European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Use retort Sochi up photo incentive to greater productivity. Rapant Frantishek a czech car designer who spent his Days in Sochi so reached out on a Bench at the Beach playing cards and Reading the newspapers said that half the Cost Al his seven Days a was picked up by the automobile Plant. The Beach is belter Here than in he said. Sochi1 newest hot spot is the a Gornyes Hole Complex which includes a modernistic 22-Story hotel a moral a lop Quality caucasian restaurant and lighted Tennis courts. Built by Inlo Urist the soviet travel Agency the hotel carers to russians and Eastern europeans with a taste Lor the Good me. The self contained resort which can accommodate nearly 3,000 people offers amenities that most soviet citizens can hardly imagine including a rooftop bar with a sweeping View of the coastline and tha Zodiac disco a slate of the Arl nightclub that rivals anything in Monte Carlo or Markeila. On a recent evening the dance floor pulsed with Lite beneath a Battery of Strobe lights and reflecting globes. Many of the guests who paid an eight Ruble $12.75 cover charge sat Al luxurious banquettes sipping soviet Champagne. Outside the branches of the Palm Trees gently rocked Back and Forth in the Ocean Breeze. Moscow and Gomel and the other cities of the North seemed momentarily out of mind As Well As sight. Faces serious difficulties convincing Middle age German businessmen thai newer jazzier ideas Are needed to reach the 25-year-old to 35-year-old Market. The 39-year-old Springer says he s constantly bombarded with ideas from his 80 colleagues whose average age is about 29. While tie Yuppie generation is Laking hold in Germany there Are some who see them caught up in a what could be serious future economic problems for the nation. Bruno Tietz a leading economics researcher and forecaster at the University of the Saarland says that up unit Aboul the year 2005. Things look very positive for Germany s affluent Young but already the number of unemployed people under 30 is Aboul 900,000 and is expected to keep growing along with a burgeoning elderly population. He says unless major changes Are made. That will create serious economic problems less than iwo decades from now. A they will find themselves Worthing even harder to support the others he says of today s Yuppie generation and the affluent Young people who step into their shoes that of course would Lead to new social tensions " August 23,1997 sounding off in deutschland by Kevin Costelloe associated press silence is Golden in West Germany where people passionately defend sometimes in a courtroom their right to peace and quiet. Whether it s children playing music blaring or the local Church brass ensemble practising the rules aim at keeping the Din in Check in residential areas you might say Northern europeans read diff Crelly to noise from people in Nlaly or says housing expert Frank Georg Pfeifer in Konigstein 1m Taurus. They re More sensitive to German Home Lite is hied with rules. Leases May ban clothes drying on Racks inside apartments a Law forbids Pigeon feeding from windows and tenants Are barred from shaking dirty blankets out of windows Bui keeping noise under to Nero in residential areas sometimes seems nearly a National obsession. All excessive Racket in residential areas is legally banned for two hours at midday All Day on sundays and holidays and at night. There Are Light restrictions on noisy parties and offended neighbors a of not shy Aboul calling police. Nearly every lamely Wilh Young children has a Story about the elderly neighbors who standing last on their Legal rights complain the second noisy children play in the backyard Al midday. In the peaceful Frankfurt suburb of Koni Slem. An electric Lawn Mower running just a few or jets past the midday noise deadline can bring Ai a Evjy Telephone Call from a neighbor. Konigstein mayor Antonius Weber has even appealed to the military with Little Success to Slop Hying its helicopters Over the historic town in the Taurus Hills. When so Many people live so close together noise is certainly going to be a source of controversy says Pfeifer a lawyer Lor a German properly owners association m Dusseldorf. Perhaps Only coincidentally. One of the Best loved German poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe begins there is silence Over All the Mountain peaks West Germany is among Europe s most densely populated nations. With 6 5 million people in an area the size of Yugoslavia which has Only 23 million Leiler Points out that legally speaking Normal noise Lom children playing must be Tole aled but Ive heard of cases where courts have issued injunctions when kids make too much noise for instance when they re jumping off tables inside he adds Pfeifer a housing expert has Pul together a 36-Page pamphlet summarizing judgments of state courts in neighbourhood feuds. Some examples a court in the Northern stale of Holstein ruled last year that four croaking frogs in a Pord during mating season Don l exceed locally lovers Ile noise Many people now Reler to it As the croaking ruling brass ensemble players in a Church a rip in 1969 were ordered to keep their practice room closed except on sunday mornings a baby s crying is permitted unless Ili i complaining neighbor can show the to .-,.11 fault a court in the Central town of . I ruled in 1982. Pfeifer s organization officially know a. Inn National association of German r apartment owners and landowners c. A orally publishes informational pamphlets i rung for us members and makes them available to for Natal Public cases can often turn serious As Char a of to Ler in the bavarian town of a Nimersheim Lipper Shoten found out in a lengthy Legal Battle Over her dog s Burr ing a court found tha when Koslor a Doi bail.1 sounds like the howling of a Coyote not True. Mosler said. The judge came Here and listened Lor 31 Hows in 1985. And Al first Tina just fell asleep Al his Ilgi she said Laler she Only barked iwo times in a total of three Woods " in the tales chapter in the suit thais Ai de in 1984, mover s adversary is asking for a line of up to 500,000 Marks about $275,000 or a prison term of up to two years i Tina barks during the specified a a to Ponds Stern Magazine a leading National be .tv.-.ck.wy. Profiled mos or last december Man arhct".,Trail noise problems in Germany these da/5, every third German Citi Iuri i., bothered by noise reaching his dwelling Stern Saj citing a recent Shady their c is hurl when children play or Cioti i Ilam Bells eng. Leisure time soccer players Kitt 10 Ball or when a Grill party takes place on the Balcony across the Way increasingly the noise martyrs Afen a end no themselves Wilh Tho Aid of courts and Iho re said he ii. A popular to program and Mlot a Ion magic ainu. Said about 450,000disputes liit.-, n neighbors end up in court each year the stars Ano stripes Page is
