European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday july 28,1988 world today robbers grab $366,000 during Power blackout Warsaw Poland a armed thieves broke into the Home of a greenhouse owner Dur ing a Power blackout and forced him to turn Over Gold and currency Worth $366,000, in the country s biggest Ever private robbery a newspaper reported wednesday. The robbery occurred sunday night shortly before Midnight during a thunderstorm in bogus Cin near Poznan in a Rich agricultural Region of Western Poland the paper said. The 71-year-old greenhouse owner who was not identified by name was awakened from bed in his Villa by at least three masked thieves who beat him and threatened him with a gun firing at least one shot the paper said. They demanded the keys to his Strongbox. The owner was forced to open the Box an turn Over Gold Western Money and polish cur Rency. Memorial Bank account opened for Stalin s victims Moscow a a special Bank account has been opened in Moscow for Public donations to build a memorial to the victims of late soviet dictator Josef v. Stalin the Tass news Agency reported wednesday. Tass said account number 700454 had been opened at the . Social Bank at the re quest of the weekly literary Gazette newspaper. The fund drive  to build a Monument i Moscow to the victims of stalinist repressions Tass reported in its Brief dispatch. The newspaper has published numerous Arti cles Over the past year detailing repressions meted out by Stalin during his 29-year leadership. Stalin served As soviet Leader from 1924 until his death in 1953, and Western historians have estimated that As Many As 20 million Sovi ets died As a result of his political purges mass deportations and forced collectivization of Agri culture. European group proposes Steps to protect wildlife Brussels Belgium a the dec com Mission tuesday proposed to streamline wildlife Protection policies in the 12 member states an create a network of wildlife areas. Although member states currently have individual Protection policies they Are not comprehensive and vary widely the dec said in a statement. The commission said it proposed stricter controls to conserve wild Fauna and Flora which asunder increasing threat in the Trade bloc. Such measures will protect an essential aspect of Europe s heritage the statement said. In addition the executive commission wants to set up a network of classified wildlife areas Tobe called Natura 2000, to ensure the Protection of threatened species and enhance cooperation Between the member states. 900 chinese die each Day from to report says Beijing a about 5.7 million chinese suffer from tuberculosis and nearly 900 die from the lung disease every Day a Public health ministry official said in a report wednesday. The official China daily quoted he Liesheng vice minister of Public health As saying cases of tuberculosis have dropped sharply Over the past30 years but Universal vaccination is still not practice. In some parts of the country Only 60 percent of children have been vaccinated she Sak the disease kills 320,000 people annually Inthis country of 1 billion people the vice minister said. The incidence of to in China is five time that of Japan and 55 times that of the United states while the mortality rate is 10 and 40times higher than those two countries the vice minister said. Castro says Cuba needs greater worker discipline. _. A " Amulf film i Santiago Cuba a president Fidel Castro tuesday defended his rectification Campaign for economic Reform and said no soviet style reforms Are needed in  a speech marking the 35th anniversary of the launching of his revolution Castro urged greater worker discipline and said those who urge the adoption of reforms being implemented in other socialist bloc nations have an incorrect attitude an ignorant Atti  the past two years Cuba has abandoned economic incentives aimed at boosting production and implemented a Campaign of moral persuasion that emphasizes worker discipline similar to that stressed in the Early years of the communist government. Castro has emphasized the need for a rectification to rid Cuba of the inefficiencies clogging its Economy. It would be totally incorrect for us to copy mechanically the solutions of other countries Castro said in speech that lasted More than two hours. He said each nation has its own problems and own idiosyncrasies. Castro said the first fruits of the rectification Campaign were reflected in a More productive an enthusiastic work ethic among cubans and he called for hard work to continue. Noting that Japan achieved its status As one of the world s most powerful nations economically with an average of six vacation Days per worker each year Castro called on cubans to achieve More during the working hours that they have. He said he was t Sug Gesting taking away vacations or increasing work schedules in Cuba. Two years ago Castro declared that worker absenteeism and bloated inefficient production threatened to make Cuba a virtual nation of freeloaders. The cuban Leader cited a lengthy list of recent Industrial and Public works projects in Santiago Cuba s second largest City with a population of 962,000. Earlier tuesday cubans marked the 35th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution that brought Castro to Power by staging a symbolic attack on military Barracks that now is an elementary school. Castro attended the ceremony at 5 a.m., the exact time his revolution began and watched youth groups mount a mock assault on the Moncada Garrison Inthis Eastern cuban City. Alt laugh the 1953 attack failed the brutality wit which it was suppressed sparked widespread popular support for Castro s fight to overthrow rightist dictator Fulgencio Batista. Fils a cuban president Fidel Castro Castro was imprisoned and later released. He fled the Island but returned with revolutionary forces aboard the yacht grandma in 1956 to Start his guerrilla War in the  struggle ended in a triumphant March into Havana on Jan. 1, 1959, to begin Castro s Rule. In Santiago the Moncada anniversary coincide with the traditional carnival Celebration. Downtown streets pulsed throughout the night monday with a Strong tropical music beat and a costumed carnival  Point to the 521 Public works projects inaugurated by Castro in Santiago once considered a depressed area As evidence of economic Progress. Thirty of the projects were listed As having been finished especially for the anniversary. Among the major projects Are an Oil refinery built with soviet Aid the second in Cuba and a hotel said to be an example of the drive to boost the tourist  s Economy has lagged through the 1980s, worsened by depressed prices for sugar the country s no. 1 Export. Some cubans expect prices to Rise soon As a result of drought in the United states. Cuba sets goal to triple tourism Santiago Cuba a Cuba whose colourful casinos and risque nightclubs Drew an annual 250,000tourists to the country before the 1959 revolution has launched a crash program designed to triple tourism by 1991. Our country really needs foreign Exchange Rafael sed Perez director of the National tourism Institute told a news conference tuesday. There is reality the economic situation that our country faces is  he said Cuba Hopes to increase the annual number of tourists from 220,000 193,000 of them from non communist countries to More than 600,000 by 1991. Y sed Perez said tourism could bring in More than$500 million a year second Only to sugar As a source of foreign Exchange from its current level of $117million. Before the revolution brought Fidel Castro to Power most of Cuba s annual 250,000 tourists were americans. Castro s communist government later too Pride in announcing the elimination of such social vices As prostitution. Sed Perez said Cuba is not worried that increase tourism could encourage a return of vice or bring in bad influences from foreign capitalist nations. There is no worry he said. We Don t see tourism development As something  he said there Are no restrictions on movement of foreign visitors in the Island. Sed Perez said 39?000 people now work in the tourist Industry and training programs will be established to meet the demand for new personnel. The program Calls for 12,000 hotel rooms to remade available to foreign tourists by 1991, up from 7,500 now. The most ambitious expansion plans Are in Varade to Beach on Cuba s Northern coast where 8,000 rooms will be added to 2,800 now available. Sed Perez said Havana now has 50 percent fewer rooms than before the revolution. He said one phase of the plan Calls for reopening 16 hotels that Are now boarded up or used for other Pur poses since the revolution. The government Hopes to recover 1,600 rooms Many of them in old Havana. A second phase is to refurbish such existing hotels Ashe Habana Libre once the Havana Hilton where the elevators Are notoriously slow and the air conditioning extremely weak. A third phase will be building new hotels including a second Tower at the Triton the Only hotel built in Havana since the revolution sed Perez said. He said three or four hotels might be built in a join Enterprise with a Spanish company but he provided no details. Santiago will be among the areas targeted for tourism expansion. Castro visited the new hotel Buccanero outside the Cit during activities leading up to tuesday s Celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Start of the revolution. Castro pronounced it magnificent and said it was a example of what could be done in the Industry. But s9rne staffers notably in the restaurant clearly Are new and ill at ease in handling Large tables. Castro said tuesday in his anniversary speech that tourism could help make up for Low Market prices for its leading Export products among them Petroleum from the soviet Union that is resold by  also criticized what he called Petite bourgeoisie in Cuba who complain because the new hotel rooms Are destined first for foreign visitors bringing badly needed foreign Exchange. Cuba s no. 1 source of tourists currently is Canada with 50,000 visitors a year followed by West Germany Spain Italy and Mexico. . Citizens travelling to Cuba Are restricted by their government