European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday novembers 19b8 the stars and strikes Page 3 japanese love those serenaded veggies Tokyo a cucumbers raised to the sounds of Mort eggplants featured Oil Bou Liqun shelves and a Bank named fior tomatoes Why not retorts Masashi Ozura head of the vegetable department at the Umeda Hanky department store in Osaka Japan. These Are limes of plenty and lately we be been seeing customers looking for a change something out of the Ordinary he explained. Ozura whose department store Sells cucumbers and other vegetables raised to classical music and without agricultural chemicals says some shoppers Are no longer satisfied with average vegetables. They want Brand names vegetables produced in a special Way or of a special variety he said. They also Are willing to pay the Price Winch can be up to three times higher than usual. Washilo Otani a spokesman for the farm that grows the vegetables said it uses three Glass houses rigged with phonographs. Mozart Bach and Vivaldi Are what we usually play but most classical music will do he said. Shigiru Nakamura. Chief editor of dime mag Azine which follows japanese Market trends said he does t see any Basic change in How people View vegetables. But in the past few years vegetables have Bee caught up in the trend toward luxury goods and Brand names he said. We thought it was Aboul time for people to Start discriminating Between Good vegetables and average vegetables added Yoshihisa Tsu Chiaki owner of Kaneso a vegetable boutique in Kyoto. Kancso i produce Kyo Asai has become sought after Brand but Tsuchizaki said the vegetables owe heir popularity to tradition. Kyoto is an ancient City Wilh thousands of years of history he said. Vegetables raised Here were part of the Imperial family die Tsuchizaki said he tried to create an attractive fashionable atmosphere for the shop to break with he drab grocery store image and he added that Kaneso Sells its vegetables with explanations of Kyo Asai history and cooking hints. One Kamo Nasu eggplant sold recently at Kaneso for Soo yen about s4 roughly five limes the Price of regular eggplant in suburban Tokyo. At the forefront of the vegetable revolution is Bank in southwestern Japan that has chosen to do away with Stuffy tradition by changing in name to fit changing times. Hajime Yokoyama of the Sanyo Mutual Bank of Okayama which will become the Tomalo Bank on april i says Public response has been very Good. The Media made quite a fuss and Overall gave Osgood coverage which might have helped people accept the name Yokoyama said. There have been a few negative letters but the majority have  according to a press release announcing the change the Bank decided tomatoes Are Beautiful cute pure delicious and something that people feel Good about. This is a name that can be understood in Tokyo new York Hong Kong London or Paris the statement said pointing to the need for greater inter nationalism. 2,000 poles strike Over plan to close shipyard Warsaw Poland up More than 2,000 workers at two Gdansk ship Yards went on strike tuesday to Proesl the announced closing of the adjacent Lenin shipyard. Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa immediately sent a regional Solidarity Leader Jacek Markei to one of the shipyards to attempt to end the strike Union sources said. Solidarity activist Barbara Madajczyk in Gdansk said nearly half of the workers at a s,500-Strang repair shipyard were involved in the sit Down which began at 11 . However later reports indicated that Only 400 workers at the repair shipyard attended a rally three hours after he strike was called. Solidarity sources said. Telephone Contact with the shipyard was severed. The Union sources said a strike also was under Way at the Small Wisla ship Yard which makes yachts. Several dozen workers at Wisla started the sit Down strike took Over the Gates and were attempting to gain support among their 1,000 colleagues the sources said. Wisla strike Leader Jan Stanecki said the workers demands include legalization of the Trade Union Solidarity an end to repressions from a wave of strike sin August no repressions for the current one reversal of the Lenin closure and immediate Start of proposed  Between Solidarity and the govern ment. Solidarity flags were draped around the repair shipyard Gates which were taken Over by the strikers and elsewhere in the shipyard Madajczyk said in a Tele phone interview from Gdansk. Aboul an hour before the strike began Walesa counselled workers to Wail and assess the mood among workers around he country before calling a National strike Over the planned closure of the 10,000-Workcr shipyard where Solidarity was bom. Government spokesman Jerry Urban commended that approach. This goes to show realism and an understanding of the situation of the coun try Urban said. 230 receive pay u p o r d i e sex to r t i o n i e the r s los Angeles a detectives Are using computers in an Effort to find a common denominator connecting More than 230 Antelope Valley residents who have received highly personalized extortion let ters.  -. -. They Tell them they re going to kill them. It s a pay up or die we re not Messing around Type of thing. They threaten their children or other members of their family said a los Angeles county sheriffs sergeant Bob Welch. The letters were mailed nov. I postmarked Mojave a town near Edwards fab and about 50 Miles from the communities in which people Are receiving the letters Palmdale and the unincorporated area of Quartz Hill Welch said. The letters sent to doctors dentists lawyers and other affluent business people demanded payments ranging from $500 to More than , Welch said. The tetters were so personal that the writer or writ ers must have intimate knowledge of the victims an their families officials said. There was stuff in some of the letters that could almost be classified As gossip said Larry grooms City editor of the Antelope Valley press which is offering a is 0,000 Reward some goes Back four or five years. In one instance there was a nickname a Guy had in High school. Computers were being used in an Effort to find a common thread of clues that might link the victims to a suspect Welch said. In addition he said deputies arc interviewing idler recipients to Sec if their families jobs or other outside activities might make them extortion targets. Lightweight disc Man Sony s new Dise maa unit an ult Nln than a Pound is demonstrated by Lisa compact disc player that weighs less Lovino in Park Ridge no Irish Church leaders Complete pilgrimage of Hope in . Milton mass. A protestant and roman Catholic Church leaders from Northern Ireland and the Irish re Public ended their pilgrimage of Hope on a note of optimism that the troubled British province might soon know peace. We re realising there is no such thing As Green Catholic tears or Orange protestant tears. The people of Ireland Are weeping together and this is significant David Bleakley Secretary or the Irish Council of churches said monday. Bleakley was one of six High level Church delegates from the four leading. Denominations of Northern Ireland and the Republic who participated in a three Day ecumenical Institute in this Boston suburb. A Good seed has been planted and surely the Harvest will be Bountiful there James h ills of the episcopal Church of our Savior said at a news con Ference. The Church sponsored the Gath ering to Mark the 90th anniversary of the Church s founding in part by Irish Immi Grants. The religious leaders also urged americans to refrain from sending donations to paramilitary organizations that will destroy our beloved  the most Rev. Robin Eames Arch Bishop of Ireland s anglican Church said the delegation was Natty opposed to misguided american donations. Our message is pure and simple Money Given to paramilitary organizations is Money for death Money for mis Ery and Money for injury. It is pushing Back the Chance for reconciliation an peace in Ireland Eames said Many groups in the United states including the Ireland fund Irish Northern Aid committee and the ancient order of hibernian solicit funds for distribution in Ireland. None acknowledge giving funds for military use by factions such As the roman Catholic Irish Republican army. Bleakley joined his interdenominational colleagues in urging americans to closely Monitor their donations. The delegation also included Bishop Chahaj a Daly whose roman Catholic diocese includes Belfast the presbyterian Moderator in Ireland or. Godfrey Brown the Rev. Charles Eyre general Secretary of the methodist Church in ire land and the Rev Robert Davidson professor of old testament at the University of Glasgow