European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday March 25,1991 a a a a a by new Day. V Berlin a he was missing some Teeth and his hands Shook a Little. But Bruno Kummu a bitterness rang loud and Clear through East berlins first salvation army soup Kitchen since the depression. A a in la Quot never vote again As Long As i live a the 52-year-old unemployed labourer vowed nursing a cup of free a to the West germans we re the dumb Ossis Wolf Peter rink Coffee in the former communist party office where a picture of the last supper recently replaced a bust of Lenin. A i voted for Helmut Kohl and his party and they lied and betrayed us just like the commies.�?�. It has been Only a year since the first free East German election of Kummu a life not four months since Kohls Christian democratic Union triumphed at the polls of a reunited Germany. A King Kohl a the tabloids dubbed the Chancellor then and at rallies All Over East Germany he basked in the adoration of new converts to his promised Brand of capitalism Quick Prosperity and no tax increases. Now taxes Are jumping by $30 billion unemployment in Eastern Germany will soon reach depression Levels and a wave of disenchantment with German unification has sent Kohls popularity plummeting to its lowest Levels Ever. In one recent poll 69 percent said they were disappointed in Kohl a 71 percent in the former East Germany. A a / a the tax liar a screamed the bold daily splashing a full length photo of the Chancellor sideways across the Masthead to show him Flat on his Back. A this is what a pig and an election liar looks like a declared the caption under a poster of Kohl at a labor rally in Leipzig where a week ago up to 60,000 Union members revived the monday demonstrations that led to the collapse of East Germany a communist regime. Swelling Street demonstrations Are Only one sign that Kohl style unification is in deep trouble. The Stream of refugees from East to West which was supposed to ebb after currency Union last summer is still going Strong. Before East germans went West for Freedom and the Deutsche Mark. Now they Are simply fleeing an economic collapse with no end in sight. The German Institute for economic research estimates a Westward flow of 150,000 Bear armful i a More East germans and 250,000 More commuters this year As East German production Falls to 35 percent of 1989 Levels Down from last years 50 percent. A the situation is much worse than we expected a acknowledged Heiner Flass Beck director of forecasting at the Institute which had predicted earlier that the East German Economy would Bottom out this year. Now economists say that the crisis will Only Worsen in 1991 and that unemployment could reach 50 percent before any turnaround. A a $15.5 billion recovery program of investment tax write offs and building Grants which Bonn assembled earlier this month is too Little too late to change the downward spiral Flass Beck added. A a disaster is How Karl Otto Poehl the president of Germany a Bundesbank termed the economic result of unification triggering a Tumble in the value of the Mark and a storm of political criticism but no real contradiction  v / a a a a private investment still lags. The Trust set up last Spring to sell off 8,000 formerly state owned enterprises Hasni to unloaded More than 2,000. Critics blame the Agency a bungling and unresponsiveness As much As East Germany a unresolved property questions and wretched infrastructure. Headed by a West German industrialist the Trust has become the most hated institution in the former German democratic Republic East German disappointment is mixed with a sense of helpless humiliation and grievance a Fertile ground Public officials worry for right Wing Radical groups to take Root. Last week the newsmagazine Der Spiegel pointedly paired a recent photo of protesting Metal workers in Berlin with a similar picture from 1931, when unemployment helped hitlers Rise to Power. A to the West germans we re the dumb Ossis pasties Only Good enough to buy their goods a complained Wolf Peter rink who works in a dim Fly speckled grocery store formerly state owned. Its now stuck in the trusts limbo while Western supermarket chains carve up its  remember How Kohl claimed no one would be worse off after unification a rink asked. A you done to see him coming Over Here anymore since the voting stopped do you a most West germans could t care less about the miseries of East Germany agrees Rolf Metzger West Berlin divisional commander for the salvation army. A it was All right for 40 years to speak about our Brothers and Sisters in the East and Send a parcel occasionally arid say How much we regretted the division of the country a he said. A but now that unification happened germans Are like everybody else a basically selfish.�?�. A a a a i a a the now mythic account of Germany a postwar recovery has distorted expectations on both sides of the fallen Wall Flass Beck argues. He said a key to the Revit Quot a a it la Dert Wisnor Elsebe Dekonig thousands of demonstrators protested economic conditions in former East Germany on saturday. Val of production after world War ii was a currency Reform that valued the Mark at its Black Market rate of four to one against the . Dollar. That meant that germans could afford to buy Only what German Industry produced not the american imports they coveted and that German exports were cheap. With investment from the Marshall plan that was an almost foolproof formula for productive growth. But to win East German votes last year a and to try to Stem Westward migration a Kohl set the East German currency Exchange at Between double and quadruple its Black Market value suddenly East germans could afford goods from All Over the Western world who e their own products became too expensive for Eastern european customers / / Many economists say the economic anguish has been prolonged and deepened by Kohl s efforts to hide the real costs of Unity. In the Long run warns Kurt Kasch the director of the Deutsche Bank the scenario threatens the economic and social health of the whole country. In Sydney Australia up a an estimated half a million australians took part sunday in the worlds biggest organized cleanup officials said. The huge army of volunteers comprising Many whole families reported to 460 different work control stations in cities and towns throughout the country for the annual clean up Australia Day. Men women and children worked with buckets brooms rakes and shovels to clean up land areas other volunteers in boats and diving equipment took to the Waterways in Sydney the emphasis was on the Cooks River. Its Harbor had been the target of the last two cleanups and had been so successful the famous waterway needed Little attention this year organizers said. State Premier Nick Greiner and his wife Kathryn joined the throng working Ort the Foreshores at Clovelly while opposition Leader Bob Carr worked at nearby Laperouse  Bay. _ in Western new South Wales state the people of Purkes and Forbes picked up litter thrown from trains on the 20 Miles of railway lines Between the two towns. In Victoria state residents of six towns along the Murray River combed More than 200 Miles of the River s Banks to pick up rubbish. The cleanup Campaign is the brainchild of Australia s Lone around the world Yachtsman Ian Kiernan who criticized the filthy state of Sydney Harbor when he return Home two years ago. A. Vatican limits special masses three Bear cubs make an armful for an employee of the mar Cottes zoo in the Swiss Canton of Wallis. Vatican City a concerned that the Church might appear to be making a profit from catholics who offer Money for special masses the Vatican on saturday published a decree limiting the practice. Catholics traditionally make an offering of Money a in Italy for example $8.51 is considered the customary uttering a Tor masses to be said for special intentions. According to the decree published in la Osse Vatore Romano the Vatican newspaper the practice is a traditional Way for the faithful to show a personal involve ment contributing thus to the needs of the Church and particularly to the support of its  however the decree expressed concern about pries who accept several offerings then say one mass flt car y let Cal on a lout telling those making offering that the mass would be celebrated with More than of intention in mind. A. Since the subject directly touches the August Sac Cut even the most minimal appearance of profit Ai Simony would cause scandal a the decree said. It say  mention can be remembered by the priest each mass mrm Atter How a scanty Quot the offering m less the faithful agree to have several intention remembered at one mass