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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday August 11,1991 2 in Venter Dorp South Africa apr conservative groups saturday blamed president . De Klerk for a fierce clash Between police and right Wing extremists that killed at least two people. Police said 56 people including eight police officers were injured Friday in the rioting with guns clubs tear Gas and even insect repellent sprayed in the faces of police outside a Hall in this conservative stronghold where de Klerk addressed a meeting of his National party. Neo nazi storm troopers of the afrikaner resistance movement tried to storm the Hall to halt the speech. During the fighting a Van veered off the Highway into the crowd killing a Man. The White crowd attacked the vans Black occupants. When the tear Gas lifted after the 15-minute fight at least one other right Wing extremist had been killed a shot by police a and 56 people were injured several critically. The town was quiet saturday with Blacks walking the streets and shopping As usual. Police vehicles with slashed tires and broken windows Many Spray painted with National party and Hammer and sickle logos stood outside the station. Broken Glass and red painted Graffiti marked the area of the fight. A a in be been in this town for 70 years and in be never seen anything like this a said Don Wright. A a it a a disgrace for the  enraged White extremists said fridays Battle would launch a White uprising against de Klerks government Oyer reforms aimed at ending apartheid and sharing Power  Black majority. A we Are not going to live with the Blacks a a right Wing extremist said late Friday after police and Neo nazis opened fire on each other. De Klerk expressed Shock at the clash but said the rightists were responsible reported the South african broadcasting corp. He also offered condolences to the relatives of victims. Also saturday fighting erupted be world tween Black factions in the Alexandra Black township killing two people and wounding three police said. Police capt. Eugene Opperman said fighting broke out before Dawn near a burning Shack in one of the squatter areas. Two people were stabbed to death he said and three injured. Residents said supporters of the african National Congress and its rival the inkatha Freedom party took part in the clash. The two Black opposition groups have waged a virtual War for five years that has killed thousands of people. Both groups oppose apartheid but differ on the policies and leadership of a future non racial South Africa. Albanian refugees Jostle for food being thrown to them saturday by authorities in the Harbor area at Bari Italy. Albanian refugees Battle police Burn Down red Cross building Bari Italy apr desperate albanians rioted saturday and burned Down a red Cross office As Italy forced thousands of would be refugees to return to their impoverished Home across the Adriatic sea. Italian police and soldiers clearly frightened by the violence fought Back with tear Gas jagged edged wooden boards and Iron rods. At one Point saturday hundreds of refugees at a food distribution Point rushed police barricades lunged at food crates and were driven Back by police and soldiers wielding clubs. No serious injures were reported. The fighting created a nightmarish situation for italian authorities who had been relatively sympathetic to two previous Waves of albanian boat people in the past year. It appeared brute Force might be the Only Way to make some albanians return Home. A i would prefer to commit suicide rather than to go Back to Albania a said Adrian Lami a 22-year-old College student. On saturday morning a group of albanians set fire to a red Cross office and garage at the stadium destroying three cars office furniture Medicine and food red Cross officials said. Michele Bozzi the local red Cross organizer said the Blaze damaged $150,000 to $250,000 Worth of equipment. Despite the trouble Italy stuck to its vow to Send Home the approximately 12,000 albanians who sailed across the Adriatic to Bari last week most jammed on a single ship. Italian military and civilian planes hired by the government were scheduled to leave for the albanian capital at least every half hour during the Day Bari Airport officials said. In addition to the 2,700 to be flown Home saturday another 1,000 were being sent by ship the Interior ministry said. Smaller groups of albanians were also being repatriated from the coastal City of Brindisi and from Catania in Sicily. Madagascar marchers fired on Antananarivo Madagascar apr guards opened fire on an estimated 400,000 demonstrators marching on president Didier rat Siraka a Palace saturday to demand his ouster witnesses said. At least nine people were reported killed. Witnesses and red Cross officials said the shooting started about 3 . On the Road to rat Siraka a Bunke like Palace located seven Miles South of the capital on this Island nation  Africa. A photographer for the French news Agency age Nee France press at the scene said at least nine people were killed. Local red Cross officials could not confirm the deaths but said at least 100 people were injured. The photographer said that the soldiers hurled grenades and fired ak-47 assault rifles at the first ranks of an estimated 400,000 demonstrators. Ambulances were reported leaving the scene but red Cross officials said panic stricken crowds choking the Road prevented the vehicles from reaching the head of the demonstration where the deaths reportedly took  for . Scouts curtailed in South Korea from wire reports Seoul South Korea a american boy scouts have been forbidden from taking part in several events at the 17th world scout Jamboree because of safety concerns scouts and officials said saturday. The 800 . Scouts cannot participate in paragliding ultralight air plane flights not air balloon rides or scuba diving officials said they also have been advised against skateboarding. A a it a really a letdown a said Scott Connor 16, of Mukwonago wis. A these things were in the brochures and the videos we saw before we came. Now they re not allowing us to do them. Guys Are  about 20,000 scouts from 129 nations Are expected to attend the three Day Jamboree which officially began  assassinated Reggio Calabria Italy a the president of Italy interrupted his vacation to Fly to Sicily on saturday following the mafia style assassination of a leading state prosecutor. Italian president Francesco Corsiga interrupted his Alpine vacation to Fly to Reggio Calabria on the toe of Italy to consult with the nations top police officers and mafia investigators to review the crime. Judge Antonio Scopelliti 56, Deputy state prosecutor of the cassation court Italy a supreme court of Appeal was assassinated around 5 . Friday in a mafia style ambush on the fringe of Villa san Giovanni six Miles North of Reggio Calabria. According to police Scopelliti was hit by two blasts from a 12-gauge Shotgun that was fired through a Side window of his car As he drove along a state Highway to his parents  protest in Austria Vienna Austria a about 50 kurd occupied the Southern Tower of the 12th Century St. Stephens Cathedral in Central Vienna on saturday to protest the treatment of kurd in Turkey and Iraq an austrian radio station reported. The station said the group occupied the 24-foot Tower and rolled out a Banner. Another 80 demonstrators blocked the main Entrance to the cathedral.2 charged in Haig attack Karlsruhe Germany a two alleged members of the terrorist red army faction were charged Friday in the 1979 car bomb attack on former Secretary of state Alexander Haig. The attorney general a office said it had charged Sigrid Sternbeck Friedrich in connection with the 1977 murder of the president of the federation of German industries and with the attack on Haig when he was commander of nato troops in Europe. Her husband Ralf Baptist Friedrich was also charged in the attack on Haig a motorcade in which three of his bodyguards were injured. Haig escaped unharmed from the june 25, 1979, car a bombing in Belgium  
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