European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 7,1990antiblock St. Montreal apr about 250 protesters angry about a Mohawk blockade occupied a drawbridge Over the St. Lawrence sea Jray for five hours saturday blocking passage of ships. Police finally cleared away the anti Mohawk demonstrators who were also demanding More action by the Fadtra government to Settle an armed standoff elsewhere Between Quebec provincial police and mohawks. The mohawks have blocked the Mercier Bridge for More than three weeks. The Bridge closure has forced Long detours for people travelling across the St. Lawrence River Between Montreal and its South Shore suburbs. Indians from the Kahn awake Mohawk Reserve near Montreal have blocked the Bridge in sympathy with mohawks in the town of Oka 18 Miles West of Montreal who have been engaged in an armed standoff with provincial police. The standoff in Oka began july ii after police rushed a barricade set up by the mohawks to Stop the expansion of the local Golf course on land they claim is theirs. An officer was killed in the gun Battle that followed but it is still not Clear if he was shot by indians or fellow officers. The anti Mohawk demonstrators blocked a drawbridge Over the Ste Calherine locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway which connects the River with the great lakes. The St Catherine locks near Montreal Are entirely in Canadian territory. During the afternoon protest two freighters As Well As several pleasure boats were held up on the great traffic to solar Power a a Sun powered race car that can go More than 60 Mph begins a preliminary trial for the solar Mobil rally Limburg Berlin in w est Germany. The ear operated by a team from Ravensberg and some 60 other such vehicles were to compete in the we Klong race w hich Start d sunday in i Lumburg. Lakes Side of the drawbridge. Normally Between 10 and 30 ships pass through the locks daily most or them heading for Ottawa. About 50 provincial police equipped with clubs arrived on the scene to catcalls from the demonstrators but the crowd ignored a police order to disperse within five minutes. Police then lined up three abreast and pushed the crowd off the drawbridge. One Man with a Cane fell to the ground in apparent convulsions and was taken Qway by ambulance. Quot it was a Good demonstration because it affected International opinion by blocking an International shipping Lane said the demonstrations Leader Jean Pierrc Potvin the president of the local chamber of Commerce. A it did no to bother the ships Crews they just did a bit of the protesters a mainly from Montreal a South Shore suburbs a said that by blocking the Seaway traffic to the Canadian capital Ottawa they hoped to Send a message to the Federal government that their needs cannot be ignored. Meanwhile traffic was flowing freely on the Champlain Bridge and on South Shore roads after police local residents on Friday. The protesters had threat removed several blockades put up by anti Mohawk a a a May. The or ened to maintain the barricades until the Mercier Bridge is reopened. The barricades went up at Daybreak Friday and some remained late into the night causing chaos for travellers. Gems Worth $2 million from Paris store Paris up a a daring Daylight Holdup at a fashionable Paris jewelry store saturday netted almost $2 million in gems and left five people injured in the getaway police said. Authorities said two gunmen held up the Chaumet boutique on place vendome in Central Paris shortly before 4 . Local time liking All the jewelry in three display windows. Police were still seeking the gunmen who fled on a motorcycle until it collided with a taxicab after which they commandeered a car. In the collision in the Paris opera District the robbers motorcycle veered onto a sidewalk and struck a couple and their son and daughter who were on foot. Police said the father and son were in serious condition at a Paris Hospital. After the motorcycle was disabled in the crash the gunmen forced a couple and their son out of a passing car and continued their getaway. Moments later the car struck another pedestrian who was slightly injured. Authorities said the robbers abandoned the car after a Short distance and stole another motorcycle. Police lost track of them on the Rue Lafayette about a mile from the scene of the Holdup. A spokesman for Chaumet said the robbers both armed with handguns forced a Saleswoman to open display cases and took All the items on display. Witnesses described the pair As a Short Black Man and a tall White Man. Both wore fake beards. At least one of the men wore a wig which was lost in the to offer classes in religion in september Warsaw Poland apr come september Many polish school children will face a unusual curriculum Reading writing arithmetic and religion. Religion classes will be offered in kindergartens and primary schools in the coming academic year for students whose parents want their children to take the courses the government announced. In secondary schools either the students or the parents May decide if the pupils should attend the classes. The introduction of religion in the schools for the first time since the Early 1950s has prompted a heated controversy in Post communist Poland where More than 90 percent of the population con siders itself roman Catholic but where Many adhere to a strict separation Between Church and soviet ss-4 missile takes its place in museum Moscow apr the last soviet intermediate Range ss-4 missile in service took its place As a museum exhibit saturday in Kaluga 100 Miles Southwest of Moscow the Tass news Agency reported. A a a a the superpowers agreed to destroy these missiles and american Pershing ii missiles when they signed the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty in 1987, the treaty allowed each country to keep three disarmed missiles for museums. Tass said the soviet missile was installed alongside meteorological rockets in front of the local museum of grab $260,000 after new kids concert Montreal apr three robbers with guns and a fake hand grenade stoic $260,000 in proceeds sunday after a concert by new kids on the Block police said. Police spokesman Jacques Morrisseau said the robbers who were armed with revolvers entered a room in olympic stadium where 12 employees were counting Money from souvenir sales. New kids on the Block the teen pop sensation had earlier played before a crowd of 57,000 at the stadium. The group usually generates tens of thousands of dollars in sales of programs Caps and to shirts before their concerts. The robbers handcuffed the employees and placed the fake hand grenade near a door. They told the terrified employees the grenade would explode if they tried to open the door. The robbers then made off with $260,000 in Cash from the souvenir kills himself for a mistake at work Paris apr a gendarme formerly with the French embassy in Lebanon has killed himself expressing remorse in a note for failing to Check military trunks used in an arms trafficking scheme officials said. The gendarme who was in charge of controlling the trunks in his Post at the embassy in 1989, killed himself with a gunshot july 30, officials at the gendarme Headquarters said. Many fear powerful Germany sex official says London apr former Cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley who resigned after saying a joint european monetary policy was a a a Genoa Racket designed to take Over the whole of Europe a has repeated his views and said he has received thousands of supportive letters. Quot a very Large number of people Are fearful about where it s All leading Quot he said in an interview with the sunday express. Ridley quit As Trade and Industry Secretary on july 14, after the weekly Magazine Spectator published his remarks denouncing Germany. Ridley told the sunday express that if he had know n he was going to he quoted verbatim he would have used language that was diplomatically More tactful. The newspaper reported Ridley a Secretary As saying the letters of support he has received Over the last three weeks has run into six figures. A one has to listen to the people Quot Ridley said. In a widespread speculation that prime minister Margaret Thatcher secretly shares Ridley a views the sunday express said Ridley a undoubtedly remains a close ally and Friend of mrs. Ridley said he objected to the actions of the european commission which runs the 12-nation european economic Community in Brussels Belgium. It was Quot telling us what to do about everything. That is not necessary to meet those objectives of free Trade and free and fair Competition Quot which he said he favored. He added that there was no economic Benefit in a a headlong Rush toward economic and monetary Union let alone political a the British people did nol think they were joining a Federal Europe centrally run and centrally controlled. This is at the heart of the concern and the worry a he said. Ridley said he feared the powerful German currency would dominate the Pound in a fixed system leading to the risk of higher inflation and a i930s-Slyic recession. But that did not mean he hated the germans. A we work in a different Way to germans French and italians. We have a different Type of Economy. We have a different system of Industrial finance. We Are a much More open he was quoted As saying. Quot we Are just rather different people. Nothing wrong with
