European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 27, 1994 th6 stars and stripes Pago 5 unbowed by blasts South africans flood into nation s polls supporters swarm Nelson Mandela Leader of the african National Congress at a Johannesburg Hospital where he visited people injured in a bombing sunday. Johannesburg South Africa a determined to make history Black South africans climbed out of hos Pital Beds and left their squatter Shack tuesday to vote for the first time to re place White Rule with  refused to be cowed by two Days of bomb blasts that killed 21 people and injured More than 150 in an attempt to disrupt the election. Voters of All races poured into polling stations in Gritt townships in Leafy suburbs and in the mountainous Solitude of Eastern Natal province. The elderly sick and disabled voted first in the three Day  question of being afraid is out. Even if there Are sonic forces which Are opposed they made us More determined than Ever before to vote said 52-year old Tom Mot Lahla who wore his checked Hospital Robe to vote at Soweto s Baragwanath Hospital where he was being treated for a kidney  than 100,000 police officers and army troops Well Over double the num Ber originally planned were deployed to protect voters who Are electing a 400 seat National Assembly and a 90-Seatsenate. W of. Scattered problems were reported be cause of bomb threats and delayed ballot papers. Vat settlers a farm town North of pre Toria Khaki Clad Whites were said to be occupying the voting station. The Index pendent election commission said themen barred the local election official and vowed that no one in the area would vote v otherwise balloting was peaceful. Because of rugged conditions in Many areas and the newness of voting to mos people three Days of balloting Are planned for the 23 million voters most of them Black. Counting begins Friday with final results expected sunday. The new president will be sworn in May 10.polls predicted the african National Congress which has promised jobs and housing to Blacks could get up to 60 per cent of the vote president . De Klerk whose introduction of reforms led to the vote was expected to become a vice president in the next government. His National part could win up to 20 percent based on sup port from party loyalists and from mixed race and Indian voters who fear subjugation under a Black government. Third place was up for grabs Mango Suthun but Elezi s Zulu nationalist Inka tha Freedom party whose rivalry wit the Anc is blamed for 10,000 deaths in the past three years the conservative White Freedom front representing mostly afrikaners who want their own Home land or the Black militant pan africanist Congress of Azania which vows to seize White land. A Potpourri of smaller Par ties mostly appealing to Liberal White worried by the Anc s communist ties also fielded  is a Day like no other before it said Nelson Mandela the head of the african National Congress who is virtually guaranteed of becoming president. Today Marks the Dawn of our  together let us Send a Mes Sage loud and Clear we will not let a handful of killers steal our  Over the bomb blasts sunday and monday focused on White extremists who Are boycotting the vote and have vowed to wage War rather than live under Black Rule across the country people lined up before Dawn for their first taste  the Mack township of Gugu Letu outside Cape town where White american student Amy Biehl was killed by a Black mob last year 53-year-old Mabel Cayabo arrived at 4 15 . To be first in line. Behind her was 67year-Oujkormamadikane, who was hoping for a very Nice life election. Rip More struggling after the twister Chews up Dallas suburbs kills at least 3 Lancaster Texas a Rescue workers searched flattened Homes tuesday for people reported missing after a Tornado that killed at least three people in this Dallas suburb. The twister part of a storm system that produced blizzard conditions tuesday on the Northern Plains roared out of the Stormy night sky monday ripping first through de Soto and then neighbouring Lancaster. It hit at exactly 9 38  said Barbara Montgom Ery of Lancaster. That s when our clock big Ben was  v. / a department of Public safety trooper Robert White said tuesday morning that three people Are confirmed dead but authorities were searching for six who were not accounted for he said. Police earlier had said they thought at least seven were dead. We be got a team of search dogs looking through the rubble for other bodies White said. At the police and fire station the lobby was crowded with people seeking information about friends and relatives. One Man broke Down in tears and turned his face to the Wall As he was comforted by the Man with him. V.,? /,-., i " about 20 people were treated at Midway Park medi Cal Center for cuts and bruises based on an Aerial Survey it appeared that the Torna do s path was 6 Miles Long and half a mile wide. Five to six blocks were levelled and about five More had severe damage. Two Hundred to 300 Homes were destroyed or too heavily damaged to be habitable White said. Eighty percent of the buildings downtown were destroyed he said. Bricks shingles lampposts and Utility lines littered the streets. Buildings left standing had broken win Dows awnings and shutters. Our building is the Only one with four Walls still standing said David Montgomery owner of the Lan Caster opry a concert Hall on the town s historic Square where 1930s gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow once robbed a Bank. The  and Texas flags were tattered but still flying at the Vietnam memorial. The City of Lancaster Flag was hanging from its pole by a thread in the suburb of 22,000 situated 12 Miles South of Dallas. Utility Crews worked through the night to repair Power and Telephone  Crews Cut Gas service to buildings blown apart. The Tornado was part of a severe storm system that rumbled across the Central part of the nation monday. A Tornado ripped through Tali Irta okla., damaging houses and injuring at least six people. At least 26 houses and trailer Homes were reported destroyed inthe town of 1,300 residents near the Arkansas state line.-,.  v. The storm dropped baseball sized Hail near the Ballpark in Arlington Texas where the Texas rangers were forced to postpone a game. Fans had to wad through several feet of water that collected in the aisles at the Bottom of the stadium. High court refuses to apply Job Bias Law retroactively Washington a a 1991 Law restoring and expanding workers Protection against employment Bias does not apply to thousands of cases pending when the Law was enacted the supreme court ruled tuesday. By a pair of 8 votes in cases from Texas and Ohio the court said Congress did not intend to make the civil rights act of 1991 retroactive. Writing for the court in both decisions Justice John Paul Stevens said there was no Clear evidence of congressional in tent that relevant sections of the 1991 Law should apply to cases arising before its  Only Justice Harry Blackmun dissented. Congress passed the Law to undo several of the conservative High court s Job Bias rulings that had outraged civil rights activists. It was reluctantly signed by president Bush on nov. 21,1991. The Law allows people who prove they were discriminated against illegally by an employer to collect compensatory and punitive damages and for the first time makes jury trials available in Bias cases. The Law also allows lawsuits for illegal racial Bias in All phases of an employment relationship hiring promotions and firings. Everyone agreed on those aspects. But the Law s wording is ambiguous on the Issue of retroactivity. Democrats in con Gress wanted the Law to be retroactive republicans did not. The Bush administration contended that the Law should be applied Only to various forms of Bias including sexual harassment that occurred after the Law took effect. But the Clinton administration read the jaw in a different Way one that would apply it to All Legal disputes still alive when Bush signed the legislation. On tuesday the court said the Clinton administration s interpretation was wrong