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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday May 1.1988 a striking Seaman Exchange angry non Wilh two policemen during  at Dover England saturday. . Seamen attack tourist buses As 2 ferries break 3-month strike Dover England al1 striking women hurled rocks and bottles at five busloads of tourists and scuffled Wilh police Early saturday before two ferries berthed at this English Channel port to break a three month ferry strike police said. A bus Windshield was smashed but no one was Hurtin the disturbance i hat broke out after pickets mistook inc tourists for strik Breakers said Dover police in Spector Mervyn Williams lie said one Seaman was arrested Bui was later released without charge. About 750 pickets had gathered on the dockside in nearly morning drizzle to protest the arrival of two ferries. Pride of Ken and Pride of Bruges owned by p and european re tries from inc dutch Pun of Rotterdam. The ferries carrying 250 Crew members but no Pas sengers berthed saturday morning after anchoring user night outside the port. As they sailed into the har Bor replacement Crews were bused past chanting pick Els outside the Dock Gates. Earlier. I rouble flared when five bum carrying tour in rumbled into the Dock with police escorts. Hundreds of pickets mistaking inc tourists for strike breaking Crews surged through police lines an threw rocks and bottles at the buses and hammered on the windows. Some Iso police officers moved in and quickly broke up the disturbances Afler scuffles Wilh pickets. Williams said. He said a Union official later went about j i bus that had its Windshield smashed and Apoi Ogi cd in the Driver. Police superintendent Tom o Connor said the Liu Schwere carrying passengers into the ferry terminal for Crossings on Trench and belgian ships to Calais and Ostend. Police quickly restored order but Sam Mccluskie. Leader of inc 2-Moo-Membcr National Union of sea men said i cannot guarantee it will be peaceful for Long i want peace but these men and women have been frustrated 0 the extent i will not be Able to control  he said British Crews on the p and o ferries will be marked As scabs  the strike was seen As the biggest test since last tear of Union curbing Laws written by Margaret Thatcher s conservative government. I and o and its main rival. Be alms Isri Tish ferries whose Channel sailings were severely disrupted Liy sym Pathy walkouts warned of Long delays at Dover for any vacationers heading for Continental Europe Al the Senrt t a three Jay British Holiday weekend. P and 0 last week fired 720 workers sell on strike and readied the ships in Rotterdam in a showdown Wilh the Union. P and o says it Musl Lake drastic Cost culling Mea sures to stay in business after the Channel Tunnel link ing Britain and France opens in 1993. Meulink invoking Laws against sympathy strikes has taken slops to have the Union s 2. Million pounds i assets $5.2 million seized. But scaling faces the in cat of triggering a National strike if inc assets Are seized. Sealing said ils sailings from Dover were halved to eight a Day Wilh the Only vessels of craving manned by French Crews. World today mexican spaniard share Prince of Asturias prize Oviedo Spain a mexican physicist Marcos mosh risky and Spanish physicist Man act Cardona shared the i9b8 Prince of acting pric for science announced Friday by found lion named for the heir to the Spanish Thront. A 10-Mcmbcr jury chaired by Spanish Nobel prize Winner for Medicine Severn Ochoa unanimously cd inc two men for the pure for their respective contributions to physics an quantum physics mathematical  the foundation has in Headquarters in Ovie do the capital of he Northwestern Region of As Lurins the prize consists of 2 million pesetas si8,0001 and an original sculpture by Spanish Artim Joan mind. Moshinsky 67, a native of lilt Ukraine and a naturalised mexican Heads the department of theoretical physics at the National autonomous University m Mexico City. Cardona 54, a native of a Arcelona and graduate of inc University of Harc Clana and Harvard is director at the Mai Planck Institute Tor solid stale science research in Stuttgart West Germany. British officials destroying wild cats of South Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus api British military authorities have begun killing the cat population Otic at Sotiri Peninsula in South Cyprus scores of cats have been destroyed in Gas Chambers since the Campaign was launched six weeks ago. Said sources at the British air base on air Wiiri who spoke on condition of anonymity. This is not an extermination Campaign said British military spokesman Mai. Johnnie Rogers. The number of feral cats in the area has reached sufficient numbers to warrant som kind of control  according to local lore the cats were introduced to air Wiiri in the 4th Century to control the Snake population. The president of. R no f the Cyprus in Anvil Protection society Loulla Josephides said thai getting rid of the eats of air Wiiri will pwt the balance of nature. The whole area will Oon be infested Hys Nakes  soviets set up first firms with worker held Stock Moscow Impi the first joint Ilock companies have been Sci up in inc soviet Union allowing workers to buy Inlo their plants and stale farms a soviet newspaper said Friday. Bui inc response has not been overwhelming. Only about 10 million rubles $16 million has been invested in inc joint shares in a nation in which savings accounts Are an astronomical 275billion rubles j4-�0 billionth daily soviet Skan Rossiya said. These arc Only the firs mod Cal Steps which have been made in the russian Republic the Ukraine the soviet Ullic republics of Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania and  Sovie Skaya Rossiya said. Priest caught with cocaine blames satan Jose Luis Gil Fernanda Caracas. Venezuela a a pries who police say was caught with 46 pounds of cocaine said satan ice pics him to sell narcotics but that he used inc profits to help inc poor. Intelligence police commissioner of Yaldo Granadillo said Friday the Span ish born venezuelan priest Jose Luis Gil Fernandez 57. Was arrested Al Maique Tia International Airport outside Caracas wednesday night alter police found the cocaine packed in his suitcases. Gil Fernandez who for 24 Yean has been the Parish priest at san Maleo 36 Miles West of Caracas was headed for Madrid. A former priest Juan Rojano Marti Nez 54, and his wife Graciela Ramos de Rojano 46, were arrested hours later in Caracas and arc alleged to have drawn Gil Fernandez into inc smuggling Trade Granadillo said. The Pricil told reporters thursday that he had smuggled cocaine to Madrid on two previous occasions. He acknowledged he was paid $9.000 for inc firs cargo of 19 pounds in i9s4 and s 32,000 for a second Load of about 30 pounds. He did not say when the Sec Ond operation took place. The 45-Pound cargo would have netted him 50,000. He said. I gave in All to inc  Oil Fernandez said. I paid for a new Chapel in san matco a Parish boarding school and decorations fur the Church altar and 1 helped oui the children who needed the Money so much i Haven t got a Penny of  he said i repent and 1 want to die. I was tempted by satan and i know the damage i have done to the Church and 1 deserve  he said that Rojano had pressured him to carry the drugs and thai lie had asked his Church superiors in March to remove him from the Parish because i was horribly  father Amador Merino spokesman for inc venezuelan episcopal Confer ence said Friday that the Church is Dis concerted and full of consternation and pain Over the Case. The Church does not judge and will let acne clan Justice follow its course.1 Merino said. Police said formal charges will be drawn up against the priest and the Roja no couple next week. Drug smuggling in Venezuela carries a jail sentence of six to 30 years the nation s maximum penalty  
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