European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday february 18,1986 nato protest turns violent at consulate Barcelona Spain up police clashed sunday with dozens of anti nato demonstrators who stormed the . Consulate in Barcelona following a March pro testing Spain s continued membership in the Alliance. Witnesses said the violence broke out when protesters began pelting the consulate building with stones and rot ten eggs after forming a symbolic Dove of peace As part of a nationwide mobilization. Police rushed to protect the building where the Consul ate is housed on an upper floor but were forced inside by the Hail of projectiles. Several windows were smashed before organizers of the March arrived to restore Calm. Five policemen were injured in the Melee and police arrested three demonstrators. Authorities said an estimated 65,000 people look part in the demonstration while organizers claimed. 200,000 helped form the 12-Milc-Long Chain that wound through the streets of the port City on the northeastern Mediterranean coast. Thousands of spaniards in Bilbao Murcia Corona and half a dozen other cities also participated in demonstrations but Barcelona s was the largest. No other violence was mobilization was organized by peace groups and leftist parties to urge a no vote in a March 12 referendum that will decide whether Spain remains in the North at lactic treaty organization. In a televised interview saturday prime minister feline Gonzalez said that if voters rejected nato membership it would harm tics to Western Europe and set Back the country s economic and technological development. An opinion poll released last week by Al pais the nation s leading newspaper showed that while the majority of spaniards would vote no on the referendum or abstain support for the Alliance was slowly growing. The referendum will ask spaniards to Back continued integration in nato s political Wing in Exchange Tor reducing the . Troop presence a ban on nuclear weapons and a pledge to stay outside the Alliance s military Struc Ture. Madrid joined nato in 1982, but Gonzalez who had campaigned in the general elections on an anti nato platform froze integration in the military Wing when he look office six months later. But the Premier has slowly shifted towards a pro nato position arguing that the country s Jan. I entry in the european Community involved an obligation to take a More Active role in the defense of Western Europe. Marcos links military bases of continued . Aid Washington a one Day after being declared the Winner of the philippine election. President Ferdinand Marcos threatened sunday to abrogate the military bases treaty with the United states if the Rongan administration cuts off Aid to his government. If that happens Well have to talk about renegotiating the bases Marcos said Sun Day on the lbs interview program face the Marcos said however we have to renegotiate those bases anyway because you have not paid the compensatory package for the use of military facilities to the tune of about $70 during his 20 years in Power Marcos has used the treaty covering the . Bases two of the largest outside the United Stales As a bargaining Chip to assure support from Washington. He also brought up the Issue during the election Campaign accusing challenger co Razon Aquino of being ready to break the treaty. Marcos also announced on sunday the Long anticipated resignation of the armed forces chief of staff Gen. Fabian c. Ver 66. He said Var would be temporarily re placed by it. Gen. Fidel v. Ramos 57, a Deputy armed forces chief. News of the resignation of the staunch Marcos loyalist was broadcast Over radios carried by members of a crowd of 500,000 listening to Aquino at a rally in downtown Manila. The announcement brought cheers and applause. At the rally Aquino called for strikes against the regime. Under the current five year bases agreement which expires in 1991, the United Stales provides $900 million in military and economic Aid to the Philippines. For fiscal 1986, . Aid amounted to $245 Mil lion. Sen. Richard Lugar r-lnd., chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee who led the official . Delegation that observed the election said Marcos refusal to carry out reforms has jeopardized the Security of the bases. As a matter of fact we believe our bases Are in jeopardy because the philippine army does t have the efficiency it ought to have said Lugar who also appeared on the program. The United states considers its two Prin Cipal bases in the Philippines Clark a and Subic Bay naval base strategically important to its Security interests through out the Pacific particularly since the soviet Union took Over Cam Ranh Bay after the Vietnam War. Although faced with a troubled Economy a military unable to Stem a growing communist Lea insurgency and mounting Politi Cal unrest Marcos ruled out the possibility of stepping Down. That s ridiculous. That s foolish. Why should i step Down Marcos said. I am not a dictator. I am not unwanted and therefore i Don t think that will Ever cola from Page 1. Can be affected by Nul said. 1 we collect Price of try annually he said Price information Only of those at the same time also collected in the Stales. You might i Mark prices he said. Trout variables. 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On sunday his lawyer attacked the French government s attempt to expel him to the United Stales and accused Fabius of trying to decide Duvalier s Fate behind his Back Varisse said he would continue to press for Asylum in France for Duvalier As a political refugee. That supplied Chad rebels Paris a France bombed an air Field in Northern Chad sunday that it said Libya Buill and used to Supply rebels wag ing a we Klong offensive against the Chadi an government. Defense minister Paul Quiles said presi Dent Francois Mitterrand ordered the at tack on the Airport at Ouadi Doum about 550 mites North of Chad s capital of n Dja Mena after an Appeal to France by the government of the 8 . Bombing left the runway unusable Quiles said. There was no immediate report of casualties. France is manifesting its determination to help Chad in the face of a foreign intervention he said. Chad a former French Colony says libyan troops have been fighting alongside the rebels since they began their offensive feb. 10. In Tripoli the libyan capital. Information minister Mohammed Sharfuddin i Touri released a statement saying of the bombing we believe this Barbaric act is criminal and without the statement said what the French forces did is a foolish action which will cause the whole world to Rise against the French presence in the african continent and will prompt africans to continue their sustained struggle against this army lifts order grounding copters the army lifted an order Satur Mcdonnell Douglas ah-64aapac copter because some of the copters were found to have cracks in Rotor Blades. The army said the cracks threat to flight safely and Musj i cd by maintenance. The the ships were grounded last were Foj in r isaid it. Section. Blades then were the army s entire Fleet of 68 apaches and All were grounded. Army j wants to buy 675 More through 1988. 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