European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I in the elusive Panda a is elusive creatures Are Ime of Day la go o Chengdu d 8 a.m., when inc pandas Are Ley devour vast Amounda of a and leaves their chief food Illy to the Delight of irs there is a scuffle when one 9, having gulped Down its Iboo decides to help out a who Sliff has Bamboo to cat i pandas spend less time than i Over breakfast and usually big said outside either i sliding Board or wrestling her. S his Panda play looks More lighting. A big Panda seems to Imp baby brother or sister but it always knows when to Gnu zoo says it has made is in Breeding Panda telling i of successful experiments in of filiation. Iles the a Esq of the Panda Mei As artificially inseminated in f 1980 and 150 Days later gave i sized wins said to have a ounces each. One of the portly alter birth but the other ived growing to 28 pounds in Lamar Rong Shong. Is very aughty according to the zoo g Sheng is a National hero ared on chinese television Ovies. A 200 other kinds of animals Gers leopards and elephants Riely of monkeys reptiles and a hem Are native to Sichuan i also a great place for people a children who visit Are appealing Many wearing the n  hat. Other visitors come from Mongolia or Tibet wearing their Colora kerchiefs and great sheepskin Coats. There Are also Peanut vendors Candy sculptors and Snake charmers. Chengdu itself is a vibrant mix of new and old an Industrial City with a population of nearly four million la is situated in the Center of the country s richest agricultural area. The streets Are crowded with bicycles and buses and everyone seems in a hurry to get somewhere. The newest part of town has Broad tree lined avenues office buildings of seven and eight stories High billboards urging family planning and a 35 fool statue of chairman Mao. The old Lown has narrow streets and two Story while stucco houses with wooden balconies. Four Rivers flow through the City the Nan the fun the Sha and the Jin and there area number of pleasant Riverside walks and Parks. Wan Jiang Park Lor instance has 120 different kinds of Bamboo and a three Story River View Pavilion built of fragrant Cedar Wood with upturned roofs decorated with pieces of broken ceramics. Church officials openly say that a kind of religious revival is going on in Chengdu with roman Catholic and  churches and Buddhist temples welcoming foreign visitors. On the average sunday during my recent we Klong visit the protestant Church on Ningxiang Street near the exhibition Center was full and several Hundred chinese worshippers listened to a Loudspeaker outside. The officially recognized protestant Church there Are also Many informal House churches not recognized by the government was badly damaged by bombs in the second sino japanese War of 1937-45 and was shut Down during the cultural revolution according to Hua Chang i director of the Sichuan Christian Council Seminary now the Church has resumed its activities serving 1.500 Prol slants in Chengdu according to Hua with Bir Jalc classes Lor ill Mcraie women and a Seminary wilh43sludents nearby Iho Catholic Cathedral a handsome two Story columned building was be i in Lac i by the japanese bul All the furnishings were destroyed and the priests driven out during the cultural revolution according to the priest Liu . Who did farm work until the Church was reopened in 1979. Some 300 to 400 people a lend mass daily and More Ihan go students Are enrolled in the Seminary which opened last year according to Liu. There Are several important Active Buddhist and taoist temples in the Region but one of Iho Mam historic shrines called the we Hou or Marquis we Temple was Buill to Honor the third Century military str Logist and statesman Attu Keliang Thero Are imposing Gilt statues of Zhu. Ins son and grandson statues of 28 generals and civil officials of inc Shu kingdom As Well us a Ono tables with an account of the Marquis military exploits and views on governing. It is said thai Mao was an ardent admirer of the Marquis and son i officials to Chengdu to study his work the vast precious Light Buddhist Nuri Iisley founded in the second Century . Is a Maze of temples courtyards and pagodas thai once housed a Community of 3,000 monks but now there Bra Only a Hadju in Alle dance. Fantasy called Nessie the Banks of Loch Ness and Lerman have hey gone yet 300 journalists from Texas o Rio eked to the tranquil shores of the p take tantalized by a press Sisung the largest and most to sonar search for Nessie. I got were three sonar blips that m moving objects up to 400 he size of a shark and nearly 10 r than the largest Salmon found s. Or they could be nothing. N Leader Adrian Shine is Era s something there Hough l monster tha prehistoric i reptile that is the Lavoile Nessie. Shine a 38-year-old Sman who has been Hunting years said he would be i a huge predatory fish. Emner who owns two hotels the tech and the loth Ness enter Al Drumnadrochit says he in Media monster because ago he saw a monster 25 to 30 oking like an upturned boat with p and i was Stone cold big business in that Baum us f populated Corner of the hands. Every year about a its come a third from overseas ficery brought to this area by the i by this search is incalculable.". 1987 said Jean Slessor director of the area tourist Board. We think it is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world " Tony Harmsworth director of the Lnch mess Center which was one of the sponsors of the recent operation Dee scan added candidly if it was Likely Adrian was going to prove there was nothing in Loch Ness we would t be one of the sponsors would we Shine plans to continue searching the Lake with sophisticated scanning sonars that lilt in All directions hoping to gel a larger data base of big and possibly moving objects in its deep Waters then hopefully in a year he will Start the next phase which will be to get cameras Down to photograph areas that generate sonar blips Shina says hat for him Ine Loch Ness monster is what s in those As yet unexplained sonar contacts. Whether that will satisfy the More than 4,000 people who claim to have seen Besiie in Modem times is doubtful you Ean t Hill myths with science Shine said Harmsworth said Hoe eels both he Beauly of Loch Ness shown in the massive to coverage and the seriousness of the Scienie expedition to bring More visitors next year the William Hilf bookmakers lowered the Odds on finding Nessie from s50-1 to 100-1 alter being inundated with bets totalling about 116,500 from All Over the world thai would mean a payout of More than �1.65 million if she s found in the next year. Spokesman Lor William Hill. Ii 1 see Nessie i m going to run right Oul and push in Back Down  Sharpe said we be gotten be is from new zealand to but i Reserve the right if it s larger than 10 nearby Inverness said Graham Sharpe. Feet to run in the opposite  boats of Fred i Tor wow pol Loch hut in March of thu a Roit know Otto. The stars and stripes Page 15