European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Germany \sv.\\\\\..,\ .T�.. . Edition the so adj Helpes to. 50, no. 19 thursday May ,1991 authorized unofficial publication for the ..-armed forces. 350 8693 amay Day marchers Greet Gorbachev with silence from wire reports. Soviet president Mikhail . Gorbachev was met with Stony silence 30,000 in the Philippines cheered Call to close .. Bases and China held Sunrise Flag raising ceremony on May Day the traditional leftist workers Holiday. Thousands of soviets marched through red Square in May Day rally that neither matched the fanfare of years past nor repeated the angry demonstration that drove Gorbachev from the reviewing stand in 1990. Comrade Gorbachev. You ought to be ashamed to have the Post of general Secretary of the communist party of the soviet Union shouted one Marcher Viktor amp Ilov who led several Hundred workers carrying portraits of soviet dictator Josef Stalin. None of the marchers carried placards praising Gorbachev but Only Tew condemned him and the customary applause was absent As Gorbachev mounted the stand at Lenin mausoleum. Turnout was the lowest in decades. Hundreds of thousands of germans demanding work for ally gathered wednesday in the East and West to Ccle brate the first May Day held in unified see Gorbachev on Page 10refugees begin returning from Hills / Zakhoo Iraq apr British helicopters began flying iraqi kurdish refugees to an Allied built Camp wednesday joining steady Stream of trucks trailers and buses bringing the refugees Back to their country. .. Official in Ankara Turkey meanwhile expressed fears that the repatriation Effort was moving too fast. we Are very concerned. That this program to repatriate people by the coalition military forces is proceeding very rapidly without due regard to first the wishes of the people and second their returning to Keg then secure situation said the official with the .. High commissioner for refugees. He spoke on condition of anonymity. Two British helicopters began ferrying refugees Down from the Border mountains under morning drizzle. At die same time steady Stream of cars and trucks moved along the main Road from the mountains for the second Day. By .., ,053 people had crossed through Maia Bec Point said .. 1st sgt. Paul the three Day total of people passing through the checkpoint to about ,500. it god awful Parade said one army lieutenant surveying the kurd so return. they sped out. Now they re limping Back.?� most of the kurd passed by the refugee Camp of ,203 tents ran by the allies and pitched by .srtroops just outside Zakhoo. Most of those returning proceeded to their Homes in an arsed protected Safe Haven in Northern Iraq. if they dont wont to stay Here that Fine with us said Gordon Murchie spokesman for the state departments Agency for International development which is assisting the Allied forces. Quot the More people who go Home the better Mur Chie said. Quot Quot the Allied forces Are trying to persuade the 800,000 iraqi kurd to return from the turkish iraqi Border where they fled after Saddam Hussein crashed kurdish uprising that followed the persian Gulf War. However in one area on the iraqi Side of the Border Rev .033 of the 10,000 refugees were still waiting to see refugees on Page 10 amps Kon George -year-old kurdish girl living with her Mother at the Hillside Isik Veren refugee Camp in Turkey holds her baby sister. See today eight Page special report on kurdish refugees inside the stars and stripes. Cyclone toll nears ,000 in to Vantura Bangladesh apr azi hurries airlifted food and Medicine Wea Nesda. To survivors of devastating Cyclone on Bangladesh Southeastern coast. The official death toll was near ,000. One rarer said 25.333 people died. Tens cd thousands of Neonie were reported the United news of Bangladesh news Agency quoting radio messages received in Dacca said 25,000 people died in the Cyclone. .. Ambassador William . Milam told the government that the United states was donating $ million in medical supplies. Relief Secretary Hisamuddin Ahmed said the number of confirmed killed was ,977 in tuesdays storm the most powerful on record to hit this impoverished disaster prone nation. But most of the deaths were reported from the Mainland and the government had no information of the situation on the islands he said. 1970 storm took 500,000 lives in Bangladesh. United news of Bangladesh said the islands of Mahesh Kali Sandip Kutub Dia and Shakori which Are Strung along the Southeastern coast and inhabited by hundreds of thousands of Farmers and fishermen were the hardest hit. The news Agency said its death toll included at least ,000 people killed on see Cyclone on Page 10
