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Mondav. November 9.1992
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Violence disrupts Berlin rally
Leftists throw eggs and stones at top leaders
The Associated Press
BERLIN — A call against rightist violence inspired 350,000 people to rally in the capital yesterday. But the day was spied by radical leftists who threw rocks and eggs at Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Richard von Weizsaecker.
The biggest demonstration since Germany unity two years ago was mostly peaceful until Germany's top leaders joined the masses who marched from opposite sides of the city and converged for arally in east Berlin's Lustgarten plaza. As the nation watched on television, a dozen police with shields and a pair of
alides with umbrellas protected Weizsaecker from a flurry of objects hurled by leftist radicals as he spoke to the vast sea of people.
Earlier, police had to whisk Kohl out of one of the marches when he was greeted by insults and boos, and eggs and stones flew from the crowd. Neither leader appeared to have been struck.
The disruptions were another embarrassment for a government so rattled by a frightening surge of attacks on foreigners from the West. It was also when its people into the streets to denounce it.
"I think it is tragic that the situation is so bad that we have to go into the streets," said east Berlin Doris Schmid, 48, wearing a picture of famous Holocaust victim Anne Frank pinned to her jacket. "I think it is too late for us."
Kohl blamed right- and left-wing mobs for trying to disrupt the rally. However, it appeared the disruptions were the work of far-left anarchists, a group that advocates the dissolution of Germany.
"A fire bomb must not become the symbol of our land," said Martin Steinbrecher, 56, a laid-off chemist who took a bus from the University of Wisconsin to the port city of Wismar to attend the rally.
The small, well-organized group, with their trademark dark hoods and Arab scarves, frequently try to disrupt official government functions.
The rally was held one day before the 5th anniversary of Kristallnacht, or Crystal Night, the Nov. 9, 1938, Jewish pogrom attack littered with the glass of Jewish shams.
The party instead demanded that the government tighten the nation's asylum laws to stem a record tide of foreign refugees who have borne the brunt of the more than 1,600 rightist attacks on foreigners this year. Eleven people have been killed.
It also came on the eve of the third anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, which led to German unity and a competition between the two groups by neo-Nazi groups and other Germans.
Kohl also is seeking to toughen the country's liberal asylum law, but the opposition Social Democrats so far have refused to give their support to the constitutional change that would be required.
Many of the marchers — and Weizsaecher himself — blamed the feverish tone of the political debate for encouraging the violence against foreigners.
"I want the government to help save my life," said Duc Ho Dao, 37, a Vietnamese guest worker from east Berlin who said he had been beaten and cursed by young neo-Nazi hoods.
The rally was boycotted by Kohl's arch-conservative Bavarian coalition partner, the Christian Social Union, which derided the demonstration as a weak and meaningless gesture.
"We are foreigners and we only want to be safe," he said as he listened to the disrupted speeches with his wife and two children.
PARIS — A Japanese escort warship collided yesterday with a German boat tracking a freighter laden with lithium batteries.
Japanese ship sideswipes Greenpeace boat
The Associated Press
Japan is shipping the plutonium home to fire up a new generation of nuclear fast-breeder reactors. Greanpeace opposes the shipment and is tracking it, saying the plutonium hangers ranging from a spill to an attack by terrorists needed for nuclear weapons.
The freighter Akatsuki Maru, carrying 1.7 tons of plutonium, slipped out of the northern French port of Cherbourg late Saturday after a day of violent clashes between security forces and environmentalists.
The vessel's route on its two-month voyage to Yokohama is secret. But Greenpeace said the freighter and its armed scort, a Japanese warship, were sailing southwest in the
Atlantic and could reach Portugal's Azores Islands by Wednesday.
The warship Shishikima sideswiiped the Greenepeace boat Solo, damaging it and the helicopter landing deck of the warship, Greenpeace. There were no reported injuries.
"Those guys are pirates, It's unbelievable," said Greenpeace representative Ela Glori Loxion, contacted by radio
Japanese officials in Tokyo refused to comment.
Greenepace Capt. Albert Kuiken said the Shikishima was badly dented on one side. He said a side railing also was ripped off. Damage to the Solo was described as light.
Cherbourg. The plant is run by France's state-owned nuclear-fuel processing agency. The shipment is the first of 30 tons to be shipped back to Japan this decade in compliance with a $4 billion contract.
France, a leader in nuclear technology, treats fuel for several countries. The Akatsuki Marui's plutonium was extracted from spent Japanese reactor fuel at a plant near
Humans can die if they inhale plutonium particles. It is also the key ingredient in nuclear weapons. Although France insists the plutonium shipment is unfit to be used in weapons, Greenpeace said it could be used to make 120 crude bombs.
Mexican state election attempts to avoid fraud as votes counted
U. S. Defense Department officials said the Japanese vessel would be monitored by U.S. warships, planes and military intelligence until it docked.
A dozen nations, including those near important maritime passages such as South Africa, Chile, Argentina and Malaysia, have banned the Akatsuki Maru from their territorial waters.
The Associated Press
CUIDAD VICIORIA, Mexico — Voters chose a governor yesterday for Tamaulipas, the state along the Texas border is trying to insert a nobil party.
Election activists from groups nationwide said they expected fraud, but the candidate of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party said the vote would be clean, and that he would win handily.
About 1 million people were eligible to vote. Candidates for governor, 43 mayors and 19 state deputies were on the ballot.
Polls opened at 8 a.m. and closed at 6 p.m.
Some polling stations opened more than two hours late because officials did not show up on time. Results are expected sometime today.
In repeated radio announcements on Friday, outgoing Gov. Americo Villareal called for a peaceful vote. But fears of violence, particularly along the Texas border, persisted.
The State Electoral Commission said it would call in the army if anyone tried to disrupt the voting. There were no immediate reports of trouble.
In Tamaulipas, the conservative National Action Party and the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party joined forces to back
businessman Jorge Cardenas, two-time mayor of the border city Matamoros.
His 34-year-old son, Gustavo Cardenas, was a mayor candidate for Ciudad Victoria, the state capital.
Tamaulipas would be only the third Mexican state to be governed by the opposition.
The mosty rural Gulf of Mexico coastal state has been a stronghold of the governing party for most of the 63 years it has held power.
won the statehouse in Baja California and in Chihuahua.
But since President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office in 1988, he has promised greater democracy. This year alone, the conservative opposition party
Economist and congress member Manuel Cavazos Lerma, the governing party's gubernatorial candidate, said his party expected to win by a 5-to-1 margin because of an economic agenda modeled after Salinas' reform policies.
"We don't want fraud," Cavazos, 47, said Saturday night. "We don't look for it because we don't need it."
About 20 percent of the state's eligible voters were unable to cast ballots because of irregularities involving registration lists, said 400 observers representing 175 democracy groups nationwide.
More than 30 bombings kill 9 in Colombia
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — More than 30 bombs exploded across Colombia Saturday night, killing at least nine people and wounding 60, authorities said yesterday.
Police did not know whether guerrillas or drug traffickers were to blame.
President Cesar Gaviria called an emergency Security Council meeting to discuss measures to combat Colombia's 35-year-old rebel insurgency.
Before the meeting, his interior minister, Humberto de la Calle Lombana, said the guerrilla attacks were unprecedented and called for a state of emergency.
The blasts and other terrorist attacks came a day after Gaviria went on national television and denounced Colombia's rebels as common criminals.
Leftist rebels began a bloody offensive on Saturday, killing 26 police officers who were protecting oil drills at a petroleum field in southern Colombia.
Drug dealers also have targeted police. They have killed 20 officers in the past 10 days in retaliation for the death of Brances Muoz Mosquera, the security chief for Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a fugitive drug trafficker.
Authorities said the Medellin cocaine cartel paid hired assassins the equivalent of $2,100 for each police officer they killed in Medellin, Escobar's base. Three of the people killed in the overnight attacks in Medellin were robie.
Gaviria said that Saturday night that the rebels had lost their ideological base. He vowed to take a tough stance against them.
"One cannot make peace with those who have abandoned the ideal of revolution for a juicy bank account based on kidnapping, drug trafficking, extortion and murder," Gavria said.
The rebel group, Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Coordinator, comprises the three remaining rebel factions in Colombia. Four other insurgent groups have demobilized and signed peace treaties with authorities during the past three years.
Bombs exploded overnight Saturday alongside public buildings or banks in Bogota, Medellin, Cucuta, Armenia, Pereira, Turbo and other cities. The worst violence occurred in the Medellin area.
A bomb at a bank in Medellin left two dead and three wounded, and three police officers and a civilian were slain, said Ivon Felipe Palacios, a city official.
In La Ceja, a city near Medellin, four bombs went off in bank offices, killing two people and wounding 15.
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