European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 24, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3baker finds apartheid a distressing new to South Africa apr Sec slate James a. Baker Iii Friday j this sprawling Black township Quot a bag a it. Was is dressed at the racial inequalities in a soy dominated by apartheid the visit came one Day after he said l in White run government was committed to dismantling South Africa s racial separation system. Baker met with Walter Sisulu at the african National Congress leaders Home in a neighbourhood of Small Brick houses. He visited Community centers and a daycare Center and drove past a squatters Camp erected on an old Golf course. Baker said the contrast Between Soweto and the wealth of South africans Whites is Quot quite distressing and that a Why 1 said the system of apartheid should be abolished As soon As  false alarm briefly stops Seabrook Plant Concord . Apr operators briefly shut Down the Seabrook nuclear Power Plant in Only its third Day of operation because of a false alarm thursday but a Federal inspector called the move conservative. Noel Dudley resident inspector at Seabrook for the nuclear regulatory commission said Plant operator new Hampshire Yankee shut Down the reactor because of a spurious alarm received intermittently from one of five Banks of electronic controls for the reactors control rods. Dudley said each Bank of controls has multiple Power Supply units and nuclear Power plants can operate safely for months with one unit out of service. He agreed that the decision to shut Down was conservative. Quot they could have continued to operate a he said. Dudley said the reactor was shut Down about 8 30 . It was put Back in operation at 2 . Plant spokesman Rob Williams twice declined to confirm that the reactor had been shut Down. Williams said he did no to know and would not bother the control room to find out. A we said All along that there would be shutdowns and i done to know whether there have been a Williams said. He said he  Call the control room because Quot we have made a conscious decision that we Are not going to be distracting the control room staff for updates about the Power  Plant officials have said reaching full Power could take two to three months and they expect problems. They re progressing with their Start up very deliberately Dudley said. A a they be not made any attempt to maintain their schedule. They re identifying problems. And resolving those problems before they continue a j i problems encountered during the first three Days included a steam leak from a valve in the plants Turbine du1 Ding and a a slight Hydraulic leak a Dudley said. He said replacing sealing rings fixed both problems. He said the problems were not surprising.  that a been sitting Idle for Over eight years n with the Best of maintenance you would expect mat when you began to operate. You would identify Ifni t a ump Jenks some systems that would require work he said. Caused by regulation changes and court Battles by opponents of the Plant. A0,0 n one Robert Backus lawyer for the sea firm a if i Fullon league said the problems con  Panl a not ready and the License Sti Ould not have been  he flew to Kinshasa Zaire later Friday for meetings with president Mobutu sese seko and angolan guerrilla Leader Jonas Sav Imbi. Baker met angolan president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos in Namibia earlier in the week As part of . Efforts to negotiate an end to the angolan civil War. On thursday Baker met with president . De Klerk. A senior . Official said Baker told him that a what he had done so far was courageous in Light of the obvious political pressures and restraints he is subject  in february de Klerk lifted a 30-Ycar ban on the Anc released Black nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela from jail after 27 years and announced other reforms aimed at Clearing the Way for Black White negotiations. Moments before Baker arrived at is Sulu a Home children perched on a Jungle gym shouted Anc slogans and Sang songs honouring Mandela. Baker did no to see or hear the children. Sisulu said a i told the Secretary of state we arc very grateful to the people of America for the support they gave us Over the years and that we Are hopeful but we Are Only making a beginning and we will expect More support As the Day goes  Sisulu a organization publicly opposed bakery a meeting with de Klerk but the subject Wasny to mentioned Friday until reporters questioned Sisulu who appeared to put the Issue behind him. A the United states realizes no fundamental change has been made but that some encouragement should be made. We be had that a Sisulu said. Before bakery a arrival the Anc had said bakery a visit the first by a . Secretary of state in 12 years would suggest de Klerk has made fundamental reforms of the apartheid system. Despite this difference Anc leaders greeted Baker warmly during meetings in Soweto Cape town and the neighbouring country of Namibia where he attended Independence celebrations. Asked about bakery a Praise of de Klerk for moving to dismantle apartheid Sisulu said a emr. De Klerk is making an Effort which we appreciate. However we would like to urge him to be a bit speedy about  Sisulu said de Klerk has not yet met the Ancus conditions for negotiations although the two sides arc to hold preliminary talks on april 11. The Anc wants the state of emergency lifted and All political prisoners freed before negotiations begin with the de Klerk government on sharing Power with the nation s disenfranchised 28 million Black majority. Holiday for Victoria a the Chariot sculpture atop the Brandenburg Gate in the 5-ton Bronze and Copper figure will be returned East Berlin dwarfs workers who Are removing the to its lofty spot in 1991 when the famous Gate of nearly 20-foot-High Victoria statue for restoration. Serves its 200th birthday. Wall May become billboard East Berlin apr part of the Berlin Wall which was a Symbol of socialism and a Barrier to capitalism for nearly three decades could be turned into a giant billboard. The East German advertising firm Suva has acquired local government rights to a 3,300-foot Section of the Berlin Wall the newspaper Neues deutschland said thursday. Company chief Andreas Dademasch wants to paint the Wall White and recruit German companies to rent space on the Structure huge sections of which already have been demolished by Freedom lovers and souvenir seekers. Some of the Money would go to the City and posters advertising cigarettes alcohol or sex related products would not be allowed he said. The Wall tightly guarded since East Germany erected it in 1961, was opened in november after huge demonstrations forced hard line communists from Power. Dademasch said his plans for part of the Wall would be consistent with the trumpeting of capitalism by Christian democratic Union chief Lothar de Azicre whose party leads an Alliance that won sundays election in East Germany. Death of bungee jumper brings charges in France a a two leaders of High a i. Thrill seekers who leaped from pucks Ltd elastic bands on their a i Chmid dec curbed Wilh i Volun year. A jumpers death last fesfiw10001 0ccurre�l in june during a France to Eberst Hersi in Eastern it in t c so re Ament banned skzoduh60 cards a my  Lalere then re legalized them in october after implementing strict safety rules. The victim of the june 26 Accident Raymond Saputa 24, was the 72nd person that Day to leap from a 180-fool Crane set up for the jumpers. He crashed to the ground from about 65 feet when the elastic gave Way during his second Bounce. On thursday in the first such court action arising from the nationwide bungee jumping fad charges of involuntary homicide were filed against Marc Gapp director of the jumping club and Bertrand Blancher a club employee stationed at the top of the Crane to assist the jumpers. Accounts of Why the Accident occurred have conflicted. According to Blancher Saputa jumped before he was supposed to and the elastic was in the wrong Posi Tion. According to a witness on the ground Blancher detached the elastic prematurely after Saputa jumped. Gapp and Blancher were allowed to remain free pending further developments in their Case. France has no specified maximum sentence for involuntary homicide. The new safety rules implemented after three jumping deaths in Early i 989, require that All jumpers to undergo heart examinations and that the elastic bands be changed after every 150 jumps. The rules also limit the number of leaps to six per hour