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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / communist supporters March saturday in Moscow while marking the 75th anniversary of the october revolution. 50,000 March in Moscow to protest Yeltsin s policies Moscow apr More than 50,000 russians marched and waved the banners of monarchist and communism saturday turning the 75th anniversary of the october revolution into a Day of protest against president Boris n. Yeltsin. Pro communist demonstrators gathered around a huge Bronze statue of Vladimir i. Lenin in Central Moscow a october Square to Mark revolution Day the most sacred Holiday under the old soviet regime. Bolsheviks formed the communist party after seizing Power following the uprising. Waving both red communist flags and the russian Imperial Flag protesters marched across the Moscow River to manch Square outside the Kremlin. About 200 police blocked the Entrance to nearby red Square where revolution Day was traditionally celebrated with displays of military hardware and parades of specially selected workers. Red Square was closed last month for repairs to its badly worn cobblestones die hard communists say the closure was a deliberate attempt to disrupt their annual March. A i stood on red Square in 1941,�?� said 80-year-old Boris a Doyen marching with the pro communists. A the germans were All around us but still we marched. But today they re not letting us in. What kind of democracy is this a he asked. An elderly woman identified Only As Karpenko stood amid the marchers and shouted a my father was killed by Stalin but i still love my Russia. That a More than Yeltsin  Yeltsin is under increasing attack by hard liners who oppose his economic reforms and say they have created unnecessary hardships. Hard line lawmakers have vowed to try to Force the governments resignation slow Yeltsin a economic reforms and curb his special decree making Powers when the next session of parliament opens dec. 1. Several blocks away from the pro communist rally about 200 people held a memorial service honouring the victims of soviet repression. They gathered in front of the russian Security ministry in Lubianka Square the former Headquarters of the secret police founded by the bolsheviks. Diana says All s Well with mum in Law but she stays mum about her marriage London apr after a week of frenzied tabloid reports of strife in the Royal family the Princess of Wales did something extraordinary and unexpected she said it Wasny to True. But her statement Friday denied Only that she had fallen out with Queen Elizabeth ii and Prince Philip she said nothing about her marriage to Prince Charles which is what the headlines were largely about. The tabloids pounced on the Prince and Princess of Wales trip to South Korea a the longest Public expo sure for the couple since a Book published in june said their marriage was deeply unhappy. A revised edition of that Book by Royal watcher Andrew Morton published in the United states on Friday included new claims of a feud Between Diana and Philip which quickly landed on newspaper front pages. Still other reports claimed that the Queen had forced Diana to go on the trip and that the Palace was falsely promoting the image of a Happy marriage. Newspapers used photographs of the couple looking sad at a korean War memorial ceremony under headlines such As a tortured a How much longer can this charade go on a and Quot i ordered by Queen to go on tour Quot while Charles went on to Hong Kong Diana flew Back to London from Seoul on thursday night and on Friday she issued a statement through Buckingham Palace a the Princess of Wales would like to single out from the recent wave of misleading reports about the Royal family assertions in some newspapers this week directed specifically against the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh a said the statement Given to press association the National news Agency. A the suggestion that they have been anything other than sympathetic and supportive is untrue and particularly  blood Banks sought donations from inmates from wire reports Paris a French blood Banks continued seeking donations from inmates years after being warned that prisons had Large populations with a High risk of aids infection according to a government report one prison still was collecting blood As late As last year according to the report which is to be released within a few Days. The revelations Are the latest in a scandal that has shaken Frances Public health system put a former top official behind bars and left nearly 300 Haemophiliacs dead. Three people including or. Michel Garretta the former head of the National blood transfusion Center were convicted oct. 23 for their roles in distributing blood they knew was contaminated with the aids virus to 1,200 Haemophiliacs in 1985.British soldiers arrested Berlin a sixteen soldiers with the British army of the Rhine were arrested Friday after allegedly beating up two German police officers in Munster in the state of nor Rhein westfalen a police spokesman said. The two plainclothes officers were responding to a suspected break in Early Friday at a pharmacy in the Western German City when they were approached by seven British soldiers who threatened them the police spokesman said. The officers asked the soldiers for their identity cards but were attacked when nine additional British soldiers arrived on the scene. The officers were unable to radio for assistance the police said. After being kicked and punched one of the plainclothes police officers bred a warning shot from his pistol alerting a nearby resident who called the police the spokesman  Fleet sets out Tokyo a Japan a four ship whaling Fleet departed saturday for the Antarctic Ocean where it plans to kill about 300 whales in the fifth season of a controversial research program. The Kisshin Mam no. 3, Japan a last remaining whale processing ship and three Catcher ships Are expected to return in april. The International whaling commission imposed a worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Japan formally halted its commercial whaling at the end of the 1986-87 season when it caught 1,941 whales. It then launched a program of research whaling which is allowed under the 37-member commission s  sex Girlfriend Happy London a Tamara Kennerley said she was delighted to see her old Boyfriend from Oxford University make Good. A a in a sure hell make a very Good president a she said Friday. Kennerley dated Bill Clinton in 1969, when the president elect was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Last week the 45-year-old businesswoman from Cheshire made Public a letter Clinton wrote to her aug. 15,1969, about serving in Vietnam because she was a a infuriated that president Bush had questioned Clinton a patriotism. Kennerley said the letter showed that Clinton had expected to serve in Vietnam and she hoped its publication a helped him win the election. A a in a love to see him again but in a sure if he comes Here hell be too Busy a she told the associated press on Friday. A a in a like to meet her Hillary Clinton As Well. A it would be interesting a she said with a  rocks Panama City Panama City Panama a a bomb explosion wounded attorney general Rogelio Cruz and at least 11 other people Friday and caused heavy damage to the building housing his office police the bomb Erol Oded in a garage minutes after Cruz had left his car he was hit by flying Glass and was Cut on his face and body. He was Given first Aid and taken Home police said at least two of Cruz a bodyguards were wounded. None of the victims was in serious condition. Two police officers on duty outside the building and a Ciman were arrested but police refused to identify them or give details  
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