European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 15, 1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 3 growing controversy periwinkle elementary schoolteacher Tion. Science teachers in Albany and satisfied with Nasa s safety claims but Lynn Dunn in Albany ore., Friday Dis Sweet Home plan to Plant and grow the decided to conduct the Experiment any plays nasal a controversial Tomato seeds despite stories that the tomatoes Way because their students done to plan to seeds that were exposed to space Radia might be poisonous. Teachers were not eat the fruits of their  slain at Katyn get tribute Moscow up1 a polish president Wojcicch Jaruzelski was present at a poignant memorial service at Katyn saturday a Day after the soviets admitted killing thousands of polish officers there during world War ii. Units of the polish and soviet armies joined in paying military honors to the dead and fired a Salute during the two hour ceremony which included a Reading of the Roll of the dead and a prayer service led by a polish chaplain. Jaruzelski Laid a Wreath at the Monument to the slain polish officers which now has an inscription in russian Reading a to polish officers who died at Katyn a without mentioning who was responsible for the deaths. An inscription blaming the nazis for the massacre was removed last year. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev ended half a Century of denials Friday when he turned Over documents to Jaruzelski that showed Josef Stalin s secret police had killed 15,000 polish officers during the . Eases restrictions on aids infected visitors Washington up a the administration loosened travel restrictions Friday for foreigners with aids attending . Conferences a a move that Drew mixed reviews from activists pushing for the removal of All restrictions. Currently visitors to the United states must state whether or not they Are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus or his which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. His infected people Are barred from travel in or immigration to the United states but they can obtain waivers allowing them to visit for 30 Days. Under a policy change announced Friday the immigration and naturalization service will not require aids testing for foreigners planning to attend a professional scientific or academic conferences judged to be a in the Public  activists who object to any aids related travel restrictions have vowed to shun the International aids conference in san Francisco in june and the International Haemophilia Congress in Washington in August. Or. Mervyn Silverman president of the american foundation for aids research called fridays announcement a a tremendous disappointment a saying his group had hoped president Bush would totally lift the a a discriminatory rules. A the people who Are boycotting the conferences Are boycotting As a matter of principle not convenience a said Silverman whose group is a co sponsor of the san Francisco meeting. But he acknowledged that the rules might make travelling easier for the estimated 12,000 people expected to attend that conference. Silverman noted that the aids virus is Only spread by sexual or blood to blood Contact for example drug users sharing Needles. A aids is not a highly contagious disease. Short of being raped i can to give you aids unless you let me a he said. Besides the United states the Only nations that had aids related travel restrictions As of december were Bulgaria Chile China Cuba East Germany Hungary Iraq Pakistan and South Africa. Health and human services Secretary Louis Sullivan a medical doctor has decided the first two conferences to qualify for the new 10-Day visas arc the aids and Haemophilia conferences ins officials said. Other types of travellers will still have to undergo aids testing and apply for 30-Day  from East West join for peace Berlin apr peace activists from both Germany protested together for the first time during traditional easter marches saturday while guards waved tens of thousands of cars through the Border to prevent traffic jams. The custom of easter peace marches dates Back to the 1950s, but protests were held separately in East and West Germany for decades until the Border opened during East Germany a revolution last fall. East germans were among nearly 1,000 people who began a three Day March in the West German City of Duisburg under the slogan a to live without  the demonstrators planned to March from town to town through the industrialized Ruhr Region. More than 1,000 protesters set out from the East German Baltic port of Rostock for the West German port of Lubeck demanding that a unified Germany contribute to securing peace in Europe. Some 5,000 residents of the East German districts of Rathenow and Havel Berg about 37 Miles West of Berlin ribbed to a military training Field near the Elbe River demanding that Trees be planted and the land re cultivated. Similar marches and rallies took place Iku a dozen cities and towns throughout the two Germany but most of the easter marches were scheduled for sunday. Tens of thousands of germans from East and West poured through the Border for the second Day in a Row for easter weekend trips with family and friends. A decision by newly elected prime minister Lothar de Maiziere to ease passport checks appeared to Speed up Border Crossings. A we Only waited five minutes on the Border. At Christmas it was awful and m # Ltd a there was bumper to bumper traffic at the Allied checkpoint Charlie on saturday As thousands of people crossed the Border Between East and West Berlin. Now it goes so smoothly a said political scientist Roland fraud Etstein who drove to Berlin from his Home in Cologne West Germany. Traffic officials in the West German City of Diss Oldorf reported that traffic was a relaxed and  West German highways arc routinely slowed by major traffic jams during holidays. Last minute shoppers and thousands of visitors strolled through dozens of Crossings leading into both sides of Berlin As uniformed guards simply raised their arms to wave by the crowds. Although the Holiday pushed politics briefly to the Back Burner debate continued Over the Exchange rate for uniting the two nations currencies. Wolf von Macron gun head of the East Europe committee of German entrepreneurs said he supported the West German Central Bank a position of opposing a one to one Exchange of East and West Marks. But East Germany a new finance minister Walter Romberg said Friday that the East germans need a one to one Exchange. The West German Central Bank favors a two to on Exchange rate for All but Small savings accounts saying that parity would be inflationary and harmful to economic reconstruction. Talks on uniting the currencies Are Likely to begin shortly after easter