European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a news briefs the stars and stripes monday april 2,1990bucharest protesters Call for lies Cut a resignation Bucharest Romania apr thousands of exuberant demonstrators Yelling a Down with communism a marched sunday through downtown Bucharest demanding the resignation of the country a interim president. But the Flag waving protesters marched in a festive atmosphere rather than in angry protest to the heavily guarded government building on Victory Square chanting a Down with communism a a Down with  before proceeding to government Headquarters the protesters keeled and prayed on University Square the site of heavy fighting during the revolution that toppled communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu on dec.22. Speakers at the rally on Victory Square where participants flew brightly coloured kites accused the interim president Ion Iliescu who is the head of the National salvation front of being a a closet communist and of having views in sympathy with those of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev.39 guards inmates injured in English prison rampage Manchester England apr about 300 inmates rioted at an overcrowded victorian prison sunday occupying rooftops smashing windows and setting fires inside. Thirty nine guards and inmates were injured. Hundreds of riot police surrounded the medium Security Strangeways prison. A police helicopter hovered overhead As flames leaped 20 feel into the air from the prison gymnasium where a fire burned out of control. Twenty five firefighters under police Protection battled the Blaze As dense Black smoke billowed above the building. Fires were also reported to have been set in three cells and a classroom As Large groups of inmates rampaged inside. Some 500 prisoners reportedly surrendered to authorities and arrangements were being made to Transfer them to other prisons. There was no Clear indication of the cause of the rioting. Strangeways is a medium Security prison serving the local area. One third of its inmates Are awaiting trial and two thirds have been sentenced in the local courts the Home office  bus subway system shut Down by Buffalo Buffalo . Apr buffaloes Cash poor bus and subway system shut Down Early sunday after the City transit authority refused to consider a county offer to take Over the system. The last bus finished its run at 3 01 a.m., leaving new York states second largest City the largest . Metropolitan area without any Public transportation. More than 120,000 people use buffaloes system daily. A City labor Leader labelled the conflict a a class struggle against selfish suburbanites who did no to want to pay for a system they done to use. Erie county executive Dennis Gorski said saturday afternoon that head asked a Cincinnati management firm to administer the transit system for the county if the Niagara Frontier transportation authority was willing to yield control. But the authority meeting with Gorski and City officials saturday night refused to accept the offer and voted 7-2 to shut Down the system repeating a similar vote taken wednesday. 8 airmen Hurt in Honduras As snipers attack of bus Tegucigalpa up a two . Airmen seriously wounded in a rebel sniper attack were in critical but stable condition sunday and were to be returned to the United states As soon As possible officials said. Eight . Airmen were wounded saturday when members of a leftist rebel group opened fire on a bus carrying 28 . Airmen returning from a vacation in Northern Honduras. A they Are responding Well to treatment a said Jose Ramon Rivera the chief resident doctor at the Escuela Hospital in Tegucigalpa. One of the critically wounded airmen Dean bark had been listed As comatose saturday night but his condition had improved Rivera said. Bark suffered two Bullet wounds one in the head and one that penetrated his left and lodged close to a main artery Rivera said. The other airman in critical condition Jerry Mallard was shot once in the Chest and once in the Abdomen he said. . Embassy spokesman Terrence that a was soon As it is feasible we Are sin Asaid Back to the United  8 810 take them Kneebone said four of the wounded taken to Panama from the . Military ba�e1tk the us .h31 Quot to a spa Rte i saturday the . Southern come in Panama issued mum que describing the attack. A com a a bus carrying 28 airmen return ire from a i support activity trip from Tela Beach Hondrum Cei Ved automatic sniper fire. The incident nil a be Miles North of the capital a the statement said 6 the Green Cross a honduran Relief Oreana of disclosed the names of the eight wounded sold Imam . Officials declined to confirm the identities the Agency identified them As Brian Miller Rny a Bosh Patrick Kelly Kevin Flint Todd fewelf2 Ted Roeshell Mallard and bark. Una Ewell and radio America in Honduras broadcast a comm., que saturday m which leftist rebels of the to s , from claimed response by tax riot from Page 1 for offences including arson robbery serious assault criminal damage and looting. The heart of London looked like a War zone after the Battle on sunday. Cleanup Crews cleared rubble and burned out cars from the streets and strollers wandered past boarded up restaurants pubs and shops whose windows had been smashed. Many victims were among Britain a most exclusive names Liberty a Burberry Mappin and Webb Dickens and Jones. In Trafalgar Square a pall of Black smoke was still rising from construction Cabins on the Side of a seven Story building undergoing renovation that had been set on fire by the protesters. Across the Street windows at the South african embassy were smashed and one window area was blackened by a firebomb that missed setting the building ablaze. A we Are supposed to be the violent ones in the .a.,�?� said tourist Harold Eaton of St. Louis surveying the scene. A i am surprised that something like this could happen in what is such a civilized  the Independent on sunday newspaper called it the worst riot in Central London this Century. Scotland Yard said it was one of the worst but nobody had vet researched whether it was the worst. David Meynell Scotland Yards Deputy assistant commissioner blamed the a sustained and Savage violence on about 3,500 people who were among a crowd of 40,000 at a rally in Trafalgar Square. Organizers nut the crowd at 200,000. Meynell said the clashes began when some demonstrators heading up Whitehall to Trafalgar Square stopped at the Corner of Downing Street where Thatcher has her official residence and tried to storm the barricaded Entrance to the Street. Of those injured he said Only two police officers and two civilians remained hospitalized sunday. Steve Nally of the All Britain anti poll tax federation which organized the rally said on sky television news that police overreacted to provocation by a Small number of demonstrators at Downing Street. The new tax is part of thatchers crusade to Bury British socialism by hitting at its last bastion a local government. The Levy which went into effect in Scotland a year ago has been greeted with frequent demonstrations some violent. Critics have dubbed it a the poll tax after a per capita tax that set off a peasants revolt in 1381.soviets from Page 1 a seek a meeting with soviet officials. Western reporters counted almost 30 armoured troop carriers being loaded off of train near the Vilnius Airport at midday on sunday. Other vehicles drove through the City their treads slicing into the Asphalt apparently on their Way in a nearby base. Motieka said the soviet  is refusing to inform the lithuanian government about its activities. A this situation must be Chan-6ed,�?� he said. An additional column of some 15 armoured personnel carriers had moved through Vilnius in the Early morning sunday lithuanian officials said. An officer at the republics Interior ministry said the vehicles rolled into a military base in Central Vilnius. Later sunday 28 armoured personnel carriers eight trucks two jeeps and a Tanker could be seen at the rail station while other vehicles were driving through the City Gorbachev in his first formal Appeal since the lithuanian crisis began said saturday that the republics chosen path toward Independence is a ruinous and will Only Lead to a dead  Gorbachev charged the republics leaders with taking Steps that a Are openly challenging and insulting to the entire soviet  a i propose that the lithuanian supreme Sovi Eum mediately annul the illegal acts it has adopted he said. A such a step will open the possibility for discussing the entire Range of problems on the solely acceptable basis within the framework of the .5.k.  Landsbergis in separate comments broadcast on lithuanian radio said Gorbachev so strongly worded Appeal to the lithuanian parliament is extremely surprising and contained a open threats to the safety of the lithuanian nation.gl from Page 1 195,000 each with the United states Rev Taining the right to station 225,000 troops throughout Europe should serve As the immediate goal of . Policy. A such a treaty should be signed during 1990 and implemented by the end of 1992,�?� it added. A in the meantime the United states should refrain from unilateral  the study did not address future . Troop cuts in Europe following the conventional forces in Europe or cafe treaty that is expected to limit each Side to 195,000. But it was agreed tfe3t More would be withdrawn. A my own personal View is that something m the 70,000 to 80,000�?~ Range is feasible for late in the decade depending on what the other arrangements Are How Many German troops there Iare How Many soviet troops remain in Eastern Europe a said Brown a Democrat who worked under president Carier. Cohen agreed and said a i think Well be around 75,000 to 100,000, depending. And i think that View is shared by Many on the Capitol  the two members of the group also questioned the viability of the nato Alliance should a reunited Germany drop out. Brown pointed to a potential scenario where a reunified Germany might leave nato and France might rejoin it. A the question is would it be organized to defend against the soviet Union or against Germany a Cohen asked. A if nato remains and Germany leaves it its directed at a very different possible threat a Brown added. The study encouraged the continuance of the nato Alliance but suggested that a single organization encompassing All the nations of Europe and North America a might be established to Monitor to new Security regime and to work out political  r a the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. Is a logical candidate for this role a it said. In addition to Brown and Mem pm. Tic pants in the study were Senate services committee chairman control Nunn d-ga., former . Arm negotiator Paul Nitze former g tonal Security Aci Vise a. Nakiey Brzezinski retired adm. Worth bag y j a Rian Andrew Uruu