European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago b the stars and stripes thursday. November 27,1980 new Delhi police break up anti Gorbachev protests new Delhi India a police broke up two protests Over the soviet military intervention in Afghanistan wednesday while Kremlin Leader Mikhail visited a memorial to Mohandas k. Gandhi India s apostle of non violence. Gorbachev wednesday also met with president Zail Singh and planned a second round of talks with prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. On tuesday the soviet and Indian leaders denounced die . Star wan pro Gram saying it was obstructing Progress toward a nuclear free said 15 to 20 people were slightly injured in a clash Between Indian bystanders and afghan refugee who were trying to tear Down Gorbachev posters near the Jamma Masjid mosque in old Delhi. About 60 people were arrested police also detained about is member of the opposition janata party who showed up outside the soviet embassy to demonstrate against the estimated 113,000 soviet troops who arc helping Afghanistan s communist government fight moslem guerrillas. Security was Light for Gorbachev s visit to Mahatma Gandhi s memorial on new Delhi s Jumna River where a Lone gunman opened lie on Rajiv Gandhi on oct. 2, missing the pome minister but injuring six and his wife Raisa planted a Magnolia tree near where the Lale soviet Leader Leonid i. Brezhnev planted a tree 13 years ago. We have a saying thai if a Man docs something like leaving a tree behind he has lived a worthy life Gorbachev told reporters. The memorial Park contains Trees planted by states men including former president Eisenhower and the Laie vietnamese Leader to Chi its Center is a simple Marble slab marking the spol where Mohandas k. Gandhi was cremated after his 1948 assassination. He is no relation to Rajiv Gandhi or Rajiv s Mother the late prime minister Indira Gandhi. In talks tuesday with Rajiv Gandhi Gorbachev said his Iceland Summit with president Reagan Dis closed the obstacles and forces that Block nuclear disarmament. The talks broke Down Over Reagan s refusal to accept the soviet demand that the .space-based missile defense program not involve tests outside the Laboratory. The situation urgently Calls for a new approach to Security issues a new thinking in politics and a new philosophy in International relations. Survival of Man kind must be placed above All other interests Gorba Chev said at a banquet tuesday. Gandhi said the . Strategic defense initiative dangerously jeopardizes world Security. He Praise Gorbachev s proposals for arms reduction and called him a crusader for India a founder of the non aligned movement has close ties with the soviet Union and has refrained from publicly attacking the soviet military in Erven a photo Mikhail Gorbachev lays a Wreath at memorial Lama Halm Gandhi As his wife Raisa looks on. Lion in Afghanistan which began in december 1979. But India also has expressed interest in improving relations with the United states and in buying Ameri can technology. Gorbachev and his wife arrived tuesday for a four Day soviet delegation includes foreign ministered Uard a. Shevardnadze and communist Pony Central committee Secretary Anatoly f. Dobrynin. They met with Indian officials tuesday and Dis cussed drafts of an economic agreement and a joint statement scheduled to be issued Friday. The economic Accord will include joint ventures to produce soviet Model generators a Ray machines ventilators Weld ing pipe equipment and color televisions in India. Playtex latest firm to sell assets in s. Africa to local management Johannesburg South Africa a . Underwear maker International Playtex inc. Has sold All its South african assets to local management a manager said wednesday the Stamford company sold the assets nov. 14, said Bill Quinn managing director of Playtex Africa Ltd. He did not disclose a reason for the Sale. Barclays Bank of Britain announced monday it sold ill Tut snares in its South african affiliate for about $230 million in the biggest divestment yet by foreign company. Many american companies most recently general motor. Kodak and International business machines also have withdrawn. Quinn said the new company fax distributors Ltd., will continue to manufacture in Durban under the Brand name paying a Royalty and will retain accent to new products and designs bom Playtex. The 400 to 4so employees 90 percent of them Indi an will retain their jobs he said. Quito hid lie bad no formal statement from inter National play let on the reason for the Pul Ioui and would act disclose the Sale Price or value of the assets. It it very ouch a Case of business u usual humid. We have written to our local suppliers and bit Umen Tufo Lahout South Africa with the Assurance that at far u our manufacturing open ton and Quality of product Are concerned nothing will change. From a wholly owned subsidiary of International Playtex we have become a totally South african owned manufacturing business he said. The International Community has been moving slowly toward imposing sanctions against South Africa to protest apartheid under which the country s 24 Mil lion Blacks have no vote in National affairs and the s million Whites control the Economy and government the number of . Companies with assets in South Africa has dropped from 325 to test than 270 in the past two Yean. Six top corporations announced disinvestment Plani in the last two months general motors corp., ism coca cola Honeywell a than Kodak san Lee and Warner communications. Earlier this year Procter & Gamble general electric and Marriott announced divestment plans. Almost All have cited poor economic performance in South Africa u the main reason and some have noted political and economic pressure in other markets be cause Tiluy conduct business in South Africa. Kodak s pullout is tending Cut Omen Koa mount to find new Bourcet of film photographic equipment and processing material. World Tod in israeli s planned visit to Germany spurs protests Tel Aviv Israel a president Chain Herzog announced wednesday he will go to West Germany in april the first such visit by president of the jewish state. The announcement touched off fierce criticism from israeli legislators who survived the holocaust Herzog s spokesman Ami Gluska said on israeli radio the trip would be a memorial to the holocaust with educational and symbolic meaning and would heighten awareness of the holocaust which is being Gluska Laid the highlight of the Ira would be visit and memorial Cerco a k to feted Belsen site used by the nazis As a com. J Ilion Camp. Gluska i statement followed outraged protest from members of parliament who lived through the holocaust in which 6 million european jews we killed by nazi Germany during world War remains of 3 turned Over to . Military group Bangkok Thailand a Vietnam turn Dover to a . Military delegation wednesday what arc believed to be the remains of three americans listed As missing in action from the Vietnam War the delegation Leader said. A . Honor guard saluted As the remains placed in caskets with folded american Flap onto were hoisted onto a c-141 transport plane at Hanoi s Airport said it. Col. Paul remains were flown to Honolulu when army specialists will try to identify them. Mather headed a 15-member learn from the Honolulu based joint casualty Resolution Center and the army Central identification Laboratory. Mather is head of the Center s Bangkok office. He declined to give details on the remains but be quoted the vietnamese As saying they had retrieved inem while investigating impart slim local people. Chinese Diplomat wife seek Asylum in Germany Bonn a a first Secretary in the chinese embassy has requested political Asylum in the West German capital along with his wife German government sources said tuesday. The sources were confirming a report front a Frankfurt based human rights organization which said to Pingju and his wife Gnu Meilan had defected on monday. A government official told the associated press the report was Correct and the pair had defected in Bonn. At this Point we Don t know their reasons and i have no information on where they Are staying the official told a speaking on Condi Tion he not be identified. The International society for human right a respected Frankfurt human rights group Bro Keihe news of the Man s defection with a statement tuesday afternoon. This High ranking chinese Diplomat took Iii spectacular step yesterday monday because he had rejected the communist system in it a Long time the society s statement said. His popularity will soar among Jet set friends London up1 traveler Richard Thome won a Jet Sel prize for himself and 99 Wiendl tuesday free use of a British airways con Corde Faraday. Thome a 45-year-old Engineer won the prize4mm�4t- a . Vhmj.j�v4. Numa. Pc astr Yih Rin a British airways Competition. 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