European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Pag8 28 the stars and stripes Iii \ s riot police injure several protesters witnesses say Gdansk Poland a hundreds of Rio police charged into a crowd of marching Solidar Ity demonstrators injuring at least a dozen peo ple after a papal mass in the Northern port City of Gdansk on Friday eyewitnesses eyewitnesses including associated press reporters said at least 10,000 demonstrator were heading toward the Center of town when the riot police eyewitnesses added that the riot police were clubbing indiscriminately also Bittin bystanders not taking part in the protest. Some of the protesters threw rocks and bottle sat the police during the Melee according to the least a dozen people including a police officer were seen being taken to waiting protesters were heading to a Monument commemorating polish workers killed during anti government riots in 1970. However they were stopped several mile from the Monument. During the mass Pope John Paul ii pledge to promote and Pray for the outlawed labor Gdansk crowd interrupted the roman Catholic Leader with cheers and applause More than 16 times during the outdoor mass. In Atten dance was Solidarity chief Lech Walesa. Court sentences Bokassa to death for crimes Bangui Central african Republic up former Central african Republic emperor Jean Bedel Bokassa was convicted and sentenced to death Friday for complicity in assassinations and embezzlement committed during his bloody 13-year reign As the Butcher of a Bangui court did not set a Date Tor his execution normally performed by an firing squad in the nation of More than 2 million people. Presid ing judge edouard Frank read the verdict in the quiet courtroom and Bokassa accepted it gravely and silently. He has three Days to Appeal the court had been deliberating since june 6. It issued the sentence to end a trial that began last nov. 26, a month after Bokassa secretly fled his exile Home in France and returned to his Homeland Only to be jailed promptly by the country s Leader Gen. Andre Koling a. 3rd killer in five Days executed in Louisiana Angola la. A Jimmy Glass a High school dropout who shot and killed a bound and gagged couple on Christmas eve 1982, was executed Early Friday in Louisiana s electric chair. Glass the third Louisiana inmate executed i five Days died at 12 14 a.m., said corrections commissioner c Hall supreme court rejected Glass last Appeal without comment thursday evening. The nigh court also had refused to Stop Louisiana executions on sunday and 5th . Circuit court of appeals rejected Glass Appeal wednesday. Gov. Edwin Edwards has refused 19 Stop any execution unless he gets new evidence indicating the person is was condemned for killing Newt and Erlene Brown. He said he should be spared because Jimmy Wingo a cellmate who escaped with him from the Webster Parish jail the night of the Mur Ders held a gun to his head and made him kill the Browns after he called Wingo by , 35, is scheduled to die june 16 for the killings. He said he had nothing to do with them. Cosmonauts walk in space for Battery work on Mir Moscow a two soviet cosmonauts took a walk in space late Friday to install half of a solar Battery to the outside of their orbiting Complex the soviet Media reported. The cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Alex Ander Lav Eikin left the Mir space station to attach a hinged truss designed to carry two photovoltaic panels the Tass news Agency said. They will affix a second hinged truss to the Mir s Hull during a similar space walk in several Days time then unfold All four panels of the solar Battery like wings Tass said. Saturday june 13,1987 British voters elect Thatcher to 3rd term by Large margin London a prime minister Margaret Thatcher Friday hailed As a most fantastic Triumph her third successive election Victory which handed Hera big majority to pursue her Mission of demolishing socialism and updating Britain s nuclear be had a very very Good result the 61-year old conservative Leader said in a radio interview. Wit final results trickling in it was Clear she had won a majority of 112 seats in the 650-Mcmber House of commons. We have got it because we managed to convince people the things we were doing were Thatcher the first British Leader in 161 years to win three consecutive terms said in a separate television interview. We re rain to go. We Haven t a lot of time to sit around she added after being up for most of the party Leader Neil Kinlock called his defeat in thursday s general election a Vole for maintaining division in our the election portrayed a Britain deeply divided be tween its prosperous South where the tories scored a near shutout and the unemployment stricken North where the labor party gained strongly. With 622 of the 650 seats in the House of common declared Thatcher s conservative party had 367 seats compared with labor s 228 and 21 for the centrist social democratic Liberal party Alliance. The scottish National party and plaid Cymru the Welsh nationalists each had three seats. After 600 results the conservative share of the vote was Little changed from the last election in 1983 when Thatcher won a second term with a landslide 144-seat majority. The conservatives won 42.87 percent of the vote Down from 43.06 Over the same districts in 1983. Labor had 32.6 percent of the vote up from 28.92, an the Alliance had 22.27 percent Down from 25.71 percent. The conservatives fared badly in recession hit Scot land losing half their seats to labor. The opposition had said eight years of Thatcher ism had widened the division Between North and South. The conservatives had just 10 of the 72 scottish seats compared with 21 before the vote. Defense Secretary George younger survived by just 184 votes in his scottish District Ayr. In Scotland Wales and part of Northern England labor achieved a near uniform swing against the to Ries. But the socialists made virtually no headway i South and Central England. Foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe said the nato Alliance and the world would be relieved at Thatcher s Victory Over labor which pledged to scrap British nuclear weapons and shut Down . Nuclear bases. Thatcher s Downing Street office said messages of congratulations poured in from leaders of Germany France Australia new zealand and Japan. A spokes Man said president Reagan who was in Berlin was expected to Telephone Thatcher later in the january Thatcher will have served for Svi years the longest unbroken tenure this Hope of a bridging Force emerging Between the two hostile blocs vanished As the centrist Alliance of the liberals and social democrats failed to win More seats and some of their top figures did not get is expected to announce a new Cabinet after the weekend. Reagan from Page 1 up strictly regulated airspace Over West sent a special message to those listening by radio or television from East Berlin. Like John Kennedy in 1963, Reagan spoke briefly in German As he embraced this firm this unalterable belief is Gib tour Ein there is Only one Berlin. Today i say As Long As this Gate is closed As Longas this scar of a Wall is permitted to stand it is not the German question alone that remains open but Thesie Stion of Freedom for All Mankind Reagan said of e Concrete and barbed wire Barrier that has Divide East and West Berlin for 26 years. Yes across Europe this Wall will fall. For it canno withstand Faith. It cannot withstand truth. The Wall cannot withstand demonstrators rampaged through Down town West Berlin and Kreuzberg on the night before the president s visit. Police reported 77 people were arrested and 67 police injured one with a stores were looted and at least one Auto Mobile was torched by demonstrators who erected barricades on some streets. Reagan addressed the demonstrators at the conclusion of his speech. To those who demonstrate so i wonder if the have Ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek no on would Ever be Able to do what they re doing referring to his visit Here five years ago and the demonstrations accompanying it Reagan said the fir position taken by the United states and its european allies toward recalcitrant russian attempts at an settlement was the main reason the soviets were ready to return to the negotiation and West do not mistrust each other because we re armed we re armed because we mistrust each other Reagan said. I invite those who protested then i invite those who protest today to Mark this fact because we remained Strong today we have within reach the possibility no merely of limiting the growth of but of eliminating for the first time an entire class of nuclear soviet Union and the United states Are Dis cussing the elimination of Short Range and medium Range missiles from Europe. The president spoke for about 25 minutes under tight Security that included halting subway traffic underneath where he was speaking and closing off Street through the tie Garten Section of the City. Many americans were in the invitation Only crowd and for most of them it meant a three hour wait Judy brow ii a 27-year-old native of Dallas whose hut band is stationed with the . Army in Berlin waited on crutches. She twisted her ankle getting on a subway the previous night but said i just determined i wanted to come see the president i had everything planned sgt. Larry Reese said he was pleased by Reagan s remarks and called the Challenge to tear Down the Wall the speech s highlight he said some pretty Strong words said Reese who is with he co Berlin Pofahl a 25-year-old Berliner said i think it s super that Reagan along with us Berliner would ask that the Wall be removed. Praise from Page 1 loons that dropped from the ceiling after Reagan finished his speech and a four layer birthday cake with red White and Blue icing was presented. Many of the Servic members said they Felt honoured at being chosen to attend. I love being Here and i was very proud of the president s speech at the Gate said tech. Sgt. Do steel of the 69l2ih electronic Security so. "1 saw president Richard Nixon in Florida in 1970-71, but i think this is More a templehof Public affairs spokesman said each unit Iberlin was Given spaces to Send people to the party. Boy scouts Joey Kelly and Mark Bass who volunteered to pick up trash at the event were worried about not seeing the president. We re Short and with All these people i Don t know. We will have to find a Good spot to stand Kelly said before Reagan arrived. For 13-year-old Kevin Kendall the party will be something he will write Home to Paoli ind., about i was right in front of the president i got some great pictures. No one will believe me when i write Back sgt Jeff Mira of the combat support co 4th in 502nd inf regt will also remember his Roc at the party. When u Public affairs representative was roaming around the Hall looking for extra programs Mira and his wife Susan gave up theirs. The representative explained there were no extra programs for the presidential party. This is great maybe i should have signed it so the president would know it was mine Mira said. The party ended when the 20,000 balloons and 2,000 Candy parachutes dropped from the ceiling of the Hall after Reagan ended his speech and prepared to leave. The Candy parachutes were reminiscent of the Candy bombers during the Berlin Airlift. Templehof was a key element to the efforts to Supply the City
