European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday August 29, 1990 the stars Ano stripes Page 9 Pope John Paul ii and Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa emerge from their meeting monday. Pope Walesa have lengthy talk on polish politics Vatican City apr Pope John Paul ii discussed polish politics monday in a Long meeting with Lech Walesa a Leader of the Solidarity labor movement. It was the fifth encounter Between the two poles since John Paul became Pope in 1978. Walesa a presented a Panorama of the present situation in Poland 10 years after the birth of Solidarity Quot said papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro. A it is a situation of a free and pluralistic society that appears full of Hope for the future a Navarro said in summing up Walesa s View. Walesa attended a mass celebrated by John Paul in the papal summer residence at Castcel Gandolfo outside Rome. The two along with Tadeusz Goclowski the Bishop of Gdansk Walesa a Home City then had breakfast. Walesa and the Pope then talked privately for More than an hour Navarro said. The polish labor Leader said the men discussed politics in a general discussion a about the role of christianity and other in a homily on sunday the Pope called on poles to fight a moral permissiveness Quot and to encourage the teaching of religion in schools. Walesa had travelled to Italy for a convention held by a conservative religious organization he departed by plane after Nis meeting with the Pope Europe passes United states in cocaine use paper says Bogota Colombia apr Western Europe has replaced the United states As the biggest Market for cocaine from colombian drug cartels a Bogota newspaper reported. A consumption in Spain Holland and Italy is leaving the North american Market behind Quot said Bogota s Al Tiempo newspaper on sunday citing a joint report by the International police organization Interpol and the colombian intelligence police. Al Tiempo published parts of the report titled a cocaine the drug of the year in the study says the dramatic growth of the cocaine Market in Western Europe is fuelled by High prices. The drug is sold in Europe for Between $27,500 and $115,000 a kilogram 2.2 pounds compared with Between $10,000 and $20,000 in the United states according to the document. Profits from the european business Are enormous the report said because distributors receive cocaine that is 90 percent to 94 percent pure and sell a product that is Only 45 percent pure. The study said the european Market will continue to grow because of the intention of the mafia in Italy to preserve its distribution monopoly and the colombian Cartel s desire to capture Pari of the Market. It says the two groups arc Likely to torn agreements to flood the Market with cocaine. The report said Spain was the principal receiver of cocaine from latin America and the main trafficking Center for drug destined for Europe. Spanish authorities have increased cocaine seizures this year by 50 percent Over last years Levels according to the study. The study also says cocaine laboratories have been discovered in Spain France and Italy. Cocaine processing has been confined to Colombia. The country a War against the cartels and its crackdown on imports of processing chemicals have reportedly forced drug Bosses to move some of their operations elsewhere. Holland and France follow Spain As the second and third most important european distribution centers according to the report which also Calls Portugal a strategic Point for shipping cocaine to Europe and Africa. A the excellent air links Between Portugal and latin America have favored inc opening of new from Brazil Quot the paper says. S. To protest fighting 500 killings Soweto South Africa apr tens of thousands of Blacks in the Soweto township stayed away rom work monday to protest factional fighting that has claimed More than 500 lives in the past two weeks. Buses taxis and trains in Soweto were carrying roughly a third As Many passengers As usual into neighbouring Johannesburg. Many schools were closed and the main streets in the township of 2.5 million people were mostly empty. Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu addressing a funeral for seven people killed in the violence told a roaring crowd that police actions not tribal divisions were fueling the conflict. A we have never quarrelled because of tribalism Quot Tutu told some 5,000 african National Congress supporters at a Soweto Amphitheater Quot the evidence is overwhelming that the police have not been most of the fighting in Soweto and other townships around Johannesburg has pitted zulus Loyal to the conservative inkatha movement against xhosa and other Blacks who support the Anc the country a largest Black political organization. Anc Leader Nelson Mandela and other anti apart Misc _ Lyn. Tray the conflict As mostly tribal fighting linked to he a Heid figures have accused police of siding with Enka he a a tha a charge police deny. The government and Man Neutral observers por Power struggle Between the Anc and inkatha. Inkatha Leader mangos thu Buthel Czi has blamed suited in some of the worst violence since nationwide the Anc for instigating the fighting which has re. Unrest during the mid-1980s. Buthel Czi says the Anc wants to crush Alt opposition. A your Freedom is at hand Quot Tutu said to tumultuous cheers. Quot and there Are those Whites who say icy done to want us to have our Freedom. So they have made us fight one another Quot heavily armed soldiers and police ringed the Amphitheater. No arrests or violence were reported. The general strike was called by the anti apartheid Soweto civic association to a protest the violence police behaviour and to mourn our residents in neighbouring townships also look Pari. A group of xhosa and Zulu tribal chiefs sympathetic to the Anc toured the townships sunday and said the violence was a not a 2ulu-xhosa conflict but has its roots in the system of a the problem is the col la to rat Ion Between the police and inkatha Quot said Welo Nonko Nyana a xhosa chief. The delegation which included seven xhosa and six Zulu chiefs said it did not represent any political party. But he chiefs All belong to the Congress of traditional leaders of South Africa a group with dose ties to the Anc. The zulus and the xhosa Are the two largest tribes in South Africa but townships in inc Johannesburg area have Blacks from Alt 10 major tribes in the country. Townships around Johannesburg have been relatively peaceful in recent Days for the first time since the violence erupted aug. 12. A total of 515 Blacks have died including More than 100 in Soweto police said. Army troops and police continued to patrol the streets and confiscate guns Spears and other weapons the government has declared townships ringing Johannesburg a unrest areas,�?T.�?T giving police wide Powers to curb to help with Wallenberg investigation Moscow apr an International group said monday the Kab and other soviet agencies have agreed to open their files to help determine whether swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg died in a Moscow prison decades ago. Wallenberg is credited with saving tens of thousands of hungarian jews from the nazis during world War ii but vanished after he a arrested in Budapest on spying charges in j 945. Soviet authorities have Long maintained he died in the pkg its Lubianka prison in 1947, but Wallenbergh a relatives say they have received reports he is alive and detained elsewhere in the soviet Union. He would now be 77. A the evidence is incontrovertible that Raoul Wallenberg did not die in 1947, compelling that he was alive in the 50s and 60s, and credible that he was alive thereafter Quot said Irwin Cotier a Canad an lawyer who has spent 10 years investigating Wallenbergh a Fate. Cotier told a news conference that an International commission is proceeding on the premise that Wallenberg a May still be alive though possibly under another besides Cotier commission members include Wallenbergh a half brother Guy von Dardel several soviet journalists and historians and two former soviet political prisoners a Cronin Lubarski an editor and Marvin Makinen now chairman of the University of Chicago a biochemistry department. Cotter told reporters at the swedish embassy that the Kab the soviet foreign ministry and the Interior ministry had All agreed to help the commission. Quot we have been told that we will be Given Access to All files on the Wallenberg affairs Quot he said. Quot therefore i interpret All files to include Kab Cotier said the commission was granted permission to travel monday to Vladimir prison 12 Miles outside Moscow where Wallenberg allegedly has been sighted. Prison officials have agreed to allow commission members to examine their archives a including 10, registration cards a and interview present and former inmates guards and administrators Cotier said. Last october soviet officials expressed remorse for the first time Over the arrest of Wallenberg a lutheran who saved an estimated 20,000 jews from nazi Gas Chambers by sheltering them and issuing them false passports. Wallenberg a member of a prominent family of Bankers and industrialists repeated risked his life by hiding jews m houses he bought or rented often with his own Money. In the final Days before the liberation of Budapest Wallenberg persuaded the nazis to cancel a plan to 70,000 jews who were still living in the City a ghetto. In 1981, he was made an honorary citizen of the United states. Last fail Kab Deputy chief Vladimir Pirozhkov returned Wallenbergh a passport Driver s License address Book Calendar and Cash to his family saying they had been found in Kab Headquarters the previous month. The Only of Wallenbergh a death was a doctors letter released in 1957, saying Wallenberg suffered a fatal heart attack and was cremated. Quot i certainly Don t believe that they have Given everything there is in the archives Quot von Rij Rici said monday. A i Only Hope that in the present atmosphere it will not Lake another ,10 years for the next lot to come Tor
