European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stars and stripes Money matters tuesday August 16.1994 a today s rates following Are fixed rates a which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell for eign currencies to . Personnel for Persona use British Pound 1.58 dutch Guilder 1.70 German Mark 1.51 note the rates above apply of Thyri Trie Host country. Figures Are expressed it dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar a following Are Interbank rate that fluctuate and should be regarded As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign Curren cies austrian Schilling 10.9050 Bahrain Dinar. 0.37675 belgian franc .31.98 British Pound 1.5425 Canadian Dollar. 1.3800 danish Krone 6.1550 dutch Guilder 1.7417 French franc 5.3240 German Mark. 1.5510 greek drachma. 235.10 italian lira. 1,591 Kuwait Dinar. 0.2957 norwegian Krone. 6.8323 portuguese escudo. 159.05 saudi rial. 3.75 Spanish peseta. 129.70 Swiss franc. 1.3020 turkish lira. 31,200.00 note figures Are expressed in do bars to Tow British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quote $377.25 an ounce Silver quote $5.07 an ounce sources merchants National Bank & Trust co. And the associated press tighter controls wanted on . A pair programs saudis choose at to for $4 billion Deal Riyadh saudi Arabia a saudi Arabia and at to have signed a $4 Bil lion contract for what the company called the world s most extensive telecommunications project. The contract will almost double Saud Arabia s number of Telephone subscribers giving the kingdom 1.5 million new digital lines and 200,000 Mobile lines for its 17 million people. At to will install a digital system that turns signals into the language of computers allowing be handled by More devices than Ordinary telephones at to chairman Robert e. Allen said. The project is expected to be completed in about seven years. At to won the contract Over fierce Competition from other telecommunication giants including Siemens . Of Germany Lacatel Althom of France Northern telecoms of Canada and a joint offer from Ericsson of Sweden and Nec corp. Of Japan. By Debb Wilgoren and Michael d. Shear Washington Post More than 8,000 . Families rely on foreign a pairs to provide child care but the Federal government barely regulates the practice because it was created As a cultural Exchange program. This is a program that started out in one social context and has been pulled and changed in another direction said Joseph Duffey director of the . Information Agency which oversees the pro Gram but is Best known for its voice of America broadcasts. It appears to be going in the direction of full time Nanny care and that s not what it was intended to do. We the Usia Don t have the authority or the staffing to be in that after a dutch a pair was charged last week in the death of a Loudoun county va., infant Duffey said the program probably does t belong under Usia if most families use a pairs for baby sitting from morning till night. He said tougher standards Are needed to protect the a pairs and the children for whom they care. Because of the program s origins due Fey said Usia has no standards for training or experience in child care. Con Gress has left the program untouched since it was created in 1986, allowing eight nonprofit organizations to recruit a pairs with virtually no regulation. Duffey said he wants voluntary guide lines in effect by september to set Stan Dards and to target what he said is mis leading advertising by some a pair agencies. Looking beyond voluntary compliance Usia officials briefed congressional staff members last week asking for Power to make the standards mandatory. The question is where does it be Long my feeling is there is a role for the program but it needs some standards Duffey said. This All goes Back to whether it can be kept As a cultural pro Gram or not.". In a letter to Duffey last month rep. Lee Hamilton d-ind., chairman of the House foreign affairs committee questioned whether there has been proper oversight of the a pair programs under the Agency. He said that there Are significant unanswered questions that require additional investigation and oversight by this Hamilton said the commit tee May hold hearings to determine whether new Laws or regulations Are needed. Some say a pairs should be regulated by the labor department which already oversees other foreign child care workers who enter the country legally. This in t really a cultural Exchange program. Some of these organizations you wonder How they Ever got certified said Jerry tinker the staff director for a Senate subcommittee on immigration. It the Usia did t have the capacity to Monitor them. They Don thave Field the program started As a Way to expose Young people from Western Europe to american culture. Based on the euro Pean concept of a Mother s Helper a pairs receive room and Board a $100-a week stipend and As much As $300 a year to spend on virtually any cultural or educational activity. Their stay is limited to a year they Are encouraged to take at least one educational class. But from the beginning when 300 recruits aged 18 to 25 first arrived the a pair groups have promised to provide two career american families with 45 hours a week of Legal flexible and affordable child care. Today parents of infants and preschoolers Are confronted with the dilemma of whether to quit their jobs and stay Home to care for their children or main Tain their careers says a brochure from Eura pair the company that hired the Loudoun a pair 19-year-old Anna Corina Peeve. Fortunately through Turau pair. Busy families can greatly reduce the stress of modern homeless pick up profitable habit recycling Boston a on a Bleak Industrial Street at mid morning the Only people about Are two homeless men with bags of cans and bottles trudging to a redemption enter to collect the 5-cent Deposit. We just walk and if we heed a Beer we pick up a need a pack of cigarettes you go pick up a can said Michael 51, who would t give his last name. That s not the whole Story however. To some homeless it s serious work. And homeless people scavenging cans and bottles from gutters and trash cans have become an integral part of re cycling efforts in states that have passed bottle recyclers Welcome the participation of the homeless said Mike Hogan acting director of the Container Recy cling Institute in Washington which supports increase recycling. Without the homeless there would be a lot More lit. Ter and the legislative Bills would not function As effectively in the cities As they do Hogan said. And he said he thinks recycling is Good for the Home less.-.". I think it has a rehabilitative function because the have to be Alert they have to know How to count and watch their backs Hogan said. In Many cases they re very smart bottle Bills with redeemable deposits have been enacted in Connecticut Delaware Iowa Maine Massachusetts Michigan new York state Oregon Vermont and Kansas City mo., said Margie Alt a spokeswoman for the Public interest research group. California requires Sellers to accept and Recycle empty containers but does not mandate a specific Deposit or redemption fee. A v i a. Among the canners As they sometimes Call them selves there Are two groups. Members of one group like Michael and his Friend Jimmy do it almost casually. It s not really working. It s just walking around Jimmy said. Some do it just for alcohol said the Rev. Ann Johnson who runs a 32-bed shelter on the lower East Side of de troit. They pick up enough cans to buy a drink they Nee the next but Johnson and others also see a second group Street level entrepreneurs who walk Miles making can collection a Job. These Guys Are All Over the place she said. In new York City the nonprofit organization we Canhas redeemed about 300 million bottles and cans collected by the homeless and poor since 1987, said executive director Guy Polhemus. T Polhemus estimated that 40 percent of what he Calls the redeemer have alcohol drug or gambling problems. But others Are sober and serious he said. And he Esti mated that perhaps 20 redeemer in new York Are Mak ing $1,000 a week. V Polhemus said part of his inspiration for creating Pecan was the serious redeemer he noticed 10 years ago when he was volunteering in a soup was a group of people that was working extern a y were not the cats who had their hands out,".hesaid. ,. It started out As Only Street people. Now it s families where husbands and wives have lost their jobs and now they re at subsistence level he said. _ in Boston Ken Smith director of the new England shelter for homeless veterans said his shelter has a half dozen Early risers who set out on predetermined routes Smith has stat fid a program in which people from the shelter make pickups from 20 to 30 City office buildings andean More. I Felt they were collecting Money to buy alcohol or dope or whatever. And i find that that s not what the real Ity is he said. They re not afraid of work. They re very willing to
