European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. September 4. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 Moscow oks rules on Street protests Moscow api the a now City Council has adopted rules that will allow soviets to late their grievance to the streets As Long As the protests Aren t car ried out near die Kremlin or ill major Public so Ujita Deputy mayor Anatoly i. Knit Unkn outlined the no rules for Public demonstrations in an interview with i a bar Naya moskva evening Moscow inc official newspaper of inc capital s government and communist i arty committees government and party groups have always been allowed 10 demonstrations in support of official policy. But inc new regulations appear aimed at allowing and controlling express inn of dissenting View As Well. Tlk1 englishmen i of form in proce Dure for staging demonstrations also could be in i tempt to provide Legal grounds for punishing those who fail to seek official approval before airing Thor views. Kostinko said protesters can gel per mits for demonstrations if they submit i hair requests m least seven Dayl in and Vance and advise City authorities of the exact name of the body carrying out Ilic event the aim. Form place or routes of movement the Lime of the beginning and the end of the event and the approximate number of several avenues of Appeal were out lined in cases where the City Council staff denies permission for reasons the would be demonstrations consider unfair. Sci Slynko lied the new regulations in soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s Campaign for a More democratic society. They arc not Only consistent with our socialist democracy but Are one of the instruments of its thecile offi Cial said. Koslenko warned that those violating the approved said in would be subject to Prus Eutten but gave no details of what penalties they would face. The event should he terminated in demand of representatives of the authorities in the event of a violation of the established rules of procedure the Origi nation of a danger to the life and health of citizens Neil of a disruption if the nor Mal functioning of transport and other services of the City Kostenko said. The regulations cover org uni ing and holding assemblies meetings Street pro Cessions demonstrations and other activities in tic soviet capital the news paper said. They arc a Likely outgrowth of the re cent spate of unsanctioned Public demonstrations by jews demanding the right to emigrate to Israel soviet Cili Vns try ing to join relatives in the West and a arc or National groups upset with the policies of the russian dominated soviet government. A photo piggyback ride Down pork Avenue motorists taking a sunday drive Down a Highway near Zurich were treated to the rare sight of a plastic porker netting a piggyback ride. The Gigantic pig apparently was used us an advertisement for he National pottery. In Switzerland pigs Are supposed in bring Good Luck. Divers Shine up titanic nameplate for underwater film Paris a French divers in a mini submarine have cleaned inc titanic nameplate in preparation for filming it for an International television show expedition organizers said tuesday. Divers worked 2.5 Miles below the surface on Mon Day using rotary brushes held by the mechanical arms of the. Submarine nut Itile to clean 75 years Worth of sediment and rust from the name palc according to an expedition statement. Tic statement from the French Institute for re search and exploitation of the sea the technical part Ner in the titanic Salvage project said the. Letter a was missing from the name. Divers searched for the letter around inc prow of the wreck but had not found it by late monday according to Institute spokeswoman Francois Villi Jacobs the name palc is to be filmed for an oct. 28 television show on the titanic disaster april 14-15, 1912, in which 1,513 people drowned after the ship struck an iceberg and Sank on its Maiden voyage from South Ampton England to new York the Institute Stal Mcm did not say when inc filming of the nameplate was to begin. On monday the divers brought 10 the surface some naval equipment and a piece of stained Glass from the titanic s first class Salon the Institute statement said. Like All the other artefacts brought to the surface by the titanic Cam the Glass and equipment were placed in protective crates and lond cd on the support ship Nadir floating above the wreck about 320 Miles Southwest of Newfoundland. Artefacts arc scooped up by the Laulile arms and floated to the surface in containers or carried up in the it nisus s retractable Basket. At a news conference last week in new York expedition spokesmen said the salvaged titanic treasure would be displayed on a world Lour. Confess for nato Post could Strain Allied relations Brussels Belgium a nato s search for a successor to Brit Ain s lord carting on As its top civilian Leader has produced a rare Public contest that some diplomats say could Strain Alli Ance relations. The German and norwegian govern ments have formally proposed their own candidates for the nato Secretary Gen eral s Job throwing into Public View a selection process that in the past had been confined to inc corridor of Alliance Headquarters. Carrington. 68. Plans to leave his Post june 3d, ending four years in a Job considered crucial in managing Security relations Between nato members and in guiding Alliance policy decisions. The Secretary general Heads the North Atlantic treaty organization s most important poetical bodies including group Ings of Allied defense and foreign ministers. He also runs a multinational staff of 1.500. A decision on Carrington s replace ment could come As Early As december when nato foreign minister Wilt Dis cuss it at a meeting in Brussels. The Choice must be unanimous among the 16 member nations. By Ira Dilion the Post is held by a european As a counterweight to having an american serve As supreme commander of nato troops in Europe. The contest for Carrington s Job had been building for several months fanned by european press reports that Manfred Ocmer Llie German defense minister was gunning for inc poit. But Norway jumped into inc running first. The government created a stir by announcing aug. 14 that Karc will Peh a constr Viive who was prime minister from 1981 to 1986, was a candidate. This marked the first time a nato member government had publicly nominated a candidate for the Secretary Gener Al s Post according to Robin Stafford an Alliance spokesman. Less than two weeks later German Chancellor Helmut Kohl formally pro posed to Emir touting hint As a Man of great International neither candidate is Likely to strenuously contest the race at least in Public but the Public nature of their Nomi nations already has some nato Diplo Mats worried that the outcome could Strain Alliance relations. There is going to be a Winner and losers and by getting into official Public discussion of it. There s bound to be a Little ill feeling bilaterally said one senior Alliance official who asked for anonymity. During the search in 1983 to replace Joseph Luns of the Xvi Herlands who served As Secretary general for a re Cord 13 years neither Carrington nor any other candidate was publicly nominated by their governments. Carrington 68. The Siili Man to hold the Job since nato was created in u49, said that he fell he was too old to continue in the Job much longer. I genuinely think that it s a Good thing to have younger people in a Job Tike this he said. He declined to discuss who might succeed him. The next secretary1 general will i pc Over at a delicate time for inc Alliani. Which is seeking to reshape its nuclear defences in anticipation of major reductions in , and soviet atomic arsenals in Europe. Nato diplomats said Worner 52, appeared to stand the Best Chance mainly because of Germany s Sara Segic and political importance. Also working in Woermer s favor is inc fact thai his country which joined nato in i9s5, has never contributed a nato Secretary general. Two dutch men to unions a belgian and an Kal Ian have held inc Post. One possible obstacle is that a Ger Man already holds the top military Job in nato. Wolfgang Altenburg is chairman of the military committee the highest military authority to which the major nato commanders arc responsible. Willoch a is considered a Strong challenger in pan because he is seen As a close ally of the United Stales. He could be hurl however by Norway s policy of prohibiting the stationing of nuclear weapons or foreign troops on its soil Dur ing peacetime
