European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday May 18, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 a on the Road to unification West germans travelling to East Germany show identity cards to Border guards thursday after the East German government dropped its requirement that West germans show their passports. The change expected at the end of june was made Early to allow West germans easier Access to West Berlin for saturdays German soccer cup final said East German Interior minister Peter Michael . Africa opens Public hospitals to Black patients Johannesburg South Africa apr reversing its decades old policy of segregated health senders the government has declared Public hospitals open to All races. The decision wednesday was the latest in a series of reforms since president . De Klerk took office in August. The anti apartheid National medical and dental association welcomed the change. Quot we Hope this example will be followed quickly in bringing about an end to other obstacles toward a free and democratic South Africa a the group said. Health minister Rina Venter said the decision was effective immediately and that patients staying at overcrowded Black hospitals could be moved to underutilized White hospitals. Venter told parliament in Cape town that All hospitals must be available to All South africans for the country a health system to run effectively. Quot All hospitals Are now accessible to All people in South Africa Quot Venter said after leaving parliament. Asked if she was worried about the reaction from conservative Whites. Venter said Quot no. 1 think integrated hospitals will be in the interests of All our the decision to integrate health services should help alleviate overcrowding at Many Black hospitals. For example Johannesburg general Hospital which is for Whites has an occupancy rate of about 50 percent. In contrast hundreds of Black patients sleep on the floor at Baragwanath Hospital the Only Hospital in the nearby Black township of Soweto. Traditionally White hospitals treated Blacks in need of emergency or specialized care but transferred them to Black hospitals As soon As it was feasible. The staff at Public hospitals has been integrated for years. At Many private hospitals both patients and staff already Are fully . Germany seeks War criminals extradition Paris apr East Germany has asked Syria to extradite the Man considered the most important nazi criminal still at Large a a former aide of Adolf Eichmann. Alois Brunner 78, has been living in Damascus Syria since 1955. Syria has consistently denied his presence although he has been photographed and interviewed at his heavily guarded Home in the syrian capital. The extradition request was presented wednesday in Damascus by East German ambassador Karl Heinz Lugenheim nazi Hunter Serge Klarsfeld said. An East German foreign ministry spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed in East Berlin that Lugenheim had been instructed to request the extradition. The spokesman gave no further details. Brunner was sentenced to death in absent a twice in 1954, in Paris and Marseille for taking part in the deportation of More than 120,000 French jews to nazi death Camps. After 40 years of denial East Germany recently admitted its responsibility in nazi War crimes formally apologizing to the world jewish Community and announcing it would pay reparations. East Germany joins France Austria and West Germany in requesting Brunnert a extradition. According to the world jewish Congress the austrian born Brunner is responsible for the deaths of thousands of austrian French greek and czechoslovak jews. Adolf Hitler made Eichmann the chief of the Gestapo Bureau for jewish affairs and assigned him to plan and execute Alois bran nor the Quot the final solution a the extermination of european jewry. Israel hanged Eichmann in 1962 for crimes against the jews. After the War Brunner was temporarily detained by american and British officials but was Able to keep his identity secret. He was tracked Down in Syria under the name Georg Fischer in the late 1950s by nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal and officially identified by Klarsfeld and his wife Beate in 1982. The Klar sleds have lobbied actively for Brunner s extradition. Beate Klarsfeld has devoted her life to bringing Wai criminals to Justice. In february she met with East German prosecutor Horst Busse to discuss the Brunner All air. In 1985, the fugitive was photographed at his Home by Bunte a West German news Magazine and indicated no remorse for his crimes. Two years later he told an american newspaper in a Telephone interview that the jews deserved to be killed because they were agents of the Devil. He said if he had to do it Over again he carding minors who want a rated albums St. Louis apr teen age customers of some record store chains now need More than Money to buy certain hot los. They need ids. Bowing to pressure from politicians and parents Over what they consider objectionable lyrics some stores have begun to card teen agers. In some places no one under 18 can buy products by rap and heavy Metal bands that carry a warning Label affixed by record companies. A this stuff is addictive a says Missouri state sen. Jean Dixon a fan of Christian music whose attempt to Force record companies to Label albums with explicit material failed in committee. A i had a kid write and Tell me he a addicted to this bad whether record companies and retailers agree with her premise or not some Are complying. Among them Dallas based sound warehouse inc., which has 137 stores in 14 states and Street Side records which has 19 stores in Missouri and Kansas. Camelot music the no. 2 company in the country carded minors for several months before going to a Money Back guarantee last month for dissatisfied parents. A a we be been carding kids for about two months Ever since Jean Dixon started her Spiel a said Jim Varvaris manager of a Street Side store in St. Louis county. A some of her comments show that she a kind of targets of the measure agree. A a it a a Crock a said 17-year-old Matt Lau Man of St. Louis standing outside a Camelot outlet. A we talk about this stuff in social studies All the time a said 14-year-old Megan eng Bert of St. Louis. A a it a not the number of albums and tapes that carry warning labels and necessitate carding is Small. Varvaris said that of 75 new releases his store received monday Only two needed stickers. Profanity and references to suicide abortion and sex Are on Dixon shit list. A i think that san excellent move on the part of the retailer a said Dixon. Quot in a sure our efforts Here had something to do with that. In a very pleased with that and All parents should be too that s four years ago the recording Industry association of America under pressure from the parents music resource Center headed by Tipper Gore added warning stickers to certain albums. Gore is the wife of sen. Albert gored Tenn. That Effort led to a wide variety of warnings some smaller than a postage stamp before the Industry settled earlier this year on a standardized sticker. One popular rap album a fear of a Black planet by Public enemy is on the restricted list. Both albums by heavy Metal act guns no roses cari7 warning stickers that say they May contain objectionable material. Another rap group 2 live Crew has attempted to evade the censors with a different version of a was Nasty As they Wanna be titled a was clean As they Wanna songs such As a me so Horny and Quot dirty Nursery rhymes Are gone from the grated version. Lawyers for the group have been in court in Broward county fla., where sheriffs deputies had threatened to prosecute store owners if they sell a was Nasty As they Wanna a Federal judge earlier this week declined to Rule immediately in a lawsuit brought by the group to restore the album to the shelves. Another rapper ice to touts his latest album Quot Freedom of speech. Just watch what you say a As a rated. It carries the warning Quot some material May be a tra hype and inappropriate for squares and minors adept at skirting the Law to Purchase alcohol still Are getting their hands on albums by hanging around parking lots and persuading an adult to buy it for them. A actually its kind of funny a Varvaris said. 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