2 killed in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Factional violence that killed at least two blacks Saturday and injured about 20 marred the start of a conference at which black teachers, parents and students will decide whether to resume a school boycott. Police said members of Inkatha, a Zulu tribal group, attacked delegates preparing for the conference in the port city of Durban.

Kenyans hit Oscar winner

NAIROBI, Kenya - A leading Kenyan magazine Saturday called the smash hit movie "Out of Africa" racist and said the Oscar-winning film depicts Africans as objects of derision. The widely read Weekly Review rekindled a longstanding controversy over the $30 million Sidney Pollack production, which was filmed in Kenya, with a weekend review that said the racist film depicted Africans as less than human. "The extent to which the African is held in derision as an inferior is clearly discernible," the unsigned article said of the movie, which last week won five Oscars at the Acadaemy Awards, including the prize for best picture.

Tainted food kills 6 youth

NEW DELHI, India - Contaminated cooking oil sold at government shops killed six children and injured 85 people Saturday in the western state of Gujurat, the United News of India reported. Three people were hospitalized in serious condition after food poisoning in five villages, the news agency said.

Carbide settlement OK'

BHOPAL , India - A U.S. lawyer representing thousands of victims of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak advised them to accept the company's offer of $350 million in compensation or face a seven-year wait for a judgment. John Coale, whose firm and those of four other lawyers that represent the cases of about 1,200 people killed and 40,000 injured by the methyl isocyanate gas, said his clients support the $350 million offer. The tentative settlement was reached last week between Union Carbide Corp. and U.S. lawyers representing the victims.

Group, protesters clash

KERDICHEM, Netherlands - Members of the ultra-right Centrum Party fought hand-to-hand with 150 protesters Saturday, and demonstrators later set fire to the hotel the party convened in, said police. Police said they arrested 60 people for fighting. At least two people were seriously injured during the skirmishes and the fire, said police spokesman Nico van Mourik. He said 60 to 100 members of the 4-year-old party were meeting at the hotel.