European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bartering continued from Page 15 percent of the Economy is bound up in the military Industrial Complex. We pulled people in from the Countryside to work at the factories. No one is left out there. Other people feed  tse Kher who Heads the City s Trade and services committee added that the loosening of economic controls led to a predictable every Region for itself reaction. A a Quot we Are used to a Doghouse psychology. You have your Doghouse and your bowl and that s enough now they have Laken away the Doghouse and the bowl and said you re  everyone is looking after his own  taking its Cue from other areas of the country the urals area is trying to organize a regional trading system the second week of september saw a meeting of the association of economic cooperation of the urals Region including areas like Sverdlovsk Bashkir a us Murtiza and Tyumen. According to an Independent news Agency in the ural Region the Deputy chairman of the Sverdlovsk executive Council Sergei void Vizensky asked Industrial managers to draw up a common accounting of regional goods and services the better to barter with. It also said that a new commodities Exchange in Sverdlovsk had dispensed with the Ruble entirely. On this Exchange the value of manufactured goods like Mosovich automobiles is measured in tors of wheat. At the Back Gate of Nazarenko s slaughterhouse the next week the four truck Drivers from the state farm waited patiently for their turn to unload their cows. On the other Side of the slaughterhouse Gate six horses in a Corral moved about skittish by. Quot see those horses Quot one truck Driver asked. Quot you know what s going to happen to them Quot then without further words he raised his hand above his neck and made a chopping motion. Quot this is a slaughterhouse Quot he  discover America soviet Union a it i Chukchi sea i amps / 200 Miles got to know them we discover that we have Many friends Over  what used to be one of the most impenetrable and Best defended Borders in the world is now remarkably porous. American tourists Are a familiar sight in the unpaved streets of prov Deniya. Hundreds of Providen Yans have visited Nome Alaska returning Home Laden with Vars jeans and baseball Caps. The local broadcasting Tower retransmits Anchorage television soviet teen agers have become addicted to american soap operas and game shows there Are plans for a joint source the Washington posts amps Sharon Kilday by Michael Dobbs the Washington Post Hilltop silos that once housed missiles aimed at the United Stales Are now deserted the starkly desolate Tundra has become a vast junkyard for the debris of the cold War abandoned military Barracks rusting tanks and faded propaganda billboards Quot for years this place seemed like the end of the Earth Quot said Mikhail Kozakiewich a former communist party apparatchiks in prov Deniya a settlement of several thousand people on the Eastern tip of the soviet Union opposite Maska Quot we had no idea what life in America was like we were told that americans were our enemies. But now we have readers action  National Park across the Bering Strait. In Short prov Deniya has taken advantage of its geographical position just 30 Miles from . Coastal Waters to become the soviet Union s Gateway to Alaska and a Symbol of a new Era in superpower relations. But this grim siberian outpost is rapidly becoming a Symbol of something else the mounting disillusionment left by Many soviets and americans Over the absence of real economic change in the soviet Union. Quot unfortunately we have been unable to break through what i Call the Friendship and sex Barrier Quot said Jim Stimpfle a Nome realtor and Pioneer of Bering Strait diplomacy. A it s so darn frustrating. We have come to a standstill. As Long As the Ruble remains a convertible and the soviets keep changing the rules for economic cooperation with foreigners the Only thing that can happen Between us is Friendship and  the opening up of the soviet far East has excited the interest of americans particularly on the West coast for decades this Region was synonymous with the evil Empire the gulag american tourists Are now Welcome in Magadan where millions of soviet citizens died in stalinist labor Camps and Sakhalin Island where a korean air lines jumbo Jet was shot Down in 1983, american explorers have hiked across the Kamchatka Peninsula closed to foreigners for three quarters of a Century. Dozens of Friendship visits have been exchanged Between Anchorage and Nadyr Seattle and Vladivostok Nome and prov Deniya with few exceptions however All this Goodwill has produced very Little economic change. After an initial spurt of enthusiasm most . Businessmen have adopted a cautious wait and see attitude. The vast majority of proposed joint ventures unfortunately we have been unable to break through what i Call the Friendship and sex Barrier. As Long As the Ruble remains a convertible and the soviets Reep changing the rules Tor. Economic cooperation with foreigners the Only thing that can happen Between us is Friendship and sex a  Nome Alaska realtor Between american and soviet companies have died stillborn strangled by bureaucratic red tape. The dismantling of the Iron curtain also has been a jarring experience for Many soviet residents of the far East although their disenchantment has taken a different form Quot seeing How americans live has been a great Shock Quot said Alexander Batura the mayor of prov Deniya. Quot for decades we imagined we were moving Forward toward communism. Now we understand that the communist idea is nothing but Utopia. Our people see that you live better and Are asking Why they can t live better  named after the russian naval commander who surveyed Alaska in the mid-18th Century the Bering Strait is just 53 Miles wide at its narrowest Point. Until world War ii nomadic eskimos were Able to travel freely across the Bering Strait in Bai Daras boats made out of Walrus skin. During the War prov Deniya became an important transit Point for the Supply of . Lend lease military equipment to the soviet Union. In the late 1940s, with the Onset of the cold War the Border slammed  donor program based at Lan Stuhl q a what kind of a network do armed Boicos members in Europe have Lor donation of organs ? does the military medical command Supply some kind of multilingual card to carry in the Wallet ? Are them individual organizations in the various nato countries that Supply such cards ? can you provide us with some information addresses ? Frank Wiswell Munich Germany col. Or Richard m. Swengel medical director of the Neucom Organ donor program replies the Neucom Organ and tissue donor program has been operational since 1986 and currently is the Only department of defense program of its Type the program is based at Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center a team of medical specialists is on 24-hour Alert to coordinate the Harvest and transportation of organs of  forces and their families. These organs include lungs hearts livers kidneys and Corneas. The program is an Active participant of the eur transplant system which is based in Leiden Netherlands eur transplant assists in Matching donors and recipients throughout the european Community with influence extending from Norway to Israel the Neucom program also supplies organs to Walter Reed army medical Center Lor transplant Organ donation cards Are available from a variety of sources probably the most convenient sources Are your local medical treatment facility and Usa eur Drivers licensing office both of which have been supplied with Organ donor cards and information by Usa eur when you apply Lor or renew your Drivers License you May indicate your preference for Organ donation just As you might have done in the United states at present multilingual Organ donor cards Are not available once the original printing of Organ donor cards has been distributed the multilingual cards will be made available. 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