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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday september 18,1985 rioting flares at closed s. African High school Johannesburg South Africa a police tuesday fired rubber bullets and tear Gas and arrested scores of students parents and teachers who tried to re open a High school closed because of rioting witnesses said. Thousands of mixed race youths around Cape town heeded a Call to defy the government s closure of 464 schools. Armed police turned people away at most places without incident but clashes broke out at one school in the Athlone District. Police also fired rubber bullets and tear Gas to break up crowds of students who were stoning Naldi High school in sow clo near Johannesburg said a reporter who witnessed the clash. Students told the reporter that soldiers had ordered the youths to leave the school monday but the youths re turned a Day later seeking the principal whom they suspected of working with police. One youth was seen taken away in an ambulance alter the fighting. Meanwhile South african soldiers and planes ranged into Southern Angola for a second Day in what the military said was a preemptive strike against Black nationalist guerrillas fighting South african Rule Over South West Africa. The government had closed schools indefinitely sept. 6 in Cape town s mixed race townships after fierce rioting in late August and Early september left More than 30 people dead. More than 360,000 students normally attend the schools. Following an Appeal monday by a teachers committee and other opposition groups thousands of youths teachers and parents turned up at school buildings tuesday morn ing. Organizers said closing the schools was an extreme and unwarranted punitive measure against the entire com  at Alexander Sinton school in Al Lone youths and parents broke into the school grounds and barricaded entrances with private cars and buses witnesses said. About 4,000 people gathered and a group of police became trapped on the school grounds after arresting at least 60 parents teachers and students the South african press association said. Police in armoured vehicles blocked off roads and fired tear Gas and rubber bullets at a school parking lot where students and teachers had gathered along with several reporters Sapa said. The police who were trapped in the area separated from other units by the crowd also fired tear Gas the Agency said. As tension build hundreds of youths gathered in nearby streets and set fire to barricades of rubble. They were chased by about 200 police on foot and a half dozen a Mored vehicles reporters said. Police maj. Dolf Odendaal shouted at one Point through a Loudspeaker that the crowds must break up adding we will hit you hard. We Are tired of telling you to go  police Headquarters said rioting flared in the Atlantis mixed race township North of Cape town on monday night and a youth was shot in the head and badly wounded by a private Motorist whose car was being stoned. Louis be Grange minister of Law and order said Early tuesday i am thankful to be Able to say that there is a definite decline in the number of incidents of unrest in the  the citizen a pro government paper said be Grange s remarks suggested that the government might be planning to lift a inc Wick old state of emergency in 36 riot Lorn cities and towns. But in Grange did not mention the Emer  Grange said last week that More than a year of rioting had left 660 people dead two thirds of them shot by police and the rest killed in Black in fighting. Bus the private South african Institute of race relations has put the death toll at More than 700. On monday South african soldiers and planes swept into marxist Angola for the second time in 10 weeks to Hunt guerrillas of the South West Africa people s organization. The pro government afrikaans language newspaper a cold said tuesday that army officials expected relatively Low casualties because the operation was aimed at disrupt ing logistical support for the guerrillas rather than focus ing on guerrilla personnel. So to Africa rules South West Africa also known As Namibia in Defiance of . Demands for the California sized area s Independence. South Africa assumed control of the mostly Black territory of i million people by a league of nations mandate after world War i. Swap guerrillas have fought a 19-year guerrilla War for namibian Independence. South african official say nearly 10,000 guerrillas and 566 South african Soldin have been killed in that time. Scandal from Page 1 seizing s3, were reported missing and officials said they suspected they had defected to East Germany. They arc under investigation. Richler worked As a lobbyist in Bonn for an influential East european exile group and is said to Hare had Access to secret information. Seizing reportedly knew of a secret defense Bunker set up for West German government officials in the event of War. On aug. 19, Hans Joachim Tiedge 48, the top intelligence officer responsible for tracking East German spies in West Ger Many disappeared. East Germany announced aug. 23 that Tiedge had requested Asylum. Five Days later 49-year-old Margaree Hocke was arrested on suspicion of being an East German agent. She had worked As a Secretary in the defense and foreign affairs Section of Weizsaecker s office. Police say Hoeck has since admitted accepting Money from the East German intelligence service for spying. Grenade from Page 1 suffered a leg Cut. Eight other americans were reported injured As Well As latin american european and Middle Eastern tourists and italians. Police gave no motive for the act and the cafe manager Giacomo Yacobini said in 20 years pc be had no  Ansa re ported that Carlos sors Alc 35, first Secre tary at the Argentine embassy in Rome was wounded in the leg and hospitalized. Pentagon from Page 1 sources for locations abroad where troops Are deployed Weinberger said. Too often these overseas medical resources have been allowed to decay while Large medical centers in conus have been allowed to  Weinberger said readiness dictates that the department s first priority be to obtain the surgeons that would be needed in War. He said he expected Mayer to reflect that priority in authorizations for personnel and training. The current medical Force Structure does not meet wartime needs Weinberger said. We Are seriously Short of surgeons nurses psychiatrists and Anaesthesiologist a who would be needed in wartime Wein Berger said. He said Active duty and Reserve medical forces and the department s training pro Grams Are weighted toward general medi Cal care including obstetrics and paediatrics to meet the peacetime needs of military families. The 1984 edition of the department s health manpower statistics shows that the military has Only 236 of the 642 Anes thesis Logiste it needs 812 of 1,236 flight surgeons 269 of 1,209 orthopaedic surgeons. 486 of 1,789 general surgeons 37 of 168 Chest surgeons and 43 of 362 brain surgeons. Mayer will Convene a panel of experts to examine graduate medical education pro Grams in the services to see whether changes need to be made in Light of the readiness goal and training available in the private sector Weinberger said. Three fourths of the department s medical work Load is devoted to the families of Active duty members retired people and their families he said Mayer who addressed the group earlier in the Day said the defense health care population is 10 million people of whom Only 20 percent Are on Active duty. He said the system represents 1 million patients and 56 million outpatients a year. He pledged to reduce authorization for Active duty personnel facilities and training that do not meet our wartime Mission re  that Means orthopaedics neurosurgery and Anaesthesiology will be favored Over paediatrics a defense department spokesman said. Weinberger said Mayer would seek a civilian and military partnership to pro vide for the families to whom the Secretary said the department has a statutory and moral  Weinberger said he foresees a series of developments including enrolment of these people in health maintenance organizations. Fixed Price contracts under which health insurers would pay for beneficiaries care. Easily accessible outpatient centers such As the one the army is establishing in Northern Virginia. However i do not believe that we can afford such luxuries As fully staffing a Mili tary obstetrics unit for 10 deliveries a month or maintaining expensive training programs for medical specialities that Are of Little or no use during War he said. Weinberger said he is convinced the Stan Dard of military medical care is Good and that it is administered by the finest health professionals of any armed Force in the  but he said any Shadow of doubt about the Quality must be erased. He said he supports Mayer s initiatives to assure the Quality of military health care including tightly controlling credentials of health providers requiring licenses limiting off duty employment carefully tracking causes of illnesses and deaths reporting substandard care and supervising non physicians. Weinberger singled out for applause Mayer s decision to use civilian peer review organizations such As state medical Socie ties to help Monitor the Quality of military health care. The italian news Agency Agi quoted police As saying individuals in a car or on a motorcycle had tossed the grenades As they passed the cafe on the winding Hilly Street. Cafe de Paris the haunt of movie stars directors and hopeful ingenue in the 1950s, is about 100 Yards from the . Embassy compound. Directly opposite the cafe is the Excelsior hotel one of Rome s posh est. Shortly after the attack american actor Peter Falk who plays a detective in the television series Colombo arrived at the debris strewn cafe. Falk is slaying at the Excelsior hotel. Ansa said four people were admitted to polyclinic Hospital and 14 people were Dis charged after treatment. Temperatures Navy searching for Pilot of crashed copier Naples Italy is Navy ships continued their search tuesday afternoon for the Pilot of an ah-1t helicopter that crashed and Sank off the Southern coast of Sardinia monday morning a Navy spokes Man said tuesday. Navy it. Gregg Hartung said the Heli copter s Only other arc member the co a t and gunner was rescued by a Small from the us. Destroyer Caron after the crash. The co Pilot was treated for minor injuries and returned to his unit. Marine medium helicopter so 261, aboard the amphibious ship iwo Jima. The helicopter crashed at 5 15 . Monday As it was taking part in the amphibious assault phase of the nato exercise display determination 85, har Tung said. The names of the Pilot and co Pilot Are being withheld until their families have been notified. Hartung said the crash would be investigated. 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