European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 12, 19b7 the stars and stripes of Page smog emergency declared in Athens Athens. Critic Ai Sirls Init sidewalks in the City Center emptied tuesday As enu Reena ii in pal Luticia measure Wen into effect after two a of heavy smog Over the greek capital. The government ordered restricted vehicle traffic in so i i Square Mili area around Central Athens Cut Back Industrial production by an climate 31 i rent and shul Down heating systems in Public buildings. The measures ill continue As Long As this atmospheric situation continues government spokesman Yiannis Rouba Lis Lulu reporters. Onk l Nii and ambulances were per Nii Ili d to circulate in the 5-su.iinre-Mik Lif Art of the City. Airborne pollutants touched danger limits and we Hail to bad pollution weather forecast so we ordered first if Vel emergency measures George Kar Dassis director of the stale run program for pollution control i Eula. Told the associated press. The pollution Cloud Over Athens includes smoke and dust particles Hydro carbons nitrogen oxides Fulfur i Riidu and Carbon i Imide. According to i Erpa measurements smoke Levels reached 400 micrograms per cubic Meler monday Well above the danger threshold of 250 Micro grits Carbon monoxide concentrations in Ibe atmosphere reached 21.5 milligrams per cubic meter compared to the threshold of 15 milligrams. The National Center for emergency Aid reported thai 330 people with lung and heart problems were hospitalised monday. Tuesday figures were not immediately available. The Brown smog known to athenians As the Nefos Cloud becomes a health threat in the Mountain ringed Athens Basin when still weather creases a temperature inversion layer thai traps the smog in Ilia Luici atmosphere. The National weather service Emy forecast Calm sunny weather for tues Day which Kan Lassis said was perfect for the inversion to occur Over the. Sprawling City is Home 10 More than ,1.02 million people. Almost one to Laird of inc country s population. Longer pub hours in Britain Given of by legislators London a the House of commons has overwhelm Riely voted for longer pub opening hours paving the Way for All Day drinking Starling next year. Legislators approved he government s licensing Bill by 293 Voles to 87 monday night Al what is known As the second Reading the stage when a Bill is approved in principle or killed off. At present under a 71-year-old Law aimed Al curb ing drinking by world War 1 Mun Lions workers most pubs in England and Wales open at 11 . But must close for a 2 a hour break each weekday afternoon. They shut for the night at 11 . Legislation for longer nub hours was one of the pledge Nade by prime minister Margaret Thatcher s conservative government at the last general election last june when she won a third term. Foreign tourists arc baffled when they cannot get a drink in a pub from 3 . To 5.30 ., and the government says the proposed changes will remove an outdated anomaly and create new jobs. But critics such As the British medical association say kiting pubs stay open for tip to 14 hours a Day As planned will Lead to More accidents through Drunken driving and More alcohol related illness. Critics say alcohol is Britain s third greatest killer after heart disease and cancer and costs $3.5 billion a year in Hospital bilis time off from we and Acci dents. Sunday pub hours arc even More restricted opening at noon closing at 2 ., opening again at 7 . And closing Al 10.30 . But faced with opposition from religious groups the Bill does not propose changing the hours on the traditional Christian rest Day. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd the Cabinet member responsible for police and Taw and order among other matters told the commons that during the past 30 years the pub had become a much More cheerful and welcoming he said Britain s total of 68,000 pubs Are now comparable with bars in France Italy and the United Stales. Hurd whose department wrote the Bill said inc forbidden afternoon in pubs is considered an oddity nowadays. Memories of Anne Frank Juke Klinmeyer standing in a room Al the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam he Netherlands shows documents and letters that belonged id a Man who shared tit room where the jewish Rirl 4n family hid from the is i. Uni Esmeyer d he material at an Amsterdam Flea Market. Italian voters overturn several Laws in referendum Rome up italians voted yes to five referendum questions on nuclear Power and judicial re form signalling their opposition to expanding inc nation s atomic Energy program final ballot counts tuesday showed. In 120 Days the referendum Voles will abrogate three Laws govern ing nuclear Plant site selection payment of subsidies to the localities where they Are buil and italian participation in nuclear projects abroad. The abrogation of two other Laws will Render italian judges liable for civil damages caused by their errors on inc Bench and give the italian parliament responsibility Tor investigating allegations of misconduct by senior officials. The Green party and Radical party among the main sponsors of the referendum late monday Claird Victory. As of tomorrow said jubilant Radical parliamentary Leader Francesco Ruthl i More responsibility for inc judges.,. And the door closed o nuclear parliament now must draft and pass new Laws to replace those la be wiped from inc books. In the Case of those on nuclear Power this Means rethinking National Energy policy. Environmentalists sought the nuclear policy referendums Afler the april i9s6 soviet disaster at chernobyl sent Clouds of radiation into Italy tainting milk and vegetables. The turnout in voting sunday and monday set a record postwar Low of 65.2 percent compared to about 78 percent in the last italian referendum in 1983. Referendum opponents had urged abstention and the technical issues perplexed Many voters. Final ballot counts tuesday showed so.6 percent of voters in favor of having parliament rather than a go Ornnice let ministerial committee decide where nuclear plants should be built with 19.4 percent against this. Other results showed 4on he question of whether subsidies to regions and cities close to nuclear Power plants should be ended. 79.7 replied yes and 20.3 percent responded in favor of forbidding the stale electricity enter prise Enel from collaborating in nuclear poor projects outside Italy 71.8 percent with 28.2 percent opposed. In favor of holding judges personally responsible for damages arising from their carelessness or inefficiency 80,1 percent and 19.9 percent opposed. Supporting the abolition of a parliamentary com Mission of inquiry ruling on alleged wrongdoing b government ministers and the president in favor o jurisdiction by the standing parliament 85.1 percent with 14.9 percent opposed. Most political panics came out in favor of yes Voles meaning no major political faction risked de cat. The five parly coalition government of Primi minister Giovanni Goria took a Neutral stance and St was not endangered by the poll. But the Christian Democrat led government now must negotiate agreement Between the bickering Par ties on revising the National Energy plan and legislating Reform of the King criticized judicial system within four months. The Radical and Green parties prime sponsors of the nuclear policy referendum have said they would take yes votes As a mandate for abandoning nuclear Power. But the referendum votes do not oblige officials to re i operation of Italy s three nuclear Power motions 01 construction of a fourth now in Progress
