European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 6 the stars and stripes world monday november 23, 1992 peace corps reaches Russia with message of capitalism Moscow up a group of 100 american business managers accountants lawyers and Bankers arrived in Russia on saturday to teach capitalism As the first . Peace corps volunteers in the country. T he group will split into two parts for a three month crash course in russian language and culture in Saratov in the Volga Region and Vladivostok in the far l ast and then spread out to share their business skills with russians struggling to adapt to a Market Economy. At the request of the russian government volunteers were chosen for their experience and skills in business As a result the group is vastly different from the common image of Young peace corps volunteers sent off to developing countries to design irrigation systems or help Farmers. Officials said two thirds of the group members have master s degrees in business administration and All have practical experience in business. The average age is 41. Must of the volunteers have Long business careers behind them and several arc at or Well past retirement age. It was just a Chance to come and do something new and interesting a said Roger Dennis 48, who along with his wife Ruth Rouse left jobs House car and family in san Jose calif., for the two year stint in Russia. A it seemed like there was a real need Here to get business going Quot added Dennis who said he had 15 years experience in administration and consulting for widely varying businesses As Well As a background in computers. Asked what he worried about coming to Russia he replied Quot cold showers Quot and then went on to describe ideas for simple individual water Heaters to combat the problem of frequent cutoffs of the centralized hot water system. Rouse 51, said she had been a peace corps Volunteer in Costa Rica in the 1960s after getting a degree in economics from Stanford University in Stanford conn., but for most of the group the two years in a foreign country was to be a new adventure. �?o1 came to Russia last year for 10 Days As a tourist but i wanted to get an understanding beyond that a said Alida Buchanan 48, a lawyer from Oakland calif., who left a Job at Bank of America to join the peace corps. Quot this is a unique the volunteers will be provided with housing a most often with russian families a health care and a minimum living stipend for the two years they spend in Russia. Sound of Money Andre Hamlet mayor or , France puts his tigers in his cars As a jetliner prepares to land saturday at the nearby Airport that serves Marseille. After a 13-year court Battle the Small town in Southern France won compensation of 4.5 million francs about $840,000 from Airport authorities. Residents complained about the noise made by the 140 planes that Fly Over the town for landings or takeoffs each Day. Avalanche kills 7 skiers in France \ at. Thorns France apr two British students and an australian classmate were among seven kiets killed in a Snow Avalanche at this ski resort police said sunday. Roderick Arkell 22, of Tyne and Wear and Christopher Maxwell 21, of Bristol died along with classmate Pierce Kiteley 21, an australian whose family lives in Hong Kong in the Accident saturday. The three were students at the National Institute of applied sciences in Velleu Rhuanne a suburb of Lyon police said. Also among the dead were dutch nationals Roberts Yolk and Hurin and la Kadari s son Abdnour Medhi 12. No other details were available. The other victim was Olivier Pons a Frenchman in his 20s, police said. Three people suffered injuries. The seven were killed when they were swept away in an Avalanche that tumbled Down the Mountainside at this resort in the Southern French Alps. Police were investigating w Hether the Snow slide was an Accident of nature or caused by someone skiing off of marked trails. Resort officials ruled out a lapse of Security noting there has never been an Avalanche in that area in the 20 years since the resort was built. The resort co hosted the menus slalom event at the Winter olympics in february Senate Mia searchers wind up Vietnam probe from wire reports to Chi Minh City Vietnam a a group led by two . Senators visited a prison saturday in search of clues to the Fate of missing american servicemen then ended their groundbreaking visit to Vietnam. They had unprecedented cooperation from vietnamese officials eager to renew ties with Washington Sens. John f. Kerry d-mass., and Thomas a. Daschle d-s.d., were making the last major trip of the Senate select committee on pow Mia affairs before its final report due next to face Spassky Budapest Hungary a sixteen year old chess Whiz Judit Polgar the worlds top woman player will play a $200,000 match against Boris Spassky starting Jan. 31, hungarian Media reported saturday. The daily quoted chess organizer Janos Kubat As saying the two had agreed on a 12-game match with the Winner to get $120,000. Kubat an ethnic hungarian yugoslav organized the recent highly publicized $5 million rematch Between Spassky 55, and old rival Bobby Fischer. Fischer won the match held in Yugoslavia. Kubat said the first six games of the Polgar Spassky match also would be played in Yugoslavia in the serbian City of Novi Saa. He said the remaining six games would be played in stages Parade Beirut Lebanon a Lebanon a country with nearly 90 percent of its territory controlled by foreign armies on sunday celebrated the 49th anniversary of its Independence with a rain soaked military Parade through the War ruined capital. Winds howled and Thunder boomed As a 21 gun Salvo was fired amid Shell shattered buildings to Start the Parade at the museum crossing once a Gauntlet of death Between the City a christians and muslims. During the 1975-90 civil War thousands of people were killed by sniper fire and shelling in the no Many stand that divided the president 71, Dies Bangkok Thailand a president Kaysone Phomvi Hanc of Laos who led the communist revolution in the tiny landlocked nation Defeated Cia supported armies and toppled a centuries old monarchy died saturday. He was 71. A government announcement of Kaysone a death was issued in the laotian capital Vientiane saying the former revolutionary Leader had been seriously ill. It did not specify the cause of death. Kaysone who was born dec. 13,1920, served As prime minister of Laos from the communist takeover in 1975 until August 1991, when he was named president by the National condom shop opens i Dublin Ireland a Ireland s first condom shop j opened saturday taking advantage of an easing of restrictions on sales to offer More than 200 varieties j of the contraceptive devices. Condom Power in Dublin a Funky Temple bar j area did about $20 Worth of business in the first hour said owner Jacqui Power. Quot we re trying to make it fun. The idea is keep it clean and fun a said Power a 33 Mother of two. Quot in be wanted to open a Long time ago so As soon As the legislation was changed i jumped into an amendment to the family planning act earlier this year allows condoms to be sold in retail outlets. Previously they were Only available from clinics doctors or in radicals in Berlin rally against skinhead attack apr leftist radicals rallied in Berlin on sunday after right Wing it Kutu stabbed a Man to death in a Beilin subway station Friday. During the weekend left Wing and right Wing gangs dulled with knives baseball bats flare guns and rocks in at least five German towns while rightists continued to assault foreigners in several others More than a dozen people were serious Hurt and 25 arrested Durine melees that included subway knifing a Street rumble two bar brawls the siege of a left Wing commune and random attacks on unlucky passers by and their ears. More than 2,000 leftists marched through Berlin on sunday to denounce the stabbing death of a 2&Quot?-year-old compatriot during a fight Between Neo nazi it and anarchists late Friday night in an East Berlin subway station. Police said they made an unspecified number of arrests on weapons charges during the otherwise peaceful March. Two other leftists remained hospitalized with Stab wounds sustained during the fight which was followed hours later by a riot by do left wingers who pelted police with rocks and set carnage containers on tire. Quot the Leader of Cion Cynor Helmut Kohl s parliamentary faction Christian Democrat Jurgen Ruttgers s us new Evi Dence shows leftists and rightists Are increasingly mobilizing for showdowns with each other. The image of Quot Ghrist and leftist thugs brawling in to a reets has prompted some comment ors to compare Germany a government to Thi doomed Weimar Republic the pos world War i democracy that collapse amid extremist Street chaos that Adol Hitler Rode to Power
