FIRST it was called the Daily Worker, then the Morning Star and now it has re-emerged, if briefly, as The Workers' Morning Star. "Christianity is a religion of love and we should love each other."- AP, Cluj. Many of them did not make the sign of the cross in front of the cathedral, which one week ago was handed back to Eastern Rite Catholics after 50 years.Orthodox faithful customarily cross themselves in front of any Christian church.Eastern Rite Catholics who held a service yesterday shut the cathedral's front doors and said they would not allow any Orthodox inside. They used loudspeakers to broadcast the service into the street.The tension between the two religious communities dates back to the end of the Second World War, when Romanian Communists suppressed Romanian Christians who professed loyalty to the Vatican and in some cases handed over their buildings to the Orthodox church hierarchy.The Catholics claim that the Orthodox priests colluded with Communist authorities."You should be carrying Stalin's portrait," on old woman, who said she was an Eastern Rite Catholic, called out to the Orthodox priests.Last week, Romanians were shocked by scenes of Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholics hurling the communion table and other holy objects around Cluj's 16th-century cathedral.Police yesterday maintained a low-key presence on the march."I don't understand these manifestations," said Arpad Pal, an ethnic Hungarian watching the priests march. "Are you Orthodox? If so, come with us," an Orthodox priest called out to one of the 1,000 bystanders who had gathered in the centre of the city, 203 miles north-west of the Romanian capital, Bucharest. The Orthodox priests had come from all over Transylvania for the silent march.

Kommersant newspaper recently reported that the search was on for an investor willing to demolish it and build something more appropriate in its place. The newspaper published a front page photograph which "disappeared" the hotel. The resulting cityscape was greatly improved.Bringing the place down is the difficult bit; building something better, given the ugliness of the place, should be a doddle.. BLACK ROBES swishing, thousands of Orthodox priests silently marched in a show of strength through the Transylvanian city of Cluj yesterday, where a week ago Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholics exchanged fisticuffs in a contested cathedral.

The hotel is supposed to be divided into smaller hotels," explained its spokesman, Anatoly Buligin.But "official concepts" have a way of being ignored in Russia. There is an officially adopted concept about the development and reconstruction of the hotel which is signed by the Prime Minister [Viktor Chernomyrdin]. Moscow's city architect, Alexander Kuzmin, has disparagingly described the $85 (pounds 51) a night hotel ($50 for Russians) as a "hostel" - a reflection on its decline from one of the USSR's best establishments into seediness.Plans have been mooted to refurbish it, divide it into four separate hotels, and to lower its highest points, which rise to 12 storeys, obstructing views to the Kremlin. In fact, according to the hotel's spokesman, no fewer than 120 proposals of various forms have been made "These are being examined," he said Equally cagey was the Moscow Association of Hotels "This is not a simple process. It has 3,071 rooms for 5,000 guests and the corridors are of such endless-seeming lengths that Russians jokingly advise visitors to arrive with a compass.History has not been kind A fire in 1977 which killed 42 people did not close it Nor did a plague of rats and cockroaches in 1994. But now claims are circulating in the capital about plans for the hotel, which stands only 200 metres from the Kremlin walls.Just over a year ago, the city announced a scheme to let it to the New York property tycoon Donald Trump for modernisation So far that has not materialised.