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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, October 21, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 i the stars and stripes tue Jay october 21.1986 greek conservatives unseat 3 socialists Athens Greece a conserva Tive challengers Defeated socialist incumbents sunday in mayoral contests i three major cities As voters registered growing dissatisfaction with five years of National socialist Rule. In Athens Tina results gave former Industry minister Miltiades even a re sounding Victory Over socialist Mayo Dimitris Beni by 54.83 percent to 45.17 percent in Northern Salonica. Conservative legislator Sotiris Kouvelas Defeated mayor Theochari Manavis by s2.i6percent to 47.84 percent. And in Athens port of Piraeus the nation s third larges City and a leftist bastion former culture minister Andreas Andrianopoulos ousted socialist mayor Yiannis Papaspyrou by 50.86 percent to 49.14 percent. Bui socialists Kepi control of Parai i Western Greece and her Klion on the is land of Crete the fourth and fifth larg est cities according to the results issued by the Interior ministry. Socialists also captured 142 of 275smaller towns to 79 for the conserva Tives 44 for the communists and 10 to Independent candidates. Earlier sunday night As the counting moved in his favor Evert said a Bronze statue of the late . President Harry  should be again placed in the downtown Athens Park where it always has  anarchists blew up the statue last March to protest a visit by . Secretary of state George p. Shultz. Bets opposition to re creeping the 12-foot Truman statue had so circa Contro Versy both in Greece and the United slates. Ill take up the statue Issue with the government Evert Laid. Naturally i be got to consult them because greek american relations Are involved  Premier Andreas Papandreou s government is committed to restoring the statue but wants to move it to a less conspicuous location. Meanwhile thousands of jubilant conservative supporters waving Blue White and Orange new democracy flags jammed traffic in the City Center amid exploding fireworks and blaring , Kouvelas and Andrianopoulos Are All members of new democracy. This is a Victory for realism goo sense and logic. Tomorrow is the first Day of a new epoch Evert said. He Ali asked people to go Home  in a statement Papandreou appealed or harmonious cooperation Between the apparent conservative Victor and his socialist government. I d like to stress to All new Mayo Sand presidents that they can count on the government s impartial support the statement said. Analysis said voters had delivered Sharp rebuke to Papandreou s socialist government but that the returns did no indicate a nationwide swing to the right. Higher taxes soaring rents and a two year wage freeze have eroded support for Papandreou s panhellenic social movement or Pasok since it won a new tour year term in the june 1985 National elections. Pope condemns nuke Arsena a meets Weinberger Florence Italy up1 Pope John Paul ii condemned the accumulation of nuclear arsenals that could totally destroy human life on the planet before meeting with Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger. Weinberger and the Pope were on separate visits to Florence but managed to hold an unscheduled meet ing for 12 minutes  was Beautiful the Pentagon chief said afterwards. But in line with Vatican protocol he decline to say what they discussed. Earlier the pontiff departed from a prepared speech to Tell thousands of Young people not to let technology Blind them to the condition of Modem Man. The humanity of today certainly cannot be proud of satellites launched to rotate in the sky when millions of human beings die of hunger on the Earth nor fee tranquil when nuclear arsenals exist in the world that could totally destroy human life on the planet he said. Weinberger an Episcopalian arrived in Italy Friday on i Way from Asia to a meeting of the nato nuclear planning group in Scotland and briefed italian officials disappointed thai the strategic defense initiative had blocked a nuclear arms induction agreement. From a platform in front of the Renaissance Church of Santa Croce in one of Florence s oldest squares the polish pontiff urged Young people to protect an environment that he Fairfa technological Industrial Vili nation often treats in a selfish Way destroying Man riches defacing what is attractive and polluting the natural  the Pope urged the Young to reject what he called the models of death of Modem society and search instead for a code of authentic values within them selves. There Are Young people who from the exterior re semble All the others. They study learn a profession work amuse themselves bul inside they Are dead John Paul said. Hasenfus from Page 1 Cia airline air America in Southeast Asia and again for Supply runs in Central America. Guards fight demonstrators As peace Congress closes Copenhagen Denmark a fights broke out sunday at the closing session of the world peace Congress As Security guards Battle uninvited demonstrators demanding a soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Fifty demonstrators crashed the final session of the four Day Congress carrying banners and shouting demands that afghan guerrillas be Al Lowed 10 speak. Angry delegates responded by chanting Ciago Home and singing we shall  the demonstrators fought with Security guards trying to evict them the Congress which has been accused frequently of being soviet inspired did not include official representatives from East european opposition movements such As Czechoslovakia s Charier 77 and Poland s Solidarity. German police jail release anti nuclear protesters a Eckersdorf West Germany a hundreds of West German anti nuclear Mili Tants barricaded roads and scuffled with riot police sunday As the demonstrators tried to Block construction of a nuclear waste recycling Plant. A hackers Doit police spokesman said 282protester were arrested Over the weekend bringing the four Day total to 494. All but on had been released by late sunday after identity processing pending court dates. The spokesman who demanded anonymity did not say Why the one person still was held. The demonstrators were trying to Block construction at the site of West Germany s first no Dew waste recycling Plant in the bavarian for it outside the Village of Wackendorf. What he actually said was we d be doing the work equivalent to what we did in Southeast Alia said Hasenfus he said he was hired to carry Small arms and ammunition to rebels in Nicaragua and neighbouring Honduras and earned 13,000 a month. Wallace asked Why the captive believed the con Rashad the Blessing of vice president George Bush. You put it they had the Blessing " replied Hasenfus. They had his knowledge. That he was work ing and what was happening and whoever controlled this whole organization or. Gomez or. Bush i re Lieve a lot of these other people they know How this i being run. I do  Hasenfus said that on several occasions he saw Aman he identified Asma Gomez at Ilo Pongo air base in Al Salvador and that the Man coordinated the sup ply planes drops to rebels. He said Cooper Lold him Gomez worked with thecia before and through his dealings with the Cia himself and or George Bush were friends. That Basalt i was  intelligence officials have acknowledged thai Gomez whose real name is Felix Rodriguez was a former Cia agent but the Cia denied current ties to him. Sources close to the Contra Aid network have told the associated press that Rodriguez was placed at Ilo Pongo by Donald Gregg an aide to Bush and Nestor Sanchez a Pentagon official. Bush and Gregg have denied directing the secret nights Hasenfus said he had never met Gregg. My Hasenfus said he considers himself a prisoner of i War but expressed ambivalence when asked whether i ithe United states has an obligation to help him. I no. I would like to say yes but. As an individual going out on my own. I would probably say no be said. But then Beina tied in with the company the Way i was and then knowing what i was  the company Hasenfus said he meant Cia. The Hasenfus said that his work in support of the Contr rebels was Only a Job and that he does not consider himself a Freedom  he said that other Ameri cans he met fell the aame Way. I Don t think they re big Freedom lighten they re these big Gung to Guys out to come and Lull people Over Here. No they re there for a Job. There is Money there not real Quick Money bul it is positive right no he  Daniel Ortega also interviewed on the program said that the Nicaragua government would. Take into consideration that Hasenfus was a Vic i lint of . Policy. When asked if Hasenfus might Beli Home for Christmas Ortega said anything is Potu-1 i   Powals from Page 1 Deputy. Gen. Hans Joachim Mack said Rogers Felt he had t been listened to and his reaction we Dis plea  " Perie stressed that the Nat consulted and that eliminating Kilt filed late nudge nuclear missiles bad been Jap policy since 1981, headed that All  at the Summit were _ Nee we received from the Alli Ance 1 by bbl to interviewer David Dimbleby who claimed the elimination of medium Ranee  in Europe would leave it vulnerable. Pert 1 we believe nato would continue to maintain adequate nuclear deterrent in the face of. Soviet j Imri Rity in conventional forces to i Dimbleby noted that were eliminated the soviet  
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