Nation/World University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 9, 1989 --- Arrests in East Germany Police break up pro-democracy demonstrations The Associated Press BERLIN — East German police arrested hundreds of people during pro-democracy protests in East Berlin that lasted into early yesterday and also broke up huge weekend demonstrations in five other major cities. In East Berlin, citizens cheered protesters from apartment balconies. Hundreds of injuries were reported as police, swinging truncheons, repeatedly charged the demonstrators. Police punched, kicked, beat and dragged the protesters away and roughed up Western journalists covering the demonstrations in East Berlin. Clusters of plainclothes and uniformed security forces were stationed throughout East Berlin later year, but went further demonstrations. The protests, coinciding with the visit of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on East Germany's 40th anniversary, were the largest since a workers' uprising was put down by the Soviets in 1963. Gorbachev's reform policies have made him popular among ordinary East Germans, and many protesters know his name and called for his support. Western journalists assigned to cover the anniversary were told yesterday that they could not extend their visas, and some who had traveled to West Berlin were not allowed back. Also yesterday, a group of pro-democracy activists announced that they had formed a Social Democratic Party. The party's charter was signed by 43 people in Schwante, near Berlin. The group's charter calls for a "rigorous democratization of state and society" and says the party wants to "work with all democratic initiatives, groups and people in our land." The party indicated it would not immediately apply to be legalized. The prominent reform group Neues Forum, or New Forum, was recently banned by the communist government. New Forum says it has grown from its original 30 members to more than 11,000. Despite the growing unrest and the exodus of East Germans to the West, East German leader Erich Honecker said during lengthy talks with Gorbachev Saturday that he would stick to his hard-line course. Honecker the hopes of proponents of reform were "built on sand." In all, more than 15,000 people protested Saturday and early yesterday in the capital, Leizig, Dresden, Potsdam, Jena and Plauen, according to West German television and witness accounts. Later yesterday, secret police in East Berlin patrolled the Unter den Linden boulevard, a major street, and motorcycle police were stationed at intersections leading to the mammoth Brandenburg Gate along the Berlin Wall. Paramilitary groups waited in trucks on a side street. The Hessischer Rundfunk radio station in Frankfurt, West Germany, said 700 protesters had been arrested in East Berlin alone, although witnesses said the number could be more than 1,000. Lutheran church leaders called for their release and appealed for calm. In East Berlin, the official East German news agency called the 5,000 protesters there "troublemakers" who had been chanting "slogans against the republic." ARD showed dramatic television footage of helmeted East German police in riot gear charging demonstrators in Leipzig, hitting them with trumcheons even after the protest had been broken up. During the East Berlin protests, there were strong indications of support even from those who did not actively participate. Apartment dwellers rushed to their balconies to urge on thousands of protesters with sparklers, cheers and applause. In a crowded, smoke-filled bar, a young East Berliner shouted "Happy Birthday police state." His companions assailed the repressive policies of the hard-line communist government and jeered the anniversary celebrations. Police in East Berlin swept through courtyards and beat on apartment doors looking for demonstrators. They moved in ranks and zig-zag patterns to divide and catch the marchers. For three hours yesterday, AP-Dow Jones reporter Igor Reichlin hid in the apartment of an East German family after he was chased by police when trying to cover the protests. The family risked prison sentences by refusing to open the door to the police. "Around midnight we found ourselves together with several hundred marchers in a narrow street, sandwiched between two lines of riot police and plainclothes policemen." Reichlin said. "They started charging at us, separating the column into small groups. One of the groups ran into a doorway and then into a courtyard where more police jumped out to grab them." Early yesterday, police brought out water cannons to disperse several hundred people. BIG MAC ATTACK! The son of late singer Bobby Darin is suing McDonald's Corp. for more than $10 million, accusing the restaurant chain of copying his father's singing style in the "Mac Tonight" commercials. The suit, filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges that the television ads infringe on rights to Darin's 1939 hil-version of the song "Mack the Knife." The commercials feature a tuxedoed man with a smiling quarter-moon head, sitting at a piano, singing out the hamburger lingle. The suit alleges that the character's voice and gestures resemble those of Darin, who died in 1973 at 37. The suit was filed on behalf of Dodd Darin, the singer's son and only heir, and the Bobby Darin Testamentary Trust. Darin's upbeat version of "Mack the Knife," a song from the 1928 German musical "The Threepenny Opera," sold 2 million copies and won Darin two 1960 Grammy awards. Briefs The suit seeks an injunction halting the McDonald's commercials, $100,000 in general damages and $10 million in pumitive damages. BANK ROBBERS LOCKED OUT! Two armed men wearing masks resembling former Presidents Reagan and Carter attempted to rob an Omaha, Neb., bank, but a fast-acting employee locked them out. One man was shot in the arm. The men apparently stalked out the Mid-City Bank and waited for employees to arrive Saturday, police Sgt. Richard Dragoun said. When one woman arrived about 7 a.m., the men grabbed her and held her in a lobby between the inner and outer doors, Dragoua said. When they tried to push their way into the main lobby, the woman escaped and locked the inner door behind her. One of the men fired a shot through the doors, striking bank President James Fitsl in the right arm. Relatives said he was in good condition at Clarkson Hoknital. No arrests have been made yet, police said yesterday. She was nominated 10 times for Academy Awards and won an Emmy in 1979 for the television production "Strangers — The Story of a Mother and Daughter." Miss Davis appeared in more than 80 films, including "Jezebel," "All About Eve," and "Of Human Bondage." BETTE DAVIS DISC: Bette Davis, the two-time Oscar winner whose toughness, huge eyes and haughty, cigarette-smoking style made her a movie-industry legend, died Friday at 81. Her screen heroines were often strong women and as uncompromising as the actress was off-screen. She once suggested the lines for her own epiphath: "Bette Davis — she did it the hard way." Her career included a 1985 comeback offseason from nine seasons in stroke and a broken hip in quick succession. White teachers win discrimination suit The Associated Press MACON, Ga. — Two white teachers were awarded $35,000 in compensation by a U.S. District Court jury that found they had been subjected to reverse discrimination in the predominantly Black Hancock County school system. Following a two-week trial, the jury Friday found in favor of Barbara Martin and Patricia Goldsborough, former Hancock County public school teachers who had sued the school district, the superintendent, their school principal and a county judge. Goldsborough, who now lives in Basehor, Kan., was awarded $20,000 in compensatory damages, and Marlin, a farmer from Goldsborough The jurors agreed with the teachers' contention that they had been forced from their jobs because of the racial environment in M.E. Lewis Elementary School in Sparta but denied their claim that the defendants had conspired to deprive them of their constitutional rights. No punitive damages were awarded, and the damages were assessed against the school district,rather than the individual defendants. The defendants in the lawsuit, all Black, were Superintendent M.E. Lewis Sr., elementary school principal Ralph Warren and Hancock County Probate Court Judge Edith Ingham Grant. The attorney for the two teachers, J. 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