European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday March 20. 1989 backers of Maverick Yeltsin stage Moscow protest March Moscow a. Thousand of sup porters of Maverick communist Boris n. Yeltsin marched through downtown Moscow on Sunda and owed to hold a general strike in he does not win election next week to the new National parliament. Yeltsin who was ousted As Moscow party Boss after criticising the Pace of president Mikhail s Gorbachev s re forms claims the Moscow party machines working to defeat him for Many Sovi ets. Yeltsin epitomises the quest forbore democracy and an end to special privilege for the government and part elite chanting Yeltsin Yeltsin at least 3,000 muscovites set off from Gorky Park after they were refused permission no hold a pro Yeltsin election rally there. They marched to Moscow City Hall after scores of uniformed police sealed off the Street leading to the Kremlin. At City Hall the protesters demanded a meeting with lev n. Zaikov the offi Cial who replaced Yeltsin As the soviet capital s communist party Boss in no vember 1987, and who is in charge of the Moscow party machine they claim is try ing to Engineer Yeltsin s defeat. A City official armed with a bullhorn clambered on lop of a bus to demand that the crowd disperse but it remained in front of the municipal building for More than two hours. One pro Yeltsin speaker perched be Side the City Hall door called on the crowd to approve a general strike if Yeltsin does not win the right to represent Moscow in the March 26 elections for the Congress of people s deputies Andich protesters raised their hands in agreement. It was nol immediately Clear when the strike would Lake place. Earlier this month the communist party released a transcript of Yeltsin s remarks at a private Central committee meeting in 1987 that Cost him his Job As Moscow party Boss. The transcript said Yeltsin told the gathering that Gorbachev has become the object of intolerable  was named Moscow party chief in december 1985 and a non voting politburo member two months later. In lost both posts As a result of his remarks at the oct. 21, 1987, meeting. The party said it is publishing a Tran script of inc Mcling in ils new monthly journal news of the communist party Central committee because of requests by workers and party members. Bui a . Specialist said inc release of 40 pages of scathing attacks on yells indy Gorbachev and other leaders appeared designed to Hurt the 58-year-old n Boris n. Yeltsin Yeltsin in his bid for political office. The transcript showed Yeltsin criticized not Only Gorbachev who brought him into the Kremlin leadership by Yegor k. I Gachev. A conservative Force on the ruling politburo. News Nodales tibetans protest new Delhi India a More than 200 tibetan monks and nuns marched silently to a War memorial sat urday to protest chinese Rule in their Homeland a tibetan spokesman said. The Maroon Robed clerics marched nearly three Miles from Yamuna River to India Gate he country s Monument to soldiers killed in world War i said Scopa Gyatso. Religious leaders addressed demonstrators to condemn the imposition i Days ago of martial Law in the tibetan capital Lhasa he said. Four monks later delivered a memorandum at the chinese embassy demanding China withdraw from Tibet he said. Clashes Between pro Independence demonstrators and chinese police in Lhasa Early this month left 16 people dead and More than 100 wounded by official count. Western travellers said the death toll May have been 20 or 30. Soviet warning Moscow a a leading soviet sociologist has said 1989 is a critical year for president Mikhail s. Of Gorbachev s reforms because empty store shelves have damaged people s Faith that things will change. "1989 will be a crucial year for Peres troika said Tanana 7,. In i necessary to begin implementing promises. Expectations arc  Zaslavskaya is a leading theorist of re form efforts and Heads the soviet Public opinion Center. Her comments at a news conference came a Day after the communist party Central committee approved a farm Reform to counter urgent food shortages. Hijacking sentence Moscow a a team of Hijack ers who kidnapped a Busload of school children and traded them for drugs Money and a flight to Israel have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms of up to 15 years the official news Agency lass said. The supreme court of the russian re Public found the four hijackers guilty of banditry and illegal crossing the soviet order. In sentenced the ringleader Pavel Yaksh Yants to 15 cars imprisonment and Hryce others to 1-4 years each. The four commandeered a bus holding 30 fourth graders and their teacher As it Lefta Field trip to a printing Plant in the Cauca sus City of Ord nonskid a on dec. I. They traded the children and teacher for drugs a Large amount of foreign currency and finally for an Ilyushin 76 transport plane and Safe passage to Israel on dec. 2. Israel allowed the plane to land but de Pond the hijackers the Nel Day. Sampling Chow line cuisine sr.5  ditto sen. Daniel Inonu pc a Hawaii. With Ullh army c a rent operations ser Geant sgt. Maj. Max canal As escort kids prompt sen ice from pit. Walker Smith when he takes time out from his Fulda tour sunday o eat at the dining facility at Downs Barracks. The sen Ator in route in the East West German Border is Louring with u party of 25 that includes three other senators Ted Ste Vens a Al ska Jake Cam a Utah and Ernest f. Hotlines . Gunman slain offer shooting 3 children  Orange . A a gun Man who neighbors said was harassed regularly by teen agers shot three Young children at an apartment building sat urday and then wounded a police officer before being killed in a gun Battle authorities said. One of the children Ivory Smith. 9. Died Ai 1 50 . Saturday in the trauma Center of University Hospital in Newark. She had been shot in the head said Bob Arnold the Hospital s associate adminis Trator. Of the two other children boys aged 8 and 12. One remained in critical Condi Tion and the third was stable at the hos Pital. Arnold said. He declined to identify the children citing the wishes of family members we Don t have a motive  police chief Edward i Lardy said while the shootings were being carried put. It looks like some sort of disaster in there. A Man appears to have gone berserk and started  the gunman identified As George Proctor in his 40s, died at 4 10 . Of gunshot wounds said Margaret Francois assistant director of nursing at East Orange general Hospital. The person thai was involved for whatever reason became very antagonistic when he returned Home this afternoon said Wesl Orange mayor Sam Spina who Visi cd the scene. Two witnesses Peter Anderson and Eric Green said they saw teen age boy tossing stones at Proctor s Cadillac ear Lier saturday while he was driving in Orange whih Borders West Orange. An Derson and Green said Proctor Jeff Hiscar to confront the youths and one of the teen agers punched him in the face an threatened him. The three children who were shot apparently had no connection to the earlier to cider. The witnesses said. Police said they had heard reports of thai incident but would not say whether in was a motive in inc shooting. One neighbor a 15-year resident who said he went fishing regularly with inc gunman said Proctor had been physically and verbally harassed recently by teen age boys in an increasingly drug infested neighbourhood