European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Pagan f the stars and stripes monday october 10,1988 Uta h3bhpaet Capoa hoist protest signs Juaiil before police haul them off leaving More in Pushkin Square Moscow police drag away 1 0, but let 1 ,000 protesters stay Macmu api _ r Ntim Arnao a at pm Alfh in. The hiwirfmk1 Iii Nurt pc Ami obvious. About 50 Moscow a police dragged at least 40 demonstrators off a bustling Central Moscow Squire Fri Day but then let a milling crowd of More than Tilhou Sand people argue about democracy for hours afterwards. \ what Are you afraid of onlookers shouted at police and paramilitary troops who were shoving their Way to the handful of people who started the protest a Pushkin Square. What kind of democracy is this x some onlookers demanded. Police hauled ply a woman carrying a Small child after she briefly lifted a sign and began arguing loudly with an elderly Man. We do have Freedom in this country inc 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 inc bystanders still had t obeyed 45 minutes later the demands softened to please move 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. What people sneered an onlooker elegantly dressed in a Gray Suil. Arguments sprang up among the crowd with some complaining about and others defending the soviet system. When one demonstrator raised a Lone protest sign 30 minutes after the initial detentions the extent of inc dissidents support became. T of More than 1,000 onlookers applauded. The Rusl just craned their necks to Sec what it said. The demonstration started when a Small 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 Constitution. Specifically the fledgling political group wants to change article 6, which Grants the communist party a \ monopoly on Power said member Stanislav Dorgu \ in the tense moments following the detentions when no one knew whether police would Stop with just Llort ringleaders the journalists and police gathered around Nikita Kirilov who held a 1960s peace sign and hand drawn badge decorated with a drawing of Barbie wire that identified him As a member of the democratic Union. I m not holding a demonstration i m giving an interview he told police they left him alone. Still whenever the arguments evolved into speeches a police platoon would move in. In at East 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 him Safe from detention. Finally the police supervisor on the scene. Col. Gyorgy Postoy in 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 ads tests Amsterdam Netherlands a City health authorities will offer free aids tests to All pregnant women to try to prevent the spread of the disease to no Boras a spokesman for the program said Friday. Women found to carry the aids virus will be advised to undergo abortions said or. Roel Soulinho of the municipal a Cash 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 Soulinho told the associated press. Not at aids virus carriers develop the disease. The program a Gan in three major hospitals in Jan uary and will gradually be expanded 10 inc 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 borne Coutinho added. In the first eight Morichs of the aids test 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 Lake the test he added. About half of the Netherlands 60s aids patients have died according to figures released ocl i. 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 Mother to child at or before birth. World today major modern Art show planned in Helsinki in 89 Helsinki Finlay Modem masters As Chislo David hoc will be displayed Hei decade s major Inlet tons museum office _ works by such Rancis Bacon Jim Dine key and Roy Lichtenstein next summer in one of the National modern Art exhibits said Friday. The exhibition at Lac Helsinki Art exhibition Hall titled Moder from May to july have not vet been it will include i from 20 leading eur artists. Some items exhibition including Eduardo Chilli Dasi the Modem Malers 89 exhibition coincides with the Solh Unni masters 89," will be staged bit year but the exact Dales to previously unseen works ican and . Contemporary ill be made specially for the works by Pierre Alc Chinsky a Franci and Anselm Kyc for. Ersary of a similar major Art Ion presented works by pre ing Picasso Matisse lager Illard and Utrillo exhibition in hols Iki which Drew widespread International i Merit at the time. The 1939 Chib War masters incl Masson Braque \ fugitive Irja member found hiding in attic Dundalk if land up a leading member of the outlawed Irish Republican army wanted in Britain in explosives charges was arrested Friday in i Irish Republic. Patrick my Veigl 37, from West Belfast was discovered hiding i the Altic of a House in Dun Dalk Abrat nine Niles South of the Irish Border with nor Jem Ireland. Police said he wis arrested under the offences against the stale at which is generally used by authorities to hold suspected terrorists. Mcveigh had in in hiding since june when an Irish court re fused to extradite him to Britain after a judge ruled he was not satisfied with Evi Dence regarding Tadj suspect s identification. Warrants from police in London claimed the Mcveigh had Consi Rcd with others to cause an explosion in he Uki cd kingdom Between a gust 1981 and of Cloice 1983. They also claimed he had in his Possession explosive substances Likely to endanger life or cause serious injury of greek businessman 40, acquitted of espionage Athens Greece a a felony court acquitted a greek businessman of espionage Fri Day although he admitted giving details of the .-Buill stinger anti aircraft missile to the so Viet Union. The three member court said Michalis Mega Locono Mou was innocent on the grounds that the materials handed Over were not secret megalo Conomou took unclassified materials for a Well known weapons system. The soviet Union was t going to build anything from material it already had obtained from other peo ple prosecutor Constantinos andro Likakis said in his summation. The 40-year-old businessman told the court he gave 400 microfiche cards to a soviet Intelli gence agent in april 1984, but did t know they contained information on the shoulder fired stinger s trigger system. I thought they contained information on a Telephone system he said. Tear Gas company owner had top earnings in s. Korea Seoul. South Korea a a woman who Heads a tear Gas company earned More Money than anybody else in South Korea last year the result of a surge in violent protests tax officials said saturday. The office of National tax administration said in a report to the National Assembly that Han Youngja president of Sam Young Chemi Cal co., earned $7.3 million last year and paid s3.4 million in income taxes her company holds a monopoly on the production of tear Gas a frequently used form of riot control in South Korea. The officials attributed Han s High income to fre quent demonstrations by Radical students striking factory workers and other Ami government groups
