European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 13, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 Hungary s rulers to allow opposition multiparty system to be introduced Budapest Hungary a Hun Gary s ruling communist party has Takena step toward sharing Power with other political groups becoming the first i Eastern Europe to endorse an apparently genuine multiparty system. Party Leader Karoly Grosz announced after a secretive two Day meeting of the Central committee that the policy set Ting body had decided a multiparty sys tem was the Only Way to guarantee Politi Cal pluralism. This will certainly provide an Opportunity for alliances and bring forces into the political process that the Hun Garian socialist workers party communist party would not be Able to mobilize on its own Grosz said. The comments came in an interview excerpted on hungarian radio late sat urday and due for full broadcast sunday evening. Grosz had never spoken out so clearly before in favor of a multiparty system increasingly debated Here for month Sand expected to be Legal under a new Constitution next year. However Grosz said new parties would have to operate on a socialist basis that he expected would be retained in the new Constitution. If they new parties do not accept the Constitution then they cannot oper ate legally he said without explanation. Many other questions remain unanswered. There has been no Clear Indi cation How the communist party which officially controls the Media and virtually the entire government and state Appa Ratus would share Access to the Media for example. No Date has been announced for either multiparty local or parliamentary elections although both Are due by the end of 1990. But Grosz s remarks indicated there will be a place in the system for the Doz ens of alternative political movement that have sprung up in recent months. A marxist based leftist group with Ananti stalinist platform was founded sat urday while another group named aftera Leader of the National peasants party quashed in the communist takeover in1949, also announced plans to form a political party calling for individual Landownership. Hungarians from the alternative groups and Western diplomats saw Grosz s statement As a Victory for communist party reformers such As politburo member Imre Pozsgay who two weeks ago provoked the Central com Mittee meeting with a startling reassess ment of the 1956 anti soviet revolt. Pozsgay stunned the nation by saying the revolt was a popular uprising rather than a counterrevolution As it has been termed officially. The announcement touched off Dis agreements with Grosz and other party leaders and an unprecedented Dis cuss Ion of 1956 in the Media and in society. Grosz said Pozsgay had been Hasty i announcing his judgment on 1956. A source said Pozsgay had told the Centra committee that his statement was his personal View a switch from his Posi Tion that he based it on an unpublished party report. The oldest Contra at 79, pastor Rodriguez Calls himself the oldest  with him at the nicaraguan rebels Headquarters in tamales Honduras is a 14-year old messenger boy who Calls himself  More than 11,000 contras Are camped in the area hoping for the renewal of . Military Aid. Continuing strike by Power workers plagues Greece Athens Greece a sporadic countrywide blackouts and freezing temperatures hampered Mil Lions of greek households sunday As employees of Testate run Public Power organization struck for the fourth straight Day. The strike carried out to Back demands for a 10percent wage increase had been scheduled to end Sun Day but it was extended for another three Days. The blackouts plunged City blocks into darkness Forup to five hours saturday night and thousands of peo ple living in Athens and Northern Salonica were unable to turn on their Heaters. Temperatures in Greece have hovered near freezing for nearly a week As a cold wave accompanied by Snow and rain swept through most parts of the country. The fire department warned people to stay out of elevators after hundreds were trapped during the Power outages in Urban areas. Police asked Drivers to exercise caution after traffic lights went out at intersections and municipalities turned off Street lights to conserve Energy. Striking workers ignored two court injunctions Rul ing the walkout illegal. Winnie Mandela beat boys taken to her Home paper says Johannesburg South Africa a the controversy surrounding Black activist Winnie Mandel deepened sunday As a major newspaper reported that she had joined in beating some boys allegedly abducted by her unofficial bodyguards. One of the boys is missing and feared dead. The sunday Star a Johannesburg newspaper opposed to apartheid said in a front Page Story that mrs. Mandela whipped a group of boys brought to her House in Soweto last month by Young men who Are Loyal to her and Call themselves the Mandela United soccer team. It was the first published report asserting that mrs. Mandela wife of jailed african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela had participated in the alleged beating. Prominent Soweto activists and methodist Church leaders previously have accused Mandela United members of assaulting the four boys after abducting them from a Church in the Black township outside Johannesburg. One of the four 14-year-old Tompie sep i is miss ing and feared dead. The Star which did not identify its sources said the teen Ager had been severely beaten by Mandela United members. According to the newspaper one of the four youths escaped from mrs. Mandela s House and alerted Community leaders meeting at a nearby methodist Church. The Star said a widely known anti apartheid physician or. Abu Baker Astvat went to the House saw the beaten boys and warned that Tompie had been so badly assaulted that he would not  the next Day Astvat was shot to death at his office in Soweto by two Young men pretending to be patients. Police Are investigating the killing to determine whether it was linked to the Mandela controversy. Mrs. Mandela 54, has denied any wrongdoing and rejected reports of discord with her husband the most popular Leader among South Africa s disenfranchised Lack majority. Mandela is the Leader of the african National Congress a guerrilla group fighting to topple South Africa s White ruled government which enforces policies of racial segregation known As apartheid. Mrs. Mandela told lbs news on Friday that no Mandela United members were involved in sep i s disappearance. She was quoted sunday by City press a Black oriented newspaper As acknowledging that the boys had been taken to her Home but saying that she was not present. City press quoted Jerry Richardson who describes himself As Mandela United s former coach As saying that he had beaten the boys to make them admit that they had been sexually molested by a White methodist minister. I gave them a few smacks to make them Tell the truth Richardson 41, was quoted As saying. The National Leader of the methodist Church there. Stanley Magoba said the allegations of sexual abuse against the Rev. Paul Terryn were fabricated by the Mandela faction. He contended that the Mandela group was trying to divert attention from the ruthless Tompie sep i. Missing and believed slain actions of the football team and the disappearance and possible death of  an anti apartheid newspaper the weekly mail re ported Friday that sep i s body had been found but the report has not been confirmed. The exiled leadership of the african National con Gress and prominent anti apartheid leaders in South Africa including anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu have urged mrs. Mandela to disband Mandela United. She said that the team has been disbanded but that about eight Young men who were part of the group continue to live at her House. Law and order minister Adriaan Vlok has appointed a senior police commander maj. Gen. Jaap Jou Bert to investigate the various allegations. Vlok said police expect difficulty finding witnesses willing to testify against mrs. Mandela