ASUNCION, Paraguay Riot police broke up two anti-government protests Sunday, injuring several people and arresting several others, including foreign journalists.
Among those reported detained were a press officer of the West German Embassy and a correspondent for the German news agency.
The first protest broke out after a mass in the Asuncion cathedral.
The service was dedicated to ‘demanding the liberation of four doctors of Clinic as hospital who were arrested after two protest demanding wage hikes.
When the mass ended, several groups formed in front of the church and a witness said police used “unnecessary violence” to disperse the demonstrators.
The other protest came after a meeting of some 1,000 members of the opposition Authentic Radical Libral party in the home of Domingo Laino, and exiled political leader.
A column of party members began to march toward the cathedral, shouting slogans against President Alfredo Strossner. They were dispersed by police, who wielded electricity-charged batons and tear gas,
KATMANDU, Nepal An eight-member American team trying to scale the 26,906-foot Cho ‘oyu peak in the Himalayas has pitched its second bivouac camp, the Ministry of Tourism said today.
It said the camp was established at 20,800 feet on April 20, only three days after the party, which includes a British climber, setup its first camp at 19,420 feet.
The expedition reported good climbing weather with only slight winds,
Led by James Frush, a 34-yearold lawyer from Trinidad, Coloado, the “cowboys on Cho Oyu” are preparing for a 1988 climb of Mount Everest from the south, or Nepalese, side.
Two of the team members earlier made an unsuccessful attempt at the world’s tallest peak from the north Tibetan side.
The expedition, which set up a base camp at 17,000 feet on April 7, hopes to get to the summit of Cho Oyu by means of five bivouac camps and is currently bringing up supplies. The climbers hope to make a summit bid in May.
HEBRON, Israeli-occupied West Bank Thousands of Jews gathered Sunday in the mainly Arab town of Herbon to mark 18 years of Jewish settlement in one of the strongest centers of Palestinian nationalism in the West Bank.
Left-wing Israeli leaders simultaneously gathered in the town to protest Defense Minister Yitshak Rabin’s ban on a counterdemonstration by the Peace Now movement, which opposes Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Security was tight, with extra units of police and soldiers perched on rooftops.
Celebrants in the town were: taken on tours of the area organized by the settlers’ organization of Gush Eminem, Hebrew for “Bloc of the Faithful.” The event concluded with a $250-a-platedinner addressed by Foreign Minister Yitshak Shamir.
“We are now in all parts of the Land of Israel, and this is very important both for security and for peace in the future,” Shamir said later.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 2, 1986
