European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes q French general dismissed Tor assailing armed forces Page 2 q economics forcing soviets to talk. Weinberger says Page 5 q Ohio state buckeyes topple Iowa in College football Page 21 the St vol. 44, no. 200 monday november 4, 1985 authorized unofficial publication Pom q 8693 a afghans surround . Embassy War Wear soviet Soldier in compound Shannon Ireland a the soviet backed government in Afghanistan has surrounded he . Embassy in Kabul with soldiers and searchlights and electricity to the compound has been Cut off Secretary of state Georgep. Shultz said saturday. Inside the embassy e 19-year-old soviet Soldier who slipped in through an open Gate on Friday is talking to american diplomats about his options Shultz said. The Soldier who had been on guard duly at radio Kabul near he . Embassy seemed confused saying at first that he wanted to go Home. Our posture is to do our Best to look after his inter Shultz said. He discussed the incident before his plane slopped in Shannon to refuel on the Way from Washington to Helsinki Finland. Shutlz planned o spend the weekend there before flying to Moscow on monday for pc Summit talks with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev and foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze. The incident involving the soviet Soldier a private who was not otherwise identified followed the strange Case of a 22-year-old ukrainian Seaman who jumped off a soviet freighter in new Orleans. He said at first that he wanted political Asylum in the United states but later he told . Authorities he wanted to return Home. It was the second known occasion when a soviet Soldier managed to get inside the Kabul compound. In 1980, pvt. Alexander Kruglov spent several Days there but after an interview with the soviet ambassador in the presence of . Officials decided to go Back. He reportedly was promised that he could leave the army without punishment and resume his education. Some members of Congress and other soviet critics have questioned the . Decision to return the Sailor Miroslav Mcdavid 22, to the ship. But Shultz said the Seaman had been questioned in a non coercive Environ ment and there is no reason to Stop the ship from leaving . Waters. The Kincid cols Are potential trouble spots for the Reagan administration As the nov. 19-20 Summit Mcling approaches. Shultz acknowledged the Mcdavid Silva lion see afghans on Page 28 Jackson s apartheid rally turns violent London a anti apartheid demonstrators hurling bottles rocks fireworks and wooden Staves clashed with police sat urday outside the South african embassy during Britain s biggest Ever protest against he White minority government. A total of 114 demonstrators were arrested in the clashes in London s Trafalgar Square. Three protesters and 10 policemen were injured including an officer seriously injured when he was nit on the head with an Iron bar police said. The organizers estimated that 100,000 protesters packed Trafalgar Square but police put the crowd at around 30.000. The Rev. Jesse Jackson who marched through London at the head of thousands of demonstrators appealed for Calm As a bar rage of missiles along with eggs and paint rained Down on police guarding the imposing embassy overlooking the packed Square. Police battled demonstrators hand to hand. At times officers were rolling on the ground with struggling protesters As hundreds of others tried to storm barricades outside the embassy. Be Calm be disciplined join hands and stand together Jackson shouted from a speakers platform set up in the Square at the foot of naval hero lord Horatio Nel son s column. He claimed the demonstrators who turned violent were South Afri can but Mike Terry Secretary of Britain s anti apartheid movement which organized the protest said demonstrators were provoked by the pretence of the embassy of apartheid. In a heart of he said the embassy should be closed immediately. During the rally Jackson assailed Media censorship in South Africa comparing the Pretoria government to Hitler s nazi re t re. Jesse Jaci son leading anti apartheid marchers in Trafalgar Square. Gimp. See Story Page 2. Violence broke out at the Well guarded embassy Entrance when do ens of demonstrators pelted police lines with Sticks bottles paint and fireworks. The bulk of the crowd heeded Jackson s appeals for Calm however As he reminded them the world said no to Adolf Hiller. Every moral and Chical imperative must drive us to say no to president . Botha Hitler s historical Succes Sor in 19h5," Jackson said. The rally coincided with Pretoria s announcement of sweeping curbs on de Ision coverage of disturbances in South afric i. Now the govern Mcnol wants to lock out the foreign press so they might do their kill ing murdering and Lynching in the dark Jackson said. To Luvison did not create apartheid it has exposed another major speaker. Oliver Tambo president of the african nationalist con Gress called for Britain to drop its oppose Jonto sanctions against South Africk i the partnership which binds the Bah Lish govern Cal to the Botha regime is being challenged by the partnership be tween the British people and inc people of South Africa Tambo said. The protesters converged on Trafalgar Square in three marches across downtown London chanting slogans and singing african Freedom songs. On the Way to the rally. Jackson and others handed in a protest letter for prime minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street charging that Britain was an accomplice in inc crimes of the apartheid l they called for immediate sanctions and Pheuth african embassy. Simi delivered to the american 1 embassies. Reagan endorses soviet arms reduction plan Wash reduction in most offensive missiles saturday but he said hit Call for a fresh ital in Luper Power relations would depend on Summit Progress in other areas. In his weekly radio address made from his Retreat at Camp David md., Reagan for the first time publicly stated his agreement with the soviet offer j him in a september meeting with f Eduard Shevardnadze. But h obstacles remained before an agreement can be reached at the arms control talks in \ attn Hii Summit meeting nov. 19-20wii judged against our own ing a sound arms control a ways was building in the positive elements the president said we therefore have accepted the so percent reduction proposal by the soviets in a counteroffer presented in Geneva on Friday. Initial soviet reaction to the proposal was negative saying that Reagan was not willing to give in on his strategic defense initiative the space defense system com. _ lied to systems which Are compar at lbs bib it Juye complained that the Kremlin offer could s7ilt7eawplteb Jtj with advantages in land based missiles. The was tag and new York times reported saturday thai the adminis see Reagan on Page 28
