European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 12. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Britain honors War dead on remembrance Day London remembrance Day was marked sunday by crud Lional tributes to Britain s War dead a no fascist rally and an attack on a cruise missile transporter Convoy at an Raf base. Police said 11 people were arrested when scuffles broke out after members of the National from movement marched to 1 Ondon s Cenotaph where Queen a Lisa Bolh ii had earlier Laid a or Cash in tribute to the dead of the two world wars. The Cenotaph is a memorial in the Center of Whitehall. The Seal of government to the glorious several Hundred National front marchers mostly Young men wearing Swastika badges and carrying British flags paraded in front of the Cenotaph while police held groups of protesters Back. As the National front Parade tuned the nigh nearby St. James s Park in ens of Ami fascist protesters broke through the police lines and tussle with the marchers police said. There were no reports of injuries. At the Raf base at Grenham common in Berkshire some 7 1 women anti nuclear campaigners shouted abuse and hurled garbage at vehicles in a Convoy of cruise mis Sile transporters returning from an exercise the defense ministry said. There were . A defense ministry spokesman denied claims by the protesters that one transporter in a 16-Vchiclc Convoy crashed into a base Gate and another overturned under a barrage of paint eggs and other missiles. At the morning ceremony at the Cenotaph the Queen followed b prime minister Margaret Thatcher and senior members of parliament Laid a or Cash of poppies As several thousand veterans politicians and clergymen observed a two minute silence. Thousands protest Spain s membership in nato Madrid Spain a thousands of people marched and danced Down the streets of four Spanish cities on sunday in festive protests against Spain s membership in nato and the presence of . Troops in Spain. Witnesses said similar demonstrations last year attracted at least three times As Many people. The demonstrations began saturday night and were organized by a committee representing communist Paci fist and ecologist groups. Bands played and youths danced As protesters moved Down streets in Madrid Barcelona Valencia and Gijon. No incidents were reported and few police were visible along March routes. Crowd estimates varied widely. Madrid authorities put the crowd there at 15,000. Organizers said nearly 50,000 look part. Estimates for Barcelona ranged from 10,000 to 25,000 and around 10,000 in Valencia. No estimates were Avail Able for Gijon. Spain became the 16th member of the North Atlantic treaty organization in May 1982, under a centrist government. The socialist party staged a successful election Campaign in october 1982 that called for withdrawal from nato and a referendum on the Issue. Since taking office however. Socialist prime min ister Felipe Gonzalez has said Spain should remain in nato although outside its military command Struc Ture. The government promised to hold the referendum by Early next year. The first round of negotiations Between Spain and the United states on possible reduction of 12,000 american troops stationed in four leased bases began last month. Did a giant mislay his Wristwatch what billed As the largest wrist match Ever and the claim seems unlikely highly unlikely to be challenged hangs from the lop of a building in downtown Madrid. The fac tory promotion in the Spanish City and it discs a new Swiss made timepiece. The dimensions of the jumbo watch Ghoul 162 Yards Long with face Ghoul 20 Yards across and u weight of 5 ions. It la be on display for several weeks. Hussein says Arab fag soon of try Over Jerusalem Amman Jordan a King Hussein told military cadets that the Arab Flag will soon Fly Over Jerusalem and warned of a crackdown against syrian rebels in an overture to the Arab neighbor that opposes his plan for peace with Israel. Meanwhile Palestine liberation organization chair Man Yasser Arafat who has joined with Hussein in pro dosing the plan for peace with the jewish slate said in an Kew broadcast sunday in Abu dab a the pales fall from the Rcw Boa Catuna Linian jux ple will never let the gun fall from their a he jordanian Monarch whose plan Ith Arafat Calls for Israel to relinquish lands seized in the 1967 Middle East a in Exchange for peace told a i itary g adult ing class that the West Bank s major City lost in thatch uni twill Scon be under Arab control Agam a will not be Long before the Day that the Arab hag cd Hussein said at the Royal military Academy in Amman. Israel which captured the old cily of Eastern Jerusa Lem from Jordan in 1967 and later annexed it has said it will never relinquish control Over the Silc which is holy to jews christians and moslem. Peace Hussein said should be based on right and Justice and should restore the occupied territories to their legitimate he did not say How arabs would regain control Over Jerusalem. Jordan seeks ngot Illions with Israel through an inter National peace conference including the five permanent members of the . Security Council the and All other parties to the Arab israeli conflict. Israel seeks direct negotiations with Jordan. Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres told members of his labor party on saturday that Jordan and Israel were very close to holding negotiations. Syria the major Arab foe of Arafat has opposed Hus Sein s plan. In an open letter sunday to his prime minister Zaid Rifai Hussein said he had Only recently discovered that syrian dissidents opposed to president Hafez Assad s government were being harboured in Jordan. Suddenly the truth is revealed Hussein said in the letter Rad in pan on state run television. We realize what we had not known. It turns out that some who did have u connection to the bloody events in Syria were present in our quarters and were sheltered by those whose hearts were devious and disguised in the clothes of our religion Hussein s letter said. Jordan is one of the few Arab nations on relatively Good terms with the moslem brotherhood a fundamentalist group Syria considers responsible for assassinations and bombings thai culminated in a 1982 Battle at Kama that left hundreds of people dead. Syria had accused Jordan of financing and training the moslem brotherhood members allegedly responsible for the terror attacks. Charging that he had been deceived in the past Hussein said there is no room among us after today for any betrayer plotter or agent of the Rifai is to visit Damascus soon for saudi arabian sponsored talks on reconciling the two countries which fell out in 1980
