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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, July 15, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. July 15,1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 prime minister Jacques Chirac left and president Francois Mitterrand review cadets and Mirage planes Fly Over the Arch of Triumph during the by Lille Day Celebration. French military Parade Marks revolution Paris a France paraded its military might nuclear missiles and bombers armoured forces and troops from All major units including the foreign legion Down the champs Ely sees on Bastille Day Mon Day. They passed in review before president Francois Mitterrand Premier Jacques Chirac ministers ambassadors and an estimated 100,000 spectators in the traditional Parade celebrating the Start of the French revolution in 1789. Security was unusually heavy. Police were stationed throughout the Central Paris area around the champs Elysee for 24 hours. Parking was banned in nearby streets and sharpshooters were posted on rooftops for blocks around. The accent this year was on the mechanized forces with 675 vehicles including 375 tanks and armoured cars parading. The Day opened with aircraft of the nuclear strike Force Navy Carrier and patrol Craft and army helicopters flying slowly Over the champs Elysee. Then 4,000 troops representing All forces marched ahead of the Armor with women in All armed forces school unit Sand Many regular companies. The spectacle included the ceremonial Garde re Publ Caine cavalry with sabers drawn and wearing Silver plumed helmets. Besides the foreign legion the Parade featured a mounted brass band and civil defense units that worked in the Mexico earthquake. The civil defense units marched with their Rescue dogs. Marching at a slow Pace with its own band the foreign legion got the warmest Welcome of cheers an applause from the crowds lining the Long Avenue. The mechanized displays on Parade included a truck mounted tactical nuclear missile deployed with a unit stationed in West Germany and a new unmanned reconnaissance missile on Parade for the first time. Tanks armoured cars and engineering units travel Down the Broad tree lined Avenue followed by about 40 loaded tank transporters. The Parade closed with units of the Paris fire Bri Gade. The capital s firemen arc members of the French armed forces. There had been scattered whistles and Boos As Mitterrand drove Down the champs Elysee in an open command car before the Parade. Later he was to Host a Garden party for about 8,000 people at his Elysce Palace Headquarters. They included at his special invitation All the inhabitants of a tiny country Village. Also invited were two French born North african youths who recently staged a hunger strike. Their action was against new immigration Laws of the conservative government in Power under Mitterrand a socialist after recent legislative elections. The festival is Over of poor me1 Pamplona Spain a after eight Days of non Slop drinking and dancing the Pamplona Moscu Young men on monday chanted the traditional of poor me song that Marks the end of the annual running of the bulls festival. But before going Home to sleep hundreds of youths dressed in White with red neckerchief ran in front of and alongside the six fighting bulls and six steers in the final Enci Erro or running of the bulls along the half mile stretch from the corrals to the Bull eng. The final run lasted two minutes and 40  Navarre Hospital spokeswoman said five spaniards were treated for cuts and bruises they suffered while try ing to escape from the bulls Sharp horns. About 15 other runners fell injuring themselves and were treated for minor injuries at red Cross posts. Matadors kill the bulls in professional fight held in the afternoon. Six spaniards were seriously gored during the we Klong festival which started july 6, about a Hundred youths were treated Tot minor bruises and fractures. The san Fermin festival was popularized by the american writer Ernest Hemingway in his Book the Sun at rises. The running of the bulls festival began m 1591. Bulls have gored 52 people to death since. Hard liner chosen to Lead Vietnam communist parly Bangkok Thailand a Truong Chinh a 79-year-old hard line ideologue who joined the marxist cause with to Chi Minn More than 50years ago monday was named head of Viet Nam s communist party. An official voice of Vietnam broadcast Sai tru Ong Binh was unanimously elected to succeed the late be Duan As Secretary general at a meeting of the communist party . Truong Chinh already was chairman of Viet Nam s slate Council the most powerful Organ of government in Vietnam and after be Duan s death last week ranked no. 1 in the party s ruling politburo. Be Duan who succeeded to As Vietnam s top Leader and was an architect of Hanoi s Victory in the Vietnam War headed the communist party in Vietnam for 17 years before dying thursday at age 79. Truong Chinh has kept away from the Lime Light As did be Duan. His Forte has been party organization and communist ideology and generally has been regarded As opposed to economic reforms pushed by some younger colleagues. He has been near the lop of the communist party Hierarchy since the 1930s, when he helped to found the indochinese communist party forerunner of the 2 million member party now in Power Truong Chinh was jailed by the French for subversion in 1931 and fled to China soon after his release five years later. He changed his name from Dang Xuan Khu to Truong Chinh meaning Long March in admiration of the epic 1930s March i which the chinese communist party traversed the country to escape Chiang Kai Shek s army. Communist literature once lauded Truong Chinh As the first builder and commander of the Vietnam revolution and he Rose in stature during the War to oust the French. By 1953, he was second Only to to. Bui he fell into disgrace a few years later for leading a brutal agrarian Reform. French historian Bernard fall estimated that 50,000 peo ple were executed and 100,000 others sent to forced labor Camps in Truong clip Ali i drive to re form the North vietnamese Countryside. By the late 1960s, however when the communists were fighting an All out War with the unite states and South Vietnam Truong Chinh was again Riding High  
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