European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                2 / the stars and stripes wednesday May 25, 1994 at a glance a woman and a girl dash from a Denny s restaurant in Indianapolis where two gunmen killed one Man wounded four other persons and held a group of people hostage for six hours before surrendering monday. Sec Story on Page 6. Services Cut Back some commissaries in Europe Are losing their Deli pizza and bakery services for Good. A Page 4 bombers sentenced three Muslim fundamentalists each have been sentenced to 240 years in prison for the terrorist bombing of the world Trade Center. A a Page 5 Bias alleged Telephone companies Are excluding minorities and the poor from plans for the information superhighway groups say. A. A. A page7. Reynolds fights Back . Reynolds tobacco co. Says there Are scientific flaws in a Federal report that says secondhand cigarette smoke can cause cancer. A a a a a. A a a a a a a. A a. A a a. A page8 victims remembered american veterans and their for Mer vietnamese enemies paid trib Ute to the dead from both . A a Page 11 Fox to get affiliates Fox broadcasting co. Is prying Loose 12 stations from the three major networks. A Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 24 classifieds. 2528 comics. 2224 commentary. 15 crossword. 24 education. "12 faces i places. 21. Focus  1720 Horoscope. 27 Jumble. 27 letters  14 Money matters. 16 sports a a a a a a a a a a a a 2936 to listings .35 weather. �?oi3 Mandela vows speedy Aid for Blacks safety for Cape town South Africa a calling for South africans to a get Down to. Work a president Nelson. Mandela promised immediate Relief to impoverished Blacks tuesday while telling Whites they will be protected from retribution. In his first state of the nation address to a joint session of the new parliament South africans first Black president called for reconciliation after decades of racial discrimination and suffering under apartheid. A a a the Burden of the past lies heavily on All of us including those responsible for inflicting injury and those who suffered a he said. A we will prepare legislation which will seek to free the wrongdoers from fear of retribution and blackmail while acknowledging the injury of those who have been harmed so that they. Are identified and attended  tuesdays speech was considered among the most important of Mandela a career because it set the tone for his new. Administration. Efforts to get the government off to a positive Start were undermined by the handover just before the election of millions of acres of land to a Trust controlled by the Zulu King. Mandela on tuesday named a Cabinet committee to investigate the Deal which the african National my governments commitment to create a people entered society. Binds us to the Pursuit of the goals of Freedom from want Freedom from hunger Freedom from deprivation Freedom from ignorance Freedom from suppression and Freedom from  a South african president. Nelson Mandela Congress says it knew nothing about. The president made no mention of the Deal in his speech. Mandela said $714 million would be budgeted this year As part of a development plan to provide houses electricity clean water and jobs for Blacks left in squalid destitution by apartheid. The five year plan estimated to Cost More than $23 billion would be bolstered by private and foreign Money Mandela said in a bid to allay fears the program would overtax South africans struggling Economy. Financial markets became jittery last week when the Price tag for the plan jumped to More than double the $11.3 billion figure Mandela Sanc gave during its election Campaign. Despite his efforts to reassure investors interest rates Rose in the Bond Market after the speech. Dealers said investors were concerned Over a Lack of details about where Money for development would come from. But Ian Mackenzie vice president of the Johannesburg chamber of Commerce said the speech showed Mandela was a a recognizing the importance of creating an attractive investment  a my governments commitment to create a people entered society. Binds us to the Pursuit of the goals of Freedom from want Freedom from hunger Freedom from deprivation Freedom from ignorance Freedom from suppression and Freedom from fear a Mandela said in a speech interrupted several times by applause and greeted at the end with a standing ovation. Before the speech thousands of pc pie whistled and cheered As Mandela a motorcade approached the parliament building. A military band played the National Anthem when Mandela and his daughter Zenani walked into the building on a red carpet flanked by saluting soldiers Russia from Page 1 a a measure of deterrence against attacks. Grachev is to return today to the 16-na Tion Alliance for another private meeting with . Defense Secretary William Perry before joining talks Between nato defense chiefs and their counterparts from Eastern Europe. Ahead of the Grachev meeting Perry and other nato defense chiefs agreed Russia should be drawn closer to the Alii Ance but differences emerged Over How to do so a / a a a a a. The allies acknowledged that the Alii Ance must recognize russians status As a world military Power and its influence in Europe. A Russia must be treated ,., As a great Power a said German defense minister Volker Rishe. A we cannot forget it is a superpower a said Spanish defense minister Julian Garcia Vargas. In a final statement the ministers said they hoped Russia would soon join the part Norship which is a military cooperation program nato leaders set up in january. Moscow has delayed enrolling in the program in an attempt to pressure the Alliance into giving it privileged treatment above other East european nations already taking part. But Perry ruled out providing Russia with special privileges within the program but he left open the possibility that Russia and nato could use channels outside the partnership to broaden their cooperation on Security nuclear proliferation and other is sues. A we expect these other channels to be vigorously pursued Quot Perry told reporters. Draft from Page 1 be ended with Little effect on military mobilization. But any Hope that democrats would provide the support needed to pass Dellums amendment was dashed last week when president Clinton ordered continuation of draft registration. Clinton who avoided being drafted during the Vietnam War said he was following the recommendation of his National Security Council. The House also voted 271-126, to Stop the awarding of any defense contracts to educational institutions that bar military recruiting from their campuses. The amendment sponsored by rep. Gerald Solomon r-n.y., followed a new York court decision prohibiting military recruiting on state campuses because of the Roth policy of turning Down Gay applicants. A it is outrageous that military recruiters Are not allowed on certain campuses in the United states a Solomon said. Dellums in opposing the amendment said the ban would affect 138 institutions nationwide and a damage the nation s research and educational efforts at some of our finest  last november a lower state court in new York ruled that in Light of the ban on Gays serving in the military military recruitment on state University campuses violated a gubernatorial order prohibiting agencies from discriminating against homosexuals. In february the state University of new York said it would not Appeal the ruling effectively Banning military recruitment at 29 Suny campuses. Suny estimates that the value of research programs on its campuses financed by the Pentagon is $21 million a year. Since the ruling was issued the Pentagon has adopted a policy of a a done task done to Tell done to pursue on homosexuals. Under the policy a Gay service member May stay in the military As Long As he or she does no to admit or practice homosexuality. Suicide from Page 1 suicide a because too much had happened in the few minutes Between the conductors two sightings. Bledsoe must have arranged the compartment himself arid then opened the window reached his arms out and shot himself in the Chest so that the gun dropped outside the train speeding at about 90 Mph the statement said. The gun a .3s-Caibcr pistol was found by track workers two Days later and traced to Bledsoe the statement said. There were Gunpowder traces on both his hands leaving Quot no doubt of suicide it said. Investigators also found an unsent letter to a Friend in the United states in which Bledsoe said he was very sick and intended to use the pistol. The autopsy did not reveal any illness so the reason for the suicide remained unclear. Police said the Man had not received the insurance Money he mentioned to his wife in their last Telephone conversation though he had faked a receipt for the payment. Bledsoe was a decorated Vietnam Veteran who served in the . Army from 1967 to 1984. He had been retrained for medical work and after he left the army he worked for the . Army Hospital in the Northern port of Bremer Haven where he lived with his German wife and  1992, he had been Quality Assurance coordinator for the . Army Hospital in Heidelberg in Southern Germany and he often Rode the overnight train to Bremerhaven to be with his family. . Army Headquarters in Heidelberg said it was aware of the suicide finding and had no immediate comment