European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday november 13,1987 . Official Calls Berlin Wall an ugly scar9 while Bead addresses the press in front of Ibe Berlin Wall at pots Traer plan Berlin a . Deputy Secre tary of slate John c. Whitehead wrap Ping up the German leg of i euro Pean tour visited the Berlin Wall thursday and called the Concrete bar Rier an ugly scar across the face of Europe. Whitehead said the 14-foot Barrier hut divides tie communist and capitalist sectors of this sprawling former capital was a Wall that ii a 99-mile ugly Icar across one of the world great  it a Wall that ii Chr physical embodiment of the unnatural division of Europe he added. While head during hit third Day i Germany talked with reporters at the Gouda mar Pustz once one of Berlin busiest intersections and now a sorted area split by the Concrete wait. The Deputy Secretary stood on a observation platform and peered Over the Wall into East Berlin last 100yards away on the East Berlin Side of the Wall East German Border guards peered out from guard town. On wednesday Whitebead met wit East German president and communist party chief Erich Honecker in Easterlin. After the meeting he told reporter thai East German leaders Banc ordered policy changes that make it Jess Likely communist Border guards will fire at would be escapees to the West. For years East Germany s Border guards have had standing Shoomon kill orders when confronted with persons seeking to escape to the West. West German government official say that 187 people have dial trying to flee to West Germany or West Berlin since the Berlin Wall was built in a gust 1961. The number includes those who were shot to death and who a who were titled by other Border traps including land mines. In remembrance of those who died Whitehead said it is surely the immense Power of Freedom thai make people decide to risk their lives rather than to be cemented  Whitebead also urged that Berlin remade a More important aviation Cen Ter for Central Europe and that olym Pic officials someday consider staging games in the two halves of the divided City both suggestions made by presi Dent Reagan when he visited wait Ber Lin in july. While Chad later visited the him a checkpoint Charlie a local museum that. Chronicles escape attempts Over the Berlin Wall. The Deputy Secretary was to travel later thursday to Budapest and then to Moscow. Whitehead said that during his visit to the soviet capital he will prepare for the human rights aspects of the Summit meeting scheduled to be held in Washington next month betwee Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. World today 20 injured in Philippines during attack by robbers Manila Philippines a four armed men held up a printing company wednesday. Then threw a grenade at a nearby school to avoid being captured by police authorities said. At least 20 people were  grenade exploded about noon at a High school in Davao City said Mai. Ernesto Maca Sael of the philippine constabulary. He said scores of people were wailing outside the build ing to pick up their  said in a Telephone interview from Davao City 610 Miles Southeast of Manila that the robbers fled on foot after holding up the holy Cross press. He said the robbers escaped by running through alleys in a congested neighbourhood Dur ing the confusion that followed the blast. Hungary devalues forint for third time this year Budapest Hungary a tha hungarian forint has been devalued by 3 percent com pared to Western currencies the official Hun Garian news Agency Mai reported. Wednesday. The news Agency said the decision was de signed to serve the continuity of foreign  it was the third devaluation of the forint this year. Italians Clear path for ship by detonating mine in Gulf Rome a a mine thai drifted in to the Pathol a freighter sailing the persian Gulf was destroyed wednesday by a helicopter from the frigate scirocco Italy s Navy Headquarters announced. The mine was detected along the route of the italian merchant ship Merzario Britannia trav Eling from saudia Arabia to Kuwait under escort by italian warships the Navy said. The Captain of the frigate ordered the helicopter to destroy the mine by machine gun fire and the Convoy resumed navigation without Inci Dent the statement  sent warships to the Gulf in september to protect italian shipping after an italian con Tainer ship was attacked by what Italy said was an iranian speedboat. Amsterdam soft drug outlets raided in unprecedented action Amsterdam Netherlands a dutch police have carried out unprecedented raids on this City s most prominent soft drug outlets indicating that the limits of official tolerance toward open sales of hashish and marijuana Bave been exceeded. Police to Keirnan Leo Detring said wednesday hat the raids on four cafes a bakery and an office belonging to the bulldog cafe Chain were made because the bulldog had become too big and conspicuous. Police shut Down the drug sales operations tuesday arrested 30 people and seized scores of pounds of mar Ijuana and hashish hundreds of cakes cookies and candid con Vainini them and 200,000 guilders j106,000 in Cash detering told the associated press. Criminal charges Are pending he said. Amsterdam prosecutor Leo de wit charged that the bulldog resembled the nucleus of a mafia operation because it combined the soft drug Trade with Legal businesses. It s a kind of Power uth Cring based on Money that originates in crime de wit told the a. De wit s characterization of the dutch hashish an marijuana Trade As crime demonstrates the ambivalent position of the dutch authorities toward what Are dubbed soft drugs Here to distinguish them from the hard drugs like heroin that draw addicts to the Netherlands from All Over Western Europe. Since the hippie Haven years of the late 1960s, soft drugs have been sold Over the counter at hundreds of Amsterdam Coffee bars and youth centers with official acquiescence. Police allow the retail soft drug sales while at the same time trying to Hall the Large scale shipments that support those sates. Police concede privately that their forces Are stretched Loo thin to eradicate the soft drug Trade completely and they concentrate instead on fighting the Large scale traffic of heroin and cocaine through Ibe Netherlands relatively open Borders and ports of entry. The City fathers however have become Onerea higly sensitive in recent years to Amsterdam s growing reputation As an International Market for illicit drugs. In recent Yean police have set guideline of the sate of soft drugs including a ban on advertising my sales to minors As Well As the vague provision that the sales not threaten Public order. City policy permits the Sale of hashish and marijuana for individual use and Possession of up to about an ounce is on the la books As a rarely prosecuted minor Misdemeanour. The bulldog cafes Are known for the varieties and Low Price of hashish and marijuana available there and Deering charged thai the bulldog s soft drug Trade had taken on a professionally organized and urge scale  he said it was possible to buy pounds of drugs at the bulldog whose most prominent shop is a tuned i a former police station on Amsterdam s Busy ledes Stein a major tourist area. Until the tuesday raid hashish sold for about to guilders $5.30 per Gram .035 ounce at the bulldog cafe which also features a health food store and a fruit juice bar in a building that also houses the information office of the City s Public transportation Myrten. Soviet slow Reform critic loses party of Moscow a Boris n. Yeltsin a former pro Tege of Mikhail s. Gorbachev who criticized uie slow Pace of the soviet Leader s Reform drive was dismissed wednesday As Moscow communist party Boss. His departure appeared to be a setback for Gorba Chev s Campaign for Franker criticism of problems in soviet society and could Herald a More conservative approach to the country s economic woes. It was not immediately dear whether the removal of the 56-Ytar-Ojd Yeltsin marked a personal defeat for Gorbachev Yeltsin who As Moscow party chief held one of the lop party posts in the country was the highest ranking Gorbachev protege to lose to Job since the soviet Leader look Over in March t 98i. The 56-year-old Yeltsin had been amont the Moa vocal supporters of Gorbachev s plans for poes Troi  the ambitious restructuring of the soviet eco Only and society. 15 die in ferry Accident Beijing a a ferry making a Ndoca turn lipped 53 passengers into a River in the att Bui province and ii drowned according u an official report in Beijing