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XT ATAT^ T^-l cl* Associated Press ^ W ^ B J Xj'C ^ L Edited by Brandon Loomis Violence breaks out after Mandela’s release CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Nelson Mandela walked through a prison gate to freedom Sunday, set ting off joyous celebrations and vio lent clashes as blacks nationwide welcomed their leader back from 27 years in jail. “Comrades and fellow South Af ricans, I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all,” Mandela told tens of thousands of cheering supporters who thronged outside City Hall, many getting their first look at the African National Congress leader. “I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you the people.” Within an hour of the release, as Mandela’s motorcade arrived at City Hall, violence broke out. First aid workers and journalists said one per son was killed and more than 100 people injured when riot police fired shotguns after groups of black youths smashed shop windows in the city center. Some youths retaliated by hurling bottles at the officers. Hundreds of terrified people waiting to hear Man dela ran for cover as police fired blasts of shotgun pellets. Clashes between police and cele brating blacks were reported in at least two other areas, while in Johan nesburg thousands of young blacks received an escort from traffic police as they ran triumphantly through the city. Columns of cheering activists jogged through Durban and other cit ies. “We have waited loo long for our freedom,” Mandela told the crowd. He said that until the proper climate was created for peaceful negotiations, the armed struggle was still a policy of the ANC. ‘ ‘The factors that (caused the need for armed struggle)... exist today,” Mandela said. ‘‘We have no options but to continue.” “We express the hope that a cli mate conducive to a negotiated set tlement would be created.” Mandela spoke of “my long and lonely years in prison.” “Iam content that your pain and suffering was far greater than my own,” he said, adding that he would make further statements after con sulting his ANC comrades. "There must be an end to white monopoly of political power and a fundamental restructuring of our po litical and economic systems to en sure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed,” he said. The ANC leader called President F.W. de Klerk a man “of integrity,” and called on the white community to “join us in the safety of a new South Africa. The freedom movement is a political home for you, too.” Mandela, jailed since 1962 for helping plan the African National Congress’ anti-government guerrilla campaign, was greeted by a thunder -4 4 There must be an end to white monop oly of political power and a funda mental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the ine Mandela African National Congress leader -» t ous cheer when he and his wile, Winnie, walked hand in hand through the gateway of Victor Verstcr prison in Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town. The Mandelas gave clenched-fist salutes to the hundreds of supporters who had waited for hours outside, many of them waving green, gold and black ANC flags. Mandela, dressed in a dark suit and tie, appeared solemn and digni fied as he and his wife walked to a white BMW sedan and climbed in. He broke into a broad sm ile as the car set off slowly toward Cape Town in a police-escorted motorcade. Scores of policemen stood guard in the bright sunshine, and a small army of photographers and television crews from across the world freneti cally took the first pictures of Man dela as a free man. The state-run South African Broad casting Corp. gave live television coverage to the release. * ‘This is the moment the world has been waiting for,” said the television reporter at the scene. “The sun *s shining on South Africa.” Mandela’s speech was delayed an hour by the violence. As the clashes erupted, some anti-apartheid leaders told the crowd to disperse, but many remained to hear Mandela’s voice for the first time in nearly three decades. Army units equipped with tear gas were deployed nearby, and police helicopters flew overhead. “Your tireless and heroic sacri fices have made it possible for me to be here today,” the 71-ycar-old Mandela told the adoring crowd. ”1 therefore place tne remaining years of my life in your hands.” Dr. Aslam Dasoo, lending the in jured at a first aid station, said about ® 100 people had been hurt, and jour nalists counted 130 injuries. There was no immediate statement from police. In Johannesburg, hundreds of young blacks, joined by a few whiles, ran through downtown streets shooting, ‘‘Viva ANC!” after the release. Tral fic police patrol cars cleared the way for them. In Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg where Mandela has his home, crowds of supporters danced and sang in cele bration, many under umbrellas be cause of a steady rain. There were unconfirmed reports that three celebrating blacks in the tribal homeland of Ciskei were shot dead by police. In Inanda, a black township outside Durban, a local journalist said she saw one black killed and five injured when police fired at a celebration. The decision to free Mandela was announced Saturday by President F.W. dc Klerk, who had met Mandela the previous night. He described the black leader as ‘‘committed to a peaceful solution.” I Salvadoran airforce attacks rebels SAN SALVADOR, El Salva dor - Air force planes and helicop ters strafed and bombed suspected leftist rebel positions near a north eastern village Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding 20, a witness said. Fighting broke out around 6:30 a.m. in the village of Corral de Piedra, 53 miles northeast of the capital, said a female church worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals. ‘ ‘The planes and helicopters did their work for about two hours,” she said.1 ‘We were in chapel when we heard the shooting in the hills, and we heard about 10 bombs explode, shaking the chapel, and the dust then sifted in under the doors.” Telephone calls lo the press office at military headquarters for com ment were not immediately returned. A resettlement camp for refu gees in the decade-old civil war in Corral de Piedra, in Chaltenango province, appeared to be one of the targets, the witness said in a tele phone interview. “When people finally dared to go out, we went into a house and we saw five children and one adult dead. The roof of the house was blown up by a bomb. At the same spot I saw about 20 wounded people,” »he witness added. The witness said she was able to get a car and evacuate five of the wounded. A nurse at the Chalatenango Regional Hospital told The Asso dated Press that the wounded were being evacuated there from Corral de Piedra where, she said, there had been fighting between guerril las and government troops. "There are more than 10 wounded here. We have a lot of work. Another three (wounded) were taken to San Salvador and it is known there are many dead there (in the village),” the nurse said. She, too, insisted on anonymity. Senior military officers have been publicly saying in recent weeks the people at the Corral de Piedra camp were secretly collaborating with the Faraburtdo Marti National Lib eration Front, a coalition of five guerrilla organizations fighting for power. f M. » •* « • % V »l I i .111 '■ “€”•. * * m + ^ • .«*-*-*-* —I-•-S-K- * Soviets seek economic launcn with first profitable space flight MOSCOW - Two cosmonauts took President Mikhail Gorbachev’s drive for economic efficiency to new heights Sunday, blasting off on the Soviet Union’s first space mission designed to turn a profit Riding a Soyuz TM-9 capsule, flight commander Anatoly Solovyov, 42, and engineer Alexander Balandin, 36, soared atop a column of orange-white flames into cloud-streaked skies over the Baikonur space complex in So viet Kazakhstan at 9:16 a.m. Their on-schedule launch was tele vised live, and for the first time, four active U.S. astronauts were invited to the formerly top-secret spaceport on the steppes of Central Asia to watch it. They were Dan Brandenstein, head of NASA’s astronaut office and commander of the 11 -day January mission of the space shuttle Colum bia, and Paul Wcitz, Ron Grabc and Jerry Ross. The Americans’ presence was additional proof of how Gorbachev’s leadership has led to more openness and a rollback of the obsessive se crecy that once cloaked Soviet space ventures. Solovyov, who led a joint Sovict Bulganan mission in 1988, and space rookie Balandin were to link up with the Mir orbital platform on Tuesday. They will relieve two fellow Soviets, Alexander Viktorenko and Alexan der Sere bit) v, who were launched Sept. 5 and are in their sixth month in orbit. Under Gorbachev, pressures have increased on the country’s once sac rosanct space program to prove its usefulness to the shortage-plagued economy. Some lawmakers have even demanded big funding cuts, saying the nation cannot afford cosily space missions when it cannot guarantee citizens a reliable supply of meal and potatoes. nuwcver, me ma-iiiuiiui undertaken by Solovyov and Balandin has been noisily billed by state-run media as a moneymaker. The space men are to put to use the new Kristall module, described by the government daily Izvestia as the first mini-factory for the manufacture of technological and biotechnological materials in zero gravity conditions. Through use of Kristall, which is to be shot into orbit March 30 lor linkup with Mir, up to $41 million of profit are forecast, the official Tass news agency said.4 ‘For the first time in Soviet cosmonautics, incomes from the flight are expected to exceed by far spending on the spaceship’s launen,” it proclaimed. 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