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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D it s family converses in 5 languages Page 9 o search goes on for remains of mias in Vietnam Page 14 d Chicago bulls gain Aba East final Page 21 d comedian Gilda Radner Dies of cancer Page 28 authorized unofficial publication Fob the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 34 sunday May 21, 1989 2 on a  d 8693 a Beijing police beat 45 students As thousands defy martial Law cutting off Dan rather an interpreter has a shucked expression As she looks toward a chinese government official in Beij ing cutting off Dan Kather in the midst of a Tele cast. The chinese internment halted live Ameri can telecasts late Friday As troops closed in on hundreds of thousands of protesters in Beijing s Tiana men Square. Chinese officials used the end of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s visit As their justification for cutting off further american Tele casts. Beijing a police beat 45 students saturday As Citi ens demanding democratic Reform and the res ignation of Premier i Peng poured into Tiana men Square by the thousands to defy a martial Law decree. In the most violent confrontation since pro democracy demonstrations began nearly five weeks ago. Stu dents said about 150 armed police attacked students with electric cattle prods on a Road in Western Beijing. Zhu bin. A student at the Beijing no. 2 languages Institute said the students were blocking 20 military troop trucks from advancing Down the Road when police  attacked the girls first. We tried to protect them and they hit us too he said. Zhu. Showing bruises on his shoulder said 45 were injured so seriously they had to be Hospi Lali cd. Down with martial Law became the new rallying cry As students called for the resignation of i. Sup porters of the students arrived by bicycle in the Back of flatbed trucks and on fool. Later saturday. 3.000 students on the Square who had been on a hunger strike some for As Long As a week decided to abandon their fast to conserve their strength for the struggle ahead student leaders said. Army forces moved into the capital late Friday and Early saturday but were stopped by thousands of Citi Zens who clogged the roads climbed Over their trucks and pleaded with them not to attack. We arc people and you Are people Why do you have no feelings a demonstrator shouted at the  helicopters made repeated Low runs Over the City a rare sight in this City of 10 million residents. Three tanks just South of the Square were being blocked by buses placed across the Road saturday by  the Day Drew to a close hundreds of thousands of people remained in control of Central Beijing and few soldiers were  also have been reported in at least 20 other cities including Shanghai China s largest City with 12 million  Shanghai More than 300,000 people rallied on the waterfront of the Huangtu River and another 200,000 gathered in the City s people s Square. Many carried banners demanding i s resignation. You be got millions of soldiers we be got 1.1 billion people read one , three . Warships docked quietly at see Beijing on Back Page soviet let Pilot defects fled under fire to Turkey Ankara Turkey a a Sovi it air Force Captain on saturday re Quested political Asylum in the United states after he fled his country under fire in a fighter Jet and landed in Turkey officials said. The Pilot. Capt. Alexander a Uyco 28. Was wounded in the right Arm when he was fired on while taking off from a soviet Airport North of the Black sea City of Batu i said Turk ish foreign ministry spokesman Inal Batu. The Pilot was operated on and was in Good condition at the Black sea University medical school Hospital in Trab on the City where he had landed Batu told reporters. A Uyco asked for . Asylum while being questioned by turkish authorities in Trabzon the City s governor Enver Hitlan said. The request was forwarded to the Interior ministry. . Embassy officials in the Turk ish capital Ankara refused to com ment on the subject. Batu said the soviet ambassador was called to the turkish foreign ministry and told that the Mig-29 fighter would be returned. Meanwhile the turkish Amassa see Pilot on Back Page opposition leaders defy Panama rally ban Panama City Panama a the three top opposition leaders defied a ban on rallies and marched through the streets on saturday their first Public appearance since they were badly beaten following the May 7 election. Presidential candidate Guillermo in Daro and vice presidential candidates Ricardo Arias Calderon and Guillermo Ford were assaulted on May 10 by paramilitary forces under the command of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. The government saturday prohibited marches meetings Public demonstrations or caravans of vehicles by any political organization until at least june 5. The prohibition does not have any meaning to us said Endara who accompanied a caravan of about 20 opposition vehicles. The caravan briefly blocked traffic on some major arteries leading into the capital. Police watched but took no action. The ministry of government and jus Tice issued a communique saying the prohibition was imposed in anticipation of the visit this week by delegates from the organization of american states Orcas. The foreign ministers of Ecuador Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago accompanied by Oas Secretary general Joao Baena scares Are due in Panama on tues Day. They will try to promote Resolution of Panama s 15-month-old crisis. The Oas on wednesday approved a see Panama on Back Page  
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