European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Former president Reagan shows off a vase painted with the Solidarity sign Given to him by Lech Walesa right during a rally saturday at a Monument in Gdansk shipyard where Solidarity was born. Huge crowd of workers urges Walesa to run for president Czestochowa Poland up a More than 100,000 workers on a pilgrimage to Poland a holiest shrine urged Solidarity founder Lech Walesa on sunday to stand for president and aides confirmed his Campaign would begin a very the huge crowd gave a Hearty Welcome to Walesa who participated in the traditional mass for workers on the ramparts of the Jasna Gora monastery. The Solidarity Leader has made no secret of his dissatisfaction with what he considers the slow Pace of Reform by the government of his former adviser prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and of his desire to replace Wojciech Jaruzelski the former communist party chief As state president. As Walesa raised his hands Over his head in the traditional Solidarity a a a for Victory sign the crowd thundered a we want Lech not Wojciech. A Pauline Monk tried to Calm them Down announcing Over the Loudspeaker a this chant makes no sense. Everybody knows that we want this to unexpectedly Mazowiecki also arrived. He Shook hands with Walesa in the corridor of the monastery and both leaders sat Side by Side during the rally and mass but their conversation was limited. After the ceremony was Over Mazowiecki and Walesa stood together before the hallowed picture of the Black Madonna and prayed for a better future for the country. The first workers pilgrimage to Jasna Gora was organized in 1983 by the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko the pro Solidarity pest murdered by secret police the following year. It is now a tradition. Throughout the centuries All important decisions of polish Kings and rulers a except for the communist period a were preceded by visits to Jasna Gora. The first 10 minutes of the rally took place in sunny weather but intermittent rain disturbed the rest. Phone lines Cut to mohawks holed up on Canada Reserve Montreal up a Canadian army troops saturday tightened their grip on a handful of besieged mohawks by cutting the reservations cellular Telephone Contact with the outside world officials said Canadian armed forces spokesman capt. Marc Rouleau said the shutdown also affected the journalists who Are with armed mohawks at a detox Center on the Kan Satake Reserve South of Montreal. Rouleau said the phone lines were Cut a to put the focus on direct negotiations Between the Mohawk warriors and the the army won a court order forcing Bell Canada to shut Down cellular phones lines. On thursday regular phone lines to the Reserve were Cut. The mohawks Only line of communication is a hot line that links them directly to the army Rouleau said. He refused to say if the mohawks were using the line. Rouleau said army officials hoped journalists would take the army a advice and leave the area. A your operation is a delicate one and a dangerous one and it has become important that journalists not be within the perimeter Quot Rouleau said. On Friday the mohawks released a tape recording they made of a conversation Between a Mohawk Leader and Quebec Indian affairs minister John Ciaccia in which Ciaccia suggested if the Media were removed the army could help the mohawks leave the Reserve under cover of darkness thus ending the seige while saving Mohawk Pride. Meanwhile Quebec police said they will turn Back a 13-car Convoy of american indians heading to the Reserve from Detroit. The Convoy left Detroit Early Friday with members determined to show support for the besieged mohawks. Convoy organizers originally hoped hundreds of cars would make the trip to the Kan Satake reservation. They said would be members stayed away fearing harassment at the Canadian Border in Windsor. Convoy organizers told members not to bring weapons or alcohol into Canada and to obey All Laws. On monday the Canadian government said there would be no amnesty for Mohawk indians suspected of crimes during the eight week standoff Between indians and the army in Quebec. The standoff began july ii when Quebec police stormed a barricade set up around disputed land that mohawks claimed was an ancient burial ground. A police officer was killed in the action. Days later sympathetic mohawks at the Kahn awake Reserve threw up barricades across major highways and the Mercier Bridge linking the town of Chateauguay to downtown Montreal. The Bridge finally reopened a week ago after mohawks and the Canadian army agreed to jointly dismantle the barricades. World today scholars attack Bhutto for Lack of religious beliefs Karachi Pakistan apr seven islamic scholars have asked a court to disqualify ousted prime minister Binazir Bhutto from next months election because they say she a not a Good moslem. Bhutto whose government was dismissed by president Ghulam Ishaq Khan on aug. 6 on corruption charges is a candidate for five of the 217 seats at stake in the National Assembly the policy making lower House of parliament. A hearing was set for monday. The scholars argue that a candidate for a moslem seat must understand and practice the teachings of islam and should not damage the Freedom of the judiciary defame the armed forces or be involved in corruption. The former prime minister they charged did not fulfil these conditions and should be disqualified. They said Bhutto had made Public statements against the teachings of islam a a reference to Bhutto opposing the cutting off hands As punishment for crimes such As theft As islamic Law service launched Between s. Korea China Seoul South Korea apr South Korea started up regular ferry service with China on saturday for the first time since the korean Peninsula was divided in 1945. A 4,300-ton ferryboat carrying 130 people left the Western port City of Inchon for Weidai on China a Shandong Peninsula the South korean news Agency Yon Hap reported. The boat will leave Inchon twice a week Yon Hap said. It will Fly a panamanian Flag because the two countries have no diplomatic relations. South Korea has strengthened economic and nonpolitical ties with China a close ally of communist North Korea. In recent months it has also increased ties with the soviet Union and most of the formerly communist nations in Eastern Europe. China intervened on North koreans Side in the 1950-53 War Between the Korea. The two Korea have never signed a peace treaty and hundreds of thousands of troops guard their investigator wins big payoff in Philippines Manila Philippines apr the official appointed by president Corazon Aquino to investigate alleged rigging in the government lottery won the top prize sunday in a drawing televised to restore Public Confidence. Retired Brig. Gen. Alfredo Lim director of the National Bureau of investigation held the winning ticket Worth 5 million pesos $200,000officials of the philippine Charity sweepstakes office said. Officials said Lim bought an entire Book of tickets while investigating allegations that the sept. 1 lottery drawing was rigged. A judge and a lawyer who were involved in that drawing have been arrested and the Board of directors of the sweepstakes resigned following the scandal. Aquino however refused to accept resignations of the Board members who include environment Secretary Fulgencio Factor an solicitor Gen. Francisco Chavez and the wife of health Secretary Alfredo Bengzon. Unlike previous drawings sundays was telecast live As part of the governments Effort to convince the Public that the lottery is fair and radio says soldiers stoned beaten by monks Bangkok Thailand up a Burma a government radio has charged that anti government Buddhist monks stoned and beat four ailing soldiers in the Central City of Mandalay. An official radio broadcast saturday night said the beatings took place Friday when four soldiers sick from fever contracted while serving near the Border were stoned by a group of 30 Buddhist monks As they were driven in bicycle Trishawn past a monastery. The report said the monks beat up one of the soldiers so seriously he had to be hospitalized. The official radio reported that another group of monks attacked Security forces in the City with stones and slingshots. The incidents highlighted growing animosity Between Buddhist monks and Security throes since an incident last month in which two monks and two other people were allegedly killed by Security forces during attempts to break up an anti government demonstration in government has denied anyone was killed in the incident saying Only warning shots were fired
