European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes sunday january 19, 1992russians marching to own hourglass by the Baltimore Sun Moscow a a government that is straining to provide its people with decent food and comfortable housing has at last hit upon one precious commodity it can lavish on a Long suffering population Light. Russia has decided to give its Sunshine starved people a double dose of Daylight saving time this year. Early today clocks were scheduled to be advanced one hour. The last sunday in March they will jump ahead one More hour. A that puts Russia a bit out of sync with the rest of the world but a country that has renounced All its ideological underpinnings to follow the West will now have the Small Comfort of marching to its own hour hand. Russian leaders say that they will save 3.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity with the change a and More than 700,000 tons of heating Oil that would have generated that much Power for the strapped Economy. Part of the reason for the change can be traced to and blamed on Josef Stalin during whose Rule Russia first began playing the yearly clock game. Things did not go quite right then but nobody realized it until last year when a times keeper pointed out that russians clocks were three hours ahead of Greenwich mean time instead of the two they should be. The official explanation was that in the 1930s someone forgot to remind Stalin to change Back from Daylight saving time to Standard time one fall. The next Spring the nation added the traditional hour again inadvertently putting it three hours ahead of Greenwich instead of two. After the flaw was disclosed the russians fell Back an hour last Spring and no one has been Happy since. In this land of Winter darkness the loss of an hour of Daylight in the afternoon was keenly Felt. Life gears up Here a Little later than in the West. People would rather put up with More darkness in the morning than in the afternoon. In december it was getting Light about 7 30 . And dark at 3 . Now that the Days Are getting a Little longer that is stretching to about 3 30 . The change now will mean the Sun will not set until 4 30 . The new time will make some people Happy but not everyone. Other republics in the former soviet Union Are keeping their own time. They predict chaos in train and plane  rebels warned to keep peace san Salvador Al Salvador up Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii pledged . Support for salvadoran reconstruction but he warned former leftist rebels not to betray their country by turning the new peace accords into a a political Trojan  a Day after the signing of a historic peace Accord that would end 12 years of bloody civil War Baker congratulated president Alfredo Cristiani on the  Accord he signed thursday with leftist rebels in Mexico City. A it is a special Honor to speak to you. On this your first Day of peace in More than a decade a Baker said Friday in a speech to Cristiani salvadoran legislators and political and business leaders. But he warned that rebels of the Faramundo Marti National liberation front known by its Spanish Lan Guage initials Feln might use the agreement to destabilize the country. A there Are some salvadorans with memories of guerrilla War and violent political struggle who fear that the peace accords Are an enormous trap a political Trojan horse that will allow the Feln to re enter society Only to return to the violent and destabilizing politics of the past a Baker said. A it is essential that the Feln demonstrate by its actions and its words that these sceptics Are  legislators attending bakery a speech were disappointed when he spoke Only in general terms about a . Effort to rally a the International Community in support of Al Salvador. A we were hoping he would be very very Clear about the . Commitment to reconstruction opposition lawmaker Juan Martel said. A they have maintained the War for Many years and today they Are obligated to contribute at least As much to reconstruction As they gave for salvadorans to kill each  after his meetings in san Salvador Baker went for a half Day visit to Nicaragua before heading for Washington on Friday night. In Managua Baker said he was impressed with the 20-month-old government of president Violeta Chamorro and promised that the United states would salvadorans celebrate the peace pact signed by the government and leftist rebels in Mexico City last week. Maintain a substantial Aid program for Nicaragua. Earlier Baker and Chamorro spoke for about 40 minutes. Chamorro a Victory in democratic elections ended a decade of Rule by the sandinista and made it possible to end the country a civil War which pitted .-backed nicaraguan Contra rebels against the soviet backed sandinista army during the 1980s. Baker said the Bush administration has requested about $200 million in Aid for 1992. Despite . Aid amounting to $550 million since Chamorro took office Nicaragua remains the poorest country in Central America. In Al Salvador . Secretary general Boutros Ghali met with Cristiani and visited the Graves of six prominent Jesuit priests slain in 1989 by soldiers. Ghali was on a one Day visit after witnessing the signing of the salvadoran peace accords. The United nations is gathering a peacekeeping Force for the .-monitored cease fire that is to begin feb. 1. An International verification Force of about 1,000 police and military observers must be in place when the cease fire begins. 1st British woman begins Raf fighter Pilot training ch1venor, England a Sally Cox says she would happily work for less pay to keep her new Job As Britain a first woman to train As a fighter Pilot. A the thrill is doing a Hundred different things at the same time getting the Job done sometimes flying 250 feet above the ground at 400 Mph a flight it. Cox told reporters Friday As she began a training course at the Royal air Force base in Chivenor. The 29-year-old is the first woman to take the 17-week tactical weapons course on bombing missiles and dog fighting techniques in the Hawk Trainer Jet. Working with 10 male trainees she will be learning How to div bomb and fire the Hawks 30mm Cannon at ground and air targets. Her ambition is to be the first woman to Fly Britain a Tornado fighter which had a front line role in the persian Gulf War. Cox said she would have no qualms about combat. A i would be proud to go to War and in a willing to Lay my life Down in a War situation if it comes to it a she told reporters. She was one of two women selected for the Jet aircraft training course last year when the Royal air Force changed its policy to permit women pilots. Being Able to Fly jets was a a dream come True a she said. Dutch prostitutes May get free drugs in aids fight arnhem Netherlands a this drug plagued Border City wants to offer free heroin and methadone to Street prostitutes to help prevent the spread of aids. Since an estimated 80 percent of the streetwalker in arnhem Are heroin addicts the City believes that giving them free drugs would allow them to give up prostitution. A your no. 1 priority is to Stop the spread of aids a City spokesman Hugo Van Der log said thursday. Although heroin Possession is illegal under dutch Law police generally turn a Blind Eye to its use As Well As Small scale dealing. The free drugs plan will be submitted to the ministry of Justice for a study on its legality Van Der log said. The City has not worked out such details As How to ensure that the heroin is limited to addicted prostitutes. Only a handful of the 50 or so Street prostitutes in arnhem a City of about 130,000 people have his the aids virus. But the City wants All heroin addicted streetwalker to take part in the distribution program. Because of its location on the dutch German Border arnhem is a Magnet for German heroin addicts drawn by the easy availability and Low Cost of the drug. In addition enforcement policies Are far More stringent in Germany whose government opposes the permissive dutch drug policies