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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, June 3, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june rocks in first show of Europe four Ireland a some Rock fans saturday invaded this sleepy Village on the River roaring in unison As Bruce Springsteen kicked off a european promoters had promised no repeat of the violence that erupted when Bob Dylan played at the same site last july and despite some 140 injuries reported by hospitals and 10 they stuck to their Hospital authorities said none of the injured was seriously although 22 people were admitted to two the crowd was i was exceptionally Well pleased with them so much so that i Nad a message read to them thanking them Over the said chief superintendent Michael police divisional commander for the the Many waving the stars and stripes or the Irish filled a Valley overlooked by Slane As Springsteen struck up his first born in the the natural Amphitheater echoed with thou Sands of Irish voices joining the throughout the four hour concert the crowd listened with dancing to the beat and singing most of the injured suffered from heat exhaustion and minor cuts and bruises sustained during the con Cert As fans pressed Forward to hear Springsteen and at the end when they surged through the Lourdes Hospital spokeswoman Woisil Russell said most of the 12 people detained there suffered various Bone our Ladys Hospital reported that the 10 fans hospitalized there were suffering from Shock or head several dozen some of whom had been crushed against crowd were taken away by ambulance attendants Early in the two youths scrambled onto the stage and got close to Springsteen before being hustled away by private Security police said there were no violent of those four were held for having three for drunkenness and three for trying to get in with forged said a photo Bruce Springsteen fires up crowd in some 500 private Security guards joined More than police in guarding the sellout concert site on the grounds of the 30 Miles North of roads to the a tiny Crossroads in rolling county meath were sealed off by dozens of police Britain supports France in Eureka space research Lyndon a Britain has informed France that it intends to support the european technology initiative set up to counter a possible brain Drain to the american Star wars research the foreign office said foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe sent a letter to French foreign minister Roland Dumas on May 31 sup porting the so called european research coordination called a foreign office spokesman we intend to be fully involved in said the French president Francois Mitterrand launched Eureka after the United states invited its friends and allies to participate in research into the Star wars plan for space defences against nuclear he insisted that europeans need to preserve their capital of intelligence and most friends and allies have so far shunned Washington invitation to join the officially called the strategic defense initiative the final count int in but Only Britain and Israel have Given a Clear Denmark and Australia have said the other like West have shown vary ing degrees of Britain sees membership in Eureka As compatible with participation in Star wars the foreign office spokes Man Howes letter emphasized that the problems we have Are not so much of Basic research but of the deployment of existing resources and the exploitation of research and it agreed with the French analysis that the technology Gap Between Europe and the United states is the key problem Eureka should seek to the spokesman it also suggested that the european which meets in Milan on june 28 and establish a Small group of senior officials to consider How Eureka should the sunday observer said the question that remains unanswered on Star wars is whether the United states will expect its collaborators to commit Money to ski this will have a major bearing on the enthusiasm with which both Britain and Germany approach the it May Well be the recognition of this Factor which has con Vinced the government that Eureka May be a sounder basis for the weekly paper seized documents reveal plans for bombings new York a files seized in an apartment used by self proclaimed revolutionaries contain detailed plans to bomb the old executive office building in the White House the associated press has documents found in a file drawer marked in Progress also include very detailed plans to bomb up to a dozen other Federal offices in the Washington area and a building at the naval Academy in according to an assistant attorney in the documents were found in an apartment in evidence seized by the Fri links groups whose members used the apartment to Radi Cal organizations suspected of 16 bombings since including one in november 1983 at the the prosecutor in interviews thursday and investigators said the Fri also found expo stolen Cash and false identity papers in recent raids at the apartment and at other suspected Safe houses and garages in new York and it could be that we just got Lucky and happened to catch them on the Brink of a wave of said Barbara an assistant attorney in no timetable for carrying out the plans was she the raids stemmed from the arrest May 11 of Marilyn Jean wanted in a Bot Ched 1981 armoured car Holdup North of new York in which a guard and two police officers were prosecutors say the Holdup was carried out by a coalition of Radical political groups formed in the 1960s and Sale said the roomful of documents seized in Baltimore provided an exhaustive Catalon of the plans and activities of under ground radicals thought to be responsible for bombings and robberies since the it is unbelievable More Evi Dence than we can Ever she said in a Telephone there was a file drawer marked in and it contained plans and diagrams of a number of Federal with Marks where the bombs ought to be she said one plan diagrammed the old executive office which is located within the White House Complex and houses administration including an office of vice president George Bush and the office of management and the secret which is responsible for Security at the had no com ment on the matter because criminal charges were spokesman Michael Tarr Bucks Susan said that she was not aware of the allegations and declined to comment on prosecutors told the a that the bombing weapons and revolution Ary literature found in the raids indicate that members of the Radical groups remain Active in their goal to overthrow the Sale said there was evidence linking the apartment to one the United free Dom which has been linked by the Fri to several bomb including one that damaged a corridor in the Capitol in november soviets escalate attack against afghan guerrillas Pakistan a Waves of jets and helicopter gunships forced afghan guerrillas to abandon fortified Strong Points and Retreat As soviet armoured columns punched their Way up the strategic Kunar Valley guerrilla sources As the soviet attack escalated in of the pakistani government warned the Kabul government saturday to restrain its forces after planes flying from Afghanistan bombed a pakistani Village near the killing 11 afghan guerrilla groups reported that soviet and afghan government planes were using Large amounts of napalm in pounding the Kunar about so Miles North of the khyber As soviet armoured tons guerrilla sources said their lightly armed fighters could do Little against the attacking tanks and were falling or the party of one of the main guerrilla said soviet aircraft had bombed its Strong Points at a Riyal and Dobi in the and its fight ers had been forced to abandon their fortifications in the three guerrillas had been killed and 28 wounded in the bomb the group the guerrillas refused to reveal their strength in the but they said reinforcements were arriving from across the Border and other issued a Strong pro test saturday after planes bombed the pakistani Village of Sweer the Day the foreign ministry said a total of eight Mig 19s made four passes Over the Village and dropped 13 eleven people were killed and another 31 and much of the Village was de the ministry the afghan charge affaires was summoned to the foreign ministry and Given a Strong the ministry Afghani Stan was warned to restrain its forces or the entire responsibility for the serious consequences would rest on the Kabul a soviet planes operating in Afghanistan routinely use afghan air Force and there was no Way to determine the nationality of the planes that attacked Sweer is near the afghan town of Bari where an afghan army Garrison has been besieged by guerrilla forces for More than a the offensive in the Kunar is the first stage in a major soviet summer offensive to Seal the pakistani Border and choke off guerrilla Supply according to guerrilla commanders and Western intelligence the who Are fighting to oust the communist government of of operate from bases in the soviet Union supports the afghan and there Are an estimated soviet troops in the country fight ing the islamic  
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