European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse News updates nigerian rebel troops attempt at takeover reported crushed movie theater ads los Angeles apr Warner Bros has joined Walt Disney studios in Banning on screen advertising at movie Heaters showing its films because moviegoers dislike the big screen sales pitches. The studio asked for the advertising restrictions in bids sent out to exhibitors for the film a gremlins 2 the new Batch Quot said Robert Friedman Warner Bros president of advertising and publicity. Movie previews Aren t banned he said. On feb. 8. Disney announced a ban of on screen ads with its films. A Disney commissioned poll indicated that 90 percent of moviegoers oppose advertising in Heaters. About half of the nations 23,000 first run Heaters show advertising in return for Revenue discounts on concessions products such As soft drinks or reduced newspaper advertising of ferry fire East Lansing Mich. Apr the body of a Michigan woman who was one of 161 people killed after arsonists torched a scandinavian ferry has been returned Home. The body of Ruth Rome 27, arrived at Detroit metropolitan Airport said her Mother Winifred Rome. The Young woman had moved from East Lansing to new York before taking a singing Job on the scandinavian Star. She had been employed about a week when the ferry burned april 7. The fire remains under investigation. The Mother said endowments in her daughters name Are being established at Okemos High school from which she graduated in 1980.new Moscow mayor Moscow apr a Radical Reform economist Gavriil Popov has been elected Moscow a mayor by the new City Council the official Tass news Agency reported. The City Council was dominated by reformers in recent elections which were the first Multi candidate elections for local representative bodies in the soviet Union. The split Between progressives and their opponents on the Council was reflected in the 280-162 vote for Popov. He has captured National attention for his leadership of the country is first parliamentary opposition group the progressive inter regional group of the Congress of Peoples deputies. Soviet officials Are allowed to hold two elected posts simultaneously. The election of the 54-year-old reformer portends drastic change for the soviet capital which has fallen into extreme disrepair under decades of neglect. He strongly supports a Market Economy and has suggested rationing during the transition period to allocate scarce items . River cleanup new Haven Conn. Up a the Upjohn co. Has agreed to pay $1.8 million to Settle a 5-year-old suit alleging pollution of the Quin Lipiac River by the company a North Haven Plant. Two environmental groups announced in new Haven that Upjohn has agreed to set up a Trust fund to help restore the Quinn Ipi a River which the company a North Haven Plant has been accused of polluting Over the years. The Federal lawsuit accused Upjohn of More than 1,100 violations. Lagos Nigeria apr the military government said it crushed a coup attempt sunday after heavy fighting with renegade troops who wanted to break up Nigeria s federation of states. The rebellious soldiers battled troops Loyal to president Gen. Ibrahim Babani a for control of the capital sunday after radio reports said that a coup was under Way in this sprawling West african nation. But 11 hours after the fighting began. La Gen. Sani Abaca army chief and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff went on the radio to say the coup was smashed. He also said Baban Gida was Safe. Aba Chat a declaration that rebels not already in custody should give themselves up suggested that pockets of resistance remained. Paris apr romanian dictator Nic olae Ceausescu wept silently and his wife Elena begged for mercy As soldiers put them before a firing squad graphic footage of their execution showed sunday. Extracts of the 90-minute videotape were aired exclusively by the French television network tf1. They Mark the most detailed look yet at the execution dec. 25 at a military base outside Bucharest. A a done to attack us we have the right to die the Way we want a Elena Ceausescu told soldiers and the 10-person civilian military secret tribunal that sentenced the couple to death mrs. Ceausescu said to the soldiers who tied her hands behind her Back a children you Are bruising my hands this is shameful. Why Why i raised you Oswie Cim Poland a four thousand teen agers from 36 countries carrying the memories of 6 million jews killed by the nazis made a a March of the living sunday from the Auschwitz concentration Camp to the crematoriums of Bir Kenai. Writer Elie Wiesel diplomats and israeli parliamentarians joined the Young marchers for the two mile walk marking holocaust memorial Day. The March at the Camp in Southern Poland we As in memory of those who died in nazi death Camps As Well As in the Warsaw ghetto uprising that began april 19, 1943. The sunny Day turned eerily Cloudy and Light rain started As Wiesel stood at a podium before a Gray Stone Monument to recall his youth at Auschwitz a i see them forever i see them. Years and years ago i saw i cannot Tell you what i saw. In a afraid that if i told you we would All Wake up in tears and Washington apr ambassador Edward l. Rowny urged the soviet Union on sunday to follow up on its admission of guilt in the 1940 massacre of thousands of polish officers in the Katyn Forest and a Tell the whole truth about All such acts in its history. Rowny who is president Bush a special adviser on arms control said that while soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev has made real Progress in a filling in the Blank the rebellion appeared to be led by Middle ranking officers opposed to traditional domination by moslem northerners Over the Central and Southern states which Are mainly Christian and animist Early sunday a Man identifying himself As maj. Gideon a Gwozoz Oka announced on the Lagos station of radio Nigeria a fellow nigerian citizens on behalf of the patriotic and Well meaning Peoples of the Middle Belt and Southern parts of this country i a wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial corrupt drug dealing inhumane sadistic deceitful homosexual by entered and unpatriotic administration of Gen. Ibrahim Okay a announcement accused the Northern states of bomb Bauchi Kano Katsina and Sokoto of a Messing up the All like a Nicolae Ceausescu who ruled Romania with an Iron fist for a Quarter Century. Struggled briefly with the soldiers but said nothing. Tears rolled Down his Cheeks. Soldiers placed the couple who were not blindfolded against a Brick Wall and others rapidly opened fire emptying their magazines. The Ceausescu crumpled under the bullets which also peppered the Brick Wall a medic then looked for signs of life in the eyes of Elena Ceausescu As a Stream of blood poured from her head. He found none. Subsequent images showed Nicolae Ceausescu embalmed and prepared for burial his face appeared broken and Gray with a witness pm the scene remarking that it re we Ould not be Able to Stop. I see a Young he said before stopping apparently unable to continue and silently leaving the podium. Many cried As the students All wearing Blue shirts some carrying israeli flags and others bouquets of Flowers walked along the train tracks that ended at the crematoriums. Dandelions waved in the wind swept grass now covering the rubble of the Camp. Torches were lighted poems read and Mournful violin songs played before a Reading of the Kadish a jewish memorial prayer for the dead. Television cameras positioned in former nazi watchtowers broadcast live to Israel where solemn holocaust remembrance events were under Way. Sundays event was die second a March of the participants said it had special significance because of the drive toward German unification and israelis rapid renewal of ties with Eastern european countries that once had Flou Start with Stalin a Rowny said in remarks prepared for delivery at a ceremony in Jersey City n j., sponsored by pol ish american organizations at the Katyn Forest memorial. A text of his remarks was released in Washington. A we must be very Clear on this Point because communism a apologists would rest of the country through their domination. He said those states would not be to of of Nigeria until Thev nil filled conditions proving Loyal to to a new government some radio Nigeria stations in other cities continued broadcasting normally. Moslem Are in a slight majority in Nigeria africans most populous nation with 100 million people. A a similar conflict caused the 19671969 biafran War. More than 500 000 civilians and 100,000 soldiers died when easterners attempted to form the state of Biafra and secede from nigerians federation. Baban Gida took Power in a Barracks coup on aug. 27, 1985. Nigeria an Oil Rich nation became Independent from Britain in 1960. Sem bled an a engraving Gelu Voican the Gray bearded civilian who organized the proceedings later was filmed before the two Graves where he said the Ceausescu were buried in a religious ceremony. Voican serves As vice prime minister in the interim government headed by prime minister Ion Hirscu. Elections to form a new government Are scheduled for late May. Previous extracts made Public from the same tape have shown Only excerpts of the Ceausescu at the trial and their lifeless cleaned bodies lying before the Brick Wall the cameraman recording the execution was accidentally wounded said French to network journalist Patrick Bourrat fishing jewish communities. The nazis built the Auschwitz Complex in Southern Poland As the main engine of hitlers a final estimates of the death count vary but recent research has put the toll at about 1.5 million More than 90 percent jews. There were 1,500 participants in the first a March of the living a held in 1988 to Mark the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In the Warsaw Battle several Hundred jewish insurgents staged a desperate three week struggle against the nazi drive to liquidate the last 75,000 inhabitants of the walled ghetto. . And israeli organizers plan to hold the March every two years. About 3 million polish jews perished during world War n. Most of the approximately 500,000 who survived from the prewar population subsequently emigrated Many during an anti semitic purge in 1968, and there Are now Only several thousand jews in Poland. Minist personality cult and not of communism itself a Rowny said. A for the soviet authorities to admit to the full scope of communism a crimes will be pain nil but it will also be a purifying step a he said. A that is Why we continue to Challenge the soviet regime to renounce totalitarianism and All of its Ceausescu wept wife pleaded for mercy videotape shows solemn March remembers holocaust soviets urged to a Tell the whole truth spots in soviet history a the conscience of like us to believe that All the blood on the world demands that it do Moscow a hands is the fault of the a Sta a genocidal totalitarianism did no to
