European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes tuesday january 21, 1992 at a glance teaching children to Cook can help them learn healthy eating habits. See stories on pages 14-15. Book bans succeeding efforts to get books and magazines banned or restricted in school libraries succeeded nearly half the time Over three years researchers said. A Page 4 countdown begins Nasa began the countdown for the first shuttle flight of the year a Laboratory research Mission by discovery that will examine the effects of weightlessness. A Page 5 Gotti trial starting journalists from around the world will converge this week on a Brooklyn courtroom for the murder and racketeering trial of reputed mafia Kingpin John Gotti. A Page 7 race not Issue in fight the new years Day fight involving seven american soldiers and seven civilian men in Bremerhaven Germany had nothing to do with race or nationality the civilians said. A Page 9 Bank president quits the president and chief executive of first National corp. Left the banking company As first National announced a $10.3 million loss for 1991. A Page 17 Index i Abby Ann Landers 20 action line .16 comics.18-21 commentary.13 faces a no places .10 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.21-28 to listings.27 weather.11 Commonwealth protests go on but subway workers done to strike Moscow apr subway workers in St. Petersburg went to work monday despite threatening to strike for More pay a Wisp of Good news in a recent surge of protests and anger Over prices driven skyward by free Market oriented reforms in the Commonwealth of Independent states. Contract talks continued. The threatened strike could strand millions of commuters in russians second largest City where an estimated 3,000 people on sunday protested what they called a anti people pricing policies. Many of the protesters were members of the hard line russian communist workers party and the United front of working people. In Vladivostok on monday about 200 demonstrators waved signs outside a City Council meeting to protest Price increases the Tass news Agency reported. A we support the Market but not killer prices a one sign read. Quot we want bread not queues a read another. Rallies against soaring prices flared across Russia and Uzbekistan on sunday but news Media said two other former soviet republics reined in economic reforms to head off unrest. Thousands of University students marched peacefully through Tashkent the uzbek capital to protest the police shooting of fellow students during a rampage thursday against soaring prices news reports said. Tension is rising less than three weeks after russian president Boris n. Yeltsin abandoned the centrally planned Economy lifting Price controls for Many goods and raising state set prices for necessities. The lifting of controls has sent the Cost of consumer goods spiralling. Other republics in the new Commonwealth of Independent states also raised prices to avoid having russians flood across the Borders in quest of cheaper goods. News reports said sunday however that Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have decided to hold Down or Roll Back prices in an Effort to prevent unrest Over the economic reforms. Turkmenistan a president Sapa Murad Niyazov issued a decree sunday barring Price rises above wage increases for some goods the russian information Agency said. In Azerbaijan president Ayaz Mut Ali Bov ordered a 30 percent reduction in the Price of bread saturday the Agency reported. It said lost Revenue would he compensated by higher prices for Vodka and other commodities in High demand. Yeltsin has ordered similar cuts for necessities in some russian cities and charged that Black marketeers bureaucrats and former communists Are using his reforms to gouge  from Page 1 criticism the prosecution asked for suspended sentences. Ingo Heinrich 26, was convicted of manslaughter and received a 3�?T/z-year sentence. Andreas Kiihn past 27, received a two year suspended sentence for attempted manslaughter. Acquitted by the court of three judges and two jurors were Mike Schmidt and Peter Schmett also former Border guards. The four defendants charged with manslaughter had faced maximum sentences of life in prison. Seidel in pronouncing sentence before the tense courtroom said a there is no doubt that the deadly shot came from Heinrich a he said Giffroy and a companion had simply wanted to escape the communist led regime to seek better opportunities in the West. The judges reference to nazi Germany angered defense attorney Hubert Dreyling who was representing Kiihn past. A comparing the German democratic Republic to the nazi Era is improper a Dreyling told reporters. As Seidel announced the manslaughter conviction and sentence Heinrich sat in the Dock looking dismayed and angry. Afterwards he refused to talk to reporters. Heinrich will remain free pending further Legal moves in the Case. Karin Giffroy the victims Mother sat at the front of the old dark courtroom looking strained. After the verdict was announced she stood alone refusing to comment. The defendants said during the trial that they regretted the death but had no other Choice. A at that time i was following the Laws and commands of the German democratic Republic a said Heinrich in his final plea. A what was right then can to be wrong now a defense attorney Rolf Bossi told the court. The verdict comes while two other former Border guards Are on trial in another Berlin courtroom and while Justice officials seek to try Honecker for giving Border guards shoot to kill orders. Honecker has refused to Budge from his Moscow Refuge. Defense lawyers for the four Border guards repeatedly questioned the authority of the Berlin court arguing that it had no jurisdiction because the Case was being tried after the unification of Ger Many. A politically there a a lot of pressure for punishment of the perpetrators to Calm things Down a Henning Spangenberg one of Heinrich s defense lawyers said in closing arguments last week. A the defendants were tools of a doomed political system a said Erich Buchholz another attorney for Heinrich. Of the four defendants Kuhn past showed the most remorse in court breaking Down in tears several times. A what happened will haunt me for the rest of my life a he said. Three of the four defendants insisted that they tried to avoid seriously injuring Guffroy and did not aim at him. Schmidt insists he did not shoot at All but screamed a you pig at the dying victim. Guif Froym a Friend Christian Gaudian testified that the pair had already Given up their escape attempt when the guards opened fire. Gaudian was shot in the foot and sentenced by East German authorities to three years in prison. He was released and expelled to then West Berlin on oct. 17, 1989, a month before the Berlin Wall was  from Page 1 off the Holiday in California. It was to travel from san Jose to san Francisco where a March was scheduled. In los Angeles a 14-foot sculpture honouring King was to be unveiled in the City a Watts Section. A in Arkansas Daisy Bates who was an adviser to the nine Black students who integrated Little rocks Central High in 1957, was to be honoured with a portrait in the state Capitol. A in Michigan William Harris 37, planned his annual March through new Haven 35 Miles Northeast of Detroit. Every year the March concludes with his impersonation of King delivering his i have a dream speech. King was assassinated on april 4, 1968, in Memphis Tenn. He would have been 63, in Oakland calif., about 80 residents marched sunday to reclaim their neighbourhood from drug dealers. A drugs Are just another form of slavery. I can to think of a better Way to Honor or. King than to do this a said one resident Gilda Baker 39. Rep. Charles e. Schumer d-n.y., proposed legislation to increase prison terms for Federal offences motivated by racial ethnic religious or gender Braat King on sunday presented Winnie Mandela with an award from the King Center for nonviolent social change for the Progress the mandelas made in fighting apartheid. Mandela accepted the award and left. King said Mandela was ill but did not elaborate. In her speech King stopped Short of directly criticizing president Bush who travelled to Atlanta on Friday and Laid a at Kings Tomb. Instead she told about 850 people that government Hasni to done enough a especially for Young americans. A Brothers and Sisters its time for an All out Campaign to put America Back to work a she  from Page 1 times wields considerable influence in the government because of his seniority. But he is less Active in Day to Day mane vering in parliament. Criticizing Bush a Jan. 7-10 visit As merely aimed at Selling cars Sakurauchi was quoted As saying a the deterioration in the Quality of . Workers is at the heart of Japan a $41 billion Trade surplus with the United states. He said it May be difficult for Tokyo to meet targets of increased imports of . Auto parts because of the a Many defective products american workers make. Other japanese politicians have made disparaging remarks about americans in the past in 1986, for example then prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said americans have lower intelligence than japanese. In 1988, the current foreign minister Michio Watanabe caused an outrage when he said Black americans do not care about running away from their debts. In 1990, then Justice minister Seiroku Kajiyama compared foreign prostitutes m Tokyo to Blacks moving into White neighbourhoods in the United states