European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars a. Stripes monday december 16, 1965 19bb 10 Downing Street roof climber seized or. And mrs. Thatcher at 10 dawning Street 1onpon a a Man climbed an to the Nawf of prime minister Margaret Thatcher s official residence at 10 Downing Street sparking a major Security Alert. Samland Yard disclosed Sunda  had left for Chequers the prime minister s country residence about 40 Milts Northwest of London several hours before the Friday night incident. Scotland Yard said armed officers chased the Man across the roof and arrested him but lie was released saturday after lengthy questioning without any charges. Pc arc fully satisfied there was no Breech of Security said a Scotland Yard  firc Enway. A lawmaker i rom Thatcher s ruling conservative party demanded that Home Secretary Douglas Huru make an urgent statement to the House of commons explaining Why the Man was t charged. The Security of 10 Downing Street is a matter of great Public concern and there is no reason Why people should not be Given an explanation of what is on the face of it a very puzzling incident. This Man should be brought to Book and if he is not then the Home Secretary must Tell us Why or Conway said. Scotland Yard said the Man triggered off inc Downing Street alarm system As soon As he got on to the roof at 9 30 . Friday. Armed officers from the diplomatic Protection service who spoiled him. Gave Chase. There was a Brief Chase on the roof and the Man climbed Down a drainpipe and was arrested on the ground on horse guards i Arad around the Corner from Downing Street the Scotland Yard spokesman said. While the Man was being questioned police scarce. D government buildings in and around Downing Street but found nothing. Scotland Yard refused to identify the Man saying Only that he was 25 year old and lived in the Bay Swatch District of Lon Don. Scotland Yard also refused to reveal what explanation inc intruder gave them for being on inc roof. Media reports speculated that the Man might have been a member of the army s crack special air service regiment testing Security. The sunday express which broke the Story said he was an australian due to leave Britain shortly who wore a combat style uniform during the incident. Scotland Yard said sunday afternoon thai the Man Wai a tiring dark clothing but not a uniform. We want to know who this Man is what he was doing there and Why apparently no offence was committed even apparently no breach of Security Greenway said. Police sources said that technically the Man was not breaking the Law. The sources added that Security experts were satisfied there was no criminal terrorist or political intent to the incident. Gdansk police prevent Solidarity rites at Monument Gdansk. Poland up police sunday blocked Solidarity founder  Walesa and several thousand poles from holding an Observance at a Monument to work ers slain in 1970 noting along the Baltic coast. Several Hundred riot police cordoned off the Monument three la crosses joined by an Anchor the Symbol of Hope and warned those approaching it they would be detained. The police cordon was set up following a Catholic mass attended by 6.000 people on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the riots. Witnesses counted at least 70 trucks of riot police and five water Cannon around the Church and Between it and the Monument site. Marc than 50 people were shot dead by police during the protests which began dec. 16, 1970, in several coastal cities following a round of pc Chris Mas food Price in creases. Solidarity which was founded As an Independent Union in 1980 but declared illegal two years later consid ers itself an outgrowth of that protest. The service at St. Brygida s Church was attended by Walesa and 25 to 30 representatives of inc banned Union from around the country. Walesa had planned to Lay a Wreath at the Monument but he March was called off because of the show of Force. But Many of those attending he mass walked in a heavy rain to the Monument anyway some carrying Flowers or wreaths to Lay at the site. Police refused to let them near the site. Last year police used water Cannon clubs and tear Gas to disperse the crowd and several people were detained. During the Church service the Rev. Henryk Jankowski whose offer of a joint government Church service monday at the Monument was rejected by Gdansk authorities called on the congregation to Pray for both victims and police. I am asking you to Pray for them for those who died and for those who fired because they did not know what they were doing he said. Let us Pray it will never Hap pen again. The Monument was built in 1980, after Solidarity was founded and had been meant to Mark the beginning of cooperation among the government the Independent Union and the Church. But martial Law was declared the follow ing year. Posters commemorating the anniversary Hung both 10 Side and outside the Church. One Banner said they died so that you can live in  another at the altar said following the Road of truth we shall arrive at Freedom while a huge Solidarity Banner Hung at the pulpit. In its weekend edition the influential communist party weekly Poliyka referred to the riots by quoting the work of a special commission that was formed to investigate the causes. It said the 1970 disruption was caused by the growing dissatisfaction of the working class and the whole society with the economic and political situation in the  news update $1 million raised Charleston . A a drive to raise $1 million for victims of massive flooding in West Virginia reached its goal when gov. Arch Moore accepted a s2s pledge. Charlotte Jones 47, of Cross lanes called one of the flood Relief telethon s 40 phone lines to make the pledge. She said she had been trying off and on to reach operators. The telethon was organi cd after record hoods hit the Eastern half of the state nov. 4-5. Damage estimates total More than $500 million and 39 people Art known dead. Hundreds of roads were destroyed and scores of Bridges arc out or impassable. Alaska Oil leases Washington not Interior Secretary Donald p. Hodel has announced that he will conduct a Sale of offshore Oil and Gas leases next month fur Alaska s Bristol Bay one of the world s Rich it fisheries and spawning grounds. The Sale has been strongly opposed by Alaska gov. Bill Sheffield by alaskan fishing groups by native alaskans who draw subsistence from the Bay and by environmental organizations. John Greely a spokesman for Shef Field said the state would have to examine the rationale for Hancl s decision before deciding on any action to Lake. But he added that the governor had told Model the state would sue to Block the Sale if it was held before 1994. Gunmen convicted Nicosia Cyprus a three pro palestinian gunmen have been found guilty of the murders of three israelis aboard a yacht in a South Cyprus Marina last september and sentenced to life in prison. The defendants briton Ian Michael Davison and palestinians chalet Abdel Kader at Klu Tib and Abdel Hakim Saado Al Khalifa stood silent and grim faced As presiding judge Yannakis Boyadjis read the sentence. It was inc maximum the defendants could have received because Cyprus docs not have capital punishment. 5 arrested in robbery Cambridge mass. Up three Farmer policemen and two other men have been arrested in connection with a 1980 robbery in which thieves tunnelled into a Bank and looted safety Deposit boxes for $15 million the largest Bank theft in new England history. Former metropolitan police capt. Ger Ald Csc Monte former Mudford police it. Thomas Doherty former Capitol police officer Richard Madden Kenneth Holmes and Francis x. O Leary were arrested in the 1980 memorial Day week end break in at the depositor s Trust co said Paul Richardson of the Middlesex county District attorney s office. Death toll rises los Angeles a two More workers died of Burns suffered in an explosion and tire St the Arco refinery in Carson bringing the death loll from the Accident to five authorities said. Eugene Marline 37, died Friday and Carl new 47, died at los Angeles county us medical Center said Hospital spokeswoman Adelaida Del Accra. Fire officials called the dec. 5 incident the most devastating refinery fire in Losangeles in 20 years. More than 40 people were injured and two men were killed instantly in the explosion. Another Man died a Day later of his injuries. Prize established Strasbourg France a the european parliament has voted to establish an annual human rights prize named after soviet dissident Andrei d. Sakharov. The parliament which is affiliated with the european common Market said in a Resolution that i lie prize would be awarded for work in the development of East West relations the defense of human rights or safeguarding the free Dom of scientific  the prize would go o a candidate nominated by the parliament s political affair committee and accepted by two thirds of the House. Sakharov a physicist has not been asked yet to consent to use of his name for the prize. Candidacy confirmed Manila Philippines a the newly unified opposition has officially proclaimed Corazon Aquino As ils presidential candidate sunday and Salvador Laurel As her running male. A crowd that swelled to about 20.000 gave president Ferdinand a Marcos a massive thumbs Down sign and then lifted fingers aloft in the sign of an a for Laban fight. "1 am not a politician. I do not know How to Tell lies. And i am not a dictator. I thank god i am different from  Laid Aquino who blames Marcos for the 1983 assassination of her husband former sen. By Mono Aquino. Aquino spoke in tagalog. Marcos former vice president. Fernan do Lopez raised the hands of Aquino and Laurel for the traditional proclamation of candidates