European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday decembers 198b the stars and stripes Page 9 mox Nix Stuttgart s Jam session by Joseph owe staff Fri try stut Vaht Wisl Germany a Wise traveler picks the items for a car trip through Stuttgart launch a novel and a Road map. The lunch and the Book will Ward off  boredom while the visitor is stuck in a traffic Jam at the prag Sattl the City s most traffic choke intersection. The map. Nearly useless on Stull Gart s Steep Hills and one Way streets can serve As Bot dinner Napkin and signal Hare. An exaggeration perhaps. Pm if you be never been one of attic 100,000 Drivers who squeeze their vehicles in rough the 1 rags Aitel on an average Wick Day lighting streetcars and the slow ooze of cars an trucks converging from seven directions around a major construction Silt then you should Reserve judgment. Americans who use the prag Sattl to get from nearby Robinson Barracks to other local army posts Call it mox Nix Corner Slart for the German Rachl nights " the nickname is a concise Way of saying you re going to goof up Here no Matte what you do from the air. The Pra Sattel looks like an insect with splayed legs isolate pics of traffic signals at More than a half do in entry Points make it hard to con Sider it a single intersection. And it s not really traffic Circle although some disoriented Drivers make a Complete circuit through a succession of curves and left turns. I be gotten stuck on mos Nix Comer and could t gel off said sgt. Deborah Parker a licensed practical nurse at me army Hospital in near by bad Cannstatt. The germans just keep you going around in a Circle. One Day i went around that thing four  gelling off unintentionally is worse according toslafl1 sgt. Ron Benson who also works at the Hospi Tal. "1 helped a Guy gel his car once and i got in the wrong Lane and ended tip Down at the zoo Benson said. The zoo is a mile away. Army it. Col. David Thomas was visiting Stutt Gart on temporary duty and quickly found himself negotiating with the Asphalt octopus. I be been through it twice. It s very difficult know which Lane to get in so you can get into the Lane you want to end up in he said. Crossing the prag Sattl successfully often Means planning tune changes three traffic lights in Advance especially since the City started a $57 million Public transit project there two years ago. When construction is Complete in 1990, of a new station for four Streetcar lines below ground level up to 900 Streetcar trains and 40.000 passengers passing through daily will become isolated from the other traffic. The cars also will Benefit naturally because the won t have to watch out for streetcars any More said Hartwig Biciche spokesman for the City s under ground construction office. The City also foresees building vehicular tunnels under the Pra Sattel for Long distance traffic and a special Road for Industrial traffic although those plans Are still on the drawing boards -. Heavy traffic aside history and Topography were the first two strikes against commuter Comfort at the americans Call this mox Nix Corner which Means you re going to Golf up Here no Mailer Woltal you  Pra Sattel the site it wide pass Between two Large Hills affords the easiest Access from the North and cast into bowl shaped Stuttgart and the Nee car Valley two roman highways converged there in route Toa roman Castle on the Hill overlooking what is now Stuttgart s bad Cannstatt District according to a historical Survey in the Stuttgart or Nan Richter a local newspaper. In the Middle Ages the pass was the key link inthe duchy of  s main Road from Bruch sat to Ulni. Its most illustrious traffic Jam occurred in 1511, when Duke u Irich and his Bride Sabina of Bavaria held an enormous wedding festival there. Three centuries Lacr. Napoleon crossed the prag Sattl on his Way to Eastern conquests. The modern bottleneck began in 1909 with the construction of Streetcar lines to suburban of cur Bach and Zuffan Hauson. Radio Stuttgart began broadcasting from a prag Saltzl office in 1924, Bright ening he airwaves while further aggravating the traffic patterns. In 1944, while Germany was at War the nazis erected a huge steel net Here o hinder planes trying to bomb Stuttgart. They also built the Pragst ices most prominent feature a civil defense lower still equipped to shelter hundreds of people fro nuclear biological or chemical warfare Tor up to two weeks according to Stuttgart civil defense officials. City construction office director Erich Schurr said the first major Pra Sattel expansion occurred in 1958, and even then one knew thai it would t suffice for All  current reconstruction plan was approved in 1984. _ ironically the transit project has made traffic atthe prag Sallil More bearable perhaps because an extra traffic Lane was added for construction vehicles or because Many Drivers Are avoiding the Cross ing. We be had fewer jams during the construction than before lit Schurr said. Cily police arc keenly aware of wrap Allyl traffic problems if Only because he officers have to Wade through it every any to get to their Headquarters afew Hundred feet away. ,. I be been Here eight years and in that time there s always been something going on up there said police cite to. Gerhard Bauch who compiles Cit Accident statistics. Lines of traffic at Rush hour olten swell to two or three Miles reaching downtown in one direction and the Neckar stadium in another Bauch said. The become twice As Ion during events at he nearby stut Garter mess exhibition Center he said Bauch said 167 accidents occurred is the Pragst Tel in the first half of 1988, Marc than anywhere else in the City and at a rate of nearly one a Day. But most accidents involved no injuries and Only minor dam Ages he said because the heavy traffic forces every body to drive relatively slowly. They occur chiefly because too Many Drivers arc trying to gel through the same place at the same Lime. If you want to Pur 12 liners in a 10-liter pot i just does t work Bauch said. Kal Jet Seoul South Korea a a self confessed North korean agent Friday said she hates North korean leaders for ordering her to blow up a South korean jetliner with 115 people aboard in no-vcmbcr1987. A Kim Hyon Hui 26, made the Confes Sion when government prosecutors questioned her to determined her role in the destruction of a korean air lines boeing707 that disappeared near Burma nov. 29,1987.meanwhile on Friday hundreds of students demanding a parliamentary probe into Kim s Case hurled firebombs and rocks at riot police at Seoul s Monsei University. Riot police retaliated with tear Gas grenades. There were no imme Diate reports of injuries in the one hour clash -.-. Government prosecutors said Kim admitted most charges against her and expressed repent inc for what she had done. They declined to elaborate on their interrogation. ,. Local newspapers said. Kim s voice cracked when she told prosecutors Shehad killed Many people and must be punished. ,. Kim strongly denounced North korean president Kim ii Sung and his Sonand heir apparent Kim Jong ii Accord ing to Yon Hap the South korean new Agency. Now 1 hate ," she was quoted As saying. It was Kim s first Public appearance since Jan. 15, when she confessed in televised news conference to being trained and ordered by North korean leaders to bomb the plane to disrupt the olympic games which opened Here in september. She has been in custody of South Korea s main intelligence organization the Agency for National Security planning since she was arrested in Bahrain and extradited to Seoul last december relatives of those killed in the Kal bombing have demanded Kim be punished. On thursday dozens of relatives demonstrated at an International Airport in Seoul after returning from a memorial service in  and a male companion trave Lingon forged japanese passports were among passengers on an Early leg of the. Kal night from Baghdad Iraq to Seoul but disembarked at a Stop before the Jet disappeared they look Poison when police tried to question them at Bahrain Airport. The Man died but Kim sur Vived