European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 3, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 a mayor Anatoli Sobchak stands before City Hall with a new Street sign that reads St. Petersburg instead of Leningrad. Without fanfare Leningrad becomes St. Petersburg world Bohemian used car lot offers soviet made tank from wire reports i Prague Czechoslovakia a a soviet made i t-34 tank is being offered for Sale among used i cars by a dealer in Northern Bohemia a report i said tuesday. I dealer Jan thums was quoted by the Mlada i Fronta does daily As saying he bought the tank from the City of most for the Price of scrap Iron. The tank will most Likely be sold to a collector from Texas who is arranging for permission to Export it the daily said. It did not identify the collector nor say How much he is paying for it. The t-34 was the mainstay of soviet armoured forces in world War ii and the tank had stood until last year As a Monument to the liberation of most by soviet soldiers. A controversy has surrounded a similar tank that stood As a Monument in the capital of Prague. It was painted Pink by a student protester earlier this year and finally was placed in a museum. Gorbachev writes Book Moscow a soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has written his own a instant books on the failed coup against him in August and is looking for foreign publishers his spokesman said tuesday. The spokesman Andrei Grachev said the manuscript of the Book titled the August coup causes and consequences had been delivered to the quasi official no Vosti press Agency a publishing Arm monday. Copies of the 74-Page manuscript had also been Given to several foreign publishers Grachev said. He did not name the foreign companies or say if there were any agreements so far to publish the Book in languages other than russian. Grachev said the Book would include an article that Gorbachev was working on while on vacation in the Crimea just before the coup. Briton slain in Jerusalem Jerusalem a an 89-year-old British millionaire was found stabbed to death in a hotel room in the Northern israeli port City of Haifa police said tuesday. The body of Emily Feuchtwanger a member of a British banking family was found monday by a maid in her room at Haifa a Dan Panorama hotel said police spokesman Tukki Sandberg. The victims Throat had been Slit he said. The room was in disarray suggesting that a robbery had taken place but police were also investigating other motives he said. She had lived at the hotel for the past four years. Manns to reside in Cyprus London a the wife of former British hostage Jack Mann said tuesday the couple has decided to Settle in Cyprus after having lived in Lebanon for the past 40 years. Mann 77, was freed from 865 Days in Captivity in Lebanon on sept. 24 and has since been recovering from his ordeal at Lyneham air base in Southwest England. Sunnie Mann wife of the world War ii Pilot told a news conference she would be setting up Home in Cyprus. $600,000 necklace stolen Paris a thieves stole a Diamond necklace Worth $600,000 from the prestigious Bulgari jewelry store on the Chic Avenue montaigne police reported tuesday. Two men and a woman carried out the theft monday police said with two posing As clients to divert the attention of the sales staff and the third quietly opening a showcase and taking the necklace. Poland requires seat belts Warsaw Poland a seat belts became mandatory tuesday As Poland tried to improve its Road safety record. The new legislation also requires seat belts to be worn by passengers in the Back seats even though few polish cars have them. Radar detectors Are now also illegal. Polish roads Are notoriously dangerous. Many Are badly maintained. St. Petersburg . A this bygone capital of russian czars formally regained its original name of St. Petersburg on tuesday but residents were More concerned about potholes and empty shelves than bidding Farewell to Leningrad. The City a 5 million residents voted to drop the name Leningrad in june and the russian federation set oct. 1 for the official changeover. City fathers who have been calling the City St. Petersburg for weeks said it was an arbitrary it Date and planned no fanfare. St. Petersburg City Council spokesman Alexander keratin said name change ceremonies could be held on nov. 7 instead of the traditional military Parade marking the anniversary of the 1917 bolshevik revolution. A the name of Lenin in a Symbol of bolshevism a said keratin director of the City councils press Center. A the City cannot be called Leningrad after the  the name change is the third this Century for the City founded in 1703 by Peter the great As his a window to the  it was St. Petersburg until world War i began in 1914, when its German sounding name was replaced with the russian equivalent Petrograd. In 1924, soviet leaders renamed it Leningrad in Honor of soviet founder Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin who asked to be buried with his Mother in a cemetery just outside town. The return to the historic name of St. Petersburg was the latest and most significant move to erase communist names imposed nationwide on everything from schools to roads and cities. Leningrad residents voted narrowly to rename their City in a june referendum and the russian parliament agreed in the aftermath of the aug. 18-21 coup. While proud of the St. Petersburg name a and the pre revolutionary splendor it symbolizes a Many residents Are ashamed that their City on the marshy Banks of the Neva River has fallen into such disrepair. The City that inspired Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff provided literary settings for Pushkin Gogol and Dostoevsky and gave birth to Pavlova and Nijinsky can no longer afford to feed or House its 5 million people. The czars pastel palaces Are crumbling onto the Riverside Stone embankments the City a water is undrinkable and potholes seem to outnumber cars and buses on the roads. A St. Petersburg sounds so proud. It used to be a Beautiful City. We know that from classical russian literature a said medical worker Ludmila Yakobson. A now it is so different. It is difficult to Call it St.  City Council spokesman keratin said the name Berlin debates Fate of Lenin s statue Berlin apr As reunited Germany celebrates its first birthday Berlin is debating the Fate of an uninvited guest the huge statue of Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin. Communism and its symbols Are toppling almost everywhere and City officials want to add the 63-foot colossus to the list. But some artists historians and leftist politicians Are rallying in support of the Lenin statue Hen from ukrainian red Granite in the sweeping heroic socialist style. For them it represents a part of the past that must be confronted even after today s National birthday party. Supporters decorated the statue tuesday with a Large Banner saying a no  once the motto of East Germany a pro democracy marchers the simple words Are now meant to protect Lenin from Bei Jug yanked from his Pedestal. Manfred Biilmann an artist has proposed a Compromise keep the 21-year-old statue standing near the Center of Germany a capital but cover it with Ivy. Many people see the statue of the russian revolutionary As a Symbol of More than 40 years of oppression when the East German communists were among the soviets most Loyal allies. Volker class Amer the City a development chief told the City Council tuesday he wants to have the statue taken away. But the City government does no to plan to scrap it. A we want to dismantle him in a Way that he stays unharmed and put him on display somewhere else a said Patricia Werner a spokeswoman for Hassmer. Just where it would go Isnit certain. There has been talk of putting Lenin and other communist monuments in the courtyard of a Berlin building. Change will Cost Only 12 million rubles $21.12 million Well Down from previous estimates. A fund has been established for private individuals and companies to help defray changeover costs he said. Keratin said Road Airport and train station signs will be replaced Only when necessary because of Normal Wear and tear. Domestic passports issued to All soviet citizens on their 16th birthdays will now say St. Petersburg but a people can keep their old Leningrad passports until the Day they die a he said. Anyone who wants to Trade in their Leningrad passport will have to pay 3 h rubles $528 at the official Exchange Rale a nearly one month s salary