European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 01, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes monday april 1, 1991 at a glance Ivov Cwb a via Vuk / a Vav holding a prayer Book and a Rifle an israeli Soldier prays in Jerusalem sunday during a ceremony for the jewish passdver., Mcdonald s negligent a jury has held Mcdonald s corp. Responsible for a fatal traffic wreck caused by a teen age employee who fell asleep at the wheel after working All Page 4 Pease fab closes next time president Bush lands at Pease fab on his Way to Maine the air Force wont be waiting. The sea Side base closes monday. A Page s spooky message the new $250,000 sculpture decorating the inner courtyard at Cia Headquarters contains a secret coded message so difficult to Cramble that its spooking the spy Agency a smartest spooks. A Page 6 easter Celebration a a christians marked the resurrection of Jesus with mass easter sunday in the Church of the holy sepulchre in Jerusalem. A Page 8 7-period school Day the seven period school Day axed two years ago is returning to military overseas High schools. A Page 9 japanese still investing japanese investors Are still acquiring . Real estate although at a decelerating Pace. Their total investment however could top $80 billion this year. _ a Page 17 Index. Vurr Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line 16 comics. 19-20-21 commentary i. 13 crossword. .19 letters 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28. To listings. 22 weather. 11 Jyh. Vienna Austria a the military Structure of the once mighty Warsaw pact slipped into history sunday. One hungarian newspaper called the occasion a the winning of the third world the ties that bound the soviet Union militarily to a group of obedient Eastern european satellites for 36 years were to formally be Cut at Midnight april.1. Eastern europeans said the formal Dos solution of the Warsaw pact command meant that the Western nato Alliance inevitably would be changed and that the newly free nations would be seeking agreements on their own to. Ensure Security. A a a a a a a a. A a its importance lies not Only in the fact that we became Independent but it also gives us a Chance to establish a Good new Type of relationship with the soviet Union a hungarian foreign minister Geza Jeszenszky said in an interview on his country a state radio. Otherwise the Days significance barely was noted in Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania or Bulgaria which Al food prices to double in Romania Bucharest Romania a the government of impoverished Romania is raising Basic food prices by More than 100 percent on monday As part of an economic Reform that critics charge Only will Force More people below the poverty line. Across the country last minute panic buyers emptied state stores of chickens bread sugar and anything else that was up for Sale on sunday. _ _ the government Hopes Price reforms along with parallel salary increases and a currency devaluation will stimulate Reform in other sectors of the Economy including romanians moribund heavy Industry. Reforms were required by the International monetary fund in Exchange for a $1 billion Aid package to Romania which is expected to receive final approval Friday but the National salvation front government has absorbed a barrage of criticism from Trade unions opposition Par ties and front dissidents. R critics say Price Reform will needlessly impoverish people who suffered one of the lowest standards of living in Europe under decades of communism. Three prominent opposition parties the National libera party the National peasant party and the ecologist party. Called last week for a delay because Price Reform will reduce the living Standard to a the limits of poverty and Emil Tokacs a Liberal party senator called the move a not a Price liberalize Tion but merely a Price ready had been Busy for months easing themselves away from Moscow East Germany stopped being a member with reunification. In the soviet Union soviet generals Pyotr Lusher and Vladimir Lobov who had been respectively Warsaw pact commander and chief of staff gave up those posts. ,. But Lobov said in a Tass news Agency interview that he hoped the soviets would continue cooperating with their now non communist East european neighbors. Lobov said the Warsaw pact committee of defense ministers its joint command and its military scientific and technical Council All were disbanded. But the Warsaw pact had not been functioning As a military Alliance for months. Its generals had been going Home since the signing of an agreement in Budapest Hungary on feb. 25/which set the april 1 deadline. The last Warsaw pact general in Moscow major Gen. Pc Niu Kostadinov of Bulgaria left on saturday. Many soviet soldiers and much eau tip ment As Well were Back on soviet soil. The last soviet tanks the hated Symbol of the Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 that crushed the a Prague Spring a left that country wednesday. \ under the headline a a Farewell to the Warsaw pact the winning of the. Third world War a military affairs expert Peter Deak wrote in the hungarian daily Magyar Hirlan on saturday that a whole Security system was it is not Only a military organization that ceases to exist but also the hostile bloc system that has existed Iri Europe for almost 40 years a he said. Nato survives but cannot help but be changed he added. A in the past there were two blocs to guarantee Europe a Security. The new chapter in history can Only be guaranteed by a new Security system a he said. Rumanian push and shove in an Effort to buy chickens on sunday at subsidized prices. Food prices in Romania were scheduled to More than double on monday. Unions claim Price increases Are premature because producers Are still state owned and real Competition Between them is far off. The Price increases Are the second phase of a policy intended to bring prices in 1 Ine with products real Market value and pave the Way for a Market Economy. A the first phase which took effect nov. I doubled and tripled the cast of hats train tickets furniture and almost everything else except for Energy food and essential services which remained protected. Those increases sparked two months of strikes and anti government demonstrations Fon it ing Premier Petre roman to postpone the food Price increases. A two weeks ago the government decided to soften the blow by establishing a Basket of 12 Basic products whose prices will continue to be controlled. Prices of these products which include meats sugar cooking Oil bread and butter still will Rise by an average 125 percent. Less essential foods such As olives or Tea will Rise to whatever level the Market will Bear. With production Down and shortages chronic these prices May quadruple. -300 troops spend passover on cruise ship Manama Bahrain a with traditional passover foods and prayers a group of jewish soldiers were celebrating the religious Holiday aboard a luxury cruise ship a about ,300 . Service members a re Rived Friday for the 72-hour stay on the a Cunard Princess docked in the persian Golf nation of Bahrain and used since _ Christmas by american troops on leave. The cruise line had issued an invitation to All jewish troops in the . Force to spend passover on the ship. A a it is the Only Good thing that Hap pwned to us in the entire deployment a said maj. Robert Salic 33, of Wakefield a normally we would be having a family Celebration this communal event did us a lot of Good a. Passover commemorates the deliverance of the ancient hebrews from slavery in Egypt. It a a a a a on Friday the soldiers had the traditional passover meal the seder which i Etudes wine and unleavened bread called matzo. The bread is a reminder of the haste with which the jews fled Egypt three rabbis were at the ceremony on the cruise ship. A they even had Yarmulke made out of camouflage cloth a he said. -. A Salk an assistant surgeon with the 46th combat support Hospital said he celebrated the other jewish holidays Hanuk Kah and purim in tents in the saudi it. A it Felt very Nice to have a religious sender instead of being in the desert a said Salk. A and it was More than emotional because it was incredible to be celebrating it Here. This close to a
