European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday Juna 19,1987 Berlin protest Marks workers uprising Berlin up about 100 Young people gathered on he Western Side of the Berlin Wall on the 34lh anniversary of a worker uprising in East Berlin shouting Down with he Wall and throwing stones across the Barrier West Berlin police said. The Rock throwing wednesday night prompted a protest from an East Ger Man Border guard officer stationed near the Brandenburg Gate where the Inci Dent took place. No serious violence was reported. The demonstration came on the 34lh anniversary of inc june 17, 1953, work in uprising in Hail Berlin an event  in West Germany As the Day of German Unity. The Wall was erected aug. 13, 1961, to halt the Mas Sive flow of refugees to the West. The demonstration which also included the burning of paper pasted on the Wall was held not far from where presi Dent Reagan in a speech last Friday near the Brandenburg Gate challenged the so Viet Union and fast Germany o tear Down the Wall. In Budapest wednesday night. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze said the melodramatic performances at the Brandenburg Gale by Reagan were not the Way to make Progress in International relations. Young members of West Germa Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Christian democratic Union party look part in the demonstration which came More than a week after East Berlin police blocked crowds from getting close to the Wall to hear Nock concerts in West Berl in. Easl German police also allegedly roughed up and detained West German television camera Crews who recorded the incidents not far from the Branden Burg Gate on the nights of june 7 and june 8. Also wednesday in West Berlin pro testers built a 2-Fbot-High papier mache Wall on a Bridge leading to the City s Kreuzberg neighbourhood where police and anti Reagan demonstrators dashed during the president s visit. About an hour after they built the artificial Wall the protesters took it Down on police orders. On the nights of june ii and june 12,several Hundred anti Reagan demonstrators went on a rampage destroying store front windows looting a liquor store and setting fire to construction material. Police later blocked traffic to and from the Kreuzberg Section in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of property destruction in West Berlin s prosperous business District they walked Miles for a phone Callju Pho _ be of we Tami Creek Tao sat porn Batiate Welch eur to celebrate the installation of � phone Booth the most rate Booth in a Sanii. Ant 60 people. Thane do Phau a Dro medaries gathered it the Edge of the Sun son Dewart id tie Hart of he a thick far the instillation. Until now the own relied on somewhat Cmuk Rio Sefc phone system. Canadian letter carriers strike extends to three More cities Toronto a a letter carriers strike that began in Montreal and Calgary spread to three More Canadian cities wednesday and two strikers were injured and one arrested White trying to keep the Maii from moving. The letter carriers Union of Canada said 5,000 of its 20,000 members stayed off the Job wednesday in Edmonton Alberta Victoria British Columbia and Cornwall Ontario As Well As in Montreal and Calgary where the strike began tuesday. Two pickets were slightly injured and one was arrested in Edmonton when 100 strikers linked arms to try to prevent a mail truck from entering a postal Cen Ter officials said. In Montreal 400 strikers forced their Way into a sorting Center dumped three bags of mail on the floor and convinced 20 specially hired workers to leave their jobs. On tuesday one striker suffered a broken leg and three were arrested. Laurent Mayer vice president of the Montreal local said he had to convince some Union members not to retaliate against strik Breakers. Our boys Are not prone to violence but there Are limits to their patience he said. In cities not affected by the strike the mail got through taut the Union is rotating the Job action Aad said that could Lead to a full walkout. The Union chose sporadic strikes because it does not have a strike fund. The main Issue in Canada s first letter carriers strike in 19 years is Job Security. Canada Post a Crown corporation established in 1981, is under orders from prime minister Brian mul Roney s conservative government to erase its operating deficit of $99 million by March. It wants to eliminate 8,700 Union jobs and close hundreds of Rural Post offices. The corporation has asked letter carriers to accept a pay freeze longer delivery routes a lower wage scale for new employees and the elimination of several Job Protection measures contained in the previous con tract which expired dec. 31. The Union wants to preserve the Job Protection Mea sures and Job guidelines that guarantee overtime pay for carriers who make extra deliveries after completing their Normal rounds in fewer than eight hours. The Union also wants an unspecified wage increase to cover Canada s 4.5 percent inflation rate. Carriers earn an average of 10.07 an hour. Canada Post advertised across the nation for non Union help during the strike. In Montreal alone it hired 1,000 replacements most of hem students. Strike supporters put no Scab mail Here signs Over their Home mailboxes while Many businesses turned to courier services. Contract talks in Ottawa adjourned wednesday with neither Side giving any ground. The talks were to resume thursday. Canada s last postal strike involved Sorters and clerks who stayed off the Job in 1981 for 42 Days. World today Reagan invites Thatcher to visit . In july Washington a British prime minister Margaret Thatcher will meet with president Reagan atthe White House on july 17 at the president s invitation presidential spokesman Marlin Fitz Walcer announced wednesday. Fitzwater said he Hud no details of the meeting. Thatcher a fellow conservative with whom Reagan has Good relations was returned to office As prime min ister in Brit ish elections last week. 27-year-Olds flee East in separate escapes Munich a an East German Man and a czechoslovak Man climbed Over their communist countries heavily fortified Border fences to West Ger Many in separate escapes Early thursday. The two men both 27 Yean old made it to West Germany s Southern Bavaria state without full Erting communist Border sentries West German police said. Neither was injured. The police gave no other details. The escape brought to 4d the number of East Ger mans who have fled Over their Border to West Ger Many or West Berlin Tiu s year. The number of czechoslovak who have done so is not known but it is believed to be considerably less than the East German total. Sales near $2 billion Paris a the Boeing co. Said thursday its new aircraft orders and options announced during the Paris air show total nearly 12 billion. Richard Schleh Boeing s manager of Public relations said thai airways has ordered two 747-400s and has taken an option for two More. The Deal has a total value of $325 million. Deliveries for the aircraft ordered Are set for octo Ber and november of 1989. If the options Are exercised those aircraft would be delivered in 1990 and 1991. Boeing also reported the Sale of two 747-300 jetliners to Egypt air Worth about $115 million each and three 737-300s to Istanbul airlines Worth $75 million. Last week Boeing announced sales of 11.3 billion Worth of aircraft to International leasing finance corp., air Europe and Southwest airlines new offensive launched in Iraq Iran claims Nicosia Cyprus a Iran said thursday its forces bunched a new joint offensive with kurdish rebels in mountainous Northern Ira killing dozens of iraqi soldiers. The official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia said the operation was launched wednesday night and several strategic Heights were captured inside iraqi Kurdistan. In addition to the casualties 100 iraqi soldiers were captured in the fighting near Arbil 200 Miles North of Baghdad the Agency said. Iraq bad no immediate comment on the latest Irani an claims. There is no Way to verify the claims from Iran an Iraq which rarely allow correspondents or other observers to visit the front line in the almost 7-year-old