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8A Poughkeepsle Journal Monday. August 17. 1987 jtj World Striking S. African miners advised to defend themselves By David Crary The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa The striking black mineworkers' union said Sunday that 240 members have been Injured in the week old walkout and directed members to defend themselves against "barbaric acts" by police and mine guards. In the latest incident, the Anglo American Corp.

said security officers at one of its gold mines clashed with black strikers inside a residential hostel and found explosives stashed there. Anglo American, South Africa's largest mining house, said 24 strikers were hurt In the fray Saturday at Vaal Reefs mine, 100 miles southwest of Johannesburg. The company asked the National Union of Mineworkers to discuss ways of curbing violence that has escalated during the strike by an estimated 335,000 black miners. Union General Secretary Cyril Ra maphosa told a news conference he accepted the invitation. Anglo American said in its message: "Force or the threat of force should not be used by management, the union or union members to prevent workers from striking peacefully or working normally.

"There should be normal access to hostels for workers, management and union officials. There should be normal access to shafts and plants, with areas designated for peaceful picketing should the union request this." Ramaphosa said he was pleased the company had "come to its senses and stopped being arrogant" But he reiterated the union's claim that mine owners sought to smash the strike with police help. He said about 200 strikers had been arrested. "We've observed a lot of barbaric acts with a view to ending the strike," he said. "The defense of strikers has now become imperative." Ramaphosa refused to give details, but said the strike committee resolved that "our members will defend themselves." Union officials said one miner underwent emergency surgery Sunday after being shot in the testicles the previous day during a clash at the Matla coal mine east of Pretoria.

Mine owners say they had to use force to prevent striker intimidation of miners who want to keep working, Anglo American said security officers at Vaal Reefs entered a workers' hostel Saturday to investigate reports the strikers were holding hostages. The security men "came under repeated attack by a mob and were forced to retaliate" with tear gas and rubber bullets, the company said. "'No hostages were found, but a quantity of explosives and a petrol (gasoline) bomb were discovered." Walesa: Solidarity's Strong after 7 years GDANSK, Poland (AP) Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, attending services Sunday marking the seventh anniversary of strikes that launched the independent trade union, declared his outlawed organization is still alive and active. Walesa attended Mass at St Bry gida's Church in this Baltic port city and afterwards was greeted by about 3,000 people chanting "Soll darnosc" and waving the sign of Solidarity. He then traveled north along the coast to the city of Gdynia, where he attended a second Mass in waiesa a seamen's church lavishly decorated with Solidarity banners and symbols.

"If anyone has doubts about the necessity of Solidarity and Solidarity's victory, I invite him to witness these events which we have started today," Walesa said in an interview after the Mass. "Solidarity lives because Solidarity means a reform and reforms are indispensible in this country." Referring to the government's imposition of martial law and suppression of Solidarity in December 1981, Walesa said, "it his hard to admit mistakes But some day it will be necessary and the sooner the better." Father Henryk Jankowski, pastor of St Brygida's and a close adviser f2'JlH to Walesa, delivered the homily at both Masses. He called on worshipers to honor the memory of the Polish troops who stopped the Red Army at Warsaw and beat it back nearly to Moscow in 1920 in the Soviet Polish war. Small detachments of police observed both churches 'from a few hundred yards away, but did not intervene. On Saturday, Poland's main television channel was jammed for about 10 minutes at 9:30 m.

by a audio broadcast that said it was Radio Station Solidarity 2, according to a listener who spoke on the condition of anonymity The 10 minute program included statements about the reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, proposed changes in the Polish labor code, a report that a Soviet soldier in a unit serving in Poland had defected, and some music and poetry, the listener said. Saturday was the 67th anniversary of the Red Army defeat near Warsaw, a battle which Poles refer to as the "miracle on the Vistula." The Vistula River flows into the Baltic east of Gdansk. The war is little mentioned in official textbooks in this Communist country, and Jankowski drew applause when he referred to the neei to fill in "blank spots" in history. After Mass, parishioners assembled outside St Brygida's and broke into the Solidarity anthem, "Solidarity Will Win." At the Gdynia Mother of God Church, people lined up for autographs of Walesa.

Guerrillas rocket vodka van ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Afghan guerrillas rocketed a vodka van carrying a weekend supply of drink to Soviet troops, a private PakistaniPakistani run news service reported Sunday. Agency Afghan Press, which concentrates on the Afghan civil war, said the Islamic insurgents attacked the truck near Ghazni, a provincial capital 85 miles southwest of Kabul on Aug. 1, a Saturday. It said the Soviet commander in A TRAINING PROGRAM THAT WORKS The Dale Carnegie Course This highly effective training program is known world wide for its ability to inspire men and women to higher levels of achievement. It helps people develop more self confidence and the ability to express themselves with greater clarity and conviction.

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However, Cabinet secretary Elia kim Rubinstein said that Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, acting with the backing of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who also holds the rank of deputy prime minister, exercised his prerogative not to call a vote after a six hour ministerial debate. "I think it was the prime minister's feeling, shared by the vice prime minister, Mr. Peres, that on this kind of a major issue there shouldn't be a tight vote without exhausting all possible avenues in terms of trying to reach a consensus," Rubinstein told reporters after the meeting. "Today, simply, the situation was according to my estimation half against half," Peres said. "What can we do? It happens in a democratic regime." Several other ministers contested Peres' count, however, saying that there appeared to be a 13 11 majority in the Cabinet for adopting a joint resolution to discontinue the project put forward by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Finance Minister Moshe Nissim.

"I'm really disappointed I would not deny," Rabin told Israel radio after the meeting. "I tend to believe that there was a slight majority in support of the proposal. I think it was 13 to 11, but I'm not sure because the vote was not taken." Virtually all of Israel's senior economic and defense officials have publicly opposed continuation of the Lavi program, arguing that if it proceeds, it would become an increasingly unbearable financial burden and will divert resources needed for other weapons development projects. However, supporters, including both SharnmandPejscontend that the programTrimportance transcends the narrow considerations of any ministry. They see it as enhancing national prestige and stimulating the high tech industrial base that is key to the country's economic future.

Ministers on both sides of the argument say they are concerned that cancellation of the project will lead to at least temporary unemployment among thousands of aircraft workers and possibly to the emigration of at least some of them. The issues cut across traditional party lines, as evidenced by the fact both Rabin, an opponent, and Peres, a backer, represent the centrist Labor Alignment Similarly, proponent Shamir and opponent Nissim are both members of the rightist Likud bloc. It is unclear what, exactly, the ministers hope to learn in the next two weeks that they do not know already. The future of the Lavi project has already been the subject of seven Cabinet debates in just the last four months. Rubinstein said that the government would spend the time checking out other possible avenues for financing.

He noted specifically that the Cabinet had discussed raising taxes. However, he said, "I don't think there is anything specific at this point." Originally approved in 1980, the Lavi was conceived as a multiple mission fighter bomber to carry the Israeli Air Force into the next century. The United States made special aid concessions to fund virtually the entire development cost of the aircraft Ghazni had a second load of vodka airlifted from Kabul, the Afghan capital. The agency did not Identify the sources of its report, and there was no independent confirmation. For the past 7Vi years, guerrillas have been trying to overthrow the communist government and drive out about 115,000 Soviet troops who fight alongside the 50,000 member Afghan army.

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One boy died 25 minutes after the Caesarean delivery Saturday at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. Two other babies suffered setbacks overnight but were improving, the hospital said. The smallest, 15 ounce Erin, improved dramatically, it said. She had not been expected to live. The arents are 27 yearold Susan Halton and her husband, Neil, of St Helen's, Merseyside, in northwest England.

"I knew they would be small," Halton in a television interview after seeing his babies for the first time. "But to see them so tiny, it takes your breath away." The birth of the three boys and four girls Britain's first septuplets was nearly four months premature. The Guinness Book of Records says there is a report that more than five centuries ago a woman named Edith Bonham of Wishford Magna in Wiltshire, England, gave birth to septuplets. No other information is available except that the woman died in 1469. Cor bomb kills 4 in South Lebanon TYRE, Lebanon A car bomb exploded near this southern port city Sunday, killing all three occupants of the car and a passer by, police said.

They said the beige Volvo was rigged with 30 pounds of explosives and went off prematurely at noon on the main street in Abbassiych, about five miles north of Tyre. Police said a boy was mortally wounded as he walked by when the car exploded. They said the blast destroyed nearby parked cars and shattered windows in a dozen houses in Abbas siyeh, which is within a zone of operations of Ghanaian peacekeeping troops of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. Security sources in the south, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the automobile's occupants were believed to have been anti IsraeliIsraeli Shiite Moslem guerrillas. Soviet trawler rescues Atlantic rower LONDON A Frenchman rowing solo across the Atlantic clung to his wrecked boat after a gale and was rescued early Sunday by a Soviet fishing trawler, British coast guard officials said.

Guy Lemonnier was exhausted but otherwise in good condition, said Edward Davies of the British Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordinat ing Center at Falmouth in Cornwall. Te Soviet trawler was taking Lemonnier to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Lemonnier left Cape Cod, Mass. June 20 for the French port of Cherbourg aboard his 21H foot boat, the Jacquet Enterprlse. Davies said the boat was possibly damaged by waves created by winds of nearly 40 knots.

Death toll climbs as new typhoon nears MANILA, Philippines Weather experts warned Filipinos on Sunday to prepare for another typhoon as the death toll from last week's Typhoon Betty rose to 48. A bulletin from the weather service said the new typhoon, called Cary, was centered Sunday af ternoon about 310 miles northwest of Manila. It said Cary packed winds of up to 75 mph and was moving toward Ca gayan province on northern Luzon Island at 7 mph. Chief government meteorologist Amado Pineda predicted the typhoon would hit the area late today if it stayed on course. Engine fire forces emergency landing FRANKFURT, West Germany An American Airlines Jetliner bound for Chicago with 175 people on board made an emergency landing at Frankfurt airport Sunday after one of its two engine's caught fire, officials said.

Four passengers were slightly injured in evacuating the Boeing 767, said Hans Henning Greef director of airport a telephone interview. "Otherwise the emergency landing went without a hitch." Woman executed for poisoning 1 86 people BEIJING A woman pastry shop worker was executed for poisoning 186 people by putting pesticide on rice cakes during a' spat with the" shop management, a newspaper reported Sunday. None of the poison victims died. The People's Daily said a man who bought the pesticide for the shop worker was sentenced to seven years in prison. Lin Yuerong, 31, was upset with the new management of the Meihojia pastry shop in Fuzhou in east China's Fujian province, the paper said.

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