NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, September 7, 1984
Page 14
South Africa torn by riots, violence
By United Press International
SHRPEVILLE, South Africa — About 2,000 blacks blocked the main road through a riot-torn area yesterday, forcing Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange to reroute his tour of townships rocked by three days of riots that left 32 dead.
Le Grange accompanied by Defense Minister Gen. Magnus Malan and other Cabinet ministers, blamed unnamed "individuals, forces and organizations" for the violence that swept through several black townships south of Johannesburg.
He promised to keep police in the townships "as long as it is necessary."
necessary. The violence flared Monday in the townships of Sharpeville and nearby Sebokeng, 40 miles east of Johannesburg, with residents complaining of hikes in rents and electricity rates.
Protests spread to Boipotong and Evaon townships in Johannesburg's Transvaal province as well as Thabang and Vaal Dam townships in the neighboring Orange Free State.
POLICE SENT IN to quell the rioters eventually quieted the neighbors Wednesday.
BOSTON — Massachusetts filed suit yesterday to block the federal government's planned 26.9 sale of oil exploration leases on 6.5 million acres of prime fishing waters off the New England coast.
By United Press International
Suit filed to block drilling in fishing waters
The suit filed in U.S. District Court charges that Interior Secretary William Clark and his department failed to adequately consider potential damage to fishing and tourism sites, even if oil or natural gas is not found.
Massachusetts in seven years to halt such oil and gas lease sales, also states that several endangered species of whales could be jeopardized by drilling.
The state asked the court to declare the sale illegal and issue a permanent injunction.
The complaint, the third filed by
"If it were up to me, there would be no drilling on Georges Bank," said state Attorney General X. K. Franklin, too valuable to risk in that fashion.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT planned to sell 1,138 tracts of land in the waters that provide about 15 percent of the nation's annual fish
catch. The transaction would be the largest ever held concerning North Atlantic waters.
Govern. Michael S. Dukakis has said the state asked that 1,000 tracts at depths less than 1,300 feet be deleted from the water supply. Department dropped only 546 tracts.
A department spokeswoman sait
that 199 traps requested by the
state law.
"Offshore drilling is proceeding off the coastline of 30 nations, most of which have fishing industries and vigilant environmental activists," said Frank Tivnan, spokesman for the Massachusetts Petroleum Council.
"Nowhere has offshore drilling harmed a fishery or been stopped by environmentalists."
A SUIT FILED in the late 1970s succeeded in delaying the first lease sale by 21 months. Following a December 1979 sale, eight exploratory wells were drilled at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, but oil or gas were not found.
The second planned lease sale in March 1983 was blocked when a U.S. District Court judge in Boston ruled that the Interior Department's environmental impact statement estimating relative risks and benefits of drilling was inadequate.
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