European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes Money matters thursday december 29.1994 today s rates following arc fixed rates a which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell for eign currencies to . Personnel for personal use British Pound 1.59 dutch Guilder 1.72 Gorman Mark. 1.54 note the rates above apply of than the hos country. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar following Are Interbank rates that fluctuate and should be regarded As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign Curren cies austrian Schilling. 11.0930 Bahrain Dinar 0.3770 belgian franc 32.4050 British Pound. 1.5435 Canadian Dollar 1.4031 danish Krone .6.1855 Butch Guilder 1.7605 French franc 5.4305 Igor Man Mark. 1.5708 greek drachma. 243.820 italian lira. 1,645.00 Kuwait Dinar. 0.3000 norwegian Krone. 6.8830 portuguese escudo. 161.950 saudi Royal. 3.7507 Spanish peseta 133,460 Swiss franc. 1.3285 turkish lira 38,390.00 note figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quote $381.75 an ounce Silver quote $4.82 an ounce sources merchants National Bank & Trust co. And the associated press new York Exchange new York a sales of the 15 most Active new trading nationally on tuesday. Nit  Nab Walmart. Yff soc ask   Citicorp. Genele Camerick Empire Sci sprint got Rabas closing Price and net change York Stock Exchange issues volume 13,692,500 3.388.200 3,107.300 2.389,400 2.339.700 2,260.500 1,889,000 1.874.300 1.779,300 i,774,900 1.753,800 1,682.400 1.670,600 1.625,300 1.596,400 last chg. 37vi -2 Isk h 21 i v420v h h 20 -3v429tt -3 s8v4 140v4 -1h 51w 1v4 39h h 15v4 -3h 26h h 17ft -2h i american Exchange new York a sales closing Price and net Chang of the 10 most Active american Stock Exchange issues trading nationally on tuesday name volume Viacom vat 2.390,000inlerdlgcm 1,888,400 up Lope 1,063,200usbiosci 1,023,000 Lacomb 567300royaloakq 447,700 Andrea i 364 200 Ivan up 361.600stylesvid Colo Ialota Tail dig. 13/16-1/187vi h 23tt -1h2vt it 40 v43v4 1/18 26v 2v418vt h 343,400213/16-115/18321.300 14v4 1v4 Channel train service to increase in january London a the High Speed train service from London to Paris through the Channel Tunnel will Start running four times a Day next month doubling the frequency of runs. Euro Star which began service nov. 14, said it also will run a fifth train fridays. Service from London to Brussels Belgium will increase from two to three a Day. With gop Victory unions fear More setbacks in 95 Washington a after a bad year on Capitol Hill in 1994, labor unions Are expecting an even worse 1995. Some of organized labor s Best demo cratic friends were swept out in the re publican takeover of Congress and the Linton White House has been on oppo site sides of the unions in some High pro file Battles. So Union lobbyists Are Pon Dering How much of their legislative Agenda to Advance next  of the things we had a lot of Hope for just Are not going to be there said Donald Kaniewski a lobbyist for Thel borers International Union of North America. Some things Are just off the table. I d like to be optimistic. This Union has some Republican friends. We have some relationships with other republicans and we talk to them. Are we going to be persuasive on every Issue probably not. But Well certainly look to enter into dialogue on a variety of  having democrats in control did t help unions much in 1994. Unions failed to push through their top legislative priority a Bill that would have outlawed permanent re placement of striking workers. Despite furious lobbying they were left empty handed when president Clin ton s health care Reform plan died. They never got committee votes on Reform of the occupational safety and health administration or labor Law Reform and they gave up on increasing the minimum  they opposed the worldwide Trade agreement that Congress adopted in its waning Days at Clinton s insistence. All that came after they began the year reeling from an embarrassing defeat when they fiercely opposed Clinton on the North american free Trade  president Ron Carey said organized labor is going to continue with our Agenda despite the Republican takeover of Congress we will have a lot of difficulties he acknowledged. We have to sit Down an Start a dialogue with people. I Don t think it s  others weren t so certain. It s hard to see How any of their Agenda will become Law unless somewhere along the line there is a new coalition formed be tween labor and the Republican party said Larry Sabato a political science pro Fessor at the University of. Virginia. Their problem is that they re virtually an operating subsidiary of the democratic party. It did not used to be that Way they used to support a fair number of republicans. But now labor Polit Calac Tion committee Money is Given 95 per cent or better to democratic candidate so they have no voice when the republicans take Over James Thurber a political science pro Fessor and director of the Center for congressional and presidential studies at american University said he believes republicans All but a few of the real right wingers will be As willing sever to talk to labor lobbyists. But he said unions Are not going to be part of the inner negotiations As the have been in the past on some issues i have had Access to Republican members. I see no reason Why i would not have Access again said Bob Mcglot ten chief lobbyist for the Al Cio. The question is what happens after you have the Access i have no expectations. I have at this particular Point no reason to criticize and no reason to have great expectations. I la just have to wait and see until we have some discussions with  kits ready for new Kin d of dads a kit for new dads is displayed in Helsinki Finland. It contains items such As a bib diaper changing Matt shirts and Cookbook. Helsinki Finland a finns introduced a popular kit for new mothers in 1938. Now they want to make parenthood easier for fathers with a daddy kit. The cardboard Box contains baby care items including a tape measure bib diaper changing mat Cookbook and a to shirt for dad and his firstborn. It was the right time to introduce the kit said Seija Sihvola from the Man Sterheim league for child welfare. We Are seeing the emergence of a new kind of father who wants to participate More and More i being a  the league is providing the kit to fathers for about 540, half its actual Cost. All new mothers get a free kit Worth about $415. Finland like other nordic countries already pro Vides extensive support for pregnant women and new mothers through existing welfare programs. About 80 percent of finnish mothers choose the mom skit after their firstborn baby. The Mother s kit consists of a Large Box that Dou Bles As a cot. It includes baby clothes a padded sleeping bag that converts into a suit Nail scissors and baby Cream. There Are also condoms for new parents who veal ready had enough. Dad s kit has a dad s file on child care a Cas Sette of songs a song Book and advice about sex Atter pregnancy smoking and drinking and . One of the main Aims was to answer the questions Many fathers keep asking Sihvola said. We also wanted to encourage fathers to be closet their babies and make food and sing to  a if Mannerheim league for child welfare Wimch introduced the Mother s package 56 years ago has made a first Batch of 1,500 kits for fathers. Of ,m?l-s�ubelieve5 the father s kit is the Only on of its kind in the world. I millin. There Are 62,000 an in Finland. Some 40,000 Are firstborn. We a w Ai Tel Wai in America n ice Crea m makes return to Vietnam m to ,. A a Hanoi Vietnam a american ice Cream has returned to Vietnam with the opening of a Baskin Robbins outlet in to Chi Minh City. Manager Bui i Hoanh said tuesday the shop opened dec. 18 and has averaged about 100 customers a Day with such exotic flavors As Transylvania Choco late and Rocky Road. A single scoop Cone Sells for about $1.60, or More than a Day s wage for the average vietnamese factory worker. A double scoop sundae costs three Davs wages. 3 but Hoanh said he thinks growth prospects Are Good the Quality is much better than vietnamese ice Cream he said m a Telephone interview. Vietnamese developed a taste for ice Cream while under French colonial Rule and local ice Cream shoos Are plentiful in Large cities. V to Chi Minh City formerly called Saigon also is Vietnam s most prosperous City and chief tourist Desti nation. Its older residents remember american ice c earn from the 1960s and 1970s, when thousands of . Diplomats and military officers were stationed there Dunn the Vietnam War. Baskin Robbins based in Glendale calif., is the first ?m?2ny t0 pen in Vietnam since Washington lifted a 19-year economic embargo in feb