European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes april 1985 mob sets White Man afire in Africa South Africa a a Black mob entered a White suburb of port Elizabeth and set a White Man on seriously injuring and five Blacks were killed in unrest near the City two of them burned by other Blacks and three shot by police the thursday evening attack on the White eras mus was the first on a White in a White area during the current agitation against South Africa system of racial it was the second attack by Blacks against Whites in nine months of violence that has left More than 300 Blacks and one White infant Jacobs was sitting in a parked car in the site phage waiting for a Friend who had gone into a cafe to buy a loaf of when the mob he was dragged from the car and set on the port Elizabeth evening Post the paper quoted Jacobs Carel Van Der As saying when he emerged from the Jacobs was in flames on the sidewalk and shouted go away you cant there Are too Many of Van Der Lescht said he fled in his car As the mob threw bricks at a police patrol rescued Jacobs before Van Der Lescht returned 10 minutes police Leon chief superintendent of port Eliza Beth provincial said Jacobs had second degree Burns Over More than 80 percent of his he said Jacobs was in stable condition but his life was in cilliers said Jacobs told him that the crowd poured kerosene on him and set him on police shot dead three Blacks in near Umiten a White suburb of port in a clash with rioters thursday Black crowd burned two Black Ages 17 and to death in Kwan Kahele township near port a police spokesman in Johannesburg sprawling Black a crowd of about students Friday burned a shop owned by a Black whom the students suspected of bewitch ing and killing their schools witnesses the crowd marched to other schools and collected More and the group of about marched around As police used tear Gas to disperse the nations largest unofficially estimated at nearly 2 million has stayed relatively quiet during the current in although it was the site of fierce fighting in in Cape president Botha told parliament there has been a drastic escalation of the revolutionary climate in our he blamed in part the United democratic fronts anti apartheid which Botha described As an Extension of the outlawed african nation Al Congress guerrilla the president repeated his Appeal for an informal forum of Black leaders to consult on a future constitutional sys tem giving the vote less Black majority of 22 million some political the idea has been largely rejected by Blacks As a hollow gesture that offers no real Prospect of shared there Are 5 million Whites in South another another Retreat for the ailing Dollar London up the Dollar Sank further on european Money markets Fri and traders said its decline was a re action to poor economic the Dollar was in Broad Retreat because of the dismal percent growth in first Quarter american Gnu Gross National said one London the majority of dealers were predicting fresh declines in the weeks ahead because of the slowdown in the Economy and recent banking in where dealers said the Deci Sion of two major Banks to Cut base interest rates from 13 to percent helped Ster the Pound bought at the close compared with at thursdays in the Dollar fell Back to Marks against while in Zurich the Greenback eased from Swiss francs to the currency closed in Paris at against at thursdays and in Brussels it finished the Day at belgian compared with in the Dollar opened at in the Dollar closed at against while in Tokyo the currency eased to yen from Gold sold in Zurich at a Down from while Silver dipped to against Reagan from Page 1 pain and the shame if not most would feel upon learning that the president of the United for whom we have genuine affection and Admi plans to visit a cemetery in which there Are a Good number of is Graves have our policy planners forgotten what is stands for he they were the killers of jews but not Only of they butchered poles and French and norwegians and gypsies and Gays Auschwitz was a and the is were its accepting a congressional Gold medal from Reagan asked him not to go through with his plan to visit the bit Burg the associated press report if its possible at implore you to do something to find a to find another another the a quoted Wiesel As saying Dur ing the White House that is not your your place is with the victims of the he asked How the presidents advisers had forgotten that the is troops also slaughtered defenceless american War prisoners at and pleaded with Shultz please be our Tell those who need to know that our pain is Pur outrage is deep and our perplexity is Shultz told the we must never delude ourselves Mankind capacity for evil did not die in the Bunker with hit we see evil in the world All around he in efforts to impose totalitarian authority on unwilling in efforts to and sometimes vanquish entire classes and Wiesel also criticized the soviet Union both in its handling of modern dissidents and in seeking ant Western propaganda advantage by distorting the history of anti semitism in world War shame on he but his main Point was to press Reagan not to go to the Pitburg a jewish organization said Friday it has Learned that one German sol Dier buried in the Pitburg cemetery was honoured for killing 10 american rabbi Abraham associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal told United press International that he and the schools rabbi Marvin had sent a Telegram to Reagan to protest his visit to the cemetery next Reading from the said the Center has begun a thorough investigation of the background of the is soldiers buried at the military cemetery at and has already uncovered that is staff Otto Franz Bengel was awarded the German Cross in Good in the name of Adolf Hitler in 1944 by senior is officials for killing 10 american in Ugen who was a member of the Reich the notorious is Security service is also buried the Telegram defending his planned trip to a German military cemetery As part of his May 56 state visit to thursday told a White House gathering of editors and broadcasters i think there is nothing Antiterrorist Steps taken for Reagan visit Bonn up police said Friday they Are taking strenuous countermeasures against possible terrorism alongside anti demonstrations planned for president reagans visit to Bonn next asked about press reports of possible terrorist a spokesman in Bonn such threats must be taken seriously and incorporated into our he said the police and other government agencies had drawn up an exhaustive hit list of possible terrorist including All possible precautions Are being he an exclusive report of the German news Agency spa Friday quoted police sources As saying that representatives of the revolutionary red army faction Raf Ter group Are Active on the protest the report said the also known As the Baader Meinhoff sent ambassadors to discuss possible acts of Vio Lence with groups organizing protests during reagans visit to the world economic Summit and subsequent state visit to Germany be tween May 1 and the Raf was responsible for a string of More than 40 bomb attacks on and nato military installations Over the last four the group is demanding prisoners War status for nearly 40 of its jailed at least eight protests Are scheduled for reagans including a big rally on the streets in Bonn of up to other big protests Are expected in Neu close to Hambach which Reagan will visit May 6 with Chancellor Helmut police had no official comment on the report but at least police officers Are expected to pack into Bonn to tighten Security around the Summit Partick among them hundreds of Antiterrorist Maneu vers begin off German coast Germany a More than 60 vessels from seven nato countries fleets started the 12day Blue harrier 1985 naval Maneu vers off the Northern West German coast some sailors from hol Germany and the United states Are taking part in the according to German Navy spokes Man Klaus the exercise centers on tactics and methods of defending the German and danish coasts Between the East friesian Island of borkum and the danish port of he navys min sweeping helicopters will be used for the first time in the which takes place every year in the Baltic and North Bergmann special units of frogman from Norway and Germany Are also taking wrong with visiting that cemetery where those Young men were victims of nazism even though they were fighting in the German drafted into the service to carry out the hateful wishes of the they were victims just As surely As the victims in the concentration he the mayor of Theo appealed to Reagan to go ahead with his plans to Lay a Wreath in the towns military Ceme Tery on the Graves of dead German including 47 who belonged to the Waffen temperatures april 18 Rock Angeles Beach Paul Orleans York City City Maine Oregon Louis Petersburg Lake City Diego Francisco european weather forecast for saturday Windy and Rainy with Snow for Northern mostly Cloudy to Cloudy with rain in the late afternoon for Central fair to partly Cloudy in the High temperatures Middle 40s to Low 50s in Northern and Central 60s in the South lows in the Sunset saturday Sunrise sunday Outlook for sunday improving conditions in Northern areas with partly Cloudy to Cloudy Southern regions will be Cloudy with rain Snow at higher highs in the lows in the temperatures recorded Friday 4am 4pm f 61 73 f 48 64 cd 55 57 he 50 63 f 43 61 f 48 66 f 39 54 partly Cloudy a Cloudy a mostly Cloudy of far provided by Pel 7lh weather Trobentar Al f p f f m 4pm 39 66 48 6ft 48 75 34 55 48 68 50 63 34 61
