European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 5, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world turkish Premier seeks to keep relations with Bonn from wire reports Ankara Turkey a prime minister Suleyman Demirel on Friday appealed for High level talks with Germany saying he wanted to maintain Good relations despite differences with Bonn Over turkeys handling of a kurdish insurgency. The european Community at Germany a insistence was issuing a protest to Turkey Over its handling of kurdish unrest German officials said Friday. Germany suspended arms shipments to Turkey after clashes Between Security forces and kurdish demonstrators in Southeastern Turkey last month left about 50 kurd statue sold Warsaw Poland a Bye Bye Lenin. A five ton statue of the soviet founder the object of countless protests in the Southern steel making Community of Nowa Huta near Krakow was loaded Friday onto a truck for Sweden the Pap news Agency reported. There it will be retired to a private museum whose owner Hopes it will be a Magnet for tourists along with a fragment of the Berlin Wall. The Krakow City Council sold the statue for 100,000 swedish Kronor about $16,700 actor Singer wins suit London a actor and Singer Jason Donovan was awarded 200,000 pounds $346,000 in libel damages Friday for a Magazine Story that he claimed insinuated he was a homosexual and had lied about his sexuality. The jury of seven women and five men returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Donovan a libel action against the face a music and fashion Magazine. A everybody should feel free to live their lives As they wish a Donovan a 23-Vear-old australian said. A i am heterosexual. The decision totally vindicates me. It clears my name of the slur that i have lied about gets new suit London a a Gray three piece pin Stripe suit worn by sir Winston Churchill was bought for 990 pounds about $1,700 by Madame Lus saudis waxworks at a London auction on Friday. The company said its current Model of the British wartime Leader wears a Black coat and striped trousers made specially for it to match Churchill a preference. A usually famous people present clothes to us but we did no to have a suit from Churchill and this Gray one which was made for him in 1957, will be stored for possible future use a said Juliet Simpkins of Tussaud a. Churchill who died in 1965 at age 90, was modelled 13 times by the waxworks As he changed appearance throughout his Long career. Simpkins said he remains so popular that he is Likely to remain on View to come out Santiago Chile a fugitive Erich Honecker has agreed to leave the chilean embassy in Moscow where he has been holed up As a a a guest with diplomatic Protection special ambassador James Holger said Friday. But Holger currently attempting to negotiate a Resolution to the Case with the German government in Bonn told the Santiago newspaper Al Mercurio that negotiators still had to decide a under what conditions the former East German strongman would leave the embassy. A there is a soft Light at the end of the Tunnel in the Case Holger said but he noted that a there is no definitive deadline to resolving the workers strike Manila Philippines a Domestic air traffic controllers demanding higher salaries staged a Wildcat strike saturday paralysing operations m 15 airports nationwide and stranding thousands of commuters officials said. International operations renamed Normal at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in the capital As workers did not join the strike said air transportation office chief Gerardo Protacio. Send International group to Monitor Mandela says Johannesburg South Africa up african National Congress president Nelson Mandela urged Friday that an International group be sent to South Africa to Monitor violence in townships saying there was a no other solutions to fighting which has claimed nearly 400 lives in four weeks. A we want an International monitoring group because it is quite Clear. There is no other solution to this problem a Mandela told journalists in Alexandra township Northeast of Johannesburg. He did not explain what the monitoring groups role should be saying Only that he would have to consult the United nations and the organization of african Unity. Thirteen people have died in the past three Days in Alexandra As Anc supporting residents battled with mainly Zulu migrant workers who inhabit a Hostel there. A we want to put Forward this demand As one of the utmost urgency and we Are going to put tremendous pressure on the regime to allow this monitoring group As an urgent matter a Mandela said. Mandela said it was Clear police and army units sent to try to maintain order in the township were failing in their duty and the Reform government of president . De Klerk was not attempting to control violence. A the government. Has abdicated from its duty. A Large number of people have been displaced from their houses and the regime is doing nothing to protect property a Mandela said. A the Security forces Are conniving. Because it helps weaken the african National Congress a he said. Fighting in overcrowded Alexandra erupted when Hostel dwellers attacked residents who fought Back. The township where 350,000 people live crammed into about six Square Miles has been a flashpoint since so called a Black on Blacks violence escalated in 1984. More than 10,000 people were killed in South Africa in those eight years. The Anc charges that violence is fomented by right Wing elements in the South african police and army colluding with supporters of the Zulu based right of Center inkatha Freedom party to terrorize Anc supporters privatizing schools viewed As shut out Johannesburg South Africa a the government this week gave White Public schools the option of becoming private a move that Blacks say will preserve educational privileges for Whites even As apartheid is dismantled. All but 88 of the 2,200 White Public schools chose to privatize meaning that the government will continue to pay teachers salaries but that ownership and maintenance of the schools will pass from the government to local committees. Among their wide ranging Powers the committees can decide whether to admit Black students and will set fees which May be beyond the reach of most Blacks. Black groups complain the move is part of a larger government Effort to entrench Whites special status in the face of the country a move toward multiracial democracy. A the new system is a disaster a said Mel Holland spokeswoman for the National education coordinating committee a private group seeking school Reform. A the government will control Black education and White schools will be the government spends almost five times More on a White student than a Black one. Last year 97 percent of White High school seniors passed their final exams compared to 39 percent of Blacks. And damage the anti apartheid groups Power base. Political analysts have said violence began again in March after months of quiet in the run up to a Whites Only referendum on support for de Klerks reforms. De Klerk won the referendum comfortably but analysts suggested the violence was an attempt to spare White voters with the image of an anarchic Black majority future. Squawking opposition some kiss babies but British prime min brewery in Kent England. As the Birds sat squawking ister John major comes Bee to free with owls Alex left on his hand major remarked a they Are making the and Flash during a visit Friday to a farm belonging to a noises of the opposition front Gas leak kills 1, injures 250 in Mexico Mexico City up a an ammonia leak from a Gas Tanker on a major Highway just North of Mexico City has left at least one person dead and 250 injured the government news Agency said Friday. About 4,000 people living within a 1.2-mile radius of the leak were evacuated from the scene after a ruptured pipe on the Tanker caused 156,000 Gallons of am Monia to escape. Local hospitals treated about 250 people suffering from effects of the Gas. A night watchman died from the effects. He had been working in the Industrial zone where the Accident occurred no Timex reported. The Accident happened when a Tanker ruptured a pipe allowing the Gas to escape into the housing area
