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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday March 21.198b protests continue against sending gis by the associated Post protesters waled an air Force base Fence in new Jersey hauled with police in san Francisco and con verged in other Chin saturday at prompts escalated again the sending of . Troop to Honduras while a few smaller groups voiced support for the action. Opponents of the Reagan administration s Central american policy gathered in san Francisco for the third straight Day rallying in the largely hispanic mis Sion District before parading through other parts of town. Police estimated the crowd Al More than 4,000. In the evening protesters battled police for 25 min utes after a fire was  in the Street near where demonstrators held their last of several rallies. Several bottles wooden crows and bags of garbage were thrown Al 34 riot Clad police As several Hundred protesters some wearing bandannas la hide their faces rushed the officers and tried to Slop them from putting out the Blaze. One person was arrested for felony assault on � police officer and four others were arrested on assorted charges including malicious mischief vandalism and Graffiti writing said a police Captain Mike Yaton. On Friday More than Iso protesters were arrested nationwide with 250 of them occurring in san Francisco. About $,000 people some carrying signs with slogans such As Reagan and North boy scouts from hell rallied on Boston common at noon saturday Vietnam veterans elderly couples and Young families with children listened to speeches while some protes ters handed oui copies of the socialist worker. Police reported no arrests. Shortly after the rally began about 10 members of the Young americans for Freedom appeared. Carry ing signs in support of president Reagan and . Col. Oliver North the group recited the pledge of allegiance and chanted Ollie North he s our hero All you com Mies Are one big Zero we wanted to show that people support Reagan said Ken Mccracken 24, a Boston University student. We believe the . Hat the right to Send troops to protect our interests. We love our  one of those protesting on the other Side was Robert vote from Page t from 117 to 119 and be number of local delegates selected from 768 id 764. Dukakis picked up 16 of the 39 National delegates at stake in Kansas. Added to the six delegates he gained earlier in the night in South Dakota Dukakis maintained his democratic Lead in the Delegate race with 503.5, according la the associated press Survey. It s terrific Dukakis said at the Jefferson Jackson dinner in Detroit where All the democratic hopefuls except Jackson gathered saturday night. We be had a major Victory in Kansas and feel Good about it. Now we re on to Michigan and Here we  Jackson garnered 14 delegates in Kansas for a total of 483.55 and Gore gained 5, for 362.8. Four of Kan Sas delegates were uncommitted raising the National total to 276.6 5. To nominate there must be a total of 2,082 delegates. Gephardt who captured nine delegates in South Dakota for a total of i $4, said that he was t really concerned about Kansas and that his Campaign s focus has been on Michigan for the Las couple of weeks. Michigan holds caucuses  saturday to decide 138 delegates. Simon who hat 171.5 delegates said before the Start of the Jefferson Jackson dinner thai he expects the party will have to go through a bitter convention fight to select its nominee. In South Dakota which has 15 delegates Al slake democrats honoured the results of the feb. 23 primary in which Gephardt received 44 percent of the vote and Dukakis 31 percent. In a poll conducted for the Detroit news Dukakis garnered the support of 33 percent of the 355 people who said they Likely would vote in the Michigan caucuses. Jackson received 31 percent while Gephardt was a Distant third with 10 percent said the Survey which was published in sunday editions. Han who has dropped out of the race received 7 percent of the vote while Gore Hod 5 percent and Simon 2 percent. The Survey had a margin of error of 5 percentage Points. Among republicans front runner George Bush was expected to capture the 14 delegates at slake in the Winner make All primary in puerto Rico on sunday. The vice president was the Only gop candidate 10 mourn an organized Campaign on the Island. Mickey 34, a Vietnam pc Iran. I m Here because i Don t believe we should Send our troops to Honduras be said. "1 think the Reagan people have a communist hysteria. Anytime they tee people rising up for their rights they use the excuse that they re  in Wrightstown no. Four people were taken into custody at Mcguire fab during a protest by about 101 demonstrators base officials said. About 23 demonstrators who Sal Down inside the base Entrance were carried outside the Gate by air Force police and 35 officers dressed in riot gear. One Man who broke away and entered the base was taken into custody As were three other who climbed Over or crawled under a Fence. The four were later released. The air Force maintained Standard Security pre cautions to ensure the Security of the base s perimeter and there was no property damage said  Timo thy Hoffman. In Chicago Between 50 and 100 people carrying has to take place wherever Russia is grabbing  said Julian Witkowski 66, a retired furniture finisher who said he represented a polish american group. Many of those who marched in the 45-Tninutt Demon stration said they or their families were from Eastern european nations now dominated by the soviet Union. On Friday the number of arrests among those pro testing administration policy was larger. More than 350 people were arrested in protests across be nation. Among the largest were those in san Francisco and in Minneapolis Chicago sail Lake City Washington. . Seattle Lewiston Maine and  Fla. Honduras from Page 1 sandinista positions saturday morning in the Frontier sectors of Muk was Sao Andres de Boca Baniwas and Way awas but dropped no bombs. The 600 sandinista were part of an estimated 2,000-Man Force that was believed to have entered honduran territory but week in Pursuit of .-Backcd Contra rebels. The action prompted president Reagan to Send in . Troops o non combat areas for military exercise in a show of Force to the. Marxist regime. In Washington National Security adviser it. Gen. Colin a Powell said the fighting Between Nicaragua and Honduras is essentially Over. Powell who appeared on Abc to s this week with David Brinkley said the . Military exercises should be completed shortly and the troops will return to the United states. The sandinista have withdrawn. They re apparently on their Side of the Border again. They appear to be in a process of withdrawing or have withdrawn he said. Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has denied thai the sandinista were in honduran territory. Deputy foreign minister Victor Hugo Tinoco said sunday that reports of Sand Nijm troops still inside Honduras territory were a Rase by the Reagan administration to obtain More Money for the contras. Tinoco also said monday s first Ever direct talks with Contra rebels inside Nicaragua will focus on the mechanics of a cease fire. The Contra want the talks to include political issues. In new York eight nations forming the Contador and its support group issued a statement condemning the tending of additional american troops to Honduras. They also urged both the honduran and nicaraguan governments to reduce immediately tension in their Border Region and respect each others territorial integ  Contador is made up of Mexico Colombia Vene Zuela and Panama and is backed by a support group formed by Argentina Brazil Uruguay and Peru. The group has been trying to negotiate an end to the Contra War in Nicaragua and leftist guerrilla wan in Al Salvador and Guatemala for the pail six years. Although it did not mention the United states by name the Concadora statement expressed deep worry Over the escalation of a foreign military presence in.  cd wins in Baden Wurttemberge Stuttgart West Germany Cap Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Christian democratic Union survived a major election test sunday and retained Power in Baden we Ottemberg despite suffering losses in the Only state where it governs alone. The three other major parties Alto suffered losses while two Small extreme right Wing parties scored surprising gains apparently getting Voles from dissatisfied Farmers. Three hours after the polls closed Al 6 ., the computer projections by the National television net works gave the cd about 49 percent of the vote. Final results were not expected until Early monday. According to Baden Wurt Lemberg s complicated elec Tion Laws the number of seats in the stale parliament can vary and the new legislature was expected 10 have 125 seals one less than the previous one. Led by Laihar spin la state governor for 10 years the Christian democrats were expected to win at least 66 scats compared to 68 they gained four years ago. The free democrats who were aiming to Force the cd into a coalition in the slate instead suffered a bitter defeat and were projected to Jet about 6 percent. That will give them seven seals in parliament one lest than in 198 4, when they got 7.2 percent of the vote. The social democrats were expected to end with 32 percent compared to 32.4 they gained in 1984. They were projected however to gain one extra Seal in the legislature for a total of 42. The environmentalist greens Only won 7,9 percent of the vote just under the 8 percent they had in 1984. They will also have one More seat for a total of 10. The Smalt extreme right Wing National democratic party of Germany Ned was projected to win about 2 percent while another right Wing group the republicans was expected to end with about 1 percent none of the two parties will hold any seals in the stale parliament. Blast from Page 1 thai the bomb went off As planned at 11 10  The americans All assigned to nearby Hill Nikon a were treated and released from the base Hospital master sol. Allan Davis a Safe spokesman said sunday. Another Safe spokesman identified the victims As staff sol. Timothy a. Johnson staff sgt. John m. Fines sol. Ricky a. Hoover and staff sgt. Larry l Morrison or. Five greeks two frenchmen and two britons also were injured by flying Glass and Metal Athens police said. At least two of the greeks were admitted to an Athens Hospital with first arid second degree Burns. Police said the bomb apparently was Bidden in the cloakroom of oscars a popular spot for service Mceben stationed in the City. At the time of the blast about 25 people were Al the bar which is decorated with . Dags and other Memorabilia collected from american clientele. I was standing at the bar having a drink when it blew up in front of me. There was a really loud explosion and i got dizzy and fell Down said Costas Paba los 25, a greek Patron. The blast blew debris Imo the Street arid shattered win Dows in a nearby restaurant  building. We heard a loud blast and saw people running out of Oscar s. There was a Man running out of there screaming with his clothes on fire said Dimitris Kal sounds the restaurant owner. No group has taken responsibility for he bombing but police suspect it is the work of november 17th, a leftist group that has claimed the lives of two Ameri cans and Al least eight other persons in the last few years. Together with several less prominent greek leftist groups november i7ih has engaged in terrorist ice against the american pretence in Greece since 1975, a year after the .-Backcd military Junta collapsed. The group halted its activities for two years when socialist prune minister Andreas Papandreou came to Power in 1981. Papandreou had pledged to remove american bases from greek soil and remove the coun try from nato. Bui the terrorist group resumed its Campaign of bombings and assassinations in 1983, when the group said ii appeared that Papandreou was. Backtracking on his election promises  
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