European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 16, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 Moscow shooting planned for years Moscow a the Man who tried to shoot at a soviet leaders Dunn last weeks revolution Dav a according to glasnost the shooting took Diane just material u a i. A a. Rade had been planning to kill president Mikhail Gor i the. Mausoleum. Police said in officer official Nln lib free it said quo tag an my vow Quot a a / a a a tried to shoot a soviet leaders Dunn last weeks revolution Davda Rade had been planning to kill president Mikhail Gorbachev for More than two years news reports said thursday. Alexander a. Simonov a 38-year-old unemployed Man from Leningrad was charged with attempted terrorism in the nov. 7 shooting on red Square. Police say he managed to fire two shots but they prevented him from aiming at Gorbachev and other soviet leaders who were watching the traditional military Parade from atop Lenin a mausoleum. No one was Hurt. Col. Pyotr Sokolov a top Kab investigator told the newspaper glasnost that Simonov was carrying a note confirming Gorbachev was his intended victim. A the note was prepared in Advance in Case of his death during the assassination attempt a Sokolov said according to the official Tass news Agency. A in the note Simonov explicitly set out his criminal intentions As regards to the soviet  so it leaders. 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The owner told him it  be easy to get into red Square so he spent the night Reading newspapers describing meeting places for people participating in the Parade a the newspaper said. Sgt. Andrei Pylnikov the policeman who subdued Simonov during the shooting said in an interview with Moscow news on wednesday that the gunman told investigators a i wanted to kill  Simonov joined a delegation from the Bauman Region during the Parade marking the 73rd anniversary of the 1917 bolshevik revolution. The shooting took place five minutes after Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin and other officials returned to the mausoleum after marching with pro communist party demonstrators. Police storm anarchist held Berlin tenements Berlin api a thousands of riot troops raided a barricaded neighbourhood with bulldozers and armoured trucks wednesday and smashed a defiant Community of anarchists in the heart of Berlin. Officers burst through the makeshift barriers after Daybreak. As commuters watched they battled the radicals for hours before driving hundreds of them from a Row of tenements in former East Berlin. At least 325 people were arrested and 70 officers and protesters were injured including one squatter who was shot in the foot when an officers warning shot ricocheted police said. One officer and 15 squatters were hospitalized they said. About 50,000 people marched through Eastern Berlin late wednesday to denounce the police raid and to demand affordable housing. Many residents of Eastern Berlin now get rent subsidies a practice that will soon end. The protesters tried to March to the Street where the squatters lived but police surrounding the area turned them Back. Angry demonstrators Tore Down or burned Campaign posters that major political parties had put up for the dec. 2 National elections. Wednesdays confrontation was the third in three Days on Mainzer Strasse and the latest example of lawlessness in former East Germany once strictly controlled by communist rulers. As Many As 3,000 police Many of them paramilitary units brought in from other German states moved in to seize the heavily fortified Mainzer Street and adjoining streets where leftist radicals had taken up positions. Armoured personnel carriers and bulldozers burst through several barricades and officers used clubs water cannons and tear Gas in pitched Battles with the radicals. Radicals fired flare guns and threw rocks and firebombs from rooftops and windows. The Battle spilled onto several other streets and an adjoining six Lane thoroughfare was closed to traffic. Helmeted German riot police on wednesday storm an Eastern Berlin Street barricaded by leftist squatters. After the fighting Mainzer Strasse was filled with soldering debris a spent tear Gas canisters junked cars and furniture that had been hurled from windows. Much of the Street was torn up by the radicals who used its cobblestones As weapons. Berlin Interior minister Erich Patzold said the clash was marked by a unbelievable brutality from the radicals. Barbel Bohley an activist who helped Lead the peaceful revolt that toppled the communist regime last year denounced the police raid As an unnecessary use of Force. She said a peaceful solution could have been reached. Most of the radicals involved in the fighting Are anarchists from former West Berlin. Hundreds of radicals had taken Over abandoned Row houses in Eastern Berlin and built encampments on vacant land where the Berlin Wall once stood. The largest such Community was on Mainzer Strasse where they occupied 12 tenements. The radicals set up special houses and cafes for women and homosexuals. Signs and slogans such As a heat the Rich a and a learn to bum a covered the tenements decorated with the red and Black flags of the anarchist movement. Authorities evicted Radical leftists from three houses in other parts of the City Early monday. Radicals on Mainzer Strasse began building barricades and hurled rocks when police showed up monday afternoon. That clash lasted until tuesday morning and at least 137 officers were Hurt and 20 people were arrested. Death toll hits 14 in new zealand massacre Dunedin new zealand a the death toll in the country a worst massacre Rose to 14 thursday when police found Uman remains in the debris of a House be killer set ablaze before opening fire on his neighbors. The remains were believed to be those of to 11-year-old girls missing in the 23-hour that ended wednesday in the South and Seaside Hamlet of Aram Ana. Discovery of the two bodies raised to 13 the number of people slain by 33-year-old David Gray before police killed him in a shootout. Gray wounded two children. Gray began his killing spree tuesday night by setting a neighbors House on fire then opening fire on people who aved to try to extinguish the Blaze. Gray who holed up in his Home before fleeing to a House on the Edge of town used High powered rifles to shoot neighbors and keep police from reaching victims scattered on the Lawn of his House and a nearby Street. Among those killed were a couple and one of their two children. The other child a 4-year-old son was hospitalized with a stomach wound. A Man who lived in the House Gray torched also was shot dead and his Daugh Ter and a friends daughter both 11, were missing and presumed dead in the fire. The Many a 9-year-old daughter was recovering from a gunshot wound. The unemployed Gray who had an obsession with guns was reported upset Over the recent death of his Mother. Some neighbors also pointed to a Long simmering dispute Between Gray and the victim whose House he burned