European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday March 24, 1991soviets tackling problem by John jams the associated press Moscow a red faced soviet officials Are admitting they Haven to kept the Correct time in More than six decades blaming a mistake made in the Stalin Era when clocks should have been turned Back an hour. As a result the officials Are scrapping the soviet version of Daylight saving time this summer. Clocks however will still a fall backs an hour in the autumn. All this timekeeping havoc is bound to further baffle a nation that has had its share of confusion for 1991. March 31 is when clocks Are usually moved Forward an hour for summer in the soviet Union which has 11 time zones. But the Cabinet of ministers has decreed that the move wont be made for most of the soviet Union a the. Huge russian Republic which includes Moscow Armenia Azerbaijan byelorussian turkmen a and the Ukraine. A the republics of Estonia Latvia Lithuania and Moldavia however will follow their rebellious tradition and move their clocks ahead As  confound the Public even More Kadzhi Kristan parts of Kazakhstan and some other regions will actually set their clocks Back an hour to better organize the hours of Daylight the decree said. The decree itself appeared to have been stuck in a time Warp. The Cabinet adopted it feb. 4 but did not release it until wednesday Only Days before most of the nation s clocks were to have changed. According to the newspaper evening Moscow the move was made to Correct a 61-year-old mistake. A in 1930, it was decided to introduce summer time and move the hands of clocks one hour ahead a evening Moscow said. A in the passage of time they did not announce Winter time in the fall of 1930. Hence clocks were never set Back an hour. For reasons that remain a mystery summer time was not reintroduced in the Spring of 1931, leaving the country with a  year round. In 1981, it was decided to restore summer time. But it was started in Spring rather than fall giving the country two extra hours of sunlight during the summer months instead of the intended one. A since 1981, after the introduction of summer and Winter time the Gap in genuine time increased by two hours and that fact caused inconvenience and complaints a the newspaper said. A that is Why the Cabinet of ministers decided to cancel the a decree hours that had become an  a they did no to declare Winter time and that a Why All these years we be been one hour ahead of the real time zone a the newspaper quoted d. Sayenko a leading specialist of the state commission on time and Standard frequencies As saying. Brazil s president eludes knife wielder Brasilia Brazil up president Fernando Collor de Mcullo escaped unharmed Friday after a jobless Man armed with a Kitchen knife tried to attack him during a ceremony outside government Headquarters authorities said. Collor 41, was participating in a weekly ceremony at the doorway of the government Palace where he invites citizens re to March Down the Palace ramp. Collor escaped unharmed and turned to his Home officials said. Security agents arrested a Man identified As Jose Dario Nizio Pereira a Cruz who was concealing a knife in his clothes when he attempted to reach the president said Justice minister Jarbas Passarinho. A it a a a quota Pereira a Cruz 22, was stopped about six feet from Collor Passarinho said. During the arrest Pereira a Cruz dropped a letter that was to have been delivered to the press after the assassination attempt according to a radio report. Passarinho confirmed that the incident was an attempt against Collores life. According to the government news Agency Pereira a Cruz denied that he had tried to kill Collor explaining he had a simply tried to scare  Passarinho said Pereira a Cruz would be Given psychiatric tests and examined to see if he was. Under the influence of drugs during the incident. The incident was the first assassination attempt against Collor. Deadeye Dick former president Nixon on his seventh visit to the soviet Union demonstrates How he would aim an a when it comes to decapitating chickens. Nixon gave the demonstration while visiting the Central Market in Moscow on saturday. Afterwards he commented a you have to have Good eyes. Thank god it Wasny to a live chicken.�?�. Berlin apr accusing Chancellor Helmut Kohl of breaking promises tens of thousands of people rallied in Berlin on saturday and demanded measures to hold off expected mass unemployment in the former communist part of Germany. Economic reports in the past week showed the Economy in former West Germany grew a robust 4.5 percent in 1990. But the 9 million workers in the East Are heading into a chasm of More than 30 percent unemployment or under employment the respected Institute for economic research said in a govern Meni commissioned  estimated that by the end of 1991, 1.5 million will be jobless and 1.6 million will be on so called a Short work a mean ing Low pay for doing Little. Average Industrial output was 30 percent lower in .1990 than in 19s9, the Institute said. A week ago about. 70,000 people joined protest rallies around Eastern Germany. The biggest of at least 50,000 peo ple was in Leipzig the heart of protest rallies in 1989 that led to the fall of the communist East German government. Saturdays Berlin demonstration the largest since German unification last october was estimated at 65,000 people by the organizers the party for democratic socialism the renamed and reformed communist party. German news reports put the number attending As High As 75,000, while police gave a clearly too Low estimate of some 10,000,ancient Temple to Cool off with air conditioning Paris up a a neolithic Temple on Malta dating to at least 3000 . Will be blown into modern times with air condition cars that Enesco officials said Friday would be installed at the site on the Sun scorched Mediterranean Island. A a team of engineers authorized by the Paris based United nation educational scientific and cultural organization were to leave saturday for the Island located Between Libya and Italy to determine a Cooling system for the Hyp Geum Hal Sallie in Temple in order to protect its subterranean Rock paintings the officials at the Headquarters of Enesco said. The paintings of the ancient Temple dedicated to the Rock a space of the body of the a Mother of the Earth a Are threatened with destruction by Algee and Lichen which thrive in the humid underground atmosphere. The Temple is believed to Date to Between 3,000 and 4,000 . Enesco sources said the maltese government intends to build an airy Hall above the temples sub Terra Neari rooms in order to better regulate the ventilation of the red ochre based or Black pigment based pain Ings. A a a. A a a a the vast Hall also will House a reception Center for tourists who will be admitted to wander around the in a de ground Chambers of the Sun baked Temple. A French company has been charged with carrying out the climate controlling operation which also has been planned to safeguard the paintings from the Carbon dioxide and humidity that will be released by the thousands of tourists expected when the new reception Center is opened. ,. Woes party Leader Gregor Gysi Drew laugh Ter and applause from the peaceful throng As he recounted How Kohls government promised that East German  be worse off in the unified country but How the government now has to make excuses for the Downside. Speakers from unions and threatened industries demanded investment to save their jobs and Many called for demonstrations every monday in Berlin to Keef the pressure on