European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 20, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 Nixon in . Hospital after new York a former president Nixon who left the White House in disgrace during the watergate scandal Only to emerge in retirement As an elder states Man suffered a stroke that aides said left him  v.-. A the 81-year-old. Nixon was stricken at his Home in Park Ridge n.j., while getting ready for dinner Mon Day night. He was taken by ambulance to new York Hospital Cornell medical Center said his spokeswoman Kathy o Connor. His daughters Tricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower and the Rev. Billy Graham a longtime Friend rushed to his bedside. His wife Pat died in 1993. Nixon was in intensive care and his condition was described As stable. Kim Taylor another Nixon spokeswoman said tuesday morning that he was awake Alert and attentive but unable to speak. Nixon s doctors would not give a prediction on his prospects until 24 hours after the stroke Taylor said. The daily news quoted an unidentified Hospital worker As saying Nixon wearing an oxygen mask waved to companions As they visited him in the Emer Genc room. Americans responded quickly to word that the for Mer president a Man whose foreign policy successes during the cold War were overshadowed by watergate had been stricken. Taylor said Nixon s office had been flooded with Calls from or. And mrs. America from Iowa and Oklahoma from other people who have had  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis whose husband John f. Kennedy Defeated Nixon in the 1960 presidential election is at the same Hospital. The former first lady who has cancer of the Lymph system is recovering from surgery to treat a bleeding ulcer Nixon was the nation s 37th president. He served from Jan. 20, 1969, to aug. 9, 1974, resigning amid the watergate scandal and becoming the Only president to leave office to avoid impeachment. He came to the presidency after nearly a Quarter Century As a Republican officeholder congressman senator and vice president under Dwight Eisenhower. He was a devout anti communist at the Start of his political career. But As president he ended two Des Ades of distance Between the United states and cd fifa exchanging toasts with chairman Mao tse Tung in Bei Jing. He established a live and let live policy of de tent toward the soviet Union and negotiated arms control agreements with the Kremlin. And he negotiated Amend to . Involvement in the Vietnam War. Watergate became shorthand for the 1972 break int the Democrat pc National committee offices at the watergate office Complex and the botched attempt to cover it up by Nixon and his top lieutenants. A month after Nixon resigned the country was out raged when his successor Gerald r. Ford issued a Par Don for All crimes that Nixon committed or May Nav committed or taken part in during his presidency. Los Angeles a they flashed their tattooed rear ends in Public posed for Gross out photos and squabble with to networks. It was t pretty while i lasted and now the Union of Roseanne and Tom Arnold is coming to an ugly  afr old filed for divorce monday and got a restraining order against her husband and business partner accusing him of slapping her  41 year old Star of one of television s most popu Lar shows fired her husband As executive producer of Roseanne Cut up his credit cards and dashed off to Europe for a three month trip without him said a source close to the couple. She also fired Kim Silva the couple s assistant who had joined them in a mock three Way marriage said the source who spoke on condition of  Arnold said in court papers that the Cou ple who married Jan. 20,1990, officially separated Fri Day.  a a a. I now realize that i have been a classic battered and abused wife she said in court papers. Throughout our marriage the respondent hit me struck me has thrown objects at me pinched me and verbally abuse me. He also has pushed me against Walls while he screams and shouts at me drowning out any possible plea that i might take for him to  pm the Public relations firm representing the Arnolds said there was no comment from Roseanne Arnold or her 35-year-old husband a comic who is filming his own lbs series the Low rated Tom. The caustic corpulent couple began with a Stormy courtship that overlapped with Roseanne Arnold breakup from her first husband. The actress postponed their 1990 wedding until her husband to be sought Hel for substance abuse. In her Book my lives she says she was sexually abused As a child leading her to abuse drugs and Alco hol. Vav v  a a the Arnolds made news together by flashing their ample Bottoms. Each bearing a Tattoo of the other name at the 1989 world series mud wrestling in photographs for vanity fair recounting personal recollections of child abuse and squabbling with networks Over their  divorce filing came three Days after an argument erupted Between the Arnolds on the set of Abc Roseanne which has traditionally ranked in the top 10 each week. V w a. A  Roseanne Arnold claimed her husband forced his Way onto the set Friday past the four Security guard she hired to prevent him and assaulted four people that same Day she said she called police after he husband charged into her los Angeles Home and threatened her three children from a previous marriage. She said in court papers that her husband had moved out six months  asking for a restraining order the comic declared i have often been the subject of humiliating stories i tabloid newspapers. However i must make these reve lations at this time because of the conclusion that have reached that i cannot continue to live in a classic battered wife syndrome  in h Appler times Tom Arnold hugs Roseanne Arnold right and Kim Silva the couple s assistant. Of s. African election Pretoria South Africa a Zulu Leader mangos thu but Elezi agreed tuesday to end his Boycott of South Africa s first All race election and bring the inkatha Freedom party int next week s vote. But Elezi s announcement that his group would enter the election at this late stage could reduce violence in the Day before the vote especially in troubled Natal province which includes his Blac Zulu Homeland of Kwa Zulu. South african president . De Klerk declared a state of emergency there on april 1.More than 200 people have died during the past month in lighting Between pro andante election forces Many in Eastern Natal. There have been fears of worse bloods Edas the april 26-28 vote nears. It is my deepest Hope that this agreement will bring to an end the Vio Lence in our country de Klerk  agreement is a leap Forward for peace reconciliation nation building andean inclusive election process said Afri can National Congress Leader Nelso Mandela the longtime political prisoner expected to become South Africa s first Black president after the  As the talks took place inkatha and Anc supporters fought gun Battles the Toloza Black township Southeast of Johannesburg. Journalists saw at Leas two bodies from the shooting Between residents of an inkatha dominated work ers dormitory and Anc supporters living  monday fighting in Toloza killed More than a dozen people including award winning photographer Ken Oosterbroek of Johannesburg s newspaper the Star. Two other photographers were  said his party would join the election to prevent a great Deal More bloodshed and  his opposition had stemmed from his repeated Conten Tion that the Anc would be Able to exer Cise unchecked Power under a new Constitution that will take effect after the  has demanded autonomy for zulus and constitutional recognition of the monarchy of Zulu King Goodwill Weli  said tuesday that the agreement secured the kingdom of Wazul and the role of his majesty the King of the zulus. Said Mandela the whole country including the overwhelming number of zulus. Want to participate in this elec Tion because this election is what we have been fighting  angry Moscow up outspoken russian Ultra nationalist Vladimir Zhi Vinovsky adopted a unique approach to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia on monday when he promised not to utter another word in English Fol lowing last week s nato airstrikes in Bosnia. I will not speak English the Lan Guage of the aggressor he told an american journalist who asked the multilingual politician for his views on the Bosnia after they started bombing Serbia i refuse to speak it like russians re fused to speak German in 1941." in addition to russian and English a Mirinovsky Speaks French German and turkish. Talking to reporters outside the state Duma chamber a Mirinovsky said that in his View nato airstrikes signified the Start of world War i. He added that the russian govern ment should be sacked and replaced by his party the now double barrelled Liberal democratic party of Russia party of a Mirinovsky. He said he would then turn Back the trains taking russian troops out of Germany and Send them to Bosnia. A Mirinovsky has been one of rus Sia s strongest opponents not Only of nato airstrikes but also of Moscow s now stalled plan to join nato s partnership for peace. Together with his party which won almost 25 percent of the vote in de Cember s parliamentary elections Zhi Vinovsky has Ridden a wave of nation Alist support in Russia where Many View the serbs fighting in the bosnian War As their orthodox slavic Brothers repelling the Muslim oppressor. But his liking for the controversy often has led him to trouble Mon Day s remarks followed last week s visit to the Council of Europe head quarters in Strasbourg France where he hurled flowerpots and spit at jew ish protesters and accused european parliamentarians of stealing his hat. A Mirinovsky also was in trouble two weeks ago after he bashed the head of a party defector into a Wall outside the Duma chamber