WINNIE MANDELA KILLED IN POLICE RAID
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN, Special to the New York Times
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 - Winnie Mandela, the wife of jailed South African anti-apartheid and ANC leader Nelson Mandela was killed in a pre-dawn police raid on her home in Soweto this morning. Police had been seeking evidence in a murder investigation. Police have connected Mandela's bodyguards, known as the Mandela United Football Club, to several abductions and murders, including that of a 14-year-old boy named Stompie Moeketsi.
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LA Times
French President, Others Injured As Rockets Disrupt Hirohito Rites
Bomb Blast at Palace
February 24, 1989|KARL SCHOENBERGER | Times Staff Writer
Tokyo - Several foreign dignitaries including President Francois Mitterrand suffered minor injuries as attackers fired several large homemade rockets at the funeral procession of Emperor Hirohito, who since he died Jan. 7, has been known as the Emperor Showa. At about the same time, 1:45 P.M., an explosion was heard near the the inner gate of the Imperial Palace, known as the Nakamon Gate.
A Tokyo Metropolitan Police spokesman stated the attacks are believed to be the work of the far-left Chukakuha, or "Middle Core Faction", Japan's largest and most active radical group. The group is responsible for several similar attacks, including one at the 1986 G7 summit in which President Reagan was nearly hit and an attack on the American embassy, also in 1986.
The rockets appear to have been fired from the balcony of a nearby apartment, and police found what appear to be several timed launching devices.
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Washington Post
SOVIETS WARN OF POLISH INTERVENTION
By Rowl, Evans and Robert Novak February 23, 1989
WARSAW - After weeks of civil unrest in Poland, Soviets have warned that a crackdown may be coming. Mr. Gorbachev 'unconditional condemned the forces of disorder'' that have disrupted negotiations and sent the country spiraling into chaos. He further warned that if the military junta of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski , which reimposed martial law two weeks ago, could not restore order that the Soviet Union would be forced to do so. Since the end of World War II, Moscow has crushed popular Eastern European uprisings twice - in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Moscow has also been close to military intervention in Poland in twice, in 1956 and 1981.
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN, Special to the New York Times
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 - Winnie Mandela, the wife of jailed South African anti-apartheid and ANC leader Nelson Mandela was killed in a pre-dawn police raid on her home in Soweto this morning. Police had been seeking evidence in a murder investigation. Police have connected Mandela's bodyguards, known as the Mandela United Football Club, to several abductions and murders, including that of a 14-year-old boy named Stompie Moeketsi.
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LA Times
French President, Others Injured As Rockets Disrupt Hirohito Rites
Bomb Blast at Palace
February 24, 1989|KARL SCHOENBERGER | Times Staff Writer
Tokyo - Several foreign dignitaries including President Francois Mitterrand suffered minor injuries as attackers fired several large homemade rockets at the funeral procession of Emperor Hirohito, who since he died Jan. 7, has been known as the Emperor Showa. At about the same time, 1:45 P.M., an explosion was heard near the the inner gate of the Imperial Palace, known as the Nakamon Gate.
A Tokyo Metropolitan Police spokesman stated the attacks are believed to be the work of the far-left Chukakuha, or "Middle Core Faction", Japan's largest and most active radical group. The group is responsible for several similar attacks, including one at the 1986 G7 summit in which President Reagan was nearly hit and an attack on the American embassy, also in 1986.
The rockets appear to have been fired from the balcony of a nearby apartment, and police found what appear to be several timed launching devices.
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Washington Post
SOVIETS WARN OF POLISH INTERVENTION
By Rowl, Evans and Robert Novak February 23, 1989
WARSAW - After weeks of civil unrest in Poland, Soviets have warned that a crackdown may be coming. Mr. Gorbachev 'unconditional condemned the forces of disorder'' that have disrupted negotiations and sent the country spiraling into chaos. He further warned that if the military junta of Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski , which reimposed martial law two weeks ago, could not restore order that the Soviet Union would be forced to do so. Since the end of World War II, Moscow has crushed popular Eastern European uprisings twice - in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Moscow has also been close to military intervention in Poland in twice, in 1956 and 1981.