European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                8 the stars and stripes tuesday april 21.1987 protester Florze my hotels wears a Pink Triangle proclaiming his status As a practising Catholic homosexual. Dutch Gays bypass Bishop s policy against giving them sacraments Den Bosch Netherlands a scores of dutch homosexuals took communion Al easter mass Here sunday in a demonstration aimed at defying the local Raman Catholic Bishop s order against giving them the sacraments. Dubbed Eye to Eye with the Bishop the protest against Bishop Johannes tar Schure s publicly stated policy passed without incident when All communicants were Given communion in their pews including pro testers identifying themselves As homosexuals by Wear ing Pink triangles. Ter Schure was celebrating the mass and demonstrators had planned to approach the altar rail an Force a personal confrontation with him Over whether he would give them communion. The Pink Triangle adopted by Gay rights advocate Here first was used by the nazis to identify homosexual concentration Camp inmates. In an apparent attempt to avoid a showdown at the altar altar boys distributed the Host to congregants in their scats in the jammed is. Jan s Cathedral Ter Schure who leads the diocese in this heavily Catholic Are of the Netherlands made no reference u homosexuality during the 90-minute mass. In was announced from the pulpit that the unusual communion procedure was decided on because of the size of the congregation. Protest organizer Florin Michiels told the associated press that the Bishop tried to avoid confrontation by giving communion to the faithful in their seats. Ignoring homosexuals is a Verv special manner of discriminating against them m i Chicks said. Last month archbishop Adrianus Simon is primal of the dutch Church won a court Battle Over allegations that he had discriminated against homosexuals when he said publicly that he could respect a landlord who refused to rent to a homosexual. World today Many Moscow Home fires blamed on defective tvs Moscow a Moscow s fire chief v. Kononov said in an article that 40 percent of All Home fire in the soviet capital list year we caused by defective television sets. The figure was included in an ankle in die newspaper Mosk Rukaya pravda that tingled Oit shoddy workmanship and negligence As i source of Many tires. Kononov said that 28,056 fires were reported in Moscow in 1986 and that they killed 89 poo pie and caused 2.5 million rubles about $3.8 million in damages. Nearly 19,000 of the fires occurred in Homes he said. I will name the Basic reason of the Home fires self combustion of the television Seu before which we Settle ourselves so  the lire chief wrote. And the number of these is not decreasing it s still rising  108 in Cuba carry aids virus Castro says Havana up _ president Fidel Castro has confirmed that of people in Cuba arc carriers of the aids virus but his country is in an excellent situation in the struggle against the deadly disease. Castro speaking to reporters at the presiden tial offices in Havana termed As comprehensive the report by the official cuban communist party newspaper grandma which revealed the number of aids virus carriers in the carib bean Island nation. "1 think we Are in an excellent situation in be struggle against aids Castro said. For Tome time we have been conducting systematic Analy Sis of blood donations and we have enough in formation to have some idea How thai virus i affecting our  Spanish team Abandons Tilich Mountain climb Katmandu Nepal up Strong Windsand heavy snowfall forced a five member Span ish expedition to abandon the climb or the 12,873-fool Tilich in West Nepal when a Mem Ber and a Sherpa guide were 75 feet from the Summit the ministry of tourism said. The team let by Jordi Coomer Gatege 45, a technician from Barcelona was forced to aban Don its expedition april 8. The unsuccessful climbers left for he nepalese capital april 14 and they Are expected in the area this week the ministry said sunday. The expedition started climbing after pitching base Camp March 28. It is the second expedition of the current Spring season to fail after a new zealand team failed to scale Annaruma 15,596 feet High. 4 shiites disarm Rob . Peacekeeping unit Beirut Lebanon a _ four shiite moslem guerrillas disarmed finnish soldiers and looted a Shel Ter of the . Peacekeeping forces during fighting Between israeli troops and shiite militiamen a . Spokesman said sunday. It was really War out Here said a spokesman for the . Interim Force in Lebanon of saturday s bal Lac in Southern Lebanon. Eighteen guerrillas were re ported killed. I Haven t seen anything like that since i came  the official who spoke on condition he not be identified said he has been with unif1l since 1979, a year after the 5,800-Man Force from nine nations was deployed in Southern Lebanon to Sepa rate israeli forces and palestinian guerrillas. He was reached by Telephone Al his office in in Lull s com Mand Headquarters in the lebanese Border town of a Agoura. I said a finnish . Position manned by m sol Diers was attacked by shiite militiamen who disarmed and robbed the soldiers after taking two other finns hostage. The spokesman gave this account four assailants in a station Wagon were crossing the qua Taych Bridge on the Edge of the .-policed zone at the Eastern sector of the Lilani River Early saturday morning. They were slopped by two finnish soldiers at a checkpoint and were advised not to Cross the Bridge because of the fighting. The gunmen then grabbed the two finnish troops on the Bridge checkpoint and marched them Al gun Point to the nearby finnish position where they Dis armed the rest of the  the soldiers Al the underground shelter could not shoot Al the gunmen because they were holding the two hostages. The four Guys disarmed All soldiers at the position and looted everything radios Money everything. It was quite a lot. The incident tasted one and a half  the gunmen then left after freeing the two hostages and presumably joined heir comrades in the fighting in and around Israel s self designated Security tone in Southern Lebanon. All . Bail Lions in he area of ill fifi Ling vre ordered into underground shelters throughout the fighting except for those who were on duty the spokesman said. Israel invaded Lebanon in june 1982, to drive out guerrillas of the Palestine liberation Organiza Tion. Ii withdrew most of its forces three years later but maintained a Security zone in Southern Lebanon just North of the israeli Border. Israel has kept about 1,000 soldiers in the Buffer strip thai ranges up to seven Miles wide and they Are aligned with some 1,500 predominantly Chris Tian militiamen of the South Lebanon army. The Buffer zone Al Points overlaps the areas policed by the . Forces. Saturday s fighting pitted israeli troops and South Lebanon army militiamen against some 60 shiite guerrillas of the iranian backed islamic re Stancu. An israeli military spokesman insisting on anonymity said the guerrilla death toll is the highest in a single Bailie since the Security zone was established. He said four israeli soldiers suffered slight wound in inc fight but Guve no casually figures for the South Lebanon army