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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes tuesday april 7,1967 is cheer As Pope defends workers Concepcion Chile ult Miner in  cheered Pope John Paul ii sunday As he de fended workers rights a an outdoor mass Lor 450,000.security was tight to prevent renewed anal Golem men violence thai has. Marked he pontiff s visit to Chile. The Pope spoke on a platform in Concepcion Deco rated with e Mound of Coal symbolizing the key Indus try or Lite Region a Center of opposition to president Augusto Pinochet s military government. "1 know your legitimate Union demand in defens of your rights John Paul mid in i Sermon two Days after violence broke out during an outdoor mass i Santiago. You must not forget thai right also entail the  of certain  the pontiff assured the cheering Mitten in yellow hard hats thai he recognized their dignity at human beings and christians and understood the difficulty of unemployment. The prolonged unemployment of so Many work in Here and in other parts of the world is an ethical problem because it is a symptom of moral disorder  he said. There was no trouble during the open air Mats but alter the Pope led Many in the crowd booed and jeered at mounted police who were tent to prevent any demonstrations. The pontiff then travelled to he agricultural own of Temuco to rect with descendants of the fierce a Puche indians who fought off Spanish conquerors and their roman Catholic priests for nearly 300 Yean. Speaking from a podium decorated with native de signs the pontiff urged big landowners to give landless peasants a belter future with progressive Access  John Paul later flew to the Pacific coast desert City of la Serena where he met with 70,000 people Man of them miners and Gold prospectors from the nearby mountains who put on a Snow of religious Folk dances. In Conception an Industrial City of 500.000 about330 Miles South of Santiago police at checkpoints searched worshippers and seized banners and object that could be used As weapons. Church officials Broad cast warnings that political banners and signs were prohibited. Concepcion is the Birthplace of tha leftist revolt Lionny movement known by the Spanish acronym Mir. The Mir tried to assassinate Pinochet in sep tember and some demonstrator at inc Santiago Mas carried placards identifying them with the group. In Santiago a government statement late saturday said 75 policemen were injured at the Pope s outdoor mass before nearly i million people Friday that was disrupted by youths throwing rocks and Selling Bon fires. Hospitals reported 148 civilians were injured in the Mclace including a chilean woman photographer who shot in the shoulder. Opposition leaders blamed government backed agitators for instigating the attacks which were led Fay youths with leftist banners the government statement blamed them on Hothead without identifying a specific group Chile s outlawed communist party denied responsibility for the violence during the outdoor Mats and blamed it on a rightist conspiracy. Being held by islamic jihad Berry Beirut Lebanon ice amal militia Leader Nabih Bern said missing anglican Church envoy Terry Waite to being detained by the pro iranian islamic jihad group which is holding other americans hostage in Berul Bern in Jinnu Possi by monday morning the release of held in i prisoners held in Linefeed Acle Jui in professors. According to my information like re lease or the Lour professors will Settle the Waile Issue while Ibe release of those but this dc3nono other solutions which May influence the release of those held captive Bensaid. He did not elaborate. The underground islamic jihad for i deliberation of Palestine has claimed re the Jan. 24 abduction of four professors . Nationals hju._s2 Jesse Turner 38 Singh 62, an and the group has demanded the release of 400 Arab prisoners detained in Israel in Exchange for the hostages Freedom. Salvadorean rebels say More . Advisers will die Miami a the coffins of More Ameri can advisers will be coming Home from Al Salva Dor unless the Reagan administration ends its military support of the government says spokesman for leftist rebels hauling to take Over the Central american nation. Ernesto Godoy. A .-based rebel spokes Man spoke saturday night Only hours after the body of Sec. Gregory a. Uranius reached Miami International Airport on the Way to his family Home in Pennsylvania. If the intervention continues it will happen like Vietnam Godoy said the bodies of More american people will be coming  Fronius a Green Berel weapons instructor was the first . Military adviser kilted in com Bai in Al Salvador. He and 43 salvadoran troop were killed tuesday when rebels attacked the Al Paraiso army base. Riss vote to tighten if caration controls Bertai Kierland a Swiss acting to a irs Ayrf third world Wei s  Cam favor of tighter it Wendum sunday that other european coun the   Sai admission of Mckims of persecute re to the strongly Inin a refer watched by in support Fuld facilitate Hile keep ing out thine merely seeking econom Blum regulations were Ibe  the country Birthplace of the other International humanitarian org Liciago s assessor mayoral bid Swap Cook count yes As Sessor Thoman Lynn one of Jar Candi dates bidding to in Almayor a by washing ton dropped out of a  saying he did not want to dilute on pen to the  now believe thai by Buss Aldington can not be Defeated if bees mor but one oppo nent Hynus Stid surprised i Omen at a labor Hall rom the announcement a he just two Vaysbr fit the  candidates Are Alderman  running under the Illinois solid a ban nor and Republican Donald Haider. Reagan from Page 1 Power plants and nitrogen oxides chiefly from car Sand trucks. Canada wants the United slates to commit itself to timetables and controls to produce a so per cent reduction in acid rain in the 1990s, the Reagan administration says the acid rain Issue has More political and emotional Content in Canada than in the United states. It argues that Mote information i needed before embarking on an expensive program. In television interviews before Reagan s arrival Mulroney urged tougher . Action on acid rain Call ing for Congress and the administration to agree to an enforceable treaty to make sure that the damage reporting on the leaders private talks presidential spokesman Martin Fitzwater played Down differences saying Mulroney had expressed pleasure that Reagan was seeking the full j15 billion for acid rain envisioned in an agreement last year. That s As far As we can go on the problem in this meeting Fitzwater told reporters a senior Canadian government official speaking on condition of anonymity told reporters that Reagan took note of the acid rain proposal accompanied Only by nol taken the two leade conferred far 35 minutes. They agreed that .-Ca Nadian relations were very Good Overall and thai our lies Are clearly on toe upswing Fitzwater said. Fitzwater insisted Progress was achieved in terms of the understanding Between the two. Leaden about the Pace and course of actions thai their countries have taken on Many of these  Reagan and Mulroney agreed to share research in formation on aids and said fighting aids would be discussed at the seven nation Summit in Venice Italy in june. On defense matters where Reagan wants Canada los Pend More the president stressed the importance of All nato members contributing their fair share Fitz water said. Blast from Page 1 lion area extends about a mile in each direction fro the Plant officials had been concerned thai heat from the flame would cause two 10,000 gallon tanks of methanol Al the Plant to explode but water was sprayed to Cool them. West ranch fire chief Dick Stoolman said. . Presco ii of Des Moines the pipeline company division manager said Al a news conference that it could take five Days to pump 5-s million Gallons of an ethanc4-Prqpane Gas mixture out of a 14.7 million gallon Reservoir 71 0 feel below the Plant present said the burning chemical used in manufacturing plastics and As a fuel is not toxic. Then Are no toxic fumes. It is highly flammable but not toxic he said. Cd stuns spa in Hessen elections Frankfurt a the Christian democrats Upsel Victory in the Kessen stale election bolsters Ger Many s controversial nuclear Energy program and leaves the social democrats 5fd in a self described crisis. In a close Vole sunday the Christian democratic Union cd and its Smalt ally the free democrats dethroned the social democrats from 41 years of Rule in Hessen stretching Back to the end of world War the social democrats erstwhile coalition partners the Ami nuclear greens posted solid gains based on increased Public concern in Germany Over Environ mental pollution. But the greens could not offset the disastrous Vole losses by the social democrats torn by internal divisions and shadowed by the March Resig nation of longtime National chairman and sex Chan cellar Willy Brandt. The Hessen loss sunday followed resounding spa setbacks in the Federal election Jan. 25 and votes last year in Bavaria and Hamburg Stales. Hamburg Tike Hessen had been a postwar spa stronghold. The spa Germany s oldest political party is in Bod shape As it prepares for four More stale elections in1987 that could guide the Agenda in German politics for years to come. The Hessen Victory gave the cd and free  a solid majority in the bundesrat the upper chamber of the Federal parliament thai is composed of representatives from the slates. With All of 3.34 million votes counted tale sunday the cd took 42.1 percent up from 39.4 percent inthe last Hessen vote m 1983. The free democrats had 7.8 percent up from 7.6 percent. That gave the Allie parties n Bare majority of 56 seats in the 110-seat Hes sen legislature. The spa plummeted id 40.2 percent from 46.2 per cent while the greens jumped to 9.4 percent from 5.9. The coalition will hold 54 scats together. Pre election polls had forecast a dead heal Between he two party blocs. Voter turnout was 80.3 percent  
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