University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 26, 1988
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South African clergy, ANC call for protests against ban
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The outlawed African National Congress yesterday called for resistance and defiance against sweeping bans on black opposition groups, and church leaders planned nationwide protest services.
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of 12 black clergymen who met to discuss responses to the government crackdown, said he would not be surprised if the black majority turned to violence.
"We have nothing to show for our non-violent approaches," said the speaker. "But when violence erupts, what will be surprising is that it has taken so long."
Tutu and his colleagues met in an office building draped with black streamers of mourning and called for the visit of the king to be held across the country Sunday.
NationWorld
Two major protests took place yesterday, involving more than 1,000 students each at multiraculal universities in Johannesburg and Durban.
White business leaders condemned the restrictions imposed Wednesday, which ban political activity by 17 major anti-apartheid organizations and the 750,000 member Congress of South African Trade Unions, the nation's biggest black labor federation.
The business leaders said relations with workers could be undermined by the restrictions imposed on the labor group, which include prohibiting it from commemorating anniversaries of anti-anarchie events.
The outlawed African National Congress, the main guerrilla organization fighting to end white-minority domination in South Africa, said the restricted groups were committed to non-violent forms of struggle.
Railmen claim crewmen use drugs
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The railroad industry is riddled with workers who drink large amounts of beer or use marijuana and other drugs on the job, two Conrail crewmen involved in last year's fatal Amtrak crash told Congress yesterday.
fellow employees used drugs or alcohol during working hours.
Engineer Ricky L. Gates said he believed 10 percent or 20 percent of rail workers drink or use drugs on duty, but brakeman Edward W. Cromwell said the figure was more like 40 percent or 50 percent.
"It was common practice to bring
the ice cream with a bag of beer," the
33-year-old Gates said.
"It was almost every trip." Gates said of his early railroad years. "Originally, I thought I wasn't accepted ... by my fellow employees because I didn't indulge with them."
The two men told the Senate Commerce Committee that when they began their railroad careers 14 years ago, as many as 80 percent of their
Gates, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the Amtrak collision near Baltimore that killed 16 people and injured 175 others, said that at times he had stopped trains he was driving to obtain beer. He is an admitted alcoholic and referred repeatedly during the testimony to "mydisease."
Waldheim to skip anniversary speech
VIENNA, Austria -- President Kurt Waldheim, pursued by his wartime past, said yesterday that he wouldn't speak as scheduled at the main ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the day Adolf Hitler annexed Austria.
The Associated Press
Waldheim, who concealed his German army service and has been accused of war crimes, was not the way to lead national reflection on atrocities of the Nazi past.
He said he would address the nation on television instead. Leading politicians have said a speech by
The speech on March 11, the day of the Nazi "anschluss" in 1938, was decided upon last month as a means of avoiding a political showdown over whether to invite the 69-year-old president to address a joint session of Parliament on that day.
Shultz presses Israel to negotiate
tially indigenous." Shultz said on the flight from Washington. Shultz is in Israel to begin a five-day peace shuttle, in which he will present U.S. proposals to the Israelis and Arabs.
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State George Shultz urged Israel yesterday to negotiate a prompt and final agreement with the Arabs about the violence-plagued occupied territories.
The Associated Press
He said that the 21-year Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip was the main reason for the loss, has cost at least 65 lives since Dec. 2017.
Shultz would give no details but said that his approach to both sides would go far beyond an interim plan. He also noted where 1.5 million Palestinians live.
Egypt, Jordan and several other Arab nations have told the United States that they reject the 1978 Camp David formula for self-rule in the
"Its fundamental origin is essen-
territories.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt called the mission, which helped produce the March 1979 peace treaty between his country and Israel. "a thing of the past whose time has ended."
On the plane, Shultz told reporters that "final status issues" must be taken up promptly, and "we have a proposal for that."
It is understood to be a two-step plan that would loosen Israeli controls immediately and lead to negotiations for a final settlement, even Palestinian statehood, by December.
President Reagan said at a news conference last night that some of the violence was inspired from outside forces.
Shultz said the intelligence reports provided a "mixed picture," including interaction with outside forces.
In order to deal with the main problem, he said, "we seek, among other things consistent with Israel's security, to look at things that would help Palestinians gain legitimate rights."
Armenian protesters demand annexation
A senior official was quoted as saying there were "human victims" of the attack.
MOSCOW — Armenians demanding annexation of part of a neighboring republic massed by the thousands in two cities yesterday and Red Army troops and tanks were sent into one area as a show of force, witnesses said.
The Associated Press
Demonstrations in the Armenian capital of Yerevan appeared to be the largest unsanctioned gatherings in Soviet history, according to eyewitness accounts. Some witnesses said that more than 1 million people participated in protests and strikes.
No official estimate of the numbers was available.
The demonstrators were demanding that the Nagorno-Karabakh region, nw part of the republic of Arbaidzhan, be annexed to Armenia.
In addition to the territorial clash involving the disputed 1,760-square-mile autonomous region in the Caucasus Mountains, the people are divided by religion. Armenians are predominantly Christians, and most Azeris, the dominant ethnic group in Azerbaidzhan, are Shiite Muslim.
An Armenian nationalist activist said he heard rumors that Azeris had stoned a bus in Nagorno-Karabakh, killing an undetermined number of
Armenians. The activist, Mofese Gorgisyan, said he also heard that Azeris set fire to a school, resulting in other deaths.
In Glendale, Calif., Apo Boghijian, editor of the Armenian newspaper Asbarez, said he spoke by telephone Wednesday to Hovig Vassilian, a newspaper editor in Yerevan. Boghijian said that Vassilian described the demonstrators in Yerevan as "very peaceful" but said that clashes elsewhere had resulted in deaths.
Four victims were to be buried yesterday in Askeran, an Armenian village of about 1,000 people, Bogh吉gian said.
In Nagorno-Karabakh's main city,
Stepanakert, about 120,000 people
have demonstrated daily since Feb.
13, said one resident.
The official news agency Tass quoted Alexander Katusve, a deputy prosecutor from the central government, who was sent to Azerbaidzhan, as saying: "All sorts of rumors and inventions that are being circulated mostly outside of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region and for which gullible people often fall are groundless."
He acknowledged, however, that crimes were committed and promised to investigate.
There was no way to verify the reports independently because the government barred foreign reporters from traveling to the area.
News Roundup
POLICE SEIZE COCAINE; A state trooper stopped a car for speeding yesterday in Springfield, Mo., and found 223 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $11 million inside in what authorities say is the largest cocaine seize in state history. Two Los Angeles men were charged with transportation and possession of a controlled substance. Bond was set at $1.5 million.
KOREANS PROTEST INAUGURATION: Thousands of demonstrators hurled rocks and firebombs at riot police yesterday in Seoul, South Korea, to protest the inauguration of President Roh Tae-woo, and opposition groups said the new government would not keep its promise of sweeping democratic reforms.
CZECHS CHEER COMMUNISM: Thousands of people stood in driving snow yesterday on the site of a triumphant rally that ushered in Communism in Czechoslovakia 40 years ago. Banners and red flags decorated the central Old Town Square in Prague, which resounded in 1948 with the cheers of thousands when the Communists took power.
TWO ARABS SHOT: Israeli soldiers shot two Arabs dead in the occupied lands and wounded several others yesterday, a day of strikes and violence that inaugurated the peace mission of Secretary of State George Shultz.
BOMB WOUNDS FILIPINOS: A bomb exploded near a crowded stage late yesterday in Manila and wounded 14 people at the end of celebrations marking the second anniversary of the popular uprising that ousted President Ferdinand Marcos.
COMPROMISE ENDS WALKOUT: A three-day student walkout at an academically troubled Chicago elementary school ended yesterday after the principal compromised on her get-tough decision to demote 250 students to lower grade levels. Beethoven Elementary School Principal Grace Dawson agreed to return
demoted students to their original grade levels if their parents met individually with her and helped teachers devise reading-improvement plans.
DRUG FIGHTS AIDS: Anti-AIDS drug AZT lowered virus levels and improved immune systems in more than two-thirds of 18 otherwise healthy carriers of the AIDS virus, according to a European study. In a separate development yesterday, researchers at the University of Miami said that by using a combination of antibiotics, they were able to prevent AIDS victims from contracting a deadly form of pneumonia. The AZT study's results fall far short of what would be needed for doctors to recommend that healthy AIDS virus carriers begin taking AZT, which can have dangerous side effects, Dr. Samuel Broder, the director of AIDS drug testing at the National Cancer Institute, said yesterday.
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