European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes april 1985 Skyhook unveiled up photo a Skyhook developed by British aerospace reaches out to grab a hovering sea harrier in the first demonstration of the the company says it could turn any ship Over tons into an aircraft world today canadians demonstrate in protest of cruise missile Star wars British Columbia up tens of thousands of canadians demonstrated saturday against the testing of cruise missiles in Canada and any role their country might play in president reagans Star wars police said More than people marched through downtown carrying thousands of brightly col ored balloons and placards Reading Stop Star organizers placed the figure at a crowd of had originally been predicted for the mile Long but an drizzle kept attendance far below last years i think this Isa Good indication that people in Canada Are concerned about whats happening As far As the arms race is Frank chairman of the end the arms race told the throng As it assembled at a Beach on Vancouver English regardless of the its pretty obvious the peo ple of British Columbia Are willing to come out and dem Kennedy mayor Michael Harcourt said the rally proved Vancou ver is the peace capital of North organizers had worked for months with Church and labor officials to prepare for Canadas largest annual peace Kennedy said this years protest was against the testing of unarmed american cruise missiles in Canada and Rea Gans strategic defense the so called Star wars plan to develop an antimissile shield in outer in organizers had predicted a crowd of some would stage a protest at City but police estimated that Only in police arrested six people after about 150 protesters staged a demonstration on the Steps of Par the demonstration in the nations capital also was in tended to protest last mondays removal of a handful of peace campers who had lived in tents on the front Lawn of parliament for More than two police arrested the six protesters when they tried to re establish the peace issues have been in the forefront of Canadian politics this with february first free flight test of a cruise missile Over Canada and the debate in Ottawa on whether the government should take part in Star wars now that the government is flirting with the Reagan proposition on Star i think it is going to create a lot of new interest and Effort in calling for a nuclear freeze and arms Kennedy protest organizers had said Large turnouts across the country were essential to prove that Canadas anti Mili movement is still j african Gold miners tired South Africa a a Esti mated Black miners were fired saturday after a week of work stoppages in a dispute Over higher wages at the worlds largest Gold the government radio the report said the Anglo american one of the worlds largest mining and Mineral marketing fired on third of Black miners at the Vaal reefs exploration and mining 150 Miles West of the South african broadcasting which is run by the said the miners were told of their dismiss Al Early saturday As they prepared to begin work on the Day spokesmen for Anglo american did not answer their Home or office telephones saturday Anglo american is a private company that operates mines in South where Gold is the chief source of foreign the company also owns an International Diamond mar keying which controls the worldwide cutting and Selling of last week miners staged work stoppages and slowdowns because the company offered a 10 percent wage increase Only to Black the Allback National Union of which represents most of the said it wanted the pay increase extended to All Black the company has said it will not authorize a Blanket wage increase before negotiations begin next month be tween the Union and the South african chamber of a coalition of mine managers that bargains with White and Black mine it was not until 1979 that Blacks were allowed to form the wage increase offered to Black who supervise Only would have raised a Junior supervisors monthly pay from 600 Rand to 660 italian company wins contract to Supply naval Cannon to Rome a for the second time this an ital Ian arms manufacturer has won a contract from the defense officials of the Oto Melara a stat controlled company specializing in heavy Arma they said their firm has received a million contract from the Navy to Supply 76mm naval Cannon within four last Fabbricia Darmi Pietro Beretta won a million contract for its 9mm pistol to replace the Caliper pistol for All branches of the beating out seven other bidders to become the first foreign firm selected to Supply handguns to american London club teased customers with drinks stripped of booze London a customers in a London striptease club were charged 90 pounds for a bottle of Schloss Boonenberg Champagne that was simply col ored and Flavoured a judge the club also sold a cobra kick cocktail for 20 pounds that was just sugared he patrons at the Soho 2 club in the Soho District were promised nude girls and nonstop but All they got was an occasional topless said judge Ger Ald Butler at the Southwark Crown court in the judge sentenced five people who ran the including former policewoman Janet to suspended prison sentences of three months to two years and fined them up to pounds and pounds each in court Legal actor killed by stage gun loaded with real ammunition France up an actor standing backstage during a scene in which indians attack a White family was shot and killed with a stage gun loaded with real Rene died after he was shot by an other actor during a performance of the play the wind in the Sassafras the shooting occurred during a scene in which indians and White settlers Exchange gunfire supposedly with guns loaded with Blank a police spokesman said one of the guns was loaded with real police Are investigating the he prototype of Reading machine unveiled by japanese ministry Tokyo a the ministry of International Trade and Industry has unveiled a prototype of a machine that reads books using a voice the Kyodo news Agency it said the machine can turn pages automatically and can read chinese and japanese characters at a rate of about 20 pages an the project was started in 1982 in an Effort to help the approximately people in Japan who Are Blind or nearly the news Agency the Proto Type costs about Kyodo there Are similar machines in the United states which can read but they cannot handle complicated chinese or japanese Kyodo Byron satire on War and cruelty found in publishers cellar London a a previously unknown essay by lord Byron satirizing human cruelty and War has been discovered in the cellar of his John the sunday Telegraph it said the document was found by the 19thcentury poets professor Leslie it quoted him As saying it was a strange composition in byrons unmistakable the dated March concerns the 14thcentury conqueror remembered both for his legendary barbarity and the cultural achievements of the Empire he ruled from Marchand was quoted As til Telegraph said the essay would appear May 17 in the times literary