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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1986
S. African editor to give speech
By Tim Hrenchir
South African newspaper editor Donald Woods, who will speak on campus tonight, was banned by the South African government in 1977 from writing and speaking publicly and from being in a room with more than one person.
Staff writer
Woods was punished for his editorials against the government and was prohibited from returning to his job at the East London, South Africa, Daily Dispatch.
Woods, who left South Africa in
1977, will speak on "Aparthid and the Tragedy of South Africa" at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The speech is part of the University Lecture Series. Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said the appearance was part of a continuing University effort to promote understanding of apartheid.
As special adviser to the 49-nation Commonwealth Secretariat at London, Woods is a staunch advocate of economic divestment in South Africa. He has testified before Congressional committees and toured
college campuses for several years, talking about the use of divestment to put economic pressure on South Africa.
The Secretariat is the primary agency that coordinates all commonwealth activities.
While in South Africa, Woods was an outspoken opponent of the government's segregation policy of apartheid.
He was subject to South African publication laws that restricted criticism of the government and was prosecuted seven times for violating
those laws.
After he left South Africa, Woods was appointed director of the Lincoln Trust. a foundation that supplies information about apartheid to the international media.
- Woods has written three books on South Africa.
The first, "Biko," is a biography of black leader Stephen Biko, who died in South African police custody. Woods, who was a close friend of Biko, published evidence that Biko was killed by police.
Food stamp proposal gets good review in committee
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A proposal to exempt food stamp purchases from state and local sales taxes met little opposition from the House Assessment and Taxation Committee yesterday. The bill's sponsor said the state faced being cut off of the federal food stamp program without the exemption.
Rep. James Lowther, R-
Emporia, said he introduced the
measure because a provision in the 1965 federal Farm Bill required that all states exempt the Department of Agriculture's food stamps from all sales taxes. Lowther said Kansas was one of 17 states that now taxed food stamp purchases.
Without the exemption, Lowther said, the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services in October will receive receiving around $70 million in food stamps.
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