European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Gen. Saint praises women volunteers Page 2 d justices permit lawsuits by disenchanted 4 q 1973 Bias suit against Navy starts Page 5 d magic Johnson voted Aba s map sports Page 21 the stars to a authorized unofficial publication for the.4-. A med forces vol.48,no.37 wednesday May 24, 1989 Good Mornin d 8693 a Dollar Breaks 21/2-year High White House fears deficit will Worsen from wire report the Dollar soared l 2 year highs on the foreign Exchange markets monday prompting intervention by the Bank of Japan and a rare White House a tement of concern that inc Rise May impede efforts to trim the Trade deficit. Currency traders say the Dollar s value is being buoyed by several factors relatively higher interest Rales in the United states than in Japan and West Germany political uncertainly in West Germany and Japan and the turmoil in China. The Dollar closed in new York late monday at 2.012 West German Marks its highest level since december 1986. It Rose to 142 yen ils highest level against that currency since october 1987. Conversion Rales on l �re20. In Early trading tuesday in Tokyo the Dollar opened at 142.05. The Dank of Japan continued yen supporting intervention for the seventh straight session. Analysts predicted More of the same in inc next few Days. The White House said the Dollar s Rise could under mine Progress in reducing inc Trade deficit and it re asserted us commitment to coordinating economic policy with of her countries to keep the Dollar stable. The statement prepared by the White House and the Treasury was the first formal comment by the while House on the Dollar since president hush took Dollar s recent Rise against other major Curren cies is a matter of concern while House spokesman roman Popadiuk told reporters at a briefing. Treasury Secretary Nicholas f. Hrady joined those homeless sleep out Britain s disc brass of York talks with some of the Chil Dren and parents who Are camped out Al Westminster Abbey this1 Heck in sympathy with London s homeless people. More than i my people Haw Hcan sponsored a sleep out in cardboard Hows and Tarius trash receptacles in the first National sleep out week. Analysts who suspect that political turmoil abroad and stability at Home arc important have a million chinese rioting in the he said in an interview by the Milwaukee journal that was reported by Ilie associated press. You have nato in an unsettled stale of affairs. You have in Japan Lack of Clear definition of leadership really for the first time since the second world or Wadiuk said the United states remains fully committed to the upper and lower limits never revealed publicly set by the major Industrial nations for the Dollar s . Dismissing what he conceded had been some questioning of the Industrial nations support for the Dollar s current level sought to Knock Down a re see Dollar on Back Page chinese military says it won t fight student protesters Beijing a More than 100 military leaders said monday they will not order their men to confront or suppress the masses of people who seized control of the capital to demand democratic Reform. Meanwhile student leaders on tuesday considered ending their 10-Day occupation Ostia Nansen Square. Soldiers clashed briefly monday night with local residents but Oiher troops withdrew irom streets in Southern and Western Beijing ending standoffs with local residents who have surrounded Pineir convoys and blocked their movement. Student leaders who have guided the tumultuous pro democracy movement Over the past month met tuesday morning to decide whether to slay on the Square. Beijing University student Leader Gua Haifeng said some leaders want to pull out because of the increasingly squalid conditions and the Lack of Clear Cul re sults from the occupation others argued they should slay until they achieve Victory in their struggle with the government stressing that the students my have the Strong support of City residents. The Promise by the military not to attack protesters represented a serious blow to Premier i Peng and other hard liners who have tried to quell the huge demonstrations. Sources said members of the National people s con see protesters on Back Page phone numbers of further Divide London classes London a the Telephone company is dividing up London. The City is running out of Telephone numbers so starting next May it willbe split in two with separate area codes for the Central and outlying areas. It will be like what the Telephone company in new York City did when it separated the boroughs of Brooklyn Queens and Slaten Island from Man Hattan and the Bronx. In Britain the split offers fresh potential for social one up Manship. Out will go the old 01 area code for London to be replaced by 071 for sub scribers within roughly 4 Miles of Char ing Cross London s official Center Point and 081 for the rest. It also will spell the end of London s pre Eminence in Britain s telephonic pecking order. Stripped of its unique two digit prefix the capital will have to get in line behind Birmingham 021edinburgh 031glasgow 041liverpool 051 and Manchester 061. Some londoners May find in irksome to have to dial 10 digits to Cross the Divide and snobs will probably have a Field Day. "071 will be a Superior number to have declares Elsie Burch Donald author of de Brett s etiquette and modern clearly there is an advantage socially culturally economically Looe living in Central like new York where Manhattan and inc Bronx kept the original 212area code and the other boroughs Gol 718, London is running out of Tele phone numbers especially since the Rise of the fax system which sends documents Over Telephone lines. The new codes will double London s Telephone capacity to 10 million. With out the change it would have run out of numbers next year swamped by a 25-percent surge in demand during the last four years much of in in the Center. British telecoms inc National Tele communications giant has Given inc Public a full year to adapt and is spending Lens of millions of dollars on the switch including $1.65 million just to publicize it. But in in t offering financial Corn see London on Back Page
