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Tuesday, October 21, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
General Motors announces sale of its South African operations
DETROIT - General Motors Corp., long a target of anti-apartheid activists, said yesterday that it would withdraw from South Africa, selling operations there to a group headed by local management.
GM chairman Roger Smith said GM South African Ltd. had been losing money in a "very difficult South African business climate." He also said the company had been disappointed in the progress toward the elimination of apartheid.
GM — the world's largest industrial organization and a leader among U.S. firms in South Africa — had faced mounting pressure because of its presence in the racially troubled nation.
The automaker has 3,000 employees, most of them black, in the South African city of Port Elizabeth, but the head of GM in South Africa said none of the employees would lose their jobs.
Charges made against Hasenfus
MANAGUA/ Nicaragua — The leftist Sandinista government brought Eugene Hasenus before a tribunal court yesterday and formally charged him with violating public order and security.
Hasfenus was brought into the courtroom and moments later written charges were presented by Justice Minister Rodrigo Reyes. The court's president, Reynallo Monterrey, then read their aloud.
If convicted, Hasentuf faces up to 30 years in prison. He was captured Oct. 6 by government troops after surviving the shooting down of a plane ferrying supplies to rebels.
piles of records.
Earlier, Hasenfus' lawyer, Sotelo Borgen, had criticized the government for denying him access to his client before court proceedings began.
Hasfenus was captured a day after a C-123 cargo plane was shot down by Sandinista troops. Three others aboard, two Americans and a third still not identified, were killed.
Mozambique president killed
KOMATIPOORT, South Africa – President Samora Machel of Mozambique and 28 other people, including some of his Cabinet ministers, were killed when their jet crashed into a mountain ridge in eastern South Africa during a thunderstorm, officials said yesterday.
Authorities said Machel's Soviet-built Tupeloe Tu-134A "Crusty" jetliner slammed into a densely wooded ridge outside Nelspruit, about 200 miles east of Johannesburg, destroying trees and scattering wreckage for hundreds of yards.
Machel, 3, a Marxist who toppled Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique in 1975, was killed with the 28 others when the plane plunged to the ground about 9 p.m. Sunday, South African Foreign Minister Raelof
Ouencas in Pretoria and Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, said Mozambican Transport Minister Alcantara Santos and Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Carlos were among the dead. Others included aides, security officials, secretaries and Fernando Joao, a senior defense ministry official.
Botha told reporters in the border town of Komatipoort.
Ten people — including the plane's Soviet pilot, who was flown by helicopter to a Pretoria hospital for treatment — survived the disaster, but one was in critical condition, Boha said.
AUSTIN, Texas — Police smashed through windows and doors yesterday and arrested 16 people who barricaded themselves inside the University of Texas president's office to protest the school's investments in South Africa.
Police arrest 16 in Texas protest
The group did not take hostages, but three university administrators remained in the office during the 20-minute seizure on the fourth floor of the Main Building, also known as the Texas Tower.
University spokeswoman Joyce Pole said the demonstrators did not resist arrest and none were injured, although a campus police officer cut his leg when he kicked in a glass door. She said the university would press criminal charges.
According to Edwin Sharpe, vice president for administrative affairs and one of the three people in the office during the seizure, the demonstrators said, "We are taking over this office. Everyone should
evacuate."
The students, none of whom was injured, released a statement demanding the university divest within three months.
The demonstrators then locked the glass doors of the office with a heavy chain and barricaded the door with furniture. Webb said.
93 arrested during SDI protests
Anti-Star Wars demonstrators bombed cars with pumpkins yesterday at a California research center to protest President Reagan's space shield defense, and police hauled away protesters in Washington and Cleveland. At least 93 people were arrested nationwide.
The "No Business As Usual Network" also staged a rally at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, but police dispersed protesters and reported no problems.
The demonstrations at Strategic Defense Initiative research centers aimed to "deliberately disrupt and shut down through mass political action as much as possible of the government's flagship for war preparation." organizers said.
Near the White House, protesters disrupted rush hour traffic outside a government building that houses SDI offices.
Police at the Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. in Sunnyvale, Calif., said 150 people used all sorts of tactics to obstruct traffic, such as laying in the roadway and dropping pumpkins from an overpass onto cars.
From Kansan wires.
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