WEST GERMANY: BAVARIAN PRIME MINISTERS MET AT CAMPAIGN RALLY BY THOUSANDS OF ANTI-NUCLEAR DEMONSTRATORS.

Record ID: 214890

  • Title: WEST GERMANY: BAVARIAN PRIME MINISTERS MET AT CAMPAIGN RALLY BY THOUSANDS OF ANTI-NUCLEAR DEMONSTRATORS.
  • Date: 30th September 1986
  • Summary: 1. SVs Police setting up barriers for security (4 shots) 0.13 2. SV PAN Riot police walking towards stadium 0.23 3. SVs People being searched as they arrive (2 shots) 0.29 4. GV & SVs Crowd in stadium greet Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss as he walks in with jeers and placards 0.40 5. SV, CU & GVs Strauss speaks (GERMAN SOT) as crowd listens (5 shots) 1.3
  • Embargoed: 15th October 1986 13:00
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  • Location: SCHWANDORF, WEST GERMANY
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA43BO5FJ0UUD6TFX18NWJ5O56P
  • Story Text: SCHWANDORF, WEST GERMANY

    The Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss, campaigning in the run-up to the October 12 regional parliamentary election, was met by thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators at a rally on September 29. Security was tight for the rally held at the Schwandorf Sports Field near the town of Wackersdorf, scene of massive anti-nuclear demonstration is in the past over plans to build West German's first nuclear fuel reprocessing plant there. Riot police manned barriers and searched people as they entered the stadium. The reception of Strauss himself was mixed, with about half of the 8,000 strong crowd anti-nuclear demonstrators. Their cat-calls and jeers competed with the applause and cheers of his supporters. Strauss, chairman of the ultra-conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, has strained relations with Austria over this government's refusal to allow Austrian anti-nuclear demonstrators into Bavaria to take part in rallies. He is a staunch defender of the Wackersdorf nuclear re-processing plant, and has campaigned strongly for a change in the country's relatively liberal asylum laws. Thousands of refugees have poured into West Germany from East Germany without visas, and Chancellor Helmut Khol had to tread a fine line in getting East Germany's co-operation in stemming the flow. Bavaria, the largest of the German states with over 10 million people, goes to the polls in October, followed by Hamburg, a city-state, on November 9. The election results will prove interesting as they will give an indication of public opinion leading up to the general election in 1987.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - LOUIS BREYTENBACH</strong>
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