European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday october 1, 1991disney softens Impact of 20-year magic Lake Buena Vista Fla. Apr when you wish upon a Star you May get More than you bargained for. Florida s magic kingdom opened to the Public oct. 1, 1971. Twenty years later Walt Disney world has become a multimillion Dollar Empire and transformed this once sleepy Rural area into a glitzy tourist Mecca. To some however it has become too much of a Good thing critics complain about everything from traffic jams to crowded classrooms in neighbouring communities. Only now they say is Disney beginning to work with local governments to Cope with the effects of what it has wrought three gated theme Parks 18 hotels a nightclub entertainment Complex three Golf courses a water Park a Campground and major convention facilities. From an original investment of $400 million the 43-Squarc-mile Walt Disney world has grown to a $3 billion resort Complex billed As the top theme Park destination in the world. Company publicists say 80 million people have made 350 million visits in its two decades. And it has brought other amusements to Central Florida a sea world Universal studios and hundreds of other smaller attractions. And in the Disney style there a a lot More to come a fourth Park a $2 billion futuristic Community of 20,000 residents on 4,000 acres a doubling of the Disney Mem studios More Golf courses hotels and attractions. But the major accomplishment of the last few years a at least to some of Disney a critics a is a new spirit of cooperation with its neighbors. A i look for a great Deal More cooperation Between Disney and local governments than has existed in the past Quot said chairman Jim Swan of the Osceola county commission who has often questioned its expansion policies. This collaboration gradual and somewhat halting comes in dealing with the Impact that the huge and Ever growing resort continues to make on virtually every aspect of life in Disney a twin Boom towns of Orlando and Kissimmee in Orange and Osceola counties in All of Central Florida. Quot Twenty years ago nobody comprehended the magnitude of the Impact and it was nobody a particular fault a Swan said. A but the rules Are different today. Growth management is the key that has brought us  Over the years local government officials came to the gradual realization that Disney brought not Only millions of free spending tourists tens of thousands of Dorcia Cheek carries a Bunch of Disney a 20th anniversary balloons Down main Street j.s.a., at Lake Buena Vista. Jobs hundreds of new businesses and a population explosion. Disney also brought problems resulting from that growth choked up roads overcrowded schools overburdened Public utilities and environmental damage. Some did no to think that Disney was paying its share of related costs. Furthermore not everyone agreed that Disney ought to have the autonomy it was granted by the 1967 Florida legislature an act that set up a special Disney governing District. Critics contended that the Law allowed Disney to ignore the difficulties of the counties and communities surrounding its property. Much of that attitude has changed within the past two years however As Disney a Reedy Creek improvement District has had to prepare a detailed growth management plan mandated by the state. Planners say that under new regulations Disney must build Low income housing for some of its 33,000 employees help improve roads leading to the attraction justify its use of wetlands and meet some of the same requirements As other major developers. For the first time Disney is undertaking a regional environmental Impact Survey a in this Case for its planned $2 billion residential commercial Community m Osceola county. The new town to be is called Celebration and May take 25 years to Complete. Mon charged with dueling in fatal shooting san Diego map a a a Cir a Kue t7rihun t san Diego apr a Sailor has been booked on the rarely invoked charge of dueling in the shooting death of another Man. A it sounds astonishing even revolting that this sort of thing would happen in this Day and age a said Deputy District attorney Thomas Nickel. A but essentially. One Guy called the other up and said a this town ainu to big enough for the both of  Vernon sip 39, pleaded not guilty Friday after being charged under an 1872 Law. He was9 accused of dueling july 12 with Bayani Zuniga 42, Over a woman. Zuniga was slain. Isip an 18-year Navy enlisted Man recovered from his wounds. The men had arranged to meet outside an apartment Complex where they a stepped toward each other fully armed and began firing until their guns were empty a Nickel said. Nearly 15 shots were fired the prosecutor said. A this was what they thought was the Noble gentlemanly thing to do. They wanted to have it out face to face a Nickel said. Isip could get up to nine years in prison if convicted. Nickel said Isip was charged with dueling instead of murder to preclude a claim of self defense which cannot be invoked in a dueling Case. Under state Law a Man who kills his opponent in a Duel cannot be charged with murder. Murder in California can carry the death penalty. Dueling was not uncommon during san Diego a Frontier Days. The san Diego Herald in 1852 called the practice a rampant. An irrational and barbarous remedy used by every person whose Peculiar ideas of Honor have been infringed  California s Hopes raised by higher water Levels by the los Angeles times Sacramento after five years of severe drought California has made it through the summer and is now in a position that seemed unthinkable a few months ago at the Start of the hoi weather season a with water Levels in state reservoirs higher than a year ago. Strict rationing in All likelihood will remain necessary hut water officials have hoarded supplies so effectively that a sixth year of the drought a already the longest dry stretch since the.,. 1930s a no longer looms As a certain catastrophe for California cities Quot i think we go into the next year better prepared for a dry year than we were coming into this year if Only because we have More water in storage a said California resources Secretary Douglas p. Wheeler. A unless it the drought gets considerably worse we wont have higher  although another dry year May not cause cataclysmic changes in Urban lifestyles the prospects elsewhere Are More ominous. Agriculture which survived this year without severe economic loss would confront greater shortages and higher costs. Fragile species of fish and wildlife already stressed by the Long running drought face endangerment. Quot the environment a Wheeler said a has been More stressed and More damaged in the longer term than any other element of our mix of water users and that is not As Well recognized As it ought to  . Policies blamed for ethiopian deaths Washington up the United nations shares the blame for the deaths of some 750,000 people in War and famine in Ethiopia having repeatedly helped the government in Addis Ababa use food As a devastating military weapon the human rights group Africa watch reported monday. The report on 30 years of War in Ethiopia and the famine caused by it was sharply critical of the United nations saying it directed food Aid Only to the government denied reports that Aid was being diverted and failed to object to a deadly government resettlement program. Asia watch also said the United nations and various International Relief agencies Quot with rare exceptions consistently Laded to speak out about the processes of famine creation and Gross violations of human  the 382-Page report documents alleged causes and effects of thre decades of fighting and starvation that began in september 1961 with the War in ethiopians Northern province of Eritrea. The fighting enveloped virtually the entire country a involving More than 10 significant rebel fronts during the 1980s a before apparently settling Down with an agreement among various factions in july that included endorsement of an Independent Eritrea. Africa watch said it estimated a a minimum of 150,000 innocent civilians were killed in the wars in addition to the deaths of at least 600,000 people in famines that were a largely  the report titled evil Days also cites alleged human rights abuses committed by rebel groups and by the governments of emperor Haile Selassie and president Mengistu Haile Mariam