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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Scopo s ouf summer fun s in the St  authorized Runoff Licul pulic tin of the . It Tab s&5 Prioto a Bianda Hoser it s no More bunks no More teacher s dirty looks As tic end of the school yer rhyme does. Betsy Cook a teacher at Bacn Hauson West Germany eels u goodbye hug thursday from a smiling Klimut Fiertner As students throughout Odds German begin heir summer mentions vol. 47, no. 61 Friday june 17,1988 Good morning d 8693 a Northeast Midwest in 4th Day of hot spell by the associated press a heal wave baking much or the Northeast and mid West persisted into its fourth Day thursday aggravating a severe draught and causing at least two deaths in Boston. Five tornadoes meanwhile spun through Colorado injuring seven people and hurling vehicles through the air. Related photo. Page 6, set other . Temperatures on Page 20. Temperatures reached the 80s in Many areas of the East and Midwest by Laic thursday morning. At Louis Ville by the Mercury Rose from s3 degrees at 11 . To 85 some 40 minutes later. Outside Baltimore it was 85 degrees at 11 . With 67 percent relative humidity. Boston was even hotter recording 88 degrees. Have you seen the movie Good morning Viet see hot on Back Page w. German club penetrates . Defense computer Nef Pasadena Calif. A members of a West German computer club improperly gained Access to . Defense network computer at Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory and a Navy facility last month a lab spokesman said thursday. One thing i can Tell you with absolute certainly is icy did t gel into any classified data Hanks at jul nor did they get into any sensitive information in the lab said George Alexander chief spokesman for the National aeronautics and space administration facile , Alexander was t sure if other parts of the computer network operated by the defense advanced research projects Agency contained classified information. He said members of the Kaos computer club i Hamburg gained Access on May 17 to a digital equip see club on Back Page police declare Victory in War on soccer rowdies from press dispatches Dusseldorf West Germany police said they had won their fight against soccer rowdies Halfway through the euro Pean soccer championships thursday. Summing up two Days of soccer Vio Lence in Dusseldorf police chief Hans Friedrich Lisken reported the detention of Soi fans and damage of hundreds of thousands of dollars. He said All detainees including ii3 English and 3bb germans had been freed by thursday afternoon. Two policemen were injured in the scuffles Lis Ken said no figure was available on How Many soccer fans had been injured. With bars shut and 2,500 riot police on full display Street violence by soccer fans stayed to a minimum following wednesday s match at the Rhein stadium where Holland beat England 3-1. At halftime in the european soccer championship the police to me arc the Clear Winner said Hermann Lulu chair Man of the West German police Union. The massive police presence averted a feared confrontation Between 30,000 dutch fans and 7,000 English fans Gath ered in the City for the match Between Holland and England. A Dusseldorf police spokesman blamed the fighting that took place be fore and after the game on germans who came to the City from other parts of West Germany to make trouble the express newspaper which circulates mainly in Bonn and Cologne Dis agreed. It carried a Banner headline read ing football War Dusseldorf English rowdies Lay waste to the old City  most of the vandalism and fighting see rowdies on Back Page an unruly fan yields to some gentle persuasion from two policemen in Disseldorf. Of photo 35 years ago e. German uprising crushed  writer Berlin westerners watched As russian tanks knifed into a downtown crowd of jeering East Berlin workers on potsdamer Platz 35 years ago today crush ing the Brief uprising that would become a key historical Marker of a divided Germany. Ironically the West German government has de Creed june 17 As a Holiday commemorating the Day of German Unity. The East German uprising began in Berlin spread ing to More than 230 communities As workers put Down their tools in a spontaneous demand for a demo cratic society and better living conditions. Both German slates were founded in 1949 under the premise of free democratic elections. Bui four years later decisions were being made in the East on behalf of the people that had workers there questioning who were the people if not themselves triggering the uprising was a May 28 state announcement that the people had voted to increase production by 10 percent for the same monthly wage. The resulting demonstrations led to martial la being declared on june 17 and an estimated 250 East German deaths. Some died by firing squad. For example Alfred and Herbert Short lived friends of Gerhard Rocker. Rocker 61 years old and a former Baker in Magde Burg told the Story of two Brief acquaintances who were Cut Down by a firing squad at 5 . On june 17 after they and thousands of others had stormed the local jail and set 200 prisoners free. Roemer was awakened Early the next morning and arrested by a Trio of East German people s police and three russian soldiers they told me that if they had caught me one Day earlier that t would not be alive Roemer said. They blindfolded me and drove me to the state Security see uprising on Page 3  
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