European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday March 18, 1992de Klerk optimistic apartheid will end 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 South african Whites bitterly divided Over sharing Power with Blacks turned out in huge numbers tuesday for a referendum on ending centuries of racial domination. Most analysts forecast a Victory for president . De Klerk and his reforms but exit polling is banned and the final results were not expected until midday today. De Klerk who has abolished major apartheid Laws needs a win to push ahead with his last and most important Reform a a new Constitution extending full political rights to the 30 million Black majority. The president smiling and looking confident said he was sure of Victory. A a in a optimistic. In a full of enthusiasm a he said after voting in Pretoria. The heavy voter turnout was expected to favor de Klerk. If he loses de Klerk has promised to resign Clearing the Way for a Whites Only general election. Pro apartheid parties would be favored to win an election if de Klerk is Defeated. Analysts said Many White voters were undecided and were Likely to decide the outcome. Political party workers taking private polls in Advance reported that Many Whites were refusing to say How they would vote adding to the doubt. Liberal Whites who have traditionally opposed the government provided de Klerk with a key Block of votes though some were less than enthusiastic. Violence in Black townships has surged since de Klerk called the referendum and has claimed almost 300 lives in the past month. But the townships were relatively Calm tuesday night and today with four deaths reported. Long lines of Whites formed at Many Urban polling stations As voting began shortly after Dawn a heavy voter turnout is expected to favor de Klerk. Any attempt to reimpose apartheid would be resisted by the Black majority plunging the country into political chaos. A any suggestion that we should return to those Days of old style apartheid will be resisted with All the Power at our command a african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela said monday in an Appeal for a a yes  hard liners hold banned session Podolsk Russia a several dozen hard line members of the defunct soviet parliament gathered in a dark auditorium on a collective farm tuesday in Defiance of russian authorities. Organizers said part capants passed a Resolution appealing to the world to recognize the integrity of the soviet Union. Many of the lawmakers supported the August coup attempt against former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. The russian legislature had banned the meeting of the dissolved soviet Congress of Peoples deputies and the session was held in chaos resulting in part from government interference and in part from poor organization. The meeting in Podolsk a town South of Moscow seemed unlikely to take on much significance in the Wake of the collapse of the soviet Union last year. But russian government officials were worried about possible violence during a demonstration planned by hard liners tuesday night near the Kremlin. The russian legislature ordered Moscow mayor Gavriil Popov and City police to prevent the former deputies from gathering in the capital. Prosecutor general Valentin Stepankow said Congress organizers could be prosecuted. Popov agreed to allow the rally but authorities planned to deploy thousands of police and russian Interior ministry soldiers to prevent unrest. Maneth Square next to the Kremlin was cordoned off by police and dozens of officers were at red Square. Die hard communists frequently organize rallies of several thousand participants in Moscow and elsewhere. Although the protests have become More visible they do not appear to reflect the views of the majority of the population. Because the sponsors kept the site of tuesdays meeting secret about half the lawmakers supporters and journalists who tried to attend never found the Remote meeting Hall. The auditorium on the Voronova collective farm where the meeting took place did not have electricity and the former lawmakers held up flashlights. A single Light bulb powered by an automobile Battery illuminated speakers at soyuz lofts 2 russians German Moscow a 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 Kalev and Alexander Volkov who will return to Earth along with Flade on March 25. The dais. Speakers included Yegor Liga Chev once the no. 2 Man in the soviet communist party and Sazhin a Matatova who gained Fame by publicly demanding that Gorbachev resign. Organizers said 217 former lawmakers had registered the Day before inter fax news Agency reported. The number of onetime deputies a tiny fraction of the 2,250-member body fell far Short of a quorum. No official Roll Call was taken but about 100 former lawmakers and supporters were in the Hall along with a similar number of journalists. Swiss ski resort apologizes after complaint by jews St. Moritz Switzerland a 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  a 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. �?o1 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. . Missile Hunting team plans new Effort in Iraq Manama Bahrain apr a . Missile team plans to go to Iraq on saturday to make another attempt to destroy Baghdad a equipment for building scud missiles . Officials said tuesday. The iraqis stopped another group of . Experts from wrecking the machinery last month leading to warnings from the , Security Council that Iraq faced serious consequences if it did not cooperate. The Council repeated the warning last week. The new team which will be led by Derek Boothby of Britain has a dual task a locating scud missiles that Iraq May still be hiding and destroying missile production facilities. The weapons team is the 35th assembled by the . Special commission which is overseeing the elimination of iraqis Long Range missiles and nuclear chemical and biological weapons programs under terms of the .-imposed cease fire in the persian Gulf War. Saddam Hussein a government agreed to help destroy those weapons but the iraqis have repeatedly lied about and hidden weapons and arms factories. Iraq maintains that its compliance should be linked to the relaxation of economic sanctions imposed after its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. But the Security Council has refused to lift the sanctions without full iraqi compliance. Iraqi Deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz asked the Security Council last week to allow Iraq to convert the equipment for non military civilian use. But the Council insisted that the equipment be destroyed and Aziz left part of his delegation in new York to work out details with the Council