European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 10 the stars and stripes world monday december 20,1993 sex Stasi informer tops race for mayor Potsdam Germany a a Folksy politician who once informed for the East German secret police was the Odds on favorite to become the first reconstructed communist to win a big City mayors Job in unified Germany. Rolf Kutz Mutz was favored in sundays Runoff As were a slew of fellow remade communists in the state of Brandenburg running under the Banner of the party of democratic socialism. That has provoked a backlash among Western German politicians and business leaders some of whom have called for a ban on Kutz Mutz s party or an investment Boycott in areas where it wins City Halls. The 46-year-old Kutz Mutz joined the communist party in 1967 and has no apologies for his past a we Are not nostalgic. We Are not looking Back a Kutz Mutz told a rally of 1,500 enthusiastic potsdamer last week three Days before the dec. 5 election that Kutz Mutz dominated in Potsdam the state capita just outside Quot ass amp tis was an informer for East Germany a Stasi secret police in the Early 1970s. The Man who smiled from Campaign posters that read a my biography does no to just begin in 1989�?� a the year the Berlin Wall fell immediately acknowledged that he had informed. But so had tens of thousands of others. The More involved an East German was in Public life the More Apt he or she was to he pressured into informing. Kutz Mutz was an economist with the City waterworks when he served As an informer. A decade later he became communist party economics Secretary in Potsdam. Now he is City chairman of the former communists known As the ads. Ads leaders claim with some justification that theirs is the Only party that Speaks the same language As most East germans. Easterners complain that West German politicians and business leaders did not listen to them about How the Eastern Side should be reconstructed while laying off workers by the hundreds of thousands. The ads plays to this discontent insisting it is a socialist democratic party divorced from its predecessor which kept 17 million people under tight control. The party a Best known Leader Gregor Gysi says just 10 percent of its 145,000 members in the former East Germany Are hard line communists who favor demolishing democracy. In the East the party far outnumbers the 87,000 members of Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian democrats and the 30,000 from the mainstream opposition social democrats. A grinning Gysi told the crowd at the Campaign rally that he believed the ads would win its first state capital sunday. A a then the others will follow step by step a he said half joking. A they should know in Munich that it is possible one bbl to Airas sex fanatic by the los Angeles times London a plans by the British broadcasting corp. To televise a documentary depicting the late chinese ruler Mao tse Tung As a sex obsessed tyrant have drawn severe objections from the chinese government but the bbl pledged saturday not to pull the broadcast. The chinese said the British government should be a fully aware of the consequences if the documentary chairman Mao a the last emperor airs As scheduled on tonight s Tim watch Public affairs program. The program is expected to chill relations further Between the British and chinese governments which already Are frayed because of British insistence that additional democratic reforms be enacted in Hong Kong before the Colony is turned Over to China s control in 1997. Mao founder of communist China presided Over one Quarter of the worlds population from 1949 until Nis death in 1976. The 100th anniversary of his birth will be celebrated in China on dec. 26, Mao was married four times. In the program Mao s physician for 22 years or. I Zhihui who now lives in exile in Chicago claims the Leader had a secret sex life with numerous Young women. A in Public Mao espoused the cause of women s rights bbl producer Jeremy Bennett said a in Pri vat he collected used and discarded concubines in the a the image promoted by the communist author a Man looks it a sculpture of China s revolutionary Leader Mao tse Tung at an exhibition in Beijing. The artwork is part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of map s birth. Ties of Mao As an ascetic almost Puritan figure could not according to the doctor have been fur Tho r from the truth a Bennett said. The women according to the program were often recruited As stewardesses on Mao a special train. If he liked them they would be invited to retire with him for the night. In Beijing he would frolic with naked girls in his heated swimming Pool i said a statement issued by the chinese embassy in London declared that the program Quot. Is pure slander on chairman pose deadly risk along Brittany beaches Paris apr strollers were warned to stay off several Brittany beaches sunday As explosives experts searched for dangerous detonators that washed ashore by the hundreds. More than 300 of the Cylinder shaped detonators have been found since Friday on beaches in two of Brittany a administrative departments Finisterl and mor Bihan. J the origin of the detonators was not known. Maritime officials said sunday that they probably did not come from the she Bro a freighter that lost 80 cargo containers last week during a storm in the English Channel. The swedish made detonators labelled As explosive and dangerous Are about 5 inches Long painted Gray and intended for use in construction work. Police said they could maim or kill if set off by someone who tinkered with them. The biggest Batch of the detonators a about 150 a was. Found Friday and saturday on the 18-mile pors Cam Beach near the town of Saint Guc Nole. More than 100 civil defense explosives experts military personnel police officers and firefighters joined in a search that continued sunday. More than 100 More detonators were found sunday on another group of beaches further South including Many on the resort Island of Belle Ile. Earlier last week hundreds of Small sacks of pesticide from the she Bro s cargo were found on beaches in the Region. Several dozen flasks of toxic germicide believed to be from the she Bro also were found Norway holds Plo israeli talks to break Mideast impasse Oslo Norway apr hoping to resolve the deadlock Over palestinian autonomy israeli and Plo officials returned during the weekend to the site of the secret talks that produced their peace Accord. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres met late saturday in Oslo with Yasser Abedrabbo a close aide to Palestine liberation organisation chief Yasser Arafat norwegian foreign ministry spokes Man Ingvard Havnen said. He refused to say whether any Progress had been made in the private sessions that lusted into the Niolu and continued sunday. Negotiators were trying to reach agreement before midweek when Arafat and israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin Are tentatively scheduled to meet in Egypt. In Tunis Tunisia Plo executive committee member Aji Ishak said the palestinian delegation proposed a Compromise plan on two Mam issues the control of Border Crossings and the amount of land the palestinians would control around the West Bank Region of Jericho. Norway played Host to secret israeli Plo negotiations that culminated sept. 13 in a peace agreement signed in Washington. Israeli troops were to haves.4wie % % % due to the increased value of the . 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