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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday january 31,1989 \ camels keep up military tradition outside the presidential Palace in new Delhi Indian Border Security troops mounted on camels take part in sunday s beating Retreat ceremony marking the end of the nation s Republic Day Celebration. The Retreat Isa centuries old tradition dating Back to the time when troops disengaged from Battle at Sunset. Students clash with riot police at anti american rally in Seoul Seoul South Korea a riot police charged into crowds of Radical students who hurled firebombs and screamed american troops get out As they tried to March through Seoul on sunday to demand the removal of . Troops. Several troopers were set on fire As the bombs exploded in balls of Orange flame. Armoured vans sprayed tear Gas at the protesters and police charged three times to Block them from marching through the City. Police officials had no immediate word on arrests or injuries. They said 10,000 police were deployed across Seoul to Block the protest. The violence began when about 6,000 Union activists and Radical students tried to March to the City Center after separate rallies. Workers and students marching to the beat of gongs and Drums called for the fall of president Roh Tae woo s administration and the arrest of former presi Dent Chun Doo Hwan on corruption charges. Police halted the marchers after several Hundred Yards. Shoving and pushing occurred but the marchers could not get through. Students then attacked police and fighting lasted More than one hour. The labor activists who were protesting the government s alleged exploitation of workers to produce cheap exports did not take part. Earlier sunday several youths hurled firebombs at a court building and yelled Radical slogans before fleeing police said. The bombs caused slight damage but no injuries were reported they said. Later at the student rally which attracted fewer than2,000 people dissident leaders demanded the removal of the 42,000 . Troops based in South Korea under Mutual defense treaty. They also demanded an immediate end to  korean military exercises. The drills prac Tice bringing in . Reinforcements in the event North Korea invades again. The 1950 invasion of the communist North started a three year War. The radicals who Lack Broad Public support con tend the United states supports military Rule in South Korea and keeps troops in the nation to Block reunification with the North. Roh a former general took office in february 1988after winning presidential elections. He succeeded Chun another former general who took Power wit military backing in 1980. Japanese troops in Wii resorted to cannibalism 1943 report says Sydney Australia a japanese soldiers resorted to cannibalism on the battlefields of new Guinea and other Pacific islands during world War ii according to a government report compiled 45 years ago and just released. The sunday Telegraph owned by australian born Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch carried two full pages on the report which follows a dispute in Australia about the level of japanese investments Inthis country. The newspaper said japanese troops cannibalized the bodies of australian soldiers in new Guinea and they also stripped the flesh of their own com rades. It said the report also found that japanese sol Diers beheaded australian servicemen raped and killed nuns and missionaries and used bound Cap Tives for Bayonet practice. The Telegraph said the report had been kept secret to protect families of the victims. It was prepared under Battlefield conditions in 1943 and opened for Public scrutiny by the austra Lian archives in Brisbane last week said the paper which publishes Only on sundays. Alf Garland head of the returned services league an organization representing about 300,000 War veterans said there was nothing new about re ports of cannibalism and murder of australians by japanese forces in new Guinea in 1942 and 1943. I be in fact looked at the newspaper report and i be gone Back through the War histories of world War ii Garland said. There s nothing much in the newspaper report that in t in fact in the  however Garland said it did not Hurt to remind australians of the japanese Imperial army s War time  unless we remember those sorts of things it Likely to happen again he said. He said the atrocities outlined in the report by former Queensland chief Justice sir William Webb explained Why Many world War ii veterans stil Harbor a grudge against the japanese. Webb attended the 1947 Tokyo War crimes trials and had advocated executing emperor Hirohito who died this year of cancer at 87. World today psychiatric patient starts fatal fire at Hospital St Jerome Quebec a a psychiatric patient playing with matches started a Hospital fire sunday that killed five people and forced hundreds to flee the building authorities said. The fire broke out in the pre Dawn hours in a Small room in the emergency Ward on the first floor of the hotel Dieu Hospital in St Jerome 25 Miles Northwest of Montreal authorities said. Hospital director Andre St Denis said about 350 patients and 80 staff members were inside the seven Story Hospital at the time. He said the evacuation went quickly and without panic. It was not known whether the patient who started the fire was among the dead. Firefighters contained the Blaze on the ground floor where the emergency Ward was destroyed. Truck Drivers launch strikes across Holland utrecht Netherlands a thousands of dutch truck Drivers went on strike Early monday in a bid to wrestle a 3 percent raise and better working hours from their employers a Union official said. From Midnight Onward an estimated 2,000 Driver stopped their trucks for the rest of the night at parking areas and Highway restaurants around the nation Swidbert Duym a spokesman for the transport Union of the federation of dutch Trade unions the country largest Trade Union. The work stoppage was the first in a series of relay strikes in which Drivers halt their trucks when their col leagues Start driving again Duym said. He refused to say How Long the Union planned to continue the strike. Report about women in Iran enrages Khomeini Manama Bahrain up iranian spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has called in a letter for the execution of a radio reporter if it is proved that he acted maliciously in insulting women and islam on state run Tehran radio Iran s islamic Republic new Agency reported monday. Khomeini also called for the severe punishment of High ranking radio and television officials if such cases Are repeated. The Call came a Day after the London based human rights group amnesty International accused Iran s islamic authorities of executing at least 1,000 political prisoners since the islamic revolution almost 10 years. Unfortunately on saturday morning the radio aired a program on islamic women which one is ashamed of restating it Khomeini said in a letter to two iranian newspapers published monday which the iranian Agency translated into English. Cydonie firing kills 2 on Island in Indian Ocean. St Denis de la reunion up Cyclone Manga its winds gusting at 155 Mph killed two peo ple on the French Island of reunion in the Indian Ocean injured 60 and left hundreds of others Home less authorities said monday. The tropical twister struck St. Benoit on the Eastern coast of the French administered overseas department Short time before noon sunday and gathered strength As it headed West and South. Officials said two people were killed three listed a missing and 60 injured in the devastation. It was the worst such Cyclone to hit reunion 570miles East of Madagascar since 1948. Key hungarian Breaks with View of revolution a Supap est Hungary a in a contradiction of the official View of history a politburo member has said the 1956 hungarian revolution was a popular uprising not a counterrevolution. Imre Pozsgay became the first hungarian Leader to publicly contradict the official View that the revolution which was suppressed by soviet tanks was a for eign instigated counterrevolution designed to subvert the communist system. Pozsgay who Heads a communist party panel investigating Hungary s postwar history made his announcement in a radio interview. His portrayal of the revolution As a popular uprising could signal the government s readiness to rehabilitate the men who led the upheaval. Premier Imre Nagy defense minister pal Maleter and other top men in the snort lived revolutionary government were executed Ini y 8 and burned in unmarked Graves  
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