European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 25, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 massive bomb rocks Johannesburg Johannesburg South Africa a a huge car bomb exploded in downtown Johannesburg on Sun Day killing at least nine people damaging the head quarters of the african National Congress and terrorizing South africans just two Days before their first All race election. No one claimed responsibility for the explosion which also injured about 100 people mainly from flying Glass. Suspicions fell on White extremists the last stubborn holdouts to the election set for tuesday wednesday and thursday that will usher in Black a . A. , political leaders appealed for Calm. I Don t want you to concentrate on the violent action of those people who want to disrupt the process Anc president Nelson Mandela said at a massive rally in Durban that culminated his Campaign for the nation s highest office. We re going to Deal with those people. We have made fantastic Progress despite criminals and Mur  the Anc is expected to win the election the first in South african history to include the Black majority. Right Wing extremists opposed to Black majority Rule have threatened drastic action before voting begins. The present White led government expected to share Power with the Anc in the next administration said it is resolved to go ahead with the voting. Those who believe that they will prevent or disrupt the election by such terrorism have completely missed the bus Law and order minister her Nus j. Kriel said in a statement. One of those killed was an Anc provincial legislative candidate Susan Keane driving into the Anc regional office for a meeting when the bomb went Oft other Vic Tims were pedestrians near the blast site a spokesman for the militant right Wing afrikaner resistance movement denied the group was involved. The biggest blast Ever to hit Johannesburg renewed ears of raging violence during the election fears that had been quelled by the last minute decision of the Zulu nationalist inkatha Freedom party to take part in the vote. Inkatha s decision left Only right win extremists boycotting the election. Supporters of inkatha and the Anc have fought inthe Black townships for years. Three Anc election workers were killed saturday and eight were missing after a shooting in Lundi the capital of the Zulu Homeland that is inkatha s stronghold. Battles rage in Rwanda s racked capital Nairobi Kenya a rebel and government forces exchanged heavy mor tar and gunfire in the rwandan capital of Kigali on sunday and government envoys failed to show up for negotiations in neighbouring Tanzania. The fighting has been exceptionally heavy today said Abdul Kabia a . Spokesman in Kigali. A red Cross official quoted by radio France internationale said sunday that massacres were continuing in Rwanda s second largest town Butare 45 Miles Southwest of Kigali. The report was monitored by the British broadcasting corp. Kabia said government representatives did not show up in the northeastern Zaire town of coma on saturday where a . Plane was waiting to take them to negotiations. Kabia said military officers in Kigali told the United nations on sunday that they were unable to Contact officials in Gharama 23 Miles Southwest of Kigali where the government fled the fighting two weeks ago. President Ali Hassan Minyi of Tanza Nia invited Rwanda s government and the rebels for talks to end the carnage that has claimed an estimated 100,000 people. Andrea Milliken a student at Pitburg High school in Ger Anne Rice the Pitburg Sophomore was entertaining herself fighting in Rwanda erupted after a plane Many enjoys sitting in the Sun unlike some of the characters during a Lull in some of the activities at the High school s track crash april 6 killed the presidents of in the Book she s Reading interview with the Vampire by and Field event last week. Rwanda and neighbouring Burundi Nixon s just finished Book assails Clinton policies dark Reading on a sunny Days do Casey new York up in his final Book written in the year before his death former president Nixon sharply criticized the Domestic and foreign poli cies of president Clinton. Beyond peace which will be released by random House next month was completed just Days before Nixon was felled by the stroke that led to his death Friday night. Excerpts of the Book were released saturday by time Magazine which is printing them in the Issue that comes out today. In the Book the 37th . President cautioned the Clinton administration to maintain a Strong foreign policy but Only in directly important cases. We cannot be at peace in a world at War and we cannot have a healthy econ omy in a sick world Economy Nixon wrote. We cannot react to every Emer gency Call like an International 911 oper Ator. But we must respond to those that affect our vital interests in the  he said Clinton botched the . Effort in Somalia turning a humanitarian Relief program into a highly controversial . Nation building  Nocas Etin Rotunda Points to Post pain Washington a former president Nixon s decision not to lie in state at the Capitol May have been rooted in a sense of propriety or a simple desire to avoid a place that had been a source of torment for him a former aide said. In shunning a state ceremony in the Rotunda Nixon ran against a current of history. The caskets of presidents Lincoln Garfield Mckinley Harding Taft Kennedy Hoover Eisenhower an Johnson All have been placed there for Public viewing before burial. Former Nixon aide David Gergen now a top adviser to Clinton was asked about Nixon s Choice not to Lien state in the Capitol. Gergen said Nixon had often thought Congre Shad tormented him i think that whether he decide that it was a matter of propriety and he did t want to raise some of the painful questions about the past about Washington or whether he had somewhat rather uneven relationship to put it mildly with Congress. He often thought Congress had tormented him Gergen said. He noted that Richard Nixon. Was a Man who gave up his secret service Protection. He did t want a lot of the trappings of Power later in  i think he just sort of wanted to fade away and go Back to Yorba Linda Nixon s Birthplace in califor Nia. Nixon also criticized the adm Nistra until after the february massacre in a a Tion s response to the crisis in Bosnia and Raj Evo marketplace. Herzegovina saying the United states in i r cited conflict Between the Western and Muslim world by refusing to take action Jjck Vij Iii  the former president discussed recent events in Russia which joined him in overseeing detente and the limitation of nuclear weapons and China where he reopened diplomatic relations after a historic trip. Russia will inevitably be Strong again. The Roost dangerous mistake we could make would be to ignore our differences or attempt to drown them in Champagne or Vodka toasts at feel Good summits he wrote. Nixon said China s emergence As a major economic and military Power makes it an important ally for the United states despite human rights abuses there huh he also decried Nixon also lashed out at Clinton s Domestic policies saving that the health care plan is a failure and that the deficit is St Iii out of control he said the absence of a National Chal Lenge such Asar and the focus on diversity had reduced americans sense of commonality. Nixon wrote the greatest Challenge America faces in the year be Ted peace is to learn the an of National Unity if we fail to meet that Challenge our diversity of Csc a source of strength will become a Cie Struc the