European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes thursday june 21, 1990 Bush suspends peace talks with Plo Huntsville Ala. Apr president Bush on wednesday suspended an 18-month dialogue with the Palestine liberation organization until the group shows it is working to a resolve problems relating to terrorism including an abortive May 30 attack in Israel. Quot we be Given the Plo ample time to Deal with this Issue Quot Bush said. He said a Plo statement denouncing attacks against civilians was Quot not sufficient to meet . Terms for a continuation of the diplomatic talks. Quot at any time the Plo is prepared to take the necessary Steps we Are prepared new York welcomes Mandela Nelson Mande to resume the dialogue Quot he said. Bush called on All parties in the Middle East to eschew violence and said a i would like to see the peace process move  the president made his comments during a trip to Alabama and North Carolina. Bush called the May 30 attempted attack a a seaborne terrorist infiltration and said a the size of the Force and the geographic target strongly indicated that civilians would have been the  the president has been critical of Plo chairman Yasser Arafat a failure to condemn the attack. Bush had urged Arafat to disavow the assault and to discipline those who sent two speedboats filled with palestinian fighters toward Tel Aviv where they were spotted by radar and intercepted by the israeli Navy 20 Miles offshore. The Palestine liberation front a faction of the Plo led by Abul Abbas claimed responsibility for the attack in which four guerrillas were killed and 12 captured. At the same time Bush said the dialogue begun in the final months of the Reagan administration had contributed South african Freedom fighter who new York a la a South african in _ became one of the worlds most celebrated political prisoners arrived wednesday in the United states looking for Money and moral support for his Battle against apartheid. Quot the sanctions should be maintained a Mandela told a cheering crowd soon after Landing at John f. Kennedy International Airport his first Stop on a 12-Day, eight City . Tour. Quot we Are saying so because sanctions were introduced for the purpose of dismantling apartheid and Are making sure that every South african Black and White is Able to determine his own  Mandela accompanied by his wife Winnie waved to a cheering crowd As he stepped off the plane and onto a red carpet upon his arrival. Quot it is a great privilege for me to Welcome you and mrs. Mandela. You Honor us with your presence a new York gov. Mario Cuomo said during a welcoming ceremony. Also at the Airport were Mandela a daughter Zenani the Rev. Jesse Jackson mayor David Dinkins new Jersey gov. Jim Florio entertainer Harry Belafonte and hundreds of supporters and Well wishers. Nelson Mandela raises a fist during ceremonies welcoming him to new York. With him from left in foreground Are his wife Winnie gov. Mario Cuomo and new York City mayor David Dinkins. Behind Mandela is the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Dinkins enthusiastically hugged the Deputy president of the african National Congress As he walked off the plane. The mayor steered Mandela Down a lengthy reception line. Mandela and his wife were Given scarfs in the Anc colors of Black Green and Gold which they put around their necks. They stopped at a Brooklyn High school and headed for a ticker tape Parade up Broadway. A i sincerely feel very Strong and encouraged because if in our struggle we receive the support of the youth of the world then our cause can never fail can never be lost a Man Dela told the 10,000 packed into the High schools football Field. Mandela a arrival in new York was pushed Back nearly two hours because organizers said the 71-year-old Leader needed More rest. Mandela had been in Canada on his worldwide fund raising trip. Mandela is in the midst of a six week tour of 14 nations in Africa Europe and North America that began june 6, one Day after he was discharged from a Johannesburg Hospital after surgery to remove a cyst from his bladder. On thursday he was to address a rally at Yankee stadium. House overrides political rights veto Washington apr the House voted wednesday to override president Bush a veto of legislation broadening the rights of millions of Federal workers to participate in politics. The 327-93 vote was Well Over the two thirds majority needed to override the veto. The vote set up an expected showdown thursday in the Senate where a close vote was expected. Bush vetoed the Bill last week saying that it a would inevitably Lead to Depoliti sizing the Federal work Force and destroy the neutrality of civil servants fostered by the 1939 Hatch act. The Bill would remove prohibitions that make it illegal for an estimated 3 million Federal and postal workers to attend political conventions As delegates or speak at rallies on behalf of candidates. It would allow them for the first time to hold party offices and solicit contributions from co workers on behalf of Feder Al employee Union political action committees while off the Job. But it would continue to bar Federal workers from taking leaves of absence to run for Public elected office or solicit Campaign funds from the Public on behalf of candidates. The original Law was passed in response to evidence that enrollees in Job creating Public works programs of the new Deal Era were being required to donate to democratic campaigns. A to Progress in the peace  he said the United states is prepared to resume contacts with the Plo one Day. A we Are committed to a comprehensive settlement a he said. He added that any peace process must recognize israelis Security and palestinian rights. Bush recently wrote to israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir who Heads a newly formed government in an Effort to revive the process. Through an emissary israeli Cabinet Secretary Eliakim Rubinstein the government in Jerusalem has promised to pursue peace with the  agreed to cover up witness says Washington apr Marion Barry and Charles Lewis agreed to cover up their crack cocaine use at a Washington hotel when police began closing in on them Lewis testified wednesday at the mayors drug and perjury trial. Lewis said that he and the mayor smoked crack cocaine together in Lewis hotel room on three separate nights in december 1988. Police were alerted after Lewis offered cocaine to a hotel maid. Lewis said he found out about the subsequent police investigation from a Washington Post reporter who came to his hotel room looking for the mayor. Testifying for a second Day at barrys trial Lewis described a Telephone conversation with the mayor immediately after finding out about the police probe. A it was. Like fixing a dam a said Lewis. A we have a problem. We need to fix it. We need to get our stories  Lewis feared the Telephone was bugged so he and the mayor spoke in code Lewis said a i said. A you did no to see any drugs did you?,1 a Lewis testified. The mayor replied a no none a Lewis testified. Just hours before Barry had delivered a pipe for smoking crack to Lewis hotel room in a briefcase full of books on City government Lewis testified. Lewis said he then a chipped off. A piece of cocaine from an a oversize Marble of crack and the two smoked the drug. U three Days earlier Lewis testified the mayor and Lewis smoked crack in the hotel room while watching monday night football. Barry had sent Lewis $100 to buy crack by dispatching the mayors Security guard with the Money. The convicted drug dealer has served time in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine to Barry and others. Study says creature May be earliest human ancestor new York apr an ape like creature that lived about 10 million years ago May be the earliest known direct ancestor of humans a study suggests. The analysis implies that ancestors of humans May have started evolving away from ancestors of chimps and gorillas millions of years earlier than Many scientists believe. But experts familiar with the study said they strongly doubted that the creature is really a direct ancestor of humans. The study was presented in thursdays Issue of the British journal nature by scientists from France and Greece. It Analysed a Fossil found in september in Northern Greece. The Fossil believed to be 9 million to 10 million years old represents a previously known animal called  macedonians is. It includes the right part and a portion of the left part of an adults face plus the upper jaw and almost All of its Teeth the researchers said. They said the fossils Anatomy suggests that  macedonians is appeared on the human Branch of the evolutionary tree after that lineage split from the ancestors of Gibbons orangutans gorillas and chimpanzees. That would make it a direct ancestor of humans. The researchers suggested that the Back in evolution before the human in human lineage May have started evolve Page started evolving away from ances ing away from the ancestors of chimps tors of chimpanzees and gorillas. And gorillas As Long As 12 million years ago. Other scientists have put that split at Only 5 million to 7 million years ago said Lawrence Martin assistant professor in the Antho topology department at the state University of new York at Stony Brook. Martin who has studied other fossils from  macedonians is said he is a absolutely sure that the new study is wrong in assigning the beast to the human lineage. Peter Andrews of the natural history museum in London who wrote an editorial accompanying the nature report said wednesday in an interview that i done to believe for a minutes that the Crea Ture was a direct human ancestor. Instead it May have preceded the split Between human and ape lineages he said. The study was reported by l. De Bonis of the University of Poitiers in France. G. Bourain and d. Gera ads of the University of Paris and g. Koufos of the t a to i i Martin said he puts the beast further University of Thessaloniki in Greece