European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 8 8 the stars and stripes world monday november 2,1992angolan fighting rages with 300 reported dead Johannesburg South Africa up Angola continued its slide into full scale civil War sunday As heavy fighting Between government soldiers and rebel troops pushed the death toll since saturday to More than 300, South african radio reports said. Among the dead were two members of the . Peacekeeping Force who were killed after their jeep was apparently ambushed saturday by un1ta rebels in angolans capital of Luanda. On sunday South african foreign minister . Quot Pike Botha described the situation in the nation on africans West coast As serious. Quot according to reports fighting and skirmishes Are taking place throughout the country with serious clashes taking place in Luanda a Botha said in a statement released by his office. A Luanda hotel housing the Headquarters of Unita a the National Union for the total liberation of Angola a was reported to be burning after coming under attack by government studies proposal to share Power Johannesburg South Africa apr the african National Congress is considering a plan to govern South. Africa jointly with president . De Klerks National party an Anc official said sunday. A report in the sunday times newspaper said a draft document on the Power sharing plan was distributed last week at a meeting of the Anc the nations leading Black group and its allies. Anc spokesman Gill Marcus called the document a discussion paper with a no standing whatsoever in the organization. But she said it probably would be distributed to Allied groups and regional organizations for study. The disclosure comes a Day after Anc Leader Nelson Mandela announced the organization would meet with government leaders nov. 22 for further talks on ending White minority Rule. V Stoffel Van Der Merlc chairman of the National party confirmed a meeting was scheduled but said the Date was not set. Multiparty negotiations involving the Anc the National party and other groups broke Down in May. Do Klerk and Mandela met sept. 26 to get political talks restarted but their agreements angered other political groups that claimed the government and Anc were hijacking the negotiating process. The Anc has Long called for an elected constituent Assembly to serve As an interim government pending the draft of a new Constitution it then wants democratic elections for a new multiracial government. But the document circulated at last weeks meeting said a Power sharing arrangement with the National party might be necessary the sunday times reported. Forces Loyal to the ruling popular movement for the liberation of Angola or Mola Are reported to have seized the building. Unita supporters Are believed to be seeking Refuge in a nearby Church Johannesburg based radio 702 reported. Luanda a Airport is reportedly closed to civilian traffic. Angola has lurched toward War since Unita Leader Jonas Sav Imbi accused the government of rigging the september National elections and threatened to fight rather than accept an electoral defeat. Unita ran second in the vote to the ruling Mola. Fighting was also reported in the town of Ndal atan do 125 Miles East of Luanda and in the town of la Bango 430 Miles South of Luanda. The weekend violence follows fighting last week Between Unita rebels and government forces in and around the Southern City of Huambo 310 Miles Southeast of Luanda. Mean streets a youngster in Sao Paulo shows the plight of an estimated 7 million Street children in Brazil. The child sucks on a pacifier while smoking a cigarette and in his left hand is a bag for sniffing glue to relieve hunger pains the number of children on the streets of Sao Paulo increased last week when several Hundred escaped from a state reformatory.10 injured in attack on egyptian tour bus Cairo Egypt apr gunmen opened fire sunday on a tour bus in Southern Egypt wounding 10 people. The attack was identical to one carried out by Muslim extremists 10 Days ago. Muslim extremists have vowed to step up their attacks against tourists until the government releases fellow extremists from jail and moves to turn Egypt into an islamic state. No one immediately claimed responsibility for sundays attack on the bus carrying egyptian coptic christians on a Road that runs along the Nile River. The attack occurred in Peir mamas 135 Miles South of Cairo the site of an attack on oct. 2 against a Nile cruise boat carrying German tourists. A tour guide and two workers were slightly injured in that attack. Security sources said that after a tour of coptic monasteries and convents the bus was on its Way Back to Cairo on sunday afternoon when unknown assailants opened fire from Cane Fields next to the Road. The wounded were taken to a Hospital in Deir mass. Since july Muslim extremists have carried out at least 10 assaults on tourists. The attacks have taken place in Southern Egypt the militants stronghold and a Center of Egypt a pharaonic monuments. In an oct. 21 attack on a tour bus a British woman was killed and two British men were to transport plutonium leaves French port secretly from wire reports Brest France a the ship that is to transport a cargo of deadly plutonium to Japan slipped out of a French port a Day Early on its Way to pick up its toxic cargo an Industry ministry official said sunday. The Akatsuka Mara which had arrived in this port City in Western France on thursday left during the night Between saturday and sunday the official said. Industry minister Dominique Strauss Kahn had said the ship would leave Brest on sunday night for Cherbourg to Load the plutonium and that the news Media would be told the time in Advance. Tight secrecy has surrounded the ships voyage from Japan to France where it is to pick up 1.7 tons of enriched plutonium for use in japanese fast breeder crashes in Pakistan Shukkur Pakistan a an express train packed with sleeping passengers slammed into a parked freight train sunday and As Many As 75 people were killed or injured officials said. The government of Southern Singh province ordered an inquiry into the pre Dawn crash about 75 Miles North of the Interior City of Shukkur. According to pakistanis state run news Agency the government suspended the assistant station master at the tiny rail Stop of Reti where the Accident occurred after be fled the scene. It Wasny to immediately known Why he causes French pileup a Vry France a six people were injured in a pileup of 30 cars and three buses carrying 107 schoolchildren on a foggy French Highway Early sunday police reported. Three of the injured were Hurt seriously though the schoolchildren who were returning from an excursion in Southern France suffered Only minor bruises police said. Thick fog was blamed for the Accident which occurred on the main North South Highway linking Paris and Lyon about 15 Miles South of the settles for draw Belgrade Yugoslavia a Boris Spassky pressed Bobby Fischer on sunday in the 28th game of their chess rematch but settled for a draw instead of risking a series ending loss. According to the match schedule the next game is wednesday with Fischer playing White. On saturday the two former champions ended their 27th game in a draw after 46 moves. Observers said the game was lacklustre but both players credited their opponent with playing admits to car bomb London a the Irish Republican army said it carried out the car bomb attack in Whitehall close to the no. 10 Downing Street residence of British prime minister John major. In a statement released in Dublin on saturday night the Ira claimed responsibility for fridays bombing and said similar attacks would continue the British broadcasting corp. Said. 25,000 salvadorans March san Salvador Al Salvador More than 25, government compliance with peace accords that ended a 12-year civil War the March heavily peppered with banners of the rebel Faramundo Marti National liberation front wound up in front of the National Cathedral where leaders chanted for Al Salvador a demilitarization and a purge of human rights violators from the army. Saturday was to have been the deadline for compliance with All .-brokered peace accords signed in Mexico City in january including o 5 a on a guerrilla forces estimated at 8,000. In addition to Complete rebel demobilization and the purge of human rights abusers in the military agreements Between the government and the rebels called for the government to halve its 60,000-Strong armed forces
