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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1985
S. African students take risk for exams
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Troop> and police patrolled near Cape Town yesterday to protect about 4,500 mixed-race students who risked a clash with anti-apartheid protesters to take important examinations.
In Pretoria, government authorities reported few incidents of the racial violence that has taken at least 836 lives in the last 14 months in white-rated South Africa.
But in Soweto, the country's largest black ghetto situated just outside Johannesburg, a truck and a shop were reported torched. Demonstrators also burned down a school in Kwanobuhole, outside Port Elizabeth. No injuries were reported in the violence in Soweto and Kwanobuhle.
About 2,000 students of mixed racial ancestry took year-end examinations at the Goodwood showgrounds about six miles from the center of Cape Town. Police patrolled nearby in armored trucks and soldiers kept watch in smaller mine-proof armored vehicles.
Police said earlier that two people were shot to death Tuesday and a third was wounded when about 700 black youths attacked police in Cape Town's Gauleytown township.
Traops and police also patrolled on foot as the students sought refuge in the fenced-in showgrounds from others seeking to enforce a school boycott called 18 months ago by opponents of apartheid.
At the nearby Wingfield air force base, soldiers checked students' names off a list before letting about 1,000 youths take tests
Authorities protected 1,500 more students during exams at the Faure base for mixed-race soldiers of the Cane Colored Corps.
No incidences of violence were reported at the testing centers.
under military protection.
Education Ministry spokesman Abel Jordan declined to say how many students chose to take their tests in the face of the boycott, but school workers said slightly more than one-third of Cape Town's mixed-race students turned out.
The school boycott was launched in 1984 by the Congress of South African students, which has since been outlawed, to protest what it called inferior education at segregated institutions.
In Cape Town, local and foreign reporters
met with a police public relations officer, Capt. Jan Calitz, for an off-the-record briefing on the implications of new curbs on newspaper and television coverage of race riots around Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg.
"I think we cleared up quite a few points and I look forward to prosperous mutual cooperation." Calitz said.
The government imposed broad restrictions Saturday on newspaper and television coverage of black riots, banning television and newspaper cameras entirely and putting journalists under the control of police.
One reporter said after the meeting, however, that there was "a substantial amount of misunderstanding" about the limitations.
Cocaine usage rises says new drug study
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Coca-use in America rose dramatically in 1984 and supplies of the drug were so plentiful in many big U.S. cities that the wholesale price for each ounce of the government study said yesterday.
Marijuana use was down 3 percent, the study by the Drug Enforcement Agency said, mainly because fewer young people were using the drug.
The DEA's annual "Narcotics Intelligence Estimate," a detailed analysis of drug use, supplies, trafficking and money in 1984, also the most significant factor on the international cocaine market was the expansion of all phases of trafficking - cultivation, processing and distribution.
While still dominated by Colombia, and less so by Peru and Bolivia, trafficking and production had moved substantially into other South American nations, such as Ecuador and Brazil, the report said.
Cocaine use in the United States rose 11 percent in 1984, the study said. Taking cocaine with heroin intravenously in a "speedball" — the method that killed comedian David Leblush — also was on the increase, with the number of hospital emergencies because of "speedballs" up 37 percent.
The report said that in early 1984, cocaine was so plentiful that there were large wholesale price reductions in many U.S. cities.
Attorney General Edwin Meese, in a statement with the report, said the study indicated that the U.S. fight against illegal drugs was "a long and difficult battle."
Group wants new sales law
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Legislation is needed to crack down on flimflam operations that use promises of good pay and travel to attract young people and then exploit them in door-to-door sales jobs, a House panel was told yesterday.
But other witnesses, including an FBI official, told the subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights that current law was adequate to deal with the problem.
Earlene Williams, national director of Parent Watch, said the average experience for youths selling magazine subscriptions and other products door to door "is one of long hours, hard work, without adequate sleep or food, pushed about by abusive crew chiefs, with little or no pay."
Venita Shrewsbury, 25, of Cincinnati, told the panel she was attracted to an interview in a motel room by a newspaper advertisement that promised travel throughout the country and high pay.
Instead, Shrubsbury said, she was put to work in a crew of young people that was selling cleaning fluid in half-gallon containers for $29.95.
Despite her long hours, she told the lawmakers she never was paid except for a few dollars in meal money.
Shrewsbury testified she finally faded after her crew chief charged falsely that his books showed, after deduction of $300 for motels, that she owed him $300.
"When victims answer the ads," testified Deputy Assistant Director Wayne Gilbert of the FBI, "they are given a high-pressure sales pitch and made to feel they must make a decision about employment immediately."
"All of the victims tell of long hours selling door-to-door or attending meetings, crowded living conditions in motels far away from home and the small allowances they received for food," he said.
time again in our investigations, victims told us they could have left but
Elizabeth and Paul Green traveled from Panama City, Fla., for the hearing but did not tell the lawmakers what happened to their daughter Valerie, who, at the age of 16, signed on to sell a cleaning product immediately after being interviewed in a notel.
But Gilbert said that "time and
"It was like she was brainwashed," her mother told a reporter during a recess in the hearing.
Valerie packed a suitcase and left home immediately after the interview, her father said.
"I blame it on that ad in the paper." her mother said, her voice breaking. "It said she could make $1,000 a week and have fun in the sun."
Within hours, Valerie boarded a small, private plane with five other young people and died with them when it crashed.
Craxi wins confidence, favors PLO
United Press International
ROME — Prime Minister Bettino Craxi's government won a confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday after he defended the legitimacy of the Palestine Liberation Organization's armed struggle against Israel.
Craxi's government was reassembled after the ruling coalition collapsed because of its actions after the Oct. 7 Achille Lauro hijacking attempt, the government must win a similar confidence test before it may continue in office.
The Senate vote, expected tomorrow, is regarded as a certain victory and will confirm Craxi's five-party government coalition as if the crisis never erupted.
Craxi won the vote in the Chamber of Deputies after a defiant speech in which he recognized the right of the PLO to use armed struggle to recover Israeli-occupied territory. The vote was 347 to 238 with one abstention.
"The PLO must be judged by the standard of history." Craxi said.
"To dispute the recourse to arms by a movement that seeks to liberate its country would mean to challenge the course of history."
Craxi said that Israel had military supremacy in the Middle East and that there existed no military force in the region that could threaten it.
"For 18 years Israel has been occupying Arab territory, where Arab peoples live," he said. "We think Israel should give back those territories in exchange for peace, a restitution that should be negotiated."
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