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In earlier comments, [Nelson Mandela] called for the U.N. to send a peacekeeping force to South Africa \"like they did in Yugoslavia where they have had a lot less people killed.\"

WARSAW (Reuter-AP) - Hanna Suchocka became Poland's first female prime minister yesterday, pledging to end the bitter divisions that have paralyzed Polish politics for more than a month. Suchocka, backed by a hastily assembled coalition of seven parties, replaced farm party leader Waldemar Pawlak, who offered to resign last week after failing to form a government. Pawlak's Polish Peasant party's roots in the Communist camp proved unacceptable to the post-Solidarity parties, who represent a majority of votes in the Sejm (lower house).

BELFAST (Reuter-AP) - Britain, fearing revenge attacks by Protestant extremists after the IRA killed seven construction workers, pushed its troop strength in Northern Ireland over 30,000 for the first time since the mid-1970s. Britain put an extra 1,000 troops on the streets of Northern Ireland earlier this month to counter an IRA car bomb campaign.

Police Capt. Burger van Rooyen said today 52 people were killed in the fighting that erupted on the President Steyn gold mine south of Johannesburg at 6:30 p.m. yesterday. The first clashes last week appeared to be between supporters of Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a close ally of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress, and members of the rival Inkatha Freedom party led by Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

The average person is twice as likely to be killed by murder now as 30 years ago, the report said. Surprisingly, the greatest increases in the crime were expected to take place in the generally rural states of Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Arizona and Wisconsin. To counteract the increase in homicides, committee leader Joe Biden urged passage of the Brady Bill gun control measure to prevent convicted criminals from buying guns, and a ban on military-style assault weapons.

In London, a statement from the Commonwealth of Nations, to which Fiji belongs, condemned the coup and called on the Fijian military to reverse it. There had been firebombings and street marches since the election, in which [Timoci Bavadra]'s left-leaning coalition unseated native Fijian Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's pro-Western Alliance party. Mara had governed Fiji since independence from Britain in 1970. Fiji, about 2,250 kilometres (1,400 miles) east of Australia, is one of the most prosperous island states in the South Pacific and one of the few with an army, manned almost entirely by ethnic Fijians.

BONN (AP-Reuter) - West Germany said yesterday it will ask Moscow about higher levels of radiation in Western Europe which some experts believe may have been caused by a nuclear-power plant accident in the Soviet Union. The incident caused concern in the West, whose governments bitterly criticized Moscow for failing to tell the world promptly of the massive nuclear leak from the Chernobyl power station in the Ukraine a year ago this month.

AP COLOUR PHOTO (Elizabeth Dalziel): WATER WOES: Hurricane survivors, s ome homeless, line up for water at a makeshift shelter in Acapulco Sunday. Rain and sewage left the Mexican resort covered in dangerous, smelly mud.

JERUSALEM (Reuter-AP) - New problems over the Mossad fiasco besieged Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. * His foreign minister, David Levy, said he was considering resigning out of frustration with Netanyahu. Levy assailed Netanyahu's decision to sneak Mossad secret agents, travelling on forged Canadian passports, into Jordan last month to try to kill a Hamas leader. He also criticized Netanyahu's approach to Mideast peacemaking. * One of three members of a panel appointed by the government to investigate the Mossad affair resigned to avoid charges he was biased in favour of the Sept. 25 assassination attempt. * Speculation mounted that Danny Yatom, head of the Mossad spy agency, would be forced to resign because of the botched attempt. The Mossad's botched attempt to poison Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal on the busy streets of Amman, Jordan, forced Netanyahu to free the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, and 20 other prisoners. He did so in order to extricate Israel's arrested agents from Jordan and to placate a furious Jordanian King Hussein.