European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 15. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 winds of Progress s45 Phalti by Gui today the old  Nooden wind Mill of nor Lorrn Europe ate mainly Louril Nettra Clinin a Muiir restaurants and museums. Hut i lie might of the in Rah sen wind h it Sumiter Force than or harnessed by Suek lower Blades ital look like air plane propellers i a picturesque bul More productive the new windmills right near the City of nor Delch ire providing relatively cheap electricity la Many Northern Ger Many coastal residents. Robin hoodlum no Way say Oya fans Nottingham. England a Robin blood fans have put an end to a tourism brochure that says Hinr hero and maid Marian never met. Food natured Little John was n grouch and Robin May have stolen from the Rich just to line to his own pockets. I would like 10 Sec the authors of this brochure locked in the dungeons of Nottingham a Aslly will the sheriff of Nottingham Royce Young on sunday. Leg end says Hobin Houd. The medieval Bandit who supposedly stole from the Rich to give id Trie poor repeatedly out witted Young s ancient predecessor. Howls of protest from Robin Hood fans and deflated tourism boosters led City official to withdraw the Glossy 45 cent brochure. It had been compiled by historians and published by the City Council for distribution at a tourist in formation Center. Malcolm Barker or the Robin Hood society who look up the cudgels on the outlaw s behalf charged the City fathers have done a disservice to their own  Barker said he did t claim thai the Story As perpetuated by Hollywood was True. He said he simply objected to being robbed of a legend that also brings tourist riches to Nottingham. The Bioc Hurc took a sceptical academic lint on the outlaw who. According in legend lived in Sherwood Forest with his merry band of men in the i2lh Cen Tury. City Council spokesman Tim Jones said the brochure put Robin Hood in historical  the brochure said Robin Hood in the earliest talks Wai a highwayman who robbed travellers in neighbouring Yorkshire. He was in business strictly for himself. The brochure aha says Robin s True love. Maid Marian was introduced into inc legend through a 13ih-Ccntury French poem and Robin s rotund lieu tenant Friar tuck was probably an amalgam of two characters from differ ent pans of England. Nottingham a City of 290,000 in Northern England can hardly be accused of neglecting the legend. Is main Beltway is colled Majd Marian Way and two rival consortium Are planning Robin Hood Cash bilion centers for the Eity. In addition hordes of tourists annually visit the Sherwood Forest Center where they see displays if medieval life styles and gae at the Oak Iree where the merry men May or May not have relaxed after a hard Day s arc cry. Forf Lauderdale in t where fhe boys Are today fort Lauderdale Fla a the floods of vacationing students that once deluged this Seaside Community each Spring have gone leaving some Lionie Liers broken and the cily rethinking tis Economy. Only 100,000 College students Are exp cried to bask this year on the subtropical Sands made famous in inc i960 movie where the boys  there were 350.000 in i1s5. The loss of business has prompted 12 smaller hotels thai depended on the student crush to auction off their properties logic her april 7, said Joe dam airy of the Fisher auction co. Having paid lop Dollar for hotels in the Early 1980 Boom years Many of them now cannot meet their mortgage payments. By Selling in Masse they Hope 10 gain High prices by offering developers the oppo Nunzy to assemble Large Nicis. The unmanageable hordes of Sunwoo Zhiping Stu dents who packed hotel rooms by night and patronized businesses on he Beach strip by Day divided this resort town. Beachfront nightspots vendors and student dependent hotels clamoured for continued promotion of Spring break. But their cries were overcome by inc Din of residents and year round businesses snarled in springtime traffic and furious about paying for police and cleaning up mountains of trash. Since 1986, when cily leaders used strict Law enforcement to quell the riotous partying the City and Broward county have been trying to diversify their tourist clientele. Last year word of strict Biol inc enforcement of Park ing drinking and code regulations discouraged student visitors costing merchants 140 million and 100,000 student customers. The Broward county tourist development Council said the 200.000 so Udint visitors spent about $80 million one third less than the jl20 million tally from 1986, in the fort Lauderdale area. Police made about 1,300 arrests during last year s Spring break with College students comprising about one third of them. There were 2.506 arrests in 1986. Fort Laud Crdal is experiencing a shaking out said Roger Handevidt who plans to sell his Orion Terrace apartment hotel at the auction what s happened is the cily has said whoa we can t Deal Wilh this " Handevidt said of Spring break. It was bad in 19si, 1 Don l know anyone who would say  the atmosphere of drunkenness littered streets and the stench from people urinating in the streets drove people away he said. The Money s just nol coming in. So people ate sell ing out said the manager of a Small hotel who spoke on condition of anonymity. We re losing Money every  fort Lauderdale and Elro Ward county cannot depend on a seasonal tourism of kills said. The Beach businesses Are beginning 10 understand that said Nickic Grossman Broward county commissioner and chairwoman of the tourism and development Council. We want every tourist from new York Yan Kees fans during baseball s Spring training to Miami dolphins fans and the cams the dolphins play at nearby Joe Robbie stadium she said. Bul Spring break is nol dead in fort Lauderdale. Many students still come to this Palm dotted Shore warmed beneath Flo degree skies and bathed by 78-dc Gree surf