European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 i the stars and stripes thursday june 11,1987 news updates Bhopal aftermath Bhopal India item officials said theret no plans to decrease the number . Pope visits area near soviet Border prays of site of nazi death Camp Lublin Poland Jap Pope John Paul ii took his pilgrimage tuesday to a Corner of Poland near the soviet Union emphasizing his country s place Between East and West and its bitter history As he prayed near the ashes of nazi death Camp victims. At a late afternoon mass a crowd of More than i million broke into loud applause As the pontiff held up As a role Model for newly ordained priests a pro Solidarity cleric killed by polish Security agents in 1984. Dozens of Solidarity banners were held aloft As the pontiff was driven in the specially protected pop Mobile toward the raised White altar in the Middle of an open held. The government has warned against pro Solidarity demonstrations. Church sources said eight supporters of the banned free labor Union were detained in Lublin so Miles from the soviet Border on the eve of the Pope s Arri Val. There was a visibly heavy police pres ence in the Center of the City. The use of private cars and taxis was banned and sales of alcohol prohibited. John Paul began the second Day of Bis polish tour with a Stop at the Maidanek concentration Camp kneeling in silent prayer for seven minutes by the ashes dotted with Bone shards of some of the Camp s victims. An estimated 1.5 million people were gassed to death by the nazis Between 1941 and 1943 at Maidanek the second largest death Camp in Poland after Auschwitz. John Paul burying his head in his hands on a White cloth covered Kneeler prayed under a Stone Monument about so Yards from the smokestack of a crematorium that has been left standing As a reminder of the horrors of the Camp. Man cannot be an oppressor to an other Man the pontiff told 75-year-old Wanda Ossowska who survived both Maidanek and Auschwitz. The Pope said Ossowska and other survivors must be symbols for future generations. Another of the reasons for his trip to Eastern Poland where he had been previously barred from visiting was the City s roman Catholic University. John Paul said it was an eloquent fact that the City hosted the Only free University in the soviet bloc. Referring to Poland s geographic Posi Tion the Pope said Lublin reflected the entire crimp process of the meeting be tween East and West no one can relieve the people living Here. Of the responsibility for the final result of this historic process at this place in Europe. And in the world. In the spot of this difficult Challenge Ike Pope told a group of academics gathered at the University. The Pope taught ethics Here from 1954 until he assumed the papacy in 1978. As the Pope spoke on the second floor of the whitewashed 18th-Century building his words were relayed to a crowd of about 3,000 jammed into the University s courtyard. At one end stands a Braze statute of the Pope bending Over the late polish primate. Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. When the Pope came out to address the group in the courtyard a Solidarity Banner flashed in the crowd. A few min utes later another Banner Reading human rights condition for peace shot up but also disappeared quickly. When the Pope left the uni Hersity about 200 Young people pot up their hands in a signs and Sang a religious song frequently heard in tie Solidarity Era. The Pope s Stop in Lublin was the Clos est Ever to the soviet Union since he assumed the papacy in october 1978. The Pope has said on several occasions that be would like to visit the country but not without visiting his flock in the Republic of Lithuania roman Catho Lic stronghold with a Large polish speak ing population. Nor did he mention the soviet Union by name in any of his speeches. Some of personnel in . Allowed to keep . Specification cars Raf Mildenhall England is air Force people whose Tours have been involuntarily extended or who have been asked to extend May keep their tax free . Specification cars for the length of their Tours instead of just 12 months. Under a new agreement with the . Department of transport per sons forced to extend their Tours and those whose commanders have asked them to extend will be Able to Register their cars in the country for the Dura Tion or their stay col. Charles ecu Busch director of Security police for 3rd air Force said tuesday. Previously .-specification cars could be registered in great Britain for Only a year. They then had to be exported. The restriction applies to new cars bought in the United kingdom. People planning to buy a new car should consider picking it up at the fac tory outside the United kingdom Hea Busch said. That Way the vehicles Are considered used and can be registered in great Britain indefinitely. He said local vehicle registration offices have More information