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Thursday, April 18, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Mandela states police created false evidence
Wife of ANC leader testifies in kidnapping trial
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Winnie MANDESA pointed a finger at police when she testified yesterday that she believed false evidence had been used to implicate her in the shaping and assault of youth tests.
State Prosecutor Jan Swanpewel started his cross-examination by asking Mandela whether she was saying she was presented against her was fabricated.
"Yes," the wife of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela responded.
Winnie Mandela added later, "There is clear evidence the interest of the police was to bring us into this court."
But in response to repeated questions, she could not say who fabricated such evidence or why they would do so.
Nelson Mandela, who was in prison or anti-government activity when the crimes allegedly occurred, accompanied his wife to court vester-
day and listened to the proceedings for about 29 minutes.
The trial could have wide-ranging political ramifications, coming at a time when the government is trying to woo Black leaders into formal negotiations on a new constitution eliminating white-minority rule.
Mandela has many admirers among the more militant ANC members, and her husband might find it too difficult to government if his wife is convicted
Mandela, 56, and co-defendants Xolisa Falati and John Morgan pleaded not guilty Feb. 11 to eight counts of kidnapping and assault. Prosecutors contend that they abducted four young Black men by the themat in Mandela's Speyhome home. The state says the four were abducted because they were believed to be homosexuals or police spies.
Mandela has said she was trying to protect the youths from homosexual abuse at the Methodist Church home where they lived. She has testified
that she was 200 miles away in the town of Brandfort when the alleged crime occurred.
One of the four young men, Stompe Seipei, was later killed. Mandela's former bodyguard, Jerry Thiem, was convicted last year of the killing.
Asked who could have fabricated evidence against her, Mandela responded, "I am not in a position to answer that."
Mandela declined the prosecutor's challenge to say police did not fabricate the evidence. She said they apparently alerted the media to a 4 a.m. raid on her home during their investigation.
Asked why she waited until the start of her trial, which was more than two years after the alleged crime, to offer the alibi that she was far from home at the time, Mandela said she was acting on her lawyers' instructions.
She said she did not tell the news media about her visit to Brandfort because reporters did not ask.
Unhappy face-lift patient shoots doctor, self after radical surgery
The Associated Press
BELLEVUE, Wash. — A woman,
unhappy with her face shot and
killed the doctor who performed
their surgery and then killed
herself, police said.
Beryl Challis, 60, had been complaining of pain from facial surgery, which Selwyn A Cohen and his months ago, police said Tuesday.
Challis had an appointment Monday with Cohen at his private clinic. She left after the meeting, but after the staff had gone home
she returned and shot the surgeon several times, police said.
Challis then went home and shot herself with the same pistol, Lt. Steve Bourgette said.
Both Cohen, 41, and Challis suffered 38-caliber gunshot wounds, police said. Police recovered a 38-caliber handgun Challis purchased last month.
"We're still investigating, but it is apparent that a number of people knew she was dissatisfied," Bourgette said.
Challis' husband, Albert Challis, said his wife had been in a lot of pain since the surgery.
"I guess she couldn't take it," he said. "As time went by, the pain became more intense. It was all over her face and head. She had a knife in her mouth. It wasn't what she should have had. It wasn't what she asked for."
Julianne Deneboh, Cohen's surgical nurse, said Chailis appeared to be suffering from depression but made any attacks against the doctor.
Federal mediator takes new terms to striking Food Barn employees
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Food Barn Stores Inc. asked a federal mediator to take a new contract offer to United Food and Commercial Union Workers yesterday, but the union said it would recommend that its employees reject it.
Union members from areas outside Kansas City are scheduled to vote on the proposal Saturday morning, while the remainder are to vote Sunday morning, union spokesperson Judy Gordon said.
P. A. Rawalt, Food Barn vice president for human resources, was out of
town last night and could not be reached for comment.
The two sides have met four times since the strike began March 3, when the union rejected a company proposal for a new three-year contract requiring $27 million in wage and benefits concessions.
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