European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 6, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7s. African party Leader Waits peace talks Johannesburg South Africa up a inkatha Freedom party Leader mangos thu but Elezi made an urgent Appeal sunday for peace talks to end Black on Black violence after the spiral ing Cycle of vicious killings claimed 13 More victims saturday night but Elezi addressing a peace rally in the Black township of Bekk Ersdal West of Johannesburg blamed the rival african National Congress for stalling previous peace bids but said he was calling again for an urgent meeting of the two groups world leaders. Nine of the latest deaths were reported in Soweto outside Johannesburg. It has been the scene of we Klong clashes Between supporters of the rival Anc and inkatha which have left More than 100 people dead. The four other deaths occurred in Natal province. Police found four burned bodies in the Meadowlands District of Soweto. One of the victims had been hacked of death before being set afire. A burned body was found in nearby Dube. Fourteen petrol bombs also were recovered. In the same area a Man was hacked to death by a group armed with machetes. In i separate incident police used Bir shot to disperse a group and arrested two wounded people it. In another attack a in Dube gunmen shot and killed two men. Police reported a Man was hacked to death in Nimville Soweto. The four deaths in Natal consisted of three people stabbed to death in Murchi son and one shot dead in a Gre town outside Pietermaritzburg. But Elezi accused the Anc of a policy somersaults by rejecting a suggestion from president . De Klerk that but Elezi and Anc Leader Nelson. Mandela meet to discuss the crisis in the townships. De Klerk suggested a conference on the violence be held May 24-25. An a pc deadline for the government to take certain Steps to curb the violence expires thursday. Household cavalry saved from budget Cut l <3 v from wire reports Londo la Queen Elizabeth ii has appear it entry succeeded in saving her household cavalry from defense ministry cutbacks preserving the oldest regiments of the British army dating Back to the 1690s, it was reported sunday. The Independent on sunday newspaper quoting army sources said defense officials were expected to give preference to retaining the life guards the blues and royals and a mounted regiment on Buckingham Palace recommendations that any defense cuts of regiments be based on seniority. The household cavalry conducts the ceremonial changing of guard and trooping the Colour and the newspaper said the units Are often derided As the army a Only a self financing unit because of their Appeal to favors Mitterrand Paris a president Francois Mitterrand who celebrates 10 years in office this month would be elected agin if voters were Given the same Choice As in 1981, according to the results of a poll released sunday. Mitterrand would obtain 55 percent of the vote in a new head to head contest with former president Valery Giscard Deestaing according to the Louis Harris poll taken for the Magazine Globe and the radio network France protest Taipei Taiwan a about 6,000 slogan chanting demonstrators marched through downtown Taipei on sunday to protest plans to build a fourth nuclear Power Plant in Taiwan. It was the biggest anti nuclear protest in Taiwan. In 1987, the nationalist chinese government lifted martial Law under which demonstrations were banned. In 1988, about 1,000 people staged it an anti nuclear protest against the same proposed Plant. The protesters gathered outside National Taiwan University before marching to the nearby government owned Taiwan Power co. Building where they joined a group of 60 students who had begun a sit in saturday. The protesters including professors students housewives and anti nuclear activists urged the government to scrap its plan to build Taiwan a fourth nuclear Power Plant in yen Liao a coastal Village in Taipei county snug in a Bug Twenty men and women try their Best to squeeze into a of the event which was held by members of the Llong trusty old Volkswagen Beetle in Hong Kong on sunday. Kong Beetle club. The club was celebrating the second plenty of photographers were on hand to take pictures anniversary of its mafia hit underscores War Over italian drug Trade Tauri Anova Italy up a a ferocious War for control of the drug Trade Between rival mafia clans in Southern Italy has claimed eight lives in the last Days police said sunday. In a particularly grisly episode Friday gunmen armed with shotguns shot dead a 54-Ycar-old shopkeeper Giuseppe Grimaldi. Grimaldi had tried to defend himself with a Large knife and one of the men used the knife to Cut off his victims head which he threw into the air for his Asso dates to use for target practice. All this took place in front of the horrified gaze of dozens of passersby in a Central Street of Tauri Anova a Small town near the southwestern tip of Italy. Late saturday two men dressed in the uniforms of Carabiniero paramilitary police called on Grimaldi a Home. As soon As the door was opened the men Drew their pistols and opened fire on two of Grimaldi a children. His son Salvatore 23, and daughter Rosita 14, were seriously injured in the attack. Earlier saturday three men were shot dead at a bar in the nearby town of Laureana i Borrillo. Investigators say the violence is the result of a War Between rival mafia clans for domination in this part of Calabria following the murder just Over a year ago of powerful local Boss Mimmo Giovinazzo. The calabrian Brand of the mafia is notorious for its savagery. There have been 105 murders in the province since the beginning of the troops airlifted to tense Border Moscow apr tension increased sunday along the armenian azerbaijani Border after soviet troops were airlifted into the Region where 36 people have died in recent ethnic clashes soviet Media reported. A parliamentary commission formed by russian Leader Boris n. Yeltsin planned to Fly from Moscow to Armenia to investigate the bloodshed the inter fax news Agency said. Russian radio said tension was rising again and the Tass official news Agency said sunday the situation throughout the area had worsened. A practically every Day shots Are fired there Are diversions and attacks on populations centers farms highways and transportation a Tass said. Armenian radio reported late saturday that up of 250 soviet troops were being airlifted into the Republic to protect military personnel and installations feuding Between mainly Christian a. Menia and predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan goes Back centuries. It involves disputes Over land As Well As religious and cultural differences. Hundreds have died since fighting broke out in the neighbouring republics in 1987 Over Magorno Karabash a verdant Hilly area that is populated mostly by armenians but has been under azerbaijani Rule since 1923. The latest bloodshed involves the Border villages of get Ashen and Martina Shen where fighting flared on april 29. Armenian president Levon Ter Petro Sian charged saturday that soviet soldiers and azerbaijani Interior ministry troops massacred 36 armenian civilians in the villages. The soviet defense and Interior ministries blamed Armenia for the. Tension saying the Republic was a stepping up its efforts to create its own army by encouraging vigilante forces. The ministries also accused Armenia re Media of a Campaign to discredit the soviet army and police soviet officials said the deaths occurred when troops tried to disarm armenian vigilantes in the villages which have a combined population of 2,760. Sporadic shooting continued through thursday. Then the villages fell quiet and helicopters evacuated dozens of wounded on Friday and saturday
