European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Friday August 29,198621 killed 98 injured in riots in Soweto government says Johannesburg South Africa up govern ment officials revising earlier casualty reports thurs Day said 21 people died and 98 were wounded in riot ing that swept through parts of the Soweto Black township for two Days this week. The Ami government Soweto civic association Tolda news conference in Johannesburg that about 30 peo ple died and 200 were wounded when police and pro testers clashed Over eviction of rent boy Cotters in the township s impoverished White City Bureau for information which is located in Pretoria said Security forces killed 20 Blacks in action undertaken to protect life and a crowd of Blacks hacked to death a Black Soweto councilor near his Home tuesday night before the Street Battles with Security s Council has agreed to Stop evicting rent defaulters said housing director Del think it will be provocative to carry out evictions when there is such trouble in the townships she told the a Octan a Black daily newspaper. Mcvan also agreed that the Battles tuesday night and wednesday resulted from evictions. Officials wednesday dismissed the the past 24 hours the situation in Soweto has stabilized the information Bureau said in statement thursday reporting Only minor incidents and no further fatalities officials said the 98 wounded included four police officers Hurt when protesters threw a hand Gre Nade at a patrol and a Soweto Council policeman wounded by gunfire from behind a Street barricade erected by the spokesman for the Soweto civic association told reporters thursday a township rent Boycott which began june i was seen As the Moat peaceful Way of reducing rents and improving services and of meeting these demands of the people the authorities responded with a show of Force the spokesman Are appalled and outraged by this cold blooded massacre of our people the spokesman said. W. Germany refuses 4,300 letters with stamp lauding the Berlin Wall Bonn a t " West German Post office re fused wednesday to deliver 4,300 letters from East Germany bearing an anniversary stamp that praises the Berlin Wall. The letters returned Unm ailed to East Germany had a stamp Reading "25 years of the anti fascist Protection Wall the official East German name for the Wall that runs through the divided City. East Germany held military parades and other Cere monies aug. 13 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Wall which it built to Stop an exodus of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin the City s Western governed sector. West Germany used the occasion to criticize the Wall As a violation of human rights and charged it was proof the East German government still had no popu Lar backing from its people. The Federal postal and telecommunications ministry in Bonn said wednesday a protest Over the rejected Fetters by East Germany s diplomatic Mission Here was rejected on the the ministry said the Wall stamp carried a political endorsement that violated International treaties on transport of mail and also bilateral agreements wit East Germany. The East German Mission for its part charged the opposite that West Germany s move was in Fla Grant contradiction to International postal traffic regu lations and violated agreements Between the two Ger manics. East Germany and West Germany periodically quarrel Over their postage Stamps because they have sharply different outlooks on current and past political events. In november 1985, East Germany refused to mail170,000 letters from West Germany with a stamp commemorating "40 years of integration of germans expelled from their the reference to homelands denoted German populated regions in Eastern Europe seized by soviet forces at the end of world War ii. Irish terrorists claim 5 bombings Belfast Northern Ireland a bombs exploded at two police stations thursday and three other explosives incidents were reported in Northern Ireland in a stepped up wave of guerrilla attacks in the province. Police said there were no casualties. The Irish Republican army claimed responsibility for a blast at the Newry police station and its extremist offshoot the Irish National liberation army claimed the other four and threatened More to come. The two outlawed organizations coexist in an uneasy relationship Only rarely launching joint attacks. It was the first time in months that the Ina which is smaller and even More Clandestine than the Ira has claimed a bomb attack. The bombings came shortly before prime minister Margaret Thatcher travelled to the English coastal City of Brighton for the formal reopening of the hotel where the Ira tried to kill her in october 1984. Blanketed by Security measures the 60-year-old prime minister revisited the grand hotel on whose sixth floor a time bomb exploded during the 1984 conservative party conference. Thatcher narrowly escaped harm but five prominent tories were killed and 31 other people were injured. Thatcher was accompanied by party Secretary nor Man Tebbit whose wife was paralysed for life by an injury sustained in the bombing. The Ira has made police stations a prime target units Campaign to overthrow British Rule of Northern Ireland. It also has issued death threats against alleged collaborators with the police. Trash collectors and Laun dry workers who service police and army bases say they received Ira threats on wednesday in Anonymous phone Calls. Some Canadian playboys censored Vancouver British Columbia up thou Sands of Western Canadian Playboy readers turned to Page 75 of the october Issue expecting to see a Semi nude photo of Rock Star Wendy o. Williams. All they found was the torn remnant of a Page deemed obscene by Canadian customs officials. Playboy enterprises Ltd. Agreed to rip the offending Page from some 23,900 copies of the Magazine because Canadian officials said it depicted bondage. But in Eastern Canada where 120,000 copies had already crossed the Border before customs agents both ered to look at it Playboy readers Wen Able to obtain an uncensored copy of the picture at almost any Comer store. We have a list of about 120 publications which we prescreen for obscenity before the magazines Are Al Lowed into Canada government spokesman to Greig said wednesday. Playboy is generally a respected Magazine and is not pre screened. So it did t Cometo our attention until after most of the issues had Al ready been Playboy officials denied the picture which shows Williams Clad in leather and tangled in a Parachute chord depicted bondage. They said they would Appe Althe decision in Canadian court. This situation dramatizes the frightening climate of government repression growing in both the United states and Canada Playboy editor and publisher Hugh Hefner said in a statement released in Chicago. World today swedes begin killing possibly unsafe Reindeer Stockholm Sweden a lapps an Reindeer owners in Northern Sweden started the Slaughter wednesday of Reindeer whose meat May have been made unsafe by contamination from the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant Accident the Slaughter of tens of thousands of Reindeer an annual event made different this year by the threat to meat sales started with a few Hundred bulls. The major Slaughter will begin september i As is traditional. Instead of going to stores Selling the Reindeer meat As a delicacy meat from this year1 Slaugh ters will be Frozen in four government owned packing houses to be checked Tor radiation. Pan am Jet forced to land after Takeoff in London London a a pin american jumbo Jet made an emergency Landing at London s Heath Row Airport immediately after Takeoff wednes Day after a warning Light showed a fault in its no. 4 fire engines and ambulances stood by san Francisco bound flight a 125 circled for 52minutes, jettisoning fuel and then landed safely. The 230 passengers were transferred to another Boeing 747 and left 90 minutes later. A pan am statement said the fault was found to be a Loose engine Cowling. Leader of East Germany to visit China in october peking up China moving to resume communist party ties with the East bloc after a 20-year hiatus announced wednesday that East German Leader Erich Honecker will visit peking in s visit at the invitation of the chinese communist party is expected to. Pave the Way for the formal renewal of party ties with East Germany and other East european parties that sided with the soviet Union in the sino soviet split of the mid-1960s. The chinese foreign ministry said Honecker will visit China in the second half of october in his capacities As head of state and As Leader of the East German communist party the socialist Unity party. Monaco s Princess Caroline has minor Auto Accident Monte Carlo Monaco a Princess Caroline banged her car into a Rock outcropping about 200 Yards from the spot where her Mother Princess Grace was fatally injured in a car crashing 1982, the Palace spokeswoman said thursday. The spokeswoman Nadia Lacoste said Caro line 29, was a Little shaken up at the time but recovered quickly after the saturday Accident the Princess was alone in her car in route Toher country residence in the Northern part of this Mediterranean principality when the Accident happened Lacoste said. Blinded by the Bright tights of an oncoming vehicle she pulled sharply to the right Ana banged into a parapet damaging the fender of the car according to the spokeswoman. The Princess was very surprised that any body is aware of the Accident Lacoste said. Princess Grace died three Days after a sept 14,1982, car Accident near the same location. Soviets sentence sex official to death for corruption Moscow a a former minister i charge of Uzbekistan s Cotton Industry has been sentenced to death for taking bribes and other corrupt practices the official news Agency Tass reported wednesday. The sentence was issued by the soviet supreme court in Moscow but Tass gave no Indi cation when the execution would be carried out death sentences in the soviet Union Are carried out by firing squad. An investigation by the National prosecutor office established that lakh Bozman Usmanov 52, had for several years organized the padding of Cotton fiber figures patronage embezzler and taken Large bribes Tass said
