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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 6, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 9orthodox jews police clash in Jerusalem Jerusalem a police on horseback clashed saturday with thousands of Ultra orthodox jews who tried to Block a new Highway arguing that the traffic disturbs their Sabbath observances. Ten protesters were detained and four policemen were injured one requiring hospitalization said City police spokeswoman Anat Granit. Ultra orthodox leaders said five protesters suffered injuries from police blows Israel radio reported. It was the most violent outburst Between israelis religious and secular jews in four years since rioting erupted Over the opening of movie Heaters in Jerusa world Lem on the Sabbath. The Road in question named a peace Road a was opened tuesday and runs alongside Arab East Jerusalem. It was paved partly to provide israeli motorists with a Way to bypass Stone throwing protests staged by palestinian activists in the City. But parts of the 11/4-mile stretch also run next to Jerusalem a Meah Shea rim Quarter Home to thousands of hasidim or Ultra orthodox jews who adhere to religious Law that bans driving on the Sabbath. Nearly 4,000 Ultra orthodox men dressed in customary Black suits marched to the Road saturday afternoon to protest Granit said. A Many of them knocked Over our barricades and rioted. Throwing stones at police a she said. Witnesses said several dozen police on horseback blocked the protesters from reaching the Road. A photographer reported that some police hit the protesters with nightsticks. Before and after the clash the protes tors stood about 50 Yards from the Road shouting a Ash Abbas Shambos a a the hebrew word for Sabbath a at pass gears. Protesters had still not dispersed More than an hour after the clash the radio said. Dozens of israeli motorists drove through East Jerusalem to avoid the confrontation. Jerusalem is Home to 360,000 jews and 140,000 palestinians most of whom live in the Eastern sector that was captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War and later annexed. The Ultra orthodox Are an influential minority in the City. Traffic is banned on the Sabbath inside neighbourhoods where they Are a majority. Monument staff strikes threatens sit in in Paris from wire reports Paris a staff at the arc Detriomphe have gone on strike demanding better working conditions and that extra workers be hired to show tourists around and maintain the famed landmark at the top of the champs Elysee Union officials said Friday. The 25 employees began the stoppage on monday and Are threatening to hold a sit in in front of the Monument starting this week if their demands Are not met. The strikers said four jobs had not been filled when they became vacant and that they were suffering from a intolerable working  fake jeans prompt arrests Hamburg Germany a police said Friday they arrested two . Citizens who allegedly tried to sell almost half a million fake levies. A police spokesman said the two both aged 33, were arrested in a hotel in the Northern German port City of Hamburg where they allegedly tried to sell the Blue jeans for $4.32 million. The jeans an official of the . Firm Levi Strauss said the jeans which bore the Levi Brand name were apparently manufactured in China. He said the firm was seeking to have the jeans burned. Heavy Rains soak Spain Valencia Spain a torrential Rains moved North along Spain a Eastern Mediterranean coast saturday after Flash floods Cut railway lines roads and Power lines and isolated some communities in the Valencia Region. There were no reports of victims. Residents started cleaning up the areas worst affected As skies cleared to reveal damage wrought by Flash flooding that began Friday. Spanish National radio said skies were Clearing Over the Balearic islands. Majorca was also hit by heavy Rains Friday. Reports said the Rains flooded Orange Groves in Valencia As the water level Rose in some areas to 5 feet. The National weather service said the storms were expected to move North toward Catalonia. Be spokesman said police seized the 432,000 a which had been shipped in two containers. More bang for the used vehicle Buck two children scramble aboard a soviet made t-34 tank in a used car lot in Pirkov Czechoslovakia. The owner of the lot is asking $6,000 for the world War ii vehicle that had stood until last year As a Monument to the liberation of the area from the nazis by soviet soldiers in the closing months of the War. Bombs kill 5, injure 34 in Pakistan Karachi Pakistan apr four car bomb explosions rocked this Southern port City within half an hour saturday killing at least five people and injuring 34, police said. The car bombs were placed outside government buildings including a Central police station and the provincial secretariat building which houses the offices of chief minister Jam Saddiq Ali the highest elected official in Singh province. A this was very Well organized. The bombs were All triggered by Remote control a said police superintendent Jamil Ahmed. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts but the chief minister hinted that a once Ini Litant Wing of former prime minister Binazir Bhutto a party was behind it. A a it a the work of those trained abroad a Jani Saddiq said in a veiled reference to Al Zulfikar named for Bhutto a father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who was overthrown in a bloodless coup in 1977 and hanged two years later. Hundreds of government employees panicked and fled into the streets As the first bomb exploded shortly before noon outside the secretariat. Five minutes later a second bomb went off across the Street sending screaming workers scurrying for safety witnesses said. Two More bombs exploded about two Miles away at the Central police station where Singh Interior minister Irfan Uliah Marat was scheduled to hold a news conference an hour later and at the Central investigation  Campaign focuses on sexual harassment of women the Hague Netherlands a the programs plot is pure cliche. A woman invites a Man Home for a drink but says no to sex. But what is unusual is the sponsor the dutch government. In a publicity Campaign beginning monday with the slogan a sex is natural but never a matter of course a the dutch social affairs ministry is trying to turn what it sees As a tide of sexual harassment against women. A there is a sense of taking things for granted in sexual behaviour. People hardly realize it can be very annoying to women a said ministry spokeswoman Marie Jose Van Bavel on Friday. It wont be the first time the government has taken the plunge into bedroom behaviour in this sexually permissive society. For several years the government has sponsored a grim Media Campaign via television billboard and newspaper advertisements to promote the use of condoms As a Way of preventing the sexual transmission of aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The Netherlands already has one of the lowest rates in the industrialized world for the disease that destroys the body a natural disease fighting mechanism. The latest Media Campaign will try to illuminate sexual attitudes that Lead men to read unintended sexual invitations into social situations. Mondays television spot less than a minute Long depicts a woman inviting a Man Home after a Date. The Man refuses the drink and then makes sexual advances to her. He is astonished when she resists. The comic strip version due to appear in print shows a woman and a Man in a movie theater with the woman saying angrily a they listen. If in a excited by anything its the film and not you. So take your hand away right  Van Bavel claimed that despite the equal social status that dutch women enjoy they Are still routinely subjected to sexual harassment. A recent study found that 58 percent of women surveyed had experienced incidents of sexual harassment including unsolicited sexual approaches and sexual remarks Van Bavel said. One in three said they had been the victims of sexual molestation including rape  
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