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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 5, 1986
Botha might lift emergency
The Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — President Pietter Botha announced yesterday that the 195-day-old state of emergency imposed to fight antiapartheid turmoil in South Africa probably would be lifted Friday.
His announcement was praised by the United States and given a cautious welcome from some South African liberals. But it provoked expressions of concern from the largest ap-apartheid group, the United Democratic Front, that the emergency would be supplanted by repressive legislation.
Botha also made an offer of statehood for Namibia, proposing an Aug. 1 target date to begin movements toward the territory's independence. He made the offer conditional on a withdrawal of Cuban
troops from neighboring Angola.
Botha made his announcements to a packed parliamentary chamber in the country's legislative capital. He declared the level of violence had dropped sufficiently to enable him to lift the state of emergency.
in the state of war.
The emergency, imposed July 21 on 30 districts and subsequently lifted from seven, gives police and troops powers to use guns against rioters and detain suspects indefinitely without trial. It has been widely condemned abroad, and its removal is a primary demand of anti-apartheid activists.
Botha said he would ask Parliament to review existing laws in case new laws were needed to help protect lives and property.
nives and property. The United Democratic Front, a multiracial coalition of anti-apartheid groups, said lifting the
emergency would be an acknowledgment that the emergency had failed to suppress the people's desire to be free.
But the organization expressed concern at Botha's mention of new laws, saying, "The government is going to broaden the already Draconian provisions of the Internal Security Act. The effect of this is that a de facto state of emergency will exist throughout our country."
In Johannesburg, police said an explosion in the main police station at John Vorster Square injured two officers. South African radio said two civilians also were wounded.
Police refused to say whether it was a bomb, but reported that the blast went off in a third-story toilet, blowing a hole in an outer wall. The blast occurred just before noon.
Sweden offers $71,000 reward
United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Police said yesterday that they may have missed capturing the killer of Prime Minister Olof Palme by mere seconds and offered to buy the assassin's accomplices with the largest reward in Swedish history.
Stockholm Police Chief Hans Holmer, head of the 120-man investigating team, said authorities thought the assassin was a professional because he fired from behind and used a .357-Magnum revolver with copper-tipped slugs that could pierce a bulletproof proof.
in breaking a news blackout to offer a $71,000 reward, Holmer said for the first time that the assassin did not work alone.
"We don't know whether the murderer is still here," the police
chief said. "But we hope the reward will buy the people who hide or have hidden the assassin."
He said a taxi driver told police he saw a man running to a car about 500 yards from the scene of the attack, and a police officer followed just as the suspected getaway car sped away.
"We are dealing with a professional police have received," Holmer said. The murder have received 4,000 tips and questioned 600 people after Palme, 59, was slain Friday night on a snowy Stockholm street as he left a movie theater with his wife.
Another official called the escape well-coordinated. One theory was that the killer was in close communication with the escape car, another that he had a choice between several cars.
the killer's identity nor his motive. Holmer said investigators faced a very tough case.
Holmer dismissed criticism of police handling of the case. Critics have said police arrived late at the murder scene, but Holmer said the first police car arrived within two or three minutes and a patrolman immediately began a foot chase.
There has been, however, no criticism of the fact that Palme was not accompanied by a bodyguard. Palme had dismissed them earlier.
Asked to comment on reports that a West German terrorist gang might have carried out the killing, Holmer said police were keeping all their options open.
Admitting that police knew neither
Callers claimed responsibility for the Red Army Faction, the most feared terrorist group in West Germany.
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