European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / 1 Pago 2 the stars and stripes monday april 4,1 bus cd Ole to a hot Issue in Germany fees often perplex american tenants by Mary net consumer editor the Wesl German Federal Post office was hit by a barrage of criticism when it started cabling the country three years ago. The Mammoth project was labelled by on Sumer groups As both too expensive and in Light of coming satellite to impractical. Today the cables have been Laid in neighbourhoods throughout most of the country and individual installation charges arc the hot Usu. No Federal Laws spell out the wills of tenants who do not ask for tiie service in cases of dispute Over installation Chawes the decisions have been left to idea courts which Aren t always in agreement caught in the confusion Are Ameri cans renting German apartments. One stars and stripes Reader writes that Oullis for Cable to have been in stalled in three apartments in his build ing. At first his landlord told him he would be charged � or 9 Marks about $5 a month for usage. Then the amount was raised to 20 Marks si2 a month but the landlord said thai after a certain amount had been paid the payment would end. "1 would Tike to know asks the Reader if German landlords Are free to set any Price they wish for Cable to service and if the Bunde Spost has a set Cost forts customers the Bunde Spost has a Price table for receiving its Cable programs available atthe Post office. The Cost is based upon How Many apartments arc in a building. Renters in buildings with one to 10apartment pay 9 Marks ss.4s a month for the Normal program package for their area. In buildings with 20 apartments the charge drops to 8.50 Marks a month to complexes with 500 apartments it sinks. To 4.01 Marks $2.43 a month. The Cost Jontra electricity and maintenance runs rpt 69 pfennig to 1-50 Marks per Len a the Cost of connecting a House or individual Aati menu to the Street Laid Cable is where the pricing question gets Slit and confuse of when the fun Dispost receives Anta plication Tor cute to for a building it pays the Cost of laying the Cable from the Street to the basement. The Cost far connecting the apartments must be picked up by the renters. This Inirio Hookup charge per renter also is based on the number Ordwell ii in a building. For a single family the one time charge is 675 Marks for a two family House it ruruo61. Marks 1340. In a three famil Riouse it costs 515 Marks j3ib. Uri building containing 10 apartment Auie Cost sinks la 103.50 Marks s63l the High Cost Acos Raing loan article in test  by the Ger Man  can be blamed on the Post office for mis calculating Boi Public inter and the Cost of laying Ca Bles Ihra butout the country. The German renters association with Scado trainers in Cologne Points out that of costing the 13.5 million Marks it g million that the German Post of. E expected gelling the country Cable ready has run 21,3 million Marks j12.9 million. As of mid-1987, of the 1.4 Mil lion German households thai could Hook up Only 2.7 million had done so. This has meant that the individual Cost of table to is Ninnin More than was artlies rated and according to the Iam association has led to attempt the bund Spost to Force participation. Disputes about Wenher a landlord or tenant must accept Cable to have ended in court. A Heidelberg court ruled that t landlord cannot be forced to Lay a to Cable to x House. A Berlin court however ruled that the addition of an outlet forcible to can be viewed As an improvement of an apartment. On that basis an increase in runt can be charged. Jul Gen Pfeilschifter a Legal adviser with the renters association advises checking with the local German Miller Verein renters Union to be me of you rights. Even in cases where Access to Cable to is judged he an apartment in " prove men the renter who does not want the service does not have to pay the full insinuation charges and cannot be charged the monthly Post office fee. Some landlords realizing that Ameri cans arc not Long term tenants arc pick ing up the installation charges and Only asking hat the Post office s monthly charges for usage be met. British Wii Tefera Hrecz is Waldheim with saving lives of lured in  while copying stolen  on the Greet to and of Leros in november 194the Neon a per said. / � at an Jiff iced outside Athens when Ogilvie Jas taken with other prisoners t the than u. Waldheim introduced hint self fld said he was responsible for their Security until they left Greece for Ger London up1 a British world War i Veteran has corns to the defens of austrian president Kurt Waldheim saying Waldheim saved him and other prisoners from execution when they fell into German hands in 1943, the sunday times said. To said Bruce Ogilvie a retired squad Ron Leader of the Royal air Force i pre paring to Letl h is Story to a British of Rainy the report quoted Ogilvie. Eminent team investigating allegations / he said Waldheim persuaded them to thai Wald Chim was involved in the exe Swap their identity disc for a Batch of culion at Tii British prisoners in of cuff old disc taken off legitimate Allied pied Greece. / corpses to help protect nil prisoners the report quoted Oji Vic 66, at aty. The newspaper said ing i won t be thanked for Sayin Unis Possession of a genuine disc taken in the current climate but Waldheim from an Allied Soldier or airman lulled in saved my life and and the lives several uniform enabled hem to prove they other prisoners two of them Der Fiji were not commandos or on undercover Ogilvie claimed he was i danger of Mission the times said. Being shot by the is wheelie was Cap German officers could then legit paper says Macly resist is requests to hand Over the prisoners for eventual execution it said. It said Ogilvie said he was Given Back his own identity disc when he reached Germany. \ the newspaper said Ogilvie is certain rut the Waldheim he me in Greece Waitt name Man who later became . Seck Alary general president of Austria and to subject of International Contro Versy Var his wartime record and charges he was involved in War crimes. I Coulik pot forget those familiar Fea Tures or his runner Ogilvie said. Ogilvie claimed that he specifically mentioned Washeim s name and the help he had Given me when he was de briefed on release from a German Pris Oner Camp in May 1949, the newspaper said. Friend says Onasan fled prison ship because of doubt he d get fair trial Manila Philippines up1 Gre Ohio Gringo Onasan the renegade colonel who led the most serious coup attempt of president Corazon Aqui no s tenure last August fled his prison ship because he did not enact to receive a fair hearing a close Friend said sunday. Navy capt. Rex Robles also told United press International that be does not think Onasan will mount an other coup. I Onasan and 14 of his guards slipped away from the prison ship anchored in Manila Bay Early saturday. He had been imprisoned on the vessel since his Cap Ture dec 9. Robles under House arrest for his involvement in the aug. In coup attempt said Onasan escaped because be no longer believed in due process from this government and for personal Rea  i think the Chancel of him doing any thing against this government Are very very  Robles said. He just wanted to save  Robles Baid Onasan just could t take any More of life on Board the   the fugitive colonel s 2-year-old daughter cookie got sick every time she visited her father. That ship gels like a Furnace during these hot Days he said. There was just no air in  Robles said authorities had blocked a vent in the room where Onasan was being held to prevent him from escaping. He did the Best solution for Onasan might be to go abroad. Aquino who Cut Short her easter vacation because of the escape said  40-year-old Housan fled to avoid prosecution for Mutiny sedition arson murder and conduct unbecoming in officer. Military authorities said Onasan bribed his 14 guards. The men fled on two rubber Beau used to patrol the Waters around the prison vessel. _ news updates and without t Mecham court martial proceedings Are expected to be filed against Onasan soon for leading the bloodiest of several coup attempts against Aquino. Aquino said Bis escape was Tanta mount to Bis admitting guilt to the charges stemming from the coup attempt in which 53 people died and More than 300 were wounded including Aquino s Only son. Observers said Onasan would have difficulty getting military support for a another coup attempt because of recent successes against the 35,000-Man communist insurgency. Onasan and other disaffected sol Diers have blamed the coup attempts on Aquino s perceived weak response to the communist. The military last week announced he capture of two of the country s three highest ranking communist rebels including the head of the new people s army in what was viewed As a major blow against the insurgents. 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