European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 r the stars and stripes tuesday november 1,1994 computer your Road to Success on cd Street Atlas usa1 has your address by David Colker los Angeles times even if you Are so jaded a cd rom user you think  the master of myst emperor of Encarta and ruler of rebel assault there Are still cd rooms out there that will make your jaw drop. We re not talking about new special. Effect filled games or virtual reality worlds. The most amazing cd rom i Veseen recently takes place right Here on Earth and although digital is . Street Atlas Usa includes every Street in the United states on one cd  Atlas according to True Delorme mapping company of Maine that developed it includes More than 12 million streets and More than 1 million other features such As Parks lakes River Sand airports. A printout of All the maps on the Dis would cover 10 football Fields. And it s All sear Chable by place name  code or Telephone Exchange. Pick up that jaw it s time to go exploring. Let s say your aunt Tess lives on the. 700 Block of Shady Lane in Dallas  fire up Street Atlas which opens with a map of the country. You Click on place Type in Dallas and up pops a list of 15 cities and towns with that name from Alabama to West Virginia. You choose Texas and the screen quickly changes to a map entering on mid town Dallas. At this magnification Kennedy Center my .l.-, Whitehouse a the South Lawn  a " s of a a jul a h const Tutor ave t ass a % a the old Way of looking at maps May be gone a forever. Level the Only locales that Are marked Are major thoroughfares Large Parks and major City institutions such As the Dallas convention Center and scottish rite     clicking on Street you fill in Shady Lane and the map zooms in to show you an approximately Tive Square mile area with Shady Lane which is Only about four blocks Long highlighted in the Middle. You can zoom in a bit More until the map covers a less than Square mile area showing All the intersections on Shady Lane. ".", /  re practically close enough to Knock on aunt Tess door. While i was doing this search my Friend Charlie who does not think cd rooms Are of use to anyone who actually has a life happened to Call. He challenged me to see if the coastal town of Oysterville wash., was included in Street  Charlie had spent his boyhood Summers at his grandmother s House in Oysterville which has a year round population of about 20. Until 1980, the. Only Telephone service available there was on party lines. Oysterville was not listed in either of the two print Road atlases Rand Mcnally and Grosset --1 had at hand. But Street Atlas found it in less than10 seconds. Wow said Charlie repeatedly As i read off the names of streets including one named for his great great Grandfather the first White person to Settle in the area. V suddenly Charlie was telling me family stories about How a tribal chief had once saved his great great Grandfather s life and in tones that travelled the full Range from cynicism to sentimentality my Friend related boyhood tales of the idyllic town. Maps do that to people they Are full of Points of remembrance and also Points of jogging places we be always planned on visiting but have not yet seen and maybe never will. The maps in Street Atlas Are neither Beautiful nor distinctive. For the most part they Are red grids of streets on peach coloured backdrops practically indistinguishable design Wise whether you Are in Dallas or Oysterville. And unless you Are a private investigator or otherwise have a practical need for this kind of detailed Atlas Street Atlas which Sells for about $80 and is available for both macintosh and windows would basically be a Novelty item in the Home. After zeroing in on places of interest to you and your friends it would probably get Only occasional use but just the fact that this amazing tool not Only exists but is available to anyone who Hasa cd rom player is astonishing. At the end of our conversation Charlie asked me to printout the close up of Oysterville so he could mail it to his grandmother. He wanted to show this woman whose Grandfather had followed the Lewis and Clark Trail to the Northwest Only 50 years after the Trail s namesakes that in the digital realm her town was getting due recognition. V More cases of cholera confirmed in italian area from the associated press Bari Italy two More people have come Down with cholera raising to 10 the number of cases confirmed in the past week officials said monday. For the first time however one of the cases was caused by eating Leafy Green vegetables heightening fears that local Fields were irrigate with contaminated water. The other cases have been blamed on raw shellfish. There have been no reports of cholera outside the Bari area on the Adriatic coast 270 mile Southeast of Rome.  tax taking effect London Britain is to impose its first Airport tax today with travellers to the United states and other intercontinental destinations paying 10 pounds about $16 and those to most West european cities 5 pounds about $8. The conservative government Hopes to raise 331 million pounds about $550 million a year by charging passengers As they leave the country. The tax is added to the ticket Price. Airport taxes Are common in Many countries. But airlines in Britain protested that a tax was not being imposed on competitors including trains ferries buses and the Channel Tunnel. 3 die in s. Korean spree Seoul South Korea a South korean army private went on a rampage monday shooting two officers to death and wounding even other soldiers before killing himself military officials said. Pvt. Huh Mun Shik 21, turned his automatic Rifle on fellow soldiers during a firing exercise Northeast of Seoul the officials said. Huh then turned the Rifle on himself said the officials at the army s Headquarters. Germans tune in As outlaws take captives on wild Chase Bonn Germany a two armed prison escapees seized three batches of hostages and robbed a Bank monday in a gripping Cross country crime 15inge that began with the kidnapping of two police officers. A woman abducted by the outlaws pleaded with police from a car phone in the getaway car to Stop their Pursuit she said her husband also a hostage had been slightly wounded by a gunshot. The conversation was carried live on rtl2 Televik.  ,-.,like the televised freeway Chase across Southern California earlier this year for football legend . Simpson accused of murdering his wife and her Friend the Pursuit of the German convicts received massiveness Media coverage. Helicopters and police squad cars followed the out Laws As they headed toward Berlin on an Eastern Ger Man autobahn in a car stolen from an rtl2 camera Man.  " the bandits stopped at at least four autobahn rest stops stealing a new getaway car each time and terror izing their owners with threats. The newspaper Bild reached the outlaws on the car Telephone. They said that two of their hostages were elderly and that one had been wounded by police in a Exchange of fire. The police shot at us and hit him in the forearm one of the prison escapees told Bild. We want to go to a warm country to France or Spain. We have four pistols and hand grenades. If the police push us into a Corner then everything will be exploded the outlaw said. The two escapees fled from a Hamburg prison three weeks ago police said. One of two 32-year-old Ray mond Albert a murderer once served in an elite unit of the former East German army. His escape  Polak 35, is Swiss. The drama started when the pair kidnapped two police officers in the Southern German City of Stuttgart. They drove 130 Miles North to Fulda and robbed a Bank of 200,000 Marks $136,000using one of the kid napped officers As a shield police said. The bandits switched getaway cars at least four times in their attempt to elude police stealing the Auto mobiles at gunpoint officials said. After the robbery they freed the officers on a High Way and grabbed a Man and his two children then barricaded themselves inside a House in Hoetzel Sroda about 43 Miles East of Fulda. Then they fled dropping the children off near Eise Nach and switching getaway vehicles police said. Grab Bing two More hostages a Man and a woman they sped East through former East Germany 4 westerners abducted in India reports say i  / a a �. A. I London a an american and three britons were kidnapped in India s capital by Independence seeking Kashmiri n militants the foreign office an the bbl reported monday. The foreign office said the men taken hostage in. New Delhi were ail in their 20s and apparently backpackers. The British broadcasting corp. Said an extremist islamic group delivered to its new Delhi office photo graphs of the four men being held at gunpoint and a letter saying they would be killed unless nine named militants were released from jails in Northern India s Jammu and Kashmir state. The control of the state i disputed by Pakistan. The bbl said the american hostage might have �15i u Dave stumbled on an american being Damn chains in new Delhi about the same time As a Man delivered news of the kidnapping to the bbl offices m the capital the report said. There was no immediate confirmation that the chained american was one of the four hostages. J