European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 31,1993 the stars and stripes Page 3 at to charges May go up on some ser Ces Short Hills . Customers of at Tus direct service probably will pay More for directory assistance through at to beginning aug. 30, the company has announced. The new Access charges for directory assist Ance will be $2.50 for each Call to the United states and Canadian directory assistance. There Wilt be a $4 charge for directory Calls i Mexico and other countries and areas the com Pany announced. The Federal communications commission must approve the increases. The new charges Are in addition to existing directory assistance prices the company said. Currently customers pay 65 cents for each Cal to . And Canadian directory assistance and $3.00 for each International directory assistance Call. For customers of at to s directory Lin service a charge of $1.25 will be made if an operator completes the Cah and 85 cents if custom ers Complete the  crimes aimed jump 130% from staff and wire reports Wiesbaden Germany crimes against foreign ers in Germany have More than doubled during the first six months of this year a spokesman for the Feder Al office of criminal investigation said Friday we registered 3,365 crimes against foreigners fro january through june of this year. Last year we re corded 1,443 Over the same time period which Means we be had an increase of 130 percent said spokesman Jurgen Stoltenow. L Stoltenow said he could not say How Many of the Vic Tims were americans. My guess is that there Are no american victims he said. The majority of the victims were and will Proba Bly remain in the. Near future turks and citizens of european countries i.e., poles people from former Yugo Slavia albanians and  Stoltenow said most of the attacks cannot be attributed to organized Neo nazi groups. From people we have been Able to apprehend we find they Are not members or even close to Neo nazi groups. But there s a great pathological hate against foreigners that leads them to commit their crimes. The statistics released by the Federal office of Crimi Nal investigation show that the number of attacks on for Eigners have increased sharply in Germany in the two months following passage of a strict anti Asylum Taw that was partly intended to Stop the wave of violence. On May 29, the Day after the Law was passed Youn radicals firebombed a House in Solingen in Northwestern Germany killing five turks. Apparently inspired by the attack Neo nazis launched 76 additional fire bombings in june compared with 33 in  violence has increased during each of the past therelo Riners but if the current trends continue,1993 easily wouldre4ie worst the Asylum Law a ctr we Finto effect july ended. Postwar German tradition of allowing anyone to come into the country and apply for political Asylum and to remain As Long As the application washing considered. Officials had said the Law should defuse xenophobic sentiment while leftist critics charged that it would Only encourage fanatics. The government said Friday that it was too Early to judge the Law s effect. Any crime like this is one crime top Many but i not sure to what extent we can link it to the Asylum Law said Detlev Duke an Interior ministry spokes Man. Under the new Law Asylum seekers who come Byland Are turned Back at the Borders. The Law allows those who arrive by ship or plane to remain  the come from a country regarded As a dictatorship or one that is at  to this report staff writer de Ravia in Darmstadt Germany Friendship write on in spite of some bad Luck by Nancy . Bureau Ickenham England it was Luck that out of thousands of pen pal letters addressed to any Soldier sent to the persian Gulf during operation desert storm staff sgt. Mark Hathcock received one from someone he came to View As a lasting Friend. And it was Luck again when after a break in communication Hathcock located that Friend to Tell her Why his letters had suddenly ceased. Hathcock 36, is a nuclear biological and chemical noncommissioned officer and he wrote regularly Dur ing most of his seven month Gulf assignment to Joyce. Hess a civilian with the  s research development and standardization group in London. Hathcock who was assigned to the 101st air assault div in the Gulf is now with the 25th inf div at Scho Field Barracks in Hawaii. Hess 41, had sent about a half dozen letters to Gulf based service members As part of the operation Brave heart pen pal Appeal. However it was Hathcock wit whom she communicated most often. There were two letters that i could count on get Ting and it was the ones from my family and the ones from her Hess Hathcock said in a Telephone inter View. We weren t getting a lot of news from the out Side and the letters were extremely important. The were real morale  but bad Luck took hold about five months into hath cock s Gulf War assignment when he was wounded in the ankle and Chest while Clearing iraqis from bunkers at an  stopped writing during the time he was Inland out of hospitals. Then when his Squadron was evacuated some of his possessions were lost including Sas Dave 01010 Joyce d. Hess reread a letter from her recently rediscovered pen pal staff sgt Mark Hathcock. V. A paper that contained Hess address and Telephone number. Contacting Hess through directory assistance proved impossible because neither her Home nor he work Telephone number was listed. But Luck returned when Hathcock s missing posses Sions were returned to him and he came across Hess phone number among the belongings. He dialled it. It was 6 05 a.m.," Hess said. The Call was one of the most incredible Calls i had in my life. I said of my god where the hell Are you we talked for nearly an hour. I was  when Hathcock s letters stopped Hess said she Felt Hurt because she had come to think of him As a  considered writing one last letter to say goodbye but i did t want to be a pest or anything Hess said. Hess had concluded that the letters stopped coming because when Hathcock returned Home to his wife and two children he wanted to forget the horrors of the Gulf and everything connected to it. It never occurred to her that he had been wounded she said. The purpose of them letters to any Soldier is for them the troop although you always get a Benefit out if it Rhess said. The Reward for writing to some one like that is that you get to read their letters  get to know a person that you would t have got ten to know otherwise.". Now that the pen pals arc Back in touch they intend to stay in touch Hess said. At the end of this month she will meet Hathcock s brother who lives in Detroit when she visits the United states to see her 19-year-old daughter Kelly Complete Marine Boot Camp. It s Uncertain when Hess will be Able to meet Hathcock and his family because of the distance separating them. Hess and an elderly couple in California Are the Only ones out of his eight Gulf War pen pals Hathcock has t met. I answered All the letters i got and when i got Back to the states i made a Point to see All of them pen pals " Hathcock said. The Only people you see during War Are the people who Are with you the people you live beside and maybe die beside. So anything from the outside was a change. The knowledge that someone gave a Damn really meant  Relief Convoy reaches besieged bosnian town by Chuck Roberts staff writer the nightly Airdrop Mission to former. Yugoslavia was reduced to about half the usual number of planes thursday night because a Convoy of Relief supplies was allowed into Gorade Bosnia and Herze Govina. Bosnian serbs allowed a Convoy of 15 trucks tuesday to deliver 88 tons of food and supplies to Gorade where about 60,000 muslims Are squeezed into a shrinking pocket of squalid living conditions said Lyndall Sachs a spokeswoman for the . High commissioner for refugees in Belgrade Yugoslavia. But even combined with the 208,5 tons of food dropped this week by Allied cargo planes from the United states franc and Germany it s clearly not enough to sustain a population of 60,000," that continues to receive sporadic attacks despite a recent cease fire Sachs said. To meet their most Basic nutritional needs would require a Convoy reaching the town every three Days but prior to tuesday s arrival Only two convoys had arrived in Gorade in the past 21 Days Sachs said. Tuesday s supplies consisted mostly of food but also included plastic sheeting detergent medical supplies and. Shampoo for the treatment of lice. Gorade is without electricity and Gas and Sachs said the water Supply there has dipped so Low that people Are forced to drink polluted River water containing a heavy Lead Content. The appalling living conditions make the people especially vulnerable to sick Ness after nearly Ivi years of sustained serbian attacks Sachs said. In another few months Winter will be another problem for the people of go razed. Only 40 percent of the town s buildings have escaped damage Sachs said. Many of the refugees who fled to Gorade arrived with Only summer cloth ing on their backs and Many Are now without shoes. . Officials worry about future con Voys reaching Gorade because serbs have threatened that Relief supplies will be allowed through Only in Exchange for serbian prisoners Sachs said. She said that will make the role of the Airdrop even More important. I think the Airdrop have been a god Send for the population Sachs said. The Airdrop flights originate from Rhein main a Germany and a Small ceremony was held Friday marking the 10,000th Bun dle of Relief supplies assembled there. Army Parachute riggers . Inspectors and about 18 other people involved in the Airdrop wrote their names in White Chalk on the e bundle that is scheduled to be air dropped next week said staff sgt. Tom Mullican a spokesman at the joint information Bureau at Rhein main