INTERNATIONAL
Worldwide protesters call
for peaceful gulf solution
BONN. Germany (AP) - Tens
of thousands of anti-war pro
testers took to the streets in
countries across tin* world Sun
day for a second straight day to
demand dialogue and not war
in the Persian Gulf.
The demonstrations, from
Germany to Turkey to Maur
itania, came as U.N. Secretary
General Javier Perez de Cuellar
met with Saddam Hussein in
Baghdad just two days before
the U.N. deadline for Iraq to
pull out of Kuwait.
Peace activists were also re
portedly gathering along the
iraqi-Saudi border. And in
South Africa. Moslem youths
shouted "Death to America!"
and "Death to Israel!"
With the Soviet military in
tervention in Lithuania, several
demonstrations turned into
dual protests for peace in the
gulf and in the Soviet Union.
In the Bonn diplomatic sub
urb of Bad Godesberg, about
1,200 demonstrators formed a
nearly two-mile human chain
linking the U S. and Iraqi em
bassies.
"We wanted to link the two
major parties that are now start
ing toward war." said 41-year
old Gerd Greune. "We wanted
to link them symbolically and
say. Please link yourself in
non-violence. Violence will not
solve any problem.' "
About 5,000 people protested
outside the U.S. Rhein-Main air
base in Frankfurt.
Tens of thousands rallied in
Madrid and a dozen other
Spanish cities, with many urg
ing Prime Minister Felipe Gon
zalez to recall three Spanish
warships helping to enforce a
U.N. trade embargo against
Iraq.
In Turkey, more than 40.000
people shouting anti-war slo
gans gathered in a rally organ
ized by the opposition to pro
test the government's strong
pro-U S. stand in the gulf cri
sis.
About 20.000 peat <• demon
strators inarched in the Belgian
capital of Brussels in what one
protest leader called "a demon
stration of hope."
"If war breaks out next week,
we will have a demonstration
of anger," said the leader.
Hugo Ongena.
Up to 6,000 protesters turned
out in Vienna, marching from
the Iraqi Embassy to the gov
ernment seat.
"Haven't you learned any
thing from Vietnam?" protest
banners asked. Others said
"Results of war - Ecological Ca
tastrophe."
In Sweden, protesters com
bined their gulf demonstration
with one against the violence
in Lithuania, and a large group
gathered outside the Soviet Em
bassy in Stockholm, the nation
al news agency TT said.
The Iraqi News Agency said
20 people from various coun
tries arrived Sunday to take
part in a peace camp along the
Iraqi-Saudi border.
The activists represented
Germany. Australia, the United
States. Indonesia and Austria,
the agency said, quoting a
spokeswoman for the group.
They planned to live in the
camp as human shields in
hopes of preventing war. INA
said.
In Cape Town. South Africa,
about 600 people attended a
rally at a movie theater in the
Moslem section of town to pro
test U S. military presence in
the gulf.
Wearing kaffiyehs, the tradi
tional Arab headdress, youths
burned homemade replicas of
the U.S. and Israeli flags.
The anti-war protests were
mostly peaceful. However, at a
Paris rally Saturday night, po
lice fired tear gas to disperse
about 50 demonstrators who re
fused to break up. and about a
dozen people milling around
the U.S. Embassy were de
tained and questioned
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imposed >i curfew .trul de« hired .1 general in
command of the Lithuanian capital Sundav af
ter troops seized a television tower in an as
sault that killed t.t people
More than 5,000 Lithuanians gathered in
Freedom Square to defend the parliament
building against any attack They defied the 10
p m curfew for more than two hours before
dispersing at the request of President Vvtautas
latndsbergis.
Addressing the crowd from a window of the
parliament building, 1-andsbergis said the mil
itary commandant had promised in a negotiat
ing session that if the people went home, the
Soviet army would not try to seize the build
ing
"We paid with our blood it is the fate of our
people." he said "It would 1m. good if this
would end with no more suffering.”
Within a few hours, only about -00 people
remained The crowd had barricaded the par
liament with construction materials anil iron
bars They put red tulips of mourning on the
barricades and filled a large flowerpot with
candles Black ribbons hung from orange,
green and yellow Lithuanian flags
Lithuanian Health Ministry officials said 13
people were killed and about 140 injured in
the pre-dawn crackdown at the broadcast sta
tion Sunday It was the harshest measure taken
by Soviet President Mikhail Uorbaehev against
the Baltic republic since it declared indepen
dence on March 11.
Soldiers shot some protesters and bashed
others with thu butts of their assault rifles as
they stormed the television transmitting tower
at about 2 a m Sunday. Some Lithuanians
wens crushed by the tanks they were trying to
stop
The* Kuropean Gnmmunitv condi'mneci the
attack, and Belgium's foreign minister said it
could jeopardize a planned St billion emer
gency' aid package to Moscow
President Hush said the crackdown "threat
ens to set back or perhaps even reverse" the
new U S.-Soviet relationship Chief of Staff
|ohn Sununu said Moscow's actions in the
next few davs would determine whether Hush
goes ahead with plans to attend a summit in
February with Gorbachev.
Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian re
public and Gorbachev's main rival, met Baltic
leaders in the Kstunian capital of Tallinn and
later urged Russian soldiers to ignore orders to
attack civilians
"Violence against the law, against the peo
ple of the Baltics, will result in new serious
crises in Russia itself, and in the position of
Russians living in other republics," Yeltsin
said
He joined the presidents of I .at via. Lithuania
and Kstonia in asking the United Nations for
an international conference on the Baltics
They also suggested the United Nations
postpone its Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq to pull
out of Kuwait Baltic leaders have said they
feared the kremlin would time a crackdown to
coincide with the deadline, when the world's
attention would be focused on the Persian
Gulf
As of early Monday morning. Gorbachev
had not made any public comment on the vio
lence.
His Interior Minister. Boris Pugo. claimed
on national television the demonstrators had
opened fire first He said "at least 10" people
died and about DO were injured.
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