European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse A Pope arrives in Korea with peace message Page 2 d friends fans mourn actress Bette Davis Page 3 q thousands March in support of Yeltsin Page 8 d air Force trounces Navy 35-7. Page 26 the stars and tripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 48, no. 174 sunday october 8, 1989 251 of Good morning d 8693 a protests erupt in e. Germany Berlin a Truncheon swinging communist police attacked protesters during massive demonstrations in the East German cities of East Berlin Leipzig and Potsdam on saturday following overnight Street Battles in Dresden witnesses and television report said. In the capital City of East Berlin late saturday about 300 troops moved in to guard the communist party s Central committee Headquarters. The demonstrations were the most widespread Dis play of opposition to the hard line policies of East Germany s communist leadership in years. More than 10,000 people arc believed to have participated in the four protests. Scores of people were arrested and dozens injured by police who punched kicked and dragged away pro testers and beat Many with truncheons witnesses and television reports said. Some 5,000 people converged in and around an East Berlin Church saturday evening to demonstrate for the release of political prisoners. Meanwhile police units scaled off an area where people were streaming to watch fireworks an apparent attempt to prevent an other mass gathering. Earlier about 5,000 people staged a pro Reform demonstration at East Berlin s Alexandc Rafatz Square at the end of the visit of soviet president Mikhail . See Story. Page 28 an associated press reporter saw How one Man Shead was smashed against the Wall of an East Berlin apartment building when police were breaking up that demonstration. Others were kicked by Security police dragged along the ground to Side streets and hauled away according see protests on Back Page an East Berlin policeman blocks a crowd at parliament saturday where Mikhail Gorbachev attended a reception. Hungary scraps communist party Budapest Hungary a delegates at a historic communist party Congress on saturday overwhelmingly approved a reformist motion to dissolve the 70-year-old party and replace it with a fully democratic leftist one similar to those in Western Europe. Of the 1,202 delegates present 1,005 voted for the motion to scrap the party. There were 159 votes against and 38 abstentions. Titled position on the character of the party the document presented for con Gress approval stated that the party s his tory. Has ended and designated its Suc Cessor As the hungarian socialist party. Acceptance of the document marked the first instance of a soviet bloc communist party dissolving itself and asking progressive members to reconstitute it Asa fully democratic party. Reform minded communists have for months urged the rank and file to sup port their plan to Start anew As Hungary prepares for its first free National elections in 41 years. The reformists have pointed to shrink ing membership More than 70,000 have quit this year alone and a series of by election losses to newly permitted opposition parties in arguing that Only a see Hungary on Back Page a s end hex Lead playoffs b Ben Walker Toronto a this time Rickey did t need to run. His soft Steps made the most . Rickey Henderson trotted around the bases instead of stealing them with a pair of two run homers As the Oakland athletics ended Toron to s Home hex and held off the Blue jays 6-5 saturday for a 3-1 Lead in the american league playoffs. It s great to show 1 can do something else besides run Henderson said. But As one Man i Don t think i can go out there and win a gamely maybe not just one. Seems like he s won Al three for the athletics and put them 9ne Victory away from reaching the world series for the second straight season. I guess Rickey beat us today with his Bat instead of his legs Toronto manager Cito Gas continued on Page 21 soviet general Galvin debate contributions to cold War thaw by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Rome nato s european commander squared off saturday against a top soviet general Over which Side most wants peace and stability in the cold War thaw Gen. Vladimir Lobov the soviet first Deputy chief of Slafer and . Gen. John r. Galvin entered the debate in a meeting of the North Atlantic Assembly s defense and Security committee. The three Day gathering he Din the italian parliament is the 35th annual session of the Assem Bly an Independent body of parliamentarians from Natona tons. In an address to the lawmakers Lobov described measures being taken to trim soviet Mili tary might to a More economic land less threatening Force. As sex Galvin ample. Lobov described the soviets unilateral Cut Back of 500.000 troops and 8,500 tactical aircraft Ana the removal of three tank divisions from Eastern Europe. The West is making no reciprocal reductions Lobo said. What s this All about Comrade parliamentarians Lobov asked. Arc you trying to terrorize us to Start a new arms race maybe you re being careful but we Renot just talking about things we re doing in responding to the soviet general Galvin agree that much had happened in the soviet Union during the past year to encourage nato but questioned the significance of soviet military reductions. In the Case of the tank divisions Galvin asked whether such divisional support equipment As artillery air defense and engineering assets also would be with drawn. If these Are merely redirected to the remaining 27soviet divisions in Eastern Europe then the Overall combat Power is not that much decreased he have begun to Sec that the withdrawal of tank see Galvin on Back Page
