European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Celebration Zub con Trump Tram Pago 3 history of the City Ribbe says 1hat Berlin is a mainly much older than 750 years. Us name comes from Iho West slavic word Birt which translates unglamorous by As situated in a swamp " nazi Era historians liked Ino late 13lh Century dating because in suggested that their capital had sound teutonic origins. Ude Iho 1936 olympics whose organization had Boon initiated during the Weimar Republic the nazis inherited the plans fora 700th birthday party. But hey had already had such huge publicity bom the dramatically staged Berlin olympics in 1936 that they did not turn the Berlin anniversary the following year into an extravaganza there were military parades and exhibitions but the event was not a major Louril attraction. Neither Hilter or Hermann Goring the Premier of Prussia showed up the 7501 h organizers arc doing considerably better m drawing promo Mienl guests on the Western Side there were visits from the Heads of state o1 the three Allied Powers president Francois Mitterrand of France and Queen Elizabeth ii of England both came in May and president Reagan Lew into Berlin from the Venice Summit of Industrial democracies. During the year such Liee world luminaries As Leonard Bernstein Bob Dylan Henry Kissinger Yehudi Menuhin and Olevio wonder will also make appearances. Socialism stresses collective not individual achievement so the East German Public relations people Are not producing Long lists of political or cultural stars who Havo promised to come to what is insist Endy referred to As the Capila of the German democratic Republic. The East germans Are constantly trying to persuade themselves and the world that a half capital is a real capital. Tai sometimes backfires the communists recently placed full Page ads in Western european newspapers advertising the 75qlh in Berlin and Teal ring a photograph of mayor Erhard of Krain the Wisl Berlin tourist a inc a l of got a number of letters addressed to Krack who was thought mistakenly to administer Ide Western not the Eastern Side. The biggest fish so far has been the one that got away in the tentative mood of cooperation Between East and West Berlin Honecker invited Eberhard Diepgen the mayor of West Berlin to attend an oct 23 Junction in East Berlin that will be the High Point of tie communist celebrations. But the three Western protecting Powers saw this As a Clever communist Man Euver to gel Diepgen to acknowledge that Berlin is the capital of the German democratic Republic France Britain and the United Stales Quito Mically defend is fiction thai Berlin is 0 single entity and so they put Diepgen up to inviting Honecker to come to West Berlin on april 30 for the big Wool German 750th Kickoff. H was. They reckoned an offer Honecker could Only refuse and if he did t come Diepgen could finesse his awkward invitation. For a Lew weeks it looked like the Man who Buill the Berlin Wall was seriously toying with he idea of sweeping through the newly completed Border crossing at checkpoint Charlie in a Black Volvo limousine and getting a glimpse for the first Lime of the Gral Lili sprayed Western Side of what his propagandists Call the anti fascist defensive bulwark. I would have been a delicious moment in the bizarre postwar history of Berlin and mayor Diepgen even promised to play the Easl German National Anthem and Fly the Easl German hag at the Congress Center Wnorow Tho april 30 Celebration was held Bui the soviets who also fret about the Peculiar Lalus of brim finally gave Honecker a thumbs Down. Grounding him. The russians were worried that by appearing on the same singe Wilh Chancellor Helmut Kohl and von Weizsacker. Honecker would be accepting a Legal nexus Between West Berlin and West Germany that the communists have never accepted Berlin theology is s complicated subject but has the rur jul of keeping scores of diplomats employed. So the two birthday parties will be parallel undertakings. West Belm has. From the looks of it the Richer curl Graf program but it is Well world a lengthy stroll around Easl be pm to see the restorations that have been wrought in a landscape that iwo decades ago was a bombed out rum Queen hat Retti Law Loti West German a Naiomy Richard von  Ami governing mayor Era Husref Diepgen during her it tit to Watt Berlin in May.  five 10-Fesr-Oliis decorated a Glenl Berlin birthday cake during a to How. A Point of Pride is he Slalz de Academie where Schinkel s Schau Spilhaus is ranked by she French reformed Church on one Side and to evangelical lutheran Church on the other. Showing a group of foreign journalists through the Platz Peter Kralcik awry East German architect pointed out that Bourgeois Virtues and religion were represented by the statutes perched on the churches. These Virtues Are not today fashionable he explained Wilh a Grin but who knows maybe it will be fashionable to have such Virtues  Kralcik shuddered when reminded that the Vista from the Lovely Schinkel Square is matted by boxy Blue and Orange apart meals thrown up in the 1960s, but said in was unlikely that they would be Ever Lorn Down neither Side of Berlin has much Clairn so be an ensemble of architectural greatness. The capital of the Reich was literally flattened at the end of the War and too much was built in a hurry afterwards. This is particularly so in East Merlin which has become unwittingly a museum of shilling socialist architectural fashion hulking stalinist apart meals followed by the Posl slate Psi functionalist boxes followed by a rediscovery of the prussian Pas. This Las phase is the most solicitous and the East germans Are now Rushing to Complete the restoration of the Nikolai Quarter on the site of the original Berlin in time for the Bill Day celebrations Trie handsome Nikolai Church will become a museum Lor the City. The Easl germans will also be Dudi Calm yet another luxury hotel this one called Iho grand where hard currency paying guests May Lodge for 1152 a night East Berlin has already carved of a position As a spiff Over lodging area Tor periods when West Berlin a favored convention Center becomes or Jetull concierges in Easl and West know each other Well by Telephone and the Easl German authorities Are accommodating far guess who want to shuttle Between the two sides of the City stat be Mann Tett Tor Erich Horn Page 14 the stars and stripes saturday jul