European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday May 2. 1988 Soviel Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Center Wales while viewing May Day celebrations in Moscow from the Rostrum of the Unin mausoleum in red Square. With Gorbachev on the Rostrum Are Andrei Gromyko left president of the supreme soviet and Nikolai Ryzhkova chairman of the Soviel Union s Council of ministers. Parades rallies Mark May Day around world by the associated press a rom parades in Banner bedecked Moscow to strikes in Poland special May Day observances took place around the world to Honor workers and focus attention on labor concerns. In the soviet Union. Western ambassadors attended May Day celebrations sunday in Moscow for the first time since the 1979 soviet intervention in Afghanistan and saw a Parade and Celebration that was strikingly free of the harsh . Rhetoric of the past. Soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev led the 11 other Moscow based members of the politburo in viewing the festivities marking the workers Holiday one of the most important Dales in the Soviel Calendar. Muscovites carried banners and towed floats extol Ling Pyrc Stroika economic restructuring glasnost openness worldwide nuclear disarmament and other communist party programs. . Ambassador Jack Mallock made the first appearance by a . Ambassador at May Day since1980, when the United Stales began boycotting the ceremony to protest the red army s role in Afghani Stan. I m Here first of All since this is not a military re lated Holiday and because the agreements have Bee signed in Geneva said Mallock referring to accords signed last month that mandate a soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan beginning May i 5. He added that since president Reagan is due i Moscow May 29-june 2 for his fourth Summit meeting with Gorbachev attendance at such events should be resumed. Also among the diplomatic observers were the West German ambassador Andreas Meyer Landrum. British ambassador sir Bryan Cartlidge French ambassador Yves Pagniez italian ambassador Sergio Romano and other top West european envoys. In Poland. Gen. Wojcicch Jaruzelski said during May Day ceremonies that the government cannot Cave in to wage demands As a tense steel strike continued for a sixth Day outside Krakow. Other strikers who occupied a machinery Plant i Southeast Poland ended their sit in on saturday after reportedly receiving promises of higher pay. Thai left Only the Lenin St Elolani in Nowa Hula still on strike. In the history of the communist government there has never been a Large scale strike in Progress on May Day. Thousands of workers celebrated the May Day holi Day in Spain As the nation s two largest unions the communist led workers commission and the socialist led general workers Union called on the government to turn to leftist economic policies to create jobs and reduce Spain s 20 percent unemployment the highest in Western Europe. Troops fired at marchers South of Manila during a series of May Day rallies in the Philippines in which tens of thousands of workers demanded wage increases. Bui president Corazon Aquino rejected the de mands As ill advised at a Lime the country is trying to Spur ils Economy. Police confirmed that there was shooting in Calamba 30 Miles South of Manila but gave no further de tails pending an investigation. In Taiwan the 1,500-Membcr train Drivers club Union called a one Day strike demanding higher wages sunday hailing rail service throughout Taiwan for the first time in 101 years and stranding hundreds of commuters. Workers in Zimbabwe marked May Day with nationwide rallies and a Call by president Robert Mugabe to support your Brothers and Sisters in South Africa South West Africa and Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of workers and their families in Japan took advantage of warm Spring weather to attend May Day rallies across the country and listen to Union leaders Call for More pay and less work. The japanese private sector Trade Union confederation known As Ringo said about .1.6 million workers took part in 1.500 rallies nationwide. But police put the number at 645.000. Sharp slowdown in Economy predicted for West Germany Bonn a the nation s five leading economic research institutes arc predicting a Sharp slowdown in West Germany s economic growth in 1989, a newspaper reported  to a report in the Munich based said a Fulsche a Clung. The group s Spring Outlook predicts thai the Economy will Only expand a real or Price adjusted 1.25 percent in 1989, following expected growth of Aboul 2 percent this year. The group also predicts a drop in private consumption to 1.25 percent next year from an expected 3 percent this  report compiled by the institutes is to be officially released monday. The institutes warn thai without stimulative Mea sures the growth Rale will not be enough to sustain a continued reduction in West Germany s Large current account surplus the newspaper said. Wisl Germany has pledged to reduce ils surpluses to help stabilize the Dollar. To counter the slowdown the newspaper says the five institutes will renew Calls to Speed up $ 12 billion in net tax cuts planned for 1990. They also will Call on finance minister Gerhard  to reconsider the need for proposed increases in 1989 consumer taxes he says will remedy the country s increasing budget deficit. The five economic institutes located in West Ber Lin Essen Kiel Hamburg and Munich publish eco nomic review and Outlook reports twice a year. Meanwhile the influential group sketches a More upbeat picture of West Germany s 1988 economic performance revising upward its economic growth fore cast to about 2 percent from individual pc Dillions of about 1.5 percent made earlier this year. The West German government also says that a 2 percent growth rate is possible this  institutes had forecast 2 percent growth for 1988 in their autumn Outlook but revised their predictions downward after the october Slock Market crash. In the current report the five arc quoted As saying they overestimated the negative effects of the Market collapse. The institutes say consumer spending and exports will contribute to the 1988 growth. The Export sector which has been Hurt by the Dol Lar s decline is benefiting from a More stable Dollar and from Buller than  economic growth in some other european countries thai generate High de Mand for German products the report says. World today italian Railroad launches super train in trial run Rome a the italian Railroad launched its i astr St commercial train in a trial run that shaved just under an hour off the 393-mile trip from Rome to Milan. The super train or etr450. As it is known by the Railroad replaces the super a Pido currently in sen ice and will begin full service on May 29. The train capable of reaching a Speed of 155 Mph overran ils scheduled time of 3 hours and 58 minutes by 5 minutes because of minor technical  the Railroad said. The 100.000-Iirc s80 one Way first class ticket includes breakfast or dinner and Passen Gers arc offered newspapers magazines and cof fee by hostesses. There is also a Public Telephone on the Irain. The slate run italian railway system is currently working on the final stages of a train it Calls the etr500, which will be capable of travelling at 180 Mph. It will be introduced in 1990