Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free August 1988 Power struggle claims five lives Johannesburg Reuter gunmen ambushed two buses and killed five men in one of the most serious clashes in a Power struggle Between Black groups that has engulfed the Hills of South Africa Natal police said yesterday six other passengers were seriously wounded in saturdays it took place in one of Many Rural townships swept up in the conflict Between the leftist United democratic front and the Zulu inkatha at least three other people died in the so called Zulu War during the bringing the toll for the last week to police said two Blacks were killed in Nevanda and that another armed gang shot dead a Man and wounded a woman in during the last two years More than 600 people have been killed in the fighting which has intensified police say 32 died in machetes and gasoline bombs have been the most common weapons in the but police Are reporting an increased use of there is a tremendous amount of fear in the a spokesman remains poll indicates funeral for activist Leader of the Cape youth Congress was held in Cape town the United democratic front and the conservative inkatha movement both Campaign for an end to apart Heid but disagree on tactics and look to different the front regards jailed rationalist Nelson Mandela As the Leader of South Africa Blacks and was effectively banned by the government last which was not is headed by Zulu chief mangos thu but Elezi and takes a More conciliatory line towards pre yesterdays police bulletin on unrest also said that the body of a Black police Constable with head wounds was found in Khay Elit Sha township outside Cape regarded by radicals As collaborators with the White minority gov Black police have been a particular target of township com or Young Black such errand Shower stalls Abs rustic 30 off pier class set Floral with dome tops vanity american Standard toilets bathtubs pedes1al stainless vanity Asins cabinets Wall sinks cd to 119 enclosures 2 or 3 sliding door Shower styles Medicine cabinets 231010 and Light bars assorted faucets toilet seats first first served no rain checks All sales final no returns suiher1a Entres plumbing Gru Retif automotive w 1 n n i p e g 99 pm 95 pm new York a Twentyfive years after Martin Luther King declared his dream of racial Equality in the United a majority of americans say society re Mains a Media Gener Alasso cited press poll has the National Survey of adults found Broad agreement that the United states has moved toward Equality since August when the Black civil rights inter As voiced the goal in a celebrated seventy one per cent said Equality is achievable but of those who said it is four in 10 said racial Equality would not occur within their and 55 per cent of All respondents said american society is racist while 37 per cent said its not Rac the poll found several other Mea sures of concern Over racial inequality in the United among them d while 54 per cent of respondents said Blacks and other minorities now have the same opportunities As 42 per cent of All respond and 69 per cent of d minorities in All in come and ideological and in All but the oldest age american society is racist Overall fifty three per cent of Whites As did 68 per cent of o respondents were evenly divid on whether minorities receive equal treatment in the coun try criminal Justice and three in 10 said minorities denied Justice because of their among i per cent said there is equal treatment in the jus Tice while 40 per cent said there int and nearly if per cent said they did not among 61 per cent said minorities Are not treated world in his i have a dream speech to demonstrators on the mall in King established civil rights at the forefront of the country social 1 have a dream that one Day on the red Hills of Georgia sons of former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be Able to sit Down Lofther at the table of brother King i have a dream that my four Little children will one Day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their but by the Content of their the civil rights act became Lav a year prompting sweep ing changes in the the segregated 84 per cent of Ameri cans polled agreed that the country has moved closer to Equality in the years since King the poll found better educated americans far More Likely to perceive racial Only 28 per rent of those with postgraduate de Grees sail minorities have the same As Whites by con if per cent of those with Only High school diplomas said there is Equality even with the perceptions of Rac ism the poll it also found Strong opposition to the practice of giving preference to minorities in luring Ami in College admissions As a Way of addressing past 79 per cent opposed such efforts in hiring and 76 per cent opposed giving preference to minorities in College the Media Genera Lap poll consisted of Telephone interviews june 2 with a randomly selected Sample of adults across the h had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage sent from Village residents say Al Honduras Reuter nicaraguan rebels Are using a radio transmitter to beam news and propaganda Inlo Nicara Gua from this Village in Central residents said the development is seen As a sign Honduras is violating a Central american peace the peace signed by the regions presidents exactly one year bars foreign including help with to rebels As part of efforts to end guerrilla wars and secure democracy for the that is an Antenna for the con tras1 radio 15 of one villager said pointing loan Aerial around 10 metres Tali and barely visible among Pine a Large satellite dish stood a Man with a Nicaragua accent at a House on the Hillside beside the Antenna turned and said these Are Only for television he said the estate belongs to Pablo a former National party Urrutia and Contra spokesmen were not immediately available for but the contras have denied in the past that they broadcast from Honda officials contacted said they knew nothing of a Contra transmitter in but said they will Check the villagers reception of radio 15 of septem named after Nicaragua Independence was far clearer near the Antenna than on other stretches of a winding Mountain Road near broadcasts from the a shortwave station which includes news and lampoons of sandinista often say the programs come from the mountains o Nicara the Antenna stands on a Mountainside overlooking a wide Valley towards Nicaragua and is about i Kilometres East of the Tegu villagers said the contras have also set up a Hospital just outside the Village and that the radio and the Hospital have been there for More than a the rebels have several other hospitals in Honduras and the govern ment has said it allows treatment of contras wounded for humanitarian but Honduras has also aided the rebels by allowing them to use Mili tary airfields for resupply rights As Well As allowing them basis in its Diplomat the government complicity with the diplomats say Honduras wants to in sure Nicara Gua is committed to democratic re forms before ending its the peace plan has ground to a halt in recent with Honduras saying Nicaragua is the main obstacle to while Nicaragua accuses the United states and Honduras of seeking to continue the War by Back ing the military Aid for the contras was Cut off in although the Reagan administration is seek ing new several thousand contras have flooded into Eastern Honduras since the Aid was peace talks in Managua broke Down on june 9 and a precarious ceasefire has been i effect since March defections state into chaos Delhi a fed eral authorities took control of a northeastern stale news agencies after defections from prime minister Rajiv Gandhi governing party threw the Region into a political the agencies also said the state legislature of a Region on the chinese Border that has seen years of tribal was Dis a Federal official in new Delhi said the resignation of 13 Nagaland legislators from the Congress party last week caused instability in a vital northeastern state which has a history Gandhi Congress party won 31 seats in the 60member state Legisla Ture Iii but the defectors said the state government failed to live up to popular expectations and joined efforts to form a new their departure reduced the party to minority tribal naga rebels demanded secession from but Many parti i Patch in the november Federal Rule will extend for six months to give for new Legisla Tive Nagaland is the third Indian state to come under Federal the others Are the Northern state of where Radical sikhs Are demanding a and politic ally unsettled tamil Nadu in the the National a new Alliance of seven elected a movie actor As its chairman yesterday to Lead its fight against Gandhi and the Congress the National front was formed saturday to Challenge the Congress parly in a National parliamentary election for the end of the new Ramo said yesterday the seven Par ties in the front will retain their separate identities but Field their candidates on a single Rama known for portraying hindu gods in his film Heads the telugu de Sam party based in the Southern state of Andora with 30 his party is the largest opposition group in the 544 member Gandhi party has ;