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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday septembers 1989 news updates world aids report Geneva a the number of reported aids victims in the United states Rose above 100.000 last month and More than 3.000new cases were recorded in other areas mainly Africa and Western Europe the world health organization said Friday. . Cases increased by 2.630 since who s last monthly update for a new total of 100,885 by aug. 15. The United states accounted for some 57 percent of 177.965 re ported aids victims in the world. The . Share is declining As the deadly virus borne disease gains increasingly in other countries. In Europe updates from coun tries with some of the highest to tals raised the total to 25,219. France the continent s worst hit nation reported an increase of 740 to 7,149. Spain notified 605 new cases for a total 3,386 and West Germany reported 139 new Vic Tims raising its aggregate to 3,636. Charges denied Beijing a China Friday denied amnesty International s charges of secret executions and mass arrests following the military crackdown in june and said the country has no political prisoners. Foreign ministry spokesman i Zhaoxin. At a weekly briefing also said . Sanctions had in fringed upon China s dignity and that the United states Musi beheld responsible for deteriorating tics Between the countries. Thousands stage protest of Moldavia language Law Moscow a thousands of eth Nic moldavian marched Friday to pro test a Law that satisfies their demand to make their native Tongue the Republic s official language but which still allows the use of russian. The Law passed by moldavian legislators on thursday was a Compromise measure meant to appease ethnic rus sians and other minorities living in the Republic who opposed making Moldavi an the official language. In the three Baltic republics nationalist group leaders sharply criticized the Kremlin for attacking their efforts to gain More autonomy. Latvia s activist organization demanded that the Centra government recognize the Region s Spe Cial economic and political  the moldavian supreme soviet legis lature met Friday to consider How to apply the controversial language Law. Moldavian was made the official Lan Guage in a show of Independence from the soviet Union and an attempt to pre serve moldavian culture. Ethnic moldavian make up 64 per cent of the Republic s population with russians and other ethnic groups com prising the rest. The Law makes moldavian the official language of government and economic affairs but allows use of both russian and moldavian in everyday life. The provision that sanctions some use of russian was aimed at ending strikes at an estimated 200 businesses and Indus tries by ethnic russians angered by the Law. Tens of thousands of moldavian poured into the streets of the capital. Kishinev on thursday night to protest the compromises and several thousand massed again on Friday official and unofficial sources said. People arc dissatisfied with All the compromises the deputies agreed to Konstantin Bogd Nash. A journalist with the people s front a group that has led the Campaign for preservation of the moldavian language said in a Telephone interview. Bogd Nash said protesters outside Kishinev s opera theater where the 350-member supreme soviet meets held signs Reading people want Freedom and respected russians Mother rus Sia Calls you  the people arc scandalized. We need Only one language said Vasily no stash another people s front member. He said that the group would Call a general strike if the decision is not re versed and that the next step would be secession from the soviet Union. The lawmakers on thursday also re stored the latin alphabet which was taken away a half Century ago by dictator Josef Stalin when he annexed  imposed cyrillic the alphabet used in russian. A third proposal which was rejected would have made moldavian the Lan Guage of communication among rus sians. Ukrainians jews bulgarians another nationalities in the Republic. Many non moldavian do not speak Moldavi an but generally know some russian. Legislators instead opted for an obscurely worded Compromise of bilingualism similar to that proposed wednesday by Moldavia s communist party chief semen Grossu after a conversation with soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. In the Baltic the leaders of the peo ple s fronts of Latvia Lithuania and Estonia reacted to the communist party leadership s recent scathing criticism of their Independence movements. A statement released after a meeting of the three groups in the latvian capital of Riga said the party s criticism was adopted behind the backs of these republics without even the slightest at tempt to discuss the problems closely concerning them said Artis Erglis a Secretary of the latvian people s front. The latvian people s front issued a statement Friday saying its leaders planned to revise their group s platform to include a Call for Complete Independence for the Republic. Only in an Independent democratic Latvia can an economic and political Cri Sis be overcome the statement said. . Temperatures. Albany h t Calt Wiuf flue i August 31 i lo57. Anchor Aoel  Atlanta c Atlantic c9 67 66 50 b6 65 86 13 88 68 94 70 86 71 74 45 99 80 7 71 93 to 87 71 m 69 64 53 b7 68 9 7667 42 73 5279 46 2 6671 44 85 6279 54 7? 4589 76 Linc Bock pm Angl icel Lubbock a Mcmo Hsc Mam.  a Otto Oce swe Migiwa Utec   or  new a Wmk   r Norm  omit Obj City on a Ornbo ,c   Ponius ote  Raty i Zupo  of text  so  stems liar Lake a styx san Antomo  . Seat tet  Falls  Syia Oise Tampa is  Lopeka  tul 97 76  c a 87 69 m 65 act hut 93 75 w, 76 59wijmtngtw.oel a 62 Hilo m 6593 75 to 6290 75 94 73m 78 90 bo08 71 78 6379 a 90 7294 76 81 6882 63 92 5896 76 93 6895 77 83 66106 84 85 6876 49 72 5678 s6 86 6281 45 82 5085 63 92 6190 80 78 5499 79 74 6174 56 89 7662 57 69 5495 77 90 6271 48 77 5793 77 91 /5100 75 97 81 former Swiss so racer Conradin Ca Thomen drives one of 20 solar mobiles taking part in the first Alpine solar Bright Hopes for Victory Mobile european championship in Switzerland. The race helping to publicize the use of solar Energy started wednesday in the Swiss City of Olsen tis and will end in St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps. Airlines warned of terror threat paper says Kansas  96 74 95 72 67 4691 77  european weather Tempe rates recorded Friday 4am 4am Adana. I. Amsterdam p Athens. I Amaro. P Berlin i a remitha in. P Brussels p 70 77 code Ritaben r 52 66 Frank Tuff. R 72 81 London 0 63 73 Mam. P 52 72 Munch 59 61 pans p55 64 f Piorum by out 13.2nd weal a wig Laden Tiai Ojon 57 59 m 55 66 61 794 70 57 68 64 75 a Gilt 72 h u m57 57 i ii few. C 68 55siippw it of Suva it ant c ski mtg  ram Cao i Dublin. I Hehm i. C jew am. I Lisbon. I tlok72172 Sonntal. C to 48 Macok. I 61 45  new York a a warning of possible terrorist action was issued last week to airlines in the United states by the Federal aviation administration a newspaper reported Friday. The daily news said the warning was contained in a general bulletin from the Faa that said a Radical palestinian group might be planning an attack. The timing location and the nature of the alleged attack Are unknown the news quoted the bulletin As saying. It said information about the possible at tack came from the Fri s new York of fice. Faa spokesmen in new York and Washington declined to comment spokesman John Leyden said the Agency s rules forbid discussing bulletins but added that 30 such bulletins were issued last year. The warnings go to airlines but Are not circulated to the general Public a policy that Drew criticism in the Wake of the december bombing of a pan am jetliner that crashed in Scotland killing 270 peo ple. Such a bulletin had been circulated before that crash. Fri spokesman Joseph Valiqu Etc said he could not comment on the report. At Kennedy International Airport in new York installation of an Faa Man dated Detector to Check baggage for Plas tic explosives was proceeding at the Twa terminal said Diane Spitaliere of the Faa s new York office. The device known As a Thermal Neu tron analysis system is undergoing test ing and calibration in an area where Visi tors arc now forbidden. The Faa plans a Public unveiling later this month Spita litre said. The Faa announced wednesday in Washington that it has acquired six mod Els of the Detector and by the end of the year the other five would be operating in Detroit Miami san Francisco and Lon Don and in Frankfurt West Germany. The Faa announcement said another 34 airports among the world s busiest also will be required to install explosives detectors  
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