* \ c je INTERNATIONAL ne „ 94 ‘ Hcralb Sribun *7" PUBLISHED WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON POST ** Paris, Wednesday, March 30, 1994' No. 34,549 - if. i . " _ - ' *. v ,/V i5«l ic *U.K. Yields . >\ )Ut rK ria Ally Challenges { * i . $ In EU Feud, Opening Way Berlusconi Over To Expansion ‘ Forming Cabinet -Jy_ SJ- ICI -, es <; Backbenchers Attack By Alan Cowell The league polled only 8 percent of the bal- *>1 New York Tima Service lots, bat, under Italy’s new voting system mix- W ’ Majorfor 'Compromise ROME — Less than a day after Italy’s right- ing direct and proportional ballots, the percent- ist alliance, led by the media tycoon SOvio age left Mr. Bossi's followers claiming— to have In Dispute on Voting Berlusconi, surged to victory in watershed na- taken 106 seats in the lower house --twice its tional elections, a power struggle within the share in the previous Parliament anri_mnre than By John Damton affiance’s ranks raised questions Tuesday about enough1 to scuttle the rightist parliamentary its ability to form a stable government. ity. JVrw York rimer Service At the same time, some commentators began analysts took (he league’s hard-nosed LONDON — Britain yielded Tuesday in a to express concern that the strong showing by position as the start of bitter and protracted bitter dispute over voting rights in the Europe- the neofascist National Alliance bring a manner paving would negotiations in the traditional Italian an Union, the way for the admission of resurgence of extremism 51 years after the fall on the formation of a new government after the three Scandinavian countries and Austria next of fascism in 1943. new Parliament convenes for the first time to January. ___ When the neofasdst leader Gianfranco Fini elect its two speakers on April 15. Although it claimed to have won a “compro- hailed about 2J)00 supporters in Rome's Piazza “Behind the great change, there was to be mise” from the other countries in finally set- del Popolo early Tuesday, hundreds of youths seen the usual Italian, political uncertainty, '' - . i7~ c tling the dispute over voting procedures, the in the crowd gave straight-armed Fascist sa- unstable if not ungovernable, seeking rally government was attacked in the House of Com- lutes and chanted “Duce, Duce” — the rallying cease-fires or revenge," said MarceDor Sragi, a mons by its own backbenchers, as well as the cry of the late dictator Benito Mussolini. columnist for La Stampa. Mr. Berlusconi and opposition, for picking a needless fight with its Ever since the first computer projections Mr. Fini met in Rome without Mr. Bossi on Tuesday to begin negotiations for a coalition. Ingredients that made Berinscom rich helped “We spoke of everything, including Bossi," Mr. Imn to sDccess in pofitics. • Rightists hoM ab- Fini said. It is no of into a solute majority ™ tower house. Page 6L by means dear how the supporters htmanating “dimbdowiL* Youths sheltering with Johannesburg the Nothera League's chief would react to a policemen after reports of sniper fire raised tensions Tuesday, a day aftwTdMTprolSL* Amid reports coalition that would leave •Zi of a divisive cabinet meeting pullout from the emerged late Monday night, Mr. Berlusconi — Tuesday mooting, the episode was seen them isolated from the center of power in by whose party polled the highest percentage of commentators as another setback for Prime Rome. the rightist vote, with around 20 percent of the Minister John Major. Only a week- ago, he was The rightist landslide in the lower house, ballots — has been talking as if the mantle of SouthAfricans Delay Peace Talks more used to razor-thin majorities, seemed to power should naturally fall to his 3-month-dd rather see the enlargement of the delayed reflect the rage of many Italians toward the EU Forza Italia party. than give in cm what he disgraced Christian Democrats and their allies said was an issue of By Paul Taylor Wednesday, before the victims and the Zulu nation unless there is an exten- of the carnage A second member of the alliance, Mr. Fini, principle. Washington Post Savior been .sion of the voting date deadline.” had buried. Negotiators said they ex- the neofasdst leader, party See ITALY, Page 6 Members of Parliament whose took about gasped Tuesday as JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s pre- pected to be able to reschedule the meeting - Despite the hardening of political positions Marlow, 12 percent of the overall vote, has said he would Tony a maverick Conservative, rose to election tensions rose several more degrees after one of the worst days of violence in for the week after Easter. It is to be attended support a bid by Mr. Berlusconi for prime -- charge that Mr. Major the V had “no authority, credi- Tuesday as a proposed meeting of Zulu, ANC by King Goodwill; President Frederik W. de Smith Africa's modern history, the officials monster’sjob. i tfal bility or identifiable this policy in vital area,” and government leaders to defuse political Klerk, the African National Congress presi- charged with supervising and running the By a tradition that is not always observed and said he should “stand aside and way violence was postponed and the head of an dent, Nelson Mandela; and the Zulu-domi- election, the Transitional Executive Council for somebody else after Italian elections, the leader of the biggest who can provide the party anti-election party predicted war if the voting nated Inkatha Freedom Party chairman. and the Independent Electoral Commission and the country party is usually asked to form a new govern- KWHOVi with direction and leadership” itself was not delayed. Chief Mangosuthu ButhdezL — pressed ahead with steps to preserve the ment. Mr. Major locked shaken by the tirade, date and assure free political activity. King Goodwill Zweh'firini of the Zulus election which marked the first time anyone could re- Chief Buthelezi blamed the ANC for the council adopted a resolution that However, since Monday night, the leader of asked for a postponement of a meeting that The member that a Conservative had faced leader killings and made dear his intention to treat would give South African Defense Forces party on the right, the Northern a had been hastily arranged following gun bat- the third of his party in the House and advised him to the dead as martyrs in his anti-election cam- greater powers to maintain order in the black League separatist Umberto Bossi, has said be tles Monday in which at least 53 people were resign. Opposition Labor members cheered for paign. He called for a nationwide Zulu day of of KwaZulu and its surrounding would not support Mr. Berlusconi as prime killed and hundreds were wounded when homeland Mr. Mariow to be given more rime to speak. mourning on April 27, in the middle of the province Natal, where Zulu-based resis- minister because his business interests in armed Zulus who oppose the elections of huge The dispute that held up enlargement of the three-day election period. ejection has contributed to television, supermarkets, advertising and pub- marched into Johannesburg’s central busi- tance to the a union was on the surface an arcane disputeover record 266 political deaths this month. lishing were in conflict with the national inter- ness district and mcountered what appeared He also warned that the massacre at Shell how many votes would be needed for a minor- The chairman of the council, Johan est to be sniper fire. House, the ANC national headquarters ity of EU countries to be able to block decisions Kriegler, said he saw no reason, despite riang The king said it would be inappropriate to building, “shows that we have now entered a The dispute sharpened further Tuesday with of the majority once tbefour newmembers join. hold the talks, scheduled to have started final struggle to the finish between the ANC See SUMMIT, Page 6 a Northern Leaguestatement demanding that it But it dredged up fears that the union, which should lead the country “in the new phase of began as a six -member trading Woe is 1957, the great, peaceful federalist revolution.” had grown into a rightly knit political and “The Italian people expect that the Northern economic colossus whose laws rad regulations League should xe entrusted with the role Of the reach deep into the lives of its member states. U.S* Hints at Alternatives in China governing elite,” d said. The statement drew no Nowhere are these fears felt more strongly Rift immediate response from Mr. Berlusconi, who than in Britain, where the Conservative Party is earlier threats Bossi to Compiled by Our Suff From Dispatches Congress, as there is in the executive branch, had responded to by Mr. faffing under the ^pdl of its right wmg. The so- 1992 that was vetoed by President George calling traitor. that it would be much preferable to base a pull out of the alliance by him a CS&ef called “Euroskepdcs,” under the spiritual lead- WASHINGTON — Selectively withdrawing Bush. ; broader foundation for our relations and not parties that campaigned with us must ership of Mr. Major’s predecessor, Lady U.S. trade benefits to Chinese state-owned en- The concept was included again in widely “The have so much weight put on this annual de- form a government with us,” he said. “Any- Thatcher, now in the Hoose of Lords, argue terprises instead of broader sanctions could be supported legislation that was introduced in bate,” he said. thing else would be high treason.” fervently that British sovereignty is being gob- a way to address China's absence of progress on Congress last year.