European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday december 13, 1985 n. Ireland Accord implemented amid protests Belfast Northern Ireland a British and Irish put their new Northern Ireland agreement into practice wednesday protected by a barbed wire Barrier from angry Prule slants who want the troubled province to remain forever British. In the Village of Tynan 35 Miles away near the Border with the Irish Republic guerrillas of the outlawed Irish Republican army lobbed four Morlar shells into the police station. Police said the shells gutted the building and wounded four members of the Royal Ulster constabulary. Two of them were seriously injured. The Ira outlawed on both sides of the Border said in a slate Mcnol to news Media that the attack was not aimed at undermining the Anglo Irish Accord but at one objective alone the removal of the undemocratic and repressive British presence in leading the delegations at Stormont Castle were Peter Barry the Irish foreign minister and Tom King Britain s Northern Ireland Secretary. Their meeting marked formal implementation of the nov. 15 Accord giving Ireland a consultative role in administration of the predominantly protestant province. Protests included a rally by thousands of protestant Industrial workers. Most demonstrations were peaceful but police said 32 officers suffered slight injuries in scuffles. Six required Hospital treatment. A statement issued at the end of the Daylong meeting affirmed the total rejection of any attempt to promote political objectives by violence or threat of violence. The officials paid particular attention to methods of improving the existing coordination of Security activities on both sides of the Border the statement said. King called the meeting a very encouraging Start in an attempt to improve cooperation across the Board but acknowledged in an interview with Irish state television that there Are those who arc determined to obstruct any Chance of improvement and who will be anxious to cause As much damage and tragedy As they the nov. 15 agreement required the first session of the Anglo Iris intergovernmental conference to discuss re forming the police and army to make them More accept Able to the roman Catholic minority and to improve Anglo Irish Security cooperation against the Irish Republican army. Militant protestants View the Anglo Irish Accord As interference in Ulster s affairs by the Irish Republic which is 95 percent Catholic and As weakening their Union with Britain. Protestants have been dominant for centuries in the six counties of Northern Ireland which remained a British province after the 1921 partition. Wednesday s meeting was held behind barbed wire fences roadblocks and hundreds of policemen at the Stor Mon Castle compound Home of the largely powerless provincial parliament. Shut out of Stormont the prot slants aimed their anger at the Maryfield building on Belfast s Eastern outskirts which will House an Anglo Irish secretariat established by the agreement. Thousands of workers Al the Harland and Wolff ship Yard and shorts Brothers aircraft factory put Down their tools Al lunchtime and marched to Maryfield. They car ried banners that said Ulster is British and Ulster says most workers at the shipyard and factory Are protes Tant. Economic discrimination has been a major complaint of Northern Ireland s catholics who make up about one third of the population. In can express uttering new car loan program by Bob Hoy staff writer a new variable interest cur loan pro Gram is being offered at american la or can military banking outlets throughout rur pc. The program started thursday. Bunk customers in Germany the Unk cd kingdom the Netherlands an ire eligible for the Loa a Fol it which includes re hts rom 11 percent to i -.5 ncj00? on the duration of the new program which applies to new s worked out Wilh Duparl be mum after no year of study. 11 was a furl by March a 6t lie Al Ipri Matt airy banking in Europe dined Wilh inc loan continuation program introduced earlier in the year car buyers now May Lake Loans Wilh them when icy return Home. Hill said. Before the loan continuation program american express car Loans were made at u single rate on the conditions unions serving military customers in Europe have offered interest car Loans that May be . Until dec. Will vary from 11 percent to with a Down payment of at least 10 per cent required on All Loans. Interest for 48 months of financing will be 12.5 percent for 36 months 12 percent for 24 months. 1 months 11 per cent. Putur rates May vary by the month. But once Loans Are processed rates will be constant for their duration. American express will announce Jan loan Rales by inc end of december. T rate on used cars remains 15 percent. The maximum loan is five years. Debt from Page 1 sparked by republicans acting in Defiance of president Reagan s wishes. House speaker Thomas p. Of m jr., d mass., said the vote showed that Bibl icons had turned their backs on the Man who had brought them Victory and Pride but he added that democrats arc ready to try again with the tax Bill if Reagan can produce enough gop votes to assure Success. The president responded by dispatching top aides to the Capitol and summoning recalcitrant gop lawmakers to the who r House. The president said to me 1 Hope you will not let me Down " said rep. William Carney . Reagan appeared before reporters and Tele vision cameras and said we do not believe that after All our Good Faith efforts on both sides of the aisle that our work should be lost for Lack of a handful of Republican leaders insisted that the vote was not a defeat for the president. But o Neill had another interpretation. Today with glee in their faces Republican congressmen voted to humiliate the Man who had led them to Victory he said. If the president really cares about tax Reform then he will deliver the Voles. Otherwise dec. 11 will be remembered As the Date that Ronald Reagan became a lame Duck on the floor of the the drama on taxes and the balanced budget plan unfolded on the House and Senate floors As leaders of the two houses began negotiations on a Mammoth catch All spending Bill needed to replenish Federal coffers for the current fiscal year by thurs Day at Midnight. In Early mane vering the Senate agreed under administration pressure to drop a $55 million emergency Job training program for Vietnam veterans. In a separate room in the sprawling Capitol Complex lawmakers la bored to draft Long term farm legislation. Dole told reporters that there is still a Glimmer of Hope that Congress could close up shop by the end of the week even though Reagan is holding out veto threats for any spending or farm measure that he deems too costly. Lawmakers had Long ago Given up Hope of enacting tax overhaul legislation this year. They had settled instead on a strategy of moving a Bill through the House and postponing Senate consideration until next year. Reagan has placed the Issue at the top of his second term Domestic Agenda and urged lawmakers to approve a democratic drafted plan As a first but on the 223-202 vote lawmakers re fused to consider either the democratic plan or a gop alternative with 164 of 182 republicans joining 59 democrats in opposition. Republicans sought to shield Reagan from political fallout. I Don t think this is a defeat for the president said rep. Jack Kemp ., a Leader of the drive for major tax revision. We Don t think the Reform movement is Over. It is just rep. Dick Cheney r-wyo., said the sponsors of the democratic plan were never Able to produce evidence it would produce economic the blueprint for a balanced budget was worked out during weeks of tedious negotiations. It would trigger automatic spending cuts in defense and Domestic program if Congress did not meet deficit reduction tar gets for each of the next five years. The first cuts would total $11.7 billion and would be made Early next year. Social russian from Page 1 Arnelly pre he slipped to the tending to be unconscious Tel the traffic charge was dropped Day but police say they still would like to question Leonteva about s37.750 Worth of French francs found on him after the Accident. But the bearded emigre is saying Noth ing. Leonteva is in a bed at the general Hospital at a cml Hampstead a town 25 Miles North West of London. Hospital and ministry Frances Shanahan said she is certain a be is faking unconscious Ness and she Wye hmm out. There is nothing Wrom Joffri him. And i Don t want him in this Spital she said. He in t Lak Ingui Joni Billy for his own life so we a to take that responsibility for Hirju Raj Kiral obligation and one we ver Mac wish we did t after consulting several doctors including a psychiatrist the Hospital decided to Send Leonteva Back to France As soon As the British embassy in Paris supplies his Home address. She said the Cost of the trip by private ambulance will be taken from the $37,750 he was carrying. In its main news program to esd broadcasting corp.shg0llr"tclcvi Mitotes of Leonta pm Login the bed with rises own he could hear awas going on. S0raid he did not re Siowha of i anything to eat but food Anc Eft Al his bedside was consumed when body was looking usually Al night. He is a Complete nuisance because he s blocking an acute badly needed Hospital bed when there is nothing at All wrong with him she said. She said the staff fears thai if police physically remove him he would isl lie Down outside until readmitted. He first was admitted to the state run National Hall i service Hospital for two Days of observation ask to Small rented motorcycle he Wilh two cars Jay nerdy Village of Mark Yale on of police said. Police say they believe he arrived in Brit Ain on a Cross Channel ferry nov. Is. He was discharged from the Hospital but police said when they took him to Hamel Hampstead magistrates court to face a traffic charge in connection Wilh the Acci Dent he slipped to the ground apparently pretending to be unconscious. On nov. 20, police took him Back to the in Shanahan said he has refused to Al after the staff refused Hii or things for someone to read him wor1cmbron, to him she said. 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