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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Friday, Sept. 13, 1985
IRS agent convicted of tax fraud scheme
SALT LAKE CITY — An Internal Revenue Service agent was found guilty yesterday by a federal judge of mail fraud and 48 counts of filing false returns seeking $115,000 in refunds.
Gag order is issued
Federal Judge Thomas Greene found Gerald Hasz, 48, Salt Lake City, guilty and set sentencing for Oct. 17.
CALGARY, Alberta — A judge issued a gag order against the press at the opening of preliminary hearings yesterday for Charles Ng, suspected of taking part in as many as 25 sex and torture slaves in California.
Defense lawyer Don McLeod requested the ban on Ng's preliminary hearing on Canadian charges of attempted murder, theft and illegal use of a weapon.
Pageant entrant hurt
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Miss New Jersey, the first contestant injured in the Miss America pageant in three decades, sat in a wheelchair yesterday waving and blowing kisses to her rivals, but vowed to be on her feet when the pageant resumed.
The contestant, Toni Georgiana,
21, came to rehearsals yesterday
morning with her left leg elevated
and ice packs on the knee she
injured Wednesday during the first
round of talent competition. She
bruised the knee during her
gymnastics routine.
Repeal suggested for pass laws
From Kansan wire reports
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Security forces yesterday shot to death five rioting blacks near Cape Town and opened fire on a group of high school students in Soweto, wounding 10 black pupils and their white teacher.
The violence erupted as a presidential advisory committee recommended that the white-minority government eliminate the pass laws designed to keep blacks from migrating to cities — a key provision of apartheid.
In the new anti-government outbreaks, police fired shotgun at black mobs around Cape Town who were burning tires and stoning passive
motorists. At least five people were killed and 30 were arrested, police said.
A spokesman at a private clinic in the Crossroads squatter camp near Cape Town said, "We are treating 20 people in the camp. As far as we know none is serious."
In Soweto, the nation's largest black township near Johannesburg, police said they opened fire on unruly mobs at Musi High School, wounding 10 students and their female, white Afrikaans language teacher, A.E. Bester, 50.
The teacher was reported in fair condition in a South Rand hospital. The the students were released after treatment.
were arrested at Soweto's Jabavu High School under emergency rules requiring children to be in their classes during school hours.
Police also said 600 black students
In Cape Town, a committee of the President's Council, which advises Botha, issued a report recommending the scrapping of the pass laws,
They were taken to Diepkleoof prison while lawyers prepared legal applications to free them today, a spokesman for the civil rights group Black Sash said.
The Committee on Urbanization Strategy said in its 427-page report that the pass laws contributed to the unrest and conflict in the country and gave rise to bitterness and hatred
among blacks toward whites who have to apply and enforce them.
of apartheid to prevent mass migration of blacks from rural areas to the cities.
The pass laws force every black adult to carry an identity document and were designed by the architects
The committee recommended the government abolish influx control and that uniform identity documents be issued to all citizens of South Africa.
The recommendation came one day after Botha announced plans to grant South African citizenship to blacks in four of the nation's 10 tribal homelands.
Democrat challenge to sanctions fails
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Republican maneuver forced Democrats yesterday to scrap their challenge of President Reagan's limited sanctions against South Africa, but the losers vowed to impose tougher penalties in bills Reagan would be reluctant to veto.
A coalition led by Democrats lost two close votes this week to force their tougher sanctions to the floor and wanted to delay a third try. But the Republicans successfully exercised a parliamentary maneuver that blocked any future attempts to call up the sanctions bill.
Senate Majority leader Robert Dole of Kansas, saying enough votes had been held already, rejected the request by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, for the delay.
Kennedy then asked other supporters of the tougher sanctions to oppose their own request to consider
the bill, making the loss — 88-11 meaningless.
But the Republicans then stunned the Democrats by withdrawing their option to call up the conference committee report again.
The procedural effect was to seal off other efforts to call up the individual bill, forcing Democrats to a strategy of moving to attach the
sanctions to other measures this session.
Proponents of the tougher sanctions needed 60 votes to stop a threatened filibuster and call up the bill. They lost 53-34 on Monday and 57-41 on Wednesday, with the White House and Dole applying heavy pressure on Republicans to support the administration.
Kennedy and Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., said one legislative vehicle for the sanctions could be the general spending bill.
Another possible vehicle is the bill to raise the ceiling on the national debt, necessary to allow the government to pay its bills, including Social Security benefits and federal salaries.
Senate rejects immigration ammendment
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday narrowly rejected an amendment that opponents argued could cripple passage of a landmark immigration bill meant to stop a growing flood of illegal aliens across U.S. borders.
By a vote of 50-48, the Senate killed an amendment proposed by Sen.
Pete Wilson, R-Calif., that would have authorized a massive new program designed to let growers bring in thousands of foreign "guestworkers" to harvest highly perishable crops.
Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., said the amendment might have led to the defeat of the legislation when it reached the House.
illegal aliens across the border by imposing both criminal and civil penalties against employers who knowingly hire them. It also would grant amnesty to millions of aliens now living and working illegally in the United States.
The bill seeks to slow the flow of
Simpson said his bill would require government officials to respond to requests for foreign workers within 72 hours in emergency situations.
AIDS fear has donors frightened
The Associated Press
See related stories p.12.
Blood supplies are critically low in scattered sections of the nation and some health officials say unfounded fears of contracting AIDS may be keeping potential donors from giving blood.
"AIDS has just been in the public eye so much lately, you can't help but feel that plays a part in the shortage," said Dr. Adelisa Pallillo, acting director of blood services at the Red Cross chapter in Nashville, Tenn., where the inventory was down Wednesday from the usual 2,000 to 2,500 pints.
Some cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have been linked to receiving transfusions of contaminated blood.
But "you cannot contract AIDS by giving blood," said Dr. William C. Sherwood, director of Red Cross Blood Services in Philadelphia. "Giving blood is an extremely safe and easy procedure."
Gene Jeffers, manager of press relations for the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. said, "Traditionally, this time of year across the system we see shortages."
And while some officials in some regions said the fear of AIDS was responsible for reducing donations, "at the moment we don't at the national level feel there is a problem with the AIDS scare," Jeffers said.
Red Cross and hospital officials in Louisville, Ky., cited fear of AIDS as a factor in a shortage that had them seeking blood from as far away as Kansas.
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