University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 17, 1989
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Anti-apartheid leaders denounce Mandela
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Anti-apartheid leaders gave an unprecedented rebuke to Winnie Mandela yesterday, saying that she has betrayed the trust of the black community and kept bodyguards who waged a “reign of terror” in Soweto.
Three years ago, anti-apartheid leaders launched a campaign to promote black activist Winnie Mandela as "the mother of the nation" symbol of resistance to government repression.
Since then, her image has been tarnished by controversies about her lifestyle, public statements and involvement with a group of youths who have been accused of crimes.
The strongly woreded statement was the first public repudiation of Mandela by the senior leadership of the anti-apartheid movement. They accused her of complicity in the abduction and execution of their son, Kwame Nkosé, a key activist. Sosei Seipel, whose decomposed body was found dumped in Soweto last month.
Mandela, in the few public statements she has made, denied that she was at home when the teen-ager and four men were brought to her house on Dec. 29 by her unofficial bodyguards, members of a so-called soccer team known as the Warriors. For example, during abduction, saying the four were taken to protect them from sexual abuse at a Methodist church residence where they were staying in
The church has denied the charge, and the anti-apartheid leaders made their denunciation of Mandela at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg.
Soweto.
Tom Sebima, a spokesman for the African National Congress, said from the organization Lusaka, Zambia headquarters that ANC reports linking Mandela with the boy's death.
Leaders of the banned United Democratic Front, the nation's largest opposition coalition, joined prominent anti-apartheid lawyers and officials of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the largest black labor federation, in
Nelson Mandela, 70, has been imprisoned since 1982 and is serving a life sentence for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the white-run government.
reaffirming their allegiance to Nelson Mandela while distancing themselves from his wife.
"Numerous efforts have been made to reconcile the conflict between Mrs. Mandela and the (black) community," said Murphy Morobe of the United Democratic Front.
Morobe noted that Winnie Mandela had faced severe hardships, such as being separated from her husband for 27 years, rearing her two daughters alone, living under harsh police restrictions, and spending 18 months in solitary confinement without charge.
Fed punishes bank for discrimination
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A Federal Reserve Board decision that for the first time penalizes a bank for failing to serve poor neighborhoods appears to signal a new willingness by regulators to hold law against such practices, community activists said yesterday.
The Federal Reserve rejected a request by the Chicago-based Continental Bank Corp. to purchase a small Arizona bank because it said that Continental had not fulfilled its duties under the Community Reinvestment Act, which requires banks to meet local credit needs, including those in poor neighborhoods.
The law, on the books since 1977, is aimed at preventing "red-lining," the practice of denying loans to an entire neighborhood based on the predominant race or economic class of its residents.
"We hope this is the beginning of a trend," said Allen Fishbein, general counsel of the Center for Community Change, a Washington-based group concerned with housing and community development.
"The Fed has never denied an application on Community Reinvestment Act grounds before.
... This is a major breakthrough," he said.
Continental's 14-month-old petition to acquire Grand Canyon State Bank in Scottsdale, Ariz., was rejected on a 4-2 vote Wednesday, with board members H. Robert Heller and John LaWare opposed. Edward W. Kelley Jr. did not vote.
The central bank's 10-page majority decision said, "Given Continental's size, as well as the opportunities available in the Chicago area, (the) bank's participation in community development and redevelopment efforts was unsatisfactory."
The decision also said that the bank had made "substantially inaccurate" statements for a num-
mber of accounts, about its compliance with the law.
Health coalition proposes expansion of federal-state assistance program
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A coalition led by the American Medical Association yesterday proposed a sweeping overhaul of the Medicaid program to expand coverage to 11 million more poor Americans, improve benefits and raise reimbursement rates for physicians and hospitals.
The proposed expansion of the federal-state health assistance program for the poor would cost at least $13.2 billion and as much as $28 billion more than current Medicaid expenditures, with most of the additional cost borne by the federal government, the coalition said.
ment spent $30.5 billion and the states spent $20.5 billion on Medicaid, but fewer than half of the 33 million Americans with incomes below the federal poverty line are enrolled in the program, the coalition said.
To pay for the program, "new revenues will have to be developed. . . This is going to cost the government more money." Tallon said.
In fiscal 1988, the federal governn-
The plan was proposed by the Health Policy Agenda for the American People, a coalition organized in 1982 by the AMA to help develop health policy. The AMA pays for most of the work of the coalition, which is comprised of 172 groups representing business, labor, consumers, the elderly, children and health-care providers.
A major problem with Medicaid, the coalition's report said, is the absence of national standards. Eligibility varies from state to state, as do many of the services Medicaid covers.
Reimbursement rates have dropped so low that at least a quarter of the nation's physicians don't treat Medicaid patients. Raising rates would "encourage greater participation by health-care providers and students," said Mr. Kovacs, patients to physicians' offices for preventive care," the group said.
Police find Flight 103 explosive
The Associated Press
LOCKERBEE, Scotland — A radio-cassette player held the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103, the identity of the bomber is not yet known, the top investigator of the bombing said yesterday.
Investigators believe the explosive that shattered the Boeing 740 on Dec. 21 was placed aboard the aircraft in Frankfurt, West Germany, where the flight began, said John Orr, chief investigator from Stratchella police. The plane apparently had been put on the aircraft as checked baggage.
"While there is insufficient evidence at this stage to establish the identity of the person or group responsible for this dreadful crime, the progress made and the evidence denied has been substantial." Orr said.
He said the brand name of the radio-cassette player had not been established, and he would not say whether it was a pocket-sized device or a model. He did not say whether investigators had located the detonator.
Anti-terrorist experts have said that it was likely that the explosive was Semtex, an odorless, highly malleable substance made in Czecho-slovakia and known to be used by terrorist organizations.
Ex-Klansman gets big-name opposition
The Associated Press
voice were broadcast throughout the day.
NEW ORLEANS — The Republican Party yesterday rolled out its big guns, President Bush and former President Reagan, to keep a former Ku Klux Klan leader Kept to the Legislature as a member of the GOP.
Letters touting Bush's endorsement of ex-Klaman David Duke's opponent in the state House race were circulated throughout the district, and radio commercials featuring Reagan's familiar
"I can't help but tell you of the high regard I have for one candidate in the race for the 81st district: John Treen. "Reagan said in the radio interview, a conservative house builder and longtime Republican.
Treen, 62, and 38-year-old Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, are in a runoff tomorrow to represent the nearly all-white district in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb. Duke, who
sought the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination but registered Republican in the fall, led a field of seven candidates with 33 percent of the vote in the Jan. 21 primary. Treen had 19 percent.
The backing of Treen by the GOP's top two representatives was called unprecedented for a state House seat.
Duke has disavowed the Klan, which he said he left in 1980 after being accused of selling secret membership rolls.
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