European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes monday december 22,1965 Appier students from bang Hal 9 Sudan University join the demonstration for democracy at inc City s River front. Shanghai students demand release of fellow protesters Shanghai. China up thousands of Stu dents outraged by reports of alleged police violence against protesters demanding More democracy marched sunday for the third straight Day. The students were demanding the release of about 200 they said were still in police custody following a Dawn raid saturday by hundreds of police on a Vigil at the downtown people s Square. By noon More than 6,000 students chanting slogans and waving banners calling for More Freedom an democracy had gathered at inc Square. Hundreds of police surrounded the site but did not intervene. The protesters included some 500 students who had staged an All night Vigil in the Square outside inc local legislature following a rally saturday to press for democratic reforms. More than 30,000 students look part in the rally. A student Leader who asked not 10 be named said the protesters would begin marching from the Square in Midani croon along the Busy Nanjing Road toward cily Hall on the bund Shanghai s Walc fron. He said the students would begin an indefinite rally outside the Hall to press their demands. I expect to night s activity to be a Climax of the protests in Shanghai Friday he said. Protesters said they hoped non Stu Aenis would join the demonstration. Students said the 200 detainees include some of the petitioners who met with City government officials Fri Day night to present demands for democratic reforms. They said 300 others who were held in the crackdown have been released. The demonstrators also demanded that the govern ment discipline police officers who allegedly injured several students one of them seriously in the raid. This demonstration would not have gone on if police had not attacked the students said the student Leader. He said the protesters also demanded that the authorities recognize their action As Legal and guarantee that no punitive measure be taken against participants. Students in the people s Square also heard speeches calling for Freedom of the press. Some speakers noted that China s state run Media have published no account of a series of recent student demonstrations focusing on the Issue of democracy in China. The Shanghai protests which began Friday with a March by about 10,000 students to City Hall Are by farther largest of the rare demonstrations by students in at least six. Cities including peking in the fast two weeks. Protesters said Shanghai mayor Jiang Zemin has sofar refused to accept their demands and the City government has issued a circular to campuses telling Stu dents not to demonstrate. But the state run Xinhua news Agency in the first official comment on the recent protests saturday quoted an education official in peking As saying that the demonstrations Are Legal As Long As participants do not break the Law. Western diplomats said the Xinhua dispatch appeared conciliatory and reflected peking s efforts indecent months to introduce democratic reforms. The changes include the reduction of communist party influence in daily admins ration encouragement of free debate and elections to some government posts. Some students however said the reforms Are being hampered by conservative leaders in peking. Officer reportedly lost secret files London a a British military officer lost secret documents detailing his government s thinking on How to defend Central Europe against soviet at tack a newspaper reported sunday. The sunday express said it col. Peter Faith who worked for a ministry of defense think tank pleaded guilty at a court martial last week to failing to take reasonable care of the documents and was Given a severe reprimand. The court martial at Bulford Araby Camp in Wiltshire Southwest England worn unreported the paper said. It said Faith allegedly told investigators in a statement read at the court martial thai he mistakenly left the documents on a British rail train on july ii and Hal an Anonymous woman called him several hours later asking if the documents were valuable and if there was a Reward for their return. When he allegedly told her to turn them Over to police she Hung up the paper said. Four of the five documents were classified secret and inc Oiler confidential the paper said and most of them dealt with operations in Central Europe. The documents were to have been discussed at a meeting in the British army of the Rhine s Headquarters in Germany it said. Faith who did not testify at the court martial Alleg edly said in his statement that inc woman had a mid dle american accent and made no attempt to Haggle or blackmail him in her Brief Call to his Home near May Field in Southeast England the paper reported. Neither he nor the ministry of defense has had further Contact with the mystery caller it said. World today Park tourists expelled for harassing Lions Nairobi Kenya Dpi wardens expelled a party of 20 european tourists from a game Park after they allegedly harassed a Pride of Boru to gel a photograph with a Mountain backdrop the nation newspaper said sunday. Members or a British German belgian an Swiss party were said to have been driving Ille Gally in automobile off proper roads in Arnbo Sculli game Park to get pictures or the Lions with mount Kilimanjaro in the background. The nation said a spokesman Tor the party complained thai they were thrown out or the Scenic and popular Park 90 Miles Southeast or the Kenya capital by wardens late one afternoon last week. They spent five hours stranded in their can before sneaking Back across the Park to arrive at their Lodge hotel at i . But Park Warden Alayo Barata said the group drove off the Road and into the Bush and were circling the Lions to get belter pictures showing the animals and the 19,340-Fooi Snow capped Peak. Masai losing identity tanzanian study finds dares Salaam Tanzania up proud and warlike Masai tribesmen Are losing their train tonal identity and becoming decadent wit Western tastes for such items As fancy shoes digital watches and baseball Caps said a study published sunday. In a report to the tanzanian society of Anima production agricultural expert George Hadji Vaya Nis said the herders of the fierce pastoral tribe no longer follow the old Way of life tending Timeir cattle on the milk and blood Hadji Payanis said that unlike in the past when Tanzania s estimated 150.000 Masai were reluctant to part with a single animal they Are beginning to sell their herds to buy consumer goods. The cultural aloofness of the Masai nomads is a thing of the past he said in the report. Now the Masai consume the most fashionable items sunglasses electronic watches radios bicycles american Caps the latest fashion Able shoes and All the paraphernalia of Western decadence he wrote. China reports outbreak of venereal disease peking up China reporting the first cases of venereal disease among its citizens in 22years, has set up a National committee to Cope with the problem the Shanghai based Xinmin evening news said in an received sunday. The newspaper said saturday the reappear Ance of cd in China was announced at a recent cd prevention conference in the Eastern City of health ministry once declared to the world China is basically free of cd. But 22years later cd has appeared again the news paper said. The Ripon did not specify the number of cd cases among chinese citizens. It said a National venereal disease Preven Tion consultative committee has been set up under the ministry of health to Deal with the problem and cd lest centers would be let up in peking Shanghai and other cities. The announcement came one month after China announced its intention to increase Vig Ilance against the introduction of cd by foreign ers following the discovery of several cd cues among tourists and residents. Teen mistakes father for intruder kills him Nairobi Kenya up a teen Ager who mistook his father in the darkness for a thief hacked him to death with a 2-Fopt-Lons Machete the sunday times newspaper said sunday. The paper said police reported that the father came Back late Friday night to his Village Home at Dudi near Kisumu 180 Miles Northwest of Nairobi and began to Fumble with a key in the door. The boy heard the noise assumed it was a thief and attacked the Man with the heavy a cd Etc slashing his head and arms before he and other relatives discovered inc Man s identity
