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I, I Pag<MO^McHENRY PLAINDEALER Section A Wednesday, August 14,1985 World Leader's wife loses home to firebomb By Brendan Boyle United Press International JOHANNESBURG, South Afri­ ca -- Police Tuesday reported a firebomb ravaged the home of Winnie Mandela, wife of black nationalist leader Nelson Man­ dela, whose hopes for an early release from prison were dashed earlier by President Pieter Botha. In other violence, police said four people died in rioting near East London and a fifth man was killed when police broke up a group of youths setting up road blocks near Queenstown. Police killed three people Monday and five more died in rioting, taking the death toll to more than 540 in almost a year of political violence. In Johannesburg, lawyer Is- mael Ayoob said a firebomb de­ stroyed Mandela's home during the night. Police confirined the attack but could not identify the attackers or say how much dam­ age was caused. Mandela's home was exten­ sively damaged a week ago when police drove out some 30 black demonstrators who had fled to the house in Brandfort, about 220 miles south of Johannesburg. Mandela, wife of one of South Africa's most prominent black leaders, is exiled to Brandfort under a government order that forbids her to talk to reporters, leave the area without permis­ sion or to be with more than one other person at a time. Ayoob said Mandela has been in Johannesburg since before last week's raid in which her furniture was destroyed and doc­ uments were seized by police. Radio stations reported an out­ break of gunfire and arson in Duncan Village, a ghetto outside East London about 500 miles south of Johannesburg, which was staled off by police late Monday. Residents said gunfire went on late into the night as government buildings, houses and cars went up in flames. Police said in their daily vio­ lence report that officers had fired shotguns and rifles to dis­ perse youths who were burning and looting vehicles and build­ ings in the village. "A black man was wounded," police said. "The wounded man was thrown into a burning vehi­ cle by his fellow arsonists and died as a result of this barbaric act." Police said they found the bod­ ies of two black men and a "col­ ored" person of mixed-race in Duncan Village later today. "The circumstances of these deaths are being investigated," a spokesman said. Police said officers also had fired into a crowd killing one man when youths threw up street barricades at Queenstown, about 420 miles south of Johannesburg. Other clashes between police and black youths were reported near Pretoria, Cape Town and outside Johannesburg in Soweto, the country's largest black township. Reported remarks Monday by Botha dampened mounting spec­ ulation that the government was about to release Nelson Mandela, the leader of the outlawed Afri­ can National Congress, after more than 20 years in prison. Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., a leading advocate of economic sanctions against the white mi­ nority government, said after a meeting with Botha Monday that the session had "made a cold s h o w e r s e e m w a r m b y comparison." He said Botha "seemed to think Mr. Mandela was guilty of the same crime as (Nazi war criminal Rudolph) Hess." Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy fuehrer, parachuted into Scot- * land in May 1941 in a bizarre attempt to make peace with Brit­ ain. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life in prison in 1946. "It was very difficult to sense a willinghess to move rapidly toward the dismantlement of the apparatus of apartheid," said So­ larz, who last week had predict­ ed major reforms in South Afri­ ca's system of institutionalized racial discrimination. Education Minister Gerrit Vil- joen, speaking in Pretoria Mon­ day night, also dashed hopes for the announcement of significant reforms when Botha opens a meeting of his National Party in Durban on Thursday. He said the government will not abandon its policy of sepa­ rate facilities and political repre­ sentation for whites, Asians, mixed-race "coloreds" and blacks. Reform would take place "only within the framework of South Africa's diversity of peo­ ples," Viljoen said. • ^ The latest violence brings to well over 540 the number of deaths in almost a year of rioting sparked by constitutional re­ forms that provided no role in government for the nation's 22 million blacks. About 100 people have been killed since July 21, when Botha declared a state of emergency in 36 areas hardest hit by racial violence. v If You Fail To Receive Your McHenry Plaindealer Before 7:00 a.m. Please Call Our Circulation Dept. Before 10:00 a.m. at 385-0178. We'll Bring One Right Out To You! Plaindealer Circulation Dept. 385-0178 ~ Terrorists may have killed soldier WIESBADEN, West Germany (UPI) -- Terrorists may have killed an American soldier for his ID card in order to slip a carbomb past guards at a U.S. Air Force base where a fatal attack occurred last week, investigators said Tuesday. A spokesman for the West Ger­ man Federal Criminal Office said a letter received by the Frankfurt of­ fice of a British news service con­ tained the identity card of a dead soldier who had been lured out of a discotheque by a woman one day before the carbomb attack that killed two Americans and injured 20 people. Accompanying the identity card was a copy of the letter the Red Army Faction sent to news organi­ zations taking responsibility for the attack last Thursday at the Rhein- Main Air Base outside Frankfurt. The bomb was driven into the U.S. air base in an automobile with coun­ terfeit American military license plates. The soldier, Spec. 4 Edward Pi- mental, 20, was found dead with a wound in the temple early Thursday in a wooded area on the outskirts of Wiesbaden, about 25 miles west of Frankfurt. The letter, received by the Reu­ ters news agency Tuesday and signed with the star symbol of the left-wing urban guerrilla band, did not claim the identity card was used to get into the base, but that was clearly the implication. "We are checking to see if the letter is authentic or if it is a hoax," said a spokesman for the criminal office, the equivalent of the FBI. "We also are checking whether the identity card is authentic." Police said Pimental went to a Wiesbaden nightclub frequented by American servicemen the night be­ fore the carbomb attack and left with a young dark-haired woman. According to police, they were fol­ lowed by a man identified only as an Hispanic named Jeff. Until the letter received Tuesday, police thought he had been killed in a quarrel. Supporters of the Red Army Fac­ tion, which has carried out a series of bombings, assassinations and bank robberies since the 1960s, also took responsibility Tuesday for an unsuccessful atterhpt to set fire to a U.S. troop train. In a letter sent to the West Ger­ man news agency DPA, the terror­ ists said they planted firebombs on the army train that runs through East Germany to West Berlin to strike a blow against NATO and to demand that jailed members of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof band, be treat­ ed as prisoners of war. 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