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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, April 17, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 17, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 a photo demonstrators in Madrid Spain Burn a . Flag and at right West Berlin policemen Battle youths in a crowd protesting the . Anti terrorist strike against Libya. Protests of raid on Libya erupt across Europe by the associated press thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities across Europe smashing windows fighting with police burning american flags and blocking traffic to protest the . Bombing strike on Sites in Libya. Although most of the major protests occurred in Europe there were also demonstrations in other areas of the world. In Khartoum the capital of Sudan the . Embassy was closed wednesday after an embassy employee was shot in the head tuesday by an unknown gunman. The employee a technician was reported in serious condition. Hours earlier about 200 demonstrators shouting Down Down .a." marched through Khartoum s streets protesting the bombings of libyan areas in the . Air raid. Officials said that there was no Evi Dence directly linking the shooting to the air strike on Libya but that the shooting occurred near the libyan embassy. The raid touched off anti-. Demonstrations in Germany Britain Greece Japan and elsewhere. Bomb threats were reported at . Embassies in Mexico City Warsaw and Seoul but no bombs were found. A Small group of protesters in Tokyo wednesday tried to push their Way into the . Embassy compound but they were repulsed by guards. Japan s Kyodo news service said the protesters appeared to be members of the Senki Kyo Sando Battle Flag faction Small leftist group which claimed responsibility for firing homemade rockets into the . Embassy compound and the grounds Jug tail13u4i i. San feat the is ate for was right to t a Monta Geine front pages of newspapers in London focus on the raid on Libya and its aftermath. Of the Imperial Palace on March 25. No one was Hurt and there was no damage i those attacks. London police reported 160 arrests after an estimated 2,000 demonstrators blocked traffic on tuesday outside prime minister Margaret Thatcher s office. The protesters carried placards Reading murderers out of Britain and Margaret Thatcher blood on your  eight Een . Full fighter bombers based in England took part in the air raid and their Mission had been approved by Thatcher. Left Wing militants rioted in West Berlin and Hamburg on tuesday and orderly anti american demonstrations were reported in Frankfurt Bonn Mannheim Stutt Gart and other German cities. Berlin officials said scores of masked Black Clad leftists in a crowd of about 5,000 demonstrators smashed windows and battled police along the City s fashionable Kurfuerst Tendam Boulevard. Reagan murderer and fascist they shouted. Black garbed militants shattered store windows damaged four police vehicles and injured three policemen during a Demon stration by about 4,000 people in Hamburg officials said. There were no reports of arrests in Heberlin and Hamburg violence. Earlier tuesday about 250 people demonstrated outside the . Embassy in Bonn and 1,000-2,000 protesters gathered in Stuttgart Cologne Mannheim and other cities. In Frankfurt about 500 demonstrators marched through the City Center and burned an american Flag in a downtown Square. Police in Vienna Austria clashed with demonstrators outside the . Embassy and reported 22 people in the crowd of about 200 were arrested. Thousands of greeks marched with libyan and palestinian students to the . Embassy in Central Athens but dispersed peacefully after burning an american Flag. Protest demonstrations also were reported outside . Diplomatic facilities i India and Cyprus. Paul Smith a spokesman at the . Embassy in Warsaw said the building was partially evacuated after a Man telephoned to say a bomb had been planted there but it was reopened when no explosives were found. South Korea s Yon Hap news Agency said a Man speaking fluent English called the . Embassy in Seoul and said six bombs had been placed in the compound. An embassy official said the compound was evacuated during a search but no bombs were found and Normal operations resumed. Americans demonstrate Tor against . Bombing i 4na a coif of fit do am y by the associated press supporters of the . Bombing of Libya clashed with protesters at two College campuses while peaceful demonstrations against the raids were held in several cities. The largest demonstration tuesday was held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where about 300 people protested tuesday s retaliatory bombings of Libya for its purported support of terrorism. We will witness an escalation of terrorism afro american studies professor Michael Thelwell told the rally. Peace can Only be achieved through diplomacy an adjustment of foreign  about 50 counter demonstrators some waving Ameri can nags and Yelling kill khad Afy and Usa Usa " taunted the protesters. I support our president and his actions. I think what he did was right said Brian Darling a Junior who waved Flag in the counter demonstration. There were no fights or arrests during the hour Long rally said Campus Public safety director Gerald o Neil. About 75 counter demonstrators at the University of Iowa in Iowa City threw eggs oranges and snowballs atthe 50 to 75 protesters of the . Action. One scuffle broke out but was quickly quelled and Noone was Hurt or arrested. In new York City about 200 protesters chanted an waved signs outside a times Square military recruiting office. The weather is Lousy and we Are cold but at least we have been heard and have spoken said David Reynolds of the War resistance league one of the speakers who addressed the gathering Over a Public address system. We want to say no to the outrage of the real mad dog who lives in the White House said Connie Hogarth of Yonkers director of the Westchester people s action coalition. President Reagan last week called libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy the mad dog of the  in Wilmington Ohio about two dozen people protested outside the downtown Post office As part of an annual april 15 demonstration by quakers and Wilmington col lege students who oppose spending tax Money for violent purposes. We have Only one Earth said Luther Warren a 95 year old Quaker and conscientious objector in world War i. We have to learn to live together because now we Havethe capacity to die  a protest in Chicago also was related to the Federal income tax filing deadline. As last minute taxpayers lined up at Chicago s main Post office building late tuesday they were met by about 25 people protesting the Libya bombings. In Boston an estimated 200 demonstrators chanted we want Justice we want peace 8et us out of the Middle East in a demonstration. No arrests were reported. I think it was a mistake and badly timed and it was cruel because civilians were involved said Boston protes Ter David Forman. More than 50 demonstrators in Detroit marched in front of a downtown Federal building As a Chilly rain fell carrying signs and chanting hands off Libya Reagan is the terrorist and end . Wars from Libya to Nicaragua  
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