European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday february 24.1990 Black history month Bob Marley born in 1945 in Jamaica Bob mar Ley led a Reg gae group that sold More thin 20 million albums during his career. His first modest hit in 1964 was simmer  he was considered the King of reggae music As Well is mythic figure. About 12.000 people tilled the National Arena in Kingston. Jamaica for his funeral in 1981 after he died of brain tumor in Miami. This is one of a Serin of paintings by spec. James Scott appear ing in the Stan and stripes this month. Sihanouk ends 1 1 year exile from Cambodia of mar Manchey. Cambodia a Prince Norodom Sihanouk Friday ended 11 years of exile and returned to the land he once ruled greeted by cambodians who waved flags and chanted. Long live his to Al  my cambodians want to live in Cambodia and die in  the guerrilla Leader told about 100 reporters bused in for the Homecoming. I am 68 years old and i feel More and More i could die on foreign soil even if it is Friendly foreign soil like China or North  since fleeing after the vietnamese invasion in de Cember 1978. Sihanouk has lived in palaces and luxury hotels in China North Korea. Thailand France and other countries that Back his guerrilla move ment. Starting Friday the Prince was to take up Resi do acc in a one room House without running water or Central heating said his spokesman. Elk sure Swath. The Prince smiled and waved As his car crossed from Thailand to parched scrubland about 300 feel inside the Western Border province of odder can Chc. Where his guerrillas Nave made significant in roads in a Eccl months. About 100 civilians greeted him. As did dozens of Rifle toting guerrillas. Officials said the Prince is to live with his wife Monique. And two aides. Cooks will be on hand and food and supplies will be brought in from Thailand. Sihanouk said he would not command his army from his new Home but instead concentrate on helping civilians in the liberated zone with food Medicine and clothing. Sihanouk ascended the throne in 1941 and led cambo Dia to Independence from the French in 1953. His Rule ended in a 1970 military coup after he resisted . At tempts to draw Cambodia into the Indochina War. Since 1982. Sihanouk has led the guerrilla coalition that also includes the Khmer Rouge and the Khmer people s National liberation front. He resigned As coalition president recently citing charges that he was an accomplice of the Khmer Rouge. Sihanouk swedish prime minister says hell form new government Stockholm Sweden a caretaker prime minister Ingvar Carlsson said Friday he is forming a new government to end Sweden s political crisis and quell the labor strife and inflation that have beset the nation s Economy. In a 17-Point program Carlsson said the govern ment would consider opening Sweden to workers from the soviet Baltic republics to alleviate an inflation boosting labor shortage and would seek to mediate labor disputes. Carlsson s Cabinet resigned feb. 14 when the legis lature rejected his emergency economic program. He was asked to form a new government on thursday after the centrist opposition parties failed to unite on a common policy. Thage g. Peterson the speaker of parliament in formed the 349-Mcmbcr Riksdag that he had asked Carlsson to Lead another Cabinet. A vote on the new Carlsson government was set for monday with the Small communist party expected to support it and the Center party to abstain. The new Cabinet would be installed on tuesday. Swedish radio said. The program Carlsson outlined at a news conference shifted the government s attack on economic problem from greater regulation to liberalizing the labor mar Ket. The 17-Point platform dropped the controversial proposal for a two year wage freeze and for compel sary arbitration of labor disputes while it maintained a Price freeze for an indefinite period. It included a proposal to appoint a state mediator whose task would be to Dampen wage demand in a National agreement to be negotiated this Spring. The government also would tighten rules to prevent Wildcat strikes. Under a 60-year-old agreement the government has refrained from becoming directly involved in wage negotiations unless asked by both employers and unions. The political crisis began in january with a series of labor conflicts that closed All Banks for three weeks and threatened to paralyse Public services and transport in major cities. The government said the labor strife was symptomatic of pressures that had caused a wage Cost spiral. To offset the labor shortage Carlsson said the government will quickly investigate whether Young baits will be Given the Opportunity to work in Sweden during certain  it also would give swedes the Choice of working two Yean beyond the retirement age at 65 and working through two weeks of the six week vacation to which each swedish worker will be entitled by Law As of next year. . Navy warns ships in Gulf to stay Clear of burning Tanker Manama. Bahrain a the . Navy on Fri Day Lold vessels to steer at least four Miles Clear of a burning kuwaiti Tanker while an army of Salvage boats work around the clock to keep its volatile cargo from exploding again. The .-flagged surf City was loaded with naphtha and diesel fuel bound for Italy on thursday when a blast ripped through it in the persian Gulf about 20 Miles off the United Arab emirates coast. The ship was still billowing smoke Friday. Its american Captain and first male were killed but the 23 other sailors All americans but one. Were res cued by . Warships. Four were injured. Officials ruled out sabotage or iranian mines As the cause and said a Short circuit May have sparked the blast aboard the ship which is owned by the kuwaiti Oil Tanker co. It had been refing cd for . Protection during the Iran Iraq War. . Navy officials Lold ships in the area to stay Ai Leasi four Miles away from the ship which was monitored by the guided missile frigate Simpson. The accommodation quarters arc still soldering and the heat could blow up the cargo which would be a major disaster said a shipping source in the South Ern persian Gulf who spoke on condition of anonymity. Two Salvage tugboats from the kuwaiti Oil Tanker co. Joined a half dozen others from the United Arab emirates overnight dousing the Tanker with foam and water to fend off a More serious explosion the ship Ping source said. The source also said the vessel was listing with the front part Only about 2 feet above water. The Salvage tugboats were trying to keep it from sinking. Capt. Ron Wildermuth. Chief spokesman for the . Naval forces Central come in Florida said Ini american Ilag Gedl Hormuz kuwaiti Tanker tial reports indicated the explosion was caused by an internal Accident. The Navy identified the dead As Derrick f. Linar Dich the 38-year-old Captain from Norfolk a and Steven p. Mchugh the 34-year-old first mate from East Bridge water mass. The Navy has a 10-unit Middle East Force in the Gulf which monitors movement of .-flagged ships from a distance. It officially ceased its regular escorts conducted at the height of the Iran Iraq War to protect ships from iranian threats. Kuwait whose tankers were a primary target of the iranians preregistered 11 of its tankers in the United states to give them the right to Navy Protection. A few months after the . Cease fire ended the persian Gulf War in August 1988, Kuwait do flagged six of the tankers. Surf City was one of the five still flying the . Flag. The kuwaitis had planned to discuss the ships Der cd stration later this month. Mandela opposition leaders talk Johannesburg South Africa a Nelson Mandela conferred Friday with parliamentary opposition leaders and aides released details of his first trip abroad since leaving prison an 18-Day, four nation trip starting next week. Aides also confirmed that Mandela who has endorsed the nationalization of South Africa s mines planned to meet monday with the chairman of the country s largest mining conglomerate. Gavin Kelly whose Anglo american corp. Is the world s no. I Gold producer had accepted an invitation to visit the african National Congress Leader s House in the Black township of Soweto the company said. Mandela whose last trip abroad began with a clan Destine Border crossing in 1962 shortly before his imprisonment plans to Fly tuesday to Lusaka Zambia. There he will meet leaders of several african countries and Confer with the Anc s exiled leadership. He then plans to spend three Days in Zimbabwe and six Days in Tanzania before flying to Sweden on March 12 to visit Anc president Oliver Tambo who is in a clinic recovering from a stroke. Mandela met at his Home Friday with the three co leaders of the democratic party which represents anti apartheid Whites in parliament. He also met the Rev. Allan Hendrickse Leader of parliament s mixed race chamber