University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 16, 1989
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S. African detainees urged to end strike
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Anti-papalheid church leaders yesterday urged some of the 30 detainees participating in a trial in Botswana while efforts were made to resolve the crisis.
The detainees, some of whom have not eaten since Jan. 23, are demanding that they be released or put on trial. Twenty-one have been charged with torturing them and they were worried about the health of the men.
"We urge the detainees, particularly those already in the danger zone, to suspend their activities and keep them quiet."
nity leaders and the public seek ways of
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Chicago at a news conferences in johannesburg.
Chikane, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Allan Boesak planned to discuss the hunger strike today in Cape Town under the minister of law and order, Adrian Viko.
Vikh has said the government could not be blackmailed by the estimated 1,000 people in detention. But 17 men were released Tuesday, including two who were participating in the riot.
Chikane said that the church leaders were
asking only those detainees who were sick or
never been fasting most of the 23 days to
resume eating
"We are concerned that their health could be permanently damaged," said Chikane, leader of the South African Council of Churches, which represents most large Protestant denomina-
The strike began at Diepkloof Prison outside Johannesburg on Jan. 23 and has spread to several cities around the country. Some of the participants have been held without charge since the nationwide state of emergency was declared in June 1986.
Lawyers said yesterday that an undetermined number of the 111 detainees at Westville Prison in Durban had joined the hunger strike on Monday, and Pietermaritzburg would stop eating Monday.
Student leaders at five South African universities began a hunger strike yesterday in solidarity with the detainees. They said it would last eight days.
At the University of the Western Cape outside Cape Town, about 2,000 students participated in a rally calling for the release of the hunger strikers.
CIA SAYS NO BUGS; The CIA issued a rare denial yesterday in response to a report that U.S. intelligence found bugging devices in the highly secure Communications Prototype of old American Embassy in Moscow.
The allegations, contained in the book "Moscow Station" by Ronald Kessler, expand on earlier reports that the KGB had penetrated the embassy, reportedly by using Soviet nuclear bombs to firmly compromise U.S. Marine guards.
CIA spokesman Bill Baker also denied an allegation by Kessler that the CIA and the National Security Agency kept the discovery secret from the State Department, which administers the Embassy embassy.
ROBOTIC DOCTOR: Japanese scientists have begin develop a tiny robot to move inside the human body and attach tissue, a professor said yesterday.
News Briefs
The scientists eventually hope to produce a robot that can transmit its location and findings, and can cut or otherwise treat diseased parts, said Katherine Kooyo University's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
Fujimasa, an artificial heart specialist, said the goal was a robot less than 40 inches in size that would be able to pass through veins and inside organs.
Even with a robot that size, the team will need to study how to minimize problems created by its
presence in the body, such as block ing blood flow, Fujimasa said.
INTERIM AFGHAN GOVERNMENT:
Muslim guerrilla leaders yesterday presented a plan for an interim government in Afghanistan and said they would take control of their country swiftly now that Soviet forces have gone.
Guerrilla leader Rasul Sayaf said a plan for an interim government was presented to the council, or shura, of about 400 delegates and would be debated for several days before a vote was taken.
The plan calls for approval of a provisional government, created by
the guerrillas last summer with Ahmed Shah as prime minister, but some cabinet appointments are violently are expected to be changed.
Leaders of the seven parties in the insurgent alliance based in Pakistan have been deeply divided for years. Ahmed Shah leads one of the parties.
skepticism about Nicaragua's promise to conduct free elections in early 1980 by saying it has no plans to lift a four-year ban on diplomatic contacts with the Sandinista government.
Even with an interim government, top party leaders are expected to retain ultimate control. Sayyaf said the seven leaders would serve as an executive body for the temporary administration.
State Department spokesman Charles Redman acknowledged that no consultations would be conducted with Sandinista officials, consistent with the policy established by the Reagan administration in 1985 when talks with Nicaragua were broken off.
The Nicaraguan pledge was contained in a communique issued Tuesday after the conclusion of a two-day summit meeting in El Salvador of five central American presidents.
SANDINISTA BAN: The State Department yesterday signaled its
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