European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 3,1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9 Worl Bohemian used car lot offers soviet made tank 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 from wire reports Prague Czechoslovakia a a soviet made t-34 tank is being offered for Sale among used cars by a dealer in Northern Bohemia a report said tuesday. Dealer Jan thums was quoted by the Mlada 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 Aid 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 Ana finally was placed in a  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  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  slain in Israel Jerusalem a an unidentified assailant stabbed a female German tourist to death wednesday and wounded a second German woman in Jerusalem a historic old City police said. The identity of the victims was not immediately known and details of the stabbing also were not available. Police spokeswoman Anat Granit said the second German tourist suffered moderate injuries and was rushed to a Hospital. Witnesses said the woman was taken away wearing an oxygen mask with a male Friend holding her hand. Police closed off the area and witnesses said police rounded up a Large number of arabs As possible  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  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 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 com pianist 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. Moscow up a a soyuz rocket blasted off for the Mir space station wednesday carrying an austrian electronic Engineer and the first cosmonaut Ever from the Republic of Kazakhstan where the soviet cosm drome is located. The joint soviet austrian Mission began with a flawless 7 59 . Liftoff from the Barren Steppe of Kazakhstan where Yuri Gagarin began the first manned spaceflight 30 years ago. The rocket carried two a cosmonaut researchers a austrian citizen Franz Viehbeck and kazakh test Pilot Moktar Aub kirov who were to return to Earth next 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 Quot no  once the motto of East Germany a pro democracy marchers the simple words Are now meant to protect Lenin from  from his Pedestal. Manfred Butzmann 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 Ila Semer the City a development chief told the City Council tuesday he wants to have the statue taken away. But the City government does t 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 Ila Semer. 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. Week after a Brief stay on the orbiting Mir station. The commander of the Mission col. Alexander Volkov is a Veteran of two previous space missions. He was to relieve Anatoly arts Barsky aboard Mir which Jas been almost continuously manned since its february 1986 launch. Sergei Kri Kalev who has been on Mir since a joint British soviet Mission in May will remain aboard and is expected to Challenge the soviet record for continuous time in space before he is relieved by a planned German soviet Mission next year. Soviet austrian space Mission lifts off