European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday. March 14.19bbarmenians protest at Moscow cemetery Moscow a hundreds gathered sunday at an armenian can worry to demand Justice from the Kremlin in deciding a territorial dispute Between armenians and an Bra Janis. And 10 condemn inc soviet press for being criminally silent about thereon Over. S. Re Ltd Story Paft 7. The fight for control of the Magorno Karabash re Gion in Azerbaijan has brought ethnic tensions to the surface in both Southern republics. The armenian Cap ital of Yerevan last month was the scene of a Weelon demonstration involving hundreds of thousand and an ethnic riot in the azerbaijani City of sum Ait killed at least 32. Sunday s demonstration outside a 19th-Century armenian Church at the Vaganov Loyc cemetery which 31 one Lime swelled to As Many As 1,000 participants and curious onlookers was the second mass gathering in less than a week by Moscow s armenian commit nity. In Defiance of the official participants Calls Tor order and restraint armenians hoisted banners Declar ing Karabash Van and will be armenian and shame to the proponents of a Cluster of armenian officials and activists some of whom had travelled to Moscow from the Republic to pros the annexation cause vied for a Chance to address the hundreds jostling for Vantage Points from top Iron covered Headstone and Iron fences sur rounding the Graves. Armenian film director Boris Saratov told the crowd that the kind of moslem fanaticism he believes Wai the catalyst Tor the sum Ait rioting cannot be tolerated in the soviet Union. If this happened to the armenians yesterday in can happen to any nationality tomorrow lie shouted and the armenians burst into applause and shouts of approval. Saratov said he was a member of an armenian Liaison committee established to work with government bodies to resolve the dispute Over Magorno Karabash a mountainous Region smaller than the . Stale of Delaware hat is located within the Republic of Azer Baijan. More than three quarters of the population of the Region which was part of Armenia until ims i armenian. The silence in uie press Over what happened in sum Ait Drew me into this committee said Bakalov who lira in Moscow our press has been Agabekov . I Ovici Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev s reforms for allowing the Long simmering dispute Over the Magorno Karabash Region to be discussed in decided openly but challenged the Kremlin to Abid Eov i. ,. By its slogans and let the Region s people decide heir Fate. Communist party and government officials in the Region voted in Early february for annexation to Armenia Bui the party s National Central committee rejected the Appeal at a meeting in mid february. The reject Ion touched off mass prompts in Magorno Kara Bakh s Central City Stepan Akert. Unrest spread Loye Revan in late february when armenians Learned that soviet troops had moved in to the disputed Region 10quell the protest. The Yerevan demonstrations subsided after Gorba Chev appealed for Calm and promised a lop level re View of the annexation Appeal. But the ethnic rioting on feb. Is in sum Ait was reportedly sparked by mos Lem extremists angered Over the armenian claims Lona Gorno Karabash. Most armenians Are Christian while the Azicri population of Azerbaijan is predominantly moslem those attending sunday s meeting at the cemetery said adherents to the two religions Tor the most part live in peace in the caucasus Region that include both Armenia and Azerbaijan but that moslem fanaticism threatens to turn the question of control into an ethnic clash. Back Down under Appolo australian Sailor John sunders a the cheers n he enters run Wilt la Arbor in Perth Australia after an Pilc Solo triple circumnavigation of the Horld lasting 11 months. About 150 bouts sounding horns welcomed Sanders 43, and his a Fet slight a put Endeavor Frenchi Buff ate be now in orb of spot Toulouse France up Tele com a the French telecommunications satellite placed in Low space orbit last week by a european made Arian rocket moved successfully to its permanent orbit sunday officials said. Technicians Al the Toulouse space Center punched the 1,505-Pound French built relay satellite into a circular geostationary orbit Over the Atlantic Al 1 30 p.m., spokesmen said. The space Man Euver required a 45 second burst of powdered fuel that provided 3 ions of thrust from a Franco German Mage 2 engine. Telecoms 1c Rode into space Friday aboard an ariane a rocket that blasted off from a Jungle pad at Kourou French Guiana. It will relay to voice and data communications including military trans missions Between Points in metropol Itan France and overseas territories. The satellite was needed to replace a twin telecoms 1b, which ceased operating Jan. 15 after an electrical failure. Twill work in tandem with telecoms i a. Launched in 1984 and now carrying a full relay Load. Officials said that the movement of inc satellite from its Low Earth orbit to its geostationary Transfer orbit where it will Circle Over the Region of the Earth it is to serve was carried out by linked ground stations in Toulouse Kourou and South Africa. The National Center for space studied in Toulouse said controllers next will slow the rotation of the satellite align in with the Sun open its solar Power panels and aim it at Earth reception stations. In is scheduled to go into service in May for France telecoms its owner. Soviets observe nato Man Euver Tromson Norway a four so Vici army officials arrived Here sunday from Leningrad to carry out a 48-hour inspect on of a nato Winter Man Euver in Northern Norway the Allied press in formation Center ap1q said. This Marks the first Lime that the so Viet Union has exercised inc right to in Spect a Man Euver in Norway since the agreement on Confidence and Security building measures and disarmament in Europe was signed in Stockholm in l986."apicsaid, the inspection group beaded by col. Valery d. Yer Milichev was to inspect the exercise area in troms county. Some 14,000 Allied troops from eight countries Are taking part in the month Long exercise which n called Arrowhead express 88." the Stockholm agreement ratified by inc United states Canada and All euro Pean Stales except Albania gives any member country the right to inspect big military exercises in other countries in order to ensure that aggressive military actions Are not being prepared. The agreement also requires member states o notify the others of big military a Nevers. Hews updates air transport Accord Rome a transport min ister Calogeru Mannino and Union leaders for Airport ground workers said sunday they have reached tentative Accord in the dispute which has plagued air travellers for six months. The Accord which came sunday morning after Long negotiations Al the transport ministry will be put to the rank and file for ratification. Aga Pardon denied Rome a the Justice ministry said saturday it has de Nied two requests to Pardon Meh Sci Ali Aga the turkish terrorist who shot Pope John Paul ii during an assassination attempt in St. Peter s Square on May 13,1981, Aga was sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder. He is held at the Ascoli Piceno prison 115 Mill s Northwest of Pope announced from his Hospital bed five Days after in shooting that he had decided to give his personal Pardon to the As sail no. The Justice ministry said sat urday that Aga s Mother first asked italian officials for a Pardon in february i9b7, and when that request was rejected the made an other in september. Justice minister Guiliano Vassalli rejected the latest request last dec. 3. The ministry did not say Why in did not announce earlier thai in had rejected the requests. Signing advocated Washington a a Pri vate College group has urged presi Dent Reagan to sign the civil rights restoration act eve though the act fails to include a Broad exemption for . Richard f. Rosser president of the National association of inde pendent colleges and universities said his Organ nation was the main proponent of efforts that failed in the mouse to add a so called religious lend amendment to the Bill. But the association of �00 Pri vate institutions including Catho Lic and other religious affiliate colleges still wants Reagan to sign the Bill which restores the scope of civil rights Laws restricted by the supreme court in a i9s4 Case involving Grove City a College
