European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 26, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 11forest service is smoking Over logo Eugene Ore. A Smokey bears appearance in an environmental groups and Campaign has the . Forest service soldering mad. Americans for the ancient forests broke trademark Laws by using Smokey bears image in newspaper ads that criticize the Agency a logging practices Forest service officials said. The furry firefighting Bear in a rangers hat and dungarees is a protected Symbol to be used Only for fire safety education said Cynthia Orlando spokeswoman for the Willamette National Forest. The environmental group said the constitutions guarantee of free speech allows anyone to use Smokey As Long As his image Isnit used to make Money. The and part of a $1 million to radio and print Campaign in 20 markets nationwide shows a mean looking Smokey holding a Chain saw behind his Back. A say it ainu to so Smokey a the and reads. A a there a a Bear in the Woods. And he a destroying our  a we Felt the Forest service is hiding behind the image of a Friendly looking and Jovial character a said Bob Chlopak the environmental groups director. A unbeknownst to Many people they be destroyed 90 percent of the old growth in this country. As part of the debate Over the Forest service and protecting old growth in this country Smokey is fair  tire Forest service Hasni to decided whether to take Legal action Orlando said. The real Smokey Bear was a Motherless cub found after a 1950 new Mexico Forest fire. He lived at the National zoo in Washington d.c., to the Ripe old age of 26. Relief Crews find Village s pleas exaggerated Kobo Sudan a using their last fragile link with the world the people of this rebel held town in Southern Sudan radioed a Relief Agency in Kenya to say they were starving. Help began arriving last week along with Relief workers who found the situation was not As dire As claimed. Although Kobo was a town in need it was not a disaster area. A they exaggerated the situation both in numbers and seriousness a said Thomas Ekvall head of the  operation lifeline Sudan which coordinates Relief work in Sudan a War torn South. He said the United nations would continue feeding the towns malnourished children and would ship in seeds and fishing tools. But he said it would not need to provide emergency food for the general population As planned. The villagers had radioed that their situation became desperate after the government launched a major offensive in late february and banned Relief flights into Sudan a vast impoverished South. The rebel Sudan Peoples liberation army took up arms in 1983 against the Muslim government seeking greater autonomy and development for Sudan a predominantly Christian and african South. The civil War has disrupted harvests dislocated hundreds of thousands of peo ele and worsened the effects of droughts Illing hundreds of thousands of others. The Rev. John Jock Choi begged for help in his message to the Nairobi Kenya office of the association of Christian resource organizations serving Sudan across. John Jock radioed that his people had eaten All the cattle and a were weak and waiting to die. They look for wild fruit but it is  the sudanese presbyterian minister is Relief coordinator in Kobo for across. His plea was distributed to news agencies in Nairobi to help publicize a food shortage Relief workers say threatens hundreds of thousands of people isolated by the War. Within Days Sudan a government without explanation cased the flight ban and let the United nations Send the Relief flight from Kenya to Kobo. A it is an answer to our prayers a John Jock said after the twin Otter air plane landed in Kobo on tuesday carrying journalists Relief workers and 1,330 pounds of a special food mix for malnourished children. The food was the first of what were to be daily shipments to Kobo. The United nations also plans to assess the needs in nearby what and Nasir the Only other towns to which Khartoum has approved  along the majesty of the seas the worlds largest cruise ship slides into the port of Miami last week. The ship is 880 feet Long is 14 stories tall and can carry More than 2,700 passengers. It was scheduled to be christened today by Queen Sonja of Norway and then begin cruises in the Western  prize pot allows $1 million for each Winner Stockholm Sweden apr the Nobel foundation said it would increase the values of the 1992 Nobel prizes by 8 percent from last year to 6.5 million Kronor. The increase would make the prizes already the worlds richest Worth $1,087 million at the current Exchange rate. But the value could change by dec. 10, when the awards Are Given for achievements benefiting Mankind in literature Medicine physics chemistry economics and contributing to peace or human rights. Last year the Nobel foundation increased the prize value to 6 million Kronor creating the first million Dollar prizes. But by december the value of the Dollar had declined and the prizes were Worth less than $1 million when the recipients got their checks. The Nobel foundation administers a fund created by the will of swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel who died in 1896. The swedish Central Bank funds the economics prizes which began in 1969. The 1992 award increase was made possible by a 6 percent Rise in operating profit on investments particularly in the american Brandywine fund the foundation said. Revenues increased 13 percent to 118.9 million Kronor $19.88 Millionth foundation said. Last december a award ceremonies in Stockholm and in olso Norway Cost More than 2vi times Normal because All living winners were invited to we Klong celebrations of the prizes 90th anniversary. Flora Fauna May suffer when Subic closes Subic Bay naval facilities Philippines apr after decades of trying to get this .-run base the philippine government now fears it cannot protect the Rich Flora and Fauna when it takes full control later this year. The giant naval base includes 24,700 acres of Virgin Forest which is Home to eagles Deer snakes monkeys fruit bats and some of the most expensive philippine Hardwood rarely found elsewhere in the country a 1,700 islands. Last september the philippine Senate refused a new 10-year lease for the base 50 Miles West of Manila. President Cora Zon Aquino ordered the americans to leave by dec. 31. However environment officials fear that one of the last Lowland forests on Luzon Island and its surrounding sea May be destroyed by poachers after the Navy leaves. A what we want to be Able to do is replicate or at least approximate fully what the americans have done a said natural resources Secretary Fulgencio Factor an once an outspoken opponent of the . Military presence. A this is one reason Why our proud people. Will exert More Effort to show everyone it does no to take americans to protect their own forests a Factor an said. But the Philippines record in protecting its once Rich forests gives Little Cau for optimism. Officials said the country a forests have been destroyed at a rate of 2.5 percent annually during the last 20 years three times the worldwide rate for devastation of tropical rain forests. If the trend is not reversed the 2.4 million acres of remaining Virgin forests will be gone within 40 years. Logging has been banned in Virgin forests since january. But the government lacks the resources to enforce the Law in part because powerful politicians and military figures profit from the Timber Industry