European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 29, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9airline swamped with Giveaway entries London up a British airways has been inundated with letters from would be International Jet set ters seeking free tickets in the airlines unprecedented promotional Giveaway a a spokesman said thursday. The airline is struggling to Cope with the massive response to its promotion offering free seats on its april 23 flights to or from 94 cities worldwide. British airways estimated that it will receive 6 million applications from around the Globe by the deadline saturday night. In Britain alone data entry International a company contracted by British airways to sort the entries received More than 750,000 coupons Between monday and thursday for the drawing. Ninety tem Poray workers have been hired to help open and sort the entries said John Reid managing director of data entry International. Half of the 50,000 free tickets will be Given away in Britain under the plan designed to stimulate travel and tourism following the persian Gulf War. The tickets will be Good for destinations served by British airways. The other half Good for flights to Britain will be Given away in cities served by British  a. A a a a \ a. A in All cases winners will have to pay their own Way Back to their Points of origin. Data entry a task is to randomly narrow the number of applications Down to exactly twice the number of tickets that will be Given away the a spokesman said. The staff will work on Good Friday and easter saturday to finish sorting the entries. On easter the winning British entries will be drawn in London from a 5-foot easter egg. A a we la have a Board resembling a flight departure Board which will have slots for the 94 destinations. After we draw a Coupon that says a or. So and so wants to go to Barbados a the entry will be dropped in the Barbados Slot. People behind the Board will gather the forms until All the seats Are full a Reid said. The winning British entries will then be flown to a Telephone Center in Belfast Northern Ireland where the staff is Large enough to handle the task of Noti tying the winners. The notification process will begin on tuesday. 1 airline staff in other countries will award the remaining 25,000 tickets according to their local lottery Laws the spokesman said. Drawings in these countries will also take place on easter sunday. Customers who already have tickets for flights on april 23 will receive free vouchers for future travel on British  gives Canada ultimatum on secession Quebec apr Quebec issued a Challenge to the rest of Canada on wednesday come up with a new constitutional Deal for this French speaking province of 7 million people or risk losing it. It came in the form of a report by a special commission studying the future of Quebec. Premier Robert Bourassa said the panels recommendations will be passed into Law in the coming weeks. A after 35 years of discussion. Que Bee is very serious about considering the option of withdrawing from the Canadian federation a said Bourassa the Leader of the Quebec Liberal party who for years has struggled against the staunchly separatist parti quebecois. The commission called for a referendum on sovereignty to be held in june or october next year. A should the outcome of the referendum be positive Quebec will acquire the status of Sovereign state one year Day for Day after the Date of the referendum a the report said. It also recommended creation of a legislative committee a to assess any offer of a new constitutional partnership made by the government of  French canadians who make up about a Quarter of Canadas population have Long complained of being second class citizens. Many worry that without stringent measures their language culture and special Way of life will be diluted. Sovereign sentiment has been on the Rise since june when an attempt to enshrine a special status for Quebec in the Constitution failed to win ratification by All 10 Canadian provinces. Many in Quebec viewed the failure of the agreement As a personal affront. The latest poll shows that 63 percent of the province supports sovereignty. Another poll shows 71 percent of English Canada opposes any Deal to give Quebec More Power. Bourassa a federalist at heart Hopes the new Law will Spur the Federal govern ment and the other provinces to action. But with sovereignty possible in 1993, there is not much time to work out a Deal acceptable to the widely divergent sides. A i am confident that offers for significant and deep change will be offered a Bourassa told reporters. But he noted a a it a difficult to predict what will happen next week not to say in 18  Jacques Parizeau head of the parti quebecois noted that 75 percent of the testimony before the commission was in favor of sovereignty. But he said there was a risk that the provincial government would Back out of its pledge to implement the report and Call a referendum. Crime rate jumps 17% in England and Wales London up a crime in England and Wales soared 17 percent last year As thieves broke into cars shops and households in record numbers but documented sex offences declined and other crimes of violence showed Only modest increases the Home office reported wednesday. The increase in reported offences was the biggest since the Home office began keeping crime records 133 years ago. The crime rate had been increasing at an average rate of 5 percent a year Over the last 40 years but last year the number of reported crimes increased by 672,000 to More than 4 million. Property crime notably vehicle theft and burglary accounted for 94 percent of All crimes according to the Home office figures. It was estimated the crimes were committed at the rate of around 500 an hour in England and Wales. Government ministers blamed a Quarter of the offences on owners failing to take Basic precautions of Locking doors and windows describing it As a the British  violent offences Rose by 4 percent compare with 12 percent a year Over the past three years and recorded sex offences dropped by 2.3 percent according to the Home office findings. A National grime prevention week will begin on april 15 with the govern mint due to spend $7.9 million on advertising As part of the promotion hundreds of local and National events Are planned including a soccer match at Wembley stadium for primary school children contesting for the crime prevention cup. In a related development the guardian newspaper reported the government had blocked plans to double crime prevention training for police and had shelved a $7 million proposal for a National crime prevention Center. The government was expected to come under pressure from opposition parties in parliament to accept that a link existed Between the recession and a Rise in crime. A 1990 study by the governments Home office suggested that thefts Rose when spending was Static or falling. Gimme a Little kiss a amps Jim Derheim break holidays a rail spokesman said. State railway company Renee spokes. Man Manuel Sempere said workers Par five year old Richard Washington or. Amuses himself by planting a big kiss on his Al Zed All trains from Madrid and Barce i reflection in a Mirror at the Post Exchange in Darmstadt Germany. Iona in route to France for one hour half rail traffic for 2nd Day Madrid Spain apr rail workers wednesday from 3 until 4 . And again striking for higher pay stopped trains at 10 until 11 . Headed for France and other european the stoppage coincided with the first countries for a second Day wednesday As Day of the easter Holiday exodus out of millions of travellers began their easter major Spanish cities. The strikers arc pressing for a 7 percent pay raise in currently suspended collective bargaining talks. An average worker earns an estimated 120,000 pesetas about $1,176 a month