European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday. September t7. 1989 eager to Cut air pollution get a bicycle Washington a the Bicy Cle can help solve some of the world s worst pollution and economic prob lems hut in Many countries Only the poor people pedal a new study said. In the United states there is nearly one hike for every two people but Many americans drive cars to health dubs where they ride stationary excer disc hikes said researcher Marcia 0.  in a report published sunday. In countries that have fewer cars she said bikes carry commuters deliver milk haul squealing pigs and deliver the mail. Worldwide. 800 million cycles out number cars 2 to i. By contrast the United Stales built 6 million bikes and 8 million cars in i h7. China in Tiv same year produced 41 million bikes and 4,065 automobiles. Lowe said in the bicycle vehicle for a Small  a world watch Institute report. The Institute is an Independent non profit research Urgani at inn that an Aly is environmental and economic is sues. Many countries that should be producing and using More bicycles and Tri cycles arc pouring Money into Auto Mobile manufacturing roads and industries to support a Mode of transportation most of their population can not afford Lowe said at a briefing on the report. One of the greatest ironies of the 20th Century is thai around the Globe. Vast amounts of such priceless things As land Petroleum and clean air have been relinquished for motorization and yet most people in the world will a chef own an  she said. Nearly $1 billion in . Oil imports could be saved if 10 percent of Ameri cans switched to bicycles for at least part of their commute to work said Lowe who practices what she preaches in traffic clogged Washington. Bicycle promotional groups say less than one commuter in a Hundred Ped als to work in the United slates. Some of the poorest countries arc hostile to pedal traffic because bicycles Are viewed As vehicles of the   said. In Jakarta. Indonesia she said City officials confiscated 100.000 Cycle rickshaws Over the past five years and dumped them into the sea. Governments trying to eliminate such conveyances declare Thoni unsafe or inhumane but the More Likely motive is to Clear the streets of vehicles that make the City look poor and Back Ward the report said. Michael rep logic president of the Institute for transportation and development policy said his organi action tries to encourage governments to put less emphasis on expensive Road build ing and More on producing vehicles people can afford and use. Lowe s report said Many roads in poorer countries Are More useful for drying Beans and peppers than moving traffic. The Netherlands and Denmark Are the most bicycle Friendly developed countries the report said. The nether lands has the world s highest density of both Cycle lanes and cars it said while 32 percent of danish commuters Cycle to work. The United states most cycling conscious communities arc Davis and Palo Alto. Calif. Lowe said. Davis has 30 Miles of bicycle lanes for every 100 Miles of streets. Palo Alto s City govern ment pays its employees 7 cents a mile for business travel by Bike and the to Lici department has a bicycle squad she said. Palo Alto also has found answers to some of the drawbacks of getting employees to Bike to work. For example a 1983 Raning ordinance requires that larger new buildings be provided with not Only bicycle parking but also employee showers. Yeltsin Calls for ouster of 5 politburo members Dail is Uji la outspoken soviet politician Lions Yeltsin stepping up his at tack on the conservative leaders opposed to reforms in ins country urged the removal of live politburo members including his chief adversary. Igor Migachev. Tin1 former Moscow party chief told a  fathering Friday that the Progress of Perc Stroika. Or economic restructuring Ini titled by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is being impeded by the conservative leadership. In older to reduce the pressure on Gorbachev from the right we have to convoke the 28lh party Congress to remove the conservatives from the 14-Mcmher Polit by  Yeltsin told the Dallas Council on world affairs. " i Here Are live who have to  he said. They will never leave on their  in remarks to reporters Yeltsin named Only four members of the soviet Union s chief policy making body he wants ousted saying the Central Ommi lec. Must decide about the  those he named were , chair Man of the agricultural commission . Vii Nikov former Kiki head . Che Borikov Anil a a. Shch Brilsky of the ukame. Yeltsin who is on a one week private Lour of the United Stales was a member of the politburo but was dismissed in novem Ber i a because of his Public debate with  and Hiscuit scism that perestroika was moving Loo slowly. In March however. Moscow Citi ens elected him by an overwhelming majority to the Congress of Peoples deputies. Visitor Moris Yeltsin slums diff a hat presented in him Krida in Dallas. Yeltsin has been speaking openly about the need to Speed up Perc Stroika electoral reforms including the direct election of the. President closer relations with the United slates economic reforms and economic sovereignty for the country s clashing republics. Despite All the problems facing Gorba Chev. Yeltsin said it was extremely unlikely that the soviet Leader would be toppled from Power i was in the politburo for 2vi years. I know All the chains of  he said. I also know what authority he enjoys. Even though it  is still pretty  during his . Visit. Yeltsin met with president hush to suggest a " 10-poinl" pro Gram. I be has publicly discussed Only Grant ing the soviet Union most favored nation trading status removal of All soviet barriers to Trade and the need for International convertibility of the Ruble the country s Mone tary unil. He said perestroika started As a revolution from the lop of the soviet leadership but begin encountering opposition As it moved Down. Now he said it has been halted. He warned thai the next Mage will be a revolution by those at the Bottom of the social ladder. I think that unless Radical improvement in the Standard of living is made this revolution from below will greatly intensify he said. He urged . Business leaders not to get nervous noting that whatever the out come the demo Craig Alion of the country is  tense strike by teachers divides Montana City great Falls. Mont Ai she stood in the Gutter outside . Rus sell High school in the chill morning Sun of Early fall hugging her craggy faced biology teacher and crying for him. My teachers Are my friends and i support them 15-year-old Ann Gillin said. Teacher Don Ken a the morning picket Captain for strikers at the school is one of about 700 of the City s 720 teachers who have been on strike since aug. 27. More than 500 substitutes have filled in since classes began sept. 5. I Don t think this will end until they the school Board see these kids As we see them said Kenczka who returned the girl s hug. Ken a. Chairman of Russell s biology department last year has been a teacher for 34 years. Gillin the grand daughter of Montana s Republican gov. Stan Stephens refused to attend a substitute s class declaring to her parents that she would Honor the picket line. The strike in this Prairie City about 70 Miles Northwest of Helena the Capi Tal has sharply divided the Community s 60.000 residents. The Only previous strike of teachers in great Falls was in 975. Standing out Here and Wal  somebody walk past you into your classroom is like standing in your driveway and watching somebody sleep in your  said Sharon a fourth Grade teacher at Riv Mew elementary who declined to give her full name. The school Board and the great Falls education association remain in disagreement Over some 20 issues including salaries insurance and Transfer policy. Talks Are continuing but haltingly. Frustration on All sides teachers administrators students and parents is building into anger. Outside great Falls High school one of the City s two High schools teachers shouted Scab Scab recently at substitutes filing into the school. Some of the substitutes instinctively hunched their shoulders As they passed the Gauntlet of strikers. Later inside the High school one of the substitutes called the harassment  hut Mol were quiet about their situation saying they did t have time for an Inte Meu Dur ing school hours. None of the substitute teachers took up invitations to talk later. At great Falls High female students repeatedly came to hug striking teach ers and some cried. Grim faced boys offered encouragement and complained that the substitutes were in competent. But Many students who entered the school attendance has increased gradually to More than 70 percent averted their eyes and did not speak As they walked past the teachers. A lot of these kids need  said Karol Johnson principal at great Falls High. Johnson said she feels caught in the Middle. She makes a Point of stopping to talk with the strikers each Day. Some of my staff will have a hard Lime forgiving me for that she said. The teachers said it s hard explain ing contracts to kindergarteners. But they said the children understand the word