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Monday, October 27, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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S. African officials retaliate, expel all members of Red Cross
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa — The Pretoria government yesterday ordered all 16 members of the international Red Cross mission to leave the country as quickly as possible. The order was in retaliation to South Africa's expulsion from a Red Cross conference in Geneva.
The South African delegation was expelled from a meeting of the International Red Cross conference Saturday by a vote of 159-25 on a resolution from Kenya protesting its apartheid policy, a method of racial separation.
It was the first expulsion of a government for its domestic policies in the international relief society's 123-year history.
The U.S. representative and other Western nations voted against the resolution. They argued that the South African delegation did not represent the country because it represented only the minority of whites.
Foreign Minister Roelof of 'Pik' Botha announced the counterrepeal in Pretoria.
"The government has decided to suspend the representatives in South Africa until the South African government is again in a position to participate in conferences of the International Red Cross," he said. "The representatives have been requested to leave the country as quickly as possible."
Six killed in South African mine
JOHANNESBURG — A cable on a mine-shaft elevator snapped yesterday and pitched the cairo 2,000 feet down a shaft, killing six miners, seriously injuring
Kennedy Maxwell, manager of the Cooke 3 section at Randfortinest Estates Gold Mine, said rescue workers reached the bottom of the shaft nearly seven hours after the 7 a.m. accident. The rescue workers moved the injured out through a narrow gap between the rock wall and the wrecked cage.
four and briefly trapping 22 men who were cutting a ventilation channel.
It was the first serious gold mine accident since Sept. 16 when 177 men died in a fire a mile below ground at the Kinross mine in the worst accident in South Africa's 100-year gold mining history.
South Africa's 10th largest single wire cable carrying one of two counter-balanced elevators snapped, sending the cage plunging to the bottom of the half-mile shaft. The cage was being lifted to collect heavy equipment from the surface.
Guerrillas agree to papal truce
ASSISI, Italy — On the eve of a one-day global truce and prayer summit proposed by Pope John Paul II, fighting continued throughout the world.
lightning guerrilla forces, opposition groups and governments in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia told the Vatican that they would observe the pontif's call for a one-day, worldwide cease-fire today.
More than 150 leaders of the world's religions began gathering yesterday in Assisi, 85 miles north of Rome, for the inter-religious prayer meeting. The medieval town has been associated with peace movements since St. Francis began preaching in the 13th century.
Representatives of Bahai, Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, American Indians, traditional African religions, Shintoists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians agreed to attend.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said one-day pledges to lay down arms have come from groups in Lebanon, the Philippines, Colombia, El Salvador, Chile, Cambodia and Sri Lanka.
MANILA, Philippines — Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile yesterday vowed to continue his anti-communist campaign and said President Corazon Aquino's government must be beyond suspicion of corruption to successfully battle communist insurgents.
Enrile continues his campaigns
The defense chief spoke to a crowd of 20,000 that chanted "Enrile, Enrile, Rambo, Rambo." He warned them about communist bombings in the capital.
The protest outside the downtown post office was the second anti-communist rally that Enrile addressed during the weekend.
He outlined eight points that he said were necessary to eradicate communism, including a progressive economic system, a disciplined military, a responsive police force, and a clean, honest and efficient judiciary.
Enrile's persistent warnings about the communist threat, and his questioning of the legitimacy of Aquino's government has produced a serious rift within the Cabinet. It also has prompted several Cabinet ministers to suggest that the Harvard-trained defense minister resign.
Pardon possible for Hasenfus
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — President Daniel Ortega has left open the possibility that captured U.S. flier Eugene Hasenfus could be pardoned if he is convicted by a People's Tribunal of running guns to U.S.-backed rebels.
ortega hunted at a pardon as he answered reporters' questions Saturday night after a speech to workers at a Coca-Cola plant.
"Justice will be applied by the tribunal." he said.
"Pardons have been given, even to former members of (deposed dictator Anastasio) Somoza's national guard."
Hasenstu, 45, of Marinette, Wis., could receive a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison if convicted on charges of terrorism, criminal association and violation of public security laws.
The People's Tribunal, a special court created to try the rebel contras and their accused accomplices, has a conviction rate of higher than 90 percent.
Husenfus was captured Oct. 6, a day after he parachutped from a C-123 cargo plane carrying guns to the U.S.-backed contras. The plane was shot down by Sandinista troops.
PLO gains ground in Lebanon
SIDON, Lebanon — Shiite Muslim militias yesterday clashed with PLO guerrillas near Sidon and Tyre, but the guerrillas captured five small villages.
The tour day death toll has risen to 40, and 80 are wounded.
In yesterday's fighting, the Palestinian guerrillas smashed the Amal forces and captured the five small villages — known to be Shite strongholds.
At least 20 people were killed in the bloody house-to-house clashes, including seven men, and 15 were wounded.
Also yesterday, Amal gunners tried to storm the Rashidiyeh refugee camp, populated by 17,000 Palestinians near Tyre. 46 miles south of Beirut, and gained some ground. No immediate casualty count was available.
Police reported that there was a tense three-way stand-off at a bridge over the Awali River outside Sidon, where the Amal tried to advance a convoy of nearly 1,000 militiamen and equipment to back up the Rashidiyhi siege.
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