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Wednesday, September 6: 1989 / University Daily Kansan
S. African Blacks continue to protest
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Hundreds of thousands of Blacks angered at being shut out of national elections walked off their jobs yesterday, displaying the biggest show of defiance in a month-long campaign to discredit the bullying.
The National Party, despite gains made by white leftist and rightist forces, expects to retain power in today's parliamentary voting, but probably will suffer its biggest losses since coming to power 41 years ago.
Pollice arrested 500 people as hundreds rallied at universities and barricaded streets with flaming tires around the country to protest the elections. Witnesses said police used tear gas, whips, rubber bullets and birdshot to break up demonstrations.
The protests were the latest in a mass campaign launched a month ago to defy apartheid laws that segregate the society and to protest the elections that exclude the country's 28 million blacks.
More than 3 million of the country's 5 million whites have registered to vote, as well as 1.7 million
mixed-race people and 605,000 Indians. Some black leaders have asked for boycots of the mixed-race and Indian voting because their houses have no power to overrule the white chamber of Parliament.
For the first time since 1953, political analysts predict the Nationalists could receive less than half the white vote. The party currently has 123 seats in the 166-seat white House of Assembly.
national Party leader F.W. E. Klerk, who became acting president when the Cabinet forced President P.W. Both to retire Aug. 14, has campaigned as a new leader with a new vision.
"Our action lays the basis for a new South Africa, in which all can achieve their rights, without domination or injustice," de Klerk said.
The Nationalists' campaign calls for legislation with black leaders on a new constitution and government, providing limited black participation in national affairs within five years, but with protection against loss of white power.
The National Party conceals its policies could lose up to 32 parliamentary seats.
MOSCOW - The Communist Party chief of Azerbaijan has called for an end to direct rule from Moscow in the republic's troubled Nagorno-Karabakh region, which neighboring Armenia also claims, an activist said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Soviets continue to strike
Sources in Azerbaijan and Moldavia said strikes spawned by disputes between rival ethnic groups are a recurring theme in more factories, and businesses.
Alden Amirbekov, the Azerbaijani activist, quoted party leader Abdul-Rakhman Vezirov as saying in a television interview midnight Monday, "We must liquidate the special form of administration."
Taking that position would align the Communist leader of the Caucasus republic against the Kremlin on the issue and with the People's Front political movement, which organized the general strike that began Monday.
Vezirov and other Azerbaijani leaders refuse to recognize the People's Front, which called the strike to demand that the republic's national legislators be recalled and that it reassert control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Amirbekov quoted Vezirov as saying nothing had been accomplished
by the direct rule of Kremiln representative Arkady Volsky, imposed Jan. 12 in an effort to stop violence between ethnic Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Kranasaya Zvezda, the Defense Ministry newspaper,said Sunday the disputed territory was on the verge of civil war and tensions between Azerbaijanis and Armenians were like gunpowder.
In a 20-minute television interview, Veziroi also criticized the strike as damaging to Azerbaijan and its relationship with other republics, Amirbekov said.
U.S. rejects Israeli aid appeal
The Associated Press
Strip, according to Yossi Ahimire, Shamir's spokesman.
JERUSALEM — The United States and other foreign nations have rejected Israel's appeal for aid to improve conditions at Palestinian refugee camps, calling first for progress in the Middle East peace process, officials said yesterday.
He said Japan, Canada and European nations also rejected the request.
The Maariv newspaper reported that in his letter Bush said the refugee camps should be part of a "comprehensive plan to resolve the conflict" between Israel and Arab states.
In a letter this week to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, President Bush turned down Israel's request for help to rehabilitate camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza
Finance Minister Shimon Peres denounced Shamir's appeal. Israeli radio quoted him as saying the move
was "folly lacking elementary reason-
ing."
The national news agency itim reported that Peres, speaking at a Histadrut Labor Federation meeting Tuesday night, said the first way to aid the Palestinian refugees in the camps was "for Israel to get out of there."
Shamir's conservative Lukid bloc, which shares power with Labor in a coalition government, opposes any territorial concessions.
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