European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes saturday september 29,1990e. German lawmakers to name Stasi informers Berlin apr Hast Germany a parliament decided Friday to go out of business in a Blaze of Candor by revealing the names of lawmakers who worked for the communist secret police. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to instruct a commission investigating the former Security apparatus to disclose the names of former agents. The list of names were to be released later Friday. A member of the committee lawmaker Peter Hildebrand said 56 lawmakers or ministers in the current government were informally employed by the secret police unit known As the Stasi. The meeting of the 400-member parliament was the second to last before the nation unites with West Germany next week and last Germany a government ceases to exist. A a Phis parliament must not go Down in history As the Stasi parliament Quot said lawmaker Marianne Birthler t 6/- a calling for full disclosure of information gathered by the committee. The nation has been obsessed with How to purge the tens of thousands of former Stasi informants and agents from influential roles in politics and business. The Stasi Many of whose members held other jobs they used As a cover helped keep the former hard line communist regime in Power through stifling surveillance intimidation and purportedly murder. Because they and other elite members of the old regime had Access to Power connections and Money they were Able to maintain some control of the nation after a new inexperienced democratic government was elected in March. There have been reports that Many former functionaries and Stasi agents arc running businesses that were once state owned but have now been freed to operate As private enterprises. It a ? v it it a. It Ai a. /. Wall becomes work of Art the Berlin Wall Iles mostly in ruins like the cold War but one part remains standing As a Monument to artistic Freedom. The East Side gallery has opened along a Sec Tion in East Berlin. Artists such As this one moving her supplies with a wheelbarrow Friday have been invited from around the world to use the open air site. Parents charged in drowning of baby delivered in Pool Paris Tapi _ a 1. I j r Paris apr a French couple has been charged with involuntary homicide because their Newborn baby drowned during an underwater delivery in an inflatable swimming Pool police said thursday. Investigators did not identify the couple a 33-Ycar-old elementary school teacher and her husband 34, a poet. Their infant died shortly after birth monday morning near the Southern City of Aix in prove acc. A they were both shattered because they thought an underwater delivery would spare the baby the traumas of birth an investigator said. Quot they did not understand the risks they were taking without medical knowledge or  a nurse with whom the couple was staying was also charged although police said she had tried to dissuade them from proceeding. An autopsy revealed that the infant was viable and that the cause of death was asphyxiation. The couple has an 8-year-old son. The tragedy comes four months after a widely publicized underwater birth in the Mediterranean. Brigitte Moncil a nurse gave birth to a son in june in water 5 feet deep with the assistance of a doctor. Many physicians condemned the method and stressed the dangers involved in subjecting a Newborn to Cool water temperatures followed by exposure to the warm air. The june birth took place in water that was 61 degrees fahrenheit. Investigators said the couple whose baby died had read a Book on aquatic births and were inspired by television coverage of Monteilh a successful Ocean delivery they reportedly bought the inflatable Pool specifically for the birth. J aquatic deliveries have taken place in France for the past 15 years. The first Quot birthing Quot Pool a filled with warm water a was built in the maternity wine of the i Thivierg Hospital in 1978. Proponents of the method claim the warm water facilitates labor and delivery providing maximum relaxation for the Mother and a less traumatic transition from the amniotic fluid filled womb to the air. In 1983, a gymnastics teacher opened a birthing Pool near Lyon where Monteil gave birth to a baby girl in 1988. Military Roundup Hanau no to compete in chess championship Washington a amps a sergeant from Hanau West Germany will soon be deployed to Oslo Norway to Battle nato forces in his own area of expertise the chess Board. Sgt. Wade Regensberg a customs inspector with the 95th my group 256th my co will represent the army on the eight member . Armed forces team during the 2nd nato chess championships oct. 21-26. Regensberg finished third m the armed forces chess championship which ended tuesday evening. The 22-year chess Veteran also received the Competition s brilliancy award for an exceptional game during the 11th round of play. As team Captain of the army team Regensberg led five other dark Blue jacketed soldiers against their higher rated opponents the sea services. However in the end sea services triumphed 40-32. Two other service members from West Germany were also members of the army team capt. Jason Whitten an Armor officer from the 1st brigade 3rd annd div in Kirch Gons and spec. John Langreck a linguist interrogator from co a 165th military intelligence in in Darmstadt. A Petty officer 1st class Mario a. Murillo from the submarine tender Emory s. Land won the armed forces chess championship with Petty officer 3rd class John Macarthur of the . Coast guard at Brooklyn n.y., taking second place. Four members of the Navy team including Murillo and Macarthur and two from the army team will compete in Norway. Two unnamed airmen will also join the armed forces team although the air Force was not represented at this weeks Competition because of commitments for operation desert shield. Accompanying Regensberg for the array will be staff sgt Charles Crook from fort Belvoir  code for Pentagon to be changed to 703 Washington a the area code for the Pentagon will change from 202 to 703 effective wednesday. The change is in line with new Telephone dealing procedures being implemented by a amp a Telephone in the Washington d.c., area. In addition All Telephone numbers with the 694 prefix in the Pentagon will be changed to 614 on wednesday a Pentagon announcement said. The 694 prefix is used in Stuart va., in the 703 area code Region. World news stun Mats to Stop Rabid animals in Channel p p i i electric a stun Mats Quot will be Laid a in Tae floor 0.a Imnel beneath the English Channel to keep Rabid animals from France out of England euro Pinnol ? i a a Tunnel officials have  system is to stun animals and Alert officials will then move in to trap them and if necessary exterminate offenders Saia John Weaver spokesman for the eur Tunnel group. Britain is considered a rabies free area along with Ireland Sweden new zealand Australia and some Pacific and West Indian islands. Critics of the Channel Tunnel the High Speed rail link being constructed by Britain and France under the English Channel and known often As the Channel have argued that when it opens in 1993 Britain could be besieged by Rabid dogs foxes rats and other animals from Continental Europe. Other precautions include a 9-foot Fence around both Tunnel entrances and More fences around the immediate openings of the  loses fight in court to marry Man France apr a transsexual thursday lost her six year Battle for the right to marry a european court of human rights in a no so Law Barrins the marriage Hue nmn j6?�?T who works As a Model and who slim site. I. E created officially As a woman Chr til a ave or birth certificate changed to one ration ?nnig7a Imai a a she underwent a sex change Britain it i i1ls forbidden by Law to marry m male seer birth certificate says she was born a