European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 23, 1993 x world the stars and stripes 13historic s. African Constitution of d Cape town South Africa a the White led parliament overwhelmingly approved a new Constitution wednesday giving Blacks and Whites equal fights for the first time. The document vehemently opposed by pro apartheid White groups replaces a Constitution that for generations denied the Black majority the right to vote hold political officer have any voice in National affairs. Quot now for the first time the future holds the Promise of a brighter tomorrow a african National Congress president Nelson Mandela said in a statement issued by Anc Headquarters in Johannesburg. Mandela was in route to a Christmas vacation in the Bahamas. President . De Klerk s government and the Anc the country s main Black group worked out the new Constitution during two years of negotiations and heralded its approval but right Wing Whites warned of a violent backlash. A this Constitution is a monster Quot said the Leader of the pro apartheid conservative party Ferdi Hartzen Borg whose supporters stood up in parliament and Sang the afrikaner Anthem just before the vote. A your liberation struggle will Start and it will end in a Success a he warned earlier. The Constitution passed on a 237-45 vote. Shouts of anger erupted from the conservatives scats As they saw their efforts to Force last minute amendments to the document quashed. In addition to the conservatives several White members of the inkatha Freedom party the Ancus bigger rival opposed the Constitution. The groups part of the anti Anc Freedom Alliance had sought changes that would have weakened the Powers of the Central government and allowed the possibility of a White Homeland and autonomous regions. The government and Anc held out the possibility that the Constitution could be amended Early next year if their foes agreed to recognize its legitimacy and participate in the country a first no racial elections april 27. Returns to survivor Southampton England apr a Edith Haisman recognized the Gold watch at once. Her father had it when she last saw him a waving from the deck of the sinking titanic. A a the put Mother and me in a Lifeboat and said til see you in new  we never saw him again a Haisman 97, said tuesday. A company salvaging wreckage of the sunken Ocean liner presented the watch to her at a hotel in Southampton where the titanic embarked on its fateful first voyage in 1912. The Little watch is blackened and its hands Are stopped at 11 05, not known to be a significant time. A i recognized the watch which my father wore on a Gold Chain on his Waistcoat a said Haisman who was 16 when the ship Sank. She is believed to be the oldest of about nine survivors living in Britain the United states France and Sweden. A i was in Lifeboat no. 13.1 always remembered that. My father was waving to us and talking to a Clergyman the reverend Carter a Sai Haisman who attended the ceremony in a wheelchair. She lives in a nursing Home in Southampton. Haisman spoke deliberately and carefully about the night of april 1415,81 years ago when the titanic hit Edith Haisman 97, and her daughter Dorothy Kendal hold a Gold watch that Haisman s father wore the night he died in the sinking of the titanic. An iceberg. It remember everything and it was terrible a she said. A the titanic went into the inc and i heard three Bangs before we hit there had been terrific vibrations from the engines during the night As the ship was really racing Over the sea. A was the Lifeboat pulled away we heard Hciks from people left on the ship and in the water and explosions in the ship. A there were lots of bodies floating. We kept on rescuing people and trying to cover them up against the cold. We were in the Lifeboat nine  i Laisman a wealthy father Thomas William Solomon Brown was taking the family from South Africa to Seattle where he intended to Start a hotel business. Edith was his Only child. Haisman identified the watch after salvos employed by a French american group recovered it and other relics with a submersible robot. Her family said she agreed that the watch should eventually go to a museum probably in Southampton australian Plant May help aids Battle Perth Australia a the Western Australia state government announced an agreement wednesday to try to develop an aids treatment from a Plant found Only in the territory. The compound Cono Cervone derived from the smoke Bush Plant has shown promising results in Early tests for the treatment of aids Premier Richard court said. Court and Deputy Premier Slendy Cowan said the Deal to develop a new drug for possible aids treatment could bring the state More than $4 million for research and conservation work. U also would help conserve the state s native Flora they said. Court said that in preliminary Labo europeans talk Tough oratory tests Cono Cervone has killed the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. Barry Moore director of Arad corp., an australian company that has been Given a License by the . National cancer Institute to develop Cono Cervone said it probably will take five years to determine whether the compound will be effective. Brussels Belgium a the european Union warned Serbia on wednesday that it will be hit with harsher sanctions unless its ethnic serbian allies in Bosnia and Herzegovina make territorial concessions to beleaguered muslims. At their second meeting in a month with leaders of Bosnia a warring Muslim serbian and croatian factions the foreign min. I stars of the 12 eur nations sought to achieve a peace agreement by Christmas. But belgian foreign minister Willy Claes indicated that the goal might be too ambitious. Instead he said Quot we dare Hope that Christmas will be marked by a cessation of hostilities and by a humanitarian truce which could subsequently be  he accused serbs of blocking an agreement to end 20 months of War by refusing to return More Inrid in Eastern Bosnia to the Muslim dominated government of the former yugoslav Republic. He threatened bosnian serbs with unspecified action unless they stopped shelling Sarajevo the bosnian capital and lifted the siege of Tula in Central Bosnia. In recent weeks the eur has threatened to use Quot All appropriate Means Quot to end the bosnian War a including military Force. But no such threat was implied in Claes speech wednesday. The european Union formerly known As the european Community has held out the Prospect of lilting sanctions hoping to inducer serbian dominated Yugoslavia to pressure bosnian serbs to return 3 Perccnho-4r percent More land to muslims than foreseen under a september peace plan. Claes said that unless president Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia pressured bosnian serbs to give up More land the eur would seek a a More rigorous application Quot of sanctions which have already crippled Serbia a Economy. On tuesday in Geneva Milosevic and croatian president Franjo Tadjman offered the bosnian government one third of Bosnia. But the bosnian government rejected the proposal saying the areas offered were not predominantly Muslim before the War. Small Spanish town fakes fattest prize in notional lottery Madrid Spain a Champagne flowed fireworks blasted and musicians took to the streets in the Small town of Campello As news spread wednesday that its inhabitants had landed the top prize of 522/ million in Spain a pre Christmas lottery. A the whole town is partying Quot Campello town councilor Maria Encarnacion de la Encina told the National news Agency efe adding that she herself had won $428,000 for her portion of a winning ticket. The lottery is commonly known in Spain ast Ordo the fat one and is billed As the richest in the world. It dished out a total of $1.07 billion in tax free winnings to thousands of Tickel holders throughout Spain. Number drawing began at 9 15 . In Madrid and was covered live by the country s main radio and television stations. Celebrations erupted in Campello a town of 11,000 people about 215 Miles Southeast of Madrid when shortly after 10 30 . It was discovered that the town lottery office had sold the 108 tickets bearing the top prize winning number 47884, the prize paid $2.1 million for each Tickel bearing the number. Each of the tickets Cost $215, and was subsequently sold off in portions among friends families workmates and club members in line with tradition. It was not immediately known among How Many people divided the Campello tickets. The annual drawing of Al Gordo showers its winnings on thousands across the country Marks the Start of the Christmas Holiday season and is ranked As the single most popular event in Spain. The winnings Are tax free since the state Treasury takes its 30 percent Cut before the lottery is staged