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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Segovia Spain s jewel sees a Pei Magazine d bizarre drug Case in Tennessee Page 5 d Randy Barnett s ear Corner Page 13 d Rose Breaks Cobb s record Page 17 authorized unofficial publication Foh t vol. 44, no. 148 Friday september 13. 198 de forces Dom Ond san any q 8693 a hundreds feared killed in Portugal train wreck Viseu Portugal a an express train loaded with immigrant workers bound for France slammed head on into a Domestic passenger train wednesday. Officials said 300 people May have been killed. Prime minister Mario soars flew by helicopter to the crash site near Viscus i Central Portugal. He said the Accident was the worst in the history of the country s railway system. People were being burned alive shout ing jumping from the carriages and dying at the train windows said Duarte Santos Correia 37, one of the survivors. Both trains were travelling on the same track in opposite directions railway officials said. The eastbound International slammed head on into the westbound local. The officials told Anop the Domestic news Agency that the seven coach International train was going from Oporto on the Atlantic coast to henday France. It was behind schedule and did not wait for the Coimbra bound train to move onto a Side track said the officials. Firemen and witnesses said cars in the two trains tipped Over and burst into flames setting ablaze a Pine Forest along see wreck on Page 24 Botha relents on Black citizenship Johannesburg South Africa a . Botha in an apparent attempt to placate angry Blacks and a hostile world said wednesday that Black consigned to nominally Independent tribal homelands can have their South african citizenship restored. Botha coupled the announcement with a defiant statement that South Africa s White minority government would Chart its own course toward racial Reform and not be influenced by pressure from the United states. Botha has not said what citizenship Means for South Africa s 24 million Blacks. There is no suggestion that it will carry the right to vote for the Central government run by 5 million Whites. It docs however mean that Blacks who lot their rights to South african passports when homelands took Independence will regain them. Also Mack children born in White areas who were previously regarded a citizens of Independent homelands will regain the right they had lost to remain in White areas. In Cape town Nelson Mandela head of the outlawed african National Congress who has been serving a life term in prison since 1964 for plotting sabotage faced Campus gets Tough on debt by Cunt Swift Washington Bureau Washington champs is to Fang a get Tough Atli Tudic bout collecting s2.9 Milun it has paid in error to Servic families military ret Ces and health care providers a skies Man says. Or since the begin Fco of the fiscal or last october the civilian health and medical pro germ of the uniformed services has sent out w6 initial Mand letters asking for repayment the spin addition debts of $600 or mate Tritten off As a collectible have been reported to the eternal Revenue service a taxable income during Taj or 1984, he said. Since april the in nest delinquent debtors have been reported to  agencies. And since last of Cath cd mus has been asking the services Paynen offices to Kin taking part of what is owed out of salaries and ret Redvay. This month at demand letters so will be sent out by the four  firms the serve champs six regions to of spokesman said. \ that Wil Venable champs to Vach More people sooner and should mean collection of orc Money owed to the program he said. Ther Hampus general counsel s office reports there Are about 900 recoupment cases outstand by. Historically about 25 percent represent debt owed viders and 75 percent debt owed by beneficiaries see champs in Page 24 prostate gland surgery members of his family said. Sec Story on Page 3. Also in Cape town hundreds of enraged mourners at a riot victim s funeral kicked and Slabbed to death a mixed race policeman. Police said the plainclothes offi cer struggling to save himself fired into the mixed race crowd seriously injuring one Mourner. Police said they accidentally killed a 4-year-old Black girl tuesday with a ricocheted rubber Bullet As she played in her Home during rioting in a Pretoria township. Her death raised the toll in 13 Mort is of anti apartheid violence to at least 709. The Black Johannesburg daily newspaper the so Juan reported that a while police officer went to the girl s Home shortly after the shooting and told the family i am very sorry about  the paper said the family ordered the officer to leave. Police said they arrested 82 people wednesday including 70 of mixed race in the Cape province Center of Upington for distributing pamphlets urging a Boycott of White businesses. The others were arrested near Johan Nesburg and in the Northern Cape on Public violence charges. Botha told a party Congress that 3 million Blacks living in White South Africa but who arc official citizens of four Independent homelands will have their citizenship restored. He said he would also give dual citizenship to 5 million other Blacks living inside the four homelands. The announcement came at the Orange free state province meeting of Botha s governing National parly in Bloemfontein. It marked Botha s first acknowledgement of the end of the claim that Blacks arc not South Afri cans but citizens of 10 Small fragmented  of the homelands have refused Independence. Botha said the four Independent homelands would remain Sovereign states rejecting anti apartheid Lead ers demands for scrapping the policy. It is the first real step they be taken away from apartheid said a Hacna Duncan head of the anti apart Heid Black Sash move mint. " is an abandonment of the declared policy that All Black South africans would one Day be foreigners and aliens in their  the Azania people s organization a militant Black consciousness group scorned the move. Nothing less see Botha on Page 24 apr Vjio Torg Sertner surrenders in los Angeles. Adolf Hitler s last Soldier. Calls j los anal Orfes up for Georg Gaertner. Win ended wednesday Ning to be the last fugitive German prisoner in America Gaertner turned himself in to the immigration and naturalization service after running and hiding since 1945 when he escape from a pow Camp in new Mexico. Not even his wife of 21 years knew of Gartner s lonely desperate secret that prompted at least 20 Noves and the use of several aliases. For All these years i hid my secret Gaertner  Back tears. His wife Jean became so Frig Tinea and confused by my unwillingness to discuss my ail that she threatened to leave he said. With Only Alse of a German accent Gaertner said her bags Tike packed and a taxi was wait  a relieved by her Hushul s decision to unburden himself of decades of fear an Gaertner said it s been very difficult. I m Verj confident that hell be see Soldier on Page 24  
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