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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday october 6,1988 Pinochet vows to stay until 1990 Santiago Chile a Gen. Augus Gas setting off mad to Pinochet old the nation thursday night scrambles engulfing he will remain As president until his term pedestrians in tray Liitt out in 1990, while police fired water Bystry Cerf cannons and tear Gas at protesters cell brat Iff Ore than 20 i Hium a Fundum on a Etc j people were Arr Steding his Rule to 1997 a and two policemen thousands of jubilant foes Chaner he has fallen and marched in Tiff treets to celebrate Pinochet s de Cav an  has been Over thrown said Rick to Lagos a Leader of a j6-party Coli Ufen thai campaigned for Gottl Pinchers defeat. W�illpfl9.6 percent of Voles counted no folks Wensl Pinochet s continued Pinochet were injured. A crowd of Many thousands mostly Young men packed All eight lanes of san Tiago s main Boule Vard for several blocks in a standoff with riot police rate totalled j.94jib65, or 54.7  Wall hundreds of do Monstras while yes votes totalled 3 106 099 or 43 lors " ton h s made from rolled up news percent papers. The tightly packed crowd pressed the opposition urged Clec Tio a �.4eld a Soj of a lick who hc1d ol11before december 1989, a plan Rojc Clew Owr Fatt Shields. Inc military  mid Oming groups of students observers expect at least two opposition and a so fool us forms gathered candidates will run in the presidential Elco in Santiagove streets and  chanted anti Pinochet slogans. Initial police attempts to disperse the youngsters with water Caiman and tear Gas angered bystanders and Only attracted More participants. By noon thousands of demonstrators spilled onto the City s main a Man taunts a rial policeman during celebrations in Santiago Chile on thursday. Hirohito gets new transfusion Tokyo a emperor Hirohito fever subsided thursday after he received his Dally blood transfusion. Palace doctors were quoted earlier a expressing fear i he numerous transfusions in ii Nail two weeks already total ing More blood than the frail 87-year-old Monarch normally has in his body were increasing ii Hirohito s fever and false rate. He received 0.4 pints of blood thurs Day morning to compensate far continued internal bleeding a spokesman said. Lions Lagos socialist Leader of  Ift parly for democracy Alliance and Pat Rick Aylwin president of the centrist Chris Tian democratic party while Lens of thousands of chileans demonstrated peacefully nearby hundreds of youths near the government Palace hurled bottles and Slicks at police and dragged Wood planks and other debris ont downtown streets riot police used water cannons and tear eight Lane Boulevard jamming traffic. Drivers beeped their horns with the chants. Other demonstrators marched through the streets waving chilean lags and opposition party banners. British labor defies leaders in vote by the Baltimore own London the British labor party defied its leadership wednesday and voted to continue its policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Delegates at the party s annual Confer ence voted to rid Britain independently of its nuclear bases and weapons within the first term of a labor government taking office. The vote cum despite poll finding that the policy was a major Clement to labor s third consecutive defeat by prime minister Margaret Thatcher s to Ries in last year s election. The vote was a major Rebuff for party Leader Neil Kinlock who in his keynote speech tuesday made it Clear that to win Power labor would have to come to terms with the Market Economy and re think its defense policy. He wanted the conference to pass a Reso Lution wednesday calling for elimination of nuclear weapons by unilateral bilateral and multilateral Means implicitly com mitting labor to using the country s nuclear Arsenal to support current arms control negotiations la was voted Down and pro unilateral wording passed. Britain has Only one strategic or Long Range nuclear system the submarine based Polaris missile. It has a Large array of tactical nuclear weapons but nothing approaching the superpowers arsenals before the ballot was taken senior arly officials foreseeing defeat let it be Nown that they would not consider themselves bound by inc decision. The party s slate of policies including de sense was under review and decisions at the meeting would not be allowed to pre empt eventual Reform they said. Company 2 officials charged with rigging postal contract Washington a a Texas company and two of its executives were accused thursday of Par Lic paling with a postal service governor in a con tract bid rigging scheme that included replacing the postmaster general. The replacement of Paul n. Carl in with Albert a Casey As postmaster general was engineered in 1986 As part of the elaborate Effort by recognition equipment inc. To get s400 million Worth of con tracts to provide automated mail sorting equip ment according to an indictment resumed Here. The indictment charged thai the company Rei chairman William g. Moore or. And Robert a Reedy a vice president conspired with Peter e. Voss then vice chairman of the postal service Board of governors and others 10 manipulate bid procedures obtain confidential information about competitors and replace Carlin. Voss an a indicted co conspirator received 119,000 in kickbacks plus $4,000 Worth of airline tickets from a Detroit area Public relations firm headed by John r. Gnau or. That Rei hired on Voss recommendation the indictment said. Voss who received a four year sentence for his 1986 guilty plea in the Case also was promised one Quarter of i percent of any revenues Rei earned from postal service contracts it said. The indictment charged thai through Voss Rei arranged for the postal service in 1985 to Nail procurement of a multilane optical character Reader system and set up a two step test period to give it another Chance to win the lucrative order. After the scheme came to Light in 1986, the Post Al service decided to give the contract to another company. Rei could have obtained procurement contracts Worth s4.6 billion Over the next five years said a postal service spokesman. Voss head of president Reagan s 1980 Ohio presidential Campaign pleaded guilty to charges he look kickbacks totalling at least $30,000. Nau another a indicted co conspirator who headed Reagan s 1980 Michigan Campaign received a three year sentence for conspiracy and for paying an illegal $2,500 gratuity id Voss. The indictment charged Rei Moore 49, and Reedy 46, with conspiracy to defraud the govern ment theft of postal service property mail and wire fraud and aiding and abetting. Moore and Reedy each face maximum possible prison terms of 33 Yean and lines of More than $1.5 million if convicted. The company could be fined More than s3 million if convicted. The indictment said William a. Spartin presi Dent of Gnau & associates influenced the selection of a new postmaster by obtaining management consulting contracts with the postal service. Casey who became postmaster general in Jan uary 1986 and served seven months was one of three candidates Spanin recommended. Spartin who kept from Casey hit part in Rel i Effort to get the contract also played a part in re moving James v. Citison a Deputy postmaster Gen eral the indictment charged. Cuts from Page 1 lion to schooling a ginning next year. The action re quires completion if the primary leadership development course for promotion to sergeant and the Basic no course for sender 1990. And the isl. Inc increasingly rigid physical and mental standards Are being forced Soufl through the army s qualitative management Prog air among other issues addressed at the conference the army is Slu lying the air Force method of paying its members according to maj. Gen. James w. Crysel. Commander of flip total army personnel Agency. The study should i be finished by november and could be implemented within a year if adopted. No specifics were available Usa eur May o in two new arrival Points for inbound soldiers and t Cir families said Brig. Gen. Ronald e. Brooks comr and Crof 1st personnel  incoming soldiers no n arrive at Frankfurt and frequently face Long Bush rides to their assignments. Brooks said. With about 65 percent of Europe bound soldiers coining with Lin Point assignments flying them closer to their  would Benefit the Soldier and the army. If adopted arrival. Numbers. Such a move the Load off the already said. To Home for soldiers vol Tase Cutic overseas tour was cancelled by Usa eur it could be revived if a study under Way shows that it affected soldiers1 decisions los Lay overseas Brooks said. The free trip which still applies for those Volunteer ing for a consecutive overseas Lour at another location is paid for from army funds not the local command. Although Theu steering for an in place Ore slated for Stuttgart an would help take some of id Frankfurt Airport he  
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