European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday february 16,1989 world today Drunken driving brings record Fine for norwegian Oslo Norway a a norwegian lawyer has been fined a record 100,000 norwegian Kro Ner $ 15,000 for Drunken driving published re ports said wednesday. The heavy penalty was levied tuesday by a Oslo probate court under new rules pegging fines to income. The unidentified 45-year-old lawyer who was stopped in a random police Check North of Oslo earned 1,272,000 Kroner $190,000 annually the reports said. Rules that took effect last sept. 15 set the maximum Fine for Drunken driving at 1 a months salary before tax. The lawyer also was Given a 21 Day suspended jail sentence. Under previous rules intoxicated Driver were sent to jail but fines were lower. Squatters in Copenhagen Battle hundreds of police Copenhagen Denmark a squatter occupying a former army Barracks in Copenhagen fought hundreds of police who moved i tuesday to close illegal bars and restaurants. Five of about 250 police officers involved inthe operation were injured and three people were detained danish Public radio reported. I said the police fought about 150 residents. Witnesses said people at the Christiani squatter town threw stones and other objects at police to prevent them from removing liquor and furniture from 13 unlicensed bars. Police were forced to Retreat under a Hail of stones at one Point and regroup witnesses said. Christiania has been occupied since 1971 by squatters who proclaimed it a free City and refused to pay taxes. About 500 people usually live there this time of year. It was the first time police had entered the area in Force. World Bank chief pledges More Loans to Philippines Manila up world Bank president Barber Conable on wednesday promised More Loans to the Philippines amounting to some $500 million after a meeting with president co Razon Aquino and other High ranking officials. This past year we be had five Loans amount ing to Over $500 million he said. That level of assistance is Likely to continue and will be in wide Range of areas both social and this month the world Bank approved a $107million loan to bolster the philippine Economy. Aquino meanwhile pledged to work closely with the International Community and the world Bank to solve the country s $28.2 billion foreign debt. Conable arrived in the Philippines on tues Day for a three Day visit As philippine and inter National monetary fund officials continue talk son $1.3 billion in standby credit. Argentine politician vows falklands will be recovered Buenos Aires Argentina a presidential candidate Carlos Menem of the opposition Peronis party was quoted on tuesday As saying the Falkland islands belong to Argentina and will be recovered even if we must suffer the spilling of Argentina will not give in Menem said during a Campaign swing monday night according to Argentina s two Independent news agencies diaries y Noti Cias and Noticia Argentina. The Malvinas Argentina s name for the territory off its South coast that it has claimed since 1810 will return to form part of the National territory even if we must suffer the spilling of blood he was quo Tedas saying. Menem was on a visit to ush Uaia 2,045 Miles Southof the capital City of Buenos Aires. Argentina and Britain went to War Over the sparsely populated windswept and virtually treeless islands in1982. Argentine troops invaded on april 2. A British expeditionary Force recovered the islands after a counterattack in which 712 Argentine and 255 British sol Diers died. The War lasted 74 Days. Argentina surrendered but refused to formally declare an end to hostilities. Nei ther Side resumed diplomatic relations. Britain s claim dates to 1833. It has since fortified the islands and enforced a 200-mile zone of exclusion around them. Argentina has tried to isolate the islands commercially by prohibiting direct flights or ship from the Mainland. It has tried to apply International pressure to forc Britain to negotiate the islands sovereignty. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has refused. The two agencies also quoted Menem As saying Idon t know How much time will pass or How much blood we will have to spill to see that the Malvinas return to Argentine president Raul Alfonsin and foreign minister Dante Caputo who also is president of the . Gen eral Assembly have said Argentina inherited the is lands upon declaring Independence from Spain and the government will try to recover them peacefully through negotiation. Ownership is an article of Faith Here. Argentin maps identify the islands As the Malvinas and school children Are taught they were stolen by Britain. Recovering the falklands is a main foreign policy theme of political groups from both left and right along with the 4 million member general labor con federation which backs Menem. Menem in the past said he would seek the islands recovery by diplomacy if he wins election on May 14. It was not known whether he was speaking rhetorically in ush Uaia or shifting and hardening his position. A Telephone Call seeking comment from the British interests Section at the Swiss embassy failed to draw a response. Soviets break 56-year policy toward crime reveal Sharp Rise Moscow not in the first disclosure of de tailed crime statistics in 56 years a soviet official said tuesday that per capita crime in the soviet Union Roseby 17.8 percent last year with especially Sharp increases in violent crimes. The Interior ministry spokesman maj. Gen. Anat oly Smirnov told soviet reporters tuesday that the number of crimes reported in the country last year climbed from 558 per 100,000 people to 657, the government newspaper Izvestia reported. Smirnov did not evaluate the statistics or indicate whether the Sharp increase was due to a Rise in reporting by victims or in the number of actual crimes committed. But Smirnov seemed surprised by the statistics. The figures published by the paper May Shock Many people he told Izvestia. But it s better to know the real situation so that the problems of our safety and the concerns and problems of the militia become since 1933, when a decree by Stalin prohibited the release of crime data the soviet authorities have been secretive about such information fearing that its Dis closure would tarnish the country s image abroad and encourage crime. But in the last few years officials have gradually become More open about the subject. The earliest re ports focused on graft corruption and organized crime often involving former government officials. About 18 months ago the Moscow administration for internal affairs began briefing soviet reporters weekly about crimes in the City inspiring regular crime columns in All three of Moscow s daily newspapers. Suddenly grisly murders and violent family Dis Putes have become grist for articles and television pro Grams. Smirnov said tuesday that the regular reporting of crime statistics was crucial to Law enforcement the official press Agency Tass reported because without them even the most sophisticated punitive machinery will not be he said that from now on reporters will be kept regularly posted about crime statistics in this foreign reporters were not invited to tuesday s Brief ing. The statistics published in Izvestia on tuesday showed that the total number of recorded crimes in Moscow Rose by 68,700 to 1,867,223 last year an in crease of 3.8 percent. The statistics disclosed the following increases in crime for 1988, compared with 1987 murders by 14.1percent to 16,710, up from 14,651 rapes by 5.3 per cent to 17,658, up from 16,765 assault and Battery by31.6 percent to 37,191, up from 28,250 and violent robberies by 42.8 percent to 12,916, up from 9,047. Masics underscore Unm Asfa no of Sfa a Brezhnev Moscow a their names have disappeared from ships and cities but the likenesses of former soviet leaders Josef Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev can still be found in Moscow. A weekend Outing to Moscow s Ismai Lovo Park an open marketplace for artists and craftsmen provides ample expo sure to the latest in Stalin and Brezhnev bashing. A Cluster of halloween Type mask with ghoulish faces realistic enough to make Boris Karloff shriek in terror includes Stalin and Brezhnev both now disgraced in official and unofficial circles. The Brezhnev mask with Bushy Black eyebrows eyeglasses and wrinkles is Selling for about $40. A visage of Stalin Selling for the same Price has a thick Mustache and a Large nose. Hanging on a piece of plywood next bizarre masks on Sale in Moscow include likenesses of Stalin left Brezhnev. To Stalin and Brezhnev Are masks of a Gorilla and various monsters. Other soviets have joined in the artistic parody in the form of political buttons to shirts paintings and even wooden dolls of Stalin with pipe in one hand and a bloody Dagger in theother. Under Mikhail s. Gorbachev Stalin has been criticized for killing millions of people with his bloody purges and Brezhnev has been denounced for ruining the country s Economy and Cul Ture. Homemade political buttons for Sal eat the Park offer such commentary As Boris you Are right referring to f9rmer Moscow party chief Boris Yeltsin who lost his Job for pushing too hard for Reform and Yegor you Are not right referring to conservative politburo member Yegor Migachev. Another identifies the wearer As a Veteran of the cold
