European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday August 24,1988 Sov efs decide to curb their medal mania Moscow a the soviet Union is moving Gocool award fever a disease that has loaded the chests of Many a soviet citizen from the late Kremlin chief Leonid i. Brezhnev on Down with medals galore. Tass the official news Agency reported monday that the communist party s policy making Central committee and presidium of the supreme soviet the nominal parliament had adopted new rules to make sure awards Are Given to people who truly de serve news Agency said people had stopped appreciating awards because they were Given out with Bountiful hand in the Brezhnev period on the Occa Sion of birthdays and red letter image of Brezhnev himself is one of a Man with a full Chest of medals and the soviet press has recently lampooned him for this. Under Brezhnev Tass said awards were Given out by the scores and even by hundreds to people who had fulfilled the government s five year production real contribution of the person awarded was not duly taken into account Tass overhaul of the award system is another element of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s drive to hold Public officials More accountable for their work and to end Blind Praise for them. It is also another step in moving away from the policies of world today Australia to introduce Platinum Koala coins Perth Australia a Australia is to Marke Legal tender Platinum coins called australian koalas starting next month Gold corp Australia announced coins will be minted by the Perth mint and will go on Sale throughout the world next month Gold corp a government owned organization said in a organization s chief executive officer Don Mackay Coghill said the Koala coins which will Fea Ture the australian Marsupial on one Side and Queen Elizabeth ii on the other would have nominal fac values of 100 australian dollars containing one ounce of platinum50 dollars half ounce25 Dol Lars one Quarter and 15 dollars one tenth ounce. Taiwan airline Hopes to Fly to Mainland China Taipei Taiwan a a taiwanese airline has applied for government permission to begin the first direct passenger flights Between Taiwan and China officials reported Yuan Sung Hsi a communications ministry spokesman told reporters the application would be de Nied because the nationalists on Taiwan Are technically still at War with the chinese communists who won civil War on the chinese Mainland in 1949. The application from Formosa airlines a Domestic Carrier requested permission to Fly Between Taiwan and the chinese cities of Beijing Shanghai Guangzhou Shant of Xiamen and Fuzhou officials said. An airline official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the company planned to operate the service with a . Airline. He declined to identify the . Company or provide additional details. Nobel dates announced a file late Kremlin chief Leonid i. Brezhnev Brezhnev now condemned widely for plaguing the country with cronyism corruption and economic stagnation. To improve the system decisions on who will be Given awards will not be made by a Small number of High ranking officials in private but by All work collectives and Public organizations the news Agency said. Awards will no longer be made in Masse or for reaching a Jubilee in a citizen s career. The country s highest honors including the title hero of the soviet Union and hero of socialist labor will not be Given More than once to the same person As has happened in the past. Eligibility requirements have been tightened for the top decorations the order of Lenin and order of the october revolution Tass said without elaborating. But while Many of the changes appear aimed at cutting the number of awards Given Tass said new honorary titles Are being created for teachers physicians and agricultural workers. Gorbachev s administration has placed particular emphasis on improving these professions. The article gave no figures for the number of awards Given in the past or what the number will be under the new rules. Rail Tunnel Between England France lags far behind schedule London a eur Tunnel the Anglo French consortium set up to build a 31-mile rail Tunnel be tween France and England confirmed monday that the project is running Well behind schedule. Eur Tunnel issued a formal warning to trans Manche link about its Likely failure to meet several construction targets. Trans Manche link is a join venture of British and French construction Compa Nies that has the contract to design and build the Tunnel by May 1993. Trans Manche link declined to comment on the delays in the Tunnel project. Eur Tunnel warned that trans Manche link will face fines if it does not Speed up the rate of Tunnel ing. A eur Tunnel spokesman who was not identified in accordance with British custom said trans Manche link is not yet managing the tunnelling program to our tunnelling on the English Side is at about half the rate targeted in the contract eur Tunnel said. Trans Manche link has bored Only 1.1 Miles of one Tunnel against the 2.4 Miles due by Early last week. The link is to have three tunnels. The rate of tunnelling is running at about 380 feet week compared with a target of 660 feet a week. Tunnelling on the French Side also is behind sched ule eur Tunnel said. Project delays could affect Banks willingness to inject funds into the project said Richard Hannah an analyst at the brokerage firm Phillips and Drew. So far the Tunnel work has been financed wit funds raised through the Sale of $1.3 billion Worth of Stock in the consortium. Once those funds have been exhausted eur Tunnel can draw on an $8.5 billion loan signed last november with a Syndicate of com Mercial Banks. English Channel Tunnel plan rail tunnels would be joined to service Tunnel by Cross passages every 546 Yards tunnels would be 31 Miles in length of which 23 Miles would be under the Channel at an average depth of 131 feet enclosed coaches will take autos buses and trucks through the Tunnel in 30 minutes 15-foot diameter t two 23-foot diameter rail tunnels Chicago Tribune graphic by Kevin Boyd source cute too Tribune news reports \ but the Banks have to be satisfied that sufficient Progress on the project has been made before the commit any Money Hannah said. They will have a very hard look at the project before putting any Money in he added. The first draw Down of the Bank financing is due in october Hannah said. Eur Tunnel units which Are made up of one share in eur Tunnel pc and one in eur Tunnel s.a., were off 12 Pence or 20 cents at 313 Pence or $5.29, on London s Stock Exchange by late monday afternoon. Inuuc7i us id vol ii i Cwm i Vvs i a i i it i f Ifor september october greek Church seeks temptation ban declaring movie horrifyingly vulgar Stockholm Sweden a the Nobel foundation said monday the Winner of the 1988 Nobel peace prize will be announced on sept. 29, with president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev reportedly in the running for the richest prize Ever. The prize for Medicine will be awarded on oct. 17,for Economy on oct. 18 and the prizes for physics and chemistry on oct. 19, the foundation said in statement distributed by a news Agency. Each Nobel laureate will receive 2.5 million swed ish Kroner or about $385,000 at monday s Exchange peace prize announcement will be in Oslo Norway by the Nobel committee of the Norwegia storting parliament. The others will be announced in Stockholm by the swedish Academy of sciences the Karolinsky Institute of Medicine and by the prestigious 18-member literary committee known formally As the swedish Academy. Athens Greece a the greek orthodox Church said monday it has called for a ban on the film the last temptation of Christ in Greece claiming its interpretation of the life of Jesus is horrifyingly Seraphim of Athens the orthodox Church Leader in Greece sent a letter to the government saying that Martin Scorsese s film would clash directly with the religious sensitivities of our film attempts a horrifyingly vulgar representation of the person of the founder of the Christian Faith the letter his Appeal Seraphim cited the greek Constitution which enshrines orthodox christianity As the country s official religion. Church spokesman Yiannis Hadz Foti said the let Ter was sent to education minister George Papandreou and minister to the Premier s office Akis Tso Chatzopoulos just a few Days ago but so far there was no official response. In the movie s most controversial scene the Cruci fied Jesus imagines making love to Mary Magdalene. Scorsese has said it should t offend audiences when taken in context As Christ s last temptation to get married and Lead a Normal human life. Scorsese s film is based on a novel by greek author Nikos Kazantzakis who was threatened with excommunication by the orthodox Church when Chebook came out in 1954. The film is expected to be released in Greece next month
