need the City s Birl Date. Wolfgang Ribbe. A historian it wast Berlin s free University says that a year before Hitler came to Power in 1932, the Berlin District of Spandau marked whal to called its 700lh birthday. This tired tie City to come up with a elate of us own and to his Lind a document from the year 1237 As produced. The document concerned a dispute Over the control of Church tithes involving Ifie Margrave of Brandenburg in the Resolution of the dispute a year later a cleric named Symeon of Colin was mentioned since in the Midjo Ages Colin was known to be a twin town so Berlin a Bridge Over the spree connecting them eventually had a Lawn Hail in ils a Rudnic fhe document was claimed As a by left certificate for the capital of the Roch the birth Curli Vicale. Along with most of Berun s histone real c Sale ic5 today in c jul Berlin in Vil lie k no to in West for an , to  a Largo cd Sci Iobra Walic Hus Ems Conoll to a saturday june 13, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 13