European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday july 15,1988 Jonathan Swift s much travelled Gulliver is Down and out again it appears. This 70-foot Model of the novelist s hero Lemuel Gulliver lies on a Beach near Dublin ire washed up land staked to the ground and fussed Over by Little men just As Swift s 18th-Century character was treated when he got shipwrecked on the Island of lil put the alumni num and plywood Model which took four months to construct will be the focus of several festival events this week in die theatrical minded Irish capital. Angola Cuba s. Africa agree to tentative troop pullout pact United nations a Angola Cuba and South Africa agreed that Pretoria will end its 73-year Rule in South West Africa and that cuban troops will leave Angola but they did not set a schedule for the cuban pullout. As a result of these 2 to Days the angolans cubans and South africans were Able to reach agreement on a set of principles which constitute the essential elements of a political settlement in southwestern Afri Ca said Chester a. Crocker undersecretary of state in charge of african affairs. Crocker led the Host Ameri can delegation. In announcing the agreement wednesday Crocker said the South african administration in South West Africa also known As Namibia would be replaced by . Civil and military administrators to comply with a . Resolution calling for that nation s Independence under Black majority Rule. There Are some Large gaps that remain Crocker said. For example the existing Gap on the timing of the cuban troop withdrawal from Angola is a major Issue. I think the parties agreed that this was not the time to come to grips with that Issue and we agree with that judgment. But they do recognize. That there s going to have to be a Compromise that there s going to have to be no losers that it s going to have to be something that can be verified to the satisfaction of everybody Crocker said. The statement of principles adopted by the military and political negotiators must now be approved by their respective governments. Details of the principles will not be released until then said Crocker. South Africa has said it would accept a . Security Council Resolution calling for South West Africa Independence when the estimated 50,000 cuban troops withdraw from neighbouring Angola the . Goal is a full cuban troop withdrawal Inone year the same time Span that the . Resolution sets for granting Independence to Namibia. Angola and Cuba had insisted that the cuban withdrawal should take place Over four years. In Washington thursday . Ambassador Vernon Walters told Kobs this morning that Many obstacle remain including the approval of the governments involved and the setting of a schedule for the troop withdrawals. This War has been going on for 15 years. There s whole lot of hostility built up he said. The United states was a party to the talks because it has been supporting anti communist rebels in Angola with funds and weapons since 1985. Asked if the United states would still support the rebels Walters said that s a decision taken in the Light of circumstances. Certainly the soviets Are still supporting the Luanda private meetings among the negotiators began Mon Day under tight Security at the . Coast guard Sta Tion on governors Island in new York Harbor. Mexican opposition leaders insist ruling party stole tight election Mexico City a final results in Mexico selection gave Carlos Salinas de Gortari s institutional revolutionary party Victory by the Slimmest margin in the centrist governing party s history. The opposition claimed institutional revolutionary party known As the Pri had not lost a presidential gubernatorial or sen ate race in its 59 Pri dominated election commission said Sali Nas received 9.64 million votes or 50.36 percent Farbelow the 70 percent the Pri has traditionally won. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the leftist National demo cratic front was second with 5.96 million or 31.12 percent and Manuel j. Clouthier of the conservative National action party was third with 3.27 million votes or 17.07 percent. Two minor candidates accounted for the rest of the leaders thursday said that the Pri stole the opposition won four seats in the 64-seat Senate the Federal election commission said late wednesday. The commission released the election results a week after the balloting even though it originally promised them for election was not yet known whether the Pri lost the two thirds majority required for approval of constitutional reforms in the chamber of deputies the lower House of Congress. Ballots were cast by 50.3 percent of the 38 million registered voters the commission said. Government and party officials initially described the turnout As larger than the 75 percent in 1982.high turnout was one of the reasons they gave for the delay in releasing results so the Low turnout gave Rise to two theories the 1982 turnout was inflated or opposition votes were not counted this representatives on the commission accused it of fraud and said the release of vote totals was delayed so they could be doctored. Opposition workers carried into the commission boxes of ballots some partially burned and others he said were found in the said the vote should be annulled in 10,000 of the More than 54,000 polling places because opposition representatives were denied Access or ejected illegally. The results gave four Senate seats two from Mexic City and two from Michoacan to parties supporting Cardenas and 60 to the Pri won 249 of the 300 directly elected seats in the chamber of deputies the lower House of National action party took 31 and parties sup porting Cardenas took 20.the remaining 200 seats in the chamber Are As signed on the basis of proportion of the vote received so the Pri will retain its majority. But it was not known How Many of the 200 seats it would get. World today Coke can bomb explodes near Rome Council building Rome up a bomb in a soft drink can exploded outside the Headquarters of the Superior Council of the magistrate re thursday Only hours before president Francesco Corsiga at tended a meeting there. Police said the bomb consisting of about 11ounces of Gunpowder packed into a Large coca cola can was planted in a wire trash barrel i Piazza Della Republica near the main train station. Apparently primed with chemicals set to explode when it was moved the bomb went off As a garbage Man emptied the trash barrel into a sanitation truck. The garbage Man Emilio Manni 46, suffered cuts and bruises on his face arms and Chest an was admitted to polyclinic Hospital in Shock. Anti terrorist experts said the bomb May have been intended As a warning following the convictions of four Neo fascists monday for the bombing of the Bologna Railroad station on aug. 2, 1980. That bombing killed 85 people and wounded nearly 200. Suspected e. German spy arrested in w. Germany Munich West Germany a a Man suspected of being an East German spy was arrested after crossing from East Germany int Bavaria posing As a hiker officials said wednes Day. The unidentified 29-year-old Man carried a false passport bearing the name of a living West German Man said bavarian state police. After interrogation by police the suspect admitted he was a citizen of East Germany officials said. The Man was arrested june 16, near the East German Border at Marold Sweifach in Northern Bavaria officials said. The arrest was not announced immediately so the investigation would not be jeopardized police said. Attempt to invade Liberia is repelled radio reports Nairobi Kenya a liberian president Samuel k. Doe said his Security forces repelled an invasion and coup attempt led by his former second in command a Church owned radio Sta Tion reported. Radio Elwa reported that in a nationwide broadcast wednesday night Doe said his forces exchanged gunfire wednesday morning wit what is believed to have been an invading Force at a liberian Border Post in Nimba county inthe North of the West african country. The broadcast monitored in Nairobi quote Doe As saying the Force was led by j. Nicholas Rodier jr., described As vice head of state of the former ruling people s redemption Council
