European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday july 27,1987 amphora stepping Back in time Andrew and Sarah the Duke and Duchess of York get All gussied up in victorian allure Friday at fort Edmonton Park in Canada. The clothing was custom made for i hair visit to the Park. Official warns of backlash in Waldheim Case Bonn up1 austrian foreign minister Alois mock warned sunday thai the accusations against president Kurt Waldheim of involvement in nazi crimes could increase anti jewish feeling in Austria. In an interview with the German newspaper die Well mock who also is vice Chancellor said Many austrian Are bitter about the charges that have Leto the United Stales placing Waldheim on a watch list and barring his entry into the United slate because of Liis wartime activities in inc German army. Die Welt released a report on the interview in and Vance of publication in its monday edition. Mock said the bitterness has led to Ami semitic tendencies and coolness toward the United Stales. He said he himself condemns with All vigor anti semitism but he added that the Campaign against Waldheim is promoting in. If it comes to a new development of anti semitism it will be the unfortunate must of the polarization that the Campaign has produced mock said. The feeling of bitterness that is widespread in the austrian people is reflected in a certain aversion to America Mode said he opposes anti americanism but he contrasted the . Government s Altitude toward Waldheim with thai Ollie soviet bloc. I am against All forms of Ami americanism he said. But i make no secret of inc fact thai we respect tic fact thai our Eastern neighbors recognized in every Way the decision of the austrian people in the presidential election and acted discussing Austria s role under the nazis after it was annexed by Germany in 1938, mock said historical facts should not be ignored bul they should not be misused either. In world War ii. Waldheim was an officer in a German army unit said to be implicated in atrocities. He has denied committing any crimes. 300 ethnic crimean tatars clash with soviet police in red Square Moscow up about 300 ethnic crimean tatars changing Homeland Homeland clashed Wilh police Ai the Entrance to red Square saturday their third major Streel demonstration in the capital in 72 hours. Police scaled off red Square and a surrounding two Block area forcing thousands of foreign and soviet tourists to evacuate one of the most popular summer tourist spots in the cily. The tatars some holding babies aloft and angrily chanting Rodina Rodina russian for Homeland moved up the Cobblestone ramp by is. Basil s Ca thedral to red Square. Scores of uniformed police along Wilh plainclothes officers and part Lime Volunteer militia in jeans and to shirt prevented the group from proceeding. The Taiara. Arms locked together charged the co lice who managed to contain the demonstrators with minimal violence. Several people fell to their feel and were kicked and shoved by police but no one was injured. A few of the demonstrators who managed to break through the police lines were rounded up and roughly hauled off by police. Hundreds of police gathered in formation on red Square and tire truck with water cannons mounted on the Back rumbled past Lenin s lomb at the Kremlin Walls. Buses with both uniformed police and officers nuked into the Square until the demonstrators were outnumbered by at least three Loone. Police surrounded the demonstrators who continued to Chani their demand for a Homeland As i hair leaders talked Wilh police. However whal could have erupted into a violent confrontation stayed largely Nan violent. The demonstration was still in Progress in the Early morning hours of sunday with police containing two groups of tatars. Across the Street near the hotel Rossiya Small groups of soviets struck up sidewalk political debates about subjects ranging from the tatar question to nationwide economic Reform and liberalization of the soviet system. Diplomat said the demonstration marked the first time in memory that an unauthorized demonstration of that size had been permitted to continue so Long in a Public place. Earlier saturday about 125 tatars demonstrate outside the administrative Headquarters of the supreme soviet in downtown Moscow. The demonstration lasted about two hours and ended peacefully. Thursday night about 350 tatars staged a three hour sit Down strike in red Square before dispersing peacefully after talking Wilh senior communist party officials. The official Tass news Agency said this week s demonstrations had been organized by extremist minded people who insist that this complicated problem of a tatar Homeland can be resolved at but that ii exactly whal More Radical tatars Are demanding after a government commission in the late 1960s, failed to Side with thai r Homeland demands. A new government commission headed by slats president Andrei Gromyko has been established to have another look at the tatar question from a More sympathetic viewpoint. However tatar nationalism has reached new Heights in recent months with the government finally saying Hal the wholesale resettlement of the crimean tatars from their Homeland by Josef Stalin during world War ii was a policy statement carried by the official Tass news Agency thursday in effect granted legitimacy to the Crimea. Tatars quest to Clum 10 their Black sea Homeland from which they were removed in 1944. The world War ii decree Hal evicted the tatars was issued by the stale committee for defense which was headed by Stalin. The statement also said thai the decree of May ii 944, to resettle the tatars in Central Asia was taken because of the suspicion that Urey collaborated with the occupying German army. World today chinese City sets limits on elaborate entertaining Beijing a the Southern chinese City of Canton is cracking Down on a banquet craze by setting limits on entertaining an official newspaper says. The Canton newspaper Yangcheng evening news reported in in saturday edition seen in Beijing on sunday that City authorities have launched a banquet Reform to Cut Down on extravagant and Lime consuming entertaining. Entertaining by City units has grown As Inci contacts with foreign and chinese enterprises have increased the report said. Banquets have been held too frequently have lasted Loo Long and have a and roof. Police were investigating the cause of Heb last. Initial findings suggested that the explosion was not politically motivated. Spaniards prefer soccer Over bullfighting poll says Madrid Spain a spaniard like soc cer better than bullfights although 70 percent concur that bullfighting is inc National pastime a poll published sunday poll of 1,200 spaniards Over 18. Indicated 45 percent consider it selves soccer Tana while Only 38 percent Call themselves aficionado of bullfighting. While 54 percent mid they did t like whether it was accurate Socall bullfight us the National pastime 70 percent said yes 22 per cent said no and 8 percent did not reply. The poll was carried out in fact to face inter View across Spain by Institute dem Scopio from june 29 to july 5.the margin of error was 2.7 percent. China plans local lottery to finance social programs Hong Kong up1 China plans to begin a pottery to finance social welfare operations in some areas of the country a Hong Kong legis Lator and social worker said sunday. Hui Yin fat director of the private hone Kong Council of social service and a member of the legislative Council said a group of chinese officials had recently visited the Colony to study inc local lottery s Slem known As the Mark six. China has Long banned most types of am bling considering gambling decadent and said the chinese delegates told him thai 50 percent of the funds raised by the lottery would help finance social welfare program with 35 percent of thai Money slaying in the area where it was raised for Ute by local said China s lottery was not expected to be nationwide Ai least in the beginning bul did not specify what cities or regions were 10 participate in the plan
