European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2i the stars and stripes tuesday july 3,1990 Omic ins Berlin apr Germany set off on a bold adventure sunday by forging a single Economy and scrapping internal Borders but leaders in the East and West warned of difficulties ahead. East germans cheered honked horns and set off fireworks to celebrate their newly acquired West German currency which put fancy cars and vacations to Brazil within reach. Many suddenly had thousands of the West Marks Long coveted in the East West German economics minister Theo Waigli who travelled to East Berlin for the Start of what he called an Quot economic adventure a assured East germans that a everything is under  he predicted that the rate of inflation would not jump. His East German counterpart finance minister Walter Romberg emphasized that there were a certain risks m merging the world leading West German Economy with its weaker sister. Experts have predicted that a huge buying spree would raise the rate of inflation. Gunther Krause the chief East German negotiator for the currency switch victims called on his compatriots to a use their Deutsche Marks  at Border Crossings that once were impenetrable smiling families walked drove and bicycled Back and Forth sunday without a police officer in sight. More than 200 people were killed As they tried to escape Over the same Borders during communist Rule. Erich Hon Ecker the hard line former Leader who was toppled last october is now the target of a murder probe because of those killings. In another major step toward unifying Berlin officials reopened eight subway a ghost stations that had been shut Down when the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. Still there was sobering talk from officials sunday especially in Light of the possibility that East German businesses will Start filing for bankruptcy As Early As monday. Strikes Are also expected As the Competition from Western business builds. One East German company the Elek Frowerk Electron icon of Gera announced that one Quarter of its 5,000 workers would work reduced shifts be ginning monday. There have been predictions that up to 4 million East germans could lose their jobs As the country struggles to rebuild an Economy ravaged by decades of communist mismanagement and inefficiency. A a majority of the houses were built before the turn of the Century and shortages of materials have left towns in sad disrepair. Basics such As roads and telecommunications Are falling apart. A it will take hard work until we have reached Unity and Freedom Prosperity and social balance for All  West Germani Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in a televised address sunday evening. A Many of our compatriots in the German democratic Republic East Germany will have to get accustomed to new and unfamiliar living conditions a and also to a transition period that certainly wont be easy a Kohl added. Kohls address was broadcast by West Germany Szof and Ard networks which also reach More than 80 percent of the households in East Germany. Calling for a National Solidarity a Kohl also assured fellow West germans that they will not be at a disadvantage As the two nations join. There has been increasing concern in West Germany Over the High Cost of unification. It will Cost hundreds of billions of dollars to bit in East Germany up to full Western standards. Also sunday West Germany scrapped a 40-year-old program of government subsidies and handouts for re settlers from East Germany. More than 500,000 East germans had benefited from the program since the beginning of last year culminating in the dramatic exodus of East germans to the West last fall. East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere delivered his own television address in which he urged the country a 16.6 million people a not to be led astray by the difficulties but rather to recognize and use the  the prime minister like his political counterpart Kohl said that a the transition time certainly will not be  Many have predicted a a hot autumn As East German workers return from vacations to find they have no jobs. On London apr a Man whose daughter died in the december 1988 bombing of Pam am flight 103 said sunday he smuggled a fake bomb past Security officials at Heathrow Airport and checked it aboard a flight to the United states. In an interview with British broadcasting corp. Radio or. Jim swire said he took the bomb aboard an Airliner several weeks ago but declined to name the airline. Swire said the device was made to resemble the bomb that exploded on the flight killing 270 people including his daughter Flora. The bomb is believed to have had a barometric trigger designed to detonate at a specific Altitude. The Boeing 747, bound for new York was at More than 30,000 feet Over the town of Lockerbie Scotland when it disintegrated. Swire said his device was packed inside a radio cassette recorder but used Marzipan icing instead of Sam Tex plastic explosives. A we actually took Marzipan icing because that a pliable and feels like semtex. And looks similar on a Ray Quot he said. A in addition it had a Dummy Detonator which news Brief would have shown up on a Ray an extra printed circuit Board extra batteries pressure transducer and so on All wired up in a form that would have worked if the Marzipan had been replaced with semtex a swire said. A your flight was selected for what they Call special Security and our cases were opened and searched in front of us. The radio cassette recorder was picked up and i was asked whether i had taken the batteries out and i correctly replied a yes i have taken the batteries  it was then replaced in the suitcase and is now in  swire Heads a group of British relatives of disaster victims called . Families a flight 103. Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson said he would Call for a full investigation and swire would be invited to meet with department officials monday to give details. A we Are already conducting a series of regular tests at airports bit Over the country a Parkinson said. A spokesman for Heathrow Airport said Airport officials Are responsible for screening passengers and carry on Luggage but individual airlines Are responsible for screening checked baggage. Hijacker forces soviet Jet to stand in Stockholm Stockholm Sweden a / a Hijacker Force a soviet Airliner to Laqu in Stockholm because Che did not want to save in the soviet army the swedish news Tapney to reported sunday \ f. The Hijack or said he had a hand grenade and forced the Aeroflot tue flex 154 carrying 159 people to Lant at Stockholm s International Airport saturday Light. Explosives were found however and he Gawi himself up to the police shortly after the Idaile landed the news Agency said. \ the latest in a recent spate of hijackings of soviet airliners to Swiden and Finland was carried out by a 19-Yeatagld student from Leningrad according to it. \ police in Spector Lynn it Pettersson said the Hijacker made Only one request a a to be handed Over to swedish  depending on the results of a psychiatric inquiry he could be deported to the soviet Union or a Quad be prosecuted in Sweden. If convicted he could serve up to four years a jail. The passengers spent the in u near the Airport and returned to the soviet Union on sunday to said. A it was the fourth hijacking of a a evict Airliner on a Domestic flight to Finland or Sweden since june 9. Must help build Moscow apr soviet defense minister Dmitri t. Yazoo said sunday that the military must help build housing for the tens of thousands of soldiers and their families returning from service in the one time communist allies of the Warsaw pact. Yazoo told the government newspaper Izvestia that the housing crisis facing returning troops was the a Issue of issues confronting the soviet military. More than 25,000 soldiers and their families Are on their Way Back to the soviet Union from neighbouring Czechoslovakia and Hungary Yazoo told Izvestia. Another 173,600 were already waiting in dormitories and hotels for permanent housing he said. The soviet military along with local government councils should a above All sharply increase the Pace and volume of private construction of new housing to ease the crunch he said. Yazoo said that 440,000 apartments Are scheduled to be built within the next five years. Already this year 43,000 troops and their dependents have returned from Czechoslovakia Poland and Hungary adding to the 27,000 withdrawn from East Germany and Hungary. The overthrow of communist Rule in All of the East bloc countries except Bulgaria has accelerated plans announced two years ago by president Mikhail s. Gorbachev to bring Back More than 500,000 troops from Eastern Europe. Demands by Hungary and Czechoslovakia that the withdrawal of All 120,000 soviet troops from their territory be completed by mid-1991 have accelerated the pullout a and the pressure for housing. For strategic reasons most troops Are being stationed in the Ukraine byelorussian and Russia the slavic republics on the soviet unions Western Border. There is already a critical housing shortage in some areas of byelorussian because of the need to relocate thousands of people whose land was badly contaminated in the 1986 chernobyl nuclear disaster. In addition some local groups apparently Are not Happy about the Prospect of becoming Garrison towns. Yazoo said that informal groups in Ivano Frankovsky in the southwestern Comer of the Ukraine near the Border with Romania had blocked construction of military housing. A it is shameful to hear such things As that a Yazoo told the newspaper. The United states and soviet Union have both agreed to trim their forces in Central Europe to 195,000 each except for 30,000 . Troops to be left in Britain and Southern Europe. The United states has about 310,000 troops in Europe including 250,000 in Germany. The soviet Union has about 380,000 troops in East Germany and Moscow is pressing West Germany to help finance housing construction once the troops Are pulled out. Bonn has expressed a willingness to help and the Issue is certain to be discussed when Chancellor Helmut Kohl visits Moscow july on 15-16.Bush names envoy to Venezuela Washington apr president Bush has announced he will name latin affairs Veteran Michael Skol to be ambassador to Venezuela. Skol is the Deputy assistant Secretary of state for latin american affairs and previously was director of the office of andean affairs minister Counselor at the . Embassy in Bogota Colombia and Deputy director for latin american affairs in the state depart mentus office of policy planning. The White House also announced Bush will appoint John . Rogers executive vice president of Oliver Carr development company in Washington As chairman of the advisory Council on historic preservation