European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday april 17, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Sofia Bulgaria apr a new sound was heard in taxis shops and smoke filled restaurants in Sofia tuesday a the voice of America. The radio station which the communists had tried to Jam began 24-hour broadcasts at 10 a.m., with a special greeting to its new bulgarian listeners. They Are the latest to join Voa s swelling East european audience. The broadcasts will run for a three month trial be. Rod said Dimo Ditchev head of the department for radio and to in the committee for communications. Initially Only Sofia will receive a Gay a mix of Western news editorials and popular music. But the bulgarian government and via Hope to extend broadcasts nationwide. Deputy Premier Dimitar Lud Thev who signed the Accord for the Pilot project said Bulgaria seeks similar agreements with the British broadcasting corp. And other foreign stations a if we want to get connected with the world culturally politically and economically there is no other Way a he said. Under the communists Voa bbl and radio free Europe were vital sources of information for citizens of East european countries. They gathered nightly round Kitchen tables to listen to crackly broadcasts for years jammed by their gov Erin cents. A a a a a a a a a now radio free Europe has opened bureaus in Budapest Warsaw Prague and recently in Sofia As Well. A a a a a a a a. A a. A. A after decades of being forced to study russian in schools Many Young people Are eager to learn English. A a a a a a Hungary Poland and Czechoslovakia already broadcast via bbl or other Western programming and some state to stations also broadcast segments of Western to programming such As bbl or can in English. Romania has permitted private radio stations among them the French funded radio Contact to bring news and pop music to its citizens. With a special permit bulgarians also can receive French police misled on Kennedy whereabouts Palm Beach Fla. A police said they went to the Kennedy estate one Day after the alleged rape of a Young woman there and were falsely told sen. Ted Kennedy his son Patrick and Nephew William Kennedy Smith had left town. A a a a v. Police chief Joe Terlizzese gave the account monday in the Wake of allegations police Are giving the Kennedy special treatment in investigating the alleged rape March 30 of a 29-year-old woman who had met the three at a bar. Also monday the supermarket tabloid the Globe published the alleged victims name and photograph despite a Florida Law forbidding disclosure of rape victims identities. A everyone in the world knows the victims identity her name and photo had been published in newspapers and magazines worldwide a said Wendy Henry editor in chief of the Boca Raton based weekly. The woman has accused Smith of raping her. No charges have been filed. Smith a 30-year-old Georgetown University medical student has denied any wrongdoing. On easter sunday the Day after the alleged rape detectives went twice to the estate to talk to the senator and other family members but were told the Kunne Dys had left town the police chief said in tuesdays Palm Beach Post. Later police Learned that Smith did no to leave for Washington until that night and that the senator and his son left the next morning Terlizzese said Terlizzese would t say who misled the police. A a a. A a a a a a we re looking at Why a he said. A when its All Over the truth will be known. Then let the chips fall where they the police department has been criticized for failing to interview the Kennedy while they were still in Palm House Leader replaced far misconduct Tallahassee Fla. A the majority Leader of the state House was replaced monday and admonished for a very disappointing conduct stemming from sexual harassment allegations. State rep. Fred Lippman had stepped Down temporarily when news broke in november that former House aide Kathie Jennings had been paid $47,000 in state funds to silence her claims against the lawmaker and Ken Sarvis her supervisor at the regulatory Reform committee from 1983 to 1986. On monday speaker . Wetherell told the House that the scandal and Public admonishment made it impossible for Lippman to continue As majority Leader. A emr. Lippman and i have agreed that events that have occurred prohibit him from serving in the manner he would like As majority Leader a Wetherell said. Wetherell appointed another legislator from Broward county state rep. Anne Mackenzie to replace Lippman a Democrat from Hollywood. A a it a very sorrowful for me personally because of my great love for this institution a a Lippman told reporters choking Back tears. A this floor which move so much. Is going to be one that ill walk a Little quieter Wetherell said he agreed with the rec or emendations of a select committee that Lippman should be admonished for allowing an atmosphere filled with sexual innuendo and racial jokes to exist while he chaired the regulatory Reform com Mittie. A a speaker expects a committee chair to prevent an offensive degrading and unprofessional environment in the work. Place,�?T7 Wetherell wrote Quot i find your be Havior in a number of instances to he very \ in testimony before the select committee Sarvis denied making sexual advances on Jennings. Wetherell said Lippman was wrong for allowing Jennings to manage a Tallahassee apartment building he co owned a without the written authorization and approval required by House rules Lippman a 12-year House Veteran sat quietly while Wetherell spoke and did not immediately make any comments end of Ramadan tens of thousands of muslims Kneel in prayer at Dawn que to Start eid Al Fotr a three Day feast that Marks tuesday in front of Cairo a must Aga Mahmoud mos the end of the islamic holy month of tells students he used bad word Washington a president Bush told a group of elementary school students tuesday that he was a very embarrassed because he had spoken a a bad word the Day before in front of a woman and had to apologize for it. A i was so ashamed of myself a Bush told 15 first and second graders front Zachary Taylor elementary school in nearby Arlington a. Bush was Reading to the children in the White i Louse As part of a nationwide program to encourage adults to read More to children. When he came to it a passage on a youngster being punished for saying a bad word Bush paused and told the children a i said a bad word yesterday and 1 was very embarrassed. I told the lady in front of whom 1 said it to very a. Later Bush refused to respond to a shouted question by asking him who the woman was and what he had said. Aides said they did not know what the president was referring to. Bush also read several poems from Robert i tuis Stevenson so a child a Garden of verses a and told the children that one of the poems a the swing a he had enjoyed 60 years ago when he wms 7. At one Point As the youngsters pressed the president to read More Bush complied hut asked a have we got time for this in be got a lot of important stuff to at the end of the session one of the children presented Bush with a Green bookmark shaped like a stalk of Broccoli. Bush whose distaste for the vegetable is Well known made a face and asked children How Many of them liked Broccoli. About half raised their hands. Noting that wednesday was a Reading aloud Day a Bush said a if you know How to read a life is so much More 1
