European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes thursday May 21, 1992honeymooning soon North Korea Calls by Elaine Kurtenbach the associated press Pyongyang North Korea a if you re planning a honeymoon and done to know where to go North koreans government has just the tour. In need of hard currency now that neighbouring Russia and China insist on payments in Cash instead of Coal North Korea is hoping to expand its $100 million tourism Industry. The lure a Chance to visit one of the worlds last communist dictatorships for As Little As $723 per newlywed plus air fare. A we have struggled hard to meet the needs of tourists who come to this country a said Kim do Jun director of the Bureau of tourism promotion. Quot we have an ambitious plan to expand the tourism  couples on the Korea International travel bureaus five Day honeymoon tour of Pyongyang get Flowers Champagne and dinner in their room at the 45-Story koryo hotel the koryo s twin towers soar above the Concrete High Rise apartment blocks Granite monuments and wide empty boulevards of the City of 2 million. The hotel has clean spacious rooms courteous service and telephones with International direct dial a most of the time. The tour includes visits to a wedding Hall maternity Hospital and kindergarten. An eight Day honeymoon tour for $945 per person features mount my Ohyang which Means Quot fantastic Fra ranch a romantic supper on a Flower festooned oat a not quite so romantic tour of an irrigation dam and a circus performance featuring boxing bears. Even for honeymooners there a no escaping the presence of president Kim ii Sung. Every visitor is obliged to visit Manyong Dae ten thousand views Hilla Garden housing the tidy farm cottage of Kim a childhood. Many Are taken to Majestic mount a Eketu where the key attraction is the rustic Birthplace of 50-year-old Kim Jong ii the presidents son and designated successor. Other Tours include ancient Buddhist temples beaches hot Spring spas breathtaking Mountain ranges and the ancient capital of Kaeson. Tourism official Kim do Jun said the government plans eventually to allow individual travellers but for now Only group Tours Are available. They include official guide translator watchers who wait in hotel lobbies to guard against any Independent  soldiers not eager to return Home by Terrence Petty the associated press Weimar Germany a Ashot Gevorgian a 24-year-old lieutenant in the former red army misses his parents. And he fondly recalls his grandmothers House on the Black sea. But he still has the going Home blues. Blame it on a fear of falling a getting dumped into the social political and economic turbulence Back in the former soviet Union. A my whole unit is pulling out in just a couple of months a said Gevorgian wearing Roy Orbison shades and civilian clothes while hitchhiking on a Dusty Eastern German Road. A but i would rather stay in Germany and preferably in the Rich Western  Gevorgian a bound from a Garrison outside Weimar to his own at Naumburg a half hour away a has no Choice however. Under a soviet German treaty signed in 1990, every base of the once feared West group of the soviet forces is to be closed by 1994. The grandfathers of these troops rolled across Eastern Germany As conquerors in world War ii. Their fathers earned notoriety by quashing a 1953 workers revolt in East Germany. Now the West groups last generation is beating a dispirited Retreat. Many done to know if they will be mustered out have housing or be Able to find civilian jobs Back Home. They worry about skyrocketing prices too. The sic Sische Zeitung a newspaper in Dresden quotes one officer As saying he stocked up on consumer goods but did no to know if he would have an apartment to put them in when he returned to Russia a who knows maybe ill have to put my television in front of a tent on an open Field a he said. Like Many of those quoted he  give his name. The troops Are uneasy about talking to reporters afraid of getting into trouble. Reporters must file applications to interview soldiers on base the local Garrison insisted. The Garrison ringed by fences and barbed wire sits on a Hill overlooking Weimar. Buchenwald the former nazi death Camp is at the top of the Hill. The Weimar Garrison is scheduled to shut Down by dec. 31, after 47 years. Weeks ago the last tanks clanked Down into the City and were loaded on trains for the trip to Russia. Military trucks with red stars still rumble through Weimar. Officers with peaked Caps hike into Weimar to shop but otherwise there is Little mingling with the locals. Weimar residents say russian officers teen age children walk around town depressed because they have to give up what has been the Good life. German newspapers Tell of despair and ethnic troubles at some garrisons and of break ins by departing soldiers looking for goods to take Home for barter. Of about 555,000 soldiers dependents and civilian workers living in Eastern Germany before unification on oct. 3,1990, some 210,000 have already left. Germany is building apartments for such troops although their number is far Short of what a needed. Russian president Boris  Yeltsin has promised to watch Over the soldiers welfare. But troubles abound. Some soldiers have found themselves posted to Western Siberia where minor disturbances blamed on Bleak living conditions have been reported. Others have wrecked some Barracks in Eastern Germany venting their anger Over an Uncertain future the Sac Sische Zeitung reported. It quoted Andrei an officer based in Sachsen As saying he will have to find a Bridge to sleep under when he gets Home. Gevorgian a half ukrainian half armenian a has a Good thing going in Germany. During his two years in Germany he has bought a video recorder a to set and a camera. He dreams of getting a Bow but his pay Falls far Short of that. Gevorgian earns $368 a month partly subsidized by Germany under the withdrawal treaty. It does no to sound like much. But lieutenants in Ukraine make about $22, and that a quickly swallowed up by Basic living expenses. Enlisted men serving in Eastern Germany earn $15 a month a barely enough to pay for a five minute Telephone Call Home. 55% in poll favor freeze on immigration into . Sacramento Calif. Up More than half of All americans favor a temporary freeze on immigration into the United states according to a nationwide Roper poll. Fifty five percent of those surveyed support such a temporary moratorium except for spouses and minor children of . Citizens until revisions in immigration policies can be made fifty nine percent believe immigration Levels permitted by Law Are too High according to the poll conducted for the federation for american immigration Reform. Currently Federal Laws allow about 700,000 Legal immigrants to enter the country each year. A right now America is unprepared for More immigration a said Helen Graham the fair program director in California. Quot our schools our homeless problems our housing our unemployment our living standards and our deteriorating infrastructure demand a pause a  More than two thirds said it would be important to maintain an immigration freeze until a the Economy was growing and unemployment was Down. A illegal immigration had been brought under control. A there was a Quot significant reduction in the backlog of 2.5 million applications for immigration. A . Population growth had slowed. A with the problem getting worse a moratorium is a reasonable approach a said Alan Nelson former commissioner of the immigration and naturalization service and a consultant to fair. Forty three percent said immigration had become a financial Burden on their state. Half oppose current Laws that automatically Grant . Citizenship to any child born in the United states regardless of whether the parents Are inside the country legally. The poll released tuesday found that 75 percent would support a $2 Border crossing fee to raise Money to beef up Border Security. Most respondents to the Survey favored More Border patrol guards the use of ditches and fences on . Borders and deployment of troops to prevent illegal aliens from entering the nation. 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