European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday March 18, 1992 de Klerk confident vote to end apartheid citizens line up outside a polling station tuesday in Johannesburg South Africa to vote on the referendum that would end the nations apartheid system. Johannesburg South Africa apr Whites voted tuesday in a referendum on ending three centuries of White domination and sharing Power with Blacks. A confident president . De Klerk has staked his political future on the outcome. Most political analysts predicted a government Victory in the Whites Only poll on a mandate for constitutional change. Some analysts said support has been swinging to do Klerk in the final Days of the three week Campaign. A i voted  its the Only thing to do for the future of this country. My Black work mates done to have the vote and i must vote for them a construction worker Chris Bakker said after casting his ballot in Johannesburg. Yet predictions were Uncertain because of a ban on publishing opinion polls during the Campaign. Party workers taking private polls said Many Whites were refusing to say How they would vote adding to the doubt. Analysts said that the up-to-25 percent of White voters who were undecided were Likely to determine the outcome. Long lines formed at Many Urban polling stations As voting began shortly after Dawn tuesday on a warm summer Day. A heavy voter turnout of the nations 3.3 million White voters was expected. De Klerk smiling and looking confident said he was sure of Victory. Quot in a optimistic. In a full of enthusiasm a a he said after voting in Pretoria. Results were not to be announced until today. A Victory for de Klerk who has scrapped most apartheid Laws during two years of lightning Reform would signal the end of White domination stretching Back to the arrival of european settlers in the 17th Century. But if Defeated de Klerk has said he would resign Clearing the Way for a Whites Only general election and the probable Victory of pro apartheid forces. Any attempt to reimpose apartheid would be resisted by the nations 30 million Blacks plunging the country into political chaos. If Reform is rejected a there is no doubt where that must Lead us a to a dead end of division and destruction a de Klerk said in a newspaper message to voters on the eve of the referendum. Many Blacks expressed frustration at once again seeing a Whites Only  hard liners seek to hold banned session Moscow apr about two dozen hard line lawmakers from the defunct soviet parliament boarded buses and headed for a City South of Moscow on tuesday to try to hold a legislative session in Defiance of russian authorities. The deputies of the old Congress of Peoples deputies gathered at the Moscow hotel near the Kremlin and got on two buses that they said were taking them to Podolsk about 20 Miles South of the capital. About 100 supporters chanting a soviet Union a saw them off. Col. Viktor Alksnis a former Deputy and one of the so called a Black colonels who had opposed Many of the reforms of former president Mikhail s. Gorbachev said russian authorities blocked the arrival of about 10 buses to take other deputies to the previously undisclosed location of the Congress. The Prospect of an Assembly of hardliners Many of whom supported the failed August attempt to oust Gorbachev has unnerved the russian legislature which banned the Congress. The russian legislature ordered mos cow mayor Gavriil Popov and City police to prevent the former deputies from gathering. Prosecutor general Valentin Stepan Cov warned that Congress organizers could be prosecuted. A major demonstration opposing the government of russian president Boris n. Mcllain also was planned for tuesday evening in Moscow. Popov has agreed to allow the rally although authorities said they would deploy thousands of police Ana russian Interior ministry troops to prevent any unrest. The huge Maneth Square next to the Kremlin was cordoned off by police Early tuesday. Dozens of officers were seen at the various entrances to red Square. The hard liners had indicated they planned to choose a new Leader to seek the restoration of the soviet Union which was dissolved last year following the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent states. Deputy Yevgeny Kogan said he hoped the Congress would elect a president to replace Gorbachev who resigned last december. Kogan said he was hoping for Quot someone who could carry out his exec soyuz lofts 2 russians German Moscow apr a soyuz rocket bearing two russians and a German blasted off tuesday from the Bai Konur space Center in Kazakhstan on the first space Mission since the demise of the soviet Union. The two russians cmdr. Alexander Victorenko and Engineer Alexander Valery will replace the two cosmonauts orbiting aboard the Mir space station. One of the orbiting cosmonauts Sergei Kri Kalev has been aboard Mir for 10 months a through All the political changes in the former soviet Union. The German cosmonaut aboard the capsule is Klaus Dietrich Flade. In addition to the russian and German flags the rocket that blasted off also was emblazoned with the Flag of Kazakhstan a reflecting the new order since the demise of the soviet Union and the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent states. The capsule will Dock with the Mir station thursday enabling Victorenko and Valery to replace Kri Calev and Alexander Volkov who will return to Earth along with Flade on March 25. Utile  Yegor Migachev who once held the no. 2 Job in the communist party leadership said the deputies were meeting a to unite the society behind a single  Vladimir a Mirinovsky a staunch russian nationalist and fringe politician was among other participants although he was not a member of the Congress. He said he had been invited As a guest. A crowd of about 400 journalists jumped into cars and followed the buses carrying the legislators As they departed about 90 minutes after they first gathered. Swiss ski resort apologizes after complaint by jews St. Moritz Switzerland apr officials in this Alpine resort have apologized to Switzerland a jewish Community for issuing a questionnaire that let apartment owners refuse jewish tenants. St. Moritz s tourism office in asking about 150 residents last month to list the features of vacation space offered for rent also inquired whether they would accept jews director Hanspeter Danuser said monday. He said an employee included the question because a specifically As far As the renting of apartments is concerned apparently a very Small number of people still have certain reservations not Only about jews but about religious communities in  Quot she had no evil intention which is Why i did no to fire her and then we did no to Check it a Danuser said. A it is  an official of the jewish Community of Switzerland Sigi Feigel said St. Moritz tourism officials sent an apologetic letter after the Community complained about the questionnaire. He said they promised not to list the question about jews in the future. A i tend to consider it a dumb misstep a Feigel said in Zurich. Whoever put the question on the list a was not thinking at All 1 believe a he said. St. Moritz in the Remote Southeastern Corner of Switzerland is one of the oldest and most famous Swiss resorts and is a favorite of the Rich and famous. Ugly nationalism draws warning for ., Japan Tokyo up a Japan a new ambassador to the United states warned monday against a shadows of ugly nationalism Quot behind recent emotional exchanges Between the two countries. Tadakazu Kuriyama who departs for Washington next week expressed concern Over Japan bashing by  Leaders and the a buy american movement sweeping the United states. At a news conference Kuriyama outlined current strains and future prospects with Sharp words and suggestions for both sides. He said mounting frictions Are largely the result of both japanese and  Sluggishness in adapting to their new global roles. The people of both countries Kuriyama said have not adjusted their priorities to rapid changes in the bilateral relation ship resulting in serious frustrations. A the two governments must try to establish common rules of economic behaviour and step up intellectual dialogue to promote Mutual understanding a Kuriyama said. He criticized the United states for presuming that the rules it abides by will work for other countries As Well. Japan he said still has not rid itself of its postwar mentality when the most important goal was a catching up with an overtaking other industrialized nations. A spate of critical rhetoric has height ened tension Between the United states and Japan in the months following president Bush a visit to Japan it january. Bush and prime minister Kiichi Miya Zawa agreed to reduce the  Trade be Init through greater japanese imports automobiles and parts