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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday april 17, 1986 4,000 March to . Embassy demanding return of Marcos world today Manila. Philippines a More than 4,000 sup porters of Ferdinand e. Marcos marched to the . Embassy on tuesday and demanded the return of their Leader who urged them on from exile in Hawaii. Demonstrators burned an american Flag and shouted obscenities at two . Officials entering the embassy. The flame you have started shall spread Marcos said in an interview with a Manila radio station. He exhorted loyalists to continue protests against president Corazon Aquino s government and asked filipinos to recognize his running mate in the feb. 7 election As acting president. Members of the crowd at the embassy accused . Officials of drugging Marcos and abducting him. American helicopters took him from the presidential Palace the evening of feb. 25 at the height of a military civil uprising that swept Aquino to Power. The former president his wife Imelda. And their retinue were flown to Hawaii the next Day in . Air Force planes. Marcos who ruled the Philippines for 20 years has said american officials promised to take him to his Home prov Ince of Flocos Norte. The United states denies it. Why did they Kidnap Marcos he s our Legal presi Dent not Cory a woman in the crowd shouted. Cory is the nickname commonly used for Aquino by both support ers and opponents. One of several Marcos loyalists who went on the air at station Dame to talk with him said she participated in a Street Vigil and had not slept. We will not Stop until you come Back. We Are not being paid to do this she said. Critics of Marcos have said he paid people to attend his rallies when he was president. Demonstrators raised their fists at the embassy Gates and shouted repeatedly bring Back our president two . Marines in Battle gear and about a dozen armed filipino guards stood inside. Some of the Marcos loyalists pasted a sticker Reading Cory suicide on an embassy Seal and wrote Marcos kidnappers across an embassy sign. Others shouted that Aquino is a panty  she has turned the presidential Palace into a museum display ing Imelda Marcos extensive assortment of gowns Lin Gerie and shoes As a Symbol of the family s excesses. A Van parked outside the embassy displayed Marcos buttons shirts and Campaign paraphernalia from the elec Tion which was widely denounced As fraudulent. Across a drawing of Marcos on one shirt was written i shall return the words of Gen. Douglas Macarthur. Who led the liberation of the Philippines from the japanese in world War ii. Marcos made the same statement in a radio interview this week. People lined the Street and waved their fingers in a for Victory signs at passing cars. If those inside did not re Spond in kind protesters stopped the cars and pounded on them with Sticks. Members of a foreign television Crew who refused to hand Over videotape were chased away. Demonstrators prevented photographers from taking pictures and ordered some reporters to leave. The protesters gathered at a downtown Plaza and marched to the embassy setting off fireworks on the Way. They waved philippine flags and banners of a National youth group formerly led by Imee Mantoc daughter of the Marc oses. One person was killed and scores were injured in a clash Between Rock throwing loyalists monday but no one was Hurt in tuesday s demonstration. Organizers acknowledged modelling it after the people Power Campaign of demonstrations Street blockades and Calls for civil disobedience that led to their Leader s Down fall. Marcos said tuesday that he has asked president Rea Gan to let him return Home but he would do so Only with permission of the leaders there in the  we shall return but the people must be United and they have to ask for me to come Back he said in the radio interview. His electoral running mate Arturo Tolentino should take the oath As acting president Marcos said. He called Aquino s government illegal void invalid from the  let us reconcile Marcos said. I ask them the Aqui no government to recognize vice president Arturo Tolen Tino As acting president in the absence of Marcos the president of our  Tolentino was among those who led a one Day rebel session monday of the National Assembly which Aquin disbanded. British lawmakers reject attempt to keep stores open on sundays London up amid a chorus of cheers and jeers parliament tuesday killed a government bid to allow stores to operate normally on sundays. It was a major defeat for prime minister Margaret. Thatcher the daughter of a grocer. With the Sanctity of the British sunday at stake in a dispute making As Many front Page headlines As the . Libya crisis More than 80 members of parliament in Thatcher s ruling conservative party rebelled and voted with the opposition to defeat the Bill by 296-292 votes. This government has no mandate whatsoever to change the traditional British sunday said a conserva Tive member of parliament sir Bernard Braine. The keep sunday special brigade " argued Mark Carlisle should not Hijack sunday for  although a number of supermarkets Corner stores and Small general dealers often open on sunday in Britain most stores keep their doors shut under terms of the 1950shops act. Storekeepers have said they Are confused about the Law. After last minute lobbying among conservative Mem Bers of parliament to liberalize sunday shopping hours a Secretary Douglas Hurd told parliament that the 1950 Law is unenforceable and needs to be repealed. Commentators in Britain said Many of the conserva Tives who rebelled were worried about opposition in their own constituencies especially in the Wake of Strong pro tests from the Church of England. They said that although the Bill was rejected by Only 14 votes it constituted a serious defeat for the government. A conservative campaigner in favor of sunday trading haul Bryan Drew a chorus of jeers when he argued i am the son of Parson. My brother was a Canon. My daughter is a deaconess. I m the father in Law of a vicar and i to to Church  b Bishop freed by Libya Vatican says a to a Kif Ltd i in i by _ Vatican City up a roman Catholic Bishop who was arrested in the libyan port City of Benghazi Friday has been freed by libyan authorities the Vatican announced tuesday. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro vails said three franciscan friars and a nun who were arrested along with Bishop Giovanni Innocenzi Martinelli also have been re leased. The Vatican announcement referred specifically to the release of the Bishop Only. But asked by reporters if this meant the three friars and the nun also have been released the spokesman said  Navarro said the Vatican received the news of the Bishop s release by Means of a diplomatic  he said the Vatican had no other details. Bishop Martinelli 43, who As apostolic vicar of Tripoli Libya s capital and apostolic administrator of Benghazi is the top Catholic official in Libya s two biggest cities was arrested by libyan revolutionary guards in his Benghazi vicarage Friday. The friars and nuns were arrested at the same time anyplace. A Vatican spokesman said monday the arrests evoked Surprise and deep concern in the Vatican. Navarro vails said tuesday the Vatican still has been Given no information about the reason for the arrests italian newspapers speculated the Bishop May have been suspected of having contacts with libyans opposed to col. Moa mar khad Afy s regime. On her Way Home a Tholo three year old Kirsty Vowles leaves Harefield Hospi Tal London in he arms of her Grandfather John Tomsett. Kirsty became the world s youngest heart lung transplant patient a month ago. Man described As a Lunatic attacks tourists in Morocco Casablanca Morocco a a knife wielding moroccan killed one British tourist and injured two others in an attack in the moroccan City of Marrakech British officials reported wednesday. According to John Hutson the British Consul general in Casablanca the incident occurred late tuesday afternoon when two British couples were assaulted by a Man moroc can police described As a known  one Man was killed and two woman were injured Hutson said adding that the attacker had been arrested. The British official said he had been assured that the incident was not politically motivated. A consular official from Casablanca was dispatched to Marrakech and Hutson said he had Only sketchy details that had been obtained by Telephone. The identities of the four tourists was not released. Belgium approves expulsion of convicted War criminal Brussels up Belgium has declared Pieter Nicolaas Menten 86, a dutchman found guilty of War crimes an unwanted person Justice officials said. Authorization to expel Menten has been granted to the mayor of Hoogstraten a residential Village just across the dutch Border 20 Miles Northeast of Antwerp on april 4, 1986," an official statement said. The Justice ruling followed reports that Meta Pauw Menten s sex wife had purchased a Bungalow in the Village which has a considerable number of dutch residents including artists and retired prominent persons. Menten was sentenced to 10 years in prison july 9, 1980, in the Netherlands and his divorce was seen As a move to protect assets from Legal action rather than an actual splitting up of the marriage. Dutch Pilot killed As f-16 Jet crashes on Mission in Germany Sel Singen Germany a a dutch f-16 fighter Jet crashed tuesday while on a reconnaissance Mission Over Ger Many killing the Pilot dutch defense ministry officials said. The plane went Down Between before noon near the town of Sel Singen about 25 Miles Northeast of Bremen in far Northern Germany according to a dutch defense ministry spokesman in the Hague. The spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity identified the dead Pilot As 39-year-old capt. . De Wiik of Uden in the Southern Netherlands. De Wink was attached to the 306th reconnaissance Squadron based at the Volkel air base in the Southern Netherlands the spokesman said. The cause of the Accident was not immediately known he said. Tuesday s crash was the 13th involving a dutch f-16 Gater since the dutch air Force began flying the plane in 1979, said a ministry spokeswoman. The Netherlands now Haab 15� such jets the spokeswoman said. De Wink is survived by his wife and one child  
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