European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A it f amp a a Fyt a a a amps Jim Derheim another Doggone traffic Jam on a sunny Friday afternoon its a dog Fie to get Home and travellers try to leave its head out of the window perusing the eat dog situation on autobahn 5 North Home. This impatient Pooch command crawling cars doggedly following each of Frankfurt As workers fight the tray ing the role of Back seat Driver pokes other on the crowded Highway. News updates mortgage rates Washington up a rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell by 0.08 percentage Points last week while adjustable rate mortgages increased by 0.04 percentage Points the Federal Home loan mortgage corp. Has said. T employees at some of Hawaii a biggest the Agency which buys mortgages from pc lenders and packages them As securities for Sale to investors said interest on fixed rate Loans fell to 10.23 percent last week from 10.31 percent the week before. Adjustable rate mortgages averaged 8.48 percent up from 8.44 percent last week the Agency said. The fixed rate average is for a 30-year loan covering 80 percent of a Homes Cost. The average adjustable rate mortgage also is for 30 years but for 75 percent of the Home Price. Spanish poll ruling Murcia Spain apr a provincial court has ruled that Spain a socialist party has won its 175th seat in the 350-scat National lower House of parliament in the oct. 29 general elections. The decision gives prime minister Felipe Gonzalez a party a virtual parliamentary majority since the four Dep Utica of the Radical Basque party Herri Bataluna were denied their seats. The Basque representatives refused to swear allegiance to the Spanish Constitution. The principal opposition party the conservative popular party has 105 seats. Opposition parties questioned results in the provinces of Murcia and Pont Cevedra and the North african enclave of Melilla. A National court ruled feb. 19 that the Pont Cevedra results were valid leaving open a decision on Murcia. They also said the 33,684 registered voters in Melilla had to return to the polls to elect one Deputy and one senator. The government set March 25 As the new election Date. Stormie recuperating Pittsburgh apr the worlds longest surviving recipient of a heart liver transplant has begun taking Short walks around the Hospital doctors say. Mine blast halts probe of Tunnel Seoul South Korea apr a mine exploded sunday As a South korean army team searched a Tunnel that was allegedly dug by communist North Korea As an invasion route military authorities said. Defense ministry officials said the blast came when soldiers blocked by water and a wooden Box sent a sentry dog to search the Way ahead. They said the explosion killed the dog but the soldiers who were about 800 Yards behind were unhurt. The explosion temporarily stopped the search that began saturday after engineers discovered what Seoul said is the fourth secret invasion Tunnel dug by North Korea. Ministry officials said they believe North Korea might have installed the Booby trap to Block a search operation. They said soldiers will continue the search later. The officials claim North Korea dug the tunnels under the heavily fortified Border for possible use in neutralizing the South a front line troops. A government statement said the Tunnel indicates that North koreans strategy a has been geared to winning a Quick Victory through a Surprise attack. It said the Tunnel could be used by Light infantry and commando units to bypass the South s Border troops and infiltrate into rear areas. A North Korea intends to break through our front line on the strength of its Superior mobility and firepower advancing speedily behind our Forward areas and occupying Seoul quickly a it said. North korean president Kim ii Sung had stated that one Tunnel would be a More effective than 10 atomic bombs and would thus be the Best Means to overwhelm the heavily fortified existing front  it said. . And South korean military engineers unearthed the Tunnel in a mountainous northeastern Region about two months after a . Investigation team conducted test drilling. Similar tunnels were found in 19/4. 1975 and 1978. North Korea has denied digging any tunnels. The broadcasting network Mac reported sunday that military officials believe the fourth Tunnel might have been dug in the Early 1980s. The two Korea Are separated by the Doz which is 2.5 Miles wide. The Border area on both sides is heavily fortified by fences Concrete bunkers minefields and hundreds of thousands of armed troops. Defense minister Lee Sang Hoon said saturday that South Korea has spotted at least 26 underground a taxis lines considered to be invasion tunnels throughout the Doz by analysing satellite pictures Ana .-r--._________r_________�?z________. Other information. ,. The Union would have had to drop its de military officials said test Boring to Dis Mand for a 5 percent room surcharge and a cover More North korean tunnels had been 15 percent food and beverage surcharge unsuccessful until a decisive clue for the that hotel workers would share. Fourth Tunnel was provided by Cha Jung management rejected the offer saying it Chul a former North korean army Captain would make their hotels uncompetitive. Who defected to the South in May 1983. Safety probe targets Cairo hotels systems so that the Sheraton Heliopolis Strong winds fanned the flames and fire is not repeated a the Middle East spread the fire. News Agency quoted Khaled As saying. Hotel guests complained that the a this committee will prepare a com building lacked a fire alarm sprinkler sys prehensile report that will be presented Tern. Thousands of workers strike hotels in Hawaii Honolulu apr thousands of employees at some of Hawaii a biggest ing guests without fresh sheets and towels and otherwise disrupting the states lucrative tourist Industry. The strike was called about 3 30 . By local 5 of the hotel employees and restaurant employees Union which has 7,500 members spokesman Rod Rodriguez said. The unions membership had voted to authorize a strike by a 97 percent margin in a dispute Over pay and benefits. The strike affected 11 hotels that account for one of every five hotel rooms in Hawaii and two of every five hotel rooms in Waikiki the main tourist destination. Many hotels were forced to Cut Back on meal and room services As managers scrambled to take the strikers places. Most of the affected hotels closed their restaurants and snack shops and the hotel restaurants that remained open offered Only Buffet service. Maid service was Cut severely. Many guests did no to get fresh sheets or towels unless they asked and those who did get maid service waited for hours. There was no word whether the affected hotels would offer discounts. Union and management leaders could t agree on even what the last contract offer contained. Bill Crawford executive director of the Council of Hawaii hotels said the Union rejected a four year arrangement that called for annual wage increases of 5 percent plus increases in benefits that boosted the total package to around 7 percent a year. Rodriguez said the Union calculated the management proposal at around 4 percent which he said was lower than the 5 percent package offered Friday. Crawford called the unions calculations a voodoo  he urged hotel workers to return to work. Tour bus operators a Union and nonunion a refused to enter resort property to pick up passengers in a show of support for the strikers. Rodriguez said the Union also had proposed a three year package that called for annual wage increases of 8 percent and total economic benefits that would boost the proposal to 10 percent a year. In return. Cairo Egypt apr a police committee is being formed to Check Cairo hotels for adequate firefighting equipment following the Blaze at the Heliopolis Sheraton hotel that killed 17 people a senior police officer said sunday. Maj. Gen. Fahr Al Din Khaled head of the tourist police said the committee will Check All hotels regardless of Heth cd it of White settlement or hey have  Texas remained in serious condition at one at the Sheraton where the tire children a Hospital of Pittsburgh. She is . _. # recovering from her second liver trans a a within the next few Days it Plant which was performed feb. 20. All Cairo hotels to Check their firefighting to the tourism minister to take suitable procedures so that such accidents do not happen in Egypt again a he was quoted As saying. Sheraton officials have insisted that a fire alarm was sounded thursday when the fire spread from its Garden tent housing a restaurant to the hotel building. They said Sheraton workers tried to put out the Blaze with extinguishers but egyptian officials have said the Canvas tents popular at several hotels arc Are  spokesmen for four hotels in Cairo said their tents have adequate safety pro cautions and will remain. Tourism is one of Egypt a Mai sources of foreign currency. Official no ures for 1989 showed 2.4 million tourists brought $2.3 billion into the country