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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, July 9, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 9, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 Man killed As n. Ireland violence erupts Belfast. Northern Ireland u i la gunmen tuesday shot and killed a Man in a religiously mixed area of do fasl protestant youths hurled acid bombs i police and a Susic Clad Ira bomb in tended for a passing army Puiul top cml cd in the Garden or a Home injuring a woman police sources said. The new round of violence by both protestants and roman catholics brought to s3 he number of people killed in political and sectarian slayings so tar this year compared to 61 for All of 1986. The new violence erupted with the approach of the protestant marching sea son 10 celebrate protestant domination of the British ruled province and police Basque area Rock chefs injure 4 army men san Sebastian. Spain a rockets directed at a military head quarters building Here tuesday slightly injured four Spanish army personnel standing outside a civil defense organization said. The attack on the military head quarters of a Lipuzcoa province located in the heart of this Northern Bas que City occurred around 3 p.m., a spokesman for the association for Highway assistance acc said. The spokesman who did not give his name said the rackets had apparently been launched from a car parked across the Street from the building. Two of the four men were treated on the spot for injuries while the other two were taken to a nearby Hospital the spokesman said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack last october Eta the Basque separatist organization claimed responsibility for bombing the car of Gen. Rafael Garrido As it stopped at a traffic Light in san Sebastian close to the Mili tary Headquarters building. Garrido his wife and a Ion died in the blast the rocket attack occurred As the Interior ministry announced tuesday that police had arrested three suspected members of Eta who were allegedly planning to carry their terror Campaign to Spain s Southern Mediterranean beaches. Eta an acronym for Homeland and Liberty in the barque language has killed nearly 600 people since be ginning its armed Campaign 19 years ago to secure Independence for the three province Northern Basque coun warned they expect an upsurge of deaths police said gunmen opened fire and killed a Man in a religiously mixed area of North Belfast. No further details were immediately available. The shooting occurred a few i nulls after a Susic Clad Irish Republican army bomb was set off in a Garden in roman Catholic West Belfast As an army fool patrol passed. None of the soldiers was injured but a woman was rushed to a Hospital with non serious injuries police said. No Pup immediately claimed responsibility. However police suspected the out taxed Ira fighting to end British Rule in the mostly protestant province so it can be United Aith the Catholic Irish Republic. Earlier tuesday a gang of four masked men suspected protestant paramilitary group members burst into a protestant Home and forced a woman in her 20s outside lied her to a Lamppost and beat her with canes in a suspected punishment attack police sources said. They said protestant paramilitaries who Are waging a shadowy a against the Ira including an assassination Campaign against catholics apparently beat the woman for informing on them to police. Police released no further de tails. Also tuesday some 40 protestant youth hurled stones firebombs and acid filled bottles at police in a riot. Slightly injuring two officers whom they splashed with acid authorities said. The rioting erupted As the youth Gath ered Wood for traditional bonfires to be lit this weekend to Mark the 197ih anniversary of the Battle Victory of protestant King William of Orange Over Catholic forces ensuring protestant domination of the province. The mostly protestant police Force has been cracking Down on protestant triumphal parades in Catholic areas charging that they arc  this time of year the political and sectarian temperature of he province Al ways runs at fever pitch said a police source. All it leads to is More  a photo on the opening Day of Pamplona s Sta Fermin festival men look Over their shoulders As they try to outrun the bulls. Dozen runners Hurt at Pamplona Pamplona. Spain a a dozen Pinnere Suft cred cuff and bruises tues Day when they ran with the bulls on the opening Day of the annual san Furmin festival police said. The Bulis galloped the half mile from the corrals to the bullring in two minutes 50 seconds As an estimated 1,000 people ran in front alongside and behind them. Several of the runners fell and about a dozen were treated for minor injuries officials said. The we Klong drinking and danc ing festival began at midday monday and will continue until next tuesday. Each afternoon professional Bull fighters meet in the ring the six bulls that ran that morning. The san Furmin festival began in 1591. Bulls have gored to death 52 persons since that Date according to official records. The festival began to draw Large International crowds after it was de scribed in the work of american author Ernest Hemingway. Common Market Leader working on budget plan Strasbourg France a Jacques doors president of the european economic Community commission. Tuesday said he will propose a plan by he end of the month to set the Trade bloc s spending limits for 1988 and to control the growth of farm spending. Delors told the european parliament Hal the measures will seek to implement the conclusions of last week s european Community Summit that conditioned the grow a of dec spending on the adoption of a strict budget discipline. He said in drawing up the rules that the commis Sion will reject the so called Guillotine method of controlling expenses in favor of belter management. Kathi r than cutting off payments at a Given limit he explained the commission s plan Wilt provide for careful monitoring of expenses and a gradual reduction of payments if necessary Delors told the 5ib-member dec parliament hat the commission s spending proposal will be based on the Gross National product of the 12 member nations but did not specify the exact formula or the amount. He said the Community s budget presently set at ,16.2 billion european currency units $41 billion must increase by 25 porcini Over the next sin years to allow hit dec to meet its goals. He called the dec leaders rejection of the pro posed lax on vegetable oils and fats a serious error for which the Community will pay in two to three years. He said the decision exposed the dec s vulnerability o outside pressure implying that it came As a result of pressure from the United slam. Washington had opposed the lax. Claiming it would Hurt its lucrative soybean Export business. Delors disclosed the commission s plans during a debate on the Summit in which most leading Mem Bers Hii Terly complained about the failure of the governments to find a solution to the trading bloc s unarm1 financial problems  
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