European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world monday january 17,1994 London police in riot gear seek to Avert violence by patrolling outside a pub where Neo nazis gathered saturday. Rightist concert cancellation London area brawls London a Neo nazis anti racist demonstrators and police clashed saturday in the streets and subways around London after a Rock concert organized by right Wing groups was cancelled for fear of just such violence. Police said the disturbances involved hundreds on each Side. One officer suffered a head injury and at least seven people were arrested for Public order of lenses the press association news Agency reported. About 130 Neo nazis including groups from the Netherlands and Germany gathered at a pub in East London for the concert Only to find it was called off. Police had advised the pub to cancel the show to avoid trouble Scotland Yard said. At a nearby subway station passengers cowered As supporters of the extreme right Wing British National party ripped out seats and threw them at members of youth against racism in Europe and the anti nazi league who responded by throwing bricks. The anti racism demonstrators had been headed to the concert to protest the press association said. Officers in riot gear surrounded a second East Lon Don pub to keep the dozens of Neo nazis drinking in Side apart from about 100 opponents outside the news Agency said. Police buses took the right wingers to train stations to enable them to leave London it said. More violence broke out when about 400 anti racist demonstrators were loaded onto a special train that took them nonstop from the area where the Rock con Cert had been scheduled to the Earl s court under ground station in southwestern London. At Earl s court which was closed to the Public the demonstrators were herded onto the Street and a handful began spitting and throwing cans at police the news Agency said. About 40 officers charged the crowd with truncheons drawn and riot police chased one group Down a Road. Calm returned within about half an hour. The British National party which won its first seat on an East London government Council in september advocates the expulsion of All Blacks and jews and stricter sentences for criminals including the return of the death penalty. The ballot followed a series of racial attacks in the District in London s impoverished East end where bangladeshi Indian and Caribbean immigrants have settled among working class Whites. In october More than 60 people were injured in Street fighting As police struggled to keep anti nazi league protesters from marching past the British National party Headquarters in Welling Southeast Lon Don. Chief of . Pacific forces visits Vietnam Hanoi Vietnam a the highest ranking american military officer to visit Vietnam since the War ended nearly 20 years ago arrived sunday in another sign of . Moves toward restoring economic and diplomatic ties. Adm. Charles r. Larson commander of the . Pacific come came for three Days of meetings with Viet namese officials to assess Hanoi s cooperation in accounting for americans missing in action from the War. At the same time sen. John f. Kerry a member of the Senate foreign relations committee indicated he would support an easing or end to the . Trade embargo. Kerry a Massachusetts Democrat whose views Likely would influence president Clinton went sunday to see . And vietnamese forces undertaking the largest investigation and excavation operation for mias since the end of the War in 1975. He said later the sight of 100 vietnamese and americans Side by Side at the crash site 20 years later is very moving and a remarkable experience. It s been very encouraging but it does t bring me to a conclusion. But it is definitely very positive and All of the signs Are moving in the right  Kerry said american businesses Are suffering from the embargo. The embargo is not an embargo against Vietnam he said. It s an embargo against ourselves against . Busi Ness. Vietnam is not being Hurt by it  meanwhile Premier to Van Kiet urged Clinton to normalize relations soon saying this would Lead to co operation in other Fields. He did not elaborate but obviously . Businesses would Benefit from the lifting of the embargo with billions of dollars at stake. I think the fact that i m Here shows that there s been a level of cooperation that has been very Good Larson told reporters. Certainly if the cooperation level was not Good i would not be Here. I feel a heavy responsibility coming As the first senior american  vice foreign minister be Mai told Larson that the vietnamese had recently seen a number of american delegations but i think your visit is of particular  the . Group responsible for accounting for the missing Falls under Larson s command in Hawaii. Kerry met with Kiet on saturday. Kiet asked the sen Ator to Tell Clinton that the time has come to restore economic and diplomatic relations Between Vietnam and the United states. I think we have reasons to be optimistic about going Forward Kiel told Kerry who is a Vietnam combat Veteran and also was chairman of the now defunct sen ate select committee on pow Mia affairs 4 found dead 1 alive in cargo Container on ship from wire reports London four suspected stowaways were found dead in a cargo Container unloaded from a ship docked at a Southeast England port police said  bodies were found at the port of Felixstowe on saturday after Dock workers heard the cries and pounding of a fifth Man who was locked inside the Container with the bodies of his companions. Police said All five men believed to be romanians had hoped to smuggle themselves into Britain or the United states. The dead men whose names were not released were aged 20 to 36. Felixstowe port managing director Derek Harrington said the men probably got into the Container somewhere in France and spent two or three Days inside. The Container is about 40 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet. Turkmen Leader wins Ashkhabad Turkmenistan turkmen president Sapa Murad Niyazov won a nationwide referendum on staying in his Post until the year2002, officials said sunday. The Central election committee said 99.9 percent of the voters approved the idea of allowing Niyazov to remain president for a second five year term without conducting new elections. Only 212 people out of 1.959 million voters who took part in saturday s referendum voted against it said in a report carried by the itar Tass and inter fax news agencies. Voter turnout also was 99.9 percent the committee said. Jordan convicts plotters Amman Jordan the state Security court on sunday sentenced three jordanians to death and seven others to sentences ranging from 15 years to life at hard labor for involvement in a murder plot against King Hussein. The three member military tribunal headed by col. Hafez Amin found All 10 defendants and two other suspects still at Large guilty of plotting against the life of the  Amin said four men were members of the outlawed Herb Al Tahir which recruited six jordanians to mount an attack against Hussein onjune26,1993. The organization does not recognize any existing Arab or Muslim regime and advocates the establishment of islamic caliphate governments. India oks Deal for 66 jets new Delhi India. Prime minister . Narasimha Rao s Cabinet has approved the Purchase of British Hawk advanced Jet trainers for the Indian air Force in the country s largest arms import Deal in a decade the Indian express reported sunday. L the country s biggest Chain of newspapers said the Deal involved the delivery of 66 Hawks for $1.9 billion. A ministry of defense spokesman could not be reached for comment. Crime worries russian Moscow. Crime and corruption Are reaching a critical mass in Russia one of the nation s top crime fighters warned in an interview published saturday. Legal business has started to quietly merge with in mess " first Deputy Interior minister Mikhail Yegorov said in an interview published by the armed forces newspaper Krasnaya zvezda. Yegorov Heads the division of the Interior ministry charged with fighting organized crime he said crime is like a cancer that has infected the most sensitive social Organ the  very month we Deal with 600 to 700 cases of extortion and racketeering More than 30 bloody contacts Between criminal gangs and 10 to 15 kidnapping cases Yegorov said. Crash kills Indian Mig Pilot new Delhi India a russian made Indian air Torce Mig-21 Jet fighter crashed sunday killing the Pilot news agencies reported. Us he. Single seat plane was on a training Mission  crashed near a Village in the northeastern state of Assam the United news of India said. Ine aircraft hit the ground and exploded sending burning fuselage splinters into the Village. No civilians were Hurt