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Archbishop Tutu praises students
Bv Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu today praised young people on college campuses across the United States for their help in changing the way this country thought of apartheid.
Tutu was visiting the University of Missouri at Kansas City campus to receive an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters.
"Young people have been tremendous in the struggle." "Tutu said in his speech. 'When I went around visiting universities in the '80s, it was heart warming to see students more concerned than just about exams."
Tatu said students who wanted to see the apartheid system change had helped change the moral climate in the United States.
"When things get pretty rough at home, you know there are friends across the world, like you, who are here." Tuta told the crowd of about 2,000.
Tutu, chancellor of the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, said that students in the United States lived differently.
"Our students often had to be disturbed by wafers of tear gas coming through lecture windows," he said. "Some graduates and students are detained, appear in security trials, and are in prison serving long terms because of their commitment to struggle for a new South Africa."
In a press conference after the speech, Tutu said that for universities worldwide to become racially
diverse, students needed to celebrate who they were.
"God has created us for unity and fellowship." he said. "We are not self-sufficient. We need to realize we have gifts others don't have and that others have gifts we don't have. People should be encouraged to recognize that people do things differently."
Although the struggle for an end to apartheid is ongoing in South Africa, events in the world show that freedom is winning. Tutu said.
"We live in sterling times," he said. "We've seen people march, and the Berlin Wall crumbling. We've seen tyrannical rulers who thought they were firmly in the saddle come to grief."
Four practiced dent F.W. de Klerk for having the strength to lead South Africa.
"It is spine-tingling," he said. "In February, he made a speech that nobody believed they'd hear from a nationalist politician. And then on Feb. 11, the doors opened, and Nelson emerged.
"Few events united the world quite in that way. People were amazed with the gentleness of Nelson, the beauty of the man, the capacity to love."
Tutu said that last September Black people were not allowed to walk on segregated beaches in South Africa.
To people who think that U.S. sanctions do not work, Tutu said "balances."
"The human spirit is made for something other than repression," he said.
Sanctions were what allowed Mandela to leave jail, he said.
"People are prepared to pay heavy prices for freedom. You can repress them, you can jail them, you can kill them, and yet there is still something inside that says, 'I am made free by God for freedom.'"
"We know the journey has been long, and we thank him for leaving his country at this troubled time," he said.
UMKC Chancellor George Russell said that Tutu had gained the respect of men and women of conscience
Tutu's university and UMKC are sister schools and have had a formal agreement of academic cooperation since 1866, the first such agreement developed between a Black South Sudan university and a U. S. university.
worldwide.
Sanctions still set, Bush tells de Klerk
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush said yesterday that South Africa's campaign to abolish White supremacist rule was irreversible and assured South African President F.W. de Klerk that the United States
would not impose new conditions for lifting economic sanctions.
"These conditions are clearcut and are not open to re-interpretation. And I feel that I am moving the goal."
F. W. de Klerk
posts." Bush said, referring to requirements South Africa must fulfill before the sanctions would be suspended. The sanctions were imposed in 1986 over then President Reagan's veto.
Bush also said all political groups in South Africa had a special responsibility to support the process of peaceful transition.
That statement appeared aimed at African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, who refused during the war. Bush in June to torse violence.
Bush and de Kleirk met at the White House for two hours. The meeting was a showcase of U.S. political support for de Kleisker's efforts to guide South Africa toward a post-apartheid democratic system.
More than 100 anti-apartheid dem
onstrators marched outside the White House during the visit.
"Bush is an accomplice to a colossal public relations fraud, which attempts to portray F.W. de Klerk as a moderate reformer," said Randall Robinson, head of TransAfrica, an anti-apartheid group.
Bush praised de Klerk at a farewell ceremony in front of the South Lawn.
"Clearly, the time has come to encourage and assist the emerging new South Africa," Bush said.
But Bush said that despite "the dramatic progress that we salute here today", South Africa had not moved far enough to meet the conditions for removing economic sanctions.
South Africa has not released all political prisoners and has not lifted the state of emergency in the Natal province. Further, it has not allowed a population registration act that requires citizens to be classified by race.
On the other hand, Bush said, "the move away from apartheid toward a new political reality is indeed much and much has already happened."
Bush's statement goes beyond the assessment of most European leaders.
Activists protest meeting with S. African president
Bush cited Mandela's release from prison, the removal of outlaw status for the African National Congress, plans to release remaining political prisoners and removal of media restraints as improvements.
The Associated Press
The action came after the 24-member Congressional Black Caucus canceled a meeting it had scheduled to discuss the session could be misinterpreted
WASHINGTON — Black activists protested President Bush's talks with South African President F. W. de Klerk yesterday, saying Bush has offended freedom loving people and the leader of the apartheid regime.
Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif., caucus chairperson, joined a group of protesters outside the White House gates that marched in protest of Bush's meeting with the South African leader.
But Dellums, who had announced Saturday that the caucus was cancelling its separate meeting with de Klerk, said he and some other Black congressmen will meet with him today during sessions with congressional leaders and foreign affairs committee members.
"We decided we would do it within the context of the Congress as an institution," Dellums said. "To meet with the Congressional Black Caucus separate and apart bestows a level of respect to our people, we weren't prepared to deal with."
The caucus, including all Black members of Congress, initially agreed to meet with de klerk after the United States was asked for the meeting. Dellums said
But the group reconsidered over the weekend after Randall Robinson,
leader of the TransAfrica group that has led anti-paraphth protests for years in Washington, denounced Bush's formal meeting.
"President Bush has made a large mistake and has offended freedom-loving people around the world and in the United States by becoming the first president since apartheid was codified in 1948 to invite to in the Oval Office. It is an example of the practices repression in an unprecedented way," Robinson said.
"Our view is that he has not earned a trip to the Oval Office." he said.
The change of mind by the Black caucus reflects the difficulty the Black community has had in dealing with de Kierk's visit, said Milton McGee, a research for the Joint Center on Political Studies, a black think tank.
But at the same time leaders may be able to influence further change by ionizing talks, he said.
"I think it would have been a good satisfaction to indicate some satisfaction at the general direction of change in South Africa," Morris said.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People executive director Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks has supported TransAfrica's protest of de Klerk's visit to the White House. He said that while de Klerk was not on his tour toward establishment of a democratic society, including release of Mandela, the basic foundation of apartheid remains in place.
Sea of colors
Aimee Noel, Roeland Park senior, paints a fish. She was working on the project for a painting class in the Art and DesignBuilding yesterday.
East Germany withdraws from waning Warsaw Pact
The Associated Press
It became the first country to withdraw from the seven-nation pact since the peaceful revolutions that swept much of Eastern Europe last year.
EAST BERLIN — East Germany abandoned the crumbling Warsaw Pact yesterday, bringing the Soviet-led military alliance to collapse.
Formed in May 1955, the Warsaw Pact squared off against NATO forces in the West Indies. After a long period of insecurity,
As a result, much of Europe lived under a nearly severe threat of nuclear war.
Some countries, like Hungary, are considering pulling out of the military alliance, and there have been predictions that it will collapse within months.
With East-West tension declining, however, the pact's members have talked about transforming the group into a political union.
East Germany signed the withdrawal agreement yesterday. It is timed to take final effect with German unification Oct. 3. The treaty, signed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
removed his objections to NATO member-
mentation and he clearly clearing a major obstacle of unification.
Rainer Eppelmann, the former peace activist now serving as East Germany's disarmament and defense minister, signed the withdrawal agreement for his nation. He later communicated in chief of the Warsaw Pact, signed for the Soviet Union.
The East German news agency ADN said the signing ceremony's mood was like that at
the germans are far from severing all ties with the Soviet military. But they have the atmosphere as
a funeral and described the atmosphere as realistic and clunky.
It was a far cry from years past, when encounters among Warsaw Pact leaders were routinely described as "very friendly" with full understanding on all sides.
Although they have left the Warsaw Pact,
There are still about 360,000 Soviet troops
stationed in East Germany and all of them
will not be withdrawn until 1994.
Although they have left the Warsaw Pact,
German students express different opinions on unification
By Tatsuva Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
The two Germans ratified a treaty last week that will unify their countries Oct. 3 after 45 years of division. But there are various opinions about the unification at KU.
"East Germans are so crazy about being 'East Germans'," said Roland Hodel, Modeler at the Frankfurt Office.
Hotel was born in East Germany and moved to West Germany. She has gone to East Germany many times to visit her mother and her relatives, who live there.
She said both East and West Germans were
happy about the unification. For Germans, the Berlin Wall and two Germanys symbolized punishment from the victors of World War II.
Gabi Lunte, Glessen, West Germany, graduate student, said she was not excited about the job.
She said she did not think the two countries would truly unify.
"For me, two Germans are different countries like any other country," she said.
The Associated Press reported that many East Germans were concerned about unemployment and social problems.
be upset about the cost of unification and were worried about possible tax increases
Hotel said the West German government was not a charity organization spending a lot of money.
Many West Germans do not realize they are buying a country with a lot of resources,
"We will get a lot of profit." she said.
Ronald Francisco, associate professor of political science, said that in West Germany, Social Democrats accused Christian Democrats of having inflicted unification, which will be about $650 billion.
Hodel said she was afraid of social change in East Germany.
East Germans would lose job guarantee and free housing after the inadvertence, she
He said that the gross national product of West Germany would increase 25 percent after the unification but that it would take 40 years to make Germany became economically strong
Also, women will lose social status after unification, she said. After the spring election in East Germany, the percentage of female government officials fell from 30
Racial tensions may rise after the unification because Germans would blame foreign workers, not East Germans, for the high unemployment rate, she said.
percent to 9 percent.
She said both East and West Germans had to compromise after the unification.
Hodel said that even though other European countries were afraid of a strong Germany, there would not be any problem unless Germans abused their power.
For example, West Germany is hesitating to send troops to the Persian Gulf for the war with Iraq.