European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and St Lopes tuesday March Zzz. 1988 world today chinese reportedly use color tvs to get favors bluing a More than i million color televisions China s holiest Selling consumer hems arc lying Idle in warehouses partly be cause supplier arc using the valuable commodity to buy influence and obtain favors an off Idil newspaper said monday the nation made 6.7 million color televisions last year 62 percent More than in 1986, but about one Smith of the sets produced were Stock piled in warehouses despite heavy consumer de Mand the China daily said quoting a report in the workers daily. Ii said Many retail stores were unable to keep television on i hair shelves because of poor distribution. The Dongfeng Market in Beijing one of China s largest did not have any coir i Levi Sions o sell Lasi year it said. Vietnamese official suspected of defecting Bangkok Thailand in Iti ia4iit it 7 heart Itab to. Met i for film it to apr 1, hot so rth l win flip , Tor duo of cwt ssoqosoirlkx4m 1, tt2. 5041 or afghan n or Curt. In pfc Viva pm m it a 1m Ai Jthn my Jav to it try Miling. Mif Hawk new tvs Row a not Dkl Tif dirt a tax Rel in it tick Jopat 115 000 the 4n_ �. Ub7i to vhf u con t wih aug i off a s or a Afi 0 Lalieu Ihil either sympathize with the government of Iran s Ayatollah Kua Ojah Khomeini or openly arc urging an islamic re Elution once the soviets leave ministration officials raid. The other three groups also islamic arc tradition Ajjie who derive i hair Power from tribal and a Fehige Liet. Stale department officials explained. T the traditional Mujaheddin have sought to regain Power they enjoyed before the 1979 soviet invasion. But the fundamentalists now arc militarily stronger mainly thanks to Covert Aid from the United states Pakistan and saudi Arabia. By portraying ibo Radical rebels As Freedom fight ers the Reagan administration has painted itself into a Comer one state department analyst said. Maey of these radicals arc Blacks stage 1st nationwide strike since s. Africa banned opposition Johannesburg South Africa apr commuter buses from Soweto were deserted monday Ond four buses near Durban woe firebombed As hundreds of thousands Naulty Indian University and Arr Eilcy Slud Cou who tried to Force Othen to join the Boycott. The strike wat organized in Defiance of emergency regulations to commemorate the 2wli anniversary of a massacre in Ilie township of sharper ill and to proles the Binning of any activity by the United democratic front and 16 other anti apartheid groups. Police estimated mat 40 percent of the Black workforce in the Johannesburg Region stayed away from their jobs but authorities did not give a figure for the number involved. In Sharp Cvijic residents placed Flowers at Graves of some of the 69 massacre victims and held memorial services. Winnie Mandela wife of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela attendee one of the services after arriving in the township South of Johan Nesburg in a bus with other activists. There was in unconfirmed report thai police ordered the bin to leave but Mandela said her group it a Conniar ily. In Soweto the Black township of 2.s million people Cut de Johannesburg virtually no is Enton hoarded commuter Tana accenting to Cheryl Ron Mouth of the Pulco Ink company. Normal daily ride nip is atoll 75,000. Schools and most shops in soc la were do cd. And residents said few of the hundreds of Mioi Bui Unis that carry Many so wets to work were pc ratio. South african transport service said re Krahil on its Ira ins during tic own Ungruh hour was Down by up to 20 percent. It Dis Miuca As inaccurate an earlier press report that said ridership was Down about 80 percent. In Durban tour put co buses were firebomb cd. Prompting put co to Hall service in several to i tips when Drivers refused to work. Police reported two in Orcsi relax a killings of Blackt overnight one near Dur ban ind one in Soweto but gave no indication they were linked 10 the protest. Ai the University of Durban Wesl Villa where Moi students Are of Indian descent police used tear Gas to disperse protesters and arrested Somr Slu Dentt who trint to Force others to Boycott classes. Tic strike Wai widespread in the pc Loria Tea in Durban and around the a Aitch Cape province cily of Ron Elna Belh. More than 90 percent of Black workers reportedly stayed Home around the City of Uil Cohage where police killed 21 Macks during a funeral procession on Day in i9b5. There was no Eph ii All for workers in the crw town area to strike. The United democratic front the country s largest anti apartheid Pooh icon Hud coordinated Puvion nationwide protects during the 21-month-old Tut of Erner Icicy. Emerge Sty ret liliom Somlaw
