European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 7,1991 at a glance Marla Jensen keeps notes Handy during a rehearsal of death of a Salesman. Military communities Are squaring off in the tournament of plays to determine the Best in european theater. See stories on pages 14-15.bush fund Raiser in Houston president Bush and vice president Dan Quayle plan to kick off their 1992 re election Campaign with a fund Raiser oct. 30 in Houston. A Page 4thomas accused a University of Oklahoma Law professor told the Fri that she was sexually harassed by supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas while working for him at the equal employment Opportunity commission. A Page 5navy families file suits the families of three Navy aviators killed in a 1989 crash have filed separate multimillion Dollar lawsuits against Lockheed corp. And the . Government. A Page 6jazzman honoured the Rev. Jesse Jackson led a memorial service for Miles Davis one week after the trumpeters death. A Page 7soviet admits murder role a former soviet secret police commander has admitted his role in the murder of More than 6,000 polish officers in world War Page 8 Book details scandal the Book Den of thieves details wrongdoing from the 1980s insider trading scandals that goes Well beyond the guilty pleas entered by Michael Milken Ivan Boesky and others. A Page 17 Gorbachev Marks massacre by condemning anti semitism Moscow a president Mikhail s. Gorbachev in a landmark statement sharply denounced anti semitism and bemoaned soviet jewish emigration saying it resulted from government and Public failure to speak out against hatred of jews. Gorbachev a statement issued saturday night was read at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the world War ii nazi massacre of jews at Babi Yar on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital of Kiev. A the second world War Means countless victims. Their sheer number is shocking. And among tens of millions of dead there Are almost 6 million jews a representatives of a great nation dispersed by the will of Fate across the planet a Gorbachev said in the statement which was also carried by the state news Agency Tass a Babi Yar is an evidence that both on our soil and throughout Europe jews have always been among the nazis first victims a he said. More than 30,000 jews were rounded up and machine gunned to death by the nazis at the Babi Yar Ravine on the night of sept. 29-30,1941. A the nazis have speculated on the vilest feelings a envy nationalist intolerance and hatred a Gorbachev said. A anti semitism was their main tool of poisoning Peoples consciousness with chauvinism and in the soviet Union stalinist by Weicker Reau Cracy condemned anti semitism in Public but in fact a embraced it with the aim of isolating the country from the outside world. It was seeking to base its Rule on chauvinism a he said. A the years of perestroika the years of renewal have fundamentally changed the Public atmosphere a the president said in reference to his reforms of the late 1980s. But despite Legal declarations and Laws a social expressions of anti semitism have not been surmounted and certain reactionary circles Are exploiting this fact a Gorbachev said. Ambassador j. Kenneth Blackwell chief . Representative to the . Human rights commission told Moscow a 38-nation human rights conference last month that Many soviet jews a witness daily expressions of irrational hate and fear a revival of pogroms. A a poll released last month at the first International conference on anti semitism held in the soviet Union revealed that More than 50 percent of soviet citizens want All jews to leave the country. More than 10 percent of those polled said All soviet jews should be moved to the far East and More than half believe the fight against zionism should be strengthened. A like nazism this open anti semitism is spreading around the russian federation in Large cities though in other republics we see the totalitarian anti semitism which we know very Well a said Michael Chelnov co president of Van and a confederation of soviet jewish organizations and communities that sponsored the conference. In the poll conducted by Moscow a jewish scientific Center 4,200 people including about 25 jews were surveyed in 10 soviet cities last october. Mark Krasnoselsky who monitors antisemitism in the soviet Media told the conference that attacks on jews have increased with Between 50 and 70 publications in Moscow alone preaching hatred of jews. T a fall this has brought about a situation which endangers the life of jews a Krasnoselsky said. A Many have been forced to leave by this hatred. A Gorbachev in his statement also addressed the Issue of emigration saying it deprived the country of some of its Best citizens. ,. A we have established the right to emigrate. But to Tell you frankly we. Greatly regret the fact that our compatriots Are leaving that the country is losing so Many talented skillful enterprising people Gorbachev said. Some 315,000 soviet jews have settled in Israel since mid-1989, when the soviet Union adopted a More Liberal emigration policy. A total of up to 1 million Are expected to emigrate within the next few years. From Page 1 after some protesters pushed him and spit at him. Weicker said he simply wanted to talk with demonstrators. He has insisted the tax is the Only Way to solve the states budget problems. A apparently these people think that the Way to solve our budget deficit is by just saying a you suck a a he said. He later left the Capitol grounds through a Tunnel to an adjacent state office building. Saturdays protest organized by the Connecticut taxpayers committee came after payroll deductions began tuesday. It culminated weeks of smaller rallies around the state. The crowd grew steadily As caravans of buses streamed into Hartford. Police said it swelled to 40,000 by the time the rally began. Organizers said 65,000 people turned out. House Republican Leader Edward c. Krawizcki or. Said petitions calling for a special session to repeal the income tax Likely will be circulated next week. A crowd estimated at 40,000 fills the Lawn of the state Capitol in Hartford Conn. Index i Abby Ann Landers. 20 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 10 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 attacks from Page 1 or in the economically depressed Region. A it can be assumed that the Neo nazi scene in the former Cdr is greater than 2,000, in All likelihood several times greater a said the Agency which collects intelligence. The Agency said that about 2,700 Neo nazis were in former West Germany and that Rysany have explosives and guns. The Cologne based Agency complained that police in Eastern Germany have collected scant information about right Wing radicals in that Region. Unaccustomed to political violence police in former communist run East Germany have been overwhelmed. Some officers have sympathized with right Wing radicals. In one weekend incident four Neo nazi skinheads attacked a nigerian woman and three nigerian men with clubs Beer bottles and benches at a Street festival saturday night in Briihl South of Mannheim. One of the nigerian men suffered serious head injuries. A politician was Hurt when he tried to protect the africans police said. In Hochheim near Frankfurt two italians were beaten up. Two German youths were arrested according to police. Asylum seekers from the third world have been the main targets but the violence has also affected some West euro ieans a portuguese owned bar in Ham org was set on fire late Friday. Racial violence flared at the Bremen train station after a soccer game saturday night when a mob of hooligans attacked a group of kurd. Bremen police detained 87 suspects. I police reported weekend arson attacks on Asylum shelters in Bremen As Well As in the states of Schleswig Holstein and Niedersachsen. Seven other arson attacks were reported in Hessen. Refugees turned the tables on Neo nazis who tried to storm a Hostel in win sen North of Hannover. On saturday night 25 residents grabbed one of four skinheads and turned him Over to police. Armed with stones fire extinguishers and Iron bars gangs of radicals also attacked refugee shelters in the East German states of Brandenburg and Thi Ringen. Assailants threw a 44-year-old soviet sergeant out the window of his fourth floor apartment in the East German City of Gotha. The Soldier was seriously Hurt. Memorials at the grave of Konrad Adenauer West Germany a first Chancellor were painted with swastikas and nazi symbols. Adenauer is buried near Bonn
