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Friday, March 18, 1994
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De Klerk has been struggling to attract Black support to his National Party, which despite his role in ending apartheid has long been associated with racial separation and white privilege.
President F.W. de Klerk did something yesterday that no white leader of South Africa had ever done: he ventured into Soweto to ask its Black residents for their votes.
De Klerk led the reversal of apartheid laws and opened talks with the ANC that resulted in plans for the April 26-28 election, the first in South Africa to include the Black majority. The ANC is heavily favored to win the vote.
"If a lion says to you, 'Now I'm normal, I'm a new lion, I'm not going to eat you anymore,' would you go into its den?" he said.
THE NEWS in brief
"There's still time for them to do their duty," Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord told a congressional hearing yesterday.
He spoke to about 300 Black National Party loyalists and strolled the streets and city market stalls.
U. S. officials still are hoping North Korea will change course and allow nuclear inspections before a showdown with the United Nations that could lead to economic sanctions.
An ANC organizer, who identified himself only as Comrade Dougie, was skeptical of de Klerk's claims his party is no longer the party that imposed racial separation in 1948.
North Korea risking sanctions
WASHINGTON
SOWETO, South Africa De Klerk visits Soweto to attract Black vote in all-race elections
A few African National Congress supporters waved posters, but de klerk faced none of the fierce opposition he got while campaigning in other Black communities before South Africa's first all-race election next month. Security was tight, with police officers and soldiers keeping an eye on the candidate.
"It is the first time that the leader of the National Party has addressed a crowd in Soweto," de Klerk said. "We know that there are votes here for the National Party and we know that our party brings a message to the people of Soweto."
Lord said high-level U.S.-North Korea talks scheduled Monday in Geneva probably would not take place because the Communist government had not fulfilled a commitment to allow full U.N. nuclear inspections and exchange special envoys with South Korea.
Lord also said the United States would consult with South Korea on whether to resume plans for annual joint military exercises. The exercises could be called off with the understanding that North Korea would comply with anti-nuclear demands.
Lord expressed confidence that both Japan and China would go along with sanctions if they become necessary to stop North Korean nuclear weapons development.
President Mary Robinson, in her annual St. Patrick's Day address, said 1994 should be a year of peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. "I know we all yearn for a time of genuine peace on this island," she said.
But Lord said, in testimony before the House Foreign
Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the political party that supports the Irish Republican Army, also spoke of peace. "It is crystal clear that the IRA are interested in developing the search for peace," he said in a speech in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Affairs subcommittee on Asia, "Let us hope the North Koreans will still reverse course."
The IAEA said North Korea refused to grant seven U.N. inspectors access to a laboratory suspected of being used to extract plutonium — a key component of nuclear weapons.
The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency's governing board meets in Vienna on Monday to give a formal assessment of the latest nuclear weapons inspection, which IEA officials say was thwarted by North Korean officials before it could be completed.
In a unanimous decision, the court said the statute did not violate the ban against applying laws after the fact, nor did it deny sex offenders due process or equal protection.
OLYMPIA, Wash.
The 1909 Legislature required that convicted sex offenders register with the sheriff in their home counties.
Critics argued at the time that the law amounted to a "scarlet letter" on the offender. But backers said the measure was intended to regulate, not punish, offenders — all for the good of the community.
Sex offender registration OK
Washington's 4-year-old law requiring sex offenders to register with the police is constitutional, the state's Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
Not just any dead cow. The people of Sneem wanted to pay respects to Ireland's most famous cow — the late Big Bertha, who was the world's oldest cow until her death at age 49 on New Year's Eve at a nearby farm.
Challengers of the law mentioned the case of Joseph Gallardo, a sex offender whose house was burned last year after authorities notified neighbors of his impending release from prison.
Such arguments did not impress the court. It noted that information about all criminals was public record and that the registration information was something that could be gleaned from public records even without the registration law.
The high court sided with the law's proponents, rejecting the argument that the registration requirement was punitive because it put a "badge of infamy" on offenders, exposing them to physical danger.
Stuffed and mounted by a taxidermist, Bertha was given the place of honor at the head of the procession through the picturesque village in southern Kerry County.
SNEEM. Ireland
St. Pat's Day parade honors cow
Ireland had bigger parades on St. Patrick's Day, but only the people of Sneem marched behind a dead cow yesterday.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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