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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 3, 1993

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Tutu Calls for help to Johannesburg South Africa a archbishop Desmond Tutu called for International peacekeepers to Stop township violence monday after More than 90 Blacks died in a frenzy of shootings stabbing and arson. Townships around Johannesburg were described by police As very tense Mon Day and commuter trains hatted service into affected areas As stoning shootings i and firebomb attacks continued. At Daybreak bodies Lay beside burned out cars and shacks and armed gangs roamed the streets. A police report said 91 people had died since saturday in area townships making it one of the bloodiest weekends in months. I the latest killings. Have demonstrated beyond doubt that we Are incapable of restoring Law and order ourselves Tutu said in a Call for foreign intervention that has been raised in the past by the african National Congress. Negotiations on a new Constitution were dominated by debate on the latest violence part of a maelstrom linked to the politically charged talks. Township attacks have increased with the Pace of negotiations As extremists opposed to decisions made in the talks vent their anger./. President . Do Klerk said the Vio Lence would not delay the negotiations or plans for the country s first multiracial election in april 1994. If we allow violence to Stop us Mak ing Progress we will be giving a veto to a very Small vociferous minority de Klerk said sunday night in a television inter View. But Anc Secretary general Cyril a Maposa said violence would remain uncontrollable unless the government gave up sole control of the Security forces which he called an apartheid  that will Send a Ray of Hope through tuesday August 3,1993 violence this country ram Phosa said. The Anc has accused police of waiting several hours before responding to an at tack saturday night that killed 33  maj. Gen. Leon a let denied the accusation and pointed out that police arrested two people the Day after the massacre. Police also confiscated four ak-47 As Sault rifles some handguns a bloodied Spear and scores of rounds of ammunition in searches of township workers hostels. Hostel dwellers who tend to be Zulu from the Countryside have been blamed for most of the weekend fighting. Kimberly Mays Center walks into court with Darla no left and Robert Mays for the first Day of Kimberly s action to divorce herself from her biological parents Ernest and Regina Twigg. Forced visits would harm Florida girl lawyers say Sarasota Fla. A attorneys for a 14-year-Ola girl who was Given to the wrong parents in a Hospi Tal mix up of babies said monday that it would be devastating to Force her into visits with her biological parents. Biology alone without More docs not create or sustain a family George Russ attorney for Kimberly Mays told a judge. They Are virtual strangers to each other. The damage was done year Sago and is irreparable. It s As Perma nent As the loss of a limb in an Auto Accident or the loss of an Eye in the  Kimberly accompanied by Robert Mays the Man who raised her listened intently As attorneys gave opening arguments in the trial to decide her future. Circuit judge Stephen Dakan must Rule whether biological parents Ernest and Regina Twigg will be allowed to visit Kimberly or whether Kimberly can sever All lies to the Twiggs in essence divorcing them. The blonde Hazel eyed ninth grader broke her silence last week to express her Devotion to Mays and her anger toward her biological family particularly Regina Twigg. I hate Regina for doing this to me i really do she said. And 1 just want her out of my  Kimberly said she won t visit the Twiggs no matter what the judge says. Senator blocking vote on elders confirmation Washington apr. Joycelyn elders May have to wait another month before putting on the surgeon general s uniform because a Senate Republican is keeping her nomination from coming to vote this week. The move monday by sen. Do Nickles of Oklahoma Means the Senate will not vote on the confirmation until re turning from its August recess which is to begin at the end of this week. Nickles has led the opposition to eld ers whom he has called a Radical for her Blunt spoken advocacy of abortion rights sex education and condom distribution. Although Many of his fellow re publicans concede the nomination eventually will be approved by the Senate Nickles said monday i Haven t Given  but neither does he claim to have the5\ votes needed to defeat her nor the 41 votes needed to maintain a  hold on the nomination buys the opposition a Little time. Who knows what will happen Over the August recess As More information gets out about this nominee s background asked sen. Trent Lott r-miss., who joined Nickles at a news conference. The Senate labor and human re sources committee voted 13-4 Friday to recommend confirmation and committee chairman Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., said he was determined to bring the nomination to a vote this week. But that could be effectively blocked by Nickles putting a hold on the Nomi nation. The procedure is a Courtesy that exists outside the Senate rules allowing individual members to keep a nomination from coming up usually so they can gather More information. The hold has no fixed time limit and can remain until Nickles is persuaded to remove it. Elders elders testified for four hours be fore Kennedy s committee several weeks ago and gave written answers to 198 questions that senators put to her in the week that followed. But Nickles said her answers were incomplete and he wants to submit some More questions. Avis Lavelle spokeswoman for the department of health and human services said elders has answered everything asked of her. We Hope reason will prevail with the Good senator from Oklahoma she said. In the week left before the recess the Senate has to consider confirmation votes on a supreme court Justice and an feb director the administration s deficit reduction Bill and 13 appropriations Bills. Lavelle acknowledged that Nickles hold May run out the clock. The window of Opportunity is very tight Here she said. There is limited time for consideration of this matter in the closing  Strong winds hamper Crews battling Forest fires in Greece Athens Greece a Strong winds kept firefighting aircraft grounded monday As several Forest fires rage throughout the country authorities said. Ground forces managed however to control major fires on the Aegean sea is lands of Icaria and Samos and near Cape so Union South of Athens the government s firefighting task Force said. The largest fire burning out of control monday was on the Island of salamis just off the coast of at Hejjas it said. About eight smaller fires were burning throughout the country. On saturday 12 people died in a fir that ultimately burned about 6,000 acres of Pine Forest and cultivated land on Ika Ria. Flames came close to the ancient mar ble Temple of Poseidon on Cape ,45 Miles South of Athens. The Blaze did destroy several Holiday Homes. Soviet pilots battled americans Over Korea report says via Sivington a american pilots hew against soviet fliers disguised As chinese in the Early months of the korean War a news Magazine reports. The soviet pilots i cd in planes transported secretly to air bases along the manchurian Border wore chinese uniforms and used chinese phrases on their radios to prevent detection of soviet involvement . News & world report reported this week. The report was based on recently opened russian a l chives and research by historians the Magazine said. Earlier this year historians Kathryn Weathersby of Florida state University and David Holloway of Stan Ford University reported that soviet Leader Josef Stalin approved the North korean attack that began the korean War in 1950. Their conclusion Long suspected by _ historians was based on a newly declassified report prepared by the soviet foreign ministry for soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1966. The . News report said the original War plan approved by Stalin called for a one week conflict with North Korea taking Over Seoul within three Days and All of South Korea Withop seven. Fighting continued for three years with . Troops led by the United states pushing Back the North koreans. The War ended with an armistice signed in july 1953 after More than 2 million chinese and koreans and 33,000 americans had died in Battle  
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