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Tuesday, January 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Botha angry at mixed-race minister
S. African Cabinet member leads anti-apartheid swim at whites-only beach
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa — An angry President Pieter Botha exhastified mixed-race Cabinet minister Allan Hendriek yesterday for leading a Jan. 4 protest swim at a whites-only beach, government sources said.
The sources said Both was enraged that Hendrickse, the first nonwhite member of his Cabinet, chose to underline his opposition to aparteid in a public demonstration at the all-white King's Beach near Port Elizabeth.
A Botha aide described a meeting of Hendrickse, the president and other Cabinet members in Cape Town as "stormy with no meeting of minds."
Hendrickse said his talks with the president were frank.
Hendrickse, a minister without portfolio, has threatened to withdraw from the Cabinet and Parliament this year if Botha refuses to repeal
legislation permitting racially segregated residential and leisure
Hendricke arrived at the beach in swimming trunks and a robe, saying,
This is God's beach and no man has a right to say who can use it, Hendrickse declared before diving into the water.
"The separate amenities act will have to go." Then he plunged into the rough surf, followed by about 60 other mixed-race or "colored" bathers.
“This is God’s beach” and no man has a right to say who can use it, Hendricks declared before diving into the water.
Two days earlier, police arrested 18 people nearby at another whites-only beach when blacks defiantly took a swim.
The constitution also created a chamber for Asian lawmakers, but the country's 24 million black majority still is denied representation.
Hendrickse, leader of the dominant Labor Party in the segregated "colored" House of Representatives, was among the first non-white lawmakers elected to Parliament under a new constitution in September 1984.
Also in Port Elizabeth yesterday, thousands of black pupils returned to classrooms to begin a new school year, but many stayed home because of fears that weekend violence might continue.
Street fights Sunday left at least three people dead and more than 10 injured, township sources said.
Residents of black townships in the area said 40 to 60 heavily armed black men were bused in before dawn Sunday, reportedly looking for leaders of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front who backed a two-year boycott of black schools to protest inferior education for blacks. The organization recently called off the boycott.
The attackers reportedly wore blue overalls — a type usually issued to auto workers in Uitenhage, about 30 miles away — and carried sticks, axes and guns.
Township residents told reporters and members of the Black Sash civil rights movement that the men attacked young black radicals who were loyal to the United Democratic Front, a large anti-apartheid group in South Africa.
Convicted killer likely to blame ex-girlfriend
United Press International
DETROIT — Daniel Remeta, who killed three people during a northwest Kansas crime spree two years ago, has told his lawyer he might implicate his former girlfriend in the death of an Arkansas store clerk.
Remeta, 29, of Traverse City, Mich., has contended all along that his former girlfriend, Lisa Dunn, paid the crimes for which he was convicted
However, now that Dunn has rejected him, Remeta is considering blaming her for the Feb. 11, 1985, slaying of Linda Marvin, a clerk at a market in Mulberry, Ark., said Remeta's attorney, Bob Marquette
"Danny has always told us here, and he still insists, that throughout the escapades, no one died because of what he did in any of the stores."
Marquette said recently. "It was only when Lisa and Mark (Walter) went into the markets that somebody died. He saves he staved in the car."
His faith shaken by Dumn's rejection, Remeta has decided "he's going to tell the truth about what happened," Marquette said.
Remeta has been charged with capital murder in Marvin's death. He has asked to be allowed to act as his own attorney and now is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Arkansas State Hospital in Little Rock.
A hearing is scheduled for late February to consider Remeta's request to defend himself and the results of his mental examination. Marquette said Remeta gave no reason for wanting to be his own attorney.
"It came like a bolt from the blue," Marmette said.
Remeta, who has an extensive criminal record, allegedly led a cross-country murder and robbery spree in 1985 with Dunn and Mark A. Walker, then 18, of Suttons Bay, Mich.
The trio was linked to five killings in Florida, Arkansas and Kansas before the rampage ended in a shootout with authorities near Colby, Kan., that left Walker dead and Remeta and Dunn slightly wounded.
Remeta pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murder in Kansas and received life sentences. He was convicted of murder last summer in Florida and was sentenced to death in that state. Dunn was not charged in the Florida killing.
In Kansas, Remeta testified in Dunn's defense, maintaining that she was his captive and asleep during the robberies and slayings. At one point,
he volunteered to be executed if the charges against her were dismissed
charges against her were dismissed.
Dunn, now 20, was convicted in Kansas of murder and kidnapping.
She was sentenced to life in prison.
Kansas does not have the death penalty.
Dunn has been charged with capital murder in Arkansas, but her extradition was blocked by former Gov. John Carlin, a staunch opponent of the death penalty. Carlin argued that he did not want to release Dunn to Arkansas until her Kansas appeals were exhausted.
However, Eddie Saxon, assistant Crawford County district attorney in Arkansas, has said extradition efforts might resume because Kansas has a new governor, Mike Hayden, who favors the death penalty.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Going up?
Judy Kiehl and her 4-year-old son, Matthew Toman, both of Lawrence, learned that going up the hill by the Campanile was much slower than going down. Kiehl had a difficult time persuading his son to walk back up the hill yesterday, so she had to pull him up the hill after each ride down.
Divestiture urged in N. Ireland
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Some of the church groups that used divestiture to push U.S. companies to withdraw from South Africa turned their attention yesterday to firms doing business in the religious battleground of Northern Ireland.
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility said 10 Roman Catholic and Protestant church groups had filed shareholder resolutions that questioned seven U.S. corporations about their operations in Northern Ireland.
between its Protestant majority and Roman Catholic minority.
Northern Ireland has long been plagued by violent sectarian strife
Targets of the resolutions include American Brands, American Home Products, Du Pont, United Ford, General Motors and VP Ford.
Northern Irish Catholics charge that they frequently are discriminated against in employment, housing and other civil rights.
The 10 church groups were part of a widespread move by religious organizations beginning in 1975 to use their influence as corporate addressees to put pressure on companies doing business in South Africa.
Four of the corporations that are targets of the new church effort — American Brands, American Home Products, Du Pont and United Technologies — are being asked to follow the so-called MacBride Principles in their Northern Ireland subsidiaries.
The MacBride Principles, named after 1974 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Sean MacBride, are modeled after the Sullivan Principles of corporate responsibility applied to South Africa and were first formulated in 1884 by four Irish sponsors representing the Catholic and Protestant communities.
They include a set of nine equal employment opportunity guidelines and call for increased employment by people from under-represented religious groups, the banning of provocative sectarian emblems, and the abolition of differential employment criteria that discriminate on the basis of religious or ethnic origins.
"Support for the MacBride Principles would be a non-violent step toward a just solution to the inequality of job opportunity experienced by many in Northern Ireland," said Sister Regina Murphy, spokeswoman for the religious groups.
New Alabama governor returns office to Republicans as Wallace steps down
United Press International
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Guy Hunt, Alabama's first Republican governor since Reconstruction, was inaugurated yesterday, succeeding George Wallace, whose last act before leaving office was to swear in his son as state treasurer.
Hunt pledged an administration of legal and social reform, promising to improve the state's image that critics blame on Wallace and his segregationist policies of the 1960s.
"Now, today, we have arrived at that long-awaited moment in Alabama history, the moment when we have finally put to rest the forces that have divided us in this terrible struggle." Hunt said.
Hunt, 53, pledged an economic revolution. Carefully avoiding Wallace's controversial past, he praised Wallace for paying "a grievous price" in the civil rights struggle and told him "your sacrifice will be forever remembered by all Alabamians."
King Jr. once served as pastor.
Wallace, 67, nearly deaf and confined to a wheelchair since an assassination attempt in 1972, sat quietly near the spot on the Capitol steps where he was inaugurated in 1963 and declared "segregation forever."
That same site, where Wallace administered the oath of office to his son, George Wallace Jr., was one block from the church where slain civil rights activist Martin Luther
The ceremony paused for the ringing of the Liberty Bell replica on the Capitol lawn in memory of King, whose birthday was celebrated yesterday as a national holiday.
In 1965, Wallace ordered club-wielding lawmen to stop marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, sparking a bloody confrontation that eventually led to Congress' passing of the Voting Rights Act.
Wallace, who served an unprecedented four terms, is expected to take a consulting job with Troy State University. He in a recent interview that he was worried about how history would treat him.
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