University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 9, 1989
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Hunger strike hospitalizes blacks
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Seven black detainees who started a hunger strike 16 days ago were hospitalized Wednesday with aliments burnt by their refusal to eat, a human rights lawyer, lawyer.
Another 105 blacks joined the hunger strike, raising to about 300 the number of detainees threatening to starve themselves unless they are freed or charged, a civil rights group said.
The hunger strike represents one of the most dramatic challenges to the policy of detention without trial since the national state of emergency was declared in June 1986 to quell racial unrest.
Seven men who helped initiate the hunger strike at Johannesburg's Diekphelock Prison on Jan. 23 were transferred to Johannesburg Hospital, lawyer Azar Chacalia said.
Cachalia, who represents one of the seven, said that he did not know the condition of the men.
The hospital superintendent could not be content and other personnel refused to answer questions.
the minister of law and order, Adriana Vlok,
released a statement saying "the state cannot
allow itself to be blackmailed by way of hunger
strikes."
"The hunger strikers must realize that the government has a duty toward society, and they will be detained as long as it is in the interests of public safety," the statement said.
The Black Sash, a nationwide civil rights organization, said 105 detainees at St. Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth, including many held since 1986, joined the strike Monday.
Notwithstanding 32 months of continuous
detention without trial, no case has been brought against us," the strikers said in a statement Wednesday. "We are left with no alternative but to take our lives into our own homes . . . and to demand our immediate release from this dehumanizing detention."
The statement said the detainees would consume no food or liquids until their demands were met.
An estimated 30,000 people have been detained without charge for varying periods during the state of emergency. An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 people remain in detention.
A legal aid group, Lawyers for Human Rights, called on Vlok to amend detention regulations, to limit detention without trial to three months and to detainees to be visited by lawyers and relatives.
2 doctors convicted of killing for Nazis
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, West Germany — The nation's highest court yesterday affirmed the convictions of two elderly doctors for taking part in the Nazis "mercy killing" of more than 11,500 handicapped people.
The ruling ended one of the last large Nazi-related trials in West Germany and closed out 28 years of the war, with Adolf Hitler's Aquilin Ulrich and Heinrich Knuepch
In May 1967, a Frankfurt court convicted Ulrich and Bunke of acces
sory to murder for participating in the killing of thousands of people, most of them mentally retarded, during 1940 and 1941.
Ulrich and Bunke, both now 74 years old, contended that they were following orders as part of the Nazis" "Euthanasia Action," which also was aimed at some physically handicapped people.
while affirming the convictions of accessory to murder, the court also ordered the original sentence of four years reduced to three years.
News Briefs
KABU KILLINGS: Muslim guerrillas fired a rocket into a crowded Kabul neighborhood yesterday, according to headlining 21 state television report.
The television said the rocket landed near a line of people who were waiting for a bus near the Mikorazon district, where senior government officials live. The victims included people waiting at a distribution center for scarce flour and cooking oil, witnesses said.
Guerrillas surround Kabul and attack supply convoys, creating
severe food and fuel shortages, but have fired few rockets into the city as the Feb. 15 deadline nears for withdrawal of all Soviet military forces. This was the first reported attack in several days.
Soviet military transports deliver hundreds of tons of flour daily to help feed the poor in a city packed with 2 million residents but a Soviet officer said the flights would end with the withdrawal.
remained in Kabul.
Soviet diplomats said privately that fewer than 500 Soviet soldiers
R. A U.N. airlift of food and medicine from Pakistan to Kabul had been expected to start Tuesday, but has been delayed at least until today.
NORTH TRIAL: The Justice Department, in a move opposed by prosecutors, intervened in the Oliver North trial yesterday and sentenced him to eight months' imprisonment before a mass of highly secret material is made public.
The Justice Department said in
a court filing that, at this stage,
there is "every reason to believe
that irrelevant or immaterial class-
ifications" should not be
revealed during the trial."
**APPOINTEE CLEARED:** Clayton Yeutter won Senate confirmation Wednesday as secretary of agriculture on a vote of 100,0; the latest in a long string of Bush administration appointees to gain approval without a dissenting vote.
Holes in Antarctic seas' ice may serve as vents for heat
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Mysterious holes that periodically form in the ice that covers Antarctic seas may serve as vents for excess heat and trapped water to shape the Earth's climate and influencing the greenhouse effect.
These ice-free regions, some as large as France, were not discovered until 1974. Scientists don't know if the holes, called polynayas, existed before
then or how frequently they develop in the vast ice cover.
Teams of scientists from the Soviet Union, the United States and West Germany have worked since 1981 to figure out how the holes form.
Scientists think large underwater ridges in the ocean floor may help create polyas by pushing warmer water from the bottom up to the ice cover, where it melts the ice or prevents it from forming.
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