European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 12 the stars and stripes sunday november 7,1993 georgian troops retake Stockholm Weimar to Host 98, 99 festivities Brussels Belgium apr spotlights will be turned on Stockholm Sweden and Weimar Germany at the end of the decade As capitals of european culture european Community culture ministers agreed Friday. Ministers of the dozen nations chose the swedish capital As european City of culture for 1998, and picked Weimar to succeed it in 1999. The ministers asked three cities to work out a Way to share the title for a cultural splash in the year 2000 Bologna Italy the scat of on of Europe a oldest universities Prague czech Republic borne to novelist Franz Kafka and the melting pot of Central european culture in the 18th and 19th centuries and Avignon France the City of pones and site  yearly theater festival. The German Deputy foreign minister Ursula Seiler Albring said she was pleased with Weimar a nomination because it would highlight the cultural life of the former East Germany hidden from the West for four decades. Weimar in Southern cast Germany is the Home of Clas 19t Sical German literature and its Early 19th-Century stars to Gen Hann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller. Weimar was also the Cradle of modern architecture with its famed bauhaus school founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919. Stockholm was chosen to highlight Northern Europe dec officials said. The City a Best known inhabitant is film maker Ingmar Bergman but it was also Home to playwright August Strindberg in the 1870s and for 15 years before his death in 1914. Sweden is not yet a member of the european Community but negotiations Are under Way to bring Sweden into the Trade bloc by 1995. This years culture capital is Antwerp a port City in Belgium a dutch speaking Region of Flanders the Home of 17th-Century Painter Peter Paul Rubens and dozens of his contemporaries in the flemish school. Lisbon Portugal has the title next year to be followed by Luxembourg in 1995 the danish capital of Copenhagen in 1996, and Salonika Greece in 1997. Great View but no parking a converted victorian fort in the English Channel with its own Lighthouse and helicopter pad has been sold after the asking Price was Cut by nearly $6.25 million. Built in the 19th Century to keep the French away the Garrison held up to 400 men and had 49 Large cannons. It was bought by a Developer who converted it into luxury housing accommodations. The final Price is believed to be just Over is million. From wire reports Tbilisi Georgia a georgian government forces marched into the rebels last remaining stronghold saturday meeting no resistance after rebel units fled from the town officials said. The georgian forces who appeared until recently to be losing control of much of the country have turned the civil War in their favor with the assistance of russian troops and weapons. Zug Didi a town in Western Georgia was the Power base of rebels fighting against georgian Leader Eduard a. Shevardnadze to restore the Rule of ousted president Oviad k. Gamsa Hurdia. Georgian defense ministry spokesman Gina Chiovani said that government forces entered Zug Didi without a fight in the Early afternoon. Rebel units had earlier abandoned the City of 50,000, he said. Vatican deficit to jump Vatican City a the Vatican on saturday forecast a $26 million operating deficit for 1994, a tenfold i increase Over the last approved budget in 1992. The holy see attributed the jump to the need to finance a pension fund instituted two years ago for Vatican employees and to currency fluctuations. The Vatican said it would rely on the surplus earned in the running of the Vatican City state and increased contributions from dioceses to make up the deficit. Paris strike aids parking Paris a already inventive in finding parking places parisian motorists Are losing their last inhibitions thanks to a strike by the French capitals meter maids. The strike is costing the City of Paris an estimated $178,000 a Day but improving a Boon to motorists free to double Park and Block driveways with relative impunity. The meter maids dubbed a a periwinkles Quot after their sky Blue uniforms walked off the beat tuesday and Are vowing to stay out until at least nov. 17 unless their demands Are met. They want Protection against being insulted spat upon and assaulted plus child care and transport bonuses to augment poor wages a $1,000 a month for rookies. N. Korea alarms neighbors Yongju South Korea a the leaders of Japan and South Korea meeting for the first time on saturday expressed mounting concerns Over North koreans nuclear program and sought to overcome their nations bitter historical differences. Japanese prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa in icle. Pm Ines Quot nation inflicted on tens of thousands of koreans the clearest such statement by a japanese Leader apologized for the Quot unbearable sufferings Quot his during Japan a 1910-1945 colonial Rule. Hosokawa a apology was unlikely to satisfy koreans. But South korean president Kim y Sam called it Quot satisfying Quot and urged koreans to put historical bitterness behind them. Many dung dutch trying to dispose of waste problem dorms the Hague Netherlands apr renowned for being Thrifty with their Cash the dutch Are being asked to be just As frugal with their trash. Environment minister Hans Alders last week gave the Green Light for municipalities to charge residents individually or by family for the amount of trash carted away. A local authorities can set fees per household based on the number of garbage bags left out for collection or by total trash weight. The most densely populated nation in Europe the Netherlands has a huge trash disposal problem that has Given a major impetus to the recycling Industry. Quot we want people to think twice before they throw recyclable material in the general waste Box Quot ministry spokeswoman Marjan Van Giezen said Friday. Quot things like bottles paper batteries and chemicals can All be kept  15 dutch municipalities currently have some sort of pay per garbage plan in operation. In Noo drop near the Hague rubbish collectors use computerized Scales to weigh the amount of trash left out for pickup. Residents of oos Zaan near Amsterdam pay by the number of garbage bags left outside for collection. Van Giezen said officials from major cities have also expressed interest in adopting a similar system in the near future. A a a a a judge orders husband to be wife s slave Georgetown Guyana apr a judge ordered a Nan who admitted to hitting his wife to be her slave for two weeks. Quot if she orders you to sleep under the bed you do just hat Quot chief magistrate Juman Yassin told Ronald Jonas n court last week. His wife Glenda Jonas told the court she returned Tome Early last monday to find her husband in bed with nother woman. They began to argue and Jonas cuffed her under the Eye Glenda Jonas said. She received several stitches to close the  Jonas pleaded guilty to malicious wounding his wife asked that he be fined instead of jailed. But the magistrate ordered him to be Quot at her Beck and Call Quot until nov. I9,. Quot he is your slave Quot Yassin said. Quot anything you want him to do he has to  Jonas said he would obey the judges order. Rome a former spy chiefs involved in a slush fund scandal Are now under investigation for Makin claims that the president took payoffs when he was Interior minister in 1987, prosecutors said. The three intelligence officials said regular under the table payments drawn from the slush fund were made to Interior ministers including the president Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and the current Interior minister Nicola Mancino. The claims were made in recent weeks during questioning by Deputy prosecutors in Rome and immediately leaked to the press. A fourth intelligence official was arrested saturday. New Delhi holds key vote new Delhi India a residents of new Delhi voted saturday in an election that was to partially replace the Federal Rule they have lived under since 1956 with a legislative Assembly. Hours before the polls opened politicians reportedly toured the City a ghettos to hand Many of the illiterate residents gifts of liquor and Cash in an Effort to win their votes. A heavy turnout was reported As voters chose representatives to the 70-member legislative Assembly that will help govern the capital it will have no Power Over Law and order or Public utilities