European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 24. 1990 the stars and stripes rage 3protesters, police elfish outside Vienna opera policemen and demonstrators Battle outside the opera Ball on thursday. Vienna Austria apr violent demonstrators fought pitched Street a tics with police thursday As i Cpl High society waltzed  a Lonna state opera scene  opera Ball the  carnival season. Policy Sid Cut Guenter Bogl said at to policemen were injured but did ii Juan Many demonstrators were 11n1111f i it Quot a it Alaa limn Iii i in clashes around the opera police said a previously a a demonstration against the opera Ball involved about 1,300 people but at least 500 More protesters tried repeatedly to break police cordons. The demonstration was directed against the display of wealth and pageantry. Demonstrators carried slogans such As Quot gobble up the  protesters pelted police protected by Shields with stones and threw bottles at them while police charged the crowd with clubs and dogs witnesses and reporters said. Nee peaked As president Kurt _ hum and his wife arrived at the a opera to attend the glittering event whose prominent visitors this year included Princess Caroline of Monaco. An unknown number of people were detained by police. Scuffles also erupted Between demonstrators and separate groups of skinheads police reported. Reporters watching the scene said some of the violence was apparently provoked by uncoordinated and haphazard Dice action with agents rounding up i Mac  and others driving Mot Llly at Don motorcycles. The  behaviour of some of the nearly 3. Llew panic men in action was in part due to Ponce radio Contact being temporarily disrupted by a pirate Quot transmitters deriding or abusing police officials. Radicals among the demonstrators smashed shop windows and damaged cars in streets near the opera and police detained youths caught red handed As Well As  a statement  rocket explodes on liftoff Kourou. French Guiana apr an ariane rocket carry ing two japanese telecommunications satellites exploded thursday shortly after liftoff. Quot the launch vehicle exploded just a bit More than two minutes alter the firing following a fire in the  Arian space president Frederic d tallest said. Witnesses who watched the flight on to monitors at the space Agency s Headquarters in evry France said the fire appeared to break out before the 44-l rocket was due to separate from its boosters at 2 minutes 30 seconds into flight. The rocket lifted off at 8 17 . And roared upward Over the Atlantic Ocean lifted by four strap on liquid propulsion boosters. A we arc going to Analyse the failures to explain the catastrophe of this flight As rapidly As possible Quot said d tallest. He spoke in Kourou and his remarks were monitored at evry. Arian space a consortium of european companies took Over the commercialization of the ariane program from the european space Agency in 1980. It is responsible for building operating and marketing launch services. Thursday s launch was the 36th ariane Mission. The explosion was the first since the 18th ariane flight blew up on May 31. 1986. The rocket was carrying two Supe Bird b communications satellites. Inc the bs2k. Was built by general electric co. For Japan s National Nhok network. The second sup Cebird b telecommunications satellite was built by a subsidiary of Japan s giant Mitsubishi corp., space communications corp. Its prime contractor was Ford aerospace. The bs2k satellite was insured for Between $150 million and $180 million Arian space said and the Supe Bird b was insured for about $ 180  rips  Tanker in persian Gulf Manama Bahrain up a an explosion and fire ripped through a  kuwaiti Tanker thursday in the persian Gulf killing one american crewman and caving another missing in the first such incident since a 1988 Iran Iraq cease fire took effect. However. . By facials in Washington said the blast aboard the surf Cit i which also injured at least four other sailors did not appear to be from a mine left Over from the Iran Iraq War or an attack on the Tanker. One wounded Sailor interviewed on Dubai television said the Tanker s Bridge is completely destroyed Quot by a Quot great  he fluid he was surprised survivors Quot made it out the Way i the late morning explosion sparked Thuc fires aboard the 81.283-ton Tanker carrying refined Ohn Rod acts for Europe. Black smoke billowed above the _ As Navy vessels rescued Crew members and Coal guard ships from the United Arab emirates fought the flames into the night. A your initial reports indicate that it was an internal  state department spokesman George Mal Leck said in Washington. Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall said the cause of the explosion was under investigation but added Quot we have not seen any mines in the area. There have been no indications of mines in the  kuwaiti officials also discounted the possibility the Tanker struck one of hundreds of mines still Anft in the Gulf after the eight year Iran Iraq War. A ship ipg source said a 15-Yard Hole in the starboard Sitte Luthc Tanker a is consistent with reports of a blast min inside the  Lloyd s of London which insured Tanker said the explosion May have occurred Danng tank cleaning operations. Capt. Ron  spokesman for the Central come in tamp Twila. Which oversees operations in the Gulf. Also a a. A initial reports indicate the explosion was Froid Idamal  the mostly american Crew was forced to abandon the ship. Abndt Fatah Al Badr Board chairman of the Staic  Oil Tanker company told the official Kuwint news Agency that four Crew members were injury Fand had been moved to a Hospital in Dubai Wildermuth said 23 of the 25 Crew members were smoke pours from the surf City after an expos of Haj a it cd through the Tanker in the persian Gulf on i thursday. It Ilc rescued by a Navy ship patrolling the Gulf. Wilder Mulh said two injured Crew members were airlifted to sheikh Rashid Hospital in Dubai. Mallyck said one of the two american crewmen first listed As missing had been confirmed dead. Identification was withheld until relatives were notified but Lloyd s of London said the two were the ships Captain and first mate. The remaining 23 Crew members were rescued. . Officials and Gulf based shipping sources said the explosion occurred at 11 18 . As the Tanker passed Iran Sabu Musa Island in International Waters vicar the Mouth of the Gulf. 4�ntagon spokesman Hall said use police and res  were on the scene As the surf Ity took on Watsik to 20 Miles Southeast of Abu Musa which american miliary officials describe As a key base for iranian  the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Quot the Tanker Waird Cading for Europe with a Load of fuel and naphtha a Chi cum when it caught  Al Badr said. Kuwait put 11 Oil Tankis Hall its Fleet a under the . Flag in july 1986 at the weight of the Quot Tanker War Quot Between Iraq and Iran to protect them from iranian gunboat attacks