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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the Star and stripes Friday May 3, 1991 May Day Berlin style a a asked demonstrator runs away after throwing a firebomb wednesday at a police car in Eastern Berlin. Rioters clashed violently with Law enforcement officials until Early thursday in what has become annual May Estoril Portugal apr angolans leftist government and guerrillas Nave reached a peace Accord in one of africans longest and bloodiest civil wars with the United states and soviet Union agreeing to Stop arming the rivals. A. Negotiators clasped hands at this coastal resort wednesday to Seal provisional accords that Call for a cease fire at the end of May and for Angola to hold its first free elections in the fall of 1992. The War Cost an estimated 300,000 lives since it began in 1975, the year Angola gained Independence from Portugal. J Quot a we have succeeded in crossing the Rubicon in this Complex process in this monumental work for lasting peace democracy and dignity for our people in Angola a said guerrilla Leader Jeremias Chi Tunda. He is vice president of the National Union for the total Independence of Angola known Asun it a which is supported by the United states in its fight against the soviet backed government. Chi Tunda joined angolans territorial administration minister Lopo do Nasimiento in initiating the accords. Unita Leader Jonas Sav Imbi and angolan president _ Jose Eduardo Dos Santos Are to sign the agreement later this month in Portugal. It a Herman Cohen the . Assistant Secretary of state for african affairs told a news conference in Washington that the soviet Union and the United states were bound by the accords to suspend deliveries of military Aid to their allies in Angola. Day Street fighting Between the City a leftist youths and police. A police spokesman said that More than 80 police officers sustained slight injuries in the nigh Long Battles and that about 180 people were arrested. The angolan government and the guerrillas have until May 15 to communicate final acceptance of the agreement to the portuguese government. Fighting should end by Midnight that Day although the cease fire will officially take effect after the formal signing two weeks later. A in these talks there arc no winners or losers a said the chief mediator Jose Manuel Durao Barroso of Portugal. A if these accords Are respected. The Only Winner will be Angola and the angolan  if the cease fire holds it will end decades of bloodshed in the Southern african nation of 10 million. The . State department hailed the 1,500-Page agreement As a a historic development which offers the possibility of peace for a country which has known Only War for More than 30  the civil War began in 1975 after the soviet backed popular movement Fot the liberation of Angola gained Power on the eve of Independence from Portugal. Before then the movement and Unita fought guerrilla wars against Portugal a Rule. Angola became aet a War Battlefield after 1975 when Cuba sent soldiers and the soviet Union sent arms to Back government troops fighting Unita forces. The guerrillas were supplied by the United states and also received support from South Africa. But the United states and the soviet Union put years of rivalry in Angola behind them last year to join peace negotiations led by Portugal. The War crippled an Economy that is potentially one of africans  soccer fans riot in turkish resort town from wire reports Ankara Turkey a British soccer fans in Turkey for a championship match rampaged through an Aegean resort town smashing windows and parked cars and attempting to bum the turkish Flag the sem official Anatolian news Agency said wednesday. The riot started late tuesday when hundreds of British soccer fans descended on the resort town of Kusa Dasi near the Aegean City of Izmir some 340 Miles Southwest of Ankara. A european soccer championship match was scheduled in Izmir on wednesday. Police said some of the fans became unruly after drinking at a bar and went on the rampage when the bartender refused to serve them More drinks. Witnesses said the hooligans smashed shop windows and cars parked nearby and some attempted to Burn the turkish Flag considered a crime under turkish Law. Three people were reportedly injured. Police said 25 people were arrested in the Flag burning incident Ana faced three months in jail if  protests continue Seoul South Korea a a Catholic priests professors students and other dissidents kept up protests thursday Over the death of a student by police and urged the government to Stop using excessive Power to maintain its Rule. More than 100 elder dissidents including a presbyterian pastor Moon in Hwan began an indefinite sit in protest at Monsei University seeking to a Send the abuse of Public Power by this regime and prevent More youths from  they said their sit in will continue until prime minister to Jai bongs Cabinet resigns combat police Are disbanded and former Home minister Ahn Eung to and other top police officials Are arrested and punished. Kang Kyong Dae 20, a freshman at Yongji University in Seoul died a week ago after an attack by five police officers during a Street  rebels fire rocket Athens Greece a leftist rebels fired a rocket into a Power company a office before Dawn thursday causing damage but no injuries police said. They said the rocket fired from a homemade tubular device crashed into the empty second floor offices of the Public Kriwer corporation in Athens Agni Anargiri neighbourhood. The Athens daily newspaper Elefther Otylia said an Anonymous caller claimed responsibility on behalf of the november 17 organization for the attack that occurred shortly after Midnight. In previous announcements november 17 claimed it stole anti tank rockets from a military arms depot in Larissa Central Greece and two world War ii bazookas from the Athens War museum in 1989. A hostage turns 60. Beirut Lebanon a american educator Thomas Sutherland turned 60 on Friday his sixth birthday in the hands of pro iranian kidnappers. _ _. Sutherland a wife Jean sent her husband a birthday message from the United states where she is spending some time with her  signs Accord with striking Coal miners by the los Angeles times Novokuznetsk .s.r. Populist Leader Boris  launched his Campaign for the powerful new presidency of the russian Republic wednesday by reaching an agreement that could bring an. End to the 2-month-old Coal miners strike. Standing in front of a crowd of 5,000 workers in the siberian City of Novokuznetsk Yeltsin declared his Solidarity with the miners and signed a Resolution intended to Transfer jurisdiction Over Coal mines to his russian government. Drafted by Yeltsin a aides and strike leaders Over two Days of negotiations the Resolution pledges that the mines now controlled by the Central soviet government will be Given full Independence to decide what kind of management they want once they belong to Russia. This in turn should Lead to Resolution of most of the miners grievances. A today we can firmly say that we have achieved an agreement with which the a miners Are totally satisfied a Yeltsin declared. A in signing this statement we Are practically signing the. Mining organizations to the jurisdiction of  if the miners do return to work Yeltsin will Likely be credited with achieving what president Mikhail s. Gorbachev could not Resolution of one of the country a most acute economic problems. Leaders of the strike committees said they expected most of the Coal enterprises to return to work after the soviet and russian governments finalize the Transfer of the mines by signing1 an agreement sunday. A nearly 100,000 miners More than 80 percent Are on strike in the Kuznets Coal Basin and have been since March 1. Overall More than 300,000 miners have been on strike most of the past two months but there has been a gradual return to work in the past 10 Days. A the most important Point is Complete Independence for enterprises a said Vyacheslav Golikov chairman of the Novokuznetsk strike committee. A first they give us Freedom and then we determine what kind of ownership. A what we could not achieve in negotiations with the National government the russian government is willing to give us a Golikov said. Angola guerrillas reach pact on ending 16-year civil War  
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