European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday december 24,1989 news updates hungarian elections Budapest. Hungary a Hungary s acting president malays a Ucros on Friday called the coun try s first free democratic elections for March 25. The state Mai news Agency reported. Hungary will be the first soviet bloc country to Enki free elections in the Urania to wave of democracy that has sept Eastern Europe. Free elections arc expected next year in three Mhor Schict bloc countries. East Permam has scheduled elections form a 6. And Bulgaria and a  have announced plans for free elections before the end of june. Burma rebel convicted Rangoon. 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Vow Bishop fun tics an blesses people at Beijing s St. Michael s Church which reopened saturday after a 30-year shutdown. Beijing catholics make a Joyful noise after government returns 5th Church Beijing a the chinese government gave a Christmas present to Beijing catholics saturday it returned St. Michael s Church More than i rec decades after it was confiscated for Secu Lar use. Pale Winter sunlight gleamed through the few remaining stained Glass windows As More than 200 catholics led by Bishop fun tics an  consecrated the 87 year old gothic building with song and prayer. I can t see the music very Well but i remember it said White haired brother Zhang Delong who played the new Organ to accompany the choir As it Sang a traditional latin mass. The Church whose Gray Brick Spicci Tower Over a tree lined Street in Central Beijing was built in 1902 to serve the foreign diplomatic Community. The communist government seized it in 1958 and made it a school. Other churches were closed in the 1960s, during the far leftist cultural revolution that treated religion As a threat to communism. St. Michael s is the fifth Catholic Church to reopen in Urban Beijing where nearly 40,000 catholics live. Its return Caps a year that tested chinese christians Long standing determination to keep out of politics. Some christians both Catholic an protestant joined the pro democracy marches of last Spring including a group of Young Catholic seminarians. But the Church hierarchies appointed with government approval and closely watched kept silent even while other official organs such As the government run Union supported the democracy move  caution proved Wise. After crushing the protests in june the government cracked Down hard on most of the traditionally suspect segments of society such As intellectuals. But the churches which suffered in past hard line backslashes have been largely  june the government sponsored chinese Catholic patriotic association which has no tics with the Vatican has ordained six new priests boosting the number in Beijing to 24. And seven Young women took vows As nuns the first to do so in Beijing since the communists took Power in 1949. Israeli soldiers shut Down stores in Bethlehem after battling youths Bethlehem occupied West Bank a israeli paratroopers closed stores and ordered Bethlehem Holiday shoppers Home saturday after a clash with masked youths near the traditional site of the birth of Christ. In another development visiting South african archbishop Desmond Tutu bowed his head in silent prayer at a memorial to slain palestinians and told Arab religious leaders and activists we support your struggle for. Statehood and  in the occupied Gaza strip three palestinian youths were wounded by gunshots in clashes with troops Arab Hospital officials said. In Bethlehem masked youths burned tires and hurled stones at army patrols across from the Church of the nativity. The site Marks the Manger where tradition holds Jesus was born. Troops dispersed the youths by shoot ing in the air and firing tear Gas into the narrow alleyways of a nearby Market place where the youths fled. Paratroopers and troops from the elite Giovati brigade ran through the Market place shouting go Home to Holiday shoppers and demanded that local youths sweep the streets clean of debris from the burning tires. One enraged woman shopper Lur cd to a Soldier and said you can t close the shops this is our Holiday but the Soldier ordered her Home. Slogans were seen throughout the town calling for increased clashes with troops to Mark the Holiday. Let s escalate against the zionists on Christmas Day was Painte d in Black on one Wall. It was signed by the under ground leadership of the uprising. The underground leadership had or dered merchants to stay open until s . And not close at noon to Mark a palestinian strike that has been in Force since the Start of the uprising against israeli occupation two years ago. At least 637 palestinians have been killed by israeli troops or civilians since the palestinian revolt began. Forty three israelis also have died in the violence and palestinians have slain 161 of their fellow arabs on suspicion of cooperating with israeli authorities. Also saturday the islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement cancelled a Christmas Day strike after protests from palestinian christians. They rescheduled the work stoppage for dec. 27. On Jerusalem s Temple mount a site regarded As holy to both jews and mos lems. Tutu joined moslem religious Lead ers and palestinian activists including leading Plo supporter Feisal Hussein in a moment of prayer at a Stone memo rial for slain palestinians. The Stone prayer platform was built in memory of the More than 600 palestini ans killed by israeli supported Christian militiamen in 1982 at the Sabra and shatilla refugee Camps near Beirut Leb anon. We support the struggle of the pales Tinian people in their longing for statehood and Independence Tutu told we Pray that the Day will come soon when a palestinian slate will exist Side by Side with a jewish state and Arab and jew will hold hands together said Tutu who arrived Friday on a five Day Pil Grimage