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S. AFRICAN GUARD WHO KILLED SINGER GETS PRISON TERM

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A white security guard who shot and killed a lead singer of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the South African group featured on Paul Simon's "Graceland" album, was sentenced today to three years in jail for culpable homicide.

The case was referred to the Commissioner of Correctional Services for a decision on whether Sean Nicholas should serve the sentence in prison or under a form of house arrest.

The victim, Headman Shabalala, won international acclaim with his Zulu a cappella group when they toured and recorded with Simon in the late 1980s.

The court ruled that Nicholas shot Shabalala at point-blank range last December in Natal province after forcing Shabalala's car to a halt on suspicion of drunken driving. Nicholas said he shot Shabalala because the singer tried to snatch his weapon.

IRAN'S NEW SUBMARINE ARRIVES FROM RUSSIA

MANAMA, Bahrain - A submarine Iran bought from Russia has arrived at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, a U.S. naval source said today.

He said the Kilo-class submarine, whose sale by Moscow angered Western powers, entered port a few days ago after a journey through the Mediterranean and the Red Seas.

None of the Gulf Arab states is believed to have submarines.

The U.S. submarine Topeka arrived in the Gulf on Nov. 3 - the first visit to the Gulf by a U.S. nuclear submarine - for a month of maintenance work.

U.S. officials say there is no link, insisting that its arrival had been planned long before the Iranian submarine was due to arrive in the region.

U.N. SAYS 3-WAY TRUCE IN BOSNIA MOSTLY HOLDING

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A three-way cease-fire largely held throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina today, the United Nations said.

A U.N. spokesman said monitors reported some violations in Bihac, in the country's extreme northwest, and in Travnik, in central Bosnia. But the monitors did not characterize them as serious, said Adnan Abdelrazek, a spokesman for U.N. forces in Sarajevo.

Muslim, Croat and Serb military representatives were to meet today in Stolac, a Croat-held town in the south, to talk about monitoring the truce in the nearby Mostar region, U.N. officials said.

The Bosnian government radio said Gradacac and Brcko, towns in the north, came under heavy shelling overnight, and that Mostar to the south was shelled twice.

OUSTED BRAZILIAN LEADER FACES CRIMINAL CHARGE

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - President Fernando Collor de Mello, already suspended from office and on trial in the Senate, had his troubles doubled yesterday when Brazil's independent attorney general filed criminal corruption and racketeering charges against him in the Supreme Court.

If the Senate convicts Collor, he would be permanently removed from the presidency and barred from office for eight years. But with the new charges, he also faces a prison sentence.

The impeachment charges were based on findings by a special congressional committee that accused Collor of receiving graft money from his former campaign fund-raiser. The criminal charges are based on results of a parallel investigation by the federal police.

VIOLENCE FOLLOWS ELECTION IN NORTHERN MEXICO TOWN

HIDALGO, Mexico - The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party's claim of victory in Sunday's election in Hidalgo, a town of about 10,000, has been protested.

When the municipal electoral commission declared David Zuniga the winner of the election for mayor, a crowd of about 2,500 gathered in the town square to protest.

Police and army troops dispersed them with tear gas. But 14 protesters were jailed for two days in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas state.

The conservative National Action Party (PAN) has called for annulment of the election in Tamaulipas as well as statewide elections Sunday in Puebla and Sinaloa states.

CANADIAN ESKIMOS VOTE TO RULE THEIR OWN TERRITORY

IQALUIT, Northwest Territories - Canadian Eskimos across a tract of Arctic tundra about three times the size of Texas celebrated today after voting to create the hemisphere's largest self-governing indigenous territory.

Officials announced yesterday that 69 percent of voters backed a deal that gives the Inuit, as Canadian Eskimos prefer to be called, outright ownership of an area slightly smaller than California and fishing and hunting rights to the entire territory of Nunavut, or "our land."

The pact also gives the Inuit nearly $1 billion over 14 years.

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