European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pye 8 the stare and stripes sunday january 16.1987 High flying Mammoth mouse a in Hon to Tab Mickey Mouw balloon i Miles Hap Ait lifts trip irom the Harbor area of Toronto the balloon i port of � promotion Lite lost week by department store in the Canadian City. 200 London detectives losing their permits to carry firearms  a some 200 detectives in London nil no longer be Parr Ointa to carry guns Scotland Yard said Friday i Day after a policeman was acquitted i Lite shooting of b Black woman that touched a it Noiin in. 1985. Moil of Britain a policemen do not carry firearms. Scotland Zartl said lit number of London Plain clothes a ficere  i Tarry firearms had de creased irom4,500 in i9e3 to around 3,200 and would by reduced to 3.000 by the end of this your. The overallpolice1 Force  2&.udd members. The move id disarm More detectives involves about us Pohr stations across London and in part of an on Jtj review of firearms procedures since 1 b3," 8 police spoke Maui stud. It s not a direct result of the  on time Toby. Inspector Douglas Lovesick was found innocent of charges of unlawfully and malicious j wounding Cherry Grace during u raid on her Home in the racially mixed Brixton District of South London on sept. 2h, 19b5. Police had been searching for her i or ii firearms charge Grace 39, a Mother of six was Iii paralysed from the Waist Down. The shoaling sparked two Days of noting in Brixton a which ruin Drudi of youths attacked a police station  set cars on Eire. Die  Robert Wells of Scotland Yard s firearms training unit said the first of a series of tighter restrictions on the use and allocation of gum Carne into a Koltan after us accidental shoaling of a television film  Waldorf in january 983.marksmen, mistaking Waldorf for a fugitive gunman shot him five times while he sat in a car in Rush hour traffic at London s Hyde Park Corner. Waldorf 31, has since recovered from his near Fala injuries. Two detectives were tried and acquitted of at tempted murder in the Case. The debate about whether British police forces Iong proud of their tradition of working without firearms should be armed was rekindled in August 1935 when police in Birmingham fatally shot 5-year-old John Honhouse in his Home while searching for his father who was wanted for armed robber. Last july a police Constable was cleared of Man Slaughter in the boy s death. Wells said that in the future the Only plainclothes detectives in London authorized to carry firearms will be those in special squads dealing with serious crimes drug trafficking or terrorism or those providing Protection for politicians and the Royal family. An average of one in 10 British police officers is rained in the use of firearms bul in London the ratio is slightly lower government statistics show that for every Bullet fired by a police officer criminals fire about 10. Police in England and Wales fired shots on just five occasions in 1985, compared with 238 shots fired by new York City police in the same year Home Secre tary Douglas Hurd said Friday. The new regulations do not affect police outside London bul Hurd who is studying a government police report on the use of firearms by All British police. Said rigorous weapons training is needed along with  of officers. World today number of aids cases in world hits 38,401 Geneva Switzerland up1 there were 38,401 reported Cawi of aids worldwide As of Jan 14 Wilt the United slates accounting for 29.003 of the total the world health organization said Friday. The Jan. 14 total represented an increase of 1,862 since dec. 9 when who s last previous global accounting said there had been 3ft, 5 39 reported Case. Aids cases have now been reported by s3 countries who said. Officials cautioned Many developing countries especially in Africa Lack facilities for tracing All Vic time and the global local is certainly much higher than those cases reported to who. France was second with 997 aids cases followed by Canada 786west Germany 771uganda 766 Brazil 7s4united kingdom 610hallit Zoitan Zania 462australia 373 and Italy 367. Fined parliament member Back in Northern Ireland Dublin Ireland up a British parliament member from Northern Ireland tried for participating in a protestant Border raid into the Irish Republic was Back in the province saturday after paying 17,500pounds 525,000 in a Fine and damages. Peter Robinson Deputy to it protestant Leader the Rev. Ian Paisley was escorted out of the roman Cath Olic Republic Friday night by a police Convoy ending five Day trial for the raid mounted to protest alleged lax Security along the Border a favorite haunt of the Irish Republican army. Robinson showed no emotion when a three judge panel fined him rather than imposing the maximum penalty of two Yean in prison for his guilty plea to unlawful Assembly charges under a plea bargain agreement. Mubarak says Ira Gate blocks . Peace efforts Abu Dahabi United Arab emirates a the United stale ii so preoccupied with he Iranga comedy that it has no time for the Middle East peace process egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was quoted As saying saturday. The . Administration is now Busy with Iran Gate and i Don t think it Hiti Lime to spare Tor Ara issues Mubarak told the sem official Al Lui had. He said he is not contemplating a visit to washing ton until the Iran Gate comedy is Over and the stand of the . Administration  belgians cheated state out of $8.5 billion in taxes Brussels Belgium a belgians who consider tax evasion a National sport have cheated the state for 322 billion francs 18.5 brition in 1984, estimated the country s leading expert. Max Franck a finance ministry official and professor at Brussels University gave a report on hit latest tax evasion estimates at the annual Congress of Bel Gium s French speaking economists which ended in Charleroi Friday. Franck s figures have been disputed in the past but the government has never Given ils own tax evasion estimates. Furthermore Many officials have publicly admitted tax evasion is High m this country even excusing it by the excessive level of taxes. . Marines fight off Airstrip protesters in Japan Tokyo up nine . Marine fit std Vised riot truncheons to fight off Ifill villagers Prates tins the construction of n Marine Airstrip on the Southern is land of Okinawa saturday authorities Aid. A u.5. Raih iary spokesman in Tokyo said two my Luiei Busi aupied minor injun Rte they were 001 identified. Delict in Naha. The capital of Okinawa Ami Village official reported no injuries among the local residents. There were no or Nysti. They said. Authorities said the incident began around noon when a . Navy Scabet construction brigade entered the build ing site of a Landing Field for Marine Harris jump jets near aha Village in the Northern tip of Okinawa 950 Miles South of Tokyo Abuwi 100 demonstrators assaulted nine Marine military policemen provid ing i purity said master gunnery sgt. Dale Hunter a spokesman for the combined . Forces Japan come in Tokyo. The villagers most of whom Are farm ers reportedly oppose the Field on environmental grounds nearly 40,000 . Service personnel most in the marines and air Force Are based on Okinawa site of some of world War la s fiercest fighting. A japanese television network showed villagers some carrying Sticks arguing and fighting with marines who used the truncheons to subdue the protesters. The incident comes following Exten. Sive efforts by . Military officials to work with japanese officials for a favor Abse solution to the problem Hunter said. But saturday s incident was the latest of several recent protests against the expansion of . Military facilities in Japan for environmental reasons. Residents of another Pacific Ocean is land South of Tokyo have been fighting japanese government proposals to build a new Airstrip for . Navy lighter planes to replace one in a Tokyo  there have complained about constant noise. Another Tokyo suburb is fighting plans to expand . Military homing there also on environmental grounds