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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 12 the stars and stripes world re wednesday december 1,1993 Mandela plans unit to Block secession Johannesburg South Africa a Nelson Mandela the head of the Outh Africa s leading Black group said tuesday that an a anti fascist front Quot May be necessary if Anc Foj pfc continue with threats to secede. Mandela s comment followed an announcement monday by conservative Whites to hold an election among their followers to prepare for setting up a state within present Day South Africa for White afrikaners. The Whites want to preserve apartheid the system of racial segregation that will be abolished when South africans Black majority comes to Power. The government and the african National Congress the leading Black organization oppose any division of South Africa into regions based on race or ethnicity. Speaking in Cape town Mandela criticized the Freedom Alliance a group of conservative Black and White parties that oppose Anc Rule and have threatened to destabilize negotiations on Reform. Various groups in the Alliance ranging from the Zulu based inkatha Freedom party to the White pro apartheid afrikaner Volks front say separate states for their followers Are the Only Way to prevent civil War. A a Quot if they continue we will have no alternative but to Call for the formation of an anti fascist front Quot Mandela said after a meeting with . Commerce Secretary Ronald h. Brown. Quot. He did not elaborate on what such a front would do. But it presumably would include representatives of major political parties and permit strict measures to control secessionist groups. President . De Klerk said tuesday that the government worm act against anyone breaking the Law and that forming political fronts would be unnecessary de Klerk called the secession threat by afrikaner leaders Quot untimely Quot because negotiations with the Freedom Alliance were making Progress. Mandela was to participate later in a Summit of leaders of Black political parties aimed at ending violence. They scanned to tour Black townships around Ohanno amp Burg where hundreds of Blacks have died this year in dashes blamed mostly on an Anc inkatha Battle for Power. Ast talks had failed to bring pc Utu said Quot you Don t give up you go on trying perhaps without All these efforts we would be engulfed in a horrendous War Quot on monday leaders of the afrikaner Volk front an umbrella organization of right Wing Whites announced their plan to hold a vote on forming a Sovereign state free of political links to the South african government. V Volk front spokesman Stephen Man Inger said that until the vote is held his group will function As a Shadow government to protect the interests of afrikaners the White descendants of dutch settlers. 1 former Kab director Vladimir Kryuchkov left talks with an unidentified Man before the Start of Kryuchkova a trial on treason charges stemming from the foiled 1991 Putsch. Accused sex Kab chief. A a. Only regrets coup foiled turks bomb suspected kurdish bases Ankara Turkey a turkish warplanes bombed suspected kurdish rebel bases in Northern Iraq the Anatolia newts Agency said tuesday. The jets attacked nine separate targets on monday in Mezi Katy Aderi Sinji and Sivi during the five hour bombardment the Agency said. A kurdish group said three civilians were killed and six children were wounded by the raid on the villages of Hie an and Siena. A turkish military spokesman col. Dogu Sil Hacioglu said the planes flew some six Miles inside Iraq but the kurdish statement said two of the villages hit were 25 Miles inside. Quot there has been indiscriminate turkish air raids and shelling of innocent kurdish civilians a the Border Region Quot said sateen Dizayer Ankara representative of the Kuntch democratic party. He claimed there were no bases in that area. Moscow Jap a former head of the soviet Union s spy Agency accused in the 1991 coup attempt that precipitated the collapse of the soviet Union said As his trial resumed tuesday that his Only regret was that the Putsch failed. Former Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov also said coup plotters acted with what they thought was the tacit assent of the soviet president whom they briefly overthrew Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Kryuchkov said the plotters decided to act because they believed the United states and other Powers had begun seek ing in tool of the soviet nuclear Arsenal the coup was Quot a measure of despair in four attempt to Stop the destruction of the country Quot he told the military Branch of Russia s supreme court. Quot it is not our guilt but our tragedy that of r efforts failed Quot. A dozen communist leaders Are accused of High treason in the aug. 18-21 Power struggle that discredited the communist party and raised the Power and prestige of Boris n. Yeltsin now Russia s president. Have pleaded innocent evicted they face the death penalty in Russia a shot to the Back of the head Kryuchkov said Quot the Only thing i reproach mys if for is that i failed to protect the country and my people against those grave trials which befell them because of at tempts by political adventure its Quot. 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