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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday july 10,1990 Monument Budapest Hungary up a thousands of hungarians gathered at the great synagogue of Budapest on sunday to witness the dedication of the first Monument erected with hungarian government approval in memory of jewish victims of the nazis during world War ii. Acting president Arpad Goncz and prime minister Jozswf Antal attended the highly emotional dedication of the $250,000 Monument the work of hungarian sculptor Imre Vaiga. More than 600,000 hungarian jews were killed in nazi Gas Chambers or shot to death by the nazi Arrow Cross men in Hungary during world War ii but their gruesome Fate never received official recognition a the 6 million victims of the nazi genocide Are All equally victims but we Are now mourning the few hundreds of thousands who were closest to us a Goncz said. A these people were deprived not Only of their lives but also their country. Therefore the holocaust was not Only a jewish tragedy but also a hungarian  Edgar Bronfman president of the world jewish Congress said Quot the holocaust never really took the recognition it should have while communist governments were in Power in Eastern  the Only Monument to the holocaust erected by a communist government is the ghetto Monument in Warsaw a tribute to the jewish uprising against the nazis from april to june 1943 that ended in the ghettos Complete destruction. Meanwhile Eastern Europe has seen an unexpected upsurge of antisemitism with the fall of the communist regimes. Bronfman attributed the phenomenon to the painful transition from a command Economy to a Market one. A crowd gathers outside a Budapest synagogue As the holocaust memorial is unveiled boats join Tokyo apr More than 30 japanese rubber boats kayaks and other Small Craft joined a Greenpeace yacht sunday in an anti nuclear demonstration off a . Navy base hear Tokyo a japanese official said. Protesters on the boats shouted a a done to bring nuclear weapons into Japan a said an official of the maritime safety Agency Japan a coast guard. Led by the 38-foot Greenpeace yacht Vega the japanese boats formed a circular peace sign in the water said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said nine patrol boats were mobilized to prevent the protest boats from sailing into the base at Yokosuka 28 Miles Southwest of  said there were no clashes Between demonstrators and coast guard patrols. The environmental groups yacht car ried three Crew members from the United states new zealand and Australia and a japanese interpreter. On Friday the Vega displaying anti nuclear signs trailed the 67,000-ton . Aircraft Carrier Midway out of Yokosuka its Home port. Faith Doherty Pacific coordinator for Greenpeace a nuclear free seas Campaign said the protest marked the Start of a i r/2-month voyage around Japan by the Vega to educate people about the dangers of nuclear weapons and nuclear propulsion. The Midway is not nuclear powered but Many japanese claim that it and other Navy ships using japanese ports carry nuclear weapons m violation of a japanese ban. The United states refuses to comment on the location of any of its nuclear weapons. But the japanese government has said the United states would need Japan s permission to bring in such weapons out never has sought such authorization. East German tells of links to terrorists Peter Michael Diestel Berlin apr East Germany a deposed communist leadership Dia business with any known terrorist group that would help destabilize Western nations Interior minister Peter Michael Diestel has said. Before their ouster last fall the communist leaders were willing to Deal with a fall terrorist groups known to us a Dies Tel told the West German newspaper die Welt a specifically the now disbanded ministry for state Security or Stasi As it is labelled in German a maintained at least informal contacts with the Basque Sepa soviet Coal miners to strike for Day against communists artist group Eta and the Irish Republican t army which seeks to overthrow British Rule Over Northern Ireland said Diestel. Die welts interview with the conservative politician was to be published in its monday edition. An Advance text was made available by the paper on sunday. Diestel spoke after the recent arrests in East Germany of eight alleged red army faction terrorists wanted for attacks m West Germany. The eight had reportedly been Given new identities Ana Sanctuary by the Stasi possibly with the knowledge of for Mer communist party chief Erich Hon Ecker and Stasi head Erich Mielke. One of the Raf suspects Susanne Albrecht gave herself up to West German police last thursday and reportedly promised to speak out on the groups Structure and earlier terrorist attacks. Diestel who promised further disclosures on East Germany a former links with the International terrorism scene next week said a we have arrested More people than you Are aware  speaking of the former government Diestel said that a nothing was too dirty for them in their political  Moscow apr Coal miners will fire a warning shot Over the Kremlin Wall with a one Day strike wednesday rejecting an Appeal from a communist party Congress to stay on the Job. A How can we accept anything from the party that we Are fighting against a asked Vladimir Minenko a strike committee Leader in the biggest soviet Coal Region the Ukraine a Don River Basin or Donass. A we do not accept appeals coming to us from the party Congress Quot he said referring to a Resolution the 28th communist party Congress passed last week. His tone reflected growing anger and Independence among miners in the Donass the Kuznets Basin of Western Siberia and Vor Kuta in the Arctic. They plan to Send Only Skeleton shifts into the shafts wednesday morning and stage demonstrations. The strike he said will serve to warn party leaders they can  longer assume the support of the working class they claim to represent. And it will warn them they can no longer operate As though the communist party is the Only organization with a nationwide constituency. The miners Long list of economic demands is quickly becoming secondary to their plan to found a free labor Union in mid August. A protesting jobless homeless woman lies in a sleeping bag near the Kremlin  
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