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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1985
News Briefs
Lange might allow nuclear ships in port
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Prime Minister David Lange, in an apparent bid to improve ties with the United States, said yesterday his government may change its policy banning visits by nuclear warships.
Lange's government currently bans ships that are nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed and will not permit warships to enter its ports without a guarantee from the respective government that the vessels do not fall into either category.
Lange said a committee of Cabinet ministers could be set up to determine whether ships were armed with nuclear weapons and to grant permission to enter New Zealand ports.
NRC denies license
WASHINGTON — A Nuclear Regulatory Commission board yesterday denied an operating license to the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station in New York because of inadequate emergency plans for handling a radiation disaster.
An NRC atomic safety and licensing board, in an order likely to be appealed, said defects of the plan were largely the fault of New York state and Suffolk County officials.
From Kansan wire reports.
Bishop Tutu's son arrested
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police yesterday arrested the son of Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu when he denounced officers questioning an 8-year-old boy who was jailed with hundreds of other black children for boycoting classes.
Police also raided the offices of the nation's leading anti-apartheid organization as well as a welfare organization and detained a minister in a crackdown on dissidents opposed to the white minority government's policy of racial segregation and discrimination.
In Zweetemba, near Worcester in Cape province, police went from door to door whipping black children to make them end a class boycott, local councilwoman Di Bishop said. School boycots have become an important weapon of blacks against the government.
Trevor Tutu, a 29-year-old advertising executive and the eldest of Bishop Tutu's four children, was detained without charge for a renewable period of 14 days - a practice permitted under South Africa's 5-week old state of emergency, his attorney, Richard Spoor, said.
The detention occurred as Tutu monitored the processing of some of 336 black school children arrested Friday in the sprawling black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, on charges of being out of school without permission.
"This is a joke, these people are clowns." Tutu said as white officers, flanked by black constables armed with rubber bullet guns and shotguns, questioned an 8-year-old
Kurt was reprimanded by prosecutors, but a short time later he began denouncing the officers, saying, "This is shit. You are talking
boy during the processing at a magistrates court.
He was hustled into a police car, which drove off at high speed.
Tutu's father, Anglican Bishop Desmond Tumon, won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle against apartheid.
"I'm proud of him," said the bishop, who has been forbidden to visit his son in Soweto's Diekloep jail. "It will have helped focus attention on the massive power the police have and which they are not shy about using. It seems to auger badly for the future of our country."
Soweto, South Africa's largest black ghetto, has been largely unaffected by a yearlong wave of racial violence that has claimed the lives of more than 645 persons, but authorities recently imposed a curfew and have started cracking down on dissidence there.
Officials said the filing of charges against the children was postponed for six weeks pending a final decision by the attorney general on whether to proceed with the case.
The children were among almost 900 pupils arrested Friday for being out of school without the written police permission required under emergency rule.
In Santa Barbara, Calif., White House spokesman Larry Speakes criticized the arrests of school children and black leaders, including Bishop Tutu's son.
"We do not believe repression and detentions will bring an end to South Africa's political crisis," Speaks said.
In Cape Town, militant cleric Dr. Allan Boesak said a protest march in Cape Town would take place tomorrow in defiance of government threats to stop it.
Boesak said he expected 20,000 people to join the march on Pollsmoor prison to demand the release of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, who is serving the 23rd year of a life sentence for sabotage.
"We are not seeking confrontation," Boesak said. "I will not let people be slaughtered. That's the responsibility of the South African government."
Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange has urged people not to join the protest and has warned that police would take 'stern action' to prevent it.
In Durban, Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley said police raided the offices of the Diakonia welfare organization, detaining the Rev. Paddy Kearney, an organizer, and seizing a number of documents.
Offices of the anti-government United Democratic Front in the Diakonia building were also searched yesterday and a number of documents were seized, staff members said.
Police last Friday detained 17 leading members of the UDF, the country's leading radical anti-apartheid movement. Thirty-eight members of the group, founded two years ago, have already been charged with treason.
Negotiations rejected by Nicaraguan rebels
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A leader of Nicaraguan rebels based in Honduras said yesterday that opposition groups based in Costa Rica were "selling out their country" by suggesting that the Soviet Union join three-way peace negotiations.
Adolfo Calero, a director of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, or FDN, rejected the suggestion by rebel organizations based in Costa Rica that the Soviet Union and the United States meet for talks to end the fighting in Nicaragua.
The FDN received most of $80 million the Reaga administration
gave to support the war against the Sandinista government. It will receive much of the $27 million in "humanitarian" aid recently approved by Congress.
The three-way talks were proposed by opposition groups based in Costa Rica, the Southern Bloc, and the Nationalist Party, Pastora, a disaffected Sandinista.
The Southern Bloc, recently formed in San Jose, Costa Rica, is led by the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance, known as ARDE.
Nicarguaan President Daniel Ortega rejected the talks proposal, calling it a CIA play to detract from the peace efforts.
Texas sodomy law upheld
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the Texas sodomy law banning homosexual activity and making the private sexual lives of more than 700,000 homosexuals illegal.
In a split decision, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who reversed a Dallas district judge who had ruled the law an unconstitutional violation of privacy.
"In view of the strong objection to homosexual conduct, which has prevailed in Western culture for the past seven centuries, we cannot say that (the Texas law) is totally
unrelated to the pursuit of implementing morality, a permissible state goal," the judges said.
Attorneys for Potter County District Attorney Danny Hill had asked the full court of 16 judges to reinstate the sodomy law that was struck down in 1882 by U.S. District Judge Jerry Buckmeyer.
The statute sets a fine of up to $200 for anyone convicted of engaging in oral or anal sex.
The circuit judges ruled, 9-7, that the law did not invade the privacy of Donald F. Baker, a Dallas homosexual who filed suit in 1979.
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