European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday february 17, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 assignment shiver bundled up against the bavarian cold Cash massages his hands As he pulls guard at a Chaparral anti aircraft missile site near Bayreuth West Germany. Cash of Btry a 2nd in 59th air defense arty is one of about 4,500 1st army div soldiers is Vince Crawley who took part in exercise Iron forge Iii which ended thursday. S. African activists disown mrs. Mandela Johannesburg South Africa a prominent anti apartheid leaders thursday repudiated win Nie Mandela saying she does not represent their move ment and accusing her bodyguards of waging a reign of terror in the Black Community. In a statement a group of widely known activists accused mrs. Mandela wife of jailed african National con Gress Leader Nelson Mandela of violating human rights. In the name of the struggle against mrs. Mandela and her bodyguards known As the Man Dela United soccer club Are under investigation in the death of a teen age Black activist who disappeared after allegedly being beaten in mrs. Mandela s Home in Soweto. The police investigation is the latest in a series of controversies to have dogged mrs. Mandela in recent years. Mrs. Mandela has abused the Trust and Confidence which she has enjoyed Over the years said Murphy morose a spokesman for the banned United demo cratic front the country s largest anti apartheid group. Numerous efforts have been made to reconcile the conflict Between mrs. Mandela and the Black Community he said. On every occasion mrs. Mandela has refused to cooperate and has chosen to disregard the sentiments of the morose emphasized that anti apartheid leaders reaffirm our unqualified support for our Leader Nel son Mandela and Call for his immediate joining morose at the news conference were leaders of the main Black labor federation prominent anti apartheid lawyers and other leaders of the United democratic front. Morose noted that mrs. Mandela has faced severe hardships such As being separated from her husband for 27 years while he serves a life sentence raising her two children alone living under a series of harsh police restrictions and spending 18 months in solitary confinement. We pay tribute to her contribution said morose adding that it had been a painful decision for Black leaders to speak out against mrs. Mandela. But he said mrs. Mandela s actions repeatedly Vio lated the principles of the anti apartheid movement. He specifically cited Mandela United which consists of up to 30 youths who Seldom play soccer and have served As mrs. Mandela s bodyguards since she formed the group in 1986. The group guards mrs. Mandela s House some live there and accompany her to Public appearances wearing track suits with the club s name on it and generally harassing people. We Are outraged by the reign of terror that the team has been associated with morose said. Not Only is mrs. Mandela associated with the team in fact the team is her own morose conceded that the government will use the criticism against mrs. Mandela As a propaganda mrs. Mandela could not be reached for comment. Mandela s lawyer Ismail ayob said he did not think Mandela knew of the criticism levelled at his wife. Mrs. Mandela returned to Johannesburg on wednesday after an 80-minute meeting at a prison farm near Cape town with her husband. After her return police stopped the Van carrying her Back to Soweto and impounded the vehicle on the Highway. While mrs. Mandela her daughter and grand daughter hitched a ride with a journalist police took into custody a Young Man accompanying her but later released him. Police capt. . Bloomberg said the Van had been impounded for examination for investigation in connection with the murder of Tompie Weipei 14, whose decomposed body was identified in a police morgue wednesday through fingerprints. Long term heavy drinking tied to muscle damage Boston a a lifetime of heavy alcohol use can damage the heart by weakening the body s Muscles according to a new study. Researchers concluded that people risk muscle damage if their lifetime consumption of pure alcohol is More than 13 kilograms for each kilogram of body weight. This is the equivalent of a Iso Pound Man drinking More than 12 ounces of whiskey a Day for 20 years. Doctors Long assumed that weakness among heavy drinkers a condition called chronic alcoholic Myo Pathy resulted from malnutrition because Alco Holics often eat poorly. However the new study found that such muscle wasting including weak Ness of the heart muscle was also com Mon among alcoholics who lived in Sta ble Homes and ate Well. The study was conducted on 50 Alco Holic men by or. Alvaro Urbano mar Quez and colleagues from the univer sity of Barcelona in Spain. The results were published in thursday s new eng land journal of Medicine. They found that one third of the alcoholics had weakness of the heart muscle and that nearly half had abnormalities in other Muscles. An accompanying editorial by or. Ivan Diamond of the University of California san Francisco called the Spanish study important. He said it shows that a Large life time dose of ethanol alcohol deter mines the prevalence and severity of damage to cardiac and skeletal muscle in
