European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes sunday january 12, 1992 african National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Singer Paul Simon clasp hands during a reception  of Security to oversee Simon s first show in s. Africa Johannesburg South Africa a armoured vehicles bomb sniffing dogs and hundreds of police scoured the premises saturday before Paul Simon began his a born at the right time Quot tour in South Africa. Threats of violent protests by militant Blacks sparked the tight Security for the first show of Simon a two week nationwide tour. Organizers said almost 1,000 police and Security guards would patrol inside and outside the Ellis Park Rugby stadium for the concert expected to draw up to 60,000 people. Anyone wanting to enter will be searched for weapons bottles or other items that could be used to disrupt the show police said. A a we cannot allow a minority group to dictate to the masses what they should or should not do Quot police capt. Eugene Opperman said. In the hours before saturdays show dogs sniffed for bombs inside the stadium while police set up barricades on surrounding roads. Simon accompanied by bodyguards arrived to conduct a sound Check five hours before show time. His South african tour is the first by a major american Fie former since leading Black groups last year supported lifting a cultural Boycott against the country to protest apartheid. The african National Congress and inkatha Freedom party the two leading Black opposition groups and the White led government have endorsed the concerts. Quot artists Are now free to come to our country Quot Anc president Nelson Mandela said Friday night at a recep Tion that he gave for Simon. The Anc for years led the Call for cultural sanctions to protest apartheid. It changed its position last year As the United nations and other groups and countries called for an end to South africans cultural isolation. On Friday the Azania Peoples organization and the Azania youth organization both of which Are Small militant Black nationalist groups said they would protest All five of Simon s concerts. They believe the cultural Boycott should remain until the Black majority rules the country. Thami Mierwa Leader of the Azania youth organization said the goal of demonstrators would be to prevent the concerts from starting. He said protesters would be peaceful but the presence of police opposing political groups and protesters could cause an eruption. His group previously threatened violence to Stop Simon a tour. Radicals linked to the Azania organizations claimed responsibility last week for a grenade attack on the Johannesburg building housing the tour organizers. No one was injured and there was Little damage. Simon a visit has drawn particular attention because of the Success of his 1986 Graceland album which featured Black South african musicians. A i do not wish to make a political statement by coming Here a Simon said Friday. A i Hope the concerts. Will allow people to put aside their differences and simply enjoy the pleasure of the  world Jet takes off without of nearly hitting Airliner from wire reports new Delhi India a More than 500 passengers had a Brush with disaster Friday when an air India Jet took off without permission from the Bombay Airport and just missed an Airliner that landed seconds earlier a news Agency reported. Press Trust of India quoted Airport officials As saying the Pilot of flight Ai-129, with 376 passengers bouncy for London took off without clearance from air traffic control. An Airbus of Indian airlines the Domestic airline had landed from Delhi and was turning toward the hangar when the Boeing 747 took off it said. The Pilot apologized profusely to traffic controllers the report said. He was taken off the flight when the aircraft made an intermediate Stop in Delhi it  wants remains Paris a the widow of Michel Seurat a French hostage who died in Captivity in Lebanon wants his body returned and blames officials for not doing enough about it. In a letter addressed to foreign minister Roland Dumas and published in the daily be Monde Mary Seurat said she had been working for five years to secure repatriation of her husbands remains. A the list of officials i have appealed to one after the other is a Long one. And All i got in return was polite lip service false assurances and meaningless courtesies a she wrote. Seurat an Oriental scholar was kidnapped by the shiite Muslim islamic jihad organization in May 1985. He became ill that september with what a fellow hostage reported was hepatitis and is thought to have died some months later. His captors claim he was executed March 5, 1986.ship Breaks Clear of ice Hobart Australia a the Captain of an ice bound Supply ship used detailed satellite pictures to guide his vessel free Friday after two weeks trapped off Antarctica. Cebird a German owned ship carrying 62 australian Antarctic expedition ers reached open water after southerly winds helped break the ice. A i think we will be celebrating tonight. It has been a Long time since we be seen the Clear Blue sea a said voyage Leader Brian Taylor. Cebird became trapped in a thick unseasonal Eack ice dec. 27. With no southerly winds to Elp break the ice the vessel was unable to Force its Way through. The passengers and Crew spent most of two weeks watching emperor penguins cavort on the ice. But a wind change Early thursday allowed Cebird to begin pushing free. Mexican cow Dies after eating cocaine Mexico City up a cow in the Southeast mexican state of Tabasco has died after eating More than 17 pounds of cocaine Ridden in a stable the official mexican news Agency said. The animal belonged to Jesus Duran Garcia the attorney general a office said Friday in a statement quoted by no Timex. Police found an additional 11 packages full of the drug in the stale and were trying to determine where it came from no Timex said. Mexico has become a major transshipment Point for colombian cocaine headed for the United states. Cambodia gives remains of 2 to . Phenom penh Cambodia up in a somber ceremony saturday on the Tarmac of Poch Entong Airport the senior . Representative in Cambodia was handed two tiny wooden boxes containing what was believed to be remains of two americans missing in action in Cambodia. The Bones had been shown Friday to . Diplomats in phenom penh by foreign ministry officials and were handed Over saturday by vice Interior minister Nuon Sareth. A we wish to express our deep appreciation to the authorities of the state of Cambodia for their humanitarian gesture in returning these remains a . Representative Charles Twining said. Twining gave the boxes to . Air Force officers who had flown from Yokota a in Japan to receive the remains. The remains Are to be taken to the . Governments Central identification Laboratory in Hawaii to determine whether they were from two of the 83 americans missing in Cambodia since 1975, Twining said. The military dog tags said to have been found with the Bones suggested the deceased were Sandoval Antonio Ramos and Jacques Joseph. They were last seen during a Battle on Koh Tang in May 1975. Thirty nine . Servicemen died on Koh Tang off Southwest Cambodia while trying to Rescue 38 seamen captured from the Container ship Mayaguez. The seamen had been captured one month after the Khmer Rouge took Power in phenom penh. The Mayaguez incident of May 15, 1975, was the United states last recorded hostile conflict in the Indochina War and 18 servicemen from that attack have not been accounted for. Twelve of those unaccounted for were on one of three helicopters that crashed on the Island during a 14-hour Battle with Khmer Rouge guerrillas holding the Island. . Marines had been sent to Koh Tang because it was thought that the Mayaguez Crew was being held there. But the Crew actually was being held at the port town of Kampong som on the Mainland. After Nightfall the marines evacuated the Island Only to discover the seamen had been released 10 hours earlier and were steaming toward Singapore according to Marine corps accounts