European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ Page 0 7hi stars and strums a l world monday f a Bumry 77. 1993first nonwhites to join s. Africa Cabinet a it Manni sir Uco South Africa Al a president i w de Klerk named inc first  ministers to his Cabinet on saturday in a move aimed at changing the government s image in preparation for multiracial elections but he gave them Low profile posts and failed to appoint a Black drawing immediate fire from the african National Congress the nations main Black group. Thabo Beki the Anc foreign affairs Secretary called the appointments Quot meaningless a the South african press association reported. I he sunday Star newspaper said de Klerk feared that a Black appointee would be too controversial. The Anc made its own election pitch saturday. It called for an end to major economic sanctions on South Africa once the Date is set for a multiracial election a to be held sometime Early next year a and once Multi party councils arc named to oversee the election and the state run broadcasting corporation. Do Klerks appointments were aimed at erasing the governments stodgy racist image and attracting new supporters to his National party before the elections. None of the new appointees is known As an anti apartheid activist and All have been criticized within their ethnic groups for working with the White led government. Abe Williams a member of parliaments mixed race chamber was named minister of sport Jac Rabie another mixed race politician was appointed minister of population development and Indian lawyer Bhadra Ranchod was named minister of tourism. They were the first nonwhites to hold portfolios. Quot the changes take effect april 1. Indian College students burned Ranchod in effigy in 19kb when he became South africans first nonwhite ambassador to the european Community in Brussels Belgium. Anti apartheid activists assailed Rabie and Williams for joining parliament in 1984, when separate Chambers were created for indians and people of mixed race. The Chambers Are far weaker than the White chamber and the Black majority was ignored. Their participation in the segregated parliament made them part of the apartheid system the Anc and other groups charged. Williams said by Telephone Friday that he was trying to improve conditions for All nonwhites. Quot we Are on our Way to a new South Africa. This is my further contribution a said Williams who like Rabie joined the governing National party after it opened to nonwhites in 1991. A Model by British architect sir Norman Foster shows a Clouds inc Pavilion Over the Reich Stag one of three design choices. Germany selects design finalists for Berlin s parliament building Berlin a will Germany a parliament building look like a heaven Over Berlin a or will it have a soaring dome How about an almost subterranean debating chamber the search for a design for Germany sold Reich Stag building narrowed Friday to three foreign architects each with radically different ideas for transforming the 99-year-old building into United Germany a parliament. Berlin architect Axel Schultes won a separate design Competition for the government Quarter to be built around the Reich Stag Germany a former legislative Assembly. 1 Lis concept of Low buildings linking the Eastern and Western halves of the formerly divided City was chosen from among 835 entries i rum around the world. The selections Are a key step toward beginning billions of dollars Worth of construction projects that will eventually permit Germany a parliament and government to move from Bonn to Berlin. The two competitions attracted entries from 44 nations construction minister Irmgard Schwaetzer said. The War torn building served As Germany a parliament from 1894 until 1933, when Adolf Hitler shut Down the democratically elected body. The three finalists Are British architect sir Norman Foster i de Bruijn and associates of the Netherlands and Spanish born Santiago calatrava who is based in Zurich Switzerland. They won $73,000 each for their designs. The designs go to parliament for consideration and a decision is expected this summer Fosters design puts an immense Clou like Pavilion Over the building and was quickly dubbed Quot Himmel Liber Berlin a or Quot heaven Over Berlin a the title of the Wim Wenders film known in English As wings of desire. De Bruijn who designed an addition to the dutch parliament in the Hague would keep the current look of the Reich Stag and flank it with a modern office building. The legislative chamber would he in front below ground level. Calatrava a is the Only design that would restore something like the High Glass dome the Reich Stag originally had when it Vyas dedicated in 1894 during the prussian led German Imperial Era. The flattened look of today a Reich Stag which has squat towers on the four Corners of the building dates from a fire in 1933 and the destruction of world War ii. The fire purportedly set by a dutch communist who later was beheaded served As hitlers excuse for declaring an emergency and closing Down the legislature. Many believe hitlers henchmen started the fire. Schultess winning design for the government buildings surrounding the Reich Stag leaves a Long stretch of Lawn in front and puts the chancellors office and other buildings on a straight line across a sweeping Bend in the spree River. The government Quarter will stretch from the tie Garten Park through the Brandenburg Gate into former East Berlin. Russian plane attacks capital of Abkhazia Tbilisi Georgia apr one Man was killed and eight people were wounded when a russian warplane raided Sukhui the capital of the. Secessionist georgian province of Abkhazia georgian officials reported sunday. The georgian military command in Sukhui Saia the russian Su-25 close support plane made seven attempts to attack the City saturday but was driven away by anti aircraft fire. About 11 . Local time the plane returned and fired two air to surface missiles at a residential area of Sukhui the report said. Eight people including Tengiz Pachko Ria a georgian journalist who works for russians Nezah Ishimaya gazeta were wounded. Pac Koria s father was killed in the airstrike. According to georgian accounts the georgian Side protested to the russian army Headquarters in the Black sea resort of Gud Auta and was told that the attack was to avenge saturdays shelling of a rus. Sian army unit stationed in Abkhazia. The inter fax news Agency quoted the russian defense ministry As confirming the airstrike on a military targets in Suk Humi. It said the georgians have denied that their forces shelled the russian unit saturday. The fighting in Abkhazia which began last August has claimed hundreds of lives and turned thousands of people into refugees. It started after Georgia sent its troops into the Rich Black sea province to crush guerrillas backing the ousted georgian resident Oviad Gamsa Hurdia. But leaders of the separatist abkhazian minority convinced that the Tbilisi government wanted to derail their Independence drive fought Back. Indian plane lands after bomb threat Ankara Turkey apr an Indian airlines passenger plane made an emergency Landing Here sunday after receiving information that a bomb might have been planted inside the Anatolia news Agency reported. Sonia Gandhi widow of the late Indian were it Bers it added. Turkish Security forces searched the plane which was parked at the far Side of the runway at Ese Boga Airport. There was no immediate word on whether a bomb was found or on How officials were told one had been planted. The Jet was on a flight from new Delhi to London