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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, September 4, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes at a glance . Simpson laughs in a los Angeles court fast week after speaking with his attorney Robert Shapiro left. Prosecutors filed a motion Friday to sequester jurors throughout the trial which the judge has said could last six months. See Story on Page 5. Teens banished two teens convicted of robbing and beating a pizza deliveryman were banished by tribal elders to separate alaskan islands. A Page 6 Parks recognized a Man accused of breaking into the Home of civil rights Pioneer Rosa Parks did no to know she lived there but recognized her once he was inside police said. \ a Page 8 a different View French president Frangois Mitterrand a role in the pro nazi Vichy regime during world War it has been brought to Light in a new Book. A Page 10 a a. 1 s. _ ,. A 1 no longer pacifist Japan a socialist party made a landmark decision to formally overturn its pacifist policies. V a Page 11 what now Dow experts debate he significance of. The Dow Jones Industrial average which is flirting with the 4000 level. Page 12 Pacino honoured Al Pacino earned a career award at the Venice film festival. A Page 20 r Index Abby Ann Landers _____20 classifieds. 24-30 commentary. 23 faces a no places. 20 Horoscope. 27 letters. 22 Money matters 12-13 Mutual funds. 13-17 sports. 30-36 weather. 21 correction 2 sunday september 4,1994 Greet russian troops Moscow apr the capital welcomed the last russian troops to return from Germany putting on a Homecoming saturday Complete with a military Parade orchestras and die hard communists demanding that they go Back to Berlin. A. Quot Quot. A a the train carrying the soldiers who left Germany on wednesday arrived at Bolo Russky train station famous As the site where victorious soviet troops returned after world War ii. Prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin attended a ceremony at the station with other political leaders and decorated world War ii veterans. A these Days we Are turning the last Page in the history of a whole Era in Europe a whole Era in the history of Mankind a he said. Several Hundred angry communists tallied outside the station waving the red flags of the former soviet Union. A let us put the Banner of Victory Over the Kremlin a said a placard. A shame go Back a shouted some protesters mourning the collapse of a soviet Empire that once controlled half of Europe including half of Germany. Several thousand spectators largely ignored the protest. Sergei Mukhin receives a welcoming kiss from his Mother As russian troops returning from former East Germany Parade through Moscow on saturday.  Page 1 seems like a preparation for the occupation of our country. It could be the preliminary action for a massive invasion. Earlier last week one Moscow newspaper claimed that the american contingent would include special operations officers who would be gathering secret intelligence for possible . Military action in Russia. _ the report was strongly denied by . Government spokesmen but it demonstrated the fears and paranoia of Many russian nationalists. Hundreds of angry protesters led by Ultra nationalists and communists Are travelling by train to the Orenburg Region of Southern Russia where the . Troops have assembled for the exercises. _ / a it the protesters Are vowing to Block the american military vehicles and disrupt the exercises. A we wont let invaders come to our land a one woman shouted As she boarded a train in Moscow. At rallies in Moscow arid Orenburg Over the past several months demonstrators chanted anti american slogans and waved signs Reading a Yankee go  there also has been Strong opposition from Many politicians in the new russian parliament. Shocked by the backlash . And russian leaders agreed to cancel the Mil itary exercises which had been originally scheduled for july. But after months of negotiations and fact finding missions to the Orenburg Region the authorities decided to reschedule the exercises for this month. The controversy has exposed the deep ambivalence in Russia s feelings about the United states. Historically the a  and the a Slavo philes were always divided in Russia and the uproar Over the . Troops is evidence that the rift still exists. Y although Many younger russians Are fascinated with american culture older people Are less enthusiastic about their country a Drift into the Western sphere of influence. A Russia is becoming like an underdeveloped country dependent on the United states a Maliov said. A there is an invasion of american culture american advertisements american music and films. Its quite a humiliation. Its propaganda for a lifestyle that cannot be imagined by the Ordinary worker who has lost his  but while the anti american sentiment is vocal it seems to represent a minority of the russian population. Last month an opinion poll found that 55 percent of russians now View the United states As a partner and Only 30 percent still regard it As a rival. A in any country there s going to be some anti american feeling a . Embassy spokesman Michael Mcclellan said adding that anti american feeling exists even in the United kingdom the protest rallies have been a very Small by traditional russian standards Mcclellan. Said adding a relations Between the . And Russia Are  russian authorities trying to mollify the opponents have Given repeated assurances that the . Forces will include no tanks no Armor and no live ammunition. Only Blank cartridges and simulation charges will be used they said. _ they have emphasized that the exercises will focus on peacekeeping tasks such As setting up Venigee Camps mounting patrols and escorting humanitarian convoys. W a a yet it is the symbolism of the . Presence More than anything else that has infuriated the russian nationalists. They remember from their history books that the last time the United states sent a Large contingent of forces to Russia was in 1918, when president Wilson was trying to topple the communists who had seized Power in the revolution a year earlier. Even in world War ii German troops never got As far As Orenburg the nationalists Point out. R russian defense minister Pavel Grachev has condemned the anti american feelings As a a disease of the  but the vocal protests have forced the russian authorities to Send squads of Ripe police and troops to Orenburg to guard the exercise  by Scrippa Howard news service trip because of an editing error in a Friday Story on dental appointments in Baum Holder Germany the number of a failed appointments attributed to family members in june at the dental clinic was incorrectly represented. The number was 87, not 87  Page 1the cuban exodus. With the horizon full of . Coast guard and Navy boats the refugees in the second wave which began monday Are reaching safety More quickly. By late Friday the coast guard had picked up 1,271 More cuban refugees after rescuing 1,921 thursday and 2,159 wednesday bringing the total for the year to More than 28,000. Quot it Steven a. Banks commander of the coast guard patrol Craft Monhegan said belter constructed boats and rafts along with the increased number of coast guard and Navy ships in the Strait were responsible for the Quick Rescue of refugees coming in the second wave leaving the Island. A Many of the refugees said they delayed their departures to work on their rafts while waiting for a storm to pass through the Strait last weekend. Their work showed. Unlike the rickety rafts the coast guard found at the Start of the exodus the rafts found last week by the Monte Gan were More like sturdy boats made of Drums Wood and huge inner As with those before them the refugees were being taken to the . Naw base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba where they will be detained indefinitely. Cuban authorities Are not checking whether children Are fleeing the Island Blanco said from the upper deck of the Monhegan which found his family Havana floating about 13 Miles Oft there s no cuban coast guard no Pih u pm of sail Blanco who left Quot the not a family tuesday evening. Coast guard. We the so much for Fidel a concern for Chil Dren a said Banks As his Crew hoisted another group of migrant families aboard. Reports from Cuba however indicate that members of the cuban coast guard have questioned people along the waterfront about children aboard rafts. Last sunday Castro threatened to prevent children from leaving on unsafe rafts. American soldiers scrambled saturday to set up a Camp outside Panama City for up to 10,000 cuban refugees who. Could begin arriving As Early As monday from the overcrowded Guantanamo base. The sprawl of tents going up on a Bluff overlooking the Panama canal will be the first facility for detained cubans outside the United states or Cuba. A steady Stream of trucks carried tents gravel wooden sleeping platforms and drinking water saturday to the Camp site. The first refugees could arrive As Early As monday a . Military officer said saturday but . Officials were awaiting final approval from the new panamanian government  
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