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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, November 24, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 the stars and stripes tuesday november 24, 1987 color contest who can find the prettiest Letres that s new Dud find that the multicoloured leaves of autumn Are just Inge for two youngsters in Zurich Switzerland who is attractive As summer Flowers. World today Vietnam reportedly frees clergymen held in Camps Bangkok  a the government has Given was Lorn embassies in Vietnam Alist of 23 clergymen who were recently released after a dozen years in political re education Camps a West Ern Diplomat said sunday. Official vietnamese radio said Vietnam was freeing 6,685 prisoners including a former vice Premier of South Vietnam and reducing the sentences of 5,320 others. I was the largest reported release from the network of Camps the communists established shortly after their Victory. The vietnamese have been saying to us that the re education phase of Vietnam s history is closed Laid the Diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Diplomat said they included 22 former Chap Lains of the army of . Backed South Vietnam which was overthrown by communist North Vietnam in april 1975. The other minister had no military ran listed the Diplomat said. Soviets improving safety of nuclear Power plants Frankfurt a the soviet Union is improving the safety of its nuclear Power plants following the chernobyl disaster and All future reactors will be encased in Concrete containers a soviet expert was quoted As saying sunday. Valery log Azov head of the commission investigating the april 1986 chernobyl disaster told a West German Magazine soviet authorities arc spending be tween s3 million and $5 million on upgrading the safety of each of its existing nuclear reactors. We have corrected our safety regulations log Azov was quoted As saying in the december Issue of the mag Azine Chan can a monthly dealing with environment asst issues. All reactors built in the future will have Concrete containers he was quoted As saying. Replica of Santa maria985 political prisoners freed arrives at Spanish Porti i Santona. Spain api the i St cd Tui in Nicaragua pm goodwill1 gesture tip Tapa Nicaragua up the government freed 985 political prisoners sunday in a mass Pardon de scribed As a gesture of Good will to show Nicaragua s compliance with the Central american peace plan. Thank god i m out of that hell of a prison one of the freed inmates yelled after a ceremony in which the head of the sandinista Penitentiary system handed Over 612 prisoners to members of the National reconciliation commission formed to Monitor compliance with the terms of the plan. An additional 373 prisoners were free at prisons around the country. The ceremony held in an open Field at the Granja minimum Security Penitentiary farm outside Man Agua was anything but formal As the freed inmates rushed to rejoin thousands of family members who waited for hours under a broiling Sun to see them. Sunday s Pardon was the largest single release of prisoners by the sandinista government although officials say they have progressively freed prisoners Ever since they took Power More than eight year Sago. As one More gesture of Good will the govern ment of Nicaragua has decided to Pardon 985 prisoners today said sub commander Alvaro Gomez the head of the National Penitentiary  this step Nicaragua once More demonstrates its will to find. A lasting solution to the Central american  official said the prisoners pardoned sunday included 185 sentenced for belonging to the nation Al guard under former president Anastasio Somp a overthrown by a sandinista cd revolution in1979. He said the remaining 800 included some 700 sentenced for belonging to aiding or sympathizing with .-backed Contra rebels members of the sandinista military jailed for human rights abuses and an undetermined number of people held with out sentences pending trial for Contra related activities. President Daniel Ortega announced the latest Pardon in a speech nov. 5, the Day the regional peace plan signed by the five Central american presidents went into effect. The sandinista dominated National Assembly approved the Pardon decree Fri Day. The peace plan signed aug. 7 in Guatemala Call for a cease fire in the Region s guerrilla wars an end to outside assistance for rebel groups democratic reforms sweeping democratic reforms in each coun try and an amnesty for government reforms. Santona Spain 15th-Ccntury-style Cara Vel mar Galante with 53-year-old Spanish adventurer vital Alsar at the Helm arrived at this Northern Spanish port where it was received by thousands of people. The mar Galante a replica of Christopher Colum bus Santa Maria began its voyage sept. 27 from the port of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico. The 108-foot ship was escorted by hundreds of Small boats from this Northern Cantaria Region to the port of Santona Birthplace of Juan de la Cosa a Pioneer cartographer and owner of the original mar Galante. Italian birth rate continues surprising drop this year Rome a Italy s birth rate is continuing to decline surprising even experts at a special meeting to discuss the situation. In the first four months of this year the number of births declined 3.5 percent compared to the previous year demographers told a National Congress. We were not really expecting such a Sharp drop Antonio Golini a statistics professor at the University of Rome was quoted As saying in sunday s ii message to a Rome newspaper. Experts at the convention of the italian association for demographic education said that if the rate established in the first four months remains that Way for the rest of the year 1987 will see 15,000 less births com pared to 1986, when 550,000 babies were bom in Italy a nation of 52 million people. Posters hailing archaeologist s death denounced Jerusalem a Ultra Ortho Dox extremists were assailed sunday for publicly expressing Joy Over the death of an archaeologist they accused of Violat ing jewish Law by digging near the old walled City of Jerusalem. Mayor Teddy Kollock and hebrew University took out an advertisement in Israel s major daily newspapers to condemn Anonymous posters that hailed the death of Yigal Shiloh. The incident is the latest round in an expanding conflict be tween Jerusalem s secular and religious jews. This carcass has fallen. May he get what he deserves in the grave the unsigned posters said. The posters appeared on the Walls of the Mea Shea rim Quarter an Ultra orthodox neighbourhood and a Center for jewish theological schools and synagogues. Shiloh died of cancer nov. 14 at the age of 50. His excavations near the old City in 1981 led to violent protests by the orthodox who contended that the dig Ging disturbed ancient Graves in Viola Tion of religious Law. The government supported Shiloh and his helpers hebrew University students who unearthed 25 Levels of dwellings Dat ing from 3000  to the Middle Ages. Ultra orthodox figures interviewed by the associated press criticized the poster Campaign. This shows a Lack of taste and tact and is unnecessary said Minachem to Rush. A legislator of the Ultra orthodox Gudat Israel party. But Porush accused Kollock and Secu Lar israelis of provoking confrontations by opening movie houses in Jerusalem on the Sabbath in violation of jewish Law. Since july orthodox jews have staged weekly protests Over showing movies on the Sabbath a practice banned by Cit ordinance. The previous weekend police arrested five of 50 demonstrators outside the City s Orna Cinema. On sunday a magistrate s court rejected a lawsuit filed by the City against the cinemas overruling the City ordinance that required Heaters to dose on the Sabbath. The ruling is expected to provoke fur ther confrontations Between secular and religious jews in the holy City where about one third of the jewish population of 340,000 observes religious teaching on the Sabbath  
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