European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside strides d anti fat Pill May help control obesity Page 5 d the talking hands of neapolitan pages 14,15 d Argentina Belgium win in world cup soccer Page 25 the stars and authorized unofficial fun cation of vol. 45. No. 68 tuesday june 24, 1986 i to d 8693 a socialists re elected in Spain Madrid Spain a voters gave the ruling socialist parly a smaller hut absolute majority in Sun Day s parliamentary elections assuring Premier Felipe Gonzalez of a second four year irm. Wilh 96,6 percent of the ballots counted. Deputy prime minister Alfonso Guerra said the socialists had 44 percent offic vote and would win 1s4 seals in ihc350-scat lower House of parliament. Thai was a lots of is from the 202 seats they captured in their landslide Victory in the october 1982 elections. Socialist party chief Jose Maria Senegas loss to the Normal erosion of four years in office and to the Cost of losing 50,000 jobs in the steel an shipbuilding industries. Spain has Europe s highest unemployment Rale 21 percent compared to 17 percent when Gonzalez took office. The data indicate the socialist party has again won the Confidence of the Spanish electorate the 44-year old Gonzalez told supporters late sunday at Madrid Palace hotel. Comply la returns reflecting votes from outlying areas and several Spanish islands were no expected before monday. A new Era is beginning for Spain in which our nation will have to confront several challenges com plete integration into Europe further economic growth and More jobs and the modernization of our society he said. I Call on everyone to join forces to make these National objectives the returns showed the conservative popular coalition led by Manuel Fraga won 105 seals Down two from its 107 seals in the previous the strongest gain was the centrist demo cratic social Conler led by former prime minister Adolfo Suarez which now is the third political Force in inc nation with 19 seats la had held Only making a Strong showing was the Catalonia based convergence and Union which Guerra said in creased its number of seats from 12 to 18. A new leftist coalition uniting the communist Parland disenchanted socialists won seven scats three Pashoto Spanish voters with posters support Len prime minister Felipe Gonzalez. More than in the previous Parli Amoni while regional parties from the Northern Basque country Aragon and Galicia shared the remaining said Herri Bataluna the Radical Basque party believed to be the political Arm of the Basque separatist party Eta would have five seals up from its current has been waging a terrorist Campaign for More than a decade in an Effort to gain autonomy for he thre Basque provinces in Northern Spain. Eta Are the initials in inc Basque language for Basque land and polls had indicated inc socialists would retain control but would lose some of the seals Heywon in their 1982 Victory. Election officials estimated it Lur Noui of 29.2 Mil lion eligible voters at 69 percent. In 1982, 80 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots in inc election that placed the socialists in Power for the first time since inc 1936-39 Spanish civil main panics or coalitions had entered Candi dates in All of the voting districts for the 350 scats inthe Congress of deputies and 208 Senate seals. Voters in Andalusia in Southern Spain also were electing 109 representatives to i hair autonomous regional socialists campaigned on their Success m consolidating the democratic system gelling Spain admitted into the european common Maricl and cull ing inflation from 14 percent in 1982 to 8 claimed that inc socialists failed to Slop an influx of illicit drugs a Rise in Street crime and Eta terrorism. Suarez 53, headed the first parliamentary govern ment elected after Franco s death. He was made a Duke by King Juan Carlos for his role in guiding Spain Dur ing its Iran Ilion to democracy. During the Campaign he called for dismantling of four military bases in Spain and for the yearlong compulsory military service 10 be Cut to three months. Ortega offer called propagandist 3ton up1 the administration Sun Day an offer by Nicara Guan in hot up re a regional peace treaty if the United or army the contras. Related Story on pigs 28. Deputy White House spokesman Edward Djerejian said the offer is an obvious Effort to defeat president Reagan s request for $100 million in Aid in the rebels who Are trying to topple Ortega s sandinista govern request which was rejected in a used to come to the House floorjmp1ew vote wednesday. Of saturday for the recently revised re drafted by the four it us he warned he cannot sign the Mil the United Stales slops backing the nicaraguan describing the pact As the Only instrument that exists right now for achieving peace on slopped Short of saying Nicaragua would sign it or Security conditions while House Saitto a i Kimaid they would be Pren it m. Panama City by the Texico Panama Venezuela and Colombia. Basically we re not surprised by the sandinista offer Djerejian said. It s totally predictable and a propagandists is especially the Case since the Central Ameri can democracies criticized the draft and have major reservations on it. So it s Cost free for the sandinista to offer to sign in on the eve of the congressional Vole on Aid to the resistance and it s an obvious Effort Tod Feal thai open for Ibsh Jill for Derno Tuza Tion arms limitation and verification he treaty proposed by the Contador nations who began seeking a Central american peace More than three years ago has drawn criticism from . Allies in the Region who contend the agreement does not con Ain provisions to ensure nicaraguan compliance. Sea accused us . Allies Al Salvador the Osla Rica of responding to pres sures and by we Tan the United is necessary to fake be negotiations come to an end so that jointly enl life Umade to end the aggression. And so that can be signed he said. Apartheid violence continues in South Africa Johannesburg South Africa a the roman Catholic archbishop of Durban said violence May be the Way to overturn apartheid while Back in his troubled City three bombs exploded one of them setting an Oil refinery explosions rocked Durban within hours of each other one outside a Down town movie House one at a chemical Plant South of the City and one at the nearby Durban Oil refinery. No casual tie were reported by the government s Bureau for information. The Oil refinery Blaze based for two hours polluting an Indian Ocean yacht club and the surrounding sea Sale run radio and conservation workers sprayed anti pollution foam onto More than a half mile Slick of crude Oil seeping from the blasted pipeline into the sea and the Bluff Hill yacht club. Supplies were flown to Durban from Johannes Burg 375 Miles away. The Bureau the Only source of official news described the Durban blasts us group claimed responsibility. But he bombings were in line with previous attacks by the outlawed african National Congress it main guerrilla group fight ing to oust the White led government. Attempts to reach the Black guerrilla group s exile Headquarters in Lusaka Zambia by telex sunday went in week Anc president Oliver Tambo said during a visit to Paris that his guerrillas May have planted a car bomb outside a Durban hotel which killed three women and wounded 69 people a week ago. Tambo added How Ever that he was not sure. Archbishop Denis Hurley said he was convinced such violence in South Africa would continue until apartheid was Defeated. Violence is always a very regrettable development but there is a Long history in Christian tradition of just wars and just violence Hurley told reporters on the Steps of new York cily s is. Patrick s Cathedral. We have to accept Blacks Are determined to do away with it. They Wil accept whatever suffering comes their Way in order to do it said Hurley president of the South african Bishops conference. And the while people Are beginning to realize lha Tihe Black people arc serious about Hurley said he and the 30 South Afri can Bishops in the conference were encouraging other countries to Levy sanctions against the Pretoria administration. Earlier sunday Hurley had Woncele rated mass with new York archbishop see violence on Page 28
