European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes april Law amended to allow military registration of some soviet women Moscow a the soviet Union has changed its 1967 military Law so that some women Between the Ages of 19 and 40 with medical or other specialized skills can be registered for military the most recent copy of the decrees of the presidium of the supreme the governments lawmaking body Between by annual parliamentary says paragraph 3 of the 1967 which concerns draft has been the amendment says that soviet citizens Between the Ages of 19 and with medical or other special in be entered on the Mili tary Register and Given military and also taken on a voluntary basis for Active military under the 1967 women aged 19 to 30 could Volunteer for Active duty for terms of four or six and could serve until age most serve in medical or communications posts or As teachers in military the difference introduced by the Amend ment is that women with specialized skills can now be registered for military training in the wording of the amendment makes that they Are not Eligi ble for the peacetime draft applied to All soviet males for Active military a declining population growth caused by Low birthrates in the Western part of the soviet Union is thought by Western analysts to be causing problems for soviet military leaders anxious to keep up the armed forces but the latest amendment does not Widen the draft according to one West Ern is expected to drop below 2 Mil lion this compared to million in the amendment also says the the govern ment could order women drafted in War time into the auxiliary or other unspecified special about 1 million women served in the so Viet armed forces in world War Many of the women were Denmark a free cleaners loin growing labor turmoil Copenhagen a debris from demonstrations littered Copenhagen streets tuesday As Street cleaners joined in Den Marks continuing wave of Block Ades and labor protests were expected to continue in Many parts of Denmark against a govern ment intervention which was to have sent strikers Back to work monday with pay raises of 2 percent or the Center of the danish capital was left littered with broken Beer bottles and Dis rain Sodden posters from a Large and sometimes violent demonstration Mon Day outside christians org the seat of Street cleaners were also reported on strike in Denmark other major cities of Odense and municipal bus service was stopped in Copenhagen for a second consecutive Day with strikers maintaining Block Ades at bus another blockade during the night pre vented automobiles from being unloaded from a ferry which had arrived in aarhus from the danish town of passengers were permitted to leave the but 50 chose to stay aboard overnight with their ferry operators danish mail service was crippled by walkouts of postal singing nun Jeanine Deckers at the height of her Fame in a photo Belgium singing companion kill selves Belgium a Jeanine the guitar playing belgian singing nun who won world Fame More than 20 years ago with her song committed suicide at her Home police reported she was a police spokesman said police were alerted by friends who had not heard from her and a Friend who shared her police investigated and found the bodies of the two women who had died of Over doses of the spokesman police set the time of death As Fri Day or saturday and said the women had left a suicide friends said the two women had been very depressed for some partly because of financial Deckers entered the dominican con vent of Fiche Mont near Brussels in noted for her High pitched she was pressed to make a her first was an immediate hit and reached the top of the charts in More than 100 different versions of the song were including an electronic one she did in although she made other she never repeated the Success of do in she left the Convent but stayed close to its she tried with her Friend to run an institution for handicapped children but had to give up for Lack of funds and later tried to earn a living by teaching music and khad Afy Calls for liberation of All Arab lands Libya a libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy urged a new International organization to launch revolutionary including suicide to liberate All Arab the official libyan news Agency Jana reported he spoke at the end of a today session of the newly founded National command for the Arab revolutionary which khad Afy established last month to unite All Arab revolutionary and guerrilla Jana said those attending the meeting included people from Iraq and Leb As Well As from factions of the pales Tine liberation organization opposed to Plo Leader Yasser the National command has also been joined by libyan backed guerrilla groups in Sudan and our Mission in this command is to turn the individual suicidal operations and the aspirations of the Arab citizens in liberation and sacrifice into an organized civilized Jana quoted khad Afy As saying sunday it does not matter How big or Small the number of the party or front he the question is to launch a Battle in an individual or suicidal there is no escape and no Way out but that is to say to confront violence with he while urging the adoption and practising of revolutionary violence for the liberation and unification of All Arab lands from the Atlantic Ocean to the persian khad Afy accused Israel of trying to de stroy Arab nations and said thac covered by the american the zionist enemy is working with great he said that the Mission of destroying zionism and imperialism can Only be accomplished by revolutionary groups because formal regimes and governments by their very incapable of meeting the demands of this khad Afy has been repeatedly frustrated by not being Able to unite All Arab his founding of the new organization appears to be yet another Effort to unify arabs while circumventing reluctant gov the National command issued a final communique saying its purpose was to lib Erate All occupied Arab lands a phrase which usually includes year old baby burned to death in Africa violence South Africa a a year old Black baby was burned to death when rioters threw a gasoline bomb into a police said the attack also set nine nearby shacks several clashes occurred in at least seven townships in the Eastern Cape where violence has flared repeatedly since police shot and killed 19 Black marchers on March township near nine shacks caught fire after a Home was hit by a gasoline bomb at a spokesman at police Headquarters in Pretoria a child sleeping in one of the houses died in the police used rubber bullets and tear Gas several to break up crowds that set up burning roadblocks and stoned police the spokesman two police men and two soldiers were slightly injured in port Eliza Beths he in Chabong township near Welkom in the Orange free a Black township councilor was attacked by a Black mob and opened wounding one Man and one the spokesman at an inquiry into the police shootings in Langa township near police Gerhard stunner testified that a Black crowd of to marchers threw Many stones at the two armoured riot vehicles before the patrol began that contradicted testimony from the commanding John William on monday that just one Stone was thrown before Fouche ordered the men to stunner said he also shot a Man who was holding a gasoline bomb and another with a Brick in his stunner said be had told the Man next to him As the crowd i think its All Over for he added the crowd was carrying on they had ignored four commands to they were aggressive and they could have overrun earlier in the Fouche completed his testimony by say ing he fired a warning shot at the crowd and not the woman threw the Stone and other incidents Fouche said he could not explain the discrepancy be tween his testimony before the Oneman inquiry by Cape province supreme court Justice Donald Dannemeyer and his sworn statement on the Day of the in the Fouche had said a member of the crowd had produced what looked like a gasoline a woman had thrown a Rock and More were thrown before he fired a warning
