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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday june 16, 1986ige 28 of car bomb kills 2 Whites in South of Ica Durban South Africa a a car bomb exploded near a hotel beside Durban s seafront Boule Vard saturday night killing two White women and wounding is people a government spokesman re ported. Brig. Leon my Lect of the Bureau for information said the bomb had been placed in a car parked in from of a restaurant at Itic Parade hotel and explode shortly before 10p.m. He said the Parade hotel an adjoining hotel two apartment buildings and about 50 vehicles were dam aged by he blast. Durban police said a temporary first Aid station was set up in the scene on Marine Parade Boulevard on the Indian Ocean Shore. Police blocked off the area and stopped journalist from approaching the site. No one claimed responsibility for the attack bul South Africa s White led government has blamed pre Vious terrorist bombings on Black nationalist guerrillas of the outlawed african National Congress. Neither a decl nor Durban police officials would say who they thought was responsible for the attack. On thursday the government decreed a nation wide stale of emergency in an Effort to end racial violence. A general strike has been called for monday by Blacks of commemorate he \0ltt anniversary of Soweto riots. The South african press association said there Wasa second car bomb explosion at a Bowling Alley in another  along inc seafront but Mellet said that report was not Correct. There were two fatal car bombings in Durban in1984. And the government blamed both on the Afri can National Congress. Five people were killed by the explosion in an Industrial area in july 1984, and a seafront bombing in april 1984 killed three. The african National Congress claimed responsibility for the deadliest car bombing in South african history s blast in May 1983 that killed 19 people and wounded More than 200 in downtown Pretoria. Rally fran Here is with us against this policy of constructive engagement said no he has been in exile since his release from a South african prison in 1964. He also called on the South african government to release Mandela and All Ohley Cal prisoners. Bola font  Mande la s wife or Wietin which she com pared South african president . Botha to Hitler and apartheid to nazism. The letter closed with her prom Ising Victory is  the racially Misc crowd1 waved Hun " eggs posters and pictures others Anacke Tion for its South african Struc Tive it ass Stitt of apartheid uhf Njamin Hooks president of the National association for the advancement of coloured people said the unite states should be As Tough against South Africa As it has been against Libya. We re saying to Reagan to the sen ale and to the Congress apartheid  Hooks said. Or. Reagan you have asked for sanctions against Libya and Qadhafi. Why Noi against Botha and South Africa 1 am  Reagan Botha you a Lull. Cide the protesters had gathered Atli Sites in Manhattan before marching to Centra Park for the rally. One group me outside Ifica United nations in mid town while a second group headed South from Harlem. Seven smaller marches set out from other Points in the City. South Africa imposed a nationwide a and police More than 1,000 people the Anc said it would nonetheless proceed with a general strike monday to commemorate the 1976 Soweto up ii coordinating or Church and Community or opt  about500,000 flyers t o promote inc rally. Mia service held after vets Welcome Home Chicago a several Hundred people prayed and Sang saturday As they remembered the 2,436 . Servicemen still listed As missing from the v Vietnam War routed Story on Page 9. The crowd including Many veterans dressed in camouflage uniforms cheered clapped and cried during the i hour ceremony at Daley Plaza that followed Friday s Welcome Home Parade for Vietnam veterans. The Parade Drew 125,000 Veter ans and 300.000  those at saturday s service held in inter Mil Lent rain were veterans and the families of servicemen still unaccounted  As Chicago was the scene of divisiveness Over the War. Let Chicago be. Where the world saw american Unity on this Issue of accounting Fornall pos and Mas said Richard Childress director of asian affairs for president Reagan s National Saccu Rity Council. Childress who directs White House efforts Loac count for missing servicemen said one critical question remains unanswered since the Vietnam War ended More than a decade ago Are Ameri cans still being Heid in Indochina against their will we know some crashed into he sea and we know some were ground troops who will not re turn Childress told the crowd but we also know some were captured and did not return and som died in Captivity and were not returned. We Are committed to getting the answers he said drawing  in the front Row was the family of air Force it. Col. Robert Joseph Panek sr., missing since he was shot Down Over North Vietnam on Jan. 28,1970,his wife Barbara Mierzwinski of suburban Schaumburg remarried after he was officially pronounced dead on july 6, 1978. But she does t believe he s dead and she cried several times Dur ing the ceremony originally they knew thai my husband and the Pilot got out of the plane alive she said in an interview. They weren t killed in the crash. They heard Beeper signals from them on the ground an found parachutes rolled  beside her saturday were daughter Kristin Panek. 20, Robert Panek jr., 19. Anc flee grandson their father never knew also named Robert we Pray we dream and we still Hope said Kristin who was 4 when her father was shot  Juit want to know for sure Argentine writer Borges Dies at 86 Geneva up1 Jorge Luis Borgh Argentina s Blind giant of Litera Ture whose writings often explored the Enigma of mortality died saturday in Geneva. He was 86.Borges died of natural causes Early saturday at his  in Geneva s old town said Lopomo text Amati Argentina s ambassador to the United nations in Geneva. He declined to give details but Argentine sources said he suffered from emphysema. Funeral arrangements Tor the famed critic novelist and Short Story writer were incomplete but he would probably be buried in Geneva Tettamanti said. In Buenos Aires his lawyer Osvaldo Luis Vidaurry said Borges died Afier a prolonged illness. Officials at Geneva s cantonal hos Pital said Borges was admitted to it emergency Section three months ago after being taken ill during a meal at hotel. He was released after two weeks but the Hospital refused any medical in formation. He hid lived for the past three months in Geneva whew he bad per . May god Pardon the Nobel com Mittee Laid Spain s Joaquin Calvo so Siclo who Chain the jury of a prestigious Spanish literature prize. His comments reflected widespread anger that Borges never received the Nobe prize in Litera Ture. Borges was a Small Man stooped frail while haired and Blind. His Sod smile and sightless gaze asked the intricate mirth of an author whose Short stories Are filled with riddles and metaphysical humor. Borges like his stories was full of quirks and paradoxes. There was even a personal mystery his first marriage to Elsa Astete Milla was Short lived and ended in divorce in 1970. Borg never mentioned that painful episode. On april 26. 1986, he married his Secretary Maria Kornma to whom he once dedicated a Book wit the inscription you will be what i per haps Don t  married her because i entrust to her my intellectual Patrimony. I am not at All Rich. But i do not want my work at my death to be dispersed and commercialized Borges told the Palermo news paper Gion Nale i Sicilia after his marriage. His writing included disturbing none of fantasy and imagined landscape where events Are unfathomable and there is no explanation for characters actions. His Best known works include the Aleph r future to the test a one in a a of dve4-Opmenul Fuhl Testa for i land  with t . The knead will increase 1.tilily of a Tomahawk and single of table to attack iveral Lucas Essaid  
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