European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a the stars and stripes sunday june 7, 1992big Apple ready to do Battle for . Hamburg Germany apr the big Apple is. Apple strudel maybe. Germany has been pretty bold about trying to induce some . Agencies to leave new York City for quaint Little Bonn. Well enough s enough. New York mayor David Dinkins and his staff on a european Jaunt to drum up investment quietly acknowledged Friday that they wont let those agencies go without a fight. Deputy mayor Barry Sullivan says the City has been looking at ways to keep the . Affiliates Happy even if it Means Matching Bonne a financial inducements. A if it comes Down to that and we can offer a Good rate of return that a something we May have to do a Sullivan Deputy mayor for finance and economic development said following a news conference in this German port City. A we re going to do what we can to keep them there a he said. Dinkins and his staff have been playing Down the Issue during their three Day visit to Germany the third leg of a european tour touting new York As a Good place for foreign investment. But looming in the background is Germany a recent offer to pay an estimated 300 million Marks $187.5 million to bring to Bonn the . Development program the fund for population activities and the development fund for women. Parliament decided after German unification to move the seat of government to Berlin the new capital which Means tiny Bonn will be left with empty government buildings and a huge economic chasm. Germany says those agencies could mean 2,000 new jobs in Bonn in addition to the 1,330 people already work ing at the . Affiliates a we feel pretty confident that we can make our Case to keep things there in new York a Dinkins said at the news conference. A we have a Long term and Short term  Sullivan was More Blunt. A we have to keep the United nations agencies a Sullivan said. A a we have to do More persuasive Job than Bonn. Germany is a serious contender. We feel that Well do that but its by no Means  Sullivan downplayed the possibility that new York will get into a bidding War with Germany an economic powerhouse that is nevertheless strapped with the costs of unification. A its possible but i done to think it will come to that a Sullivan said. Afterwards he said if new York is successful in keeping the agencies it will have to think about expanding the relatively Small area on 42nd Street to accommodate the agencies growing global influence. The Trade delegation to Germany followed meetings with business leaders in France and Britain. Dinkins and company met with Hamburg officials on Friday and were to return Home on saturday Dinkins has been trying hard to change negative european impressions about new York City As a place beset by crime and racial turmoil a task made harder by the Urban unrest that followed the acquittal of los Angeles police officers in the videotape beating of Motorist Rodney g. King. Dinkins who has been praised for his role in keeping new York relatively Calm took pains to separate the City from other Urban areas. He said the fact that new York was spared such violence has been pointed out to business and government leaders on his  starts 6-month Solo Row across Pacific Vladivostok Russia up a British adventurer Peter Bird hoping to end a simmering controversy Between his countrymen and their traditional French rivals embarked on a six month single handed Row across the Pacific Ocean Friday aiming his Craft toward san Francisco a Golden Gate Bridge. The Effort which Bird Cla Tus will be the first True sin Gle handed crossing of the Pacific came eight months after Frenchman Gerard do above Lac made a single handed crossing from Japan to the coast of Oregon. In 1982 Bird Ringlehan Dudly rowed from san Francisco to a crash Landing on australians great Barrier reef. A this will end All questions Over who did this first a a Frenchman or an englishman a said Bird. A a do above Lac claims that i did not make the crossing because i did not make landfall in Australia. I claim he did not make a True crossing because he started in Japan and not on the Asia land  the 45-year-old adventurer has been in Vladivostok for the last month preparing his boat and waiting for a Cyclone in nearby Peter the great Gulf to Clear out. He also has had to Deal with the conditions in Vladivostok a no hot water and having to fill his 109-gallon fresh water tanks one bucket at a time. On Friday at 3 40 . Local time Bird overcame one last obstacle finding an official to stamp his passport to leave. Having accomplished that he cased his 29-foot High tech Rowboat out of the Waters of Golden Horn Harbor. Bird will Row Between 8 and 10 hours a Day Over the next six months and keep try of his course by using a satellite tracking system. He also will carry a portable phone and a radio to help with the thousands of hours he will be alone. While being alone for a Long time May be undesirable to Many Bird says he does no to mind. "1 really never found it a problem to be alone a Bird said. A a it a much different than say being alone on the streets of san Francisco on Christmas eve. In Malone out there by my own Choice. Hungarian restaurant returning to glory Days Budapest Hungary a it was an institution in prewar Central Europe an elegant restaurant catering to clientele such As Charlie Chaplin Thomas Mann Edward Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson. But like Many of the regions glories state ownership under communist Rule turned Budapest s Gundl restaurant into a sad Shadow of itself. Communism is out however and a six month $15 million face lift by two wealthy americans is an example of what can happen when the difficult process of privatization works. A what you see Here today is a dream in be had most of my adult life Quot said Ronald Lauder heir to a . Cosmetics Empire. A your goal is to make Gundl the finest restaurant not Only in Central Europe but in the  the new Gundell a polished Wood Gilt inlays use of brass and textiles and soft Green Art Nomraz lighting transports visitors Back in time. Lauder a partner is hungarian born George Lang a violinist who found work in restaurant kitchens when he arrived in new York in 1946 and worked his Way up to manager of the famous four seasons restaurant. �?�1 want to bring Back old dishes Quot Lang said launching into a mouthwatering description of the possibilities. They include fillet of Fogash with ragout of crayfish a la Gundl an 18th-Century recipe for sauerkraut baked with Catfish and fish sausage variations on hungarian Goose liver and hand pulled strudel. The restaurant he pledged will be to a give people what they want to make them feel wanted  Quot once they enter Here they Are Kings Queens tycoons a he said. Those who have Money that is. At a Cost of about 3,000 forints $37 per meal Gundl is out of reach for most hungarians. But it is Well within the reach of Budapest a Many Western visitors and a Small but growing number of hungarians who Are doing Well. Karoly Gundl opened his restaurant in the City Park on the pest Side in 1910, and it fast became a Choice for Europe a Rich and famous. Gundl was nationalized by the communists in 1949. Despite hosting such notables As sir Georg Solti Luciano Pavarotti and Henry Kissinger since it was mostly downhill. Crumbling plaster and worn furniture spoke of better Days. Its past glories however lived on in the memories of those who had dined there. Quot i was about 15 years old when 1 first visited Gundel Quot Lauder said. A i had first heard about it from my grandparents. Over the years 1 came Back to Gundel Many times hoping it d be like the Way my grandparents described it. I always believed one Day it would be the w a it was a Lang met Lauder one Day in a new York restaurant and sketched out on a Napkin his ideas for restoring Gundel. They formed a partnership in 1990, bought Gundel from the hungarian government for $8 million and invested another $7 million to gut and rebuild it Lang also has bought a 58-acre Vineyard in Hungary a famous Tokay Region to Stock his wine cellar. The Kitchen is state of the Art. It bakes its own bread smokes its own Salmon and makes its own ice Cream. A heated elevator takes the food to guests upstairs where rooms furnished with Queen Anne period pieces await. The staff of 150 was retained but Given intensive language courses in English and German and were taught the finer Points of How to make every guest feel special. Top Honor a amps gory Miller Christopher a Curtin receives the Eagle scout award from Fleet air Mediterranean commander rear adm. Daniel t. Oliver during an Eagle court of Honor at the naval support activity Chapel in Naples Italy on Friday. Curtin smother Gail assists in the presentation. Curtin a member of Naples troop 007 since 1989, organized a Christmas toy drive for needy americans and italian orphanages As his Eagle project. French town bans . Sex thriller Paris apr the american hit film Basic instinct has spawned a debate Between culture minister Jack Lang and the mayor of a Small French town Over Basic freedoms of expression and creativity. Lang on Friday condemned the Banning of the erotic thriller by Jeanne Briand 68, who feared the erotic thriller would corrupt her town of Les Herbie about 230 Miles Southwest of Paris. Briand has not seen the movie but a i View in a Christian Magazine caused her believe its release in Les Berbiers a Woi release a sickness in the Community s said. Lang said he is concerned about Frt Dom of expression and creativity