European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news updates the stars and stripes monday september 4,1989 boat people report Bangkok Thailand a Many boat people currently arriving in Japan arc chinese carry ing take identity cards rather than vietnamese refugees the Vietnam news Agency said in a dispatch seen sunday. The Agency quoted japanese newspapers and its own sources As saying Many of the recent arrivals in Japan were chinese or overseas  report saturday said it appeared Likely that an organization based somewhere Between Viet Nam and the Southern chinese province of fijian acts As an intermediary for those who want to go illegally  this organization May have provided boats and also arranged Lor chinese to mingle with Viet namese the Agency said. Benson estate Lakeland Fla. A the slaying of tobacco heiress Marga ret Benson by her son should not keep his children from getting a share of her $10 million estate a state appeals court ruled. The 2nd District court of a peal has upheld a circuit court decision guaranteeing an inheritance for the three Young children of Steven  courts rejected arguments that a state Law barring killers from profiting from the wills of their victims could be applied to Ben son s children. Benson 38, murdered his Mother and his adopted brother Scott Benson and disfigured his sister Carol Benson Kendall in july 1985 by exploding two pipe bombs in mrs. Benson s car in the drive Way of the family s posh Naples Fla., Home. Joint Jet project Tokyo a Japan May develop its own computer software for the fax fighter Jet if the United states refuses to Supply it a defens Agency official said saturday. However the official speaking on condition of anonymity denied a re port in the Asahi Shimun newspaper that the United states already has refused to provide the software. The United states has not yet said it won t provide the software and we interpret that to mean we can receive it he said. If it does to then we must consider developing it  the paper referred to the soft Ware As the brain of the  Japan and the United states signed an agreement in november for joint development of the fax the next generation of fighter Jet the japanese originally planned to develop the plane on their own. The Deal for joint development has met staunch opposition in Congress where some lawmakers Call it a give away of am incan technology. Cuban combat troops entering Mozambique guerrillas claim Lisbon. Portugal a mozambican rebels claimed saturday that hundreds of cuban combat troops have entered the Southern african country to help government forces fighting in the country s 12-year-old civil War. A mozambican National resistance statement said that almost 600 cuban soldiers have arrived in Mozambique s capital. Maputo during the past week. The statement warned that the cuban troops presence complicates ongoing peace talks. There was no immediate comment on the claims from mozambican president Joaquim Chiusano s marxist govern ment. Peace talks Between the guerrilla organization and mozambican Church leaders representing the government have resumed in Nairobi Kenya. No de tails of the negotiations have been re leased by either Side or by the kenyan mediators. During their talks last month the two sides said that they exchanged peace plans. The rebel statement released in Lis Bon and signed by the rebel s resident Delegate Manuel Frank said the cubans Are members of motorized infantry units. It said they arrived Between aug\25 and aug. 28 in the mozambican Capi Tal and that More Are slated to arrive. According to Frank government officials claim the cubans Are mozambicans returning from training in East Ger Many. The rebel claims come As Cuba is involved in a phased withdrawal of about50,000 troops in another Southern Afri can country Angola under an agreement in Exchange for South Africa pulling 9ut its troops from Angola and granting Namibia Independence. Mozambique receives military lid from the soviet Union and its allies an has accepted several Hundred soviet cuban and East German advisers. But the Only foreign troops known to be fighting the rebels alongside mozambican government forces at present Are 12,000 zimbabwean soldiers protecting an Oil pipeline and Road and rail links from Mozambique s Indian Ocean ports to their landlocked nation. Saturday s guerrilla statement said the government has yet to answer the rebels Call for direct talks. South Africa used to Back Mozambique s guerrillas but says it ended its sup port in 1984 when it signed a Mutual non aggression pact with Mozambique. No government now openly supports the rebels who Are accused of wide spread atrocities against civilians. Thousands of s. African blocks join in protest of Whites Only Bench Durban South Africa a thousands of Blacks marched Pic nicked and waded at a Whites Only Beach in this resort City sunday As part of the nationwide Defiance Campaign. Scores of riot police watched but made Only a few arrests including about 10 Black youths who unfurled a Flag of the outlawed african Congress guerrilla movement. Several dozen White onlookers yelled at the protesters parading along Addington Beach a segregated Section of South Africa s most heavily frequented beachfront. Other sections of the hotel lined Shore have been opened to All races in recent years. One angry White Man barged into the crowd Yelling and pushing. The police were equipped with shotguns and a water Cannon but they made no Effort to Stop the protesters from mov ing onto Addington Beach. In contrast police used clubs and whips and arrested about 500 people saturday in Cape town while breaking up a planned protest March to parliament. More than 1,300 people including prominent activists such As anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu have been arrested since wednesday in connection with the Defiance Campaign. Most have been released pending possible court action. The majority of the Beach protesters were youths Many wearing yellow Caps with the slogan free the  the crowd included Many indians and some Whites besides the Blacks. Local police officials had warned activists last week that the protest could trigger violence and some roadblocks were set up in an attempt to keep pro testers away from the Beach. Police reported that several Small bombs exploded Friday night in trash cans along the beachfront. Nearby were  pacts purportedly written by White right Wing extremists warning activists not to proceed with the pro test. The Defiance Campaign began aug. 2 and has intensified steadily in the Day leading to wednesday s segregated parliamentary election which excludes the Lack majority. A two Day National protest probably including a general strike is planned for tuesday an wednesday by major anti apartheid groups. Previous targets of the Defiance Campaign have included segregated Hospi tals schools and buses. Many activists have defied restrictions imposed on them after their release from detention and several banned organization shave declared that they Are resuming operations. Protesters were whipped by police at a Defiance protest at a Whites Only Beach near Cape town on aug. 19. At least two Cabinet ministers of the governing National party have expressed regret for that incident but the govern ment has Given no Public indication that it is ready to make major changes in remaining segregation taws. 2 shot in resort City rioting looting Virginia Beach a. A rioting broke out Early sunday in this re sort City and More than 100 downtown stores were looted and at least two peo ple shot before the National guard was called out authorities said. Diane Roche assistant director of Public information for Virginia Beach said guardsmen were called out by gov. Gerald l. Baliles shortly after 4 . To assist local authorities. She said the rioting began around 2 . When police confronted a mob on Atlantic Avenue the main beachfront thoroughfare in the resort City. She gave no estimate of the crowd size or what May have set off the rioting. More than 25,000 College students from predominantly Black schools up and Down the East coast Are in town for the annual Grec fest Roche said she did t know if the riot was related to the gathering police reported at least four injuries including the two men shot. Roche was unable to identify any of the injured or say what their condition was. She said police officers were not involved in the shootings. Police reported scattered gunfire and several fires in the area. Aubrey v. Davis City manager said sunday morning that police backed by state troopers and the National guard were in crowd control positions in the oceanfront area. By 7 . The area was reported quiet. Fiery collision kills 5 cyclists injures 5 others n. A. A. Inv a a. To. .1.1 i in irn Lun rown apr of Hinole sort pcs. Suffered Over 90 orc Cut of her body and a matplacerv1lle, Calif. A a Flat bed truck crashed into a line of motorcycles on a Mountain Road saturday killing five people and injuring five three of them critically officials said. The Driver of the 1-ton flatbed truck which was carrying a Load of Wood braked and Slid before overturning and colliding with at least five motorcycles on a Sierra Nevada Highway at 1 25 , said California Highway patrol sgt. Rob Yalcs. All vehicles were immediately engulfed in flames. Most of them were burned pretty severely although we Don t know the exact cause of death said  could be been the  Julie Miller a spokeswoman for mar shall Hospital near Placerville said Alto Gether there were about 40 mot9rcyclists in the group who were on a trip to the Sierra Nevada for a labor Day festival. A team of Highway patrol investigators is working to determine the cause of the Accident Yates said. Obviously somebody was on the wrong Side of the Road Yates said. The 24-year-old truck Driver Daniel Ove percen with Burns Over 60 percent of his body. Two other motorcyclists were treated at Marshall Hospital one was released and another was in stable condition Miller said. Mcwater of Shingl Springs Burns Over 30 percent of his body and was in critical condition according to spokeswoman at University medical Center in Sacramento. She did not identify herself. Two motorcyclists also were listed in the Rural Highway is in a heavily for critical condition in the Hospital s bum cited area and is a private . Forest unit where All three had been airlifted Al suffered second and third degree bums. The names and hometowns of the dead and the other injured victims at the medical Center were not released but the injured included a woman with Burns Sieu Usu � � a i us. W service Road that is open to the Public yales said adding that it is Well maintained paved and painted. The fire touched off a Small Brush fire that was quickly brought under control Yates said