European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n lawyer accuses Bush at allowing Contra drug ring Page 4 d California s shaking Over Orson Welles video Page 5 d Best Selling author visits . Base in  Page 8 o filly winning colors wins Kentucky Derby sports Page 21 the  vol. 47, no. 22 monday May 9, 1988 08603 a Pope supports polish strikes Montevideo Uruguay not Pope John Paul ii saturday voiced his full approval of strikes by polish work ers insisting thai Llie crisis in his Home land could be lived Only through Funda mental political changes leading to democracy a Lulu Story Page 2. The Lack of True democracy is i1hink, the crucial the Central problem of Poland the Pope said to reporters Hying with him from Rome to Uruguay at the Start of his Ibur Nalion visit 1o latin America. John Paul s remarks on Poland sat urday were the strongest statements he has made since the recent unrest began last month. With strikes at several Indus trial plants. For the first Lime he dearly slated his moral approval of the strikers methods and their goals. He also criticized the government s use of Force and its refusal to negotiate with the workers. Certainly strikes Are a justified method to defend Justice in the social Sociol Pope John Paul ii talks with news two aboard his ill Craft on saturday. App Oil economic and sociopolitical Fields Johnpaul said when asked to comment specifically on the polish  a first step toward ending the crisis he called for a dialogue Between the a Lalland groups that arc representative of Public  Bishops proposed such talks be tween the commune authorities an striking workers last week but the War. Saw government rejected the offer in Stead cracking Down forcibly on striking workers in n raid Early thursday morn  about the police measures the Pope replied problems should not be solved by Force in Gdansk the management of the Lenin shipyard another strike area began talks with workers seeking higher pay Anicja Bizalion of the Solidarity Trade Union. The talks followed new mediation efforts by Catholic Church leaders describing the economic so Talion in Poland As very difficult critical John see Pope on Back Page Reagan of fees  he talc. .1 i. I i. . Washington a president Reagan assured b concerned West German official Friday that . Commitment to Bonn and the nato Alliance remains unshakable the White House said. Reagan also told Alfred Dregger that  Ini i cooperation is the Cornerstone of  presidential spokesman  said. Dregger is Chaibi Lyl Otti Ancello Helmut Kohls faction a a Icerman parliament. He said he was satisfied and relieved by assurances from Reagan and be allowed r riil7or the North a urged the United states and _ seize the inti alive As soon As possible in negotiating with the soviet Union a reduction of non nuclear weapons in Europe. Reagan told the West German Tinl . Commit ment to Germany and Western Europe is unshakable Popadiuk said. 1 am very satisfied with my sessions in washing ton and i am convinced thai the Alliance will Guaran tee the Security of the German Federal Republic an Europe Tor another 40 years drug Ger told reporters  defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci and arms iimtfll4jili i Iii Nitze had confirmed to him that we will  unbroken Unity of deterrence and risk sharing Between North americ and Europe that the entire Alliance will remain a strategic  radiation warning Greenpeace an miss in a Rubbe Boal ii punch Chr Sovart frigate Solny in Den Mark s great Belt Strait to try id place a radiation naming Flag on the Tessel the activists were protesting the earning at nuclear weapons into danish �a1m by foreign snips uie main Issue in Ihbe it to i Al political activists gather in Moscow to form party Moscow a an opposition group calling itself the democratic Union held an organizational meeting saturday to establish a political party As an alternative to the communist party a leading dissident said. Police including some ranking offi cers gathered outside the downtown apartment building where the meeting was held Sergei Grigoryants said Sun Day. He said he knew of no arrests. Grigoryants who has been Active among Moscow s dissidents said he went 6y the building but did not participate in the meeting. The soviet communist Pany has ruled As the Only official political party since the 1917 bolshevik revolution and has Given no indication it is willing to accept any organized opposition. Attempts in the past to organize opposition parties have led to arrests imprisonment or exile. Grigoryants said the goal of the democratic Union is creation of a democratic pluralistic society without a Central role for the communist party. He said As Many As 250 people from Moscow Leningrad. Novosibirsk and the Ukraine gathered saturday to discuss the goals of the group and prepare documents declaring their principles. There was no confirmation of that figure and few apartments in the capital could accommodate such a Large crowd. The talks Are expected to continue for two or three Days according to Grigor yanks. The group gathered in the Krasnaya Presnaya neighbourhood in an apartment building near the Modem office building housing the government of the russian federation the largest of the is republics that make up the soviet Union also meeting in Moscow this weekend were representatives of some 30 Independent publications that have been established in Defiance of the government s monopoly on published information. The newspapers and journals concerned primarily with political and religious affairs have limited circulation be cause the government centrals All printing presses. Some Are Only typewritten sheets passed among friends. It was the second meeting of Independent publishers a similar session was held in Leningrad last fall