European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Zurich of face of a City transformed police vehicle at Street Barrier during clashes with youths in by Margaret Studer Atlanta Constitution for window shopping in Zurich the most elegant of Swiss cities was a on whole families would stroll the Broad length of the famous Barnho Strasse for an afternoon of Wishful but now the Beautiful shops have been boarded  buildings have been smeared with and the fun of the family outings has been replaced with even in less than a the face of a City has been Over peaceful Zurich traditional Refuge of revolutionaries like Lenin who favored upheaval elsewhere has been regularly battered by police baiting Young commandos who freely admit that they get a great feeling of Relief from smashing store since May these few Hundred City guerrillas have held Zurich in their grip with a guile and tenacity that would make their banker elders proud if Only Bent in a More constructive shopkeepers Are faced with As yet a assessed millions in property not to mention the sales losses suffered during the Holiday season As anxious customers steered Clear of the shopping District on riot and although Sigmund president of the City vowed in a new years eve interview that his administration would not stand for a continuation of the youth municipal authorities seem unable to come to grips with a workout police Force frequently has shot tear Gas and rubber bullets at anyone unlucky enough to walk into the Battle and the population has coalesced into two antagonistic one calling for understand ing and the other demanding the harshest measures to get the vandals off the after a turbulent summer and Youthful Mili Tants announced there would be a hot Winter they proved their Point by making the Holiday season the most depressing one Zurich has seen in the City As the militants like to romantically Call turned a peaceful Christmas eve March through the City into a pitched Battle Between police and anyone who looked like a at 11 on some demonstrators concerned priests and writers gathered peacefully in a Park at the end of the hot soup was and speakers like Adolf a leading Swiss literary spoke against the group was asking for the reopening of a Zurich youth Center that had been closed in september after police found drugs there and criminal suspects using it As a the shutdown of the Center directly resulted in one of the worst riots in the cites with wide spread firebombing and Street in the Christmas eve demonstrators were asking for a gathering place where the cites youth could be on their own and for support for the alternative youth As Zurich Young people see these Are legitimate demands in an expensive City where huge sums Are Given to support the traditional tastes of the over40 generation with highly subsidized Heaters and establishment demonstrators decided to March Down the Bohnhof Strasse to the closed youth Center a broke Down factory behind the railway station but they did not reckon with the City indians in their As mus chg talked of the hard Core had gathered near the youth their messengers on motorbikes were moving Between the Lakeside Park and youth Center monitoring the demonstrators every As they approached the youth the militants rushed into the front ranks of the March and started forcing their Way into the closed policemen inside called the demonstrators shouted for the militants to the police inside Only heard the shouts of the militants in the front Many of whom had now managed to get into the then the Battle was the police attacked with a massive display of tear Gas and rubber bullets that sent not Only but old and children scurrying for their the militants had achieved their aim photos of Zurich police in Battle dress sent around the the City presented As a repressive the Barnho Strasse looked like the scene of a civil window smashing and the Catan mouse Chase Between police and guerrillas went on into the Earl hours of the the militants Are usually numbered at 200 to a Small group to set a modern City in such a Bui their i Landrun tactics have made them enormously difficult to and it is even More difficult to prosecute a Case against a captured riot in the militants sound extraordinarily mor they justify violence with what they Call their legitimate need to resist the repression of their the consumer the the political the the the As one said in a recent in certain cases violence smashing the windows of a department store or setting a factory on fire is necessary so that we get listened the militants admit that they do not have any specific plans beyond their but Many observers see the logical conclusion As the beginning of Urban terrorism in the who have managed to resolve peacefully linguistic and ethnic problems that have deeply split other societies seem unable to handle this one Proba Bly because the older Swiss just cannot understand Why youth should be unhappy in one of the richest countries in the after As Many of their elders express if they got along with limited living Tough working hours and Why cant their sons and daughters do like Wise but Many of Switzerland Young people Are not disposed to live to work As their fathers and the result is no uncharacteristic of the Swiss who have always been Able to Settle their own internal problems in the As London school of economics director Ralf Darrem Dorf has Zurich could be just the first in a general outbreak of frustration among european youth that no longer identifies with the values of its january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 9