European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 29, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 snowfall of sorts in Paris a snowboard competitor trains saturday in Paris on a ski track made of Snow brought in by the tourist office of the ski resort of Val a Indre. The track with the Eiffel Tower in the background was to be the site later in the Day for a snowboard festival. Japanese blame manual for Rise in Fuji suicides Tokyo up police say a How to manual has helped unleash a Sharp Rise in suicides at the foot of mount Fuji a japanese newspaper reported sunday. Residents of Small towns in the area Are upset Over the loss of life and Finan Cial Burden incurred in disposing of Bod ies the Asahi  said. As of the end of october 33 bodies had been discovered by Yamanashi prefectural police and fire department officials in the sprawling Aoki Gahara Forest nearly 60 percent More than in the previous year. Police believe the increase stems partly from publication in july of the Complete suicide manual which explains step by step suicide methods. Some 170,000 co pies have been sold. The manual describes the Forest As an Ideal location because the dense under growth can conceal bodies easily. The Book even outlines a route that makes discovery difficult. Police have found co pics of the manual next to two bodies. The Forest has been a traditional place to end it All since i960, when a popular novel featured a suicide scene there. The most bodies discovered was 53 in 1989, police said. The toll fell to 31 in 1990 and levelled off at 21 in both 1991 and 1992. By Law towns in the area arc required to dispose of the bodies. Many of the victims Are never identified. German politicians quit in pay scandal Berlin a the entire Cabinet of Sachsen Anhalt state resigned sunday because of a scandal Over excessive pay for Western German politicians who were sent to help govern the formerly communist part of the country. Minister president Werner Munch who was said to have received $117,000 too much in the past two years said the accusation was false and slander but announced that he and 10 ministers were quitting in the Eastern German state. The scandal threatens politicians from Chancellor Helmut Kohl s party the conservative Christian democratic Union and appeared Likely to increase Public distrust of polities As Germany approaches a full plate of local state and National elections in 1994. Munch a Christian Democrat announced the mass resignation after a Cri Sis meeting of his Cabinet in Magdeburg the state capital 120 Miles Southwest of Berlin. The state s Christian democratic leadership then went into a meeting to map out its next Steps. The Cabinet will continue in office on an interim basis until the state parliament forms a new govern ment. Munch s Cabinet appeared doomed saturday when his economics minister Horst Rich Berger announced that he was quitting. He had been accused of accept ing excessive pay of $117,000 since 1990. Munch  and two other ministers Are West germans who were sent by their parties to Lead inexperienced East German politicians after German unification in 1990. Because cast German pay Scales for political office arc lower than in the West they were supposed to be permitted to continue Western pay Levels. But the Sachsen Anhalt state auditors said last week that Miinch and the others inflated their Western pay base by including special payments for out of town meetings entertainment allowances and other benefits. Social affairs minister Werner Schreiber included pay of an assistant in his calculation the auditors said. Thar hotel s guests go ape during annual beastly feast lop Buri Thailand a the guests of Honor arrived late stuffed their faces and generally behaved like animals. But then again what do you expect from a Bunch of monkeys hundreds of them came to feast on fruit nuts Rice and other delights sunday in the yearly Monkey banquet in the Cen Ter of lop Buri 71 Miles  bang Kok. Yongyuth Kiewatt ananson a local Hotelier Laid on the fifth annual feast to Honor the spirit of the 13th-Century Sarn Prakarn shrine. Some 600 monkeys live among the ruins and on the grounds of another ancient Temple nearby. When i first opened my hotel i asked the spirit to help me Yongyuth said. So every year i feed the monkeys to thank him for my  thousands of onlookers crowded the grounds As volunteers Laid out plates of food on tables covered with red cloths. After 30 minutes a dozen monkeys warily clambered Down to stuff them selves on brightly coloured pumpkins Sticky Rice raisins eggs and Rich thai sweets. Cuban defections hit 32 at games in puerto Rico san Juan puerto Rico a some 32 cubans have defected in the past week during regional athletic championships Here cuban delegation members said saturday. The figure includes at least 11 who left the 931-member cuban delegation saturday. The Central american and Caribbean games began nov. 19 and conclude tuesday. Rescue legion a cuban exile group helping House the defectors said the new defectors planned to apply for . Political Asylum today. The defections show that the desire to leave the economic and political re pression at Home is Strong even among some members of Cuba s political ath Letic and academic elite experts said. Under a 1966 congressional act nearly All cubans who make it to american shores can stay an immigration status not Given to any other nationality. Some of the defectors had planned their escape for months. A photographer for Cuba s sports Institute for example arrived at the championships packing his entire portfolio of work. The sources in the cuban delegation said the 32 defectors included athletes coaches and at least one journalist. Italian students protest planned cuts in education Rome a tens of thousands of High school students took to the streets saturday in several cities to protest government efforts to Cut the number of teachers and reduce spending on schools. Enough with the ministry of Public destruction teen agers chanted in the capital playing on the education depart ment s formal title the ministry of Public instruction. The demonstrators called for a retraction of a government decree that reduces the number of teachers classrooms laboratories gymnasiums arid other facilities. Teachers and students have called it the class Gobbler or Jurassic school decree. This year s proposed budget Calls for reduced spending on Public education to help Deal with a huge deficit. An aging population and a Low birthrate also have reduced the number of pupils. Students claim the schools Are already understaffed and Short on facilities. They have been holding sporadic demonstrations and sit ins across Italy. Organizers estimated the number of demonstrators saturday at 14,000 in Rome 32,000 in Naples and 5,000 in the sicilian town of Trapani. Police said the estimates were exaggerated. No violence was reported. Mannheim int1 ski club has space available on these trips Jan. 7-9 kit Buhel Jan. 14-17 milk Kran Montana Jan. 21-23 Saalbach Jan. 28-30 Innsbruck. For More info Call John 06764-3320 Sno phone Steve 0621-7307219 or de 0621-7307329