Friday, Sept.27, 1985
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Groups demand end to prisoners' torture
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Opposition groups yesterday demanded that the white-minority government take steps to end assault against prisoners detained under South Africa's state of emergence.
A University of Cape Town law faculty study released this month showed that 83 percent of those jailed under security laws were tortured in some way.
The study was endorsed Wednesday by Dr. Wendy Orr, a white government-employed surgeon who contended police were "quite unrestrained in the abuses that they inflict upon detainees."
In Pretoria, Police Minister Louis Le Grange declined comment on charges of "systematic" and "brutal assaults" made by Orr to a Port Elizabeth judge. Orr cures for inmates at two prisons.
Judge Johannes Eksteen ordered police in Port Elizabeth and nearby Uitenhage to end assaults
on detainees held under the terms of the 2-month-old state of emergency imposed in a bid to quell racial unrest. Future detainees are also protected by his instructions.
Helen Surman, law and order spokesman for the white opposition Progressive Federal Party, or PFP, called for an independent inquiry into the charges of torture raised by Orr.
Le Grange, in an interview with the Johannesburg newspaper The Star, said: "I have often stated in public that neither I nor the commissioner of police will condone any form of violence on the part of the police and strict instructions in this regard have been issued."
The newspaper, under the headline: "Torture thrives in the dark," said in an editorial: "But there is considerable evidence" to suggest that those instructions are being disgarded."
Gandhi's majority cut in election
CHANDIGARH, India — The moderate Sikh political party Akali Dal won a landslide victory over Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (1) Party in elections in violence-torn Punjab state, according to computer projections yesterday.
United Press International
The estimates indicated that the Akali Dal, which has rejected extremist demands for an independent Sikh state, won the 59 seats it needed for a majority in the 117-seat state Assembly.
The computer analyses were conducted for state-run television and the Press Trust of India news agency.
With more than half of the races in Wednesday's election decided, the projections showed the party winning as many as 75 seats, allowing it to form a government without a coalition for the first time.
The Akali Dal won 46 of the first 63 Assembly seats declared and Congress (1) won 16, according to official returns released in Chandigarh, the capital of the northern state of Punjab. The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party won one seat.
in races for 13 national Parliament seats, the Akali Dal was ahead in seven and Congress (1) was leading in four. However, the outcome will not be known until later. Final results were not expected, until late last
night or early today.
The Akali Dal will take control of India's wealthiest state from the central government in New Delhi, which has run the state since dissolving the Congress (1) legislature in 1982 after it failed to end a bloody campaign of terror by Sikh extremists.
The Akali Dal's victory also showed dissatisfaction with the ruling party's failure to contain terrorism and with the methods it used to contain terrorism, particularly the June 1984 army assault on the Sikhs' boisterous shrine, the Golden Temple of Amritsar.
Protesters criticize U.S.-Nazi reunion
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BAD WINDSHEIM, West Germany — U.S. veterans met yesterday with former soldiers of a Nazi Waffen SS division drawn from the ranks of death camp guards in a controversial reunion blasted by critics as an insult to Nazis victims.
The 50 Americans, veterans of the U.S. 70th infantry Division, met about 24 Germans for drinks at a hotel in Bad Windsheim, a small
town in the Bavarian mountains.
The two groups were to hold a rally and wreath laying ceremony today.
Late yesterday, about 20 people demonstrated on the town plaza against the meeting between the Americans and the Germans, former members of the 6th SS Gebirgdisolution Nord, or Alpine Division. No incidents were reported as the demonstrators distributed leaflets protesting the reunion.
Protest leader Oskar Neumann, 68.
a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, condemned the veterans' meeting.
"The public just does not know what these Waffen SS people did in the war. Otherwise they would not tolerate them," he said.
The reunion also has sparked protests in the United States, France, the Netherlands and Austria.
But the Americans told reporters that they were told by the U.S. government in the 1970s that there
was no information linking the SS division to any war crimes.
"Can a few people (protesters) hold a whole nation hostage to their feelings?" asked Delyle Omholt, 72, a lawyer from Iola, Wis.
The two groups have met at least five times since the closing days of World War II, when they fought each other in the Saarland and Baden-Wuerttemberg regions of southern Germany.
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