European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday. December 29,1986 grannies against apartheid planned Johannesburg. South Africa up a while grandmother who visited the Black township of sow clo on sunday said afterwards she intends to Start a movement of grannies against  Lucille Gillwald 52, a theater director said she had wanted to Lead a Small group of anti apartheid activists to so Welo to meet the Black women there Ina show of Solidarity. But of course that was no longer possible on dec. Ii. The government tight ened 6-Monlh-old restrictions on the Media and outlawed most forms of anti apartheid protest. Instead a few of us White col ored mixed race and asian went to news briefs Pimp ill in sow clo to worship with Black churchgoers. We Are going to have another meet ing on monday and then we Hope to be Able to announce some further plans to show Solidarity with the women of so Waclo she said. Gills Vald resident director at Johan Nesburg s Market theatre said thai unlike their Black counterparts most while grandmothers have plenty of Lime for action against apartheid. I am a grandmother of Many and i am hoping la be Able to harness other women like me who might be More free than the Black grandmothers to make possible what has not been possible so far she said. She said most Black grandmothers cannot afford the time or the risk of anti government action because they have to care for their grandchildren while heir children work. Gil Walil said her primary concerns arc the muzzling of the press and the detention without charge or trial of dissidents including hundreds of Black children opposition monitoring groups Esti mate that More than 22,000 people have been detained since emergency Rule was imposed on june 12. Hundreds of them arc reported to be children be tween the Ages of 9 and 17. Meanwhile in the Remote farmlands in the Northern Region of Transvaal province police searched along Hebor. Tier with Zimbabwe for an unidentified Black rebel who shot and killed two White police officers during an escape from custody Early saturday. A police spokesman said the Man managed to grab a firearm and killed the to while policemen during his is  spokesman said the Man was a Nice bar of the exiled african National Congress and was one of Fiva rebel thought to be responsible for planting land mines that have killed a number orb Lack and White Farmers in the past 13 months the other four rebels were killed in clashes with police Friday and sat urday. Iraq releases names of alleged hijackers Nicosia Cyprus up the state owned iraqi news Agency sunday gave he names of the two hijackers and listed 67 people killed on the iraqi plane which crash landed and blew up in saudi  official Agency a named the two hijackers As Ziad Hanna Al Asmar and Elia Gorgos Hanna both holding lebanese  the Paris based private lebanese radio Monte Carlo quoted Ina As listing the names of 67 people killed aboard the Boeing 737, which was on 1 flight from Baghdad Iraq to Amman Jordan  were 23 iraqis 22 sudanese 14 egyptians two jordanians two iranians two palestinians with jordanian passports and the two hijackers the radio quoted Ina As saying. Brazil to reports 11 killed in heavy Rains Rio de Janeiro Brazil a torrential Rains inundated a Southern brazilian farming Community saturday killing 11 people and in Juring 30, according to to Globo the nation s largest  200 people were left homeless in Lav Vinhas a Hamlet in Sao Paulo state 122 Miles West of Rio do Janeiro to Globo reported. The associated press was unable to confirm the report because Telephone lines in the area were Down due to flooding. Heavy Rains hit other parts of Southern Brazil leaving thousands homeless in the states of Rio de Janeiro Sao Paulo and minis Gurvais according to radio j a a privately owned radio station. Three Rio do Janeiro youths were killed sat urday by lightning As they played in the Street according to civil police. Manila Shantytown fire destroys 1,000 Homes Manila Philippines up fire fed by fireworks raced through a slum on the outskirts of Manila destroying the Homes of More than 1,000 families but causing no serious injuries authorities  in the Shantytown of Manreza could reach at least $240,000, authorities said. Witnesses said the 2 a hour fire broke out at midday saturday after fireworks stored in a grocery store blew up. Afghan refugees stage anti soviet protests Islamabad Pakistan a More than 10,000 afghans chanted death to Gorbachev in a demonstration saturday the seventh anniversary of the soviet occupation of their Homeland. The demonstration was the largest of he an Nual protests in Islamabad since soviet forces now estimated Al 115,000, rolled across the Bor Der into Afghanistan on dec. 27,1979. Thousands of afghan refugees demonstrated in several iranian cities As Well Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency said. Soviets could counter Star wars Sacharov says in to interview new York a soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov the father of the soviet Hydrogen bomb and renowned physicist said in an interview broadcast sunday he believes that construction of a Star wars anti missile system is possible but that its effects could be counteracted related Alary Page 2. In the interview with Abc television Sakharov also denied speculation that soviet authorities released him from exile to Campaign against the . Project formally known As the strategic defense initiative. Sakharov 65, returned to Moscow last tuesday after nearly seven years of exile in the City of Gorky where he was banished in 1980 for criticizing soviet arms control policies soviet intervention in Afghani Stan and human rights violations. He helped develop the Hydrogen bomb for the soviet Union in the 1950s and has said he plans to return to research in physics particularly in the area of elementary particles and cosmology. He has said he also would like to Campaign for the peaceful uses of thermonuclear Energy Abc reporters in Washington interviewed Sakharov by Remote Hookup in Moscow on saturday and asked him about Star wars in the Distant future this will be a technical possibility " he said speaking through an interpreter. Bui it will always be impossible from the military strategic Point of View since any Strong opponent with a sufficiently High level of technology can always overcome the technical achievements of the other Side at All stages and he won l even have to invest As much or Atman resources As arc being invested by the creator of  this month the soviet scientists committee for the defense of peace against nuclear threat said in a report that they could trick or overcome a Star wars defense system with a combination of orbiting mines lasers new missiles and other device. The panel of the soviet Union s leading researchers. Physicists and academics called Star wars a fragile Complex and vulnerable system that would be possible to overwhelm circumvent and dupe for Only a Frac Tion of the billions of dollars of the . System. Sakharov in the Abc interview agreed that Star wars would not deter the soviets. I do not think that the strategic defense initiative will Ever be sufficiently effective to Stop a powerful opponent. I am really negative about the strategic de sense  but the physicist criticized the official soviet negotiating position which is to link Progress on other aspects of arms control to limits on Star wars he said some research on the program must be permitted. A is impossible to expect a total renunciation or research on these questions since this research is inti Makeiy connected with the prospects for military Lech ology of the nest Century. Blast from Pago 1 300 guests. Local officials said Many guests were out doors when the explosion occurred at 4 07 . The blast caved in the roof of the Northern Wing wrecked the indoor fitness Center and Pool and seriously damaged the rest of the hotel Complex said bavarian state police spokesman Max Kougl. More Titan 250 uninjured guests were relocated to 15 other hotels and guest houses in the Garmisch Par Len Kirchen area. Some who live in the Region returned Home said Berghofer. He said the dead were three women aged 20, 23 and 47 two men aged 46, and two other men aged 21 and 59, the 21-year-old Man was the Riess Ersee employee according to German practice the identities of dead and injured were not made Public. Many of the dead and injured. Were in the Pool or Sauna and the roof and Walls just came Down on them without any warning said Berghofer. Koegl said the explosion resulted from a broken pipe linked to a six ton liquid Gas tank that was part of. The hotel s heating system. J inspectors checked the tank Only a week ago but the pipe itself was not examined Koegl said. He said a bavarian slate police commission would investigate. Town officials said hotel guests reported smelling Gas minutes before the explosion. The Northern Wing of the Riess Ersee was literal. Blown into the air Koegl said shortly after the  Dent. Hundreds of firefighters and Rescue workers from t nearby com Mun cities aided in recovery efforts. Mayor Tom Nidlinger said damage to the hotel Wii estimated in the millions of dollars. 1 Garmisch Parten Lusehen a Lown of 27,500 people 59 Miles Southwest of Munich has a major . Mili tary skiing and recreation facility. American occupation forces used the Rieu enee is regional Headquarters after world War i. The old. \ hotel was Lorn Down in the Early 1980s and rebuilt a modern style. Blast rips Iran military Garrison Athens Greece up a massive explosion Tore through a military Garrison in Tehran Iran killing or injuring 500 people an iranian exile group said sunday. Iran s slate owned news Agency Irna said the blast occurred at 2 40 . Saturday when a consignment of ammunition. ,. Accidentally  Irna said the ammunition exploded Asil was being transported in the Garrison compounds. The news Agency mentioned no casualty figures but in said sever Al people wounded in the blast were Laichen to a nearby Hospital. The iranian opposition group with contacts a Ute Iran said the explosion occurred at the be Heihui base where arms shipments from the Tehran Airport and iranian ports Are shipped before being distributed to troops. Among those killed were several officers of the or military revolutionary guards a statement by the opposition group said. There was no immediate confirm \ Malion of that report from official or Independent sources in Iran. J