European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday August 13,1993 Rush Limbaugh coming to an officials seek ways to add talk show Host to lineup by Craig Martin staff writer Rush Limbaugh fans May get some version of the radio program by their favorite talk show icon on the american forces network. If his stateside ratings climb an viewers May be Able to see what All the hype and hoopla Are about on his to show too. The armed forces radio and television service the Parent organization of an is looking at ways to air Limbaugh s controversial radio program after studying his ratings and receiving a few letters from patrons of an and its sister network in the Pacific the far East network. Quo some congressional representatives have also writ ten said Gerry fit arts director of programming. A this numbers Are such that we would apply the same criteria that we do any other show/1 Fry said in a Tele phone interview from los Angeles. A right now his television show rated him As number six. We carry the top  Meg Jaworowski spokeswoman for the 80-member Rush Limbaugh fan club based in Frankfurt Germany said Fry is misrepresenting those numbers. A Rush is a late night talk show Host a she said thursday. A they the ratings firms Nielson and Arbitron Are rating his to program against daytime shows like Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue. He son late at  a a Rafn carries both of these a she said. Some of the criteria that arts uses in deciding whether to get a show Are a does it provide a balanced format a is it popular t Limbaugh a radio program has High enough ratings to be carried by the network but because it airs for three hours weeknights in the United states broadcasting his conservative viewpoint becomes More difficult Fry said. Quot we just done to carry that kind of programming a Fry said wednesday. A except for sports events we rarely a we Are still trying to figure out a Way on radio to get some kind of representation of his show on the air. We can to devote three hours a Day five Days a week for his radio program a Gerry Fry arts director of programming interrupt our Channel for three hours of programming. Its simply too interrupt Ive for other folks fio done to want us to carry that program for whatever Pai titular reason. / a we Are still trying to figure out a Way on radio to get some kind of representation of his show on the air. We can to devote three hours a Day five Days a week for his radio program. A we re hoping we can find a Shorter version. Perhaps a once a week version if we can work with his ners from Turkey kurd official says by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau foreigners should avoid Turkey a spokesman for various kurdish groups said wednesday a Day after kurdish guerrillas released their last two Western hostages. They should stay away because the rebels Are target ing the country s tourist Industry said Vianar Bogir a spokesman for the Kurdistan information Center in London. Bogir added that the rebels have issued no exemptions for . Service members stationed in Turkey. The warning followed the release tuesday of British ctr oleum Engineer David Rowbottom and his austra Ian Cousin Tania Miller who were abducted july 5. The kurdish workers party rebels freed four frenchmen a Day earlier. The Center represents various kurdish groups ranging from the banned marxist kurdish workers party known As pkg to the democratic labor party which has 18 representatives in that country a parliament. Turkish officials earlier identified the released frenchmen As Michel Coudray Robert Baudouin Fernand Haron and Pierre fix. The . Embassy in Ankara Turkey issued an information Sheet late last month detailing the violence Between kurd and turkish authorities in 1992 and 1993 e in june pkg members allegedly detonated four bombs in Antalya wounding. 26 people including German tourists. A grenade was discovered buried at a Public Beach near Izmir in july according to the information Sheet. The document followed an earlier july warning by . Military officials in Ankara advising service members and their families to avoid unessential travel in Southeastern Turkey. The pkg views an area of Eastern Turkey As Northwestern Kurdistan. The group is battling to unite the regions 12 million kurd with others who live in Iraq Syria and Iran. From its beginnings in the mid-1980s, the pkg has grown from a few Hundred fighters to a Force of 3,000 to 5,000, according to the Wall Street journal. Armed conflicts Between pkg forces and turkish Security forces in Turkey and Northern Iraq have killed More than 6,000 rebels soldiers and civilians according to the newspaper the european. Bogir said nearly 18,000 people have died As a result of the fighting. Pkg guerrillas released their French hostages in Exchange for the halt 6f a recent military offensive by turkish troops the associated press reported. Turkish officials who have said they would not negotiate with terrorists would not comment on whether concessions were made according to the wire service. Folks to do that for us. We  want to select the material for the program. That a Why we would want his people to do  some 40 members of the fan club in May launched a letter writing Campaign aimed at. Forcing an officials to air Limbaugh. The letters were hand delivered to col. Zachary Fowler who commanded an in Frankfurt until May 20. Fowler told the group that he would take the letters to arts officials. Fry said he has received about four phone Calls since May and three or four letters from an and Fen patrons. A a a couple of the letters had three or four signatures on them representing More than one person a Fry said. He said he had seen letters to the editor in the european and Pacific editions of the stars and stripes advocating the airing of Limbaugh a programs on arts. A we have received a couple of tetters from senators or congressmen. That will be handled by our Washington office at the american forces information service a Fry said. Afis oversees  said Limbaugh a radio show is available worldwide on Short wave radio. It can be picked up on 15.420 Megahertz from 6 . To 9 . Central european time tuesday through saturday said Manny Levy another official at arts. However Jaworowski said the show can to be picked up on Short wave radio. A a we be heard reports that people have tried to pick him up in Europe and they be been unsuccessful a she said. Down and out in Moscow two homeless intoxicated muscovites sleep on the pa1 mint in downtown Moscow on monday while passers pay Little attention to them. Economic disarray and i collapse or the soviet Union have led to a dramatic crease in the number of beggars and homeless in Russi Quot. Crease in the number or beggars and homeless in re 3rd inf div troops to Anchor Kuwait exercise by the stars and stripes the 30-Day exercise is part of a series can Bavaria. Two tank commie it ant by the stars and stripes troops from the 3rd inf div in Ger by will make up the bulk of a 1,500-Soldiek task Force deploying to Kuwait this month for military exercises army officials announced late thursday. The battalion task Force will begin deploying Over the next three weeks to conduct exercise intrinsic action 93-3, according to a statement by the . Army Europe. The 30-Day exercise is part of a series of ongoing . Exercises in the Region said Millie j. Waters a spokeswoman for the army in Europe. It is intended to test rapid deployment a a contingency operations in the persian Gulf and will allow soldiers to practice using . Equipment repositioned in the Region the statement said. The 3rd inf div is based in Wurzburg and has soldiers stationed across North Ern Bavaria. Two tank companies and one mechanized infantry company along Vuithi support soldiers from division units Are scheduled to deploy. The release did not identify units. Green berets from the 5th special forces group at fort Campbell ky., will also be among the 1,500 soldiers in the  3rd inf div task Force will deploy from Germany without its vehicles and equipment. The troops will pick Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting it cles that Are stored in the Region. The training is a intended to Furt exercise and demonstrate United St commitment to the Security and Stabi of the persian Gulf Region a statement said. The . Central come response for . Forces in the Middle East i charge of the exercise