European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. October 12, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Johannesburg racial violence claims victims Johannesburg. South Africa a police said bands of Blacks rampaged through two Parks in White suburbs of Johannesburg saturday and two Whites were Slabbed to death seven people were injured and 14 arrested. Sara Bloomberg a while member of parliament. Said a Black Man also was killed but police made no mention of a third fatality in their report Early sunday. Fighting broke out at Valley Park Jum cast of Johannesburg saturday afternoon said police spokesman Pierre Louw. When a police Van arrived it was stoned by Blacks and police used tear Gas to Dis Perse the crowd Louw said. About two hours later two police officers were injured when they were attacked by some people in a group of Iso at nearby Rhodes Park according to Louw. He said a police patrol later found in the area the bodies of two Whites who had been stabbed. One of the seven injured was reported to be in serious condition. Police said they received complaints about gather Ings of Blacks in three other areas but no violence was reported. The Ninlin report be no indication Why the fight ing started. But saturday was a National Holiday and police said there were More people in the Parks than usual and Many were drinking alcoholic beverages. Bloomberg is a member of the governing nationalist party and he represents the District where the violence occurred. He told the Independent South. Hcan press association that truckloads of Blacks arrived at Rhodes Park apparently with the intention of causing Trou ble and that vast quantities of liquor were consumed by picnickers. German scandal figure found dead Geneva a the key figure in West Ger Many s most bitter political scandal in years was found dead in a Geneva hotel sunday police said. A West German newspaper reported that former Schleswig Holstein minister president Uwe Barschel 43, shot himself because he saw no other Way Geneva police official Marcel Carrara denied the shooting report telling a press conference that bar Fel Bullet and that there was no he said the body was found fully clothed in the hotel asked about a report by Stern Magazine in West Ger Many that the body was found in the Bathtub he said i said in the hotel Carrara said for the moment it appears that Barschel did not leave a suicide note. Nobody has found anything like he said an autopsy was being performed and results would probably be made known monday morning. Police Are investigating the death he said. Carrara said reporters discovered the body Early sunday afternoon and that they had entered the room through an unlocked door. Police have found no signs of anybody forcing the door he said. Barschel had arrived in Geneva on saturday Carrara said. Germany s mass circulation Bild newspaper said Barschel shot himself to death on the Way Back from a vacation in the Canary islands. Bild reported that it had ". Learned from bar Schel s inner Circle that Barschel for the past two Days. Saw no other Way out than to kill himself. His wife knew nothing about Barschel s Barschel was a member of German Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl s Christian democratic party. Barschel re signed the state governor s Post on sept. 23 As a result of he growing scandal. The scandal started following allegations by one of bar Schel s aides that Barschel had used dirty tricks against a Campaign rival of the social democratic party. S5s photo by Frenda hosts the Chapel built by polish labourers is scheduled to be torn Down when a new Chapel is completed in 1989. Miessau depot is labor of love from Page 1 Rived said Radawicz 61. There was a Stream on the Back Side of the depot that we used for washing us and our clothes. For toilets we had the great the poles cleared enough Trees to throw up a Lent City then fenced in their primitive Post and began erecting the first ammunition storage buildings. The ammo began arriving a month later Radawicz said meaning workers alternately humped and sorted am munition pulled guard duly and continued work on the Barracks and buildings and roads that would evolve into Germany s largest depot. Ryszard a Suszycki remembers the Early Days of labor service As backbreaking construction work a Barracks Here an officers club there rewarded with steady meals and benefits that approached something close to luxury. A Skinny 17-year-old in 1944, a Suszycki was a Mem Ber of the polish provisional brigade a right Wing group that clearly would have Little future in postwar Poland. Some 2,000-Slrong. The brigade punched its Way through russian and German lines to reach Amer ican forces in the West. Many of its members promptly joined the burgeoning labor service. Back then they fed us class b military said a Suszycki now supervisor of the 7418th. Dried potatoes hash a lot of hamburger. Not the Best not As Good As what the american soldiers were getting be cause they got the very Best. We got something a Little less but we ate very Well it was Good the workers also rated a pm ration of $5 in scrip a month that was lots of Money then and a cigarette ration of a pack a Day. I think the cigarettes were originally made for prisoners of War but they gave them to us he said. The cigarettes and pm visits were stopped in the Early 1950s, with the formation of the first German labor service companies outgrowths of the Black uni formed Industrial police units formed from released German prisoners in 1948. Those first German outfits marked the beginning of what has become the civilian support Agency a Young 12,500-Strong, mostly German work Force that handles everything from guarding atomic warheads to Manning sophisticated electronic equipment. Units based on National origin have been integrated military ranks and titles eliminated and women some 700 of them allowed in. More than half of support Agency workers today Are under 3d. Nearly 95 percent Are Ger Man born. Of the roughly 700 foreign born workers still with the Agency most Are 58 or older. I say civilian support Agency and nobody knows what i m talking about said James j. Husling of the Agency s Heidelberg Headquarters. I say labor serv ice and people say of yeah the old polish guards we re really not anything like that that reality has slowly hit Home at Miessau where the once All polish 7418th has dwindled to less than two dozen poles three czechs a pair of ukrainians. We All used to live Here said Wick Cichowicz second in charge at the unit. We built the Chapel this Pond for the goldfish Over there is our Little zoo. If we saw a piece of paper on the ground we picked it up. If the grass needed cutting we Cut it. The Young workers today show up a few minutes before work starts and when quitting time comes. They re gone. For them. Miessau is a work place. For us. It was there was a Stream on the Back Side of the depot that we used for washing us and our clothes. For toilets we had the great Josef Radawiec Home but perhaps too much like Home Wier Cio Chow ice admits. Two polish workers have committed suicide rather than face retirement others have offered to stay on without pay. The unit is keeping its Eye on another polish worker due to retire this month who has been off the depot perhaps 10 times in the past 35 years. Also under Wick Cichowicz s Wing is the depot too keeper Jan Makhlis now 76, who looks after the pea Cocks and goats rabbits and a few Deer that make up the Small menagerie on the depot. He came up to us in a Guesthouse in 1962. He did t know the War was Over. Wiercioch Wicz said. And Wiercioch Wicz has adopted one additional charge the ramshackle Miessau Chapel. When a new $2 million Chapel is completed in 1989, the quonset hut will be torn officials want the space for transient officer depot needs this new Wiercioch Owic said but we would like to hang onto the old one for awhile until the last of the old poles leaves Here. If ii is possible. If it can be done. That is my Heartfelt wish. For us. You Sec. New in t necessarily better. My wife is old but that does t mean a younger woman would be better for
