European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages the stalls and stripes Friday match 4,1988 soviet Region still tense after ethnic riots arrests Moscow a police have arrested some of those involved in weekend ethnic rioting in a Southern Republic und businesses and schools have reopened Chr official Media reported wednesday. A radio elation and newspaper in Baku inc capital or Azerbaijan reported also thai the Republic s pre Mier Hasan n. Sci Dov had travelled to the affected area. The unreal has been stopped. Businesses and slab Lish mints of Trade and Public eating Are working in a Normal rhythm and classes Are taking place in schools and a Thor educational establishments inc Baku worker newspaper reported. The newspaper s article referring to the Azerbaijan City of sum Ait was read to the associated press by Ovici foreign ministry spokesman Gennady i. Gera Sirmin. Order and pc acc have been ensured by Law enforce ment organs. People caught in the unrest have been the Baku worker newspaper reported. On tuesday Cie Asimov told a news briefing that authorities have clamped a curfew on sum Ait he suggested that the unrest in sum Ait and the demonstrations and violence elsewhere in the caucasus re Gion where at least two people died were due to a mistake nude 65 years ago when a territory com posed largely of armenians was made part or neighbor ing Azerbaijan. In said there were certain injuries in sum Ait an Industrial City of More than 160,000 people where hooligans were blamed for touching off the sunday riot. The situation is Calm there today thursday but it is Lens Gerasi mov said at the tuesday briefing. The foreign ministry spokesman said wednesday in a Telephone interview that he could not confirm rumours circulated by armenian activists that As Many As 20 people had been killed in Shmuil but he added. There was hooliganism and there can be deaths in such Moscow based foreign journalists have been barred from the Region and Only sporadic reports from wit Nesses activists and the official Media have reached the soviet capital. Most Telephone Calls placed to Baku and sum Ait on wednesday did not go through. Asked about reports that Ovici tanks arc patrolling Hie is reels of sum Ait that ethnic Zens arc attacking armenians in inc streets and that there have been at Lea two deaths in the City Gerasimov Lold the Brief ing there is a curfew and he added that he had not heard anything about tanks being sent into the City. Asked if troops remained in the City tuesday Cera Simov said i Don t know but i guns so. Presume the violence in sum Gaii reported monday by toss. The official soviet news Agency followed earlier out Breaks 150 Miles away in Magorno Karabash the con tested autonomous Region in Azerbaijan and the Mav Miles soviet Unton kazakh up tul Koll Sive. But apparently peaceful demonstrations in Erivan the capital of Armenia. The demonstrators demanded that Magorno Kara Bakh part of Azerbaijan since 192be made part of Armenia. More than three quarters of the Region s population of 157.000 Are ethnic armenians. On saturday a soviet prosecutor reported that two people living in a Region of Azerbaijan that Borders on Magorno Karabash had been slain in unrest caused by the territorial dispute. On Friday soviet Leader Mikhail a Gorbachev appealed for restraint in Azerbaijan and Armenia and promised that the communist party Central commit tee would review relations among the soviet Union s More than 100 nationalities. Predominantly moslem Azerbaijan is the largest of three soviet republics in the caucasus. It is bordered on the West by largely Christian Armenia and Georgia and on the North by the russian Republic the Caspi an sea runs far nearly 800 Miles along its Eastern Edge. Lawmaker slain while viewing to Johannesburg. South Africa a a Law maker in a Black Homeland where rival political groups Are engaged in a bloody Power struggle was shut to death at Home As he and his children watched television police said thursday the 36-year-old legislator pc rus Balha was a member of inkatha a Zulu political organization that has been locked in the fierce feud in Kwa Zulu Home land with backers of militant anti apartheid groups Alan lived near Camperdown on the fringe of the area around the Natal province capital of Pictor Marilza Burt where More than 400 people have been killed in the thud since Early last year. Police said it was not known who killed Mabiha Laic wednesday but reported finding cartridges from soviet made ak-47 automatic rifles. Police regularly link these weapons to members and supporters of the outlawed african National Congress the main guerrilla group fighting to end White minority domination. Inkatha s principal rival in the Natal Power struggle has been the United democratic front South Africa s largest anti apartheid coalition. Ute week Ibe government banned the uhf from a Olickal activity nod barred several of ill senior Lead ers from further involvement with the Orra Nozilion several of these Leaden had been involved in negotiations aimed at halting inc inkatha Ltd feud and the government s action was widely viewed As undermining the peace process. Mangos thu Batch Levi Leader of inkatha and chief minister of Kwa Zulu contends uhf cooperates with the african National Congress in a Campaign to seize control of Black townships and cull Black moderates who oppose violence uhf leaders have criticized bul Elezi for refusing to support militant anti apartheid strategies such As Boycotts and sanctions this week the government reinforced its Security forces around with 300 so called in Stant constables Black policemen assigned to duty after relatively Short raising programs. The Law and older ministry has declined to com ment Ort allegations most of the new constables Are inkatha members. Buthe Leri describes Filka a As a Zulu cultural organization although it functions As a Wazumi s dominant political party. By Law and custom apartheid establishes a racially segregated society in which the 16 minion Blacks Bave no Vole in National affairs. The 5 minion Whites control the Economy and maintain separate dts Ricu schools and health services. World tool no German to be extradited on Neo nazi charges Copenhagen. Denmark a a Wai Ger Man citizen living in Denmark Wilt be cil Raditch la Fate charges involving alleged no a activities a Justice ministry spokesman said thursday. Thin Chislo Enersen 70. Applied Tor political a a Lum in Denmark us week on grounds that he could do subjected o political persecution in West Germany after the Bonn government requested his a tradition. The ministry will carry out the request for Condi Tion from wat Germany spokesman Cuba Nilis told he associated pros. Christophersen moved to Denmark in 1986, where he runs a Public Whitig company Nordwind in inc town of to Llyod just Nordb Olne West German Border. The extra Ilion order mis bated on Chat Ophir sen s denigrating statements about jews a form of racism punishable in Denmark by up to two Yean imprisonment 8 killed 25 injured in passenger train collision Valladolid Spain a eight people died and at least 25 others were injured Early thursday when one passenger train rammed into a second one standing in a railway Yard in his Northern City a government spokesman Laid. Maximo Regidor said Rescue workers recovered the bodies of eight people seven men and a Young woman trapped in the wreckage of a sleeping car just Afler noon. The Accident happened just after j a,m., when the northbound Madrid Bilbao express or the stale owned a jew a company Renee rammed the stationary Madrid Santander express train he said. Initially it appears the cause of inc Accident was a Brake failure he said. Spanish National radio reported 25 people were treated for minor injuries Al local hospitals and released. Czech Home of Budweiser indignant Over trademark Prague Czechoslovakia a a Ong Landing dispute Over the rights to inc original Budweiser Trade Mark has triggered comment in he country s communist party daily rude Provo. You d never Sec our Beer in cans we use them cans for sauerkraut Only commented an irritated Young businessman in crate buds Jovicic or Budweis in German the City of South Bohemia. 100 Miles South of Prague is the original Home of inc nationwide indignation was triggered by a recent Arti Cle thai appeared in inc times Ana aired once again the dispute Over the rights to the Budweiser trademark. Rude Provo explained the historical background of the rivalry in wednesday editions. It recalled the agreement in the Early 20th a Colury by which add plus Butch a native of Bavaria acquired the rights to sell Budweis or in North America. Libyan soldiers in Sudan to fight Chad report says Abidjan Ivory coast a a libyan column of More than 2,000 soldiers has entered Northwestern Sudan o launch an offensive against Chad n Dja Roena radio said tuesday the government radio monitored in Abidjan said the troops joined thousands of other soldiers already stationed in Sudan s Darfur province with the complicity of the Khartoum authorities the radio said libyan Leader col Moa mar Gad Haft was planning an attack even As a special Organiza Tion of african Unity committee As preparing to meet in Dakar Senegal on april id la negotiate a settlement in the Chad Libya conflict. The Oak arranged i cease fire in the War last sep tember which appears to have largely been observed by both sides. Police arrest couple in Money or aids plot Sydney Australia a police on wednesday said they arrested � couple who planned to Kidnap the ton of a wealthy businessman and inject him with aids in acc cd Wood unless a 1350,000 Ransom us paid. Two viols of blood were found during a raid on the Coupe s hone in the Northern part of new South Wales police said. Detectives said they acted on an Anonymous tip that the husband and wife planned to of dual the 15-year old pm of a multimillionaire businessman outside the youth s school
