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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 26, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 Kris Aquino daughter of the philippine president helps senior officials saturday unveil a Marker to the uprising. Scuffle Breaks out As filipinos Mark uprising against Marcos Manila Philippines a shots were fired inthe air saturday As supporters of former president Fer Dinand Marcos scuffled with police on the third anniversary of the people Power uprising that propelled Corazon Aquino to the presidency. Aquino who returned saturday from the funeral of japanese emperor Hirohito said International leaders including president Bush told me that they admirers filipinos for that non violent  she made her comments during festivities along Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue where hundreds of thou Sands of civilians massed three years ago to protect soldiers who had mutinied against Marcos. But some prominent filipinos who helped install Aquino in Power boycotted the festivities to show Dis appointment with her leadership. Police estimated sat urday s crowd at 30,000, smaller than the last two anniversaries. In his anniversary address the roman Catholic archbishop of Manila Cardinal Jaime l. Sin praised the spirit of the uprising but warned that corruption and political bickering had returned to the dismay of us  witnesses said trouble started saturday when about3,000 loyalists rallied near a television station de manding that Marcos be allowed to return from exile in Hawaii. Marcos in declining health has lived in Honolulu since the uprising ended his 20-year Rule on feb. 25,1986. Witnesses said three men bolted from a car grabbed at least one Marcos supporter and forced him into their vehicle. When protesters rushed the car the in truders fired in the air and sped away the witnesses said. Later police pfc. Albert gatos gave this account. He said that he and two fellow officers were transporting a robbery suspect to Headquarters when the loyalists at tacked their car. Gatos said the abducted loyalist had actually been arrested. The anniversary celebrations began with the ringing of Church Bells across this Island nation and included masses fireworks and Street dancing along Epifani Avenue. Smaller celebrations were planned in most provincial cities. While Aquino was in Tokyo for Friday s funeral the160,000-member armed forces were on full Alert be cause of coup rumours sweeping the capital. Meanwhile the military said a Soldier and two civil ians were arrested outside the capital in a Van packed with 1,650 pounds of explosives. A senior officer said the three Are believed to be linked to right Wing extremists. The military also said an officer in a province about 200 Miles Southeast of Manila was placed under restrictions for purported links to renegade it. Col. Gre Gorio Onasan Leader of a 1987 attempt to topple Aquino. Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile the former defense minister said he would Boycott the anniversary festivities. I will not join the celebrations because i think therein no cause for Celebration Enrile said. They really wanted change for the country but. Nothing is Clear and our future is still  Enrile in his former Post led a Mutiny against mar cos on feb. 22, 1986, that triggered the people Power uprising. But Enrile later turned against Aquino. She fired him As her defense minister on nov. 23, 1986, after a failed coup by his followers. Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos another key figure in the 1986 revolt said saturday that the government needs More time to achieve All its goals. Liberals and leftist activists said Aquino tolerate military abuses of civil rights in the government s 20 year War against communist guerrillas and has no pressed land Reform and other social programs. . Analysts to visit soviets in institutions Moscow a american psychiatrists were to arrive sunday to assess soviet claims that the decades old practice of committing sane dissidents to psychiatric hospitals has ended. About 20 psychiatrists accompanied by a state department official Are to visit soviets they suspect Are being held in psychiatric institutions for political Rea sons. A soviet official said Friday that the americans will see that president Mikhail s. Gorbachev s policy of perestroika or restructuring of soviet society has improved psychiatric treatment. They will be Given the Opportunity to familiarize themselves with the system of psychiatric help in the . And the positive changes taking place in this area under the influence of the perestroika  said Yuri Reshetor head of the foreign ministry International humanitarian cooperation and human rights directorate. Reshetor told reporters the americans will visit psychiatric institutions examine patients and meet with their soviet counterparts during a three week  trip was organized by the state department and the health and human services department on . Side and by the foreign ministry and health ministry on the soviet Side he said. Neither Reshetor nor american officials would give the itinerary or say How Many or which patients the analysts would visit. Allowing . Officials into once secret psychiatric institutions is another example of Gorbachev s policy of glasnost or openness. Abuse of psychiatry in the soviet Union has been a Issue Between the superpowers for decades. The prac Tice dates Back at least to 1959. Gorbachev As part of a wide ranging Effort to improve the soviet Union s human rights record and restore credibility to his country s health system has taken several Steps to end the abuse of psychiatry. In january 1988, the soviet press reported that some psychiatric hospitals were being transferred from control of the police to the health ministry and that a new la made it a crime to commit a sane person to a mental institution. Last month the head of the soviet psychiatrists society Georgy Morozov declared there Are no patients in mental hospitals in the . Who Are therefor political  Moscow activist Alexander Podrabinok and other shave rejected that claim however and said 20 to 30 people remain in psychiatric hospitals although the Yare completely healthy. The activists have said people still Are being committed for human rights campaigning and publishing underground literature. Inmany cases they said the people Are forcibly injected with mind altering drugs. The state department last month credited the Sovi ets with significant Progress in treatment of political prisoners. While Many Western psychiatrists acknowledge that the Kremlin has freed most people committed to asylums for political reasons they have demanded afrank admission of past abuses. One soviet publication came close in november. Mikhail i. Buy nov a psychiatrist and neurologist wrote in the education newspaper Uchitel Skaya gazeta that soviet psychiatry was systematically used in the1970s to suppress dissidents by declaring them mentally ill and committing them to asylums. But he said officials still Haven t fully acknowledged mistakes. Rites held for alleged victim of Mandela guards to i m a of to o a a f a t Tuma Hole South Africa a Tompie Weipei the 14-year-old activist who was killed allegedly by Winnie Mandela s bodyguards was eulogized saturday As a hero at a funeral marked by Calls for Black Militancy and Unity. Mandela wife of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela was not mentioned in any of the speeches at a roman Catholic Church into manhole a Black township about 60 Miles Southwest of Johannesburg. The 500 mourners at the Church Sang Freedom songs and chanted their loyalty to the Anc guerrilla movement and Nel son Mandela the country s Best known Black Leader. We should t Point fingers at other people because Tompie was interested in Unity said local anti apartheid Leader Mclean ski sane. Don t let his death Divide  other speakers praised Weipei for hav ing remarkable courage and political commitment at such a Young age. Weipei s death is at the Center of a controversy surrounding Mandela and her group of unofficial bodyguards known As the Mandela United football club. Weipei and three Young men staying at a methodist Church Sanctuary in the so Weto township outside Johannesburg allegedly were abducted to Mandela s Home in late december and assaulted there by members of Mandela United. Weipei s body was found in a sow Tofield police said. Two members of Man Dela United have been charged wit murder while the team bus Driver also has been arrested but not charged. Man Dela has denied that she had any person Al involvement in Weipei s death. The reasons for Weipei s alleged abduction and beating remain unclear. Mande la has said the youths were taken from the methodist Church because they were being sexually abused by a minister. However methodist Church 9fficials said after conducting an investigation that there was no truth to her allegations. No reason has been Given for the alleged beating of Weipei although there Are numerous rivalries among Black groups in the townships. Weipei is one of four people killed thelast two months who had direct or Indi rect links to either Mandela or her body guards. Weipei became a leading anti apartheid activist at age 10, when he and a Friend formed the under fourteen in Tuma Hole. More than 1,000 youths served under Weipei s command  
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