European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse I i 9 4 the stars and stripes saturday May 28 1994budget Bill to Grant stripes funds by the stars and stripes the provisions of the proposed 1995 defense budget Are a Clear signal that the stars and stripes newspaper will survive the toss of its Bookstore network to the Exchange services european come officials say. A the real message is the paper will be Here for a White. Well be a newspaper Only operation said . Air Force col. Steve Hoffman the commander publisher of european stars and stripes. A Well continue to provide the Hometown newspaper to our customers. That s the important message to get the edition is distributed throughout military communities in Europe the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. Daily circulation is about 57,000, Down from a pre draw Down figure of about 125,000. The separately run Pacific stars and stripes has a circulation of about 27,000 copies daily. The proposed 1995 defense budget which has cleared the House armed services committee and is awaiting action on the House floor would authorize $12.1million to be shared by the two newspapers. The Bill also would order a study of the feasibility of consolidating the two newspapers in the states and sending a single paper around the world by satellite. The $12.1 million would appear to solve a financial crisis triggered last year when Congress ordered the Transfer of stars and stripes bookstores to the military Exchange services by oct. 1this year. V the organizations had traditionally relied on Bookstore revenues to subsidize the costs of publishing and distributing the newspapers. Although officials in Europe have expressed concern that the budget language will Force european stars and stripes to shoulder an unfair share of employee sever Ance costs and Bookstore inventory debts As part of the Transfer they nonetheless expressed some satisfaction with the funding proposal. A we greatly appreciate the committees recommendation of an authorization of $12.1 million to support the newspapers because this will go a Long Way to ensure the future financial Independence of the newspaper is not jeopardized a one of our top priorities Quot said Navy capt. Gordon Peterson a spokesman for the european come in Stuttgart Germany. The allocation he said a clearly signals the committees recognition of the vital role the stars and stripes newspaper plays in our Peoples Quality of the current Bill on the House floor also would direct the department of defense to a develop a standby plan for consolidation of newspaper editorial operations in the United states and a plan for satellite transmission to overseas areas in the event Force Structure technology or budget constraints demand this Hoffman did not elaborate on the potential Impact that consolidation might have on readers in Europe except to say that a we will continue to service our customers and incorporate changes and continue to provide outstanding sections a such As the recent a Day commemorative Issue and this weeks special Section on travel in Europe. However Bernard Zovistoski editor of the stars and stripes warned that the House Bill has worrisome implications for readers. A the most ominous Prospect contained in the language is that financial pressure and determination to employ technologically feasible alternatives will con spire to erode the Quality journalism that benefits serv ice members overseas today a he said. Zovistoski said that local news and advertising could be at risk. A there May be alternative forms of delivery of news but there is literally no alternative to providing the Content we provide now a he said a a publication without this Community Content would no longer be the stars and suggested that a consolidation in either the Pacific or Europe would be preferable to the states. A a a \ a. Quot a a a. A. A your readers Reliance upon us for Community news would suffer badly if we lost touch with the Community and tried to feel its pulse by Remote control a he added. Hoffman said it is european stars and stripes object live not to allow the loss of the bookstores to affect the newspaper. V a a a a we will continue to improve our product and service our customers. We re not going to stand still a he Hoffman noted that the newspaper is working to expand its advertising base to increase revenues and soon will be offering More color printing in its news and advertising pages. The Bookstore Transfer has prompted debate in Washington d.c., Over the future of the newspapers and Congress last year ordered a report on possible alternatives to the current system of separate newspapers for the Pacific and Europe. Some senior army leaders Are openly wary of com mining More defense funds to the newspapers. It. Gen. Merle Fritag the comptroller of the army said ear tier this year that the Pentagon should consider As an option replacing the stars and stripes with a military oriented supplement to a publication such As Usa today. A a a a a. A a v a a \ Freitag is also chairman of the Board of the army and air Force Exchange service which will be taking Over the bookstores. Alexander Solzhenitsyn accepts the traditional russian greeting of bread and Salt in Vladivostok on Friday As his sons Stephan Center and Yermola look on. From Page 1 rain for hours waiting for him to arrive. _ a i know 1 am coming to a Russia that is torn discouraged disoriented changed beyond recognition convulsively searching for itself for its own True identity a Solzhenitsyn said in a 10-minute speech. A i Hope in meeting with Many people to verify my impressions and i am ready to revise them. But i would like during these meetings to help to find together with you a True path out of our 75-year-old quagmire to find a future so that our people our children finally will discover the Light of spiritual Solzhenitsyn stood with his sons Stephan and Yermola and his wife Nata a. A. A 1 one of the signs held by the crowd read a we ask for forgiveness. Welcome to your Homeland. Before you All of Mother Russia is waiting for you a someone asked him whether Russia could be revived. A yes a he said. A it will be difficult not easy or fast but we have lived through other hard times. Truly our Fate is in our own hands beginning with every step of life with every Small Choice How i life goes depends on us and not on How someone from above in Moscow or somewhere else sends Down a decision a Solzhenitsyn was greeted at the Airport by local government and russian orthodox Church leaders As Well As 150 russian and foreign journalists. A we Bow to the conscience of Russia a said a Banner held by Boris Gavrilov who was among those waiting for a glimpse of Solzhenitsyn. A a the was the first who began to break the Yoke of ideology on our souls and we Are beginning to feel like free men a said Gavrilov who smiled broadly with a Mouthful of Gold Teeth. / on his first Stop on russian soil in the far Eastern City of Magadan Solzhenitsyn stooped and touched the ground looking exultant As a crowd of journalists and Well wishers pressed around him a i am so overwhelmed with so Many different kinds of emotions a he said. Solzhenitsyn paid homage to those who perished in labor Camps in the Region the symbolic heart of the soviet penal Camp system. Magadan is in the Kolyma Region where an estimated 3 million inmates died in the Camps from exposure and exhaustion. A i come to Bow to the Kolyma land where Many hundreds of thousands of our countrymen who were executed Are buried a he against Blacks recounted by the los Angeles times los Angeles a scholars searching for ways to broaden the lessons of the holocaust told an audience at los Angeles most prominent Black Church thursday that nazis killed and mutilated Black prisoners of War because of their race and sterilized children of mixed German and african blood. The presentation of previously unpublicized research was organized by the martyrs memorial and museum of the holocaust which is working with teachers and researchers to develop curriculum supplements for secondary school students. Researchers told listeners at first african methodist episcopal Church that documents from nazi War crimes trials show that Blacks a both americans and soldiers from Africa serving in the armies of colonial Powers a were a singled out for mistreatment once they were captured by the nazis. Robert resting an archivist at the . Holocaust memorial museum in Washington said that in one Case 11 captured Black . Soldiers were he affiliated by is officers and forced to Cany them on their backs before they were tortured executed and mutilated. Other Black soldiers were forced to dig their own Graves before they were executed. Although White soldiers were also mistreated by germans resting said Blacks tended to be treated worse because of their race nazis considered people of african descent As Well As jews gypsies and Handicap pad Leopie As a race in a horrific example of nazi eugenics a the pseudoscience of genetically a a improving the human race a hundreds of half Black half German children Ages 6 to _i2, were sterilized under government dictates in the 1930s, resting said. The children labelled the a Rhineland bastards a were for the most part the offspring of German women who married african soldiers who were part of the French army occupying Western Germany following world War i. Hundreds of the children later disappeared without a Trace. The 14-year-old holocaust museum in los Angeles run by the jewish federation Council of greater los Angeles sponsored thursdays lecture in response to the controversy that erupted after some Black High school students in Oakland were kicked out of a movie theater Tor laughing at scenes of the murder of jews in Schindler a list. A
