European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 3, 19$4 the stars and stripes Page 5 Jal attendants a Afeef Over Minnie ears Tokyo a flight attendants working for Japan s biggest airline never dreamed they had signed on with a Mickey mouse operation. Until they were asked to Wear ears that is. In a publicity Campaign aimed at bringing Japan airlines out of a business slump the prestigious company last month a produced jumbo jets with Walt Disney characters painted on the outside. The kids loved it. Then Jal asked its female flight attendants to Wear oversized mouse ears and big red bows to Welcome passengers aboard and promote Disney items for Sale in flight. And that s what has some flight attendants so Well animated. One flight attendant said wearing Minnie ears would make her and her colleagues look silly we re not children she huf de adding that flight attending is serious business and should be done with a Little class but Hideo Kate a Jal senior flight attendant with 19 years of experience said he thought the ears Are a great idea. Id love to try it he said. Nobody s asked him however. The ears Are Only supposed to be worn by women attendants because they just Don t look right with the Black and White formal Wear the men Don during parts of the flight Kato explained. The Jal flight attendants Union says it is negotiating with management to modify the plan. But a company spokesman said Jal has no intention of pulling the curtain on Minnie. In fact Jal expects the flight attendants will forget All about the ears once they Start wearing their Matching aprons decorated with Disney characters for meal service. So far Jal has introduced two jets on Domestic routes decorated with Mickey mouse Donald Duck and other Disney greats. A third such plane will Star flying sunday. Jal has pumped a Rex red $3.5 million into the Disney Campaign an Effort to steal  limelight from rival All Nippon airways which pulled off a publicity coup last year when it unveiled a jumbo Jet painted like a Blue whale. Goofy perhaps but Jal is desperately hoping Minnie will help get them out of the Doghouse. Jal has posted three years of pretax losses including a $261 million loss in fiscal 1993, which ended March 31, because of weak demand the higher yen and High operating costs. Allied Charlie revisited workers carry the sign from the former checkpoint Charlie in Berlin to the City s new Allied museum on Friday. The museum will be opened by German Chan cellar Helmut Kohl today with an exhibition on the Western allies role in postwar Berlin. Behind the sign is a French made amx-30 main Battle tank. Sex est germans is red lost land to soviets to n at g it it Back Bonn Germany a about 13,000 people who lost property during a massive postwar collectivization program by East Germany s soviet occupiers will not be Given Back their land the government said Friday. But the dispossessed would be Able to Purchase East German land at reduced prices under a Bill worked put by a parliamentary conference committee officials said. The soviets seized More than 13,300 Square Miles nearly a third the land area of former East Germany Between 1945-49 and redistributed it into collective  of the dispossessed owners were Nobles who the soviets say were nazi sympathizers but there is a great Deal of debate Over How True that assertion is. Since East Germany merged with West Germany in 1990, the original owners have been hoping they will get their property  German government says Moscow made none Versal of the 1945-49 land Reform a condition for its approval of Germany s reunification. Mikhail Gorbachev Leader of the soviet Union when it collapsed insisted in a letter to a British historian that he never stipulated this As a condition German newspapers have reported. But German officials who were involved in the reunification negotiations wit Moscow insist Gorbachev is wrong Friedrich Bohl Chancellor Helmut Kohl s chief of staff showed reporters Unity Era documents Friday that he said prove the soviets demanded that the land not be Given  Federal government holds to the agreements on the irreversibility of measures having to do with the so called land Reform in the soviet occupation zone Bohl said. He said government officials were trying to Contact Gorbachev for an explanation. Even though they can t get their land  original owners May get something for their losses. On thursday the parliamentary conference committee said it had agreed that unused East German agricultural and Forest land in the hands of a government privatization Agency would be made available to dispossessed owners at prices that Are less than Market value. The proposal had been made before but was rejected by the upper House of parliament because Eastern Ger Man Farmers would not have been eligible for the Cut rate prices. The conference committee s proposal extends the Low prices about 40 percent less than mar Ket value to Eastern German Farmers As Well. The Bill now goes to parliament for approval. Dane a in Ditri of hate literature Copenhagen Denmark a a Dane has been charged with helping distribute German Neo nazi pamphlets listing 250 opponents for final Elimina Tion police said Friday. The illegal pamphlets written printed and distributed in Germany carried a Post office Box address in randers Northern Denmark the town s police chief said. " ,. The Dane whom police would identify Only As a Man in his late 20s, was charged thursday with participation to threats police said. I if convicted the Man faces fines and up to two Yearsin prison. " / -. The Man had participated in severe threats said police chief Kjeld Roum Svendsen without  -. No.  ". Rpm Svendsen could not confirm press reports that the Man was a member of Denmark s National socialist movement or a Nib the country s largest Neo nazi  ,.". A the 50-Page pamphlet had a Coupon for More information obtainable by writing to a Post office Box which turned out to be rented by a Nib s press office. � r a the publication listing names and addresses for those in line for suppression an final elimination was called Ein Blick the German word forinsight." four persons so far have been charged in Germany in connection with the publication said Roum Svend sen. He said none of the threats has been carried out. Anti nazi groups claim that Denmark has become a Haven for Neo nazis because of Liberal iaws7 which allow publication and dissemination of nazi pro Pagan a ". A former nazi is officer has lived in Southern Den Mark since 1986 to evade German charges of spreading outlawed nazi propaganda. Denmark has turned Dow German requests to extradite Thies Christophersen 24, because he holds a danish residence permit. In july a 23-year-old German National was extra. Died to Germany after having fled charges of aggravated assault in a Neo nazi gang attack on bar patrons. The Man was arrested in Christophersen s Home. Weather in . Sets summer head Marks by the associated press the summer of 1994 was the hottest on record for Las vegas Salt Lake City Philadelphia and Bridge port conn., the National weather service said. The average temperature at Las vegas for example was 92.9, breaking the record of 92.2 set in 1962. The average temperature of 78.6 at Salt Lake Cit broke the record of 77.7 set in 1988. Philadelphia s average temperature of 78.4 topped the record of 78.2, set Only last year. An average temperature of 74.1 at Bridgeport also broke last year s re Cord of 74. The National severe storms forecast Cen Ter in Kansas City my which released the statistics thursday defined summer As june july and  areas especially in the Southeast Hall a very wet summer