European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday april 7, 1986 world today Kim Young Sam a new Korea democratic party adviser and leading dissident jogs with aides in Taegu South Korea thousands rally in s. Korea in support of direct elections Taegu South Korea a tens of thousands of people joined an anti government Parade saturday after a political rally in support of proposed constitutional Revi Sions. Reporters estimated about 10,000 people attended the three hour rally to open the local Campaign of a nation wide petition drive in support of proposed constitutional amendments to Institute direct popular presidential elections. The opposition says the current electoral College system favors the governing democratic Justice party and presi Dent Chun Doo Hwan who was named president by the electoral College in 1980. Chun and his supporters strongly oppose any changes in the Constitution until after 1988, when Chun s seven Yea term ends. When the rally ended and the crowd moved into the Street for a March to the new office of the opposition new Korea democratic party students took the Lead and were joined by hundreds of marchers filing in from Side streets. By the time the March reached the City s main intersection the crowd had grown to Between 50,000 and 60,000 people witnesses estimated. There was no official estimate but some government officials said the crowd probably numbered around 20,000, while opposition spokesmen said there were More than 60,000 people. Traffic was snarled for blocks. New Korea democratic party officials claimed the government sought to deter As Many As 750,000 people from attending the rally by providing alternative entertainment. Taegu 180 Miles South of Seoul is South Korea s third largest City with a population of about 2.5 million. A similar rally held a week ago in Kwangju Drew More than 100,000 people the opposition party said. The government said the Kwangju crowd ranged from 20000 to30,000. In Seoul police blocked dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung s attempt to drive to Taegu where he was to give a speech. Kim still under a suspended 20-year sentence on sedition charges is barred from political activities. New Korea democratic party president Lee min woo and Kim Young Sam party adviser and leading dissident denounced the government and urging people to join the signature Campaign. The opposition party backed by dissident groups some religious leaders and activist students launched a Campaign in mid february to collect As Many As 10 million petition signatures in favor of constitutional amendments. The government first declared the opposition petition drive was illegal but under Strong opposition protest relented and allowed indoor petition campaigning. 2 More charged in Italy wine scandal Milan Italy a authorities issued two More arrest warrants in the tainted wine scandal which has caused widespread alarm in Italy last month italian newspapers reported sunday. Agriculture minister Filippo Maria Pandolfi issued a third list of of companies being investigated bringing to 60 the number of wines the Public is advised not to drink. Mario sperotto 34, a wine distributor from the North Ern City of Verona was arrested saturday on charges of illegal adulteration of foodstuffs while a business associate Raffaele Dimuro Lombard 57, is wanted by jus Tice authorities but could not be found Rome daily la Republica reported. Authorities acted after discovering Over 3,000 Gallons of Methyl alcohol at the Verona distribution Plant la re Publica said. Nineteen people have died and More than 60 have been hospitalized after drinking wine containing Methyl Alco hol which can cause coma blindness or death if consumed in sufficient quantities. Methyl alcohol was illegally used by some italian wine merchants to raise wine s alcohol strength. Before the weekend s developments seven people had been arrested in the Case and charged with multiple Man Slaughter criminal association and illegal adulteration of foodstuffs. On saturday Premier Bettino Praxi told reporters words Don t exist to describe the work of these truly malign criminals who just to make Money have knowingly placed the lives of thousands of people in soviet teen agers hairstyles assailed by teachers paper says Moscow up soviet teachers Are waging a War against the modern hairstyles of their teen age pupils the Komsomol Skaya pravda newspaper has said. A Battle is being waged everywhere the youth news paper said listing some of the clashes. The teachers say it is for morality Diligence and political a 16-year-old Moscow Pupil recently was made to change her permed hairstyle because teachers said it was a sign of bad taste and bad behaviour the newspaper said and Slava an eighth grader from the ukrainian City of Belgorod was banned from lessons and Given bad Marks for behaviour because of his apolitical Punk like hairstyle i said. Rajneesha shows up at clinic in Uruguay for medical exams Montevideo Uruguay up Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesha left his mystery shrouded Resi Dence in Uruguay for a series of medical exams As part of requirements to take up residence Here sources at a Public health clinic said. Rajneesha who appeared at the clinic wearing a turban and a Diamond Bracelet has kept himself All but invisible to the local press since arriving in Uruguay March 21. The guru s address outside Montevideo turned out to be non existent. The Only person close to the guru whom reporters have been Able to Contact is uruguayan Maria Julia Marin who arrived with Rajneesha on his private Jet. She later said she was a reporter for the Spanish Magazine Hola and was writing an article about him. Tunnel for subway endangers buildings of Moscow Library Moscow a careless tunnelling for a new metro station has undermined the soviet capital s Lenin Library causing severe cracks in Walls and threatening the collapse of some buildings a soviet newspaper says. The Lenin Library is the National Library of the soviet Union and is one of the nation s leading research centers. It houses nearly 30 million volumes and documents in a Complex of old and modern structures on Marx Prospect just West of the Kremlin. A 19-Story repository that houses 22 million volumes May be closed because of cracks and falling plaster on every floor the weekly literary Gazette said. Rotheby s to auction 1613 letter describing Globe theater fire London a a letter describing the burning of the Globe theater in London in 1613 during a performance of William Shakespeare s last play is coming to Market auctioneer rotheby s has said. The letter signed by London merchant Henry Bluett is Only the second document discovered that gives an apparently eyewitness account of the fire. The Globe on the South Bank of the thames at Bank Side is famous As the theater where Shakespeare s plays performed in his lifetime. There is a contemporary drawing of the Globe showing it to have been a circular building open to the sky but with a roof Over the spectators Section. Soviet women Are pampered Man complains in newspaper Moscow up an irate Man complained in a soviet newspaper that women consider husbands superfluous and called for measures to make wives afraid of divorce. For Many women divorce is an act of self assertion a demonstration of their moral strength Yuri Kopitov wrote in the newspaper Ovetskaya Chi Laura. A single Mother is practically a modern he painted a picture of soviet women who Are pampered and allowed to do everything showing no concern for their natural primary role As mothers. Soviet chess player Karpov beats american to take tourney Brussels Belgium a in his last round encounter soviet Anatoly Karpov Defeated Yasser Sirawan of the United states to win the . International chess tournament with nine Points. Viktor Korchnoy of Switzerland beat the soviet Union s Oleg Romanishin in the last round to finish second after Karpov the world title contender. With one round left Karpov became the event s Winner when he had already captured eight Points and was out of reach of the rest of the Field. A win is one Point a draw half Point
