European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 26, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 943 killed Over weekend in s. Africa Johannesburg South Africa a at least 43 people were killed and dozens were injured in fighting in Black townships Over the weekend. It was one of the most violent weekends in recent months in South Africa where growing Black factional fighting and other unrest has claimed dozens of lives during the past few weeks. Police said monday an investigation was ordered into the deaths sunday of 13 people including one police officer in the Black township of Dave ton outside Johannesburg. At least 38 people including two police officers were injured in the clash Between riot police and about 200 african National Congress supporters. Police said they opened fire on the crowd after being attacked with knives Spears and firebombs. The clash was one of the worst since the Anc was legalized in Early 1990. Fallout from the incident was Likely to Cloud relations at a time when the government is preparing for talks with Black groups on ending White minority Rule. In other weekend violence police said 17 people were killed and 12 injured in the Johannesburg Black townships of Alexandra and Temisa. Eight people were killed and six injured at Weston aria in the Western Transvaal. Five people were killed in Natal province. Most of the victims in Alexandra and Temisa were hacked to death in fighting Between the Anc and supporters of the rival inkatha Freedom party. Alexandra has been the scene of factional fighting in recent weeks. A. The violence in Dave ton Between police and the Anc occurred near a rally for the inkatha party. The injured included two boys aged 9 and .12, said Hospital officials. A a a a / the Anc claimed police opened fire on the Dave ton crowd from armoured vehicles. It called for an Independent investigation and condemned police for what it. Turned a Savage and unprovoked  police however said the officers in Dave ton opened fire and drove off the crowd after it attacked them with knives Spears and gasoline bombs killing one officer and injuring two. A they singled out a White police sergeant who was stabbed several times with Sharp objects and hacked with machetes a said police capt. Eugene Opperman. The head of the South african police Gen. Johan Van Der Merwe or dared an investigation and said the fact that pro testers were Able to get within stabbing distance of the police indicated the officers did not begin the fighting. Tom Boya a Black activist and the former Dave ton mayor said he was driving nearby and heard gunshots. A people were coming out. Full of blood from the injuries a he said. A they had Bullet wounds in their arms their chests their  police said they confiscated one ak-47 assault Rifle and seven pistols while searching vehicles at a Roadblock in a Voyton but did not say when. Officers said 33 Blacks were arrested for Possession of illegal firearms. More than 5,000 people have died since 1986 in fighting Between supporters of the Anc and inkatha. Both groups oppose apartheid but disagree on myth ods for fighting it and on policies for a Post apartheid South Africa. Polish president Lech Walesa places a Wreath on a memorial to the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko at Chicago a St. Hyacinth Catholic Church on sunday. Popieluszko was slain in Poland by the communist secret police in 1984.invest in Poland,.u.s. Companies Chicago up a polish president Lech Walesa appealed to american companies to invest in Poland and take advantage of its growing Economy. Speaking sunday in the City with the largest polish population outside his Homeland Walesa said such investment can help the. Economy by producing profits for american businesses. A guarantees of All kinds will become increased As More arid More american businesses invest in Poland a he said through an interpreter to about 2,000 business and civic leaders gathered in Chicago. A a in a sure of my Success and your Success As Well. Believe me in a telling the truth that we shall do Good business  Walesa also attended Palm sunday mass at St. Hyacinth Catholic Church on the City a Northwest Side and was surrounded by More than 2,000 Well wishers. Most of the welcoming signs in the neighbourhood a and even some no parking signs a were in polish. The mass was also said in that language. A a in be always Felt a lot of Pride in my polish roots a said Chicago a Deputy police superintendent de Wodnicki a St. Hyacinth parishioner who attended the  never lost my Pride. But today a really Felt  striking soviet Coal miners defy demand to end walkout Moscow up a striking Coal miners defied Premier Valentin Pavlov a demand that they return to work and a local official in a major Coal Region appealed to russian Leader Boris Yeltsin to try to end the strike. The 3-Weck-old strike has idled 165 Coal mines about a Quarter of the collieries in the soviet Union. The walkout has become the focus of a bitter political tug of War Between president Mikhail Gorbachev a government and supporters of Yeltsin head of the dominant russian Republic. Coal minister Mikhail Shch Adov said sunday night on soviet television that 3 million tons of Coal have not been delivered because of the strike. L in added that so far the walkout has Cost $152 million in profits. Coal shortages have shut Down dozens of blast furnaces and crippled soviet steel Mills and other key enterprises. Striking miners Are seeking Large pay increases but have also demanded the resignation of Gorbachev and his government blaming him for failing to keep promises made to end a 1989 strike that affected nearly the entire soviet Coal Industry. Anatoly Tureev chairman of the local government Council in the siberian Coal Center of Kemerovo sent Yeltsin a Telegram sunday urging him to ask the miners to go Back to work for the Good of the country Tass said. A the matter has gone too far a Tureev said. A the Coal problem affects the entire country. A Chain reaction is going from them to the paralysis of the entire Economy. A i get hundreds of telegrams. Children in kindergartens and patients in hospitals Aire freezing a he said in the Telegram. A one cannot read them without  Yeltsin the russian Leader who himself has called for Gorbachev a resignation has been generally supportive of the strikers demands leading to accusations from the Central government he is using the strike to further his own political ambitions. Soviet Premier Valentin Pavlov told the miners in an address on soviet television saturday night they were a in confrontation with the entire country and ordered them to return to work but the official news Agency Tass said the it strikes continued sunday at More than 150 mines in Coal regions across the country. Pavlov repeated the Central governments charge that the strikers were being used by opposition politicians who were a trying to manipulate the interests of  a i am deeply convinced that the country a critical economic state is. To a decisive extent because we Transfer to the economic sphere political ambitions and claims of people who have nothing to do with the interests of miners a Pavlov said. Pavlov said he was ready to negotiate with the miners but Only if they dropped their political demands and agreed to a dialogue a not in conditions of Ultima turns a apparently a demand for an end to the stride before formal talks. 85,000 protest in Eastern Germany Leipzig Germany apr More than 85,000 demonstrators Many shouting anti government slogans took to the streets of several cities on monday to protest economic misery in former East Germany. Demonstrators said Chancellor Helmut Kohl had failed to keep election promises to rapidly improve living conditions in Eastern Germany. A Kohl must go a some protesters yelled. By far the biggest demonstration was in Leipzig where about 80,000 people joined in protests. About 4,000 protesters gathered in Berlin and several thousand marched in Dresden about 1,000 turned out in Rostock and smaller numbers demonstrated in Zwickau  and wern Gerode. Pro democracy protests held in the fall of 1989 on Leipzig a Augustus Square helped bring Down the Hartline communist government in what was then East Germany. Some people have now started to Call it the a Square of broken  a better without Kohl than without jobs new elections now a read one Banner. A yesterday Hornecker and his gang today again liars everywhere a read another Banner referring to ousted East German Leader Erich Honecker who has fled to Moscow. The demonstration the largest since regular monday night protests resumed several weeks ago was called by the in me tall Trade Union with the support of the party for democratic socialism As the renamed East Germany communist party is called and tile opposition social democrats. A together with the citizens of Leipzig and the citizens of the new Federal states we will do everything not to let Eastern Germany become a poorhouse a said in metall chief Franz Steinkuehler. In Leipzig As elsewhere in Eastern Germany Many Are worried. A my Job is gone after 24 years at work. But the old chief stays. Its the Little ones who have to go a said Kristina Hartung an employee in a failing printing Plant. Kohl has promised to visit Eastern Germany after the easter holidays. A Italy customs officials hold slowdown Trieste Italy a nearly 3,000 trucks were backed up at italian Border Points monday following a protest by customs officials. Italian officials refused to work overtime and slowed Down clearance of crossing documents in a demonstration for a Long delayed customs Reform. About 200 italian truck Drivers angered by a Long wait at the italian yugoslav crossing Points drove their vehicles into downtown areas in Trieste and nearby Gorizia causing major traffic jams. Long lines of trucks Many carrying perishable goods were reported at the Brenner pass the major link Between Italy and Austria and at crossing Points with Switzerland and France. Customs officials have threatened to strike on april 5 and 10 if the government does not Institute a Reform