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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Feb. 13, 1986
4 more die in S. Africa
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A soldier and a suspected black nationalist guerrilla died yesterday in a gun battle on the Botswana border and police fatally shot two blacks in new racial unrest. authorities said.
In Durban, two bombs exploded in a suburban electricity station, but there were no injuries. A police officer died last month of injuries sustained in a similar explosion at another Durban station, and the outlawed African National Congress rebel group admitted responsibility for that attack.
A defense force spokesman said a soldier was shot and killed yesterday while his unit chased two suspected ANC rebels thought to be responsible for a land mine attack that had injured a white motorist hours earlier.
"An ANC terrorist armed with a AK-47 rifle was shot dead in this contact," the spokesman said. The AK-47 is a Soviet weapon.
The government has warned Botswana repeatedly to prevent guerrilla infiltration across its border into South Africa. The defense force spokesman said Botswana had been informed about yesterday's shoot-out.
The land mine exploded near the northern Zimbabwe border town of Messina, rupturing the eardrum of the motorist.
Nine people have died in similar attacks in the area since Nov. 26, and police and defense officers blamed the exiled ANC guerilla group, which is dedicated to the overthrow of South Africa's white minority government.
The suspected guerrilla activity came as the government moved to quell speculation that jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela's release from prison was imminent and as police reported two blacks were shot and killed during renewed anti-government rioting.
One man hurling stones was killed by police fire at Clermont, near Durban, police said. Another black man was shot and killed when he resisted arrest and stabbed an officer with a broken bottle at Westonarla, about 30 miles southwest of Johannesburg.
The deaths brought to 18 the number of blacks who have died since Saturday in a resurgence of violence linked to protests against the government's apartheid policies of racial discrimination and segregation.
More than 1,220 people have died in almost two years of militant opposition to white rule.
Mandela has become the symbol of the black resistance in South Africa and his wife, Winnie, canceled a planned visit yesterday to see her husband in a Cape Town prison.
Sources close to the Mandela family said she had no definite information on prospects for the release of her husband, who has been in jail since 1962 and is serving a life sentence for sabotage and treason.
"His release is not imminent," Information Minister Louis Nel said.
He declined to comment on reports that Pretoria is negotiating with Western governments about linking Mandela's freedom to the release of a soldier captured in Angola last May.
The government suggested in recent weeks that Mandela might be released as a humanitarian gesture if Angola freed the soldier and the Soviet Union released Soviet dissidents Anatoly Shcharansky and Andrei Sakharov. Shcharansky was released Tuesday as part of a big East-West prison swap in Berlin.
Nel declined to comment on reports that Foreign Minister Roelf Botha was engaged in negotiations about Mandela's freedom in talks in Geneva yesterday with U.S. envoy Chester Crocker.
Shcharansky ridicules the KGB, describes Soviet prison horrors
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JERUSALEM — Freed Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, in his first interview since arriving in Israel, thumbed his nose at the KGB yesterday and painted a bleak picture of his eight years in a Soviet prison on sov charges.
Shcharansky vowed to use his experience to help others like him who have been prevented from leaving the Soviet Union.
Shcharansky, 38, and his wife, Avital, 35, spent their first full day of married life together yesterday in Israel, a day after his release in an East-West prisoner exchange in Berlin. They last saw each other the day after their wedding in 1974.
"Of course I knew next to nothing," Shcharansky said in an Israeli radio interview when asked if he was aware of efforts to free him from Soviet prisons, "because in my mother's letters there was no word on such activity. Otherwise, they would have been confiscated."
For most of the day, according to friends, they remained in seclusion at a government-supplied
apartment in Jerusalem, but Shcharsansky, a Soviet Jewish dissident jailed for nine years by the Soviet Union, agreed to give the brief radio interview.
Shcharansky painted a bleak picture of his years in Soviet prisons on charges of spying for the CIA — allegations both he and the United States denied.
He said he spent long periods in solitary confinement - 92 days on one occasion and 110 on another. Contact with the outside world was infrequent.
"Avital wrote me twice a week," he said, "but I received two letters a year and that was a good year. There have been bad years when I did not receive even one letter."
Asked the KGB, the Soviet state security agency, had warned him to stay silent upon his release. Shcharansky replied, "For all those years I had been so hostile to the KGB that they would have been afraid even to mention this to me. They knew that I either would refuse to talk to them or would listen to what they say and do the exact opposite."
suspicious about the Soviets' motives even after he was placed on a special flight.
"In the plane in East Berlin, they did not want to take me off by force," Shcharansky recalled. "They told me. You will have to leave on your own and make a straight line to the car. Agree? Do we have a deal?"
Shcharansky said he was
Shcharansky said he told the Soviets, "You know full well I make no deals with the KGB. If you tell me to walk in a straight line, I'll walk in a zig-zag."
"I did not walk in a straight line," said Shcharansky, a mathematician and computer expert. "It may be funny, but I had my principles never to agree to anything the KGB said."
Shcharansky said he formally had asked Soviet authorities to permit his mother, Ida Milgrom, and his brother, Leonid, to leave the country and join him in Israel.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said the Soviets had indicated that permission to emigrate will be granted to Shcharansky's mother and other relatives.
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