European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday december 2,1990 Aid starts As soviet hunger grows Moscow a what do you make from flour the teacher at children s boarding school no. 24 asked her two dozen pupils hoisting a kilogram sack from the first shipment of Western food Aid to arrive in Moscow. Blini they chorused smiling at the Prospect of Sweet russian pancakes for dinner. And what do you say their teacher continued Fri Day. / thank you they responded. As the first plan Load of donated food from Germany was distributed to orphanages and children s hospitals other Western nations also pledged Aid Vienna aus Tria promised 100,000 food parcels for Moscow s Chil. Dren and organizations in the United states Italy and Scandinavia prepared shipments of milk flour canned goods and other Staples. In Leningrad pravda reported ambulances have been responding to Calls As people fainted from hunger had heart attacks and suffered broken ribs while lined up outside shops. The Price of carrots doubled As citizens braced for saturday s Start of the first rationing program in Lenin Grad since world War ii. At that time the City was besieged by nazi forces for 900 Days and hundreds of thousands died Many from starvation. The cities of Chelyabinsk and Nizhni Novgorod for Merly called Gorki also will Start rationing food sat lir Day.". " Leningrad residents lined up for food coupons to be distributed by their apartment building managers. The coupons will allow them to buy 1 kilogram 2.2 pounds of Salami or cold cuts 1.5 kilograms 3.3 pounds of meat 500 Grams about a Pound of butter and 10 eggs each  -., ,.? ,. Coupons also entitle them to buy 250 Grams about i Pound of vegetable Oil 500 Grams of flour and 1 Kil Ogram of cereals or pasta. What can i say about it City Council member Vladimir Mironov remarked. We have no other  / v y v. A c the Moscow newspaper Vecher Naya moskva printed a plaintive Appeal from a caller Friday my child is crying with hunger. Where can i buy just a Little butter Cereal and eggs a Parent asked. At children s Hospital no. 3 in Moscow warehouse clerk Yulia Bogdanova gratefully received a German gift of Beans Chicken soup and flour even though the Hospital has been better supplied than the City at Large. It was Only this past week that its food suppl warned that the Young patients could no longer be spared from the shortages. 1 weve received no sour Cream or cottage cheese for three Days she said by Friday the usual deliveries of cheese and eggs also had evaporated. A few blocks away Engineer Kim Melkonian was the 170th person in a line for butter in the gathering dusk a 4 . Calculating one minute per customer he figured he would be waiting three More hours in the darkened Street before reaching the store s Entrance he blamed the shortages on sabotage by bureaucrats struggling to hold onto their Power in the face of grow in democracy ,. / ". " ,.  Soviet officials have said the country has produced no three orphans from children s boarding school no. 24 in Moscow carry armload of food products sent by Germany. Less food this year than last. But Barren shelves have panicked shoppers into hoarding which has exacerbated the shortages a t Western governments Are worried that frightened Consumers could destabilize the government of presi Dent Mikhail a Gorbachev. " German Chancellor  has made Aid to the soviets a top item on his International Agenda arguing that without a stable soviet Union reforms in Eastern Europe could be endangered. We need the Western Aid Melkonian said. There is enough food but people Are afraid. We have to Calm the Down ?.    " when Gorbachev came to Power people said Mik Hail Serge Yevich we can do without butter just As Long As there is no wan now there s no longer any danger of War and everyone is saying give us bread " Melko Rii an  " " we do have wheat and bread in this country we do have the necessary food but where is it asked mos cow mayor Gavriil Popov at a news conference Friday it s hidden by the state owned farms collective farms which ones the Best ones because the worst in a do hot have anything.  they understand that when the land is privatized there will be no place for them he said several republics and regions have Cut off shipments of Foo cd beyond their Borders their actions have left major cities such As Moscow with diminished supplies of milk and meat which have never been plentiful in any Case. Upcoming philippine talks prompt Clark travel limits Many Farmers have stopped Selling their crops through state stores at Low prices set by the government arid have switched to private Farmers markets where prices Are often 10 times higher. V theft is also rising prompting the supreme soviet Natina parliament to order Kab Protection for incoming shipments of humanitarian Aid. On Friday these creative police Agency said it was forming a special unit Forth Utaski ". Gorbachev issued a decree directing workers at Busi Nesses and schools to elect committees to Check Ware houses Trade organizations and stores to ensure against Black Market ering theft or other misuse of food and consumer goods. The committees would have the right to temporarily close facilities into eyed in wrongdoing and recommend criminal proceedings. Popov said muscovites will soon be Given passes Al lowing them to Purchase goods in specific stores at specific times to help people who have complained that shelves Are empty when they get off from work. Permits will specify the store Date time and amount of Money an individual in spend or a /0 /., v. Vienna s mayor Helmut Zilk  Popov announced his City s $2 million Aid program at the mos cow news conference he said the Foo should be Given to the retirees to the most vulnerable groups of people the people who went through the  after the second world War All the allies helped us. So we must now help you Zillic said. World today Manila Philippines up us officials impose travel restrictions saturday on 20,000 troops and dependents at Clark a fearing the possibility of communist rebel attacks As talks begin this week on the future of the Region s american military bases. Philippine sources said the third round of talks to decide the Fate of Clark Subic Bay naval facilities and four smaller installations will Start tuesday at the heavily guarded Central Bank building in the capital the lease on the bases expires sept. 16,1991, philippine and , negotiators Hope to reach an agreement by january to allow a continued american presence in the former us. Colony Clark spokesman u. Col Hon Rand appeared on . Military television to announce a curfew Flora 9p.m. To 5 30  for the 9,209 troops 10,478 dependents and 620 civilian employees staffing the base 50 Niles North of Manila. Off base movement also was limited to essential travel from 5 30 , to 9 . And travel outside the local area was restricted to  Airport and Camp John Hay recreation Center in the Mountain resort City of Baguio ". " \. We re making these changes now because there is an increased threat due to the bases talks which Are schedule i for this coming week 1 Rand said. Subic spokesman u. Cmdr. Kevin Mukri said no restrictions were placed on the 6,290 troops 8,747 dependents and 728 civilian employees of the sprawling facilities tha Berve As a repair and logistics Center for the 7h Fleet. The Clark travel restrictions were a precaution after communist guerrillas in previous talks attacked Ameri Cas to dramatize opposition to the bases. Most of the previous attacks occurred in the Vicinity of Clark where two servicemen were killed in May be fore the Start of exploratory talks corsican Justice Palace sprayed by machine guns Ajaccio Corsica a the Palace of jus Tice was sprayed with bullets in a drive by machine gun attack but no one was injured police s a i d. " " " the incident in this capital City of Southern Corsica came hours after a confrontation be tween hundreds of students and riot police in the North.    Police said the machine gun attack on the jus Tice Palace apparently was aimed at the French Flag decorating the building. They said 16 Bullet holes were found on the building s facade. The attack was similar to an earlier be when a commando opened fire on the Frost of the Justice Palace in Bastia the Northern capital also Emly targeting the French Tricolour the c National liberation front Knosen As the claimed responsibility for the Atta Fin m Anonymous Telephone Call