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Show MANDELA SAYS HIS UNITY GOVERNMENT WILL LAST FULL TERM: Dismi sing rumor of division in bis Cabin t, President Nel on Mandela aid yesterday his government was stable and making progre sin bettering life for South Africans. In an hour-long meeting with senior executives and members of the board of director of The Associated Press, Mandela played down cla he with his governing partners. He said he expects his Nelson Ma_n_d_c-la_. unity government to last it full five-year - - - - - - - term. The Cabinet, made up of Mandela's African National Congre and two minority partie , will only break down if the junior partner try to block or stall plans to help millions of irnpoveri bed blacks, Mandela said. GERMAN TWO RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS FACE DELAY IN SPA E: The three-man crew aboard the space tation M.ir will have to tay in space an extra month, report dly b cause of a shortage of funds to build the rocket transporting a replacement er w. Rus ian space official confirmed yesterday that they plan to keep the two Russian co monauts and a G rman astronaut in orbit 39 days longer than their original four-month mis ion. Th delay was caus d by funding problems that prevented the booster rocket for the crew's replacem ents from being ready on time, the [TAR-Tass and lnterfax news agencies said. Russian Spac Agency spokrsman Anatoly Tkach v would say nly that construction of the Progress booster for th e-Soyuz-22 spacecraft was taking longer than planned. REPORT: DOOMSD AY CULT MADE LSD , OTHER DRUGS: The cult suspected of attacking Tokyo subway with deadly nerve gas produced 200,000 doses of LSD to use in initiation rites and as possible weapons, a television network reported yesterday. The Aum Shinri Kyo cult also made unspecified quantitie of mescalin , anesthetics and stimulant , the NHK public television network said. Cult leader hoko Asahara dispatched one f Hower to Russia to get material to make LSD and another to the United States to find out how t produce it, the report aid. Asahara ordered production of the drugs in May 1994 and they were given to thousand of new m embers, in the hope they would have my tical experienc lik he did when h too LSD, th network reported, citing cult members. ETTLEMENT WITH MARCOS FAMILY JUNKED, EW DEAL BEING NEGOTIATED: An agreement that had pro mi ed $ 100 million to Filipin s abused under the late dictalOr Ferdinand Marco. has fa!J en through and ne otiation ar under way t0 draft a n w ettlement, a lawyer for the victim said yesterday. Rod Domingo, one of the lawyers for 10,000 Fili inos who won a cla -action uit against Marco in U.S. Di trict Court m Hawaii, aid if there i no new agreement guaranteeing comp nsation, the plaintiffs will claim total OW11er hip of Marco ' 356 million Swi -account depo iL . Under the di carded agreement, th government was to ta ke $ 0 million from Marcos' Swiss :iccounts and the other $50 million was to be given to the plaintiffs directly by the Marcos family. AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT FALLS APART, RIGHT-WING LOOKS TO GAIN: Austria's goverrun coalition fell apart yesterday, paving the way for December elections that could bring to power a right-wing popuJi t who campaigns heavily on anti-foreigner entiment. After six day o late-night negotiations and mud lin.1nng over the 1996 budget, the conservative Peopl 's Party of Vice Chancellor Woligan ChaIJ.cellor ch uess 1 ended its partner hip with the Social Democrats of Chancellor Franz F V 'tzk Vranitzky. The two parue~ had governed ranz ram Y Austria for ni ne year . Parliament was to dis olve today, with new elections expected D c. 17. J Rescue workers at the Hotel Costa Real in Manzanilla. Mexico, look under rubble, yesterday. The nine- tory hotel collapsed in Monday's 7.6 magnitude earthquake. A 6.1 aftershock shook the area yesterday but there am no reports of damage. Aftershocks rock Manzanillo MANZANILLO, Mexico AP) - A strong aftershock rattled this Pacilic resort town yesterday just as rescue workers clearing the rubble of a flattened hotel neared a lobby where 20 earthquake victims are beli ved buried. Yesterday's quake lasted for more than five seconds, causing panic but no reports of serious injuries or deaths. At least 55 are known to have died in a stronger quake Monday, and that number is expected to rise as rescue worker pry through the wreckage to reach th lobby of the fallen hotel. On yesterday, w rk rs recovered two mor bodies in cluding that of a boy, age undetermined, from what had been the t hird oor. They said the boy had been dead only a f w hours because rigor m orti had not set iI1. Mexico's National Seismological Institute report d that ye t rday's quake measured 6.1. h U.S. G ological Survey in Golden, Colo., gave it a preliminary reading of 5.5 . "Since Monday, the ground hasn' t stopped shaking," said housewife Maria Morelo , one of bundr of people camping out in dozens of makeshift shelter after their homes were damaged or destroyed in the Monday quake. "My God," she said. "When is it going to stop?" At least 26 aftershocks have rattled this town of 60,000 since the 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck along some 200 miles of the western Mexican coastline Monday morning. With cranes, drills and pickaxe , rescue workers continued their day-and-n ight que t to dig through the rubble of the flattened Costa Real hotel, where at least 20 bodies have been recovered. Workers briefly stopp d their labors to wait out the morning aftershock. National Protection engineer Arturo Lopez, one of hundred of workers trying to pull bodies from the hotel's ruins, aid about 20 people were believed buried in the lobby. Officials doubted any urvivor would b found. On Wednesday night, two pas ports discovered under mounds of cru hed cement led officials to identify two Vancouver, Canada, tourist , whose bodies had been found earlier and wer being kept in a re rigerated trailer morgue bes ide the hotel. Truce takes hold in most of Bosnia SARAJEVO, Bo ma-Herzegovina (AP) - A U.S.brokered truce took hold yesterday in most of B nia, and was greeted by celebratory gunfire in the capital but marred by continued fighting in the bitterly contested northwest. The 60-day truce is intended to give the warring sides time to work out the difficult details f a peace plan to end 3 1/2 year of ethnic bloodshed in Bosnia. In contrast to everal dozen preVIou failed true , all sides s emed serious about honoring 1t, d pite the early violations. Nortbwe t Bosnia had been the scene of nitt r batt l s thi pa t week as the Muslim-led government and its Croat all ies captured the towns o an ki Mo t and Mrkonjic Grad iron· rebel erb in a pre-truce hmd grab. R ports indicated L hting in the arLJ decn.:a!>cd but did not top after the cca c- ire t ok effccL t one mmutc after midnight. The Bosnian army accused the Serbs of breaking the cease-fire around Sanski Most. The Bosnian Serb army responded that "although the intensity and extent of the activity of Muslim-Croat forces significantly decreased, it still seriously jeopardizes the cease-fire." U.N. military spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Vernon said the United Nations could not confirm the claims. He reported some fighting in the northea t and predicted it may take several days for au fighting to stop. The truce i intend d t fos ter negotiatl n this month in the United Stat on deta ils of a U.S.led pe ce plan. A peace conference in Paris wouJd oll w. fhc plan cnvi I ns Bosnia as a rngle cuuntry, ut would divide 1t into Bo man Serb and Mu Jim-Croat ''ent1t1es." lt also calls for a complex pow r- b:inn 3l'Iangcmcnt. |