European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Four commandos lower themselves toward an open window during a training exercise i Lebach Germany German troops prepare for foreign action by Arthur Allen the associated press t he four German commandos wore camouflage and War paint their hair tucked into Black Caps. Silently they dropped from the roof and burst into an open window sub machine guns blazing. _ break Quot shouted capt. Marko Cangi. The Young men unhooked their safety ropes and trotted Over to where officers were watching the Drill. The troops of the 261st paratrooper in Are the Creen berets of Germany a 650-Man Upit learning to protect and kill with stealth and efficiency. It was All make believe until last month when Germany s High court decided that German soldiers could take part in . And nato backed missions. Many germans see world wars i and ii As lessons that they can t be trusted with guns. Oskar Lafontaine 1 governor of Saarland state where the commandos Are training once said sending German troops abroad was like Quot giving Lique ured Bonbons to a reformed  Chancellor Helmut Kohl who whipped Lafontaine in the 1990 Federal election wants to prove Germany is ready to shed blood but Only for world peace. Some of the 261st paratroops went to Somalia Las year to protect German army engineers in a . Mission. But they could t fire unless their lives were in peril _ and they had to be guarded by soldiers from other nations. Gangi remembers miserable nights in the desert listening to italian troopers Exchange fire with somali snipers while his troops stayed put. Quot it was embarrassing Quot said Gangi 32. A during the Day we d go Outon the Road in convoys with our tanks a protected by nigerians in a tin pot with  despite the itching for a Chance to show its skill the military As a whole is still characterized by the Quot culture of restraint Quot that foreign minister Klaus Kinky said would remain _ despite the High court ruling. German troops probably won t go to places where the nazis committed atrocities like former Yugoslavia said it col. Richard Hunsicker spokesman for the army command of Koblenz. And the German army is unlikely to  leading role in pacifying beleaguered third world nations. Unlike its european allies Germany had few colonies and therefore no Strong a commando sends his Comrade flying after disarming him in a Drill. Ties to third world countries. Then there s the reluctance of soldiers like Uwe Weniger 18, one of the commandos in the exercise. Quot would i like to go overseas and fight like in t really the right word but i will if i m sent Quot said Weniger. Weniger and two thirds of his commando colleagues Are former citizens of communist East Germany giving the unit a composition out of proportion with the population at Large which is one fifth East German. Enlisting assures a Job for four years at about $1,200 monthly said it. Col. Georg Fuhrmann the battalion a commander. Unemployment is officially 16 percent in East Germany a twice the West German level. The German army was rebuilt in.the1950s As a draftee army to prevent the creation of an aggressive military caste like the ones that haunt Germany s past. But that s changing too. In 1989, when communism collapsed the West and East German armies had about 700,000 men at arms. The 340,000-Strong unified German army of today includes about 240,000 members of elite units in five years under current planning Germany May essentially have two armies 50,000 professionals in rapid reaction battalions for global missions and bund Estehr Lite As critics put a 300,000-Strong Home guard mostly of Young draftees. Fuhrmann sees no problems with the army s More Active role in world events. His generation of military professionals has no doubt about its loyalty to democracy. L Quot i have no guilt no fear of contagion _ by the past Quot said Fuhrmann. Quot no one in my battalion was a nazi. And i m proud of what we germans Are  Short subject Green Loving britons Tilting Over Windmill by Lance Gay a Scripps Howard news service a Battle Royal is being fought on the Green hillsides of Britain Over the effects of electricity generating windmills which first appeared in the country two years  who once dreamed of replacing Coal and nuclear Power plants with Low Cost renewable wind generated electricity Are bitterly branded As the polluters of Britain a Beauty spots. Chris lord Smith the 39-year-old owner of a environmentally Friendly construction firm in Llandinam Wales says he once was a Quot Green campaigner who wrote to his local Council in enthusiastic support of a government plan to build a Windmill site on the Hills above his 12-acre farm. Quot i really did believe in clean environmentally Friendly and non polluting Energy sources a he said. But what lord Smith said what he did no to expect was the unsightly blight the 1,00-foot-Tal pylons made on his picturesque windswept Valley. And once the 103 windmills started there was the constant Low grumbling noise a like a mechanical drone which he said is making him sick. Now lord Smith is a Leader of the anti Windmill forces. He a convinced the environmental movement got it All wrong he said windmills done to make economic sense done to create that much electricity Are too intrusive and Arentt needed. Quot we re too Small an Island. We done to have Large expanses to build these farms like you have in the United states. We re an Urban a culture and we need our Green lung a the National Parks and the Hills to escape to for recreation. We just done to need these  he a not alone. As prime minister John majors government considers plans to build More than 2,000 windmills across Britain to comply with its 1992 Earth Summit agreement to Cut Carbon dioxide emissions intellectuals and conservationists Are coming out of the Woodwork in campaigns to Stop new farms from being built. In recent a letter to the times literary supplement 62 of Britain s leading literary figures a including poet laureate Ted Hughes .4 and novelists Muriel spark Iris Murdoch Mary Wesley and Joanna Trollope a said proposals to build Windmill farms on the Yorkshire moors overlooking the Haworth Homestead of the Bronte Sisters Are a National outrage. Under current plans Britain is relying on windmills to provide 3 percent of electricity within the next six years although Windmill. Enthusiasts say an eventual goal of More than 10 percent generation is possible. But the vocal opposition to the new farms is registering with the government. Energy minister Tim Eggar who has until november to decide the location of new wind farms has indicated that the government is slowing Down its construction plans to give people time to adjust to current farms. Although Eggar received 300 applications to build new farms he recently indicated that fewer than 30 of those Are Likely to be approved arid Only after environmental Impact statements ensure that Britain a Scenic lands wont be scarred. Monday August 8,1994 the stars and stripes