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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world monday August 2,1993 at least 30 slain in s. African massacre Johannesburg South Africa a at least 30 Blacks were Mas sacred when some 200 zulus rampaged through a township near Here police said sunday. The Slaughter in Temisa township about 12 Miles East of Johannesburg was one of the worst single attacks in South Africa this year. But Black and White politicians have vowed to press ahead with negotiations on ending apartheid despite the recent surge in political violence. Police capt. Wickus Weber said the fighting erupted saturday night when Eulus living in a Hostel for migrant work ers charged through the streets of tempi a shooting residents at random and set Ting cars on fire. The Hostel dwellers support the Inka tha Freedom party a conservative Zulu dominated group. Many of the township residents Back the african National con Gress the country s largest Black move ment. The hostels for migrant workers have been a Flash Point for violence in the Johannesburg area for the past three years. Most of the residents Are single Zulu men who support inkatha. Anc and inkatha supporters have been battling for supremacy since the mid-1980s. The feud is the main cause of political violence that has claimed More than 10,000 lives nationwide since 1990. Anc spokesman Ronnie Mamo Epa offered a slightly different account than police. He said a local gang in Temisa began shooting at residents saturday night then retreated to the Vuz Imus workers Hostel where they rounded up scores of supporters for a second trip into Earhart killed by japanese sex Pilot says Byle Kjos United press International Miami a former pan american world airways Pilot Mechanic who later worked for the Federal aviation administration says the japanese lured Amelia Earhart to her death in 1937 to steal secrets from her plane for use in Zero fighters. Henri Keyzer Andre of Palm Beach fla., writes in his Book age of heroes that Many of the improvements to the Zero came after the disappearance of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan on july 3, 1937. The japanese Empire was trying to get an invincible machine to win the War Keyzer Andre said thursday. They went out and got the Best of other. Aircraft to get the materials. From 1938 to 1940, the zeros go quite an  Keyzer Andre 86, said he had contributed to the technology when he worked on Earhart s plane before it left Miami for Africa and then the far East on an attempt to Circle Earth from West to East near the Equator. Keizer Andre worked his Way up from janitor to Pilot with pan am Over 18 years and later was a trouble shooter working special assignments for the Faa in the late 1940s. He said in the Book to be released in March by Hastings House that it was obvious to him from his studies of the Zero after the War that the improvements came from Earhart s Lockheed Electra 10-e. He said the japanese also had copied a pan am seaplane the hawaiian Clipper which disappeared in july 1938."in balance knowing the Earhart Noonan background and after seeing the rapid improvements made on the Zero and the japanese copy of the hawaiian Clipper my conclusion was that the japanese had forced Down ear Hart s plane Keyzer Andre wrote. But he said there were still some missing pieces to the Puzzle that were provided by a japanese defense department official and former Navy mane met while he was teaching at Tokyo University in 1948. Keyzer Andre identified his source with the fictitious name of Koshiro be cause the Man spoke on the condition that his identity would be concealed. He told Keyzer Andre that japanese naval its. Matsui Nagano and Toshio Abe were selected to seize Earhart splane to steal its technology which was far More advanced than Japan had. They agreed to Volunteer for the Mission to capture Harhart s plane and execute the Crew the author quoted his source As saying. The author said Koshiro told him How Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan nightstand outside their lock heed Electra 10-e on june 29, 1937, in port Darwin Australia a few Days before their disappearance. He would have acquired the air plane. Keyzer Andre quoted Koshiro As saying first i would find out the radio fre Quency of the target plane and Monitor its transmissions. I would have available radio operator who spoke flawless american English to give out false information. At the the right moment we could transmit a single Decoy radio transmission to pull the plane South Over the lower portion of the Gilbert islands. By the time it has exhausted its fuel it would be forced to land in Shal Low Waters off the coast of non Outi a japanese controlled base in the  non Outi is about 600 Miles from ear Hart s destination of Howland Island. / Keyzer Andre also said he believes Earhart had planned to Fly Over the japanese is Larrit of Truk to spy on Japa Nese installations there then continue her flight from the new Guinea Islando flae. Keyzer-andr6 said he kept his conclusions to himself in 1948 because he was afraid the disclosure would hinder efforts to rebuild postwar Japan into democracy. He said thursday that he also was reluctant to discuss the incident until the death of japanese emperor Hirohito in 1989 because re was involved i seeking Earhart s plane for the Japa Nese military. Keyzer Andre said Abe became an Admiral and Nagano a vice Admiral during world War ii. Both were killed when the ships they were commanding were Sun by . Forces late in the War. He said sen. Daniel k. Inouye d Hawaii was working to get information on the episode released from the National archives and said it would backup his conclusion. Keyzer Andre also said the discovery in 1991 by a Delaware based Salvage firm of a piece of wreckage and a Wom an s shoe near Gardner Island did not come from Earhart s plane. He said that the piece of Metal was from the wrong kind of air plane and that the shoe was the wrong size. The streets of the township. \ fighting often erupts on the weekends and saturday nights in particular when Hostel dwellers drink heavily. In Many cases a single incident quickly escalates into a huge attack. Political violence has been getting worse since politicians last month announced plans for the country s first multiracial elections next april. The ballot would formally end apart Heid but it would be impossible now to hold a free election in Many Black areas due to the violence and intimidation. Anti smoking Campaign is heating up Singapore a members of Singapore s armed forces have been Luton notice As of sunday anyone caught smoking in Public while in uniform will be fined. With the end of a three month Grace period military police have orders to crack Down a spokesman for the defense ministry said. Violators will have 50 Singapore dollars 31 . Dollars deducted from their pay. Repeat offenders will be fined 100 Singapore dollars $62. It is not the first time the armed forces have been used to spearhead the drive to stamp out smoking. The cigars after formal dinners in the officers mess a tradition dating Back to British colonial Days were extinguished last year. Some units now pass around chocolate mints instead of the port and cigars the spokesman said. Smoking Breaks have been abolished and lighting up on military bases is restricted to a few designated areas. About three of every 10 service Mem ers smoke and 93 percent of them picked up the habit before enlistment. This Island Republic of 3 million people is striving to become the world s first smoke free nation. Singaporeans under 18 were banned from buying cigarettes or smoking them in Public by a Law enacted May 31. Under the same Law schoolteachers can recommend fines for pupils found smoking. Those caught Selling tobacco to minors face a Fine of 10,000 Singapore dollars $6,173. Despite years of efforts a Survey showed that the smoking rate among youths aged 18 and 19 tripled from five percent in 1987 to 15 percent in 1991. New tax order offers grave Issue for Italy Rome a most italians feel As though they Are being taxed to death but now not even the grave brings peace. The health ministry issued a Regula Tion late Friday that the deceased also Are responsible for the yearly health care Levy of 85,000 lire about $52 that covers Basic care by a family doctor. Are they stupid or Are they mean asked an editorial in the Milan based daily l Independent a. Health minister Maria Pia Garavaglia who issued the order said she Hopes fam ily members and heirs of the deceased would pay. But she conceded there is no Way to enforce the measure. Newspapers said that if the tax were paid for All those who die in 1993, it would bring 30 billion lire about $19 Mil lion into the state s coffers. Italy s health care system is one of the worst in Western Europe and italians Are among the most   
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