European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday october 1,1991 Disney softens Impact of 20-year magic Lake Buena Vista Fla. A when you wish upon a Star you May get More than you bargained for. Florida a 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 is 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-Square-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 s a lot More to come a fourth Park a $2 b i Ion 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. �?o1 look for a great Deal More cooperation Between Disney and local governments than has existed in the past a 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. A 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 t Quot night 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 .a., at Lake Buena Vista. La 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 in Osceola county. The new town to be is called Celebration and May take 25 years to Complete. Man charged with dueling in fatal shooting 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 Isip 39, pleaded not guilty Friday after being charged under an 1872 Law. He was 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 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 canno ube 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  s Hopes raised by higher water Levels by the los Angeles times Sacramento Calif. 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 hot weather season a with water Levels in state reservoirs higher than a year ago. Strict rationing in All likelihood will remain necessary but 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. A 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. A 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  Wisconsin retired for third time Norfolk a. A the Wisconsin a world War u battleship brought out of Mothballs during the . Military buildup of the 1980s, was retired monday for the third time. A few ships have stirred the hearts of Navy men like this ship a said adm. Paul d. Miller commander of the Navy a Atlantic Fleet. The Norfolk based Wisconsin served in two wars after world War ii a Korea and the persian Gulf. Former Navy Secretary William l. Ball Iii guest speaker for the decommissioning credited the Wisconsin with a flawless performance in the Middle East. Modern warfare technology took the ships role far beyond what its original bidders envisioned Ball said. Richard Vannoy of Guysville Ohio served on the Wisconsin during the korean War when the ship took jts first and Only hit in combat. A tears rolled do it my Cheeks yesterday when i we aboard a Vannoy said. The 58,000-ton Wisconsin was one four mothballed battleships that got new life under former president it gangs naval Force buildup. Two of t ships the Iowa and new Jersey were r commissioned last year. The Missouri scheduled to be retired soon. During the persian Gulf War Injo uary and february the huge 16-Inch i on the Wisconsin and Missouri were us to Pound iraqi Shore batteries. The Wisconsin was under construct when the United states entered to War ii. The ship served in the Paci theater in 1944 and 1945 and was first it commissioned in 1948. But the battleship was recalled Dur the korean War and stayed in serv until its second retirement in 1958