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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 13, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pug�2b the stars and stripes monday april 13,1987 new Johannesburg. South Africa a clergy and politicians said Sun Day they will defy new government regu lations that outlaw Public protest against imprisonment without charge. Archbishop Desmond Tutu Winner of the 1984 Nobel Pence prize scheduled a service monday at the anglican is. George s Cathedral in Cape town in support of detainees aide Chris Iron told sunday. Helen summon a longtime apartheid opponent and a member of the opposition progressive Federal party in parliament said sunday i m going to continue my usual course of saying whatever 1 want to say. Among the subjects will dearly be comments on detention with out  Colin Eglin Leader of the progressive Federal parly said no regulation is going to change the Popy Altitude and that is that detention without trial must be scrapped. We shall certainly continue to say so several clerics and lawyers have Laid the regulations Laid Down Early saturday by Federal police commissioner Johan Coc Tecc appear to outlaw even Public prayer for the release of detainees. Many opponents of the government s policies predicted the new Rule would be widely disobeyed. The restrictions ban any action in sup port of people detained without charge under the 10-month-old state of Emer gency. The decree makes in illegal to at tend a gathering in Honor of detainees or make any written or Oral Call for i hair rdc Serli imposes a 110,000 line or 10 years in prison for violation. Coetzee said such ads have the effect of threatening the safety of the Public or the maintenance of Public order or of delaying the termination of the slate of  in issuing the new restrictions the police commissioner cited sections of the emergency regulation that allow him to prohibit any acts or words he deems subversive or a threat to Public safety the United democratic front the country s largest anti apartheid coalition said it would not advise its members and affiliates to conform to this totally ridiculous restriction on our right to Call for the release of our people detained without  the statement was issued clandestinely because most of the group s Leaden ire in detention or hiding or have restrictions on their activities by Law and custom apartheid allows the White minority of s million to control the Economy and maintain separate residential districts schools health services and recreation areas from South Africa s 24 million Blacks. Beyers Naudic Secretary Jeneral of he South Africa Council of churches called on the progressive Federal party and in dependent candidates to withdraw from the May 6 parliamentary elections Tor whiles As a protest against the new restrictions president . Botha called the elec Tion two years Early saying he wanted a mandate from White voters to negotiate t constitutional system giving Blacks some voice in National affairs. Botha s National party Boldi 127 of the 166 elected seats in the Whites Cham Ber of parliament. The progressive fed eral party and its moderate ally the new Republic parly hold a total of 32 seats. The Black majority has no representation in parliament which also has Cham Bers for asians and people of mixed race 13 wounded As 2 bombs explode in cars in Beirut Beirut Lebanon a two Remote control car bombs blew up five minutes apart in he business District of Beirut s Christian sector Sun Day wounding 13 civilians and turning a Gaso line Unker into a Ball of flames police reported. They Alsa said overnight mortar ducts be tween moslem and Christian militiamen on Bei rut s dividing Green Jenc killed one civilian an wounded six a Volkswagen packed with 33 pounds of int and a Mercedes Benz loaded with 86 pounds of explosives exploded 15 Yards apart in East Bei rut s Sadd Vej a Oshrieh District. A Tanker truck parked nearby burst into flames igniting buildings close by. Fire brigades and civil defense teams battled the Blaze police said. No group claimed . Thousands in Jerusalem re enact Jesus fateful trip Jerusalem up1 thousands of christians waving Palm leaves and chanting Hosanna marked Palm sunday the first Day of easier week with a re enactment of Jesus fateful rip into Jerusalem. Christians from around the world joined the solemn yet colourful annual procession that re traces the route they believe Jesus Christ took into the holy City. Holding Green Palm leaves in front of them the pilgrims walked nearly two Miles under the hot Sun from the Beth age shrine Over the mount of olives and into Jerusalem s walled old City. Palm sunday Marks the Start of easter holy week the most sacred time of the year in christianity. According to the new testament Jesus Rode triumphantly into the cily on the Back of a Don key As his followers placed Palm leaves on the Road before him As a sign of Honor. Five Days later on Good Friday he was sentenced to death and crucified. He Rose from the dead three Days later on easier sunday according 10 the Bible. Nearly 1 million Greet pontiff attend mass in Argentine capital Buenos Aires Argentina a nearly a Mil lion cheering Young people from six continents waved Olive branches Ana Palm fronds in joyous greeting to Pope John Paul ii the first modern pontiff to celebrate Palm sunday mass outside of Rome. On the last Day of a two week latin american Pil Grimage the Pope said mass at an altar on a canopied pea form lowering three stories Over 1 mane wide ninth of july Avenue one of the world s Broades boulevards. In a scene evocative of Christ s triumphant entry into Jerusalem the Pope pawed through a cleared space Between the throngs to cheers of Viva Al papa Long live the Pope and in a Shower of confetti and shredded newspaper from apartment balconies and of fice building windows lining the Avenue the Bible says that Jesus arrived on a Donkey but John Paul was driven in a White bulletproof pop Emo bile to the foot of a red carpeted ramp that led to the altar which he dusted with incense. The Pope was to leave late sunday afternoon on a flight scheduled to arrive in Rome on monday afternoon in Lime for him to Lead holy week services which culminate seven Days after Palm sunday with an easter Celebration to Mark what christians believe is the crucified Christ s resurrection. John Paul left Rome on March 31 and spent one Day in Uruguay and six in Chile then crossed the Andes and travelled for nearly a week in Argentina president Raul Alfonsin attended the Palm sunday mass. The Pope in his sunday Sermon told the Young people to put your Youthful energies to work in constructing a civilization of love based on human dignity. Two years ago the Pope began a custom of dedicating Palm sunday As world youth Day. Organizer said that by saturday some 60,000 Young people from Europe Africa Asia Australia and new zealand North America and the rest of South America had come to the Argentine capital. Texaco files for bankruptcy new York apr Texaco inc., lighting a Mulli billion altar judgment against it in favor or Pennzoil co., has filed for Protection from its creditors under the Federal bankruptcy Law its president said sunday. Texaco the nation s third largest Oil company has been ordered to Post about $11 billion in Security Dur ing appeals of the ruling by a Texas court. The chapter 11 filing will not of acct the network of subsidiaries that constitute the vast bulk of texaco1 operations James Ken car Texaco president and chief  Saidara Manhattan news conference. Last week the . Supreme court rejected a lower court s ruling freeing Texaco from posting the huge Bond increasing pressure on Texaco to Settle with Pennzoil or to file for bankruptcy court Protection. In 1985, a jury in Houston found that Texaco unlawfully interfered with a 1984 merger agreement Between Pennzoil and Getty Oil co. By trying to buy Getty and it awarded Pennzoil j 10.5 billion m damages. The Texas court of appeals in february Cut thai by $2 billion but with interest Texaco now owes about Iii billion and is required by Texas Law to Post e Bond of that amount pending its Appeal. In january . District judge Charles Brieant in White Plains agreed with Texaco claim that posting the Bond then s12billion, could bankrupt the company thus denying in its constitutional right to Appeal the verdict. Brieant said Texaco need Post Only a Al billion Bond and an appeals court upheld his ruling. But the . Supreme court on april 6 said Brieant was wrong to have heard the Case before in first had been fully aired in the Texas courts Texaco responded that it would Appeal the Texas bonding Law in the Texas court promptly and on Friday to filed papers with the Texas court of appeals saying it could not afford to Post the full Security with out seeking bankruptcy Protection. The court scheduled a hearing for 9 . Monday Shultz from Paga 1 advisers and reports to Reagan by Tele phone. Arrangements were made 10 ship a Bug proof communications Van for the Secretary to use during his stay monday through wednesday in Moscow White House spokesman Martin Fitz Wutch said Reagan has sent a personal Teller with Shultz to Gorbachev but Filz Waler declined to say whether it contains any references to the embassy prob Lem. All t would say about it is that it is personal and undoubtedly refers to the arms control negotiations said Fitzs Ler. He is in California where Reagan is vacationing. Schuliz said saturday that he had examined some of the listening devices that the United slates claims were re moved from the . Embassy and found them technically advanced the level of sophistication they have was perhaps not so Well appreciated Schuliz said he said he had not decided whether to display this evidence to the Public. Over the years shun said the Sovi ets also have directed microwaves at the . Embassy to gather information and have applied spy dust to Irack Ameri can diplomats who came in Contact with the chemical it is a very hostile environment they set up Shuttz said. Officials travelling with Shuttz said the Secretary of stale would Likely meet with Gorbachev on tuesday. Schuliz intends to concentrate on prod Ding the soviets to end their seven Yea military intervention in Afghanistan.  negotiations have made recent headway. Schuliz also is ready to work on arrangements for a third .-soviet sum Mil meeting. But that depends on Gorba Chev s acceptance of Reagan s invitation id come to Washington this year. Reagan s arms control instructions to a Bull will keep him from pursuing a soviet proposal to place new limits on . And soviet underground nuclear tests according to administration officials. The president also directed Schuliz to propose that the two sides Lake seven years to reduce their strategic Long Range nuclear weapons according to the officials. At the Reykjavik Iceland sum Mil last october. Reagan and Gorbachev reached a tentative understanding to Cul the arsenals Over five years. On wednesday a group of soviet writ ers will Nocei with Shultz. After slopping in Brussels Belgium to Brief nato officials he is scheduled to Fly la Californi Ato Confer with Reagan  
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