European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday june 2. 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3mcdonald s gets on Board with Swiss Between Monteux and Lausanne Switzerland apr Heidi ate a big Mac As the Alps whizzed past on the inaugural run sunday of a new Mcdonald a venture dining cars on the Swiss railroads. Quot we planned our trip so that we could be on the first train a said Heidi Keller of Thun Switzerland. A a it a Quot its just like the regular Mcdonald a without the playground said her husband Marco. Their son Pascal 6, and daughter Lenny 4, looked up with shy smiles from their Happy meals. Prize of the Day bicycle horns. Two specially built red dining cars embossed with the trademark Golden Arches spiced up the dark Green trains one on the route from Basel in the North to Geneva in the Southwest and the other on the Geneva Brig run past Lausanne and Monteux on Lake Geneva. A Dixieland band accompanied by the Mcdonald creatures Grimace and Birdie played at Geneva main station for arrivals Ana departure of the train. Each car makes two round trips a Day. The Geneva Brig car on a lightly travelled train sunday morning stayed about three quarters full. Hostess Laurence Fischer and conductors said they had no complaints about the Lack of regular Swiss food even though there had been some Advance press criticism of the cuisine. There arc tables and counters in the dining cars but passengers can take their food to their seats in the regular cars. As a feature for the environmentally conscious Swiss employees push Green trash carts up and Down the train to collect refuse for recycling. The employees also Are on constant cleanliness patrol in the dining car and even Stop to polish the brass lid on the trash barrel. Mcdonald a has built a Chain of restau rants in 16 Swiss cities since it first opened in Geneva in 1976. The train menu is slightly Shorter than usual owing to a Lack of space for equipment. By there is the addition of red and w Hite w Ine from the shores of Lake Geneva and Swiss Beer on tap. The prices arc the same As in other Swiss Mcdonald a restaurants but they May seem a Little Steep because of the Strong Swiss franc and weak Dollar. A hamburger costs 2.70 Swiss francs about $ 1.80a big Mac 5.30 francs $3.53 and six Chicken my nuggets 4.70 53.13 .19 merchants branches to close for meetings Frankfurt Germany a Nineteen merchants National Bank branches will close for business because of staff meetings wednesday. All other branches will remain open. Most of the All Day closures will occur in the German state of Hessen to include the Abrams Complex shopping Center and Frankfurt army Hospital branches in Frankfurt Wolfgang Pioneer and Fliege Horst branches in Hanau Hai Newberg Wiesbaden a and Lindsey air station branches in Wiesbaden Kelley Barracks and Cambrai Fritsch Cavern branches in Darmstadt Karlstedt bad Hersfeldt Kirch Gons Giessen Fulda Bremerhaven and binding in. The Garmisch Branch will be closed for two hours. Bank officials Are urging customers to use their Green machine cards to conduct business wednesday in areas affected by the closures. French smokers to find pack of prohibitions with new Law Paris up a it will be open season on French smokers starting dec. 1 when a Law takes effect prohibiting smoking in Public areas and the workplace. But the Law does allow for designated smoking zones that must follow strict ventilation guidelines. The Law recently signed by 17 ministers and secretaries of state Calls for fines of up to 600 francs about $110 for those who smoke outside designated areas and stiff sanctions of up to 3,000 francs about $554 to be imposed on institutions where the smoking areas do not conform to health guidelines. There will be no smoking on Public transportation in the Paris Region in the bar cars of National trains in train stations and in the corridors of subway stations. Restaurant and cafe owners must decide on the proportion of smoking to non smoking scats. According to a poll published in october 1991, 77 percent of the French were against no smoking Laws in restaurants. French health minister Bernard to Uchner said he was not trying to make a a Law for civil War but was trying instead to a Are establish Courtesy and conviviality Between smokers and with 40 percent of the population declared smokers France is one of the european Community countries where the nicotine vice is most widespread and costly in terms of smoking related death. About 54,000 people die in France each ear trom causes related to smoking. Arafat stable after brain surgery Eastern German phones shift to in country prefix Bonn Germany a amps a Telephone customers in Western Germany no longer can Call Eastern Germany using the old �?o0037�?� country prefix according to Tele Kom the National Telephone Utility. Tie change went into effect monday. New Domestic prefixes beginning with �?o03�?� took effect for Eastern German communities april 15. Tele Kom allowed the old East German country code to remain valid until this week to give customers with automatic dealing equipment additional time to reprogram their telephones. Tele Kom recently published and distributed a new directory of All City prefixes throughout the country. Until july 22, callers outside Germany can use the �?o0037�?� code to reach Points in Germany a five new Eastern set to install 21 St theater commander Kaiserslautern Germany a amps it. Gen. William g. Pagonis will take command of the 21st i neater army area come from it. Gen. Paul g. Cerjan on wednesday afternoon at the 29th area support group motor Pool by Danner Cavern Here. Pagonis 51, was previously the Deputy commander of the army Materiel come in Alexandria a. He takes Over from Cerjan who has commanded the 21st since she april 22 retirement of it. Gen. Wiliam s. Flynn the command Marks Pagonis third tour in Europe and his second with the 21st. The 2 pm. Change of command ceremony will be officiated by Gen. Crosbie e. Saint commander of the . Army Europe. Two pairs a winning hand for four israeli soldiers Jerusalem apr twin israeli soldiers will marry twin israeli soldiers this week a newspaper reports eyelet and Galit Tal 20-year-old Sisters will marry Ofir and Ronen Goldstein 24, on june 11 in a double ceremony in Tel Aviv the israeli newspaper Maranv said sunday the Brothers serve in the army As electronic engineers and the Sisters As mechanical engineers the paper Amman Jordan a Plo chairman Yasser Arafat underwent surgery monday to remove blood clots from his brain caused by injuries sustained in an april plane crash in the libyan desert doctors said. Or. Youssef sous director of medical services at the King Hussein medical Center said the 62-Ycar-old Arafat was conscious and a in a Good stable condition after the 90-minute operation performed by jordanian doctors. Sous said the Leader of the Palestine liberation organization underwent tests at the Hospital sunday after complaining of recurrent headaches. Doctors detected a subdural Haematoma or a clot caused by bleeding in the brain. They told Arafat he would have to undergo surgery. A it was not a life threatening situation a sous insisted. He said that in the plane crash Arafat suffered a Quot severe head bump that caused bleeding in his brain. A when we opened the Skull today we found a collection of blood clots which were All successfully removed a sous said. He said that when Arafat regained consciousness his first request was for a Glass of water. Arafat was in intensive care after the surgery sous said. Although the palestinian Leader had been advised he needed surgery he decided to postpone the operation until after a visit to Iraq. He left the jordanian capital by car at 9 . Monday but Felt severe pains in his head before reaching the Border and was rushed Back to Amman. The surgery was performed about noon sous and palestinian officials a cinch with swivel hips Katsumi Matsushita an employee of Mitsubishi motor corp., shows off his idea of the perfect car during Mitsubishi a idea olympics in Okazaki Japan on sunday. Matsushita designed an electric car with a rear drive that can revolve 180 degrees making it easier to Park in a Small space
