European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday jui/1, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 politician helps Bridge Gap Between ., Berlin youths 643 Phi by Jot a polm r Alexander a angolan by Joe Mapother suit writer Berlin Deputy speaker of the House Alexan Der ung Olius is called different things by different people. La was always Herr Longolius to the american students in the Thomas a. Roberts school trying to fathom the intricacies of the German language under Longolius Tutelage a Quarter Century ago. For 250 american students and escorts in the midst of a two week expenses paid trip to Berlin thai Longo Liui was a mainstay in arranging it a simply Alex. Longolius or Chen the informality. "1 have never accepted the fact that i am a politician. I for Way thought that 1 am a pretty Normal Penon in politics. Owe look in the Mirror in the morning and say Good Morin a politician then 1 am going to get out but Longolius is was entertaining no thoughts of Kitling out Ai he stepped onto a wan nose excursion boat Friday and began circulating among the visiting american to see if everything was shipshape. I. How re you doing everything All right he asked a Young student. She and her colleagues represent every slate of the Union and As Many ethnic religious and social group Ings at could be squeezed into a group of 250 people a group Leader Laid. They Are in Berlin through the Courtesy of private donations that include 380,000 Marks 1210,000 in Cash and roughly another 120,000 Marks $66,300 Worth of goods and services. Longolius did a lot of the collecting himself. By his own count he visited 137 firms and institutions Solic iting help for the Bridge of youth project that he hatched 16 months ago with detlef Piriz a Berlin Trade unionist. I think my name is a hate word in Berlin Longolius said. People shrink away when i appear because they always know i ask then for something. It could be a boat ride like his it could be Money it could be dinner it could be  the Bridge of Outh project began in february 1986 when Longolius and Prinz were scanning a preliminary list of special events to celebrate the City s 750th year of existence. We were looking through it Longolius said and we thought god we Don t have a lot of youth oriented things and we certainly Don t have German american things that make people meet Longolius reached Back into his own history As a Berliner when asked Why so Many americans were invited such a Long Way to take part in a birthday party for a 750-year-old City. He returned to a conquered Post world War ii Ber Lin As a 10-year-old who had been sent out of the City to avoid the Allied bombing. The son of a Middle Doss family Longolius grew up debating the How could Yon have let this happen question with his College educated parents whom he described As anti nazi in a quiet Way. Sandwiched in Between the debates was la Berlin blockade that Cut land routes into the Western sector in 1948, and the cold War Era of the 1950s. In 1961, the City was Cut in half by Lite Berlin Wall Twenty Cara from now i m not going to be Here Longolius said. I will be alive but i Wilf nol be Shap ing people s minds and we need people who have an emotional and rational approach to Berlin. And will no say these Berlin problems again they bore me stiff. Why Don t we just hand the whole thing Over to the other Side and let s get in Over Wilh,1 " longolius1 comments were directed to people such As Terrence Galligan a Junior at Iowa slate and Resi Dent of Marion a Community of 18.000 people near Cedar rapids Iowa. Galligan has his sights set on the  Foreign serv ice. For a global studies major i think this is the Ideal City. It s just such a unique geopolitical City said Galligan who like the rest of the visitors is staying with Berlin families. Longolius spent a year As an Exchange student in Connecticut before returning to College and look a Job at the  Military dependents school in Berlin in 195s. He left Berlin american High school in 1967 for a position in the ministry of inner German affairs was elected to the Berlin House of representatives in 1975, headed up the social democrats caucus in 1981 and became Deputy speaker later thai year. His Bond with the american Community was a big Factor in changeling the project toward the United Stales Longolius said. The decision was made Early to rely on existing contacts rather than develop new ones because Longolius said you can kill a project by being too  club seeks to raise funds for  Children s Groves by Connie Dickey staff writer Frankfurt in a Grassy Corner of the Frankfurt Haup Friedhof the City s main cemetery lie More than 400 Liny Graves. Children of american service member and civilians in Germany have been buried then for 40 years but no one had Ever taken responsibility for the Upkeep of the Graves. In 1982, the american women s club of Frankfurt took on that task and Mem Bers Are now trying to replace uie wooden erases marking 100 of the Graves with Flat red Sandstone Marker. We Are restricted to getting what the City has asked us to place on the Graves. Each Marker costs 350 Marks $190and we need help in getting the Money together to get the new markers said Gilty Fiebig kind Fem children s Field chairwoman. The club already has purchased 23 headstones and has installed 10. The City was very pleased when they saw someone was malting the Effort to keep the site looking Nice she said ii tid we have put in a lot of work in making in an unforgotten place. Since we be darted our care of the a Ravaitis end now the new headstones the City has verbally agreed never to take the plots away or to close the  the cemetery has been the final rest ing place for children under 5 years of age since world War ii. Oftentimes the children arc born dead or live for a very Short Lime Fie big explained. It is belter for the parents to Bury them Here than to Fly the bodies to the  however the cemetery provides no perpetual care except for mowing the gnus. There Are some families Here Evi Dently because some of the Graves will have Lowera placed on them during the year but unfortunately it seems most of the families arc not around Fiebig said. When one of our members Mary Rasberry found the Kin Derfeld in 1982, it was a real eyesore. In had been forgot ten and looked terrible. Weeds were growing  Volunteer club members and boy scouts have weeded the area and planted Flowers. In addition the boy scouts helped raised some existing Stone Mark ers that had sunk and were overgrown with grass. Persons interested in helping the club raise Money for new headstones can write Gitty Fiebig at the american women s club of Frankfurt Terrace club room 3, Apo 09710. The German address is a Nienburg Platz 6000 Frankfurt am main i. Lawmakers Back from Angola with freed Pilot Andrews fab my. Up four congressmen resumed from Angola with a freed american Pilot and the Hopes of improving relations Wilh the War Lorn marxist nation. La s a breakthrough said sen. Arlen Spector r-pa., who awaited the arrival of Pilot Joseph Longo with sen. John Heinz a a. Members of the Pilot s family and his Fiancee. Longo 33, a native of Pennsylvania was shot Down Over angolan airspace april 21, while purportedly flying a Light aircraft from the Ivory coast to a firm in South Africa. Accused of spying for South Africa Longo was held in a jail in Luanda for More than 14 weeks. I did t know was going Home till Friday said Longo after alighting fro the special  Air Force plane that brought him Home monday. I m just glad it s Over he added. Pleading fatigue he declined to answer questions. Rep. Howard Murtha d-pa., said Longo s release for humanitarian Rea sons and because of the angolan desire to better relations with the  Sug Gest the possibility of meaningful changes in the relationship Between the  we bad  very in Dep a discussions with him angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos said Murtha. The atmosphere has been  the angolans have indicated that All issues that Are on the table Are negotiable Murtha said All Dinglo impending talks Between the angolans and assistant Secretary of site Chesler Crocker. The United Stales has refused to recognize the angolan government since the country won its Independence from por Tugal in 1975. The United Stales and South Africa supported the losing factions in the civil War and continue to provide Aid to Unita rebel forces that Battle the marxist government. We discussed in a very general Way. The Independence of Namibia and the cessation of  Support for Unita As Well As the need for  Influence to help end South Africa s apartheid said rep. Mickey Leland f the a. Another member of the congressional delegation that included reps. Nick Rahall d w.va., and Howard Wolpe a Mich