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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 16, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 anti Contra protesters stage rallies across . By the associated press demonstrators flocked to Federal build Ings congressional offices and National monuments in at least 21 cities monday to protest . Aid to nicaraguan rebels. More than 260 people were arrested. The rallies by military veterans and Church and anti War groups were held on the eve of expected action by the House of representatives on president Reagan s $100 million Aid package. The House was scheduled to vote tues Day on Reagan s plan to give $70 million in military and $30 million in non lethal humanitarian Aid to the .-backed Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua s leftist sandinista government. Last month the House voted 222-210 against Reagan s plan but the Republican controlled Senate later gave 53-47 approval of a modified version of the package Send ing it Back to the House. New York City police arrested 127 peo ple for blocking an Entrance to the major Federal office building in Manhattan. Two Boston protesters were arrested on charges of trespassing at the Central intelligence Agency office. In Washington d.c., police arrested 57 people who refused to end a Vigil near a Monument to slain civil rights Leader mar tin Luther King or. In the Capitol Rotunda. A protest at the Federal building in Albany n.y., ended when 28 people were arrested for refusing to leave the building at closing time. About 125 of the protesters had dumped on the ground symbolic corpses made of clothing stuffed with newspapers and put Catsup on Large cards that represented . Internal Revenue service forms. Baltimore police made 43 arrests when demonstrators blocked the Entrance to the Federal building and charged them with trespassing and obstruction of free passage said police spokesman Dennis Hill. After about 70 protesters in Worcester mass., held a mock funeral March Down main Street police arrested nine people outside the Federal building on charges of blocking a Public building Entrance. In Manhattan kan., about 150 protes ters Sang and chanted slogans such As no More lies no More Vietnam outside the University of Kansas auditorium As Secre tary of state George Shultz spoke criticizing opponents of the Aid package. About 50 anti Contra demonstrators gathered outside City Hall in Tampa fla., where the former vice president of Costa Rica Mario Rojas was speaking in favor of the Aid package. An appearance by a con tra official in Des Moines Iowa Drew about a dozen protesters from a Church group. In Boston hundreds of demonstrators jammed offices of the internal Revenue service forcing taxpayers to file through a police barricade to get inside. The protes ters then marched through downtown to the Cia office. About 500 people part of a coalition called pledge of resistance gathered at the Federal building in Chicago some of them covered with red paint to symbolize blood. In new York there was no violence when about 200 officers confronted a crowd of demonstrators that authorities estimated at 150 people. Protest organizers placed the number at 300. Other anti Contra activity in washing ton included a news conference by Bishops of the roman Catholic and episcopal churches who denounced what they called the immorality of aiding the rebels and announcement by Vietnam veterans of for mation of the . Federation of veterans for peace. Jewish group says new document woman breaches links Waldheim to nazi War crimes a part Security new York a a document purportedly signed by former . Secretary general Kurt Waldheim was used by . Prosecutors at the Nuernberg War crimes trials As evidence of nazi atrocities the world jewish Congress said monday. The document an intelligence report dated aug. 11, 1944, was read in open court in Nuernberg Congress officials said at a news conference. Waldheim reports on shootings of individuals in Athens and then goes on to identify the area of Iraklion Greece. On the Island of Crete As a hotbed of partisan activity said Eli Rosenbaum general counsel to the wac. Other documents show that two Days later the germans moved into the area wiped out two villages and executed 20 hostages Rosenbaum said. Within recent weeks Waldheim who is running for the presidency of Austria has been accused of complicity in nazi War crimes. The wac has revealed documents it says show Wald Heim s involvement with nazi officials who were later executed for War crimes. Rosenbaum said he found the document april 8 in the . National archives. Waldheim s office in Vienna issued a denial of any wrongdoing. The interpretations publicized today by the world jewish Congress of new documents which Kurt Waldheim processed As an ordnance officer Are a continuation of claims that already have been shown to be untenable said the statement. The documents being referred to do not incriminate or. Waldheim in any  asked Why the document had not surfaced earlier since it was part of the Nuernberg War crimes trials Elan Stein Berg the wac s executive director said nobody knew who Waldheim was at the time. He was after All not Secretary general of the United nations then and to be fair to him he was not the one on trial at that time. By the end of 1947, however we know Yugoslavia had already accused him of being a War criminal wanted for murder wanted for the putting to death of  another document dated aug. 10,1943, released Mon Day proves  said that a reprisal in Iraklion was a predictable result of the reporting of partisan activity in the area a photo wac s executive director Elan Steinberg. With document purportedly signed by Waldheim Steinberg said the documents would be turned Over to three organizations that had requested All previous information about Waldheim the . Department of Justice and the governments of Israel and Austria. The documents were read in open court aug. 18, 1947, at the trial of 12 German officers charged with the mass murder of hostages and the destruction of hundreds of towns and villages in the Balkans during the War. All but two according to , were found guilty and sentenced to prison. Illg hts delayed Salt Lake City a thousands of passengers were evacuated and rechecked through the Salt Lake International Airport on monday after a woman grabbed her purse before it was searched and took it through a Security checkpoint officials said. Guards saw what they thought was marijuana in the purse Salt Lake police it. Aaron d. Kennard said. She grabbed her purse and ran. With that Security was breached Kennard said. At least 25 flights were delayed More than an hour and 3,000 passengers and their baggage were run a second time through Metal detectors after the morning incident said Tim Phillips director of operations. Two women were questioned and one was later booked for investigation of Possession of a controlled substance Kennard said. Operations manager Tim Riley said one woman had gone through the Security checkpoint and her companion was going through when guards noticed an unidentified object and asked the second woman to open the bag. The second woman then ran onto her plane where the two apparently switched bags Riley said. Because Security was breached for two minutes Passen Gers who already had boarded planes were asked to leave with their carry on baggage and All planes were searched before passengers were allowed to begin re boarding Riley said. Bail was set at $100 for Kathleen Hoover 24, of con Cord Calif., said sgt. John Merrick. Hoover had a Morris air charter ticket for Frontier airlines flight 7914 bound for san Francisco Kennard said. Her companion Vickie Camp 24, also of Concord was questioned and released he said. Pulitzer prize Winner Dies at 79 9ak Bluffs mass. A William a. Caldwell a retired new Jersey newspaper columnist who won the 1971 pulitzer prize for commentary has died after a Long illness. He was 79. Dead 919 5 students leave school Irvine Calif. A a. By the grateful dead Rock band brought More 1960s memories to life than May have been expected As More than 60 fans were arrested Many on charges of possessing Ltd. With these people it s like the 60s All Over again police sgt. Gary Shull said of crowds that flocked to the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater on saturday and sunday. Sgt. Mike Ogden said a preliminary Check of police logs showed 63 people arrested All but a handful on drug charges although no violence was reported. The majority of it was Ltd Ogden said. 19 Cut class to avoid boy with aids Kokomo ind. A school officials said 19 pupils stayed Home from West Ern Middle school on monday because of the presence of Ryan White the teen age aids victim who returned to class last week under a judge s order. Phyllis Schumacher Secretary to Princi pal Ron Colby also said one Pupil withdrew from school bringing to five the number who have left since Ryan was readmitted thursday. White 14, returned to school thursday after a judge vacated a temporary injunction that had kept him from his seventh Grade classes. Parents of some of his class mates had sought to keep him from school because they feared he could infect their children. Schumacher said 29 pupils went Home thursday. Fifty five were out Friday but Colby said he was unsure How Many could be attributed to Ryan s return. Monday s absentees were because of the situation with White Schumacher said. Clinton circuit judge Jack r. O Neill said last week that he had no evidence of a threat of irreparable harm to White s class mates to justify the injunction. White whose acquired immune deficiency syndrome stems from blood products he received for his Haemophilia returned to school for one Day in february before the parents obtained an injunction from a How Ard circuit court judge. His aids was diagnosed in december. 1984,. And school officials banned Ryan from classes until a county health officer ruled in february that he posed no harm to the other 364 pupils at the school  
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