European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. October 5. 1989 the stars and strip Page 3 labor party drops nuke Pouch Jia teral disarmament Sta a hooted out Brighton. England a to opposition labor i Ariy on monday abandoned its controversial policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament Over turning the vote losing doctrine at its an Nual conference. After a sometimes healed debate delegates voted for a policy that commits a labor party government to give up Brit Ain s nuclear Arsenal Only As pan of a negotiated arms Deal. Dismayed left wingers Hung symbols from balconies in Thoj golfer Cnoc Hall As speakers  socialist movement must cd Jadic or suffer a fourth successive Daion defeat by conservative in Jim minister Margaret Thatcher. Pus in a very Strong position to , an effective and realistic Initia Tive and to get verifiable nuclear arms  party Leader Neil Kinlock " r the vote on the first full Day of the . The confcr�84 a this South resort voted 3.6 Murnu Manchion to ditch unilateral a  after leaders of wet Mode Rife i reunions  Kinlock. Conferences Are count because Trade Union to who control 90 percent of the voting Power Wield huge Block votes based on Union memberships. However in a Vic lord for party leftists the conference voted 4-2 for a labor government to Cut defense expenditures by one fourth bringing it in line with the average in other West european Mem Bers of nato. Under the new policy a labor govern ment would retain Britain s submarine nuclear missiles. It Iso Slick to Thatcher s decision to Ilace Ihm in the Early 1990s with is. Trident missiles which Are nine times More powerful than Polaris missiles. Legislator Tony Benn a former Energy Secretary and Dean of the labor left accused the e party of betraying the basis of be  not need nuclear weapons. There a i Uwi by ice nuclear threat. That is the Challing Sec Annot  Benn to  of the conference Hall. A succession of speakers cited str in superpower arms control negotiations since soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev took office and they said a new labor policy suited the improved East West re lations. But others argued simply that labor must change to win. We know it is the policy which is at fault not the  said Delegate Sylvia heal. The leadership has been accused of betrayal. Rut the people who will he guilty of betrayal Are those who by their actions ensure Thatcher s return for another  Guibor adopted its policy on nuclear weapons in i 8i As the party lurched left after losing Power to Thatcher two years earlier. I Olls show that the policy was a major Factor in labor s two subsequent defeats by Thatcher in 1983 and 19x7. She must next election by mid-1 w2. The non nuclear doctrine was  new policy platform aimed at  parly toward the Center. The conf few unto vote on the changes the result of an my in review through the week. Demonstrators show the Victory sign As they stage the Bikk German protest action since i9s3. 10,000 March through Leipzig demanding e. German reforms Leipzig. East German a More than 10,000 people marched through Leipzig on monday demanding legals action Job f opposition groups and adoption of Democrat tit reforms in the country s largest such protest since 1953. Witnesses said of archers chanted Gorby Gorby and we Rig saying Here soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev is enor Mously popular a Hong East germans who Hope his policies of economic and political reforms May some Day be Alf opted by their nation s hard line leadership. Gor Bachch is expected to visit East Berlin next weekend to take part in celebrations marking East germanyy40th anniversary. East Germany s aging orthodox communist leadership Lias so far rejected the need for reforms. In t953, workers Rose up throughout East Ger Many in an ill fated a Prissy later crushed by soviet tanks. J the demonstrators mond Ajr also demanded Cigali Alton of opposition groups. Vhf Rich have been sup pressed by the government. Fledgling opposition groups have ejected fleeing the country or emigration and Sai Dishey want to work for change in this country of in.6 million. Tens of thousands of East German fled Over Hungary s newly opened Border and thousands More were allowed to travel to West Germany last weekend alter seeking Refuge in Bonn s embassies in a Coli Slovakia and Poland. Witnesses said Security officials followed the Leip in demonstration but did not try to break it up. About  people took pan in a similar March in Leip in last week. Trains to carry East germans to West delayed Prague. Czechoslovakia a thousands of East germans stood nervously in free ing weather wednesday morning waiting for trains to take them to West Germany in the latest and possibly last wave of the exodus. East Germany agreed tuesday to Lei All Bast Ger mans in and around the West German Chiba say in Prague emigrate to West Germany. The trains to take them out of a Echo Slovakia were to depart late tues Day hut were delayed. By 2 . Wednesday none of the 10 expected East German trains had reached Prague and sources said the exodus was unlikely to Start before 6 . Word of the planned mass migration came As East Germany suspended its visa free travel to Czechoslovakia. A decision that became effective at 5 . Tues Day. West German officials in Bonn said. That move designed to Stem the flight of thousands of East germans will make it virtually impossible for Ordinary East German to travel to the West. It will limit Hast germans ability to reach Hungary from which they Are free to travel West. About 7.000 East germans on sunday were allowed to leave Bonn s embassies in Prague and Warsaw and go to West German fled through Hunga Germany. Tens of thousands More Havee Hungary. According to Western figures. More than 120,000 East germans have reached West Germany this year legally or illegally. Earlier tuesday hundreds of East germans stormed the embassy compound in Prague to join some 4.500 holed up inside. The overcrowded embassy had been closed hours earlier. During the night More newcomers arrived bringing the total in and around the mision to about 8,000. Witnesses said. Rudolf Seiters. Chief of staff to Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in Bonn that Between 10,000 and 11.000 new arrivals were expected in West Germany. He said Kohl was informed of the East German decision and the number of refugees involved by Vech slovak Premier Ladislav Adamec in a Telephone Call from Prague. Sellers said the first train carrying 1.000 refugees was to leave Prague at 8 . Tuesday but later cited technical problems hinting East German authorities had trouble providing the trains in Good time. Earlier tuesday. West German ambassador her Mann Huber was summoned to the foreign ministry to receive a formal protest note for what the state news Agency ctr said was West German violation of the la convention on diplomatic relations. Word that visa free travel would be halted with Czechoslovakia came four Days before celebrations to Mark the 40th anniversary of the East German state. Soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev is scheduled to attend. The Kasl German stale news Agency adn said the visa requirement was necessary because certain Cir cles in West Germany Are preparing provocations in conjunction with the celebrations saturday