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Friday, October 10, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs Botha bars foreign donations to popular anti-apartheid group
JOHANNESBURG — President Pieter Botha wester- barred South Africa's largest legal anti-apartheid group from accepting money from foreign donors.
Botha's step was the first official punitive action against the group, the United Democratic Front, but authorities frequently have blocked its meetings and demonstrations and thousands of its members have been jailed.
United Democratic Front Treasurer Azhar Cachalia said the group, the biggest legal opposition movement in the country with 2.5 million members, would challenge the order in court.
The government accused the organization of being a front for the outlawed African National Congress black rebel group. The ANC was banned in 1960 but is still the most popular black nationalist group in South Africa.
In a special edition of the Government Gazette, Botha declared the United Democratic Front an "affected organization" and barred it from accepting funds from abroad.
The action against the United Democratic Front, an alliance of about 850 political, religious and civic organizations, was taken under a 1974 statute on foreign financing of political organizations.
Front publicity secretary Murphy Morobe said the group was not certain how the government's action would affect its affiliates' foreign financing. But lawyers said it appeared Botha's order would not affect fund-raising.
Polish group ordered to disband
WARSAW, Poland — Polish authorities ordered a seven-man Solidarity council led by the labor union's founder, Lech Walesa, to disband yesterday.
The authorities said the council's operation was illegal and disruptive to peace.
He hinted that the six council members might conduct a strategy meeting in Gdansk soon.
waiesa said he formed the new Solidarity group to steer the underground activities of his outlawed union into the open. He maintained that the council was legal and did not need the approval of the government.
Jozef Pinion, Solidarity spokesman, said the International Labor Organization, a Geneva-based U.N. agency promoting full employment and improvement of working conditions, disapproved of the Polish government outlawing Solidarity. Solidarity was suspended when martial law was decared in 1981 and then hanned a year later.
The government recently freed 225 prisoners, including members of the council, under the amnesty it said was intended to help bring reconciliation in Poland. However, authorities warned that those freed could be imprisoned again if they resumed their political activities.
N.Y. police corruption reported
NEW VORK — Corrupt police in a Brooklyn precinct went haywire, and officers broke down apartment doors with sledgehammers and swung through windows on ropes to steal drugs and money, a newspaper reported yesterday.
The 77th Precinct in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of the city is at the center of a corruption scandal that erupted Sept. 23. Thirteen officers, who are accused of stealing from drug dealers, have been suspended without pay.
New York Newsday quoted unidentified sources saying criminal evidence against those officers as well as 14 others was being presented to a grand jury. Another 22 officers already face departmental charges.
That would mean that nearly a quarter of the 231-member precinct will be under investigation.
Charles Hynes, a special prosecutor handling the case, and police officials refused to comment. Officers at the station house also refused comment.
PASADENA, Calif. — An 11-year-old boy police call a hardcore drug dealer is the latest child to be arrested for selling cocaine in the same two-block area, police said yesterday.
"This kid was so aggressive it was shocking," Lt. Jerry Schultze said. "He was a real pro salesman, and he's only in fifth grade."
The boy, who police said had been arrested eight previous times for various minor offenses, was taken into custody with two teenagers by undercover officers from the Neighborhood Crime Task Force, a 1/2-year-old unit set up to catch drug dealers in a high-crime area. Schultz said.
child arrested for dealing drugs
Schultze said police thought child-dealers were supplied by older teenagers or adults and given sales instructions.
schultze said the boy had expert and adult knowledge of how to act when taken to the station, refusing to tell officers how long he had been dealing or where he got the cocaine.
The 11-year-old boy, whose name was not released because of his age, was turned over to his parents to await a juvenile court appearance on probable charges of possession and sale of cocaine.
Veterans leave medals in protest
WASHINGTON — A group of American war veterans, many wearing blue peace ribbons around their arms, yesterday left dozens of combat medals at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to protest U.S. aid to rebels in Nicaragua.
A Congressional Medal of Honor, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts, carnations and daisies were placed along the base of the memorial as five of the veterans stood arm-in-arm, reflecting on their act of defiance.
The veterans, four of whom are on their 39th day of fasting to protest U.S. backing of the contrasts fighting to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, said they felt betrayed by their government.
Barbara Graves, 73, the first civilian woman awarded the Bronze Star, said she found her medal in a musy closet and renounced the award with no regrets.
U. S. Park Police, who patrol the monuments in the capital, gathered more than 75 medals after the brief but emotional ceremony.
A police spokesman said the medals would be taken to a storage center in suburban Greenbelt, Md., and might later be offered for display at the National Archives unless the veterans reclaimed them within 24 hours.
Blind offended by Braille shirts
BOULDER, Colo. — Jerome Whaler may think his "Body Braille" T-shirts are novel and funny, but a chapter of the National Federation of the Blind considers them a shortsighted attempt at humor.
The shirts, advertised in a Boulder newspaper and available by mail order, are imprinted with messages in raised black dots. The buyer is offered a choice of phrases such as "feel the heat." "hands on experience," "feeling good" and "a touch of class."
Marci Carpenter, president of the National Federation of the Blind in Boulder, has demanded that Whaler stop making the shirts. She also asked the Colorado Daily to stop running advertisements for them.
Homer Page, a blind Boulder city councilman, also is offended by the shirts.
"The joke is clear: read the Braille and get a cheap feel at the same time," he said. "That's not what Braille's about — and it's not what blind people are about, either."
Whaler, 41, of Montrose, Colo., said he had talked with visually impaired people who thought the shirts were great.
From Kansan wires.
Volleyball Manager's Meeting
Monday, Oct. 13
6:30 p.m., North Gym
Instant Scheduling 8:30-4 p.m.
Tuesday and Wednesday Oct.14 & 15
Official's Meeting 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.14 Room 156 Rob.
Coming Saturday, Oct.11 ΔΩΓ "FOUR DOG NIGHT"
at Hoover's Barn from 8-1 a.m. Bus service to and from Oliver Hall
Oliver Hall.
Tickets
$4 in advance
$5 at the door
"Spuds"
Call 841-3856 for ticket locations
KU vs. Iowa State Live Broadcast
KZR 106
1 p.m. Saturday
Sponsored By
Laird Noller Ford
KU Bookstores
Red Baron Pizza
Sunflower Surplus
Ed Marlings
The Palace
King of Jeans
Burger King
Seventy-five years ago today, the nation of Republic of China was born. It was the first democratic nation in Asia. The Chinese Student Association, cordially invites you to join us in the celebration of China Day.
There will be:
Exhibit of Chinese artifacts
Traditional Chinese snacks
Cultural show
Kung-Fu
Folk songs
Musical performance using authentic Chinese instruments
Time: Oct.11, 1986 (Saturday)
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.Exhibits
7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.Cultural Show
9:00 p.m.-11:30 p.m.Dance
Place: Lawrence Community Building (corner of Mass. & 11th St.)
Fee: Members-Free Non-members-$1.00
For more information please contact:
Yitai Hu, President (749-3865)
Chern Yang, Executive Officer
(749-0128)
We crossed the street to build a better shoppe.
Announcing our newest Lawrence location - just across the street from the old one. We wanted to do more than just remodel our 23rd Street Long John Silver's - so we built a brand new shop on the other side! The new building is bigger, brighter, and more comfortable for you.
WE'VE EVEN INCLUDED A DRIVE- THRU FOR EXTRA CONVENIENCE. Come visit our new building soon — it's located at 1503 W. 23rd Street.
Sounds good to me!
1503 W. 23rd St., Lawrence