European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                /. \ .-.-. -.,-. S4s Dav Eddlo pedestrians browsers stroll past King s College one of Cambridge s seats of learning leading tourist Sites. Crime crowds Are changing Cambridge Bys Eleeman the associated press students Poling punts on a glistening River Cren elated Spires of yellow Stone bicycles everywhere those Are the images of the medieval University town of Cambridge England. But Darker modern forces Are intruding. The Center of town often is choked with traffic. Crime is increasing. A sea of tourists does its damage. I definitely feel uneasy now said Sarah Metcalf 19, a medical student whose main Mode of transport Day or night is her bicycle. You have to be very  Susie Dansey 22, who arrived a year ago works in a store is surprised by the High crime  reports of muggings thefts have made both women cautious about travelling alone in around the City which is within 30 Miles of . Military communities at Mildenhall Lakenheath Alconbury air bases. A seat of learning for centuries Cambridge also has become a regional Center of Industry Commerce. Its population has burgeoned from about 38,000 at the turn of the Century to More than 100,000. Reported crimes increased from 10,000 in 1989 to More than 18,000 in 1992, about 20 percent of them bicycle thefts or attacks on cyclists. The 26 percent increase in thefts or burglaries of cars last year was the second highest in Britain. Police deny Cambridge is a crime zone. " i Don t think we Are worse than anywhere else said sgt. Gerry Howard a press officer. I be policed Cambridge on off for 18 years things were worse then than they Are   He said better reporting of crimes had contributed to the growing figures. To discourage Cycle thefts the City Counci recently placed 300 bikes painted Bright Green on the sidewalks for anyone to use. Tourism also causes problems. About 3.5 million people visit Cambridge every year said Margaret Badcock the City tourism manager. The numbers Rose consistently until 1990, when the Council decided the numbers were getting a bit silly voted to Stop advertising Cambridge s charms Badcock said. City fathers fret about the toll the crowds take on ancient buildings including Kings Queens Corpus Christi the other colleges along the Cam River. Medieval structures still standing include old court at Corpus Christi which dates from the 14th Century the 15th-Century Chapel at Magdalene College. The Jesus College Chapel contains Norman portions that were part of a nunnery incorporated when the College was founded in the late Sas 15th Century. Last summer for the first time an Entrance fee of around $3 was charged at King s College Chapel a late gothic masterpiece with an intricate vaulted Stone ceiling. The Money goes to maintain the building its treasures such As Peter Paul Rubens adoration of the Matigi. Other colleges May follow suit. Despite an intricate system of one Way roads diverting traffic past downtown Cambridge several Park ride facilities 90,000 cars still enter the Central area each Day up from 60,000 a decade ago. In october last year the City began a Small Experiment with a congestion toll during Busy periods. Unfortunately we can t build our Way out of the congestion problem said Mike Sharpe director of transportation for the Cambridgeshire county Council. Cambridge began As a celtic settlement on a Hill North of the current town. After the romans conquered Britain in 43 a.d., they developed the town further probably building the first Bridge Over the Cam. Several religious orders from Europe where universities were replacing monastery Cathedral schools founded colleges at Cambridge in the 12th Century. By 1231, these had attracted enough students for Henry Iii to Issue a writ recognizing Cambridge As a seat of learning. The first College of the modern University Pete House was founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsam Bishop of Ely. Short Story Neo nazi commentary grabs the Berlin stage by Frank Bajak the associated press the plot a Neo nazi who died of  in 1991 a woman executed in 1943 for resisting  to have sex before Adolf s mummified head in the louvre museum. The on stage action lots of sex in All manner of couplings including a sadomasochistic scene where a film showing a cat being killed disembowel a is screened. It was enough to Send dozens of theatregoers for the exits has outraged animal rights activists who want it banned. Kuehnen 94 bring me the head of Adolf Hitler premiered in Berlin on new year s eve As the latest in a series of German plays films to treat Neo nazism often with great insight sensitivity but sometimes in the most unusual ways. An absurd Hitler danced across the stage in a musical revue that just closed in Berlin. Another play currently portrays Hitler As a shy harmless child who Only begins to look dangerous at the end. A More serious controversial treatment of Neo nazism is the documentary film occupation Neo nazi which Berlin prosecutors gave the go ahead to last week in spite of complaints from jewish groups. The movie focuses on a 27-year-old Munich Man Ewald Althans who claims the Industrial mass murder the nazis committed at the Auschwitz death Camp was physically impossible. Especially after the Berlin Wall came Down it became More evident people became fascinated by Neo nazism said Rainer e. Klemke spokesman for Berlin s culture ministry. They re interested in understanding what is behind these Neo nazis who they really  Althans is one of an Odd assortment of characters from Eva Braun to Mother Teresa to Vladimir v. A Mirinovsky appearing in Kuehnen 94, named for Michael Kuehnen a German Neo nazi who died two years ago at age 34. When to Sophie Scholl of the Munich White Rose anti Hitler movement antithetical bedfellows finally do conjoin in the Paris museum Hitler s head starts quivering turns into a Dachshund. Defenders of playwright Christoph Schlingensie s sex filled surrealistic commentary on Neo nazis say you be got to Shock the audience because the phenomenon itself is so overwhelming. But critics have generally found Little sense in the theater piece which performed at the Volks Bushne formerly a poorly attended Eastern Berlin stage that has become the City s most talked about theater now attracts its youngest audiences. What goes on in the play is oedipal anal banal Oral brutal lethal but above All inconsequential a critic wrote in the Potsdam Markisch All Gemeiner newspaper. Kuehnen tuesday january 18, 1994 the stars stripes 15