European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes Money matters Friday june 17, 1994 today a rates following arc fixed Rales at which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell foreign currencies to . Personnel for Persona use. British Pound .1.56 dutch Guilder .1.77 German Mark .1.59 greek drachma. 242.4542 nolo Tho rates above it Friy Tho Host country. Figures Are expressed in Didars to the British Pound other Cui i the Dollar following arc Interbank rates that fluctuate and should be regarded As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign Curren pics. Austrian Schilling .11.468 Bahrain Dinar. 0.37675 belgian franc .33.54 British Pound.1.5217 Canadian Dollar. 1.3907 danish krone.6.3651 dutch Guilder. 1 .b257 French franc. 5.5672 German Mark. 1.6311 italian lira. 1,592.50 Kuwait Dinar. .0.2969 norwegian Krone lift 4-4 4 4 4-4 4-4 4 7.0795 portuguese escudo. 169.25 saudi rial. 3.75 Spanish peseta. 134.40 Swiss franc .1.3665 turkish Era. 31,000,00 Noto figures Are expressed in dollars id lha British Pound other currencies to Tho Dollar a a Gold quota $307.10 an ounce. Silver quote $5,50 an ounce. A. Sources merchants National Bank amp Trust co., Tho associated press muted press International r new York Exchange j american Exchange 1 new York up american Slock Exclia a the 10 most Active 5 seeks in a de composite trading wed re Day. Slock sales list Al chg. Echo Bay mines 1.214.7c0 icy a off a expo rate co la 790.100 17-16 Cal my Hasbro inc 620.400 3u of a of linens 501,400 q a up w nations ind users. 403,600 04k a off Vuk Cheyenne softer ��119.�00 p7 a up i Viacom inc b 401,400 30 i Urrih Turner 360,300 to n up v5 Ivan com 372.200 16 u up Vuk find fed corp 25c.ddd i3 i dub Dow Jones 3 new York in cd junes closing Range of so Tragus in wednesday. 30 industrials 20 transport 15 utilities c5 seeks High 3036.29 1062 33 167.76 1330.62 Low 3172.02 1629 73 165 54 12133b clots change 3790 41 pit 24.32 1033.06 u�?~<b39 1 lib 76 cello 03 t310.j4 off 7.6/ drug promises Long Relief for headache sufferers new York a the shelf containing pain pills at your drugstore is getting More crowded. Tylenol a red boxes advil a yellow ones and a Rainbow of aspirins and generics Are joined this week by Blue containers of aleve the first new nonprescription pain Relief drug in 10 years. The makers say aleve works just As Well As the others but for up to three times As Long a eight to 12 hours per dose. But it will be sold for about the same Price per Tablet As Brand name competitors. Headache specialists applauded the drug wednesday noting that its Active ingredients have been used As a popular prescription analgesic for 20 years. But they cautioned that the Low dosage required by the food and drug administration for Over the counter sales Means the drugs promises wont come True for everyone. A people really hate it when their headaches come Back so 1 think this has a competitive advantage a said or Richard Lipton co director of the Montefiori medical Center headache unit in new York. A some people will find it no better than other available drugs and some people will find it much better Quot said or. Joel Saper chief of the Michigan had pain and neurological Institute in Ann Arbor. Aleve is made by Procter syntax health products co. The company is a partnership of Procter amp Gamble co., the big Cincinnati based Home and health care products company and syntax laboratories inc., a drug maker based in Palo Alto calif., that pioneered the birth control Pill in the 1960s. Aleve is the first new formula for pain sold Over the counter since ibuprofen was authorized in i9s4. Ibuprofen is sold As advil Suprin motrin and others. Like its predecessors aleve is a lower dosage version of a prescription compound. In Alever Scase the compound is called Nap Roxen sodium. That drug and its sister drug Nap Roxen historically have been biggest moneymakers. More on line services reach for the stars via computer new York up a Tho 15 must Active stocks in new York Slock Exchange car docile trading on wednesday. Stock sales lust at chg. Inti game tech g.1d1 000 m o1 in Exxon corp 4 327,200 57 o t 1 Vuk general motors a 3.423,700 54 up it Pepsico inc a 3,334,2 in. 32 in rrp.1/. Chrysler corp 3,053.561 50 is a nov to Lewonos de my 3. Dug goo 59 off 5k gent electric a ?.62 2.600 47 v a 0 it i Motorola inc 2.676.16 a .49 of w entry we credit 2 Gid ,300 15 i off is Ford motor co a a 2,219.300 of Tow off i fruit of loom 2 23-1.00.0 26 v b Oft tvs Wal Mart stores 2.13b.3o0 24va of a Glaxo holdings 2.116.20o 1/ to up fit at amp to company 2,503.563 5g a. A up w. Compaq computer 2.052.500 35 up via new York a forget Broadway and Sunset Boulevard. More and More the Best place to talk to a Star is cyberspace. Celebrities Are making a a appearances on the nations largest on line systems virtually every week now a sign of the growing popularity of the services and the Competition among them. New York rangers Star Brian Leetch most valuable player of the the National hockey league playoffs was taking ques Lions on Prodigy on wednesday vice president Al Gore in an appearance on in no a Larry King live on wednesday night read questions about Access to technology that were directed to him on Compuserve. And Rocker David Bowie will be on America online next week. Record labels movie studios Book publishers political parties and Public relations firms have discovered they can reach a Large audience quickly and directly through the on line systems. The five largest a Prodigy Compuserve America online Genie and Delphi a have 3 million paying customers and Are used by 2 million More analysts estimate. A a you re talking big numbers and Quality participants a said Howard ragman principal in Bragman Nyman cafurello a Public relations firm in Beverly Hills calif., whose clients include whoops Goldberg and Marlee Matlin. A the demographics just by virtue of the audience owning a computer you Are More Likely to be hitting an intelligent crowd a lot of times a younger crowd a he said. A a there a a certain cachet to being Able to talk on line Quot said John Tesh enter Tain Cut tonight Host and pianist who answered questions on Prodigy last week. Vice president Al Gore left appearing on in no so Larry King live show in Washington on wednesday reads questions directed to him on the on line system Compuserve. Appearing with Gore arc Vuk Sussman second from kit senior editor of . News amp world report Reed Hunt the chairman of the Federal communications commission and Host King. A a it a a sexy Way of communicating right a for the on line services celebrity appearances offer a Chance to reach customers whose interest goes beyond electronic mail the latest Stock Price or talk about computers that form the Core of their offerings. Compuserve and America online hold live a a Chat sessions in which up to 500 participants Sec the discourse scroll by and can jump in with questions. The others put out a notice seeking questions for a particular celebrity. The responses follow generally a few Days later. Prodigy though will soon change o live celebrity chats with room for up to 3,000 people at once. The people who bring celebrities on line chiefly individuals contracted to supervise bulletin Board discussions Are sometimes paid by How Many people they can attract to their a Chat groups or Lisa Robinson a music journalist recruited five years ago to write a column on Prodigy now regularly brings artists onto the serv ice. Elliott Stein who is Host of a nightly a talk show on Compuserve also said he has no trouble booking guests but often does the at amp to service puts focus on video Telephone Calls by new Day. 1 new York at amp to corp. On a wednesday unveiled a service that will allow desktop computer users to share files while making video Telephone Calls a move that could increase the Speed limit of the nations information superhighway. While computer users can now make video phone Calls and even share the same documents on their computers the current technology involves expensive leased phone lines and a Point to Point connections Between individual users. The at amp to system will provide a net work and a a multimedia Dia Tanc a which would allow any subscriber to communicate with any other subscribers at any time for 50 cents to $1.50 a minute. A customers will be Able to make video and data Calls As easily As they make phone Calls today a said Alex Mandl chief executive of at amp to s communications services group. Mandl said the service initially will be aimed at Fortune 1000 customers. Apple computer ism Xerox and Novell among other companies said wednesday that they were building hard Ware and software that would be compatible with the service known As world worx solutions it will be available by Early next year. Users will need personal computers with special software and equipment such As Small video cameras. That hardware is sold by several companies for $2,500 or More. Carl Pavarini at amp to vice president of emerging markets said his company now Sells a Worl worx ready system with its specialized software for $5,000. A we Wilt announce shortly a system that costs half of that Quot be said. In addition the service requires users to have digital phone service typically a kind known As integrated services digital network. That converts a Plain Copper Telephone line into a High Speed line that can handle video signals. The Sidn Market so far has been a disappointment to its advocates partly because of a Lack of applications analysts say. 1 Quot Worl worx could invigorate that Market they say
