European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 2, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday sunday january 1/2,1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11 Berlin apr a radio station started by the us. Government in Berlin fades from the . It will be reborn in a German National network whose birth pangs symbolize How hard it has been to create East West Harmony in a United Germany. The station started almost spontaneously during the toughest Days after world War ii with the Call sign Rias a for radio in the american sector a and became the most popular station for isolated West berliners and Mil Rons of Clandestine listeners in communist East Germany. / since German unification in 1990, there has been no american sector and no Legal standing for a broadcast network. With the Rias television station and a youth oriented radio station Cut off Only the mainstream radio station was left. At Midnight new years eve Rias was to become part of a new network called deutschland radio in an ungainly partnership with the Cologne based deutschland Funk. It will be funded by the government and the remains of the one time East German propaganda radio. Deutschland radio will have an annual budget of 310 million Marks the equivalent of $182 million and a staff of 978. The Berlin station will Divide the Day so that Rias staffers get the 12 hours to 2 30 p.m., and the easterners get the late afternoon and night. The Rias half is defined As entertainment and information. The easterners continue with the classical music and High culture that their station has run since it was re established with the Call sign is Kultur after East Germany a propaganda stations folded. The combined program has the grand goal of promoting Solidarity in United Germany. But will it have enough listeners the new format risks losing the Large Rias audience a Rias Call in talk shows have been jammed by callers anxious to know if favorite programs will continue a while it remains to be seen whether there san audience in Western Germany for a a Solidarity if it works the station can claim its roots of Success in the Way Rias was created in War shattered Berlin in 1916. The soviets held the Only radio station so the . Army set up a station to broadcast hews and announcements in German. During the 1948-49 Berlin blockade fuel Scarcity shortened broadcast time so Rias sent out Loudspeaker trucks to bolster morale in West Berlin. Rias says it received 8 million cards and letters from Clandestine listeners in East Germany who said the station was their main source of reliable news until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Squeeze on n t eur Brussels Belgium a for the third time in its 37-year history the european Community has adopted a new name. Confusingly it has also kept the old one. But officials really want you to remember this one from now on the european Union or eur. The new name represents the Community a Long term goal to become a United bloc on foreign policy social issues banking defense and a wide variety of other Fields in addition to its traditional concentration on internal economic integration. In Trade discussions the 12-nation bloc will still officially use the term european Community but Only halfheartedly. There too the designation european Union will be acceptable. The new name follows the nov. 1 adoption of the treaty on european Union also known As the maastricht treaty. It lays the groundwork for a wide variety of new common efforts including better coordinated foreign policies and a single european currency among the Community nations France Germany Britain Italy Spain Portugal Greece Denmark Ireland the Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg. Austria Finland Norway and Sweden Are scheduled to join them in 1996. The name european Community now headed for the Ash Heap of history has existed since 1957. It too was designed originally to suggest a new level of cooperation among european nations. The dec combined and took Over the Fune tons of the old european Coal and steel Community and the european atomic Energy Community. Port a Prince Haiti apr As the effects of the worldwide Oil embargo on Haiti intensify soldiers have begun arresting Black of Gas and diesel fuel. But they Are arresting Independent Sellers those who bought the illegally imported fuel from the military itself operate openly. A several vendors were arrested thursday on a Seaside Boulevard in the capita. Sellers there had been working inc pc Dently of the military which is profiting from the . Embargo by dominating the growing Black Market on fuel. Although Selling fuel in containers is illegal More than 20 such Black Market stands operated openly thursday along the Highway from port a Prince the capital to gonad pcs 100 Miles to the North. Some of the vendors said they were getting their Stock from the military which controls illegal fuel imports from the embargo busting dominican re pub lie. Black marketeers arc charging up to $7 a gallon. Black Market sales have grown in the last week As dwindling stocks of the three major distributors forced nearly All scr ice stations to close. The embargo was reimposed on Haiti in october after the military reneged on a . Plan for the armed forces to yield Power and allow the return of elected president can Bertrand Aristide. The Sanction was aimed at putting pressure Oft the military and its allies. Aristide As Well As several . Member nations support broadening the embargo on Jan. 15 if the military does not move to step Down. Items in Cave Athens Greece up police said thursday they have found a Cave in a Mountain near Athens containing hundreds of figurines and other items believed to be used by Black magic and Devil worship Cults. \ the discovery together with the arrest earlier this week of two men charged with the kidnapping ritual murder and rape of female victims has touched off fears that Devil worship Cults and the practice of witchcraft May be widespread in Greece. A police spokesman said the Cave was discovered in the Imit tos Mountain Range just outside Athens after a tip from an informer. The Large Cave contained hundreds of Wax figurines some stuck with pins photographs of suspected victims and other items believed to be used in witchcraft. The discovery came As police continued a probe into the ritual murder of two Young women during the past 18 months. Police have charged naval conscript Asimakis Katsoulas 21 and army conscript mans Dimit Okallis 19, with the kidnapping ritual murder and rape of a Young hotel chambermaid and a teen age girl who went missing in August 1992. British roads face Rocky future London up a the condition of local roads in Britain will deteriorate this year because of inadequate Central gov emment funding a British motoring organization said. A for our local authorities any Hope of making a new years Resolution to provide better roads in 1994 has already been broken a British Road federation director Richard Diment said. The governments $495 million trans port budget for this year leaves local authorities Short of $300 million necessary to carry out important maintenance work the Bra said and 66 major Road construction projects scheduled to Start this year have to be delayed. A important maintenance work will not take place Long promised bypasses schemes will not Start and there is no government Money for safety schemes a Diment said. Or. O Leary s cow 49, kicks the bucket Kenmare Ireland a big Bertha the worlds oldest cow has died at age 49. The guinness Book of records says big Bertha was born on March 17 a St. Patrick a Day 1944. It lists her not Only As the worlds oldest cow but also As world Holder of the lifetime Breeding record for cattle with 39 calves. Farmer Jerome of Leary bought her at a cattle fair 47 years ago and kept her at his farm near the Market town of Ken Mare in county Kerry in Southwest Ireland. Of Leary said big Bertha fell sick five weeks ago and died on the farm sunday. Because of her age big Bertha was a celebrity in recent years at cattle shows where her appearances helped raise More than $75,000 for cancer research and other charitable causes. 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