European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. January 22. 1992 the stars and stripes a d Page 15 Lilly it words can Hurt a Maria Elena Cruz Varela a dissident cuban poet shown in a photo taken last fall was recently forced to eat her own words a literally. A pro Castro mob invaded her Havana apartment and according to a fellow dissident forced her to Swallow copies of her pamphlets. The poets Mouth was injured in the attack. Tourism in Philippines Down 3.5% last year Manila Philippines up a the number of tourists visiting the Philippines dropped in 1991, with americans increasingly shying away the government said monday. A tourism department report said tourist arrivals through the first 11 months of 1991 fell 3.5 percent to 926,775, compared with the 838,647 for the same period in 1990. Tourism Secretary Rafael Alunan has forecast that tourist arrivals will end 1991 slightly below the 1 million Mark compared with More than 1.02 million in 1990. He attributed the drop to the persian Gulf War which curbed tourism worldwide the eruption of mount Pinatubo in june and the negative image of the country abroad. The government plans to launch a major push to lure More tourists to the country this year concentrating marketing Ett Orts on its Southeast asian neighbors. . Tourists posted the most severe drop at 6.3 percent from 180,136 arrivals in 1990 to 168,661 in 1991. Breakup of Black sea Fleet angers Loyal russian sailors i Ini and 7 / r is Ionia i a i via by Deborah Seward the associated press aboard the minesweeper tb-438 Marat Iba Dullin had it made a at 28, Captain of his own ship in the soviet Navy s prestigious Black sea Fleet. But the breakup of the soviet Union has jeopardized the Young officers command. Quot Iba Dullin says he would rather resign than serve Ukraine which wants his ship and has demanded that Fleet officers and sailors swear allegiance to the ukrainian leadership. A if we Are taken Over by Ukraine. Ill become a Farmer and Niv men will leave the Fleet a Iba Dullin said in an interview in his cramped quarters aboard the minesweeper. A their opposition to the ukrainian oath is like  the rapid breakup of the soviet armed forces is potentially the most dangerous consequence of the collapse of the country they served. The Black sea Fleet a with 45 cruisers 28 submarines. 3,300 Small and medium sized ships 150 air planes and 85 helicopters a was considered part of the soviet strategic forces with the task of countering the . 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. After weeks of bitter quarrelling Russia and Ukraine have agreed to Divide the Fleet. Vessels considered of strategic importance will be placed under the command of the new Commonwealth. The rest will go to Ukraine which initially claimed the whole Fleet. But deciding the Fate of each ship in the Fleet which is based in the ukrainian port of Sevastopol will be hard. A any ship can be used for strategic purposes Quot Iba Dullin said. A for the politicians the Fleet is like a big cake and they Are trying to figure out How to Cut  the 21-Man Crew aboard the 147-foot minesweeper consists of seven nationalities mainly from Russia Ukraine and Central Asia a mirroring the mosaic that made up the soviet Union. Quot i he 11-year-old ib-428 is still covered with so hols of the old soviet Union. A in the officers mess a picture of former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev hangs next to Vladimir Lenin. Every morning the Crew raises the Fleet s White Flag with its red Star and red Hammer and sickle bordered at the Bottom with a Blue Stripe. Iba Dullin a tatar from the Steppes of Central Russia says his Crew would agree to serve under a Commonwealth command. Other sailors working along the wharves that line the Oil streaked Harbor also thought the Fleet should go to the Commonwealth or even Russia. Quot the ships should remain under the unified command Black sea Fleet Russia Moscow Odessa Sevas Topol and Poti cruisers 45 submarines 28 Small and medium ships 3,300 air planes 150 helicopters 85 naval infantry Romania Bui v Turki y Sih Ticu the  Init Iulo Lor Sti Alagic studios a we .1  of the Commonwealth although i have nothing against Uki Aine said it. Anatoly Stepanov himself a ukrainian. A for me As a russian there is Only one Choice i will swear Only to the  said Alexei Lebedev a 21-year-old naval Cadet. T he inability of politicians to agree on the Fate of the Fleet is demoralizing to Young sailors from across the former soviet Union. Quot we Don t know whom we Are serving. I think Russia should have the Fleet. A ukrainian Fleet is a joke. Ukraine can to feed us or pay us Quot said 19-year-old Sailor Andrei re Litrov a ukrainian. Although their pay is higher than average life is hard in Sevastopol a City of 40 1, 100 people. Sevastopol remains a closed City a remnant of old soviet style secrecy. Naval guards at checkpoints outside the City allow Only people with permission to enter. Inside Sevastopol there Are Long lines for milk Anil Lood. I Here Are Lew of the Small private shops that have started to appear in open cities. Running water is available Only for a few hours a Day. Iba Dullin said Many sailors work on the Side repairing cars or doing Odd jobs to make extra Money. As if to Back that up an officer nearby was leafing through the help wanted ails of the local  acadians watch French culture Wither Gardner mass. Apr first the children stopped answering in French. Then the Church school dropped a halfday of classes in the language. Now even the acadian social club uses English at its meetings. But when the Cable to company shut off its French language Channel from Quebec Many of the churchgoing hockey worshipping French canadians in this City got mad. They mounted a Campaign to restore the French station and with it a lost piece of themselves. A a it a like someone takes a gun and shoots you when you have something like that a said Louis Leblanc. The Stocky bearded Leblanc spoke while watching a card game at the acadian social club. The club illustrates the plight and sorrow of this isolated people whose cultural identity is melting away by generations. An acadian Flag a Frances Blue White and red background with a yellow Star a flaps in a cold w inter w ind beside the american Flag. Inside men play cards and banter in French. Yet the bartender says apologetically he can t speak the language. Quot even reckoning the number of Gardner residents of French Canadian heritage poses a Cross cultural dilemma. Federal census figures put it at 1,193, or 6.6 percent of the total population of 17,9 10. Acadians dispute the figure putting their numbers at 30 percent to 40 percent of this Northern Massachusetts City. T hey Point out entire pages of Cormier Leblanc and other common acadian names in the local phone Book. I heir ancestors came to the Region in the 1750s. When the British expelled thousands of French speaking people from Acadia the former French Colony that now includes land in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and new Brunswick. Some expelled acadians trekked to Louisiana where their descendants Are known As cajuns another wave of new Brunswick Resi dents journeyed 400 Miles South to work in Gardner a furniture Mills around 1915. Quot they be been known to be persecuted and pushed around and always held to their religion and. Culture and. Pride a said Henry ares a French teacher and City resident whose quebecois heritage gives him a slightly distanced perspective on the acadians. Val our Lect. A building contractor with a powerful Frame thin Mustache and thick accent said he can to understand Why the Cable company turned olt the French Channel. Quot it makes us wonder it they have something against us or what. You Hope not Quot he said. Our Lect said French has slowly Laded trom the local roman Catholic school and even Many Homes As children were born in the new land. We re French and we love our f Rench he said of the men mostly in their 50s or older surrounding him at the acadian club a your kids 20 cars trom now. Thev won t care about the French station. Val Cormier an acadian club Olicer said members began to hold their official sessions in English a Lew years ago. Last year they anglicized the club name to make it easier to file tax documents and the like acadian Insul cols said they pleaded with the Cable company to restore the Channel which was cancelled Jan. I because Many elderly shut ins depend on it Tor weekly Catholic masses in French. I hey said they also loved the channels broadcasts of National hockey league games. File acadians unaccustomed to political protest went to a City Council meeting dec. 30 to demand their stations return the meeting Drew about 30 people a record crowd in recent years. Hank Ferris who manages the areas Cablevision system said the Channel programmed at ks1i i v in Sherbrooke Quebec was pulled mainly because its weak signal often produced a poor picture