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April 30,1991 1991 World & Nation Tuesday, April 30, 1991 The Battalion\m^~ Page_ De Klerk fears civil war lontinued violence 'polarizes' country, president says Man JOHANANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — President F.W. de ]erk said Monday violence in Jack townships could lead the ountry to civil war, and he lade an emotional appeal for Jack leaders to join him for ieace talks. As de Klerk spoke to Parlia- lent in Cape Town, police earched townships outside Jo- annesburg for more victims of ?eekend clashes that killed at ast 43 people. Two more peo- ledied in Natal Province. "We can't go on like this," de flerk said. "This approach and ulture of violence leads to polar- zation which may land us in a ivilwar." He criticized the African Na- onal Congress, the main black pposition group, for giving him May 9 deadline to curb vio lence but welcomed the ANC's "cry for peace." "It is also a cry from my heart," he said. "Therefore, I re new my invitation to the ANC to discussions with the govern ment." De Klerk asked ANC leader Nelson Mandela and the leader of the rival Inkatha Freedom Party, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, to meet with him immediately to discuss the violence. Most town ship unrest pits supporters of the ANC against Inkatha back ers. De Klerk also repeated his ap peals for political, church and academic leaders to participate in a May 24-25 peace summit. "We need a massive effort by all the various leaders of our so ciety. The time has come for them to speak up in public." The ANC has denounced the peace summit as a government ploy to win international sup port and divert attention from other issues, and it says it will not attend. Inkatha plans to take part. De Klerk did not address the ANC's Tuesday deadline for the government to free political pris oners. The two sides agreed in August that political prisoners should be released by April 30. The ANC Youth League said thousands "continued to lan guish" behind bars Monday night. It threatened sit-ins, pick ets and demonstrations across the country to press its de mands. The government insists it is adhering to terms of the August agreement. On Saturday, the ANC ac- jpinions about lought I would ome insight or n. es promoted a elief, the pli eld in reckless particular job sensible for an ■ contrasted by ers had the re- est of the play- 1 promoted ag- for. This point 'tween the' ached. Theav- y-ards per kick lettermen and d was the atti- yers. We were ?r players, stupid people nart, educated of high school nailer colleges l to perform at l. out was disap- i Holiday Bowl idens me to see teve Bullard'91 'Straight-out bandits' Allies demand Kurdish guerrillas to stop extortion of money at refugee checkpoints ZAKHO, Iraq (AP) — Allied forces have demanded that Iraqi Kurdish guerrillas stop extorting money from Kurdish refugees and allow them to re turn to their homes, senior U.S. officers said Monday. Since Allied forces entered northern Iraq, some of the Kurdish guerrillas, known as pesh merga, have blocked the refugees' return out of fear for their safety. Others dnave used the opportunity to charge tolls, stopping the refugees at check points and demanding pay ment for passing through. Col. Jim Jones, the highest- ranking U.S. Marine Corps of ficer in northern Iraq, said U.S. patrols have been sent to some of the more notorious check points "to tell them to knock that stuff off." "It's immoral and it's got to stop," Jones said. "They're straight-out bandits." The Kurdish rebels agreed to the demands, U.S. officials said. In southern Iraq, the U.S. Army airlifted more refugees to Saudi Arabia, in an opera tion that is a prelude to the U.S. troops' own departure. The airlift is expected to take about a week. In wide-ranging interviews on the huge Allied effort in the north to aid the Kurds, senior American commanders also said the military hopes to clear the Turkish border of primitive refugee camps by June 1. By then, water will be in short supply in the hills. About 800,000 Kurds arrived at the Turkish border this month, fleeing Saddam Hus sein's postwar crackdown on their rebellion. Allied military officials are building camps for them in northern Iraq. The first Kurdish family ar rived Monday in the camp built outside Zakho. They joined 576 Kurdish men al ready there. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jay Garner, who commands the military operation in northern Iraq, said he expected refugees to start arriving in large num bers in the next few days. U.S., French, Dutch and British officials met Monday with about a dozen Iraqi Kurd ish rebel leaders to tell them to stop preventing the refugees from returning home. After the meeting, the most senior of the Kurdish leaders, who goes by the name of Gen eral Ali, was taken to one checkpoint by a U.S. heli copter. He told his men to let Kurdish refugees pass by. In addition, the officers said Allied forces told Kurdish guerrillas that they will not tol erate violence either in the camps or in cities within the Allied security zone in north ern Iraq. The United Nations said Monday it was sending a con voy carrying personnel and supplies to Zakho on Tuesday, in a first step toward assuming control of the Allied camps. cused security forces of siding with Inkatha in township unrest and said the deadline was firm. It also said it had evidence of an organized campaign to eliminate ANC leaders in the days leading up to May 9. Buthelezi made his own alle gations Monday of a plot against Inkatha leaders. He also said he was warned the ANC planned to kidnap and kill two of his chil dren. Neither side gave specifics on where their evidence came from. In the Johannesburg town ships of Soweto and Alexandra, 43 people died over the week end, police said Monday. Twenty-two people were slain in Soweto after a funeral Sunday for an Inkatha member, and 21 died in various clashes in Alex andra. Former presidents endorse Brady Bill WASHINGTON (AP) — For mer Presidents Carter and Ford have endorsed a bill pending in Congress re quiring a seven-day waiting pe riod for the purchase of handguns, a supporter of the measure said Sunday. "Every liv ing past presi dent has en dorsed the Brady Bill," Jimmy Carter Rep. Charles d wel- Hardware problems hinder shuttle )F CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astro- lauts aboard Discovery observed eerie waves of ght above the horizon in a "Star Wars" experi ment Monday, and ground controllers struggled to fix data recorders needed for other tests. Six experiments were canceled as a result of the ecorder trouble, and the Defense Department ex acted to lose more data if the problem is not re vived by the end of the eight-day flight. NASA flight directors and Pentagon officials in- isted the mission would not be harmed by the oss of what they termed "secondary experi- nents." Nonetheless, there was disappointment. "From our view, everything is important," said Air Force Capt. Marty Hauser, a Pentagon pokesman. The seven astronauts tried four times to activate he two recorders before turning their attention to nstruments unaffected by the failure. Engineers on the ground continued to work on the problem. Three of five scientific instruments that consti tute one of Discovery's primary payloads — va lued altogether at $160 million —are hampered by the recorder problem. The instrument considered most important by the military has its own record ers, which successfully collected data Monday on atmospheric light, or aurora. At one point, the astronauts beamed down black-and-white television images of light rip pling off the atmosphere as they flew over the Pa cific Ocean near Australia. Later, they sent back a videotaped scene of a halo shimmering for thou sands of miles along the horizon with the constel lation Orion in the background. "Pretty spectac ular," Mission Control's Kathy Thornton said. The crew also took pictures of a rapid-fire se quence of steering jet blasts, which they captured on film with ultraviolet cameras. Schumer, D-N.Y., said on NBC- TV's "Meet the Press." 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