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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 hews briefs the stars and stripes Jackson says his letter urged Noriega to resign Washington n s primary tuesday he civil rights Leader pm cd Down the effects or his letter to Noriega delivered lathe Leader last week by a Jackson Campaign official. _ Jackson said monday he letter he sent Noriega was a request that he leave. We simply have made a very Strong Public and moral Appeal id Noriega to leave in order that he suffering or the people might be relieved he said. Keli cd Story. Page 57 we did get a letter Back he added. We be forwarded that letter now to the state depart ment and to appropriate members or Congress. He raises two Points it seems one reacting to the idea of military intervention and secondly suggesting there Are two sides to the  polish youths pour out for Post easter Holiday Warsaw Poland a Poland was taking a Bath on monday. Nationwide Young people Flung buckets of water at each other in the annual Post Caster Folk Holiday of pouring  in Warsaw the teen agers also doused a few police officers who wandered by the Good natured and vaguely political water games that pitted a contingent of smurfs dressed in Blue against Green Clad water people in Castle Square in the old town. The 1,000 participants slogans had Tongue in Cheek  overtones Freedom and water free the buckets and smurf cops go  easter monday is a National Holiday in Poland and the Day s traditional activity in the Countryside is for peasant boys to soak not so reluctant girls with water. Soviets preparing to pull troops from Afghanistan Washington a the soviets have begun preparations to remove the first of their 115,000 soldiers from Afghanistan although no Date has been set for the withdrawal and in. Peace talks arc at an impasse administration sources say. The soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze made an unexpected trip to Kabul Afghanistan on sunday to discuss serious difficulties caused by . And pakistani demands that the soviet Union halt Aid o the afghan government at Llic same time the United slates slops the flow of Covert arms to guerrilla forces. Shevardnadze has said the soviets will with draw even if the talks collapse. And a . Government analyst said the intelligence Community is unanimous in reporting Haj preparations for a withdrawal have  but the analyst speaking on condition of anonymity stressed that the enact time duration and manner of the soviet withdrawal remain unclear. Tuesday april 5,1968 palestinians stage strike to protest visit by Shultz tpq1 cat Atuf fall da1rnrnn Mai int a a a can of a Nair la   Ell Jerusalem a palestinian mounted Gen eral strike monday to protest the visit of Secretary of state George Shultz who was trying to persuade prune minister Yitzhak Shamir to accept an International peace conference. Hospital officials said an 18-year-old palestinian was shot to death and another 18-year-old was wounded during West Bank unrest thai accompanied he general strike. The fatality brought to 137 the number of arabs who have died in four month of anti israeli protests. One israeli Soldier has been lulled. After meeting with Shamir and foreign minister Shimon pern Shultz told reporter his talks focused on the Content of prospective Arab israeli talks rather than the procedure of arranging a meeting. The encouraging part about it to me was that we have now engaged in this initiative on the important aspects of its Content namely the direct face to face negotiation Shultz said. Streets in the towns of the occupied West Bank an were nearly descried monday and shops shuttered after an underground Palestine liberation organization leaflet called for a Genera strike and three Day of protests to coincide with Shultz s visit. Hospital officials said Mohammed Abed Maadi a Zaidan was shot in the Chest and died during a Demon stration in Bani Nairn a West Bank Village near he Bron. In Nablus Hospital officials said an in year old palestinian was wounded in the thigh by army gunfire during a protest at the Battoia refugee Camp. The army said a Border policeman opened fire during the protest wounding an Arab in the leg after being attacked with an an. The Camp was place Pfunder curfew. About 600 police were deployed in Jerusalem s old City to prevent clashes Between moslem and a Mili Tant jewish group that tried to enter and Pray in the Al Asa mosque Complex. The mosque one of islam s holiest shrines is built atop the site of the ancient jewish Temple destroyed by romans in 70 a. D. Protests from Page 1 melted that bringing out the crowds would be More difficult in Light of the superpower treaty signed last year eliminating intermediate Range nuclear missiles in Europe. Most of the signs carried by demonstrators bore traditional disarmament messages such As no nukes and disarmament  but one Banner took note of the influence of the treaty with the message Don t be lulled by the inf  among the speakers were Futurist Robert Jungk and Felicia Langer an author and lawyer who defends palestinians in Israel the peaceful protest broke up about 3 pm. In Berlin police said about 5,000 persons took part in an easter March thai wound through three Down town District. No arrests were reported by late Mon Day afternoon. Foreign groups were strongly represented among the marchers with sizeable coniing enu protesting the use of chemical weapons in the persian Gulf War and the mistreatment of palestinians by israeli soldiers the Berlin March was sponsored by a coalition including the Young socialists youth organization of the Socol Democrat party the communist socialist Union of West Berlin and the alternative list Berlin equiv Alent 10 the West German Green party. The theme for this year s March was now the rest in reference la continued nuclear and conventional disarmament. Speaker at a closing rally credited the three decades of easier marches and the peace movement for contributing to the intermediate Range nuclear Force agreement Between the United states and the soviet Union in december. Under terms of the agreement both sides agree to destroy their intermediate Range missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Ii u a right said East German pastor Honta Krum. It was worthwhile and the signatures of . 8 would not have happened without  Kurn also look note of the 20lli anniversary Mon Day of the assassination of or. Martin Luther King or. In Memphis Tenn. His dream of a better America of a peaceful world has not died she told the rally. Echoing a theme of the March Kirn called on the United states to Reciprocals by withdrawing inf weapons from Europe ahead of schedule As the soviet Union did earlier this year. Until now intermediate Range missiles have Only been pulled out of East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Why not Mut Langen and Hazelbach the latter two Sites House . Missiles. Chase from Page 1 inside classified and order Coupon to protect us. Bases and american citizens. The Rea Gan administration has declared it will not use military Force to oust on. Manuel Antonio Noriega whose leadership has been the focus of a National political and economic crisis. Sunday s edition of the government run newspaper la Republica quoted pro government labor leaders As urging panamanians to prepare for an american inva Sion when the additional troops begin arriving. There Are 10,000 troops stationed at the . South Ern come in Panama. Pentagon officials said More troops May be sent if they Are needed. The Chase on sunday ended an otherwise Calm easier Holiday and ushered in a week of uncertainty for panamanians. A roman Catholic Church offer to me Diate an end to the country s political crisis was set to expire at Midnight monday. Embassy spokesman Terence inc Ebony said Davis was leaving the Home of Vatican ambassador Jose Sebastian Laboa when the panamanian vehicle began following immediately picking then up right outside the Gale. He said it tried to Stop the chauffeur driven car with its tights and sirens the ambassador s Driver in accordance with instructions did not Stop. The ambassador was driven to nil residence and the other vehicle followed All the Way Kneebone said. The residence Are about two Miles apart. We consider this serious Kneebone said. King from Paga 1 color. That s what Martin lived and died for that a Man would be judged by the Content of his character rather than the color of his  the search for the promised land that King talked Aboul must continue Benjamin Hooks president of the National association for the advancement of col ored people told 500 people gathered sunday night at the same Mason Temple. So or. King we Haven t made it vet. But we Are determined from this Day we arc going to March for Ward and Ain t nobody going to turn us around Hooks said. But on the anniversary of King s death civil rights leaders said the nation s poor arc As bad off now As they were 20 years ago and the struggles for racial Equality and social Justice Are also in need of new life. Twin in years later everything Hai changed and nothing has changed said Joseph Lowery president of the Southern Christian leadership conference a civil rights organization formed by King. We Are Loo satisfied. We must learn some lessons from the 60s, we must go Back to some basics said Ralph Abernathy one of King s lop assistants and closest friends. Although Progress has been made toward social Equality Tor Blacks the number of poor people in the nation continue to grow King s son said. Today we see there Are better than j6 million peo ple living below the level of poverty in America in 1968, there were 26 million King said. Individually we arc better off but masses of people still suffer King said. Daddy talked about the least of these our Brothers and Sisters and that least of these continues to grow. We have homeless people in every major City in  meanwhile in Portland ore., nearly 100 people marched saturday to Mark King s assassination. When people gather together there ii Hope said Ron hem Don co director of Portland s Black United front. The message is there still Are those who will stand up against  King s death on april 4,1968, sparked Riou in Sev eral american Cilien. Including Washington ., where four Days of burning looting and violence left ill people dead. 1,097 injured 900 Tim and 6,124 arrests. The riots ended after Pretl Donl Johnson or dered Federal troops and 1,750 members of the , National guard into the City  
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