European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 8.1988 the stars and stripes page3 phantom of opera wins 7 tonys a the phantom or the opera captured seven Tony awards including inc one for Best musical but he Luhv tale into inc Woods deprived it of lff&., for musical score and Book. Inlo inc Woods wons rec tonys at sunday night s presentations for thev9b7-88 Roadway season. Also inc exotic love Story a. Hmm Fly and inc revival of Cole Porte anything phantom which is the season s big Gest hit and is sold out Well into next year is the second straight British import to win As top musical. Last year los i warbles won that award and seven others. In addition to being top musical the Story of a disfigured Man who abducts a Beautiful Singer at inc Paris opera won the musical categories for Best actor. Michael Crawford director. Harold in acc featured actress Judy Kayc and All three technical awards Maria Bjornson for sets and cos Tumes and Andrew Bridge for lighting. I m honoured said its composer an Drew Lloyd Webber. This was rather unix there Are so Many ups and dawns in this business. Well the Lime i have had Here in new York said a Eho cd up Crawford who portrays the phantom. Know by the Law of averages i must be due to be knocked Down by a Stephen Sondheim and James Lap a won for composer and author Rocc into he Joanna Gleason won the Bot actress award. In the musical she pjs the Baker s wife who wants a child raid turns to a Witch for help a. Butterfly Aidor David Henry Hwang thanked Flie real life French Diplomat who calf cd on an affair for 20 years Wilh am nose a circus without real izing Sheynz Man. "1 Lik Cim probable plots but i m not i holding heir trophies in new York Are the top winners in sunday s ceremonies ii from left the award recipients Are Ron Silver Joanna Glesman Michael Crawford and sure i could have made thai one in addition to Best play it won for director John Dexter and for actor . Wong who plays he Singer and who grasped his Tai coat and curtsied after his award was announced. Ron Silver was named Best actor for his portrayal of a Cut rate Hollywood Mogul in David Mamet s up cd the plow while Joan Allen won As Best actress for her portrait of a bereaved dancer in Lanford Wilson s Burn Bill Mccutcheon a comic gangster on the Lam in anything goes received inc award for featured actor in a musical. The 1934 Cole Porter musical also was named Best revival and received the choreography award which went Lomi Chad Smuin. L Scott Caldwell received the featured Appolo York at which Tony awards Cre presented. T Allen. A play pric for her portrayal of inc Bof Leighou ii owner s wife in Joe Turner s a True and gone by August Wilson Singer to Lonna. Who is in Nuen cd a special Tony to the South com Pany of Costa Mesa Calif. The 42nd annual Tony a Watts show. Televised live from the min Skoli produced by Don m Ischer. Black workers students strike in South Africa Johannesburg South Africa a hundreds of thousands of Black workers and students monday defied emergency regulations and went on strike to demand the right to oppose apartheid. Black Union leaders called for a three Day National protest without specifying a strike. They said inc action is aimed at pressuring business leaders Inlo de manding that the White minority government Case restrictions on inc anti apartheid movement. Manpower minister picker Duplessis said the pro test was illegal and that workers who look part could be country s seven major Auto plants and other factories shut Down but the mining Industry said in was virtually unaffected As Only 9,000 of 5 50,000blacks at major mining companies missed work Mon Day in inc Industry thai cams 80 percent of South Africa s foreign in the Kwa Zulu Black Homeland said a fire bomb wounded five bus passengers. The Homeland government which opposes the strike said nine were injuries were reported in several other bombings of buses Railroad cars Racks and stations around the country. Police and soldiers patrolled in greater numbers than usual and stood guard at some train stations and there were reports of gunfire in Gugu Letu township near Cape town. The government Railroad service and private bus companies that carry Black workers from townships into City centers in Transvaal and naval provinces i armed the general strike highly dozens of schools were empty in Black townships around Johannesburg Cape town and Durban. Sever Al universities delayed final exams or cancelled classes. A three Day strike would be inc longest nationwide protest since the government decreed an emergency june 12, 1986, to thwart a Black revolt against apart Heid the policy of racial separation that reserves Power As Well As the Best schooling and living for South Africa s 5 million Whites and denies the country s 26 million Blacks a voice in National affairs. The Boycott is the most ambitious opposition Effort since the government in february banned political activity by major Ami apartheid groups and inc Congress of South african Trade unions the largest Black labor federation. Union leaders targeted those prohibitions As Well As proposed legislation Hal would curtail the ability of labor unions to strike. This expression of opposition is one of the few remaining avenues of peaceful and legitimate protest available to us said Jay Naidoo head of the predominantly Black Trade Union Congress. If the Congress is barred from such protests then the new Era of labor relations is doomed and Industrial stability is seriously jeopardized he said in a statement. The strike is viewed As a test of strength for the unions and their allies. Unions have accused employ ers of aiding an alleged government Effort to weaken the Black labor movement which became Legal Only nine years ago. Employers normally have a no work no pay policy in illegal strikes but have reacted More strongly this Lime. Some obtained court orders prohibiting Calls for strikes at their plants. Others threatened to dismiss absentees or cancel Union contracts. An association of freight shippers said workers who joined inc strike would be taken off payrolls. A statement from the chamber of mines which represents the six largest mining companies said. The overwhelming majority of our employees have rejected the confrontational Atli Tudic urged by some Union Lead National Union of mineworkers largest in inc labor Congress said court orders and actions by Security forces kept miners on the of a Coal mine cast of Johannesburg said about 3d men armed with Sticks tried to keep workers from reporting for inc morning shift and mine guards dispersed them with rubber bullets. About 90 percent of the Black workers in Johannes Burg did not show up for work. The Absentee Rale was30 percent in Pretoria and More than 80 percent in Durban. Swedish Navy stepping up anti sub Campaign Stockholm Sweden a the Navy exploded a mine and depth charges monday night Southeast of Stockholm As part of an intensified Effort to Stop underwater intrusions by suspected mini submarines officials said. The use of the weapons came after indications that a foreign submarine operated Between Orno and Uto islands that is in the Vicinity of Sweden s main East coast naval base at Musko l8tt Miles Southeast of Stockholm. A mine was exploded in the same area m week ago and military preparedness has been High since Ihen. The Navy would say Only thai the search continued. The Navy has exploded mines depth charges and anti sub grenades on a half dozen occasions during the past week both on the East coast and in the archipelago offo Toborg on inc West coast. Numerous dead fish were inc Only Tan Gible effects reported. Navy spokesmen on monday denied news reports Hal a damaged min sub was suspected to be hiding near dons Island off Goldborg. A military staff spokesman Thomas cur said naval sub Hunters arc acting under new government directives which permit firing at intruders without warn ing in the inner archipelago and some limes in Waters farther out
