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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday june 13,1987 . Limits troops travel because of Panama riots schools update Washington up More than 10,000 . Troops in Panama virtually were confined to base Fri Day under restrictions intended to keep them away from riot lord areas of he country the Pentagon said. The 10,400 military personnel and their families inthe Centra american country Headquarters for the . Southern come were permitted to travel ones Sencial official business Only thursday. The restrictions bid gone from Normal condition Alpha to Bravo on wednesday a Day after rioting in Panama erupted and were upgraded thursday 10 condition Charlie no. 2 in the order of limitation on movements a Pentagon spokesman Laid. Condition Delta is the highest precautionary status and Tes Ricu . Military personnel jiving outside . Installation to their Homes and prepares them for evacuation. The restrictive procedures have no bearing on Mili tary Alert status or readiness for possible troop action and the spokesman said no extra guards have been posted at . Installations in the Panama canal zone. Under condition Charlie travel outside . Bates is restricted to essential official business and All Pri vate aircraft Are banned from flying Over the canal zone . Military areas and the panamanian ports of Balboa and Cristobal. Private pleasure boats Are prohibited from sailing in the Seaward approaches to the canal. Unrest in Panama City and Colon about 50 Miles North of the capital broke out tuesday. A state department official later said one american was injured in the rioting the agent who provide consular services Tor the United slates on a contract basis in Colon. He has dual .-paruunanian citizenship. Two other people who were injured the agent wife and the wife of a . Soldier stationed in Panama Are panamanians the official Laid Panama City and Colon Are near the touch and North ends of the Panama canal respectively. Stale department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said the demonstrations have had no effect on the operations of the Panama  the state department estimated there Are 10,118americans living in Panama who do not work for . Government agencies. It could not say immediately How Many government employees Are in the country. Panamanian president Eric Arturo Del Vallec declared stale of emergency thursday and suspended a num Ber of constitutional rights including those guarantee ing Freedom of expression movement and Assembly and those that forbid unlawful arrest and set a 24-hour limit to detention without charge. The United Stales viewed with concern the Vio Lence in Panama and expressed Hope that the suspension of some constitutional rights will be Short lived Oakley said. West Germany Britain condemn East German Poce conduct of riot Vienna Austria a West Germany and Brit in Friday harshly criticized East German police for mistreating reporters who covered a riot of East Berlin fans listening to a Rock concert across the Berlin Wall referring to the violent dashes earlier this week near the Brandenburg Gale on the communist Side Ekkehard Eickhoff West Germany s ambassador to the Helsinki review conference spoke of unprecedented conduct by East German Security police. Eickhoff said it was in comprehensible Why the event near the Wall prompted Security units to move i against the Youthful audience with  he added it is totally unacceptable that correspondents of another participating Stele the Federal re Public of Germany that a who watched toe incident were massively obstructed in their work. Why two of them were. Detained and even rudely mistreated. According to the text of his address made to the plenary Tauoa of the 33-nation conference on Security and cooperation in Europe Eickhof said. The East German police action was in Clear contradiction to the Obus Lions arising from the final act he said it contradicts the letter and the spirit of the final act of the concluding Madrid document if journalists Are hindered in the legitimate exercise of their professional activity. The British ambassador ridiculed the reporting on the clashes by the East German news Agency adn and said we know that journalists reporting on these events were beaten with rubber truncheons and that a cameraman was knocked  ambassador Laurence o Keeffe also said the British delegation associates itself with the Many pro tests. About this shocking incident. This is not what we mean by Freedom of information. It is not what we mean by new thinking  also on Friday . Chief Delegate Warren Zimmer Mann berated soviet authorities for recent human rights violations. He cited the arrest of Linards Ora tins in Liepkaja Latvia on june g. Grantins is a human rights activist and a member of die Helsinki monitoring group in the soviet Union since 1977. Zimmerman also said that he bad been told in a Telephone Call from the soviet Union that Naum Mei Man a retired mathematics professor cannot travel to the United states to join his relatives because he did important classified work 32 years ago. Pact made on 3-class Day for half time teachers Torrejon a Spain half time High school teachers in the Mediterranean Region will teach no More than three classes per Day following an agreement Between management and labor representatives. Overseas federation of teachers Leader Ernie Lehmann announced the agreement this wee following negotiations at the Region s Headquarters. Region spokesman Otto Thomas said the agreement does not preclude half time teachers from performing other duties within the half daytime Frame. He said the teachers could be called upon to Monitor study Hall or counsel students if those activities Are required during the half Day session. 1 St grader meets Queen after winning Art contest Torrejon a Spain a first grader at Zaragoza elementary school has won 10,000 pesetas about $78 and a visit with the Spanish Queen As a result of his entry in an Art exhibit James Crawford won the award after his painting was voted Best among those entered by . Children in an Art contest sponsored by the world association of the friends of  than 200 american Dodds schoolchildren Ages 6-13, entered the contest that induced entries from 30 nations. The Canvas artwork Are being displayed at the Caja de Madrid exhibition Hall. James met Queen Sophia at the exhibition Hall wednesday when she greeted the via on from each nation entered in the contest the sponsoring group promotes non physical activities for children around the world information for symposium on science now available Wiesbaden High school students engaged in science projects Are eligible for the european Junior science and humanities symposium next  than 160 High school students including 85 from Dodds will be chosen to participate in the March 3-6 symposium in Nuernberg. The 14th annual symposium provides Stu dents the Opportunity to display and explain their work. The top five students will accompany their entries to the National symposium in the United  must submit a paper detailing their research. Entrants can receive help from science teachers in designing projects. Call Kent Rossier at civilian 06121-88289 for More information. Cd Mimi by educated a Flor pm it Licul protests continue for 3rd Day throughout Seoul Seoul South Korea a swarms of protesters hurling fire bombs and Yel Ling people Power poured into the streets Friday m thousands of riot police firing tear a battled to hold them Back. Major clashes erupted All across Central Seoul As thousands of cheering protesters charged riot police units in swirling run Ning Battles in the City s main streets. It was the third Day of violence in the City since opposition groups began a drive to oust president Chun Doo Hwan and the pro tests appeared larger than before. Crush the dictator the protesters yelled u they broke up sidewalk paving stones to make rocks to hurl Ai riot police. Police armoured cars fired thousands of tear Gas rounds at the surging crowds As lines of riot police used tear Gas Rifle launchers. At least one police detachment was overrun and beaten by protesters in lighting on one of the City s main shop Ping streets. Fire bombs and rocks hailed on the police As protesters charged them from every direction often forcing them to fall Back As fighting surged across the main business and shopping districts and into surrounding residential areas. Students headed the demonstrations but Many other people including businessmen and women in suits and dresses were seen joining in or shouting support. People in residential areas leaned from their windows booing police and applauding the protesters. Police detachments were constantly being surrounded. No sooner had they beaten off an attack then protester would come at them from another direction. Down Vith the police protesters yelled As the hurled flaming bottles filled with gasoline. The government issued a Stem statement warning that opposition groups were trying to trigger a violent revolution and it would Lake necessary counteraction. In such an event forceful countermeasures would be inevitable said information minister Lee Woong Kee. Much of the City was brought to a standstill As the righting raged amid the Rush hour traffic. Most stores closed Early and businesses dismissed workers Early to allow them to get Home. Thousands of protesters tried to break through to the roman Catholic Cathedral in the Center of the City where hundreds of anti government students surrounded by police held out for a third Day. In one of Many clashes around Myon Dong Cathedral some 3,000 pro testers set up barricades on Chongye Street about one Block away and show ered riot police with firebombs and rocks As terrified pedestrians tried to escape. A unit of some 30 officers was caught in the fighting and badly beaten by the protes ters As people cheered and applauded. Police arrested hundreds of people in the clashes around the City and beat some of them before they were taken away. But officials declined to provide any figures. Clashes also erupted on College campuses As More than 20,000 students at tended Rabiei at dozen of colleges. Stu dents vowed to March to the Cathedral to relieve their comrades. Thousands of people attempted to get through to the Cathedral earlier in the Day. Hold on hold on the protesters shouted to the students holding the Ca thedral compound. Gorbachev announces meeting on Economy Moscow up soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in remarks made Public Friday that a vital communist party meeting on restructuring toe management of the country s Economy will take place at the end of june. Although a plenum of the Central committee of the communist party has Heen talked of for weeks there had been no specific time Frame announced for the session to debate a Law on altering the Central management of the Economy  
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