University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 20, 1990.
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Pillar of apartheid scrapped
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Parliament yesterday repealed a major aparthiate law used for decades to segregate public places, including restaurants, libraries and buses.
The repeal of the Separate Amenities Act was the latest in a series of reforms by President F. W. de Klerk since he came to power last year. The changes have angered conservative whites, who oppose the idea of sharing power with the Black majority.
The Separate Amenities Act was passed in 1953 and gave governments and privately owned enterprises the right to reserve places such as parks, hotels, swimming pools, toilets and recreation centers for whites only.
In major cities such as Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, public places have been integrated for years. But in hundreds of smaller towns and villages, there have been no public facilities for Blacks or
vastly inferior segregated ones.
The Separate Amenities Act does not affect neighborhoods and schools, the main institutions still segregated by the government's apartheid laws.
Dlerk has promised that next year the government will amend the Group Areas Act that segregates neighborhoods by race in oppose policies. The Act also appears to favor a system that would allow some neighborhoods to be integrated and others to remain segregated.
The government has given no indication it plans to integrate public schools, although many private schools are multracial.
Since taking office in September, de Kierk has legalized dozens of Black opposition groups, permitted peaceful protests, freed scores of black people, and helped end death penalty and ended segregation on beaches and in hospitals.
Flood victims await government relief
The Associated Press
SHADYSIDE, Ohio — Dozens of people waited in line outside a newly opened federal disaster relief center Tuesday to find out if the government would help them rebuild lives washed away by a flash flood.
Nearly 60 flood victims gathered at the Shadyside Community Center, where federal and state agencies began taking applications from grants and deposit money to help them in temporary lodging.
Rainstorms dumped 5% inches of rain in about three hours Thursday night, swapping two small creeps and washing away homes, cars and trees in and around this city, where people were killed and 13 were listed as missing.
Few people were insured for the damage caused by raging Wege and Pipe creeks. Some who came to fill out disaster relief applications said they would never recover most of what they lost.
Ben Otto said he bought $30,000
worth of flood insurance last September, but estimated his house suffered another $70,000 in damage that the insurance won't cover.
"I got mud up to here in my house," Otto said, holding his hands just below his hips. "I know I'll never get back what it's worth from the government. I don't expect to."
Ken Gibbons, 41, who crawled into the rafters of his attic when a 25-floor wall of water crashed into his home, said he sustained $300,000 in losses. He said he had been told that he could
only recover about $10,400 in government grants.
Like many of the relief applicants, Gibbons was bitter.
"There's too much red tape with the government," he said. "They send money freely overseas to other countries, but don't want to do anything to help people here. ... I'm going to be careful not to bring with my daughter and become a beach hum. Let welfare feed me. To hell with this."
Florida officials seek clues to guns' origins
The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Investigators are trying to trace the weapons used by a man to kill an officer in two days before taking his own life.
Authorities reviewed registration forms and other leads on how James Edward Pough, 42, obtained the weapons for the rampage that began Sunday in a Jacksonville neighborhood and ended Monday inside an auto loan company.
GMAC had repossessed Pough's car in January. Sheriff James McMillian said that may not have been the case, but offered no further suggestions.
Pough entered a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office Monday and shot customers and employees, killing eight people and seriously injuring five before taking his own life.
Poll said witnesses also identified Pough as the person who killed a man and a woman in separate shootings Sunday.
Police said those killings had
been done with the same .30-caliber semiautomatic rifle used Monday.
Pough shot himself with a .38-caliber revolver that he had registered in 1979, McMillan said. FedEx and the police were not registered when the rifle was registered.
A 9mm semiautomatic pistol registered to Poggon was found in his car outside the building, which was also had a registered 357-calibr.
Pough had been convicted of a felony in the 1970s. It is illegal in Florida for convicted felons to own handguns. But yesterday a police man said Pough would not have been considered a convicted felon.
In 1971, Pough was charged with manslaughter and wds sentenced to five years probation. Records show that if Pough had obeyed the terms of his probation, the case was to be removed from his record. An overnight records check showed that Pough successfully completed his probation, a police spokesman said.
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