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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 24, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 13 South africans to discuss White Homeland after vote Pretoria South Africa a the government the african National Congress and conservative Whites agreed saturday to sit Down after South Africa s first All race elections to consider creating a White Home land. The agreement just three Days before the historic elections could increase support among Whites for re tired Gen. Constand Viljoen. Viljoen broke away from More militant conservatives to Register his Freedom front for the election arguing that Whites should negotiate rather than fight for their own territory. Other White rightists have threatened civil War rather than submit to Black majority Rule. Government and Anc officials stressed that sat urday s agreement did not mean they had reversed their opposition to a Volkstadt or Independent territory for afrikaners. About 3 million afrikaners the descendants of Early dutch and French settlers live in South Africa a country of about 40 million people. An afrikaner Volkstadt remains an unreal Zable idea because afrikaners do not form a majority of the population in any Region of the country Roelf Meyer the constitutional affairs minister said after signing the agreement. Thabo Beki the Anc s National chairman also signed the agreement. The Anc has said White concerns would be addressed by South Africa s first multiracial legislature which it is expected to dominate. Viljoen said the agreement he signed saturday was Only the beginning of a process that offers the Hope of peaceful coexistence. A thousand Days at the negotiating table is preferable to one Day of civil  the key clause commits the government and the Anc to addressing through a process of negotiations the idea of afrikaner self determination including the concept of a Volkstadt after the election. Conservative party Leader Ferdi Hertzenberg refused thursday to bring his party into the elections because the Anc and the government would not guarantee that a Volkstadt would be created. The Leader of a fanatic fringe group dismissed Vil Joen saturday As a Brutus who had become part of South Africa s sick political system. Brutus a states Man and general in ancient Rome was one of the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar Eugene Terre Blanche head of the afrikaner Resis Tance movement was speaking to about 200 supporters at a rally in brits just West of Pretoria. White extremists Are hot considered a major threat but could violently disrupt the vote which begins tues Day. " v  russians Wash hands of ele Hub .i.-I. Moscow up russians stayed away from1 Asu Botnik saturday virtually ignoring an attempt by politicians to revive a communist Era tradition of voluntary Spring cleaning. The Advent of primitive capitalism has left a Trail of Candy wrappers and cigarette Cartons too Long for empty state coffers to clean up so politicians thought they would sweep away the grime by bringing Back the Subotnik the brainchild of soviet founder Vladimir i. Lenin which used to get millions of russians out on the streets to work for free. One of the originators of the idea was self styled populist politician Sergei Shakh Rai who called for an All russian Subotnik of National  we had a Good turnout from veterans to youth Shakh Rai said holding a Rake for cameras after about 200 people had gathered at his bidding to sweep up Moscow Park. The desire to work together for society new socialists gain in Hungary Budapest Hungary a fou years after they threw the communists out disenchanted hungarians May Wel come some of them Back. The communists who led Hungary for 40 years now Call themselves the socialists and say they stand for easing not ending the transition to capitalism. Polls show they Are Likely to gain the most votes but not a majority in May 8 legislative elections and thereby Wouldhave a Strong claim to govern Hungary once again. All has not gone Well since april 1990, when the communists were beaten by the right leaning hungarian democratic forum a mix of nationalists and moderates in Hungary s first demo cratic elections in 40  is now 13 percent and Many people Are sinking into poverty while the few new Rich appear in designer clothes and Western made cars. Socialist Leader Gyula Horn a former foreign minister said Hungary needs managers trained in the communists 1980s reforms. Horn said the election is about social Justice economic compe tence and easing the pain of transition. But Viktor Orban the fiery 31-year-old Kader of the centrist Young democrats said it s about keeping people like Horn out of  first generation of non communist leaders All have failed in handling the Economy inherited from the communists Orban said. Is not dead and it will not die because this is Russia but elsewhere in the russian capital whose mayor also backed the idea the picture was not so Rosy in one  off Moscow s main shop Ping Street signs hanging on the Walls repeated pleas that had been made in newspapers urging area Resi dents to pick up tools at the local cleanup Headquarters and work together to tidy up their City. As the Day stretched on the Only sign of a cleanup in the area was a Lone janitor sweeping dirt into a Dustpan with a Broom made from stitched together twigs. Nearby people waiting in line to return bottles for a few rubles were less than enthusiastic about the revival of one of the traditions they had grown up with. Why should i clean up other people s mess asked Sonya Kolesnikova As she waited in to hand Over empty bottles for a few meager rubles uses to urge  Moscow up Ultra nationalist Vladimir Zhirik Nevsky writing saturday i Russia s leading daily hews paper outlined his vision Ofa future Russia with expanded boundaries and subsidized Vodka. The flamboyant right Wing Leader portrayed him i self As waiting in the wings to implement his controversial ideas which have had j the world watching warily. Izvestia a Liberal daily that generally backs president Boris Yeltsin offered no explanation for the half Page turned Over to  the Economy is crumbling. The Treasury i empty. The provinces on the fringes Are lost a Mirinovsky said likening the situation to Chelate 1920s, when Josef Stalin Rose to Power though Many of a Mirinovsky s critics have said the current problems in Russia and his Rise re semble the Advent of Adolf Hitler in Germany. A Mirinovsky s prescription for what ails Russia entails rebuilding the old Empire extricating Russia from the clutches of foreign capital and restoring Law and order. A Mirinovsky said the former republics must join Russia As provinces listing the various capitals of the republics that became Independent with the demise of the soviet Union. Take Georgia for example he said. We should have taken Abkhazia from them and set the russian businessmen on the coastline rus Sian officers and miners give them each a Hec Tare of land let them build houses Bathe in the sea and eat  Abkhazia is a separatist Black sea province of Northwest Georgia. 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