European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1942-1992 50 years of service vol. 61, no. 206 35 monday novembers 1992german leaders pelted Berlin anti racism rally turns violent German president Richard von Zeluf Tycer Center is protected by police riot Shields and aides holding umbrellas during sundays massive demonstration in Berlin against racist violence. Berlin apr a Call to arms against racist violence inspired 350,000 people to rally in the capital sunday but the Day was spoiled by left Wing radicals who fired rocks and eggs at Chancellor Helmut Kohl and president Richard von . The demonstration against right Wing violence was the nations by a pm it was or the Crow opposite sides of the City and converged for a huge rally in East berlins Lustgarten Plaza. As the nation watched on television a dozen police with Shields and a pair of aides with umbrellas protected von  from a flurry of objects hurled at him As he spoke to the vast sea of people. Earlier police had to whisk Kohl from a March near the Brandenburg Gate when he was greeted by a barrage of eggs and stones along with insults and Boos. Neither Leader appeared to have been struck. Later Kohl blamed right and left Wing a a mobs for trying to disrupt the rally which Drew numerous politicians athletes and celebrities along with other citizens. Berlin police said however that the disruptions were the work of about 300 or 400 members of the far left anarchist scene which advocates the dissolution of Germany. The Small Well organized groups with their trademark Black hoods and Arab scarves frequently try to disturb official government functions. The disruptions were another embarrassment for a government so rattled by a frightening surge in attacks on foreigners and jewish monuments that it had to urge its people to demonstrate against the violence. A i think it is tragic that the situation is so bad that we have to go into inc streets a said cast Berliner Doris see Berlin on Page 2japanese escort collides with Greenpeace ship Paris apr a japanese escort ship collided sunday with a Greenpeace boat tracking a freighter Laden with the largest Ever cargo of highly toxic plutonium damaging both vessels the Greenpeace Crew reported. The collision apparently a sideswipe damaged the helicopter Landing decks of the Greenpeace boat Solo and the japanese escort Shi Kishima As the warship played a cat and mouse game with the converted Salvage tug Greenpeace said. The Shi Kishima is protecting the freighter Akatsuka Maru on a secrecy shrouded voyage Back to Japan with 1.7 tons of plutonium the cargo was loaded saturday in the French port of Cherbourg amid violent clashes Between Security forces and environmentalists a dozen nations including those on major maritime passages such As South Africa Chile Argentina and Malaysia have banned the aka Suki Maru from their territorial Waters. Japan says the plutonium is needed to fire up a new generation of nuclear fast breeder reactors. Saddam boosts arms purchases to upgrade military sources say Amman Jordan apr two recent shipments of tank and artillery parts from China were Only part of the flow of arms to iraqi president Saddam Hussein Western intelligence sources say. Saddam also is believed to be upgrading weapons at secret installations. A source speaking on condition of anonymity identified one such installation As a military Industrial Complex near tharthare Lake 60 Miles Northwest of Baghdad Iraq it was a command Center during last years persian Gulf War. The source said the iraqis had tested rockets at the site in a continuing Effort to upgrade and improve their inventory of conventional weapons. Last year s , cease fire Resolution ruled that Saddam s weapons of mass destruction must be destroyed but it did not specifically order Iraq to dismantle its armed forces or production facilities for conventional weapons. Conventional weaponry except for scud missiles is outside the Purview of the United nations. After two years of sanctions including a ban on arms sales Saddam is increasingly desperate for spare parts to maintain combat capability the sources said. Saddam pays for the parts with funds he is known to have stashed abroad before the Gulf crisis erupted in August 1990, according to the sources. The United nations has Frozen assets that investigators know of a but Saddam is believed to have several billion dollars in Bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere. There is no estimate of How much he is spending in his current buying spree. Although Saddam a offensive capability has been neutralized by the losses he suffered last year he needs to keep his slimmed Down 380,000-member army in fighting condition to stay in Power. The intelligence officials said that at least two shipments of spare parts for t-72 tanks and Long Range artillery As Well As other Materiel reached Iraq earlier this year from China which uses similar weaponry in Beijing on sunday a foreign ministry spokeswoman gave Standard answer to queries regarding its arms trading. A this report is a pure fabrication made with ulterior motives a the spokeswoman did not identify herself in keeping with policy. The intelligence officials in Jordan said the consignments included night vision equipment Simitar to that used with such devastating effect by . And British Armor in last years Allied attack against Saddam s military. Both shipments were tunnelled through Jordan although the intelligence operatives Are not yet Clear on How to was done. The United nations does not have the ability to Monitor compliance with sanctions or Check smuggling along the jordanian Border. It depends on states to report possible violations