European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 world today the stars and stripes Friday december 30,1988 ecology group erects tents just inside East Germany hop West Germany a a dozen environmentalists protesting air pollution pitched two tents on the East German Side of the Border wednesday As guards watched without intervening. West German police said. Police said activists from the Robin Wood ecological organization staged the protest just inside the Frontier but outside the Border Fence separating the two countries. The incident was near the three Comers area where West Ger Many East Germany and Czechoslovakia meet. The environmentalists contend communist cast Germany and Czechoslovakia Are too lax in enforcing air pollution Laws resulting in harmful emissions that affect Wesl German air Quality As Well As part of the protest the group also released balloons with slogans such As pollution knows no Borders chemical weapons Plant in Libya worries europeans Bonn West Germany a p West German foreign minister Hans Dii Mrich guns Char called his italian counterpart Giuzio Androtti to con sult about . Claims that Libya has built chemical weapons Plant a spokesman said thursday. Both ministers expressed great concern Over reports that Libya has a chemical weapons Plant foreign ministry spokesman Manns Schumacher told inc associated press. He said guns Char telephoned Andreotti on wednesday in Algeria where the italian min ister was on an official visit. Italian newspapers said guns Char was apparently trying to build up european Solidarity against a possible . Military attack on Libya s Plant. But Schumacher said the subject of an attack did not come up in the conversation. President Reagan said last week thai Washington was consulting with its allies Aboul a pos sible military strike against the. Plant. Libya has repeatedly denied that the Plant produces chemical weapons and says it is a Fae Lory for making pharmaceutical. Iran plans to Cut draft abolish Reserve service Nicosia Cyprus a Iran will abolish. Reserve military service by the end of the persian year next March and will Cut he draft from 28months to 24 starting next month Iran s official Media reported thursday. ,.this decision was taken in View of the Calm situation at the fronts the islamic Republic news Agency quoted a senior official at military Headquarters As saying. The move is the first action Iran has taken locale Down its massive mobilization program since a United nations sponsored cease fire in the 8-year-old War with Iraq look effect aug. 20. Iraq has begun a partial demobilization of its estimated one million Strong army by releasing undisclosed numbers of reservists from front Tine duty and sending Large groups of the auxiliary people s army militia Home or to Static guard duties in the rear. Soldiers who have served As Long As eight years Are also being allowed to go Home but conscription Mill continues on a reduced scale. Communist party target of Buenos Aires bombing Buenos Aires Argentina a a bomb blew off the doors of the communist party s Central office thursday morning injuring four people working on the party s weekly newspaper Quesasa police said. The explosion also damaged several floors and broke windows throughout the Block police reported ,\-.-. J-.-. " the party s Secretary general Patricio eche Garry called the bomb me work of a. Right win paramilitary or Para police band As May be. Inferred from the technology used in the construction of uie chinese crowds demonstrate against africans after clash Nanjing China up1 squads of police patrolled Nanjing thursday As racial tension again ran High despite a Lull in four Days Fanti african protests with african College students saying they were spit on by chinese As some returned to classes. Dozens of uniformed officers were deployed by eve Ning at a Park and in Side streets outside the Campus of Nanjing University where at. people reported injured inc night before by police using elec tric prods to disperse thousands of angry protesters. Crowds of chinese have demonstrated All week de manding african College students be punished for their role in a violent clash with chinese last weekend at a City Campus. The protests continued despite a ban on unauthorized demonstrations since tuesday. The mobs have been baying for blood said an american teacher based in Nanjing who asked not to be identified. The sheer numbers of them Are simply in Beijing inc chinese foreign ministry acknowledged there had been misunderstandings and said authorities were investigating the incidents but denied any racial hostility was involved despite reports by witnesses that chinese protesters shouted kill Black devils the incident that has occurred in Nanjing in an isolated one having nothing to do with racial discrimination said foreign ministry spokesman i Zhao Ling. Congo s ambassador to China representing the Afri can diplomatic corps in Beijing met with officials late thursday at inc foreign ministry on the situation a congolese Diplomat said the City 600 Miles South of Beijing was Calm but by evening several Hundred chinese students had again gathered quietly at inc Park outside Nanjing univer sity several busloads of police were parked on aide streets and officers were stationed in restaurants. About Iso african students were being held in protective custody by local officials for a third Day at a guest House outside Nanjing despite their requests to leave the City for Beijing. Brown succeeds Pickering As . Ambassador to Israel Jerusalem a William Andreas Brown officially look Over thursday As the new . Ambassador to Israel after handing his credentials to israeli presi Dent Chaim Herzog at a Brief red Carpel ceremony. Brown 58, is a former ambassador to Thailand with past experience in Israel As Deputy chief of mis Sion at the embassy in Tel Aviv in 1979-1982. Brown s predecessor Thomas Pickering left Israel this week after being appointed ambassador to the United nations. Pickering served 3 to years in Israel. Brown lakes Over at a time when israeli-. Lies Are strained by disagreement Over Washington s new Dia Logue with the Palestine liberation organization. Secretary of stale George Shutlz announced earlier this month that the United states would talk to the Plo after Yasser Arafat publicly said he new Elizes Israel and renounces All forms of terrorism. Israel adamantly refuses any contacts organization which it still considers a terrorist group. Brown spoke in Israel s native language hebrew As he told Herzog or. President i am Happy to hand you my credentials.". He also greeted israelis by opening israeli army radio s daily news diary saying this is William Brown speaking. Good morning after the ceremony in which All piece brass police band played the Star spangled Banner Herzog and foreign minister mosh arcs also offered a Toast of a Chaim or to life to Brown and they sipped while wine. Arcs complimented him Brown on his hebrew William a. Brown and Brown replied that he had been studying the Lan Guage for the last two months. Besides his posts in Thailand and Israel Brown who has been with inc state department since 1956, has also served in India Indonesia and the soviet. Union. Amazon rancher s sons arrested in murder of rain Forest activist Rio de Janeiro Brazil a two sons of cattle rancher who favored Clearing the Amazon for grazing have been arrested in connection Wilh the kill ing of an eco Loisl who fought to preserve the Jungle police say. --".-. -. Brothers Aleci and Loci Alves a Silva were Cap tured after a gun Ballac with police tuesday night on their family ranch in Lapuri the Jungle town where Francisco Man pcs was gunned Down last week. Deputy minister of Justice Luis Fernando Eichenberg said. Loci Alves was wounded in the shoot out. The iwo Are sons of Darly Aives a Silva a rancher who was angry Over Man pcs Campaign to save the rain Forest. Mendes had said the rancher threatened to kill him. The internationally known ecologist who organized Jungle workers to try to Stop destruction of the Rai Lorest by Plantation owners was fatally shot thursday outside his Home in Lapuri. The Issue of How to develop the Amazon Jungle an expanse of rain Forest about two thirds the size of the Continental United states has often erupted in violent conflicts Between landowners landless peasants politicians clergymen and ecologists who defend the peat ants. About 4 percent of inc brazilian population owns half of the arable land. Cattle ranchers eager to Clear Fores lands for Graz ing often order the killings of squatter and ecologist who oppose them. Some experts say uncontrolled burning of the amazons aggravating the greenhouse effect atmospheric warring caused by the build up of Carbon dioxide. Federal police were still looking for five other Mem Bers of the rancher s family in connection wit Mendes death Eichon Borg said a third son 21-year-old Darcy Preira turned him self in 10 police monday and claimed he hired some one to lilt Mendes. Officials said they did not believe the confession. Our impression is that Percy s confession is a smoke screen said Eichenberg. We won t Stop our search until we gel to his
