European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 18,1993 world the stars and stripes d Page 9 vec or will by Jan m. Olsen the associated press Copenhagen Denmark like Shakespeare s indecisive Hamlet modern Danes Are asking themselves whether to be or not to be part of a closer european Union. Their no last june halted Progress toward giving the european Community a common currency arid citizenship by 1999 As Well As a Central Bank and defense policy. Today the Danes vote again on the same treaty but with exemptions allowing them to opt out of the agreement s major provisions. Britain has postponed its ratification vote in parliament until after the danish referendum and the treaty cannot go into effect unless All 12 Community nations ratify it. Last june s rejection of the treaty hinged on 46,259 ballots less than 1 p recent of the votes. Today s decision by 3.977 million eligible voters 13,000 More than last year because of newly eligible 18-year-Olds could be just As close. Gretic Ingerslev a sales woman who voted no last year fears that the ecu Reau Cracy will interfere with Denmark s social welfare poli cies and that the Trade bloc will become a military Power. But i fear a second rejection will be very harmful for Denmark. Economically. I Don t think we can afford that. I d better vote yes " she said expressing the ambivalence Felt by Many Danes. A recent government report said rejection could Force Den Mark out of the dec or Hurt the Economy and jobs by denying Danes Access to More Liberal Cross Border Trade and financing  last week showed sup port for the treaty hovering at 50 percent or below while the 15 percent of undecided voters shifted slightly toward the opposition which rinsed around 32 to 34 percent. About 5 percent say they won t vote. The treaty failed last year by 50.7 to 49.3 percent. V the no Side argues that the exemptions won in a de Cember dec Summit in Edin Burgh Scotland arc not legally binding. Earlier this month a memo by an dec lawyer saying exemptions Are not legally binding was leaked to the British press. I feel the exemptions Are nothing but a smoke screen the european bureaucrats Are hid ing behind ready to fool us said an opponent Hanna  open murder trial of 2 Neo nazis Michael Peters front and Lars Christiansen sit in the courtroom in Schleswig on monday charged with the murder of three turks last year. Schleswig Germany a two Young extremists described How they joined the Neo nazi right in search of friends and free Beer As they went on trial monday for a triple murder that awoke the country to right Wing violence. Lars Christiansen 19, denies that he threw the fire bombs that killed two turkish girls and a turkish grandmother at their apartment in the North German City of Moellen on nov. 23,1992. Michael Peters 25, has admitted to the attack. Prosecutors say he led a gang that celebrated Adolf Hitler s birthday and was involved in two previous at Finks on Asylum shelters. A both Are charged with three counts of murder at tempted murder and arson and could get life in prison. The attorney for the two girls and a grandmother slain in the firebombing suggested that German society also was on trial for what was Only the most violent of thousands of right Wing attacks Over the past three years. The societal climate in which this series of murder Ous acts has arrived must be discussed Hans Chris Tian Strobele told the court. This Story is not Over he said. You read about new attacks nearly every  the Molln firebombing sparked outrage across the country and vigils Drew hundreds of thousands of peo ple. Before the attack Many germans seemed less schools Parley vows to help Foster parental involvement by Jimi Jones education writer sont Hofen Germany the european con Gress of american parents teachers and students pledged monday to attain and maintain higher Levels of Parent involvement in the department of defense de pendent schools system in Europe. I d like to think that Parent involvement is becom ing More prominent but it s a fact that it s not said David Schwartz president of the 14,000-member group that is part of the National Parent teacher association. Even though Eca pts membership is still Good it does t mean that you have parents in  in the second general session of the Congress four Day annual convention members resolved to establish a standing committee to advise parents How to Foster their children s Success in school and to encourage local groups to establish Parent family involvement committees. Noting research showing that children Are More successful in school when parents Are a part of learning at Home and at school the Resolution cites Parent and family involvement through school Home partnerships As the basis for students attaining full personal and Aca Demic potential. The object of Pat since its inception has been to o get Homes and schools to work together said so Martz in an interview monday. The committee s goal ill be to promote programs already in  Fig program such As families and schools together stand advancement via individual determination Adidas efforts that dictate Parent involve ment Schwartz said Dodds already has great programs. This will be one More Means of urging participation in All those great  while acknowledging the efforts of military overseas schools to get More parents involved Schwartz said he has seen Little improvement. Parents Are too Busy these Days with both working and single parents he said. With societal changes a lot of times it s the children that  for example Latchkey children Are becoming younger and younger according to Schwartz who said about one third of All school aged children an estimated 5 million Between Ages 5 and 13, care for themselves while parents Are at work. Schwartz who is running unopposed for a second term As the Congress presiden said parents must Start to look at their children s education As valuable assets for the future. If you have a drawing for a car or a sporting event where trophies Are Given away you get a lot of people out because it becomes something tangible Schwartz said having children grow up be successful and do something with their lives is something real tangible to me and i think it should be to All parents. That s Why we Felt real Strong about this Resolution. If the Only thing that comes out of these four Days and All the people Here is that at least one child gets a better life then everything we be done will have been Worth  about 180 people arc attending the meeting which runs through thursday. Upset by the violence against foreigners than by the Large influx of Asylum seekers into the country. The German government which had been accused of leniency began a crackdown on the Radical right. But the violence has  600 far right attacks were reported in the first Quarter of this year compared to 472 in the last year according to the Federal office for the Protection of the Constitution. More than 2,200 attacks were recorded in 1992, with 17 deaths. As the trial open off authorities reported that rightist skinheads raided a Home for Asylum seekers in Arns Berg Central Germany on sunday night. An albanian suffered critical head wounds and another was seriously injured. In opening testimony Christiansen a supermarket clerk claimed that he sought out Neo nazis in 1988 be cause he had no other friends and wanted to provoke his parents. He said he jettisoned his extremist beliefs before the Molln firebombing. I am not a Neo nazi and Fin also not a perpetrator of violence said Christiansen who claims he was pressured into making a false confession after his arrest. A scrawny Man with a perpetual scowl Peters said he had decorated his apartment with knives a pistol and anti foreigner posters and during Drunken week end meetings with other extremists sometimes gave the stiff armed Hitler  German police break up Gypsy demonstration Berlin up police used Force sunday to prevent about 200 gypsies who were protesting the world War ii deportation of gypsies from occupying a nazi concentration memorial in Hamburg a police spokesman  officer was injured in the Melee As the gypsies used extreme violence to try to break through a police cordon around Hamburg s Neue Ganime concentration Camp memorial the spokesman  gypsies members of the Roma National Congress announced this month that they planned to occupy the memorial sunday to Mark the 53rd anniversary of the deportation of Ham Burg s gypsies by nazi authorities to concentration Camps. The inc said the Neue Gamme site was to be used As a Refuge for gypsies treated with expulsion from contemporary Germany to the former Yugoslavia and Eastern  authorities had banned the planned occupation. Tens of thousands of gypsies were killed in nazi concentration Camps during the third Reich. French Painter Dies at 88 Paris a edouard Pignon a Miner s son who became one of France s Foremost painters has died. He was 88. A Friend of Pablo Picasso Pignon tried his hand at sculpture and theatrical design As Well As painting. His Post cubist works Are displayed at leading Art museums in London new York Paris and elsewhere