European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world thursday september 15, 1994 riots erupt in Belfast loyalist areas. _ Belfast Northern Ireland a police and politicians appealed for Calm wednesday after a night of gunfire and rioting in hard line protestant parts of Belfast a. Masked protestant youths hijacked and torched three buses and six other vehicles and threw gasoline bombs and bricks at police protecting firefighters. Offi cers said they came under gunfire on four occasions late tuesday. A \ one Bullet ricocheted off a North Belfast police bar Racks into the front window of an elderly woman s Home but nobody was seriously Hurt in the violence police said.  " v  violence two weeks after the Irish Republican army announced a cease fire underlined fear and anger among some of Northern Ireland s pro British protestant majority that they Are being sold out to their traditional Irish Catholic enemies. Loyalist paramilitary groups say they won t Stop bombing and shooting Catholic targets unless they Are sure that Britain has not Cut a secret Deal with Ira  mood in working class protestant parts of Bel fast has turned increasingly bitter and tense since the aug. 31 cease-fire.--/. Extremists Are lashing out at the protestant police who can now can devote More attention to suppressing the gunmen on their own Side of the Community. We have called for Calm in the last few weeks and we arc appealing for Calm again today said Chris Mcgimpsey a City councilman in we St Belfast s Shankill Road area. A  v. V " the British government which is trying to reassure protestants sounded sympathetic. What we have to do is to maintain an even path an not overreact said Baroness Denton a senior British official in Northern Ireland. People Are bound to be angry that is understandable.". The Street violence erupted after a Catholic Ira suspect 23-year-old Stephen Larkin appeared in court on charges of trying to murder the Shankill Road s most a Van Burns Early wednesday in Belfast s Shankill Road area Afler noting broke out in hard line protestant sections. Notorious loyalist Johnny Adair. The hearing was Al burned. Adair who has boasted of his involvement in killing catholics is now in jail and awaiting trial on a Range of charges. Protestant and Catholic spectators in the court jeered and swore at each other and fistfights broke out in the courthouse foyer. Police separated the two groups and eventually drove about 40 protestants on to Crumlin Road outside the court. Masked men wielding clubs appeared on the Street to reinforce a group of protestant women lined up across the Road blocking traffic the masked men threatened British soldiers who stood their ground. The loyalists backed off then hijacked a Van and set it alight behind the courthouse. The violence spread to the nearby Shankill and other protestant parts of North and South Belfast police and British army reinforcements called to Dis Perse the crowd outside the court Oise fired plastic bullets when a gasoline bomb was thrown at them. Police said three officers and a civilian suffered minor cuts and bruises in tuesday s daytime violence. After dark the car hijackings and burnings escalated. Police said gunmen in loyalist areas took potshots at passing patrols of police armoured cars. Eif feeding expect a t i Dos is eds v october 22-26,1994 Patrick Henry will he h e Ide l b e r g. 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The ask fre e p Ress is a in us St. Petersburg Russia a former . President Carter urged rus Sian journalists tuesday to uphold free Dom of the press if they want Russia to become a full fledged democracy. Media s autonomy is a key to democracy Carter said at the end of a two Day meeting of a joint .-russian commis Sion on radio and television policy. Without an Independent broadcasting system Ordinary citizens lose Confidence in the state its institutions and pro  the commission established by presi Dent Bush and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, issues annual recommendations to government agencies responsible for relations  Media. This year the commission discussed opportunities for strengthening Media in dependence from government interference or commercial pressure on editorial Content. Freedom of communications helps government to establish a civil society in which citizens loyalty and participation is voluntary and authentic said Carter who chairs the commission. As recent history teaches attempts by governments to control information can not  the commission recommended forming Independent nongovernmental agencies for distributing broadcasting wave bands and called for a ban on mis leading advertising. Mikhail Polto Ranin head of Russia s legislative committee for information pol icy and communications said Russia s Media could not gain full Independence from the state because of poor financing. Albania cholera outbreak believed to have killed 4 Tirana Albania a govern ment health authorities expressed alarm tuesday at a cholera outbreak that is believed to have killed at least four people and hospitalized More than 100 since lat last week. Residents in some neighbourhoods of Tirana the capital were warned not to drink tap water. The state news Agency Ata said sever Al deaths reported Friday in Herat about 75 Miles Southeast of Tirana were at first believed to have been caused by food poisoning. But health ministry officials con firmed tuesday that four people in the area had died of cholera. State radio said word health organization specialists had visited Albania on monday to take samples. Health minister Maksim Cikulin said cholera appeared to be spreading in Small towns in Central Albania apparently through polluted water. He said foreign donated medicines to help treat cholera victims were expected to arrive soon. Tiny Albania Europe s poorest coun try is struggling to rebuild its Economy after emerging from decades of stalinist isolationism. It has relied heavily on for eign Aid since the communist regime col lapsed four years ago