European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A brilliantly coloured roof coven India s nearly completed contribution to the fair. Smiling cutouts of everyday people Greet people to Japan s exhibit. Fred Bush the . Commissioner general for expo 92. Continued from Page 3 easily get that Many visits a Bush said. Seville is known As the oven of Spain and temperatures can easily top 110 degrees fahrenheit in the Shade. Expo s planners have resorted to a mind boggling variety of tactics a Many borrowed from Spain s former rulers the moors to combat the relentless summer heat. They Are using the same methods the moors used to Cool their palaces in Seville and Granada water water everywhere. Water will be piped under pavements to Cool tootsies and in liquid curtains along Long Glass Walls. Artificial lakes Dot the grounds and there Are Banks and Banks of fountains to take advantage of the hot air rises cold air sinks principle. To give expo its own Cool and moist microclimate Many of the Quot branches of the ground s Trees actually consist of Metal piping with nozzles for injecting water into the atmosphere at High pressure through minute orifices. Late last week organizers were Quot greening the once Barren site with grass 25,000 Trees and 300,000 shrubs Many of them american species new to Spain. Parking spaces have been created for 40,000 cars and for 1,200 buses. Seven elegant and improbable Bridges seemingly in Defiance of All Laws of engineering link expo with Seville. One of the Bridges the Barquett reportedly is going in the guinness Book of world records As the longest unsupported Bridge in the world. As a Universal exposition expo is bigger and More important than a world s fair. Expo 92 will be the last time this Century that the nations of the world put their goods in the shop window of a Universal exposition. The next Universal exposition is planned for Hannover Germany in the year 2000. V a restored 15th-Century monastery is the Centrepiece of Spain s display and a focus Point for official activities for the entire exposition. Towers have been erected to hold canopies that will provide Shade outside the . Display. Crossed by Cable cars and surrounded by a Monorail the expo site is a dazzling array of late 20th-Century architecture with which contemporary Spain together with 109 other countries 23 International organizations and nearly 50 giant corporations is promoting itself. Altogether there will be 96 pavilions. This is one less than originally planned because the huge discoveries Pavilion put up by the Spanish organizers burned Down in february but it is still More than any previous exhibition of this kind. The american Pavilion caught by limited appropriations and a drop in the value of the Dollar has been bad mouthed for months by the world s press. Quot we have received so much publicity most of it horrible that everyone will come to see the tragedy a said Bush who s in charge of the american Effort at expo. The american exhibit is fronted by a 300-foot-Long by 30-foot-High Wall of water. It has a courtyard flanked by enormous murals a 153 feet Long by 30 feet High executed by artist Peter Max. Two prefab geodesic domes used in a variety of . Exhibitions Over the past 20 years will House the american Effort. One dome contains an exhibit Complete with a film spotlighting the Bill of rights. A copy of that historic document will be on exhibit. Quot this will be the first time a copy has Ever left the United states a Bush said. The other dome will continually screen a 14-minute movie sponsored by general motors in a 640-seat theater. Quot the film called world song in t about the . It is about life from birth to death and it is very emotional Quot Bush said. Quot we Are going to have a great exhibit that will Surprise a lot of people. It in t just two old  people waiting to enter the . Exhibit will be entertained by More than 2,000 american athletes performing 300 different sports during expo s run. The sports Range from ski Ballet to skateboarding. Additionally the american Effort will feature continued on Page 6 stripes Magazine april 16, 1992