European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday november 13,1990akihito enthroned in elaborate rite Tokyo apr emperor Akihito ascended to the worlds oldest hereditary monarchy monday the first of a legend aty 2,600-year-old line of emperors to be enthroned As a state Symbol rather than a living god. The rites were protested by Radical attacks and demonstrations. Ultra leftists who contend the institution of emperor is an unconstitutional relic of Japan a Militarist past launched numerous attacks on military bases train stations and shinto shrines. Radicals carried out at least 34 guerrilla attacks and several thousand protesters held rallies around Tokyo. But opponents failed to Dampen the triumphant Public reception for the 56-year-old emperor cheered on by an estimated 110,000 spectators who lined the streets to View the Imperial procession following enthronement. More than 2,200 invited dignitaries from 158 countries including vice president Dan Quayle and Britain a Prince Charles and Princess Diana attended the ceremony at the Imperial Palace. Akihito wore a red Brown silk Kimono and Black Coronet of ancient design for the solemn occasion. He sat on an octagonal Black lacquered throne in front of a courtyard filled with attendants carrying bows and swords As Well As family members including Crown Prince Haruhito. Following a slow silent procession into the White stoned courtyard gongs were sounded and court chamberlains Drew open the canopy of deep purple surrounding the throne. Akihito stepped Forward and solemnly held aloft the proclamation of his accession. He vowed to Quot discharge my duties As Symbol of the state and of the Unity of the people under Japan a postwar Constitution which restructured the Imperial role As a figurehead rather than a divine authority. Akihito said he would perform his role world today emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko acknowledge Well wishers along a Parade route. In the same spirit As his father who a shared Joys and sorrows with the people at All times during a 62-year reign that encompassed both the devastation of world War ii and Japan a dramatic recovery. Empress Michiko dressed in an ancient style multicoloured court gown with her face painted White sat motionless on her own throne at Akihito a Side throughout the 30-minute ceremony. The ritual ended with prime minister Toshiki Kaifu standing stiffly before Aki Hito in a morning suit and leading the japanese guests in three cries of a Banzai a which Means a May you live a thousand  As a 21-gun Salute boomed in a nearby Park Kaifu led the cheers from a Point level with the base of the throne to underscore the constitutions stress on popular sovereignty. However such alterations to the ancient mystical rites whose origins Are lost in legend that dates the foundation of the Imperial line to 660 b.c., were not enough to satisfy leftist radicals who want the Imperial House abolished. Hundreds of masked members of the Ultra leftist Chuka Kuha or Middle Core faction chanted a smash the enthronement ceremony a at a rally in a nearby Park. Police said they arrested at least seven protesters charging one with assaulting an officer one with violating traffic Laws and five with a Snake dancing that disrupted traffic. Many of those along the Parade route yelled a a Banzai and waved National flags As Akihito and Michiko passed by in an open Rolls Royce in route to their residence at the Akasaka Palace. The couple wore Western clothes for the procession. There was one shaky moment when firecrackers erupted As the emperors car passed. Police with German shepherds rushed in and took away several people some of whom handed out leaflets calling Akihito a father the late emperor Hiro Hito a War criminal. Nearly 10,000 police lined the route which passed in front of Japan a parliament. A record 37,000 police were mobilized to guard the ceremonies. Radicals launched projectiles at three suburban military bases and a fourth in Western Tokyo the defense Agency reported. Police reported another attack outside the . Naval base at Katsugi 24 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. A radicals also were accused of setting Early morning fires at three Tokyo train stations that stopped traffic on two major commuter lines police said. In separate incidents two subway lines were shut Down because of smoke in stations. Fires erupted at four shinto shrines in Tokyo including one less than a mile from Akihito a residence. Two shrines were destroyed. Many japanese ignored the ceremonies taking advantage of the special Holiday to take weekend trips and to crowd Golf courses and driving ranges. Long lines of people queued in front of movie Heaters. One poll indicated nearly half of the japanese were not interested in the enthronement. Akihito became emperor immediately after the death of Hirohito in january 1989, but his formal enthronement was delayed until after a period of  chemical leak pollutes latvian River Moscow apr a toxic chemical has leaked into a River in byelorussian and Latvia forcing the shutoff of drinking water to at least two cities and tainting the River for hundreds of Miles officials said. The leak apparently came from the National governments chemical and petrochemical min Ustiy which produces chemicals for military weapons said Viktor Yukhno the controller at Latvia s government water authority. City and Republic leaders said officials never informed them of the leak into the Daugava River which occurred sometime Between oct. 31 and nov. 5. A it is just the same As chernobyl. We Only ironed that something went wrong when we saw fish floating belly up Down the Stream a said lat Inan Tift i r Vian Deputy prime minister Ilmar bisher refer ring to the 19"" Kohl plans to visit soviet troops in Germany to assess problems 1983 nuclear Power Plant disaster. J Berlin apr Chancellor Helmut Kohl promised to visit soviet troops in Eastern Germany after hearing soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev express concern about their poor situation a government spokesman said sunday. Gorbachev on saturday ended a two Day trip to Germany during which he signed a historic 20-year treaty of non aggression Friendship and cooperation. But he returned to Moscow without receiving any commitment for economic Aid beyond the 29 billion Marks $19.5 billion already promised by the German government and Banks. On Friday Gorbachev mentioned in a speech his concern Over an a anti soviet flavor in German Public attitudes toward the 380,000 red army troops that remain in Eastern Germany. The conservative Welt am sonntag newspaper reported that Kohl promised Gorbachev to visit soviet military Camps in Eastern Germany in the coming year and speak with the troops to find solutions to their problems. A government spokesman who declined to have his name used said the report was Correct but he had no further details. The huge soviet military presence in nato member Germany is a leftover from the soviet Alliance with now defunct East Germany which United with the Federal Republic on oct. 3. The troops Are to be pulled out of Eastern Germany Over the next four years but there Are reports of poor morale extortion and violence among them already. The German Magazine Stem in its most recent edition said older soldiers were beating up younger ones to Force them to hand Over their pay and the number of suicides was High. Soviet troops Lead closely restricted lives inside the German bases yet there Are also German news reports that some have deserted to live in the forests and others Are stealing weapons and military hardware to sell on the Black Market. Soviet stores can now write off leaders Moscow Jap a a books by soviet leaders including president Mikhail Gorbachev Are no longer guaranteed space on store shelves Ana those that done to sell Are being shredded a weekly newspaper said monday. However books by the founder of the soviet state Vladimir i. Lenin Are still considered sacred and cannot be destroyed the weekly so Besednik said. The newspaper aimed at soviet youth quoted a bookshop manager As saying rat works by Gorbachev foreign min ister Eduard a. Shevardnadze and prime minister Nikolai i. Ryzhkova Are not Selling and have been written off. A these books sell poorly and to sell even one brochure is a Victory a said m. Chucha Kina director of Bookstore no. 67 in Moscow. She said a total of 17 books and publications by Gorbachev Shevardnadze and Ryzhkova As Well As pamphlets on the 28th communist party Congress and the 19th communist party conference have been sent to the shredders on orders of the Moscow directorate of bookstores. The newspaper said it was the Fust time in soviet history that works by Active leaders had been written off As non Sellers and destroyed. A previously such actions were equal to crimes against the state a the newspaper said. So Besednik said that Politi Dat publishers of works by soviet leaders and other politically motivated books and pamphlets used to routinely produce such works in lots of 200,000 copies. Now the average number is Between 15,000 and 20,000, the newspaper said. Chucha Kina was quoted As saying the works of Lenin were still considered sacrosanct. A we Are not allowed to write off Lenin. Those books Are sacred a she told the newspaper. Instead she said they Are stored in basements where a they rot they grow moldy and fall  one method of getting rid of the unwanted books she said was making customers Purchase several in order to buy popular Best Sellers