European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday january 14,1989 Jackson meets Mitterrand the Rev. Jesse Jackson a former democratic presidential candidate holds an informal Chat with French president Francois Mitterrand at the Elysee Palace in Paris thursday. Jackson was in France for a one Day private visit and had a meeting with the French Leader. Uzis found in Home of Union Boss held in mexican officer s murder Mexico City a mexican and . Officials Are investigating the origin of a Cache of Uzi Summa Chine guns and ammunition uncovered in the Home fan Oil Union Boss charged with the murder of a Federal agent. The Oil Boss Joaquin Hernandez Galicia said the former mayor of Reynosa across the Border from Mcallen Texas arranged the arms shipment. The sex mayor is believed to have fled with his family to the United states according to a highly placed source inthe attorney general s office. Authorities said 200 sub machine guns smuggled inform the United states were found in the Home of Hernandez Galicia when he was arrested tuesday aftera shoot out with police in Ciudad Madero about 220 Miles Northeast of Mexico City. Soldiers blew Down the door of his Home with Bazooka and a Federal agent was shot to death in the ensuing gun Battle. Hernandez Galicia along with two bodyguards and48 other jailed associates was charged thursday with homicide weapons Possession importing prohibited weapons and resisting arrest. He faces 40 years in Pris on if convicted. His associates Are to be charged with fraud weapon Possession and tax evasion judicial authorities say. Hernandez Galicia 66, told investigators that for Mer Reynosa mayor Jose Cruz Contreras secretly delivered the uzis and about 30,000 cartridges on dec.10, according to a statement from the attorney Gener Al s office. The source in the attorney general s office said mex ican authorities and Fri and drug enforcement administration officials met thursday to try to determine where the arms originated. In a Mexico City prison thursday Hernandez Gal Icia said they told me my family was kidnapped and if i did t give a statement that pleased the Federal attorney general i would t see them  he told reporters his detention was a dirty prefabricated  several thousand Oil workers and supporters demonstrated for his release thursday night m Mexico City s main Plaza. According to the statement Hernandez Galicia t9ldinvestigators Cruz Contreras was accompanied during the arms transaction by Juan Abrego the police chief of Hidalgo Texas. The statement did not elaborate. The Texas town s mayor Edward Vela said thurs Day that the allegations were under investigation. Joaquin Hernandez Galicia. Calls his detention an infamy attempts to reach Abrego by Telephone were unsuccessful. But Abrego was quoted thursday by the offi Cial Excelsior news Agency As saying he had nothing to do with any arms shipment to Hernandez Galicia. On various occasions i went to his House in Ciuda Madero accompanied by Contreras but i never brought him arms Abrego was quoted As  said he talked with his police chief and Abrego would stay on As head of the 13-member police  and when anything is proven we will take the appropriate action Vela said adding that he was Friend of the former Reynosa mayor. I find it hard to believe Cruz Contreras is involved. He s a business Man and does a lot of work with the poor and Distad  Hidalgo with about 3,000 residents is across Therio Grande from Reynosa. Reynosa with one of mex Ico s nine refineries is a stronghold of Oil workers Allied with Hernandez Galicia. World today rapid population growth called threat to China Beijing a the world s most populous coun try is growing faster than the food Supply threatening China s economic development unless authorities enforce strict birth control policies official reports said Friday. If we Don t strictly control the baby Boom More difficulties will be passed on to succeeding generations Peng Meiyun head of the state family planning commission told about 6,000 people gathered thurs Day night at the great Hall of the people. She was quoted by the China daily newspaper. Canadians favor allowing bilingual signs in Quebec Toronto a a majority of canadians be Lieve bilingual commercial signs should be allowed i Quebec according to a Gallup poll published thurs Day. The poll published in the Toronto Star found that 85 percent of All canadians and 61 percent of Quebe residents favor bilingual signs. Tensions have been rising in predominantly French speaking Quebec since the provincial government re fused to allow bilingual signs except indoors overriding a supreme court of Canada decision that found Quebec s language Law unconstitutional. Gallup said its poll conducted Jan. 4-7, has a mar Gin of error of 3 percent. The number of interviews conducted throughout Canada was not listed. Supporters of language restrictions in Quebec argue that it is an Island of French culture in English speak ing North America and entitled to preserve its special qualities. Soviet Union suffering through potato shortage Moscow a the soviet Union is suffering through a potato shortage and More than three out of every four spuds never make it to the dinner table because of waste rot and loss in transit a newspaper said thursday. What s happening in our country with the potato the communist party youth daily Komsomol Skaya pravda asked. Why is it on the list of goods in Short Supply the potato known to russians As their second bread is an important Staple in Many soviets diet. But it has been absent or in Short Supply in Many of the country s food stores for weeks. Vladimir Tikhonov a member of the soviet nation Al agricultural Academy told Komsomol Skaya pravda that soviet state and collective farms produce More than 31 million tons of potatoes annually twice the american crop. Soviets Honor canadians on convoys during Wii Lennoxville Quebec a about 30 canadians who manned Arctic Circle naval convoys that supplied soviet allies during world War ii have received awards from the soviet Union. Igor Lakin Frolov on thursday pinned his coun try s commemorative medal on the veterans who served on some of the 900 ships that sailed from Scot land for the soviet port of Murmansk on the Barents sea. The Aid of these soldiers and merchants was very important said Lakin Frolov of the soviet embassy in Ottawa. It was not decisive but it was major an the soviet people Are  the Murmansk run continued until the Spring of1944, and one of every five ships was sunk by the germans he said. Soviet census takers begin counting Heads Moscow a More than 900,000 census Tak ers fanned out from Siberia to the Baltic sea on thurs Day to Start the first nationwide head count of the soviet Union s population in a decade. Data gathered during the eight Day census including on soviets education level place of residence ethnic group and language will be used to plan the main directions of the country s economic and social development the communist party daily pravda said. The census is the first in the soviet Union since1979, when the population was found to number 262.4 million. In january 1988, government statisticians estimated the soviet population at 284.5 million