European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes former Arizona gov. Mecham acquitted Bac Page d drought problems continue in Page 4 d renewed warning issued on breast cancer Page 5 d pistons beat lakers Lead Aba a nals 3-2 Page 21 police arrest rampaging soccer fans Frankfurt a roving groups of English soc cer fans Early Friday morning overturned a car smashed windows and furniture in several Frankfurt bars and fought with German pub patrons police said. Several people were slightly injured in the clashes police said. Seven English soccer fans were arrested in the out break of violence in Frankfurt s Apple wine District and near the City s main train station. According to police about 60 English troublemakers Many of them drunk and some singing god save the Queen were involved in the violence. The English National team is scheduled to play the soviet Union on saturday in a match of the which West Germany is hosting. More than 100 English soccer fans have been arrested so far during inc championships in connection with violent incidents from Stuttgart to the Ruhr. England s football association reacting to the wave see soccer on Bach Page hut hominid unofficial publication for the . Mid Fok Cit vol. 47, no. 62 d 8693 a Rod bribe probe expands to House Washington not the offices of at least Throe members of the House of representatives including one from new York have been placed under investigation As pan of a Federal bribery investigation involving Pentagon aides and some or the nation s largest military contractors a Justice department offi Cial and other Legal source familiar with inc inquiry said. They would not identify the lawmakers whose offices Are under investigation by the . Attorney in Brooklyn Andrew Mioney nor would they say if it was the lawmakers or their aides who might face charges in the Case. The exact nature of the allegations could not reconfirmed. But one Law enforcement official with knowledge of the inquiry said he understood investigators were studying possible improprieties in inc relationship Between military contractors and congressional officials involved in procurement matters. At the White House president Reagan met with the government s senior Law enforcement officials and senior White House aides to stress his desire for a full and thorough investigation As rapidly 35 possible his spokesman said. Attorney general Edwin Meese who attended the session told reporters later we Are hopeful that we will return indictments within 30 to 90 he said the investigation was a vindication of the govern ment s efforts to curb military fraud. Information on the Case remains sketchy however. As part of its policy of not commenting on continuing investigations the Justice department has said publicly Only that it is conducting a widespread bribery inquiry involving government officials military con tractors and their private consultants. Paloncy s investigation in Brooklyn is part of what Law enforcement officials described As a broader Feder Al inquiry into allegations that Pentagon officials and other government aides had accepted bribes from some of inc nation s largest military contractors. A Federal Law enforcement official said Mioney see probe on Back Page a londoner reads about rioting soccer fans whose behaviour May Force England s National Tarn to stay Home. A Fuzio 35 years ago e. German uprising crushed by Joe a Potzl staff writer Berlin westerners watched As russian knifed into a downtown crowd of jeering East Berlin workers on Potsdam or Slalz 35 years ago yesterday crushing he Brief uprising thai would become a key historical Marker of a divided Germany. Ironically the West German government decreed june 17 As a Holiday commemorating the Day of a Man Unity. The East German uprising began Weflin spread ing to More than 230 workers put Down their tools in a demand for a demo cratic society and better living conditions. Both German slates were founded in 1949 under the premise of free democratic elections. But four a decisions were being made Law Jhaj the people that had who were thet to i i Luul tilt Luikim was a May 28 state on pm fluent that the Park Amiad voted to increase auction by 10 percent monthly wage. The resulting demonstrations led Iva martial Law being declared on june 17 and on Cost mat a Fly Asterman deaths. Some died by firing squad. For example Alfred and Herbert Short lived friends of Gerhard Roemer. Old and a former Baker in Magde the Story of two Brief acquaintances who were Cut Down by a tiring 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 i would not be alive Roemer said. They blindfolded me and drove me to the slate Security see uprising on Page 3
