European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 29,1989 soviet party officials still reaping Perks Moscow up communist party leaders continue to enjoy privileges such As fancy foods private cars and color televisions despite their pledges to re form their ways a weekly Magazine said sunday. Gradations among the privileged arc strictly observed said an article in Ogo Nyok. Makes of cars monthly food rations Quality of health care prestige of apartment reflect one s rank within the party. The practice of awarding perquisites to party leaders has been harshly criticized by Ordinary citizens for whom food supplies have not improved As soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has tried to restructure the country s depressed Economy. Boris Yeltsin has become a Folk hero for his Call for an end to party privileges. After he was fired As mos cow party chief in 1987 for telling Gorbachev parcs troika was giving the people nothing he was the top vote getter in elections to the supreme soviet. Gorbachev has criticized the system but has not world today China to get first taste of . Pizza Power Beijing up a Young new York entrepreneur signed a $3.5 million Deal monday to introduce big Apple style  to China and keep chinese in Pep Croni into the 21st Century saying that despite its recent turmoil the country is a Good place to  the agreement is to open a new York City pizza restaurant the first pizzeria in China near the Beijing railway station in june 1990. Officials said at a sign ing ceremony attended by Beijing vice mayor Huang Chao and . Ambassador James Lilly. The restaurant is among Only a handful of american investments signed since the crackdown in june on the pro democracy movement. Most investment plans have been delayed out of concern Over China s Politi Cal  Richard . The 26-year-old president of new York City pizza corp. Said he had absolutely no second thoughts about going ahead with the project initiated earlier this year. Oldest inhabited House put on map in Britain London a a two Story House East of Lon Don has been identified As Britain s oldest inhabited residence and the Only Domestic building surviving from before the Norman Conquest of 1066. It has been in continuous use for 1,000 years and is still lived in. Or. Nicola Smith of the historic buildings and monuments commission writing in the weekly country life Magazine said the 40-foot-Long House called prior s Hall at Widdington had previously been dated from the 13th Century. But the discovery of Saxon stonework under the plaster showed it was probably built in the 10th Cen Tury she said. Shoeless robber shod by Alert italian police Bari Italy a in a Cinderella like police Chase a thief who lost his shoes during a robbery was captured by police when they found the right feet the italian news Agency Ansa said. Police called to scene of a pharmacy robber in this Southern City found a pair of shoes lost by the thief As he ran with 240,000 lire s171 stolen from the Cash  the shoes the policemen began a search and had several people try them on. Finally they found the Barefoot Antonio Schirone 25, and the shoes were a perfect fit. Schironi was arrested. Storks Send Winter signal Button up your overcoat Nicosia. Cyprus a the premature passage Over Cyprus of a huge flock of White storks migrating South indicated an Early heavy Winter in Europe ornithologist Pavlos Neophytou has said. There were about 3,000 White storks in the flock a huge number never experienced before in Cyprus As far As we know said Neophytou the Secretary of the Cyprus ornithological society. Another unusual aspect was the Early migration of the storks and their passage through Cyprus on their Way to Africa from Europe he added. Such an event indicates there will be an Early and heavy Winter in Europe no Phylous said. Proposed Concrete changes. As soon As somebody lakes a certain Post in the parly or soviet apparatus he immediately and very willingly Falls out from everyday life concerns of the country he is supposed to  a Moscow doctor e. Astr Clova wrote to Ogo Nyok. . Senators and members of the British parliament do not have special stores to do their shop Ping let there be none for  wrote r. Soloni Kov of Moscow. Make their wages higher several times but let their wives run around shops stand in lines alongside us to get what is called food " a Ryazan citizen complained that he could not gel any Butler for More than two weeks who la in six months the Ryazan regional party committee consumed huge amounts of caviar and 6,000 cans of crab foods not available to Ordinary citizens. The Magazine said an academic once estimated hundreds of thousands of politicians have cars that arc provided by the government. How much Wou d the country gain if these cars were used for practical matters if their Drivers who  for hours on end awaiting their Bosses engaged in productive labor it would come to billions Ogo Nyok said. A decision to reduce the number of government provided cars by 40 percent by june i 1988, remains Only on paper it said. An Ogo Nyok writer said he visited a party Leader at a Hospital on the outskirts of Moscow. It was quiet there far from the noisy City. The Man 1 visited occupied a separate Ward with a Telephone near his head and a to set in front of  the patient had a Black and White set. His Superior Hud a color television. A commission has been set up to investigate privileges provided to party leaders. Floating luxury in Vietnam a $70 million Flotlin luxury hotel that failed to draw tourists at Australia s great Barrier reef moves along the Saigon River on sunday in route to to Chi Minh City Vietnam. Officials Hope the six Story 200-room Salmon floating hotel a sym Liol of Vietnam s new open door policy will attract foreign business people and tourists to the City. The hotel is the first of several joint ventures in Vietnam by the City and japanese and Middle Eastern companies. Holocaust survivors challenging findings that Mengele is dead Jerusalem a holocaust survivors opened a Public hearing sunday to Challenge experts finding that nazi criminal or. Joseph Menicle drowned in Brazil in 1979. The three Day hearing before a 10-Membcr tribunal at had Vashch holocaust memorial focuses on claims Menicle has been spotted recently in places ranging from an is land off the portuguese coast to a. Denial clinic in Sao Paulo. Brazil the proceedings also follow jewish protests Over a roman Catholic Convent located at the Auschwitz death Camp in Poland where Mengele worked anywhere 2.5 million of inc 6 million jewish victims of the nazis died. Menicle known As the Angel of death has been accused of i sending 400,000 people to die in Mengele Gas Chambers and of conducting cruel medical experiments on wins at the Camp. This week West German prosecutors announced they Are investigating new Evi Dence suggesting similar experiments were carried out on retarded children. Mengele was declared dead in june 1985 by an International team of forensic experts who concluded within a reasonable scientific certainty that a Skele ton exhumed from a cemetery in Emu near Sao Paulo was that of Menicle. Israel never accepted the findings. Relatives said Menicle drowned near Sao Paulo on feb. 7, 1979, but announced the death Only in 1985 during an International Campaign to bring him to trial. There Are claims that Mange i. Still alive said Aharon Simcha a retired israeli Juige heading the tribunal. There is a feeling especially among Ausch Witz survivors and Mengele s victims that not enough is being done to bring him to  those to testify is american actress Susanne Severeid who told reporters she saw a person who fit a Englc s description on puerto Santo Island near Portugal in april 1985. " Severid said she travelled to the Island with her husband a former dutch resistance fighter after the Simon wisc Plhal nazi War crimes research Center was told Mengele might be there. She was to testify at the hearing tuesday."1 think the body in Brazil was a hoax added Severid who starred in the television series the paper  i saw a Man who fits his  holocaust survivors also said a brazilian dentist Maria Helena Bueno de Castro says she treated Menicle in Sao Paulo about two months after relatives announced his death. She reportedly said the Man she believed was Mengele called himself Pedro Miller