European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Group says it attacked s. Africa Whites Johannesburg South Africa apr a Radical Black group has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a restaurant that injured 19 Whites and police said saturday they fear More attacks. The Azania Peoples liberation army Ala also had claimed responsibility for an attack on a country club last weekend in which four Whites were killed. The highly unusual attacks have cast a Shadow Over efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid. A Man identifying himself As an Ala commander said late Friday that the restaurant attack was part of a a Shock and show Campaign. The Man who gave his name As Congo Jibril told the South african press association that White civilians were a legitimate target because they were a the silent eyes of the Security forces and they served in the military. 1 police minister her Nus Kriel said the government had information that the Ala planned to launch a bombing Campaign against a soft targets and defenceless police reinforcements were being sent to the Eastern Cape Region site of the two attacks he said. Both the government and the african National Congress the main Black opposition group strongly condemned the latest attack. Government and Anc officials Friday ended three Days of talks on reviving full scale negotiations saying they would press for a negotiated transformation to multiracial democracy. The two sides said there would be More talks in january. Thursdays bombing in Queenstown was about 60 Miles from King Williams town where four Whites were killed last saturday in a gun and hand grenade attack by Blacks at a country club. The Ala is the armed Wing of the pan africanist Congress which maintains that Blacks must seize Power. The Pac is a bitter rival of the much larger Anc which seeks a multiracial membership. Extremist right Wing White groups which Are far better armed than Black organizations have threatened retaliation that could fan political violence. Prince Charles support of French creates storm London apr the government defended Prince Charles on saturday after lawmakers accused him of supporting the cause of militant French Farmers who want to sabotage a world Trade pact. Critics detected opposition to the agricultural Accord in the Princess Praise of French Rural values. It but Downing Street and Buckingham Palace insisted the Prince meant nothing of the sort in his speech to the French Academy of political and moral sciences in Paris on Friday night. A handful of members of parliament charged Charles with fueling the dispute Between London and Paris Over the general agreement on tariffs and Trade. Tabloid newspapers adding to the year his Mother Queen Elizabeth ii has described As a horrible a attacked him in headlines. A fury As Charles backs French a said the Sun. A Charles salutes revolting peasants a said the daily Star. A the backs the thugs who do this a said a today headline above a photograph of a French Farmer burning a British Flag. In defense of the heir to the British throne Downing Street said in a statement that the speech was misinterpreted and parts were taken out of context. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said a the speech is there people have the text. If that s How they re interpreting it they have got it during his induction Friday As a foreign associate of the French Academy Charles said in fluent French that he had been counselled not to talk about budgets european Union or world Trade talks. Britain and France Are at Odds on All three subjects. A i done to always do what in a told a the Prince conceded a but i thought i could talk about other things the Prince praised Frances efforts to preserve its Rural heritage. He implied that the Market Economy vigorously pursued by most of the european Community was killing the traditional Way of life. It is a familiar theme for the Prince who has campaigned for Protection of the environment and traditional says Light set Windsor afire London a a new spotlight that overheated a curtain in a private Chapel stacked with paintings sparked a Blaze that ravaged parts of Windsor Castle said a re Eort released Friday by bucking am Palace. The investigation by a five member team of fire officers police and forensic scientists said no individual was to blame for the nov. 20 fire at the historic Castle the favorite weekend Home of Queen Elizabeth ii. The report confirmed eyewitness accounts that the fire began in the Queens private Chapel in the Northwest Corner of the Castle 20 Miles West of London. The Chapel was being used As a temporary storage and restoration place for pictures. Some lawmakers Friday denounced the report As a a skimped and a a the opposition labor party said taxpayers must not be made to pay for repairs without a Fuller report. A this report is puny and must be a Whitewash. It cannot possibly be the result of two weeks investigation a said Ann Clwyd labors National heritage spokeswoman. The Princess speech infuriated some members of parliament. Labor my Harry Cohen said a sup porting uneconomic Farmers is not the Way Forward for the world Economy As a whole and it risks inflaming the Row Over the Gatt tory my Robert Spink said a the Prince of Wales should be defending the people of this country who have to pay 16 pounds about $25 a week per family extra on average to support the French Farmers and their food Wood a Christmas tree 75 feet tall is lighted up next to one of the fountains in London a Trafalgar Square on Friday. The tree is the 45th annual gift from the people of Oslo Norway in appreciation for Britain a help during world War ii. At right is St. Martins in the Field Leader rejects French criticism of drugs policy the Hague Netherlands apr prime minister Ruud Lubbers has reacted angrily to a French government officials criticism of dutch drugs policy calling the comments a infamous scandalous and untrue a dutch Media reported saturday. Foreign minister Hans Van Den Broek has been asked to formally convey to Paris the dutch governments anger at the remarks made in London last week by French Interior minister Paul quills a foreign ministry spokesman said. Lubbers described Quiles comments As a an inflammatory tale that could in no Way be substantiated Quot according to a report in the National newspaper arc handels Blad. A this is not How we treat each other As members of the european Community a Lubbers was quoted As saying late Friday. Quills comments followed an acrimonious meeting of european Community Interior and Justice ministers to discuss the siting of euro pol the planned dec criminal investigation service. He reportedly said that the Hague one of the proposed euro pol locations was unacceptable because lax dutch drugs policy was blocking a european comm citywide strategy to combat drug trafficking. Lubbers said drugs related problems in France Are a immeasurably worse than in the Netherlands and that dutch policies Are a at least As effective As French in countering drug smuggling and abuse. While both hard and soft drugs Are illegal in the Netherlands Possession of Small quantities for personal use is widely tolerated because the official dutch View is that drug abuse is a social ill rather than a criminal offence. Police generally follow a policy of containment allowing Small scale trading of soft drugs from controlled outlets and restricting heroin and other hard drug addicts to Small Center City zones away from residential areas. The siting of the euro pol Headquarters is on the Agenda at the upcoming dec Summit meeting in Edinburgh Scotland
