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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes tuesday september 10, 1991 toll mounts in fighting Between s. African rivals Johannesburg South Africa a rival Black groups armed with guns grenades and knives fought for a second Day monday and police said at least 57 people had been killed and dozens injured. The fighting that erupted sunday the worst this year came just one week before leaders of the african National Congress the inkatha Freedom party and the government of president . De Klerk were to sign a peace pact. The leftist Anc and conservative inkatha the country s two main Black organizations called monday for an end to violence. Inkatha however accused the Anc of trying to scuttle the peace agreement by launching attacks. A we Appeal to All our people to remain Calm and not allow this Wanton act of provocation to result in even More bloodletting a said Anc Deputy president Walter Disulo. He did not say who he believed was responsible. New violence erupted when a gang of armed men shot and killed three people on a train monday and injured four others police said. The unidentified attackers hurled the dead and wounded from the commuter train on the outskirts of Johannesburg they said. Police commanders said about 90 people had also been injured since sunday Many seriously. Police and  reinforcements were moved into Black townships around Johannesburg after fighting erupted monday when a procession of the inkatha Freedom party was ambushed. Three gunmen opened Federal workers in Canada strike Over wage freeze Toronto apr weather forecasters dockyard workers clerks and other Federal employees launched their first nationwide strike monday to fight a proposed wage freeze. In what could prove to be one of the largest strikes in Canadian history Federal workers marched while carrying protest signs and balloons and handing out leaflets outside government offices across the country. Employees in essential services remained on the Job. Flights were disrupted at Toronto a Pearson International Airport which handles More than half the flights in Canada each Day. Car traffic was reported snarled in several cities because of picket lines. A group representing Alberta Farmers said they would be devastated if the strike shut Down Grain handling ports for More than a  Days. More than 110,000 members of the Public service Alliance of Canada were told by the Union to strike Over the governments plan to freeze salaries this year and limit increases to 3 percent in each of the next two years. Treasury Board president Gilles Loiselle said the government was steadfast in its wage offer. He said he might seek a Law forcing the Union Back to work if the strike s effects harmed the Public. It was unclear How Many workers were on strike by monday morning. There were reports of Union members crossing some picket lines. Supervisors escorted 10 Union members into the National archives in Ottawa after other workers were jostled by pickets. The capital was a question Mark for the Union because Only 40 percent of its Ottawa members voted for the strike authorization in april. About 62 percent supported it nationwide. Fire on the March sunday in Toloza township killing 23 people. Fighting flared in other townships As word of the ambush spread. Zulus linked to inkatha battled mostly xhosa speaking Anc members. Both sides attacked at random As fighting spread to Central Johannesburg at one Point. A second inkatha procession was ambushed later sunday in Soweto township when attackers hurled hand grenades. A three inkatha men fell. The if men immediately attacked the Many residents standing around a said photographer Alf Khumalo who witnessed the Soweto fighting. Police col. Frans Malherbe said there was no reason for the fighting. A i would just Call it Plain madness at this Point a he said. Such clashes in the past have been the signal for a spiral of attacks and revenge killings crippling peace efforts. Inkatha Leader Themba Khozam charged that the Anc ambushed his groups March in Toloza to derail the peace agreement. The Anc has repeatedly charged that elements of the Security forces Are aiding inkatha in fighting Between the groups that has claimed 6,000 lives in recent years. De Klerks government rejects the charges but has admitted to providing inkatha with financial  shark attack friends of a 19-year-old diver identify his equipment for police sunday after he was killed by a shark off Al Dinga Beach near Adelaide Australia. The unidentified student was hauled off by a 13.5-foot White Pointer shark at a popular underwater reef. A the poor lad had no warning a said a police spokesman. A the was literally taken in one big  world Shell Levels pizza parlor near Belfast injures 6 from wire reports Belfast Ireland a a mortar Shell launched from a Van hit a pizza parlor Early sunday injuring six people in what authorities suspect was a misfired Irish Republican  attack meant for a nearby police station officials said. The attackers drove the Van into the Center of Warrenpoint 35 Miles South of Belfast stopped in a parking lot and fired the Shell about 1 a.m., the Royal Ulster constabulary said. The pizza parlor was destroyed. Police believe the restaurant was not the intended target but that the attack had been aimed at a heavily fortified police station 40 Yards away. No group had claimed responsibility but police suspected the  turns Back Jet London a a British airways Jet bound for Anchorage and Tokyo with 362 passengers turned Back after a crack appeared in a window about three hours into the flight an airline spokesman said. No emergency was declared As the Boeing 747 landed in London on sunday evening. A there was a Small crack in one of the windows. It is the outer skin of one of the passenger windows toward the Back of the aircraft a he said. As a precaution the Pilot of flight ba005 descended to a lower cruising Altitude during the return flight. But the spokesman added a there was no danger to the aircraft whatsoever. The inner windows Are built to withstand the pressure. It came Back because it would be difficult to fix where it was  the passengers were put up overnight in hotels the spokesman said. A family has a lot of pull Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a 6-year-old boy tied a rope to a passenger car with four children in it and pulled it 10 feet with his Teeth in a Charity show to raise Money for handicapped children. Manivene than a 7-year-old sister Sev Agami outdid him by tying the same 1-ton car with a rope to her Long hair and pulling it 5 feet in the Competition sunday. But then it is All in the family. Their father Subas Bohs 37, pulled a 10-ton bus and 2-ton truck with his Teeth late last year. There is another Man in Malaysia who can outdo them All however. Letch Umanah Ramasa my in september last year pulled a Malaysia airline Boeing 737 weighing 28.5 tons a distance of 55 feet. Letch Umanah has also pulled an 18-ton Bulldozer tied to his hair for 10 feet. Letch Umanah 40, said recently his next was to pull a Boeing 747 tied to his  strikes Iran area Nicosia Cyprus a an earthquake registering 4.6 on the Richter scale struck sunday in the iranian province of sem Nan the official islamic Republic news Agency reported. Irna monitored in Cyprus said the quake was entered about 124 Miles Southeast of the capital of Tehran. No reports of casualties or damage were received the Agency  hails mexican Leader for historic revolution by the los Angeles times Mexico City a Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii arrived in Mexico on sunday hailing president Carlos Salinas de Gortari for leading a a historic revolution and declaring that  relations a have never been closer or  Baker led a Gigantic american delegation of five Cabinet level officials and More than 100 aides for a Day and a half of meetings with their mexican counterparts. The meeting an annual event that once could have been counted on to produce fireworks has turned instead into an annual Celebration of  cooperation. The major reason has been the policies of Salinas who has enthusiastically embraced american style economic privatization and replaced Mexico a historic suspicion of the United states with a concerted bid to warm relations. Baker reflected the Bush administrations View of that process when he told reporters on sunday with unusual Effus Veness a even while everyone is focused on the revolution in the soviet Union. There has been a quiet but perhaps equally historic revolution going on in Mexico. A the Salinas administration inherited an Economy which was in deep crisis had had negative growth for Over a decade runaway inflation capital flight and Mas Sive debt a he said. A the Salinas administration has courageously adopted some free Market economic reforms the kinds of reforms quite frankly we Hope we see in the soviet  and Baker pointed to Mexico a recent mid term congressional elections a which were marred by charges of fraud against Salinas a ruling institutional revolutionary party in some areas a As proof of the mexican presidents Success  
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