European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes sunday october 9,1988 Rywon Santors hoist protest signs just before police haul them off leaving 1,000 More in Pushkin Square. Moscow police drag away 10, but let 1,000 protesters stay Moscow a police dragged at least 10 demonstrators off a bustling Central Moscow Square Fri Day but then let a milling crowd of More than a thou Sand people argue about democracy for hours afterwards. What Are you afraid off onlookers shouted at police and paramilitary troops who were shoving their Way to the handful of people who started the protest in Pushkin Square. What kind of democracy is this some onlookers demanded. Police hauled off a woman carrying a Small child after she briefly lifted a sign and began arguing loudly Wilh an elderly Man we do have Freedom in this country he bystander scolded her. Aren t you ashamed she replied gesturing at the police As they came to drag her away. For the most part however the police moved More gently exhorting the crowd through megaphones move when the bystanders still had t obeyed 45 minutes Lacr the demands softened to please move on. At least 10 busloads of police and paramilitary troops were on hand but fewer than 100 men actually waded into inc crowd. The people s deputies have ordered there will be no meeting one officer announced repeatedly through his microphone Whit people sneered an onlooker elegantly dressed in a Gray suit. Arguments sprang up among the crowd with some complaining about and others defending the Bovitt one demonstrator raised a Lone protest sign 30 minutes after the initial detentions the extent of the dissidents support became obvious. About so of More than 1,000 onlookers applauded. The test just craned their necks to see what it said. The demonstration started when a Mal number of people hoisted Small signs demanding Freedom and democracy. Members of he democratic Union group had called the demonstration on Friday s National hol iday. Constitution Day to demand democratic Reform of the soviet , the fledgling political group wants to change article 6, which Grants the communist party monopoly on Power said member Stanislav Dorgu the tense moments following the detentions when no one knew whether police would Stop with just the ringleaders the journalists and police gathered around a Kina Kurilov who held a 1960s peace sign and a hand drawn badge decorated with a drawing of barbed wire that identified him As a member of the democratic m not holding a demonstration i m giving an interview he told police. They left him , whenever the arguments evolved into speeches a police platoon would move in. In at least one Case when an armenian was complaining about the ethnic rioting in sum Ait Azerbaijan which killed 32 people in february the densely packed crowd kept Tarn Safe from , the police supervisor on the scene col Georgy Posto Yut ordered his men to Back off. Post Yuk denied that anyone had been arrested. They re All Here he said smiling. One of his plainclothes colleagues added that there was nothing illegal about people standing and arguing in a Public Square. Pregnant women to get aids tests Amsterdam Netherlands a cily health authorities will offer free aids tests to All pregnant women to try to prevent the spread of the disease to new oms a spokesman for the program said Friday. Women found to carry the aids virus will be advised to undergo abortions said or. Roel Coutho of the municipal health authority. Pregnant women who carry the virus for acquired immune deficiency syndrome run a 30 percent to 50 percent Chance of infecting their babies with the fatal disease Coutinho told the associated press. Not All aids virus carriers develop the disease. The program began in three major hospitals in Jan uary and will gradually be expanded to the City s other hospitals Coutinho said. He said All Amsterdam hospitals should be participating by the end of next year. Health authorities Are also planning to involve the City s midwives in order to reach women planning to deliver their babies at Home Coutinho added. In the first eight months of the aids lest program approximately 1,500 women were offered the test and three women were found to be virus carriers he said. About 8 percent of the women refused to take the test he added. About half of the Netherlands 605 aids a aliens have died according to figures released oct. 1, acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease in which a virus attacks the body s immune system leaving victims susceptible to a wide variety of infections and cancers. Aids is most often transmitted through sexual con tact other Means of transmission include transfusions of tainted blood or blood products and the sharing of contaminated hypodermic Needles or syringes by drug abusers. Aids can also be passed from Oioi Ner to child at or before birth. World today major modern Art show planned in Helsinki in 89 Helsinki Finland of works by such Modem masters As Francis Bacon Jim Dine Chislo David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein will be displayed Here Niit summer in one of in decade s major International Modem Art exhibitions museum officials said Friday. The exhibition at lie Helsinki Art exhibition halt titled Modem masters 89," Wilt be staged from May to july next year but inc enact dates have not yet been set. It will include Many previously unseen work from 20 leading european and . Contemporary artists. Some items will be made specially for the exhibition including works by Pierre Albecht Macy Eduardo Chilli a Sam Francis and Anselm Kiefer. The Modem masters 89 exhibition coincides with the Solh anniversary Ofa similar major Art exhibition in Helsinki which Drew widespread International interest at inc time. The 1939 exhibition presented works by pre War masters including Picasso Matisse lager Masson unique Vuillard and Utrillo. Fugitive Ira member found hiding in attic Dundalk Ireland up a leading member of the outlawed Irish Republican Amy wanted in Britain on explosives charges was arrested Friday in the Irish Republic. Patrick Mcveigh 37, from West Belfast was discovered hiding in the Allic Ofa House in Dun Dalk about nine Miles South of the Irish bord Erwith Northern Ireland. Police said he was arrested under the offences against he stale act which is generally used by authorities to hold suspected terrorists. Mcveigh had been in hiding since june when an Irish court refused to extradite him to Britain after a judge ruled he was not satisfied with Evi Dence regarding the suspect s identification. Warrants from police in London claimed the Mcveigh had conspired with others to cause a explosion in the United kingdom Between a gust 1981 and october 1983, they also claimed he had in his Possession explosive Sustan Cei Likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to an if scum Frankfurt West Germany a senior at Frankfurt High school was awarded the rank of Eagle scout the highest Honor in boy scouting in a ceremony saturday. Kevin Daniel Disano 16, has been in scouting for eight years and a member of troop 64 of Rhem Mam a for three years. For his Eagle scout award he organized a project to clean up the . Or protected Forest area in Neu Lse nacre. In coordination with the Neu Iser Berg Volunteer youth fire department Disano and fellow scouts from troop 64 and troop 61 spent More than i2s hours cleaning out weeds and tree stumps from the area. Disano who has been elected into the order of the Arrow the highest recognition for boy scout campers serves As the Junior assistant scoutmaster for troop also is the vice president of his class at Frankfurt High. Disano is the son of Daniel and Fay Duano. Ludwi Gaburo. West Germany a former Stuttgart High school student advanced to the rank of Eagle Seoul the highest rank in boy scouting in a recent ceremony. Troy Hedgpeth 16, has been in scouting for six years. To earn he Eagle scout badge he worked with other souls from troop 70 to collect and distribute books and magazines to the waiting areas and patient wards of the Fly general Hospital at bad can Stan. Had Greih also worked on a drug drive collecting outdated Medicine to give to local health officials for proper and Safe disposal. Hedgpeth is completing his senior year of High school m Puyallup Wash. He is the son of i. Col Dale and Marlene Hedgpeth. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout Mustful fill require minis in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes at last 21 Merit badges and an average 100 hours on a Community project
