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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday May 10,1994 1 at a glance Anita Hill whose sexual harassment accusations against Clarence Thomas nearly Cost him the supreme court nomination supports High profile lawsuits accusing big names of sexual harassment. Sec Story on Page 6. Serbian guns found two bosnian serbian anti aircraft guns have been found hidden inside the heavy weapons exclusion zone near Gorade officials say. A a Page 5 Carson River polluted a 60-mile stretch of the Carson River in Nevada contains the highest level of Mercury pollution in water Ever reported the remnant of 19th-Century mining scientists say. A Page 7 Home Sweet Home people who really want to get away from it All can do just that if they buy one of the Well furnished underground bomb shelters Britain is Selling off. A Page 9 hispanic Friendly san Antonio is the Best City for hispanic entrepreneurs to Start a new business according to hispanic business Magazine. A Page 14 Index from Page 1union buildings in Pretoria a ceremony to be attended by the largest gathering of Kings and Heads of state in memory. More than .150,000 members of the Public and scores of foreign dignitaries Are expected at the inauguration in the country s administrative capital. Guests include vice president a1 Gore and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Britain a Prince Philip and foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd and Palestine liberation. Organization chairman Yasser Arafat. Monday was a Day laced with delightful ironies from communist part loader Joe Sion of a raising his pants to display politically symbolic red socks to the Mill tary honors paid to former exiles and guerrillas. D eighty year old Walter Sisulu the Man responsible for bringing Mandela into the african National Congress and with whom Mandela served most of his 27 years As a political prisoner called it a the biggest Day of  flanked by do Klerk and by longtime Anc activist Thabo Beki a the two who will be his Deputy presidents in a new Unity government a Mandela emerged after his election and stood on a red carpet on the parliament Steps. He eased at table Mountain whose Stem face he was Able to see during his years of imprisonment on Robben Island off Cape town. Earlier the newly elected Anc representatives to parliament had arrived with spouses parents and children in Tow smiling at the culmination of their Long struggle to create a Colo Blind state in the country infamous for its policies of White domination. The returning White faces from the National party were far outnumbered by Black and Brown faces from Mandela s Anc which won 252 seats in the 400-seat chamber in an election that for the first time included the 75 percent of the South african population that is Black. De Klerks National party which had ruled since 1948 and implemented apart he id a Laws won 82 seats followed by the Zulu nationalist inkatha Freedom party a with43. ,. The new government s main task will be to write a permanent Post apartheid Constitution and try to make Good on the Ancus Campaign promises to provide housing electricity and jobs for millions of the country a impoverished Blacks. Abby Ann Landers a a a a a 21 classifieds. 22 �25 con los. A it. A a 18-19, 21 commentary. A a a a a a 13 computers. A it i a a t 10 crossword. A a  21 faces a no places a a. A a a 20 focus a. 15 -17 Horoscope. A a a a a 24 Jumble. A a a a a 24 letters. A a a a a 12 Money matters. A a a a a a 14 sports a. 26 -32 to listings. A a a a a a 31 weather. A a a a a a 11 a Stony faced Nelson Mandela sits beside his estranged wife Winnie during the swearing in ceremony for South africans new parliament in Cape town on monday. Mandela did not acknowledge his wife a presence. Mandela snubs Winnie Cape town South Africa a Nelson Mandela and his estranged wife Winnie took the parliamentary oath together monday out the president elect never acknowledged her presence even when she sat next to him. His refusal even to look her Way showed the extent of her exclusion from the inner Circle of top african National Congress leaders despite her popularity among militant youths. A wearing a Black and Green outfit with a Green turban Winnie Mandela joined her estranged husband and eight others in the first group to be sworn in As members of the new National Assembly. When she got up to announce her nomination of the country a first woman parliament speaker Frene Tinwala she walked Over to where Nelson Mandela was sitting. He stared straight ahead As the woman once called the a Mother of the nation Quot read out the nomination. She then sat next to him on his Brown leather Bench for a  minutes but he ignored her. His coldness contrasted with his Joyful Demeanour with others during the proceedings. Several times he stood up to embrace leaders of opposition parties and others. The couple separated in 1992, after Winnie Mandela was convicted on a charge of kidnapping and linked to an extramarital affair. She expressed Hope in recent weeks of reuniting with her husband but he rejected it immediately. She was not even invited to the main party after his inauguration today. His two daughters with Winnie Mandela a Zendzi and Zenani a will escort him. From Page 1 that also included Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown agriculture Secretary Mike Espy 11 members of Congress and an array of prominent Black americans the Rev. Jesse Jackson the National association for the advancement of coloured peo pies executive director Benjamin Chavis retired army Gen. Colin l. Powell former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and entertainer Quincy Jones. Gore mixed a sober analysis of the economic and political challenges facing South Africa with Marvel at the historic transition and relatively trouble free elections. Gores visit includes a Post inaugural meeting today with Mandela whose Anc party won resounding Victory in last weeks elections. Also Gore will meet with Mandela s two Deputy presidents a one of them is departing president . De Klerk a As Well As other african leaders. The . Administrations goal Gore said is to a jump Start a new and More effective relationship with South Africa and use that Friendship to seek solutions to civil strife and social and economic problems. Administration officials travelling with Gore said there Are 120 . Companies with $1 billion invested in South Africa Down from 360 companies and $3 billion in investments in the mid-1980s. Correction because of an editing error the Loca Ono the Dodds Germany Model Sente was incorrect saturday. The Senate As held in bad Kissinger. From Page 1. Year who were picked up on boats Quot Berger said and probably Only 5 percent qualified As political refugees. A the real problem Here is what a going on in Haiti a a Berger said on television. A and the real solution is to get the military leaders who Are perpetuating this terrible violence in that country to Stop. The refugee problem is Only a result of the fundamental problem which is the a rowing level of violence in Haiti and the act that democracy has not been re i  Berger said Gray a former democratic congressman from Pennsylvania and majority whip in the House of repro Santa lives will be working with other governments in the Western hemisphere to pressure the haitian dictatorship to leave. / Gray replaces Lawrence Pezzullo who was forced from office last month because of differences Over the administrations faltering Haiti policy. Pezzullo alienated exiled haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide and some in the state department by calling for political reconciliation among the actions in Haiti. The administration in recent Days has also pushed the United nations to impose tougher economic sanctions if the military leaders do not agree by May 21 to step Down and restore Aristide. Clinton said a six week review made Clear that his haitian policy had to be changed. An analysis in april by the . Embassy in Haiti suggested that Aristide and his supporters had exaggerated reports of human rights abuses for propaganda purposes according to reports in the Miami Herald the new York times and Newsweek Magazine. Some human rights officials said however that they Felt the analysis just underscored the embassy a Bias against Aristide  
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