European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday february 27,1989 labor party passes tories in popularity . Poll says London a the governing conservative party has been surpassed in popularity by the opposition labor party for the first time since october 1986, according to an opinion poll published in the observer newspaper on sunday. The Harris poll indicated that prime minister mar Garet Thatcher s conservatives have fallen six Points in the last month to 41 percent while labor has improved five Points to 42 percent its highest level since before the 1983 general election. A Gallup poll published in the sunday Telegraph has the tories under Leader Neil Kinlock even with the conservatives each with 35 percent. Both the Independent observer and the conserva Tive sunday Telegraph suggested that labor s gains were at the conservatives expense. Both polls found Little change in the percentage of support Given other parties. The newspapers said possible causes for dissatisfaction with the government were its proposed Radical overhaul of the mostly free National health service High inflation interest and mortgage rates and plans to make the country s water Industry private. These polls Are the crucial break for Labur said Peter Mandelson labor s director of campaigns and communications. We will Only get further ahead and stay ahead by presenting a Clear attractive and United the Harris research Center poll of 1,027 britons was conducted wednesday and thursday before the results were known of two special elections for vacant parliamentary seats. No margin of error was Given. The conservative party narrowly retained one of its safest parliamentary seats the wealthy Richmond District in Northern England although its majority Tum bled thursday from nearly 20,000 votes to 2,600. Labor kept its seat at Pontypridd in South Wales. The sunday Telegraph did not provide Gallup s Sample size or margin of error and did not say when the Survey was conducted. Mandela discussions a Winnie Mandela wife of the jailed african National Congress Leader is met at the Cape town South Africa Airport saturday by a Mandela attorney Essa Moosa. Mandela under criticism Over alleged crimes committed by her bodyguards conferred with her husband Nelson sunday. Moosa said the imprisoned dissident told her not to make any Public statements about the controversy. Article recounts police assault that killed 9 polish miners in 81 Warsaw Poland a an official newspaper on saturday published a rare account of police fatally shooting nine miners the bloodiest confrontation Dur ing a 1981 crackdown that suppressed the Solidarity Trade movement. The killings near the Southern City of Katowice have become a Symbol of the brutality of the Effort to suppress the soviet bloc s Only Independent Trade movement. In order that wounds could cure completely it is necessary to expose them so that we could know All the truth about How they originated and How they were cured said the article in the weekly newspaper Odro Zenie rebirth. The dec 16, 1981, Battle began when miners went on strike to protest authorities attempt to quash Soli Darity in a martial Law decree. The article quotes witnesses who described How police entered the Wujek mine in a tank and armoured personnel carriers and attacked the miners with tear Gas water cannons and grenades. We saw the tank enter the mine s ground breaking the barricade we had erected from pipes and transport wagons and under its cover a wave of Blue uniforms poured into the Yard the article quoted Kazimier Rembilas a former mine employee As saying. Then shots were fired. In the noise and chaos one could not see who was shooting and from which direction. There was a moment of Shock. I heard cries they Are killed even then i could not believe they were shooting at Roza Czekalska whose husband was one of the min ers killed also was interviewed. He never got involved in politics. But he was Al ways going together with others in Solidarity. I still can t understand How they could shoot at polish min ers she was quoted As saying. The weekly said two social committees in Katowice Are seeking permission to erect a Monument to the victims of the Wujek mine. Until now the Wujek mine incident has been virtually taboo for the official Media and an Embarrass ment for authorities who have justified the military crackdown by saying it was necessary to avoid som greater unspecified tragedy. Odro Zenie is one of Many official newspapers no exploring sensitive issues in polish history. World today Norway s King pardons prisoner with aids virus Oslo Norway a a prisoner infected with the aids virus has been granted a Royal Pardon because he was ostracized after other inmates Learned of his illness. The Pardon by King olay v to Johannes Schwartz Man reversed the Justice ministry s late 1988 rejection of the inmate s plea for an Early release the National news Agency Nib reported. I d Given up All Hope when i received word of the Pardon said Schwartzman 34. I d like to forget these last few months in prison. It was a Nightmare that i would t wish on Hungary decides to drop annual May Day Parade Budapest Hungary a Hungary will drop its May Day Parade this year after 44 years of observing the International labor Holiday the state Mai news Agency reported late saturday. The Agency did not spell out Why the workers demonstration an annual fixture in the soviet bloc was abolished. In place of the Parade authorities plan a rally where communist party Leader Karoly Grosz will speak Mai said apparently indicating that May Day would still remain a Holiday in Hungary. Greek airports closing because of 44-hour strike Athens Greece a greek airports will close for two nights and daytime flights will Likely be delayed because of a 44-hour strike called sunday by civil aviation employees. The federation of civil aviation employees unions said it ordered the strike by its 2,000 members to press the socialist government to Honor a collective wage and fringe benefits agreement signed last year. We exhausted All Grace time. All we ask is for the government to Honor its own signature said Vas Silis Alevizopoulo the federation s vice president. Although traffic controllers have not joined the walkout the strike is expected to cause delays and cancellations until it ends at 7 30 . Tuesday. Airport authorities said All flights would be cancelled Between 7 30 . Sunday and 7 30 . Monday be cause of a Lack of staff. Trade Center in Malaysia emptied by bomb scare Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a about 4,000 people rushed outside sunday after an Anonymous caller said a bomb had been planted in the putra world Trade Center where 3,000 were attending a convention by the cosmetic company Avon. People returned three hours later after police declared the building Safe. Leaders from Britain and about 45 former British colonies Are scheduled to attend a Commonwealth Summit at the convention Center in october. Quake jars new zealand but no damage is reported Wellington new zealand a a Small earthquake jolted new zealand s Wellington Region sunday night but no damage was reported the new zealand seismological Observatory said. An Observatory spokesman said the quake measured 4.5 on the Richter scale of ground motion and was entered 50 Miles East of Wellington near Cape Camp Bell. Part of Parthenon frieze found on acropolis Hillside Athens Greece a archaeologists say the Torso of a Centaur found on the Steep Hillside of the ancient acropolis is part of the curved frieze Block that adorned the Parthenon Temple. The 2-foot-High headless Torso was discovered by a Crew cleaning the Hill archaeologist Constantinos Tsa Kos said. Archaeologists classified the sculpture of the Mythi Cal half Man half horse As part of the frieze depicting a Battle of centaurs on the South Side of the 5th . Temple. Major parts of the frieze Are displayed at the British museum in London and were acquired in 1816 from British statesman Thomas Bruce Earl of Elgin. The Parthenon being restored in a 10-year project that began in 1985, was decorated with Superb Sculp Tures by phidias
