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South African race riots continue
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)
Residents of a segregated mixed.race
suburb near Cape Town demonstrated
yesterday against racial segregation
and more disturbances broke out in the
black township of Soweto, near
Johannesburg. One person was killed in
Cape Town and another in Soweto police
said.
In Cape Town bystanders ran
screaming and choking from tear gas in
the first major racial violence in a white
area of the city. '
Ships closed , down and traffic in the
area came to a halt. The violence in
volving some 3,000 demonstrators grew
out of a protest march against South
Africa's policy of strict racial
segregation.
In Hanover, the mixed race suburb
near Cape Town, police opened fire with
shotguns after mobs stoned cars, set
municipal rent offices afire and shat
tered windows. jn addition to the man kil
led, another was injured, police said.. •
Police also fired tear gas to disperse a
crowd of black students .at the railway
station in the black township of Langa.
Students
By KATHY O'TOOLE
Collegian-Staff Writer
The Democratic party. is 'the new
majority party in Centre County due
to this week's post card registration
in the Intramural Building, according
to Paul Stevenson, Undergraduate
Student Government director for
political affairs.
"We've done for Centre County
today what we did for State College
three or four years ago," Stevenson
said. "We've changed the, party
alignment."
,Stevenson said he was pleased with
the progress USG was making, but
added that much work remained. He
said registration workers had to go
through all the postcards and contact
those who filled out their cards in
correctly.
Stevenson said the implications of
the student vote in State College are
tremendous. "I'd like to see this
explode into a peaceful,political
revolution," he said. "If stuents feel
3 officials named in conspiracy
Grand jury indicts oil company
TULSA, Okla. ( AP) A federal grand jury indicted Phillips
Petroleum Co., its board chairman and two former chairmen
yesterday on federal tax charges alleging a global conspiracy
to conceal $3 million in Swiss bank accounts and a secret
cache at company headquarters.
The indictment, climaxing a months-long investigation,
named the company, board chairman William F. Martin and
two former chairmen.and presidents, W.W.Keeler and Stanley
F. Learned.
The company and the three men were charged with con
spiring to defraud the United StAtes by impeding the Internal
Revenue Service in assessing and collecting corporate income
taxes from 1963-1971.
Martin, in a statement from his office, said, "I have been
appraised of the charges in the indictment and I want to state
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Johannesburg police reported a black
man was killed near the township of
Soweto when his car• was stoned. The
death brought to 294 the number of
persons killed since racial rioting first
erupted June 16 in Soweto, home to more
than a million blacks outside Johan
nesburg.
In the eastern coastal city of Durban,
500 black bus drivers returned to work
being told their strike, which had
crippled the city, was illegal. The 500
drivers were demanding higher pay.
By late afternoon quiet was restored,
but some homebound workers held
handkerchiefs to their eyes to counteract
lingering traces of gas. Police stood
guard at road junctions in the city
center, and asked people not to linger in
the central area after leaving work.
In a rapid reaction, Police and Justice
Minister James Kruger reintroduced a
ban on outdoor gatherings until Oct., 31.
Previous i•estrictiohs expired Tuesday.
The violence came on the eve of Prime
'Minister John Vorster's departure for
Zurich, Switzerland, for a meeting on the
mounting racial crisis in southern Africa
give Demos top spot in county.
strongly about voting, it could
ultimately affect the University."
Student transiency is. a problem,
according to Stevenson.
"The student turnover is so high
that. the student body has no sense of
history," he said. "Students should
know what we went through to get the
vote and should appreciate it."
Stevenson also said he would like to
see more students in elected offices.
Student interests should be better
'represented, especially in areas such
as rent control and housing and
building codes, he said.
"There's a good environment in
this town but often it's selective, too
exclusive," he said. "After all,
students are the lifeblood of State
College."
Stevenson said, the voter
registration drive will continue until
the October 4 deadline. Post cards
will be available in the USG office
Monday through Friday.
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The unseasonably cold weather sent a chill through encampment participants at
Stone Valley yesterday, making the overnight sleeping quarters above seem more
uninviting. Encampment, an informal series of discussion workshops and informal
gatherings for student leaders and University staff continues this morning. •
that such charges are unfounded. The case will be Vigorously
defended and I am confident there will be complete vin
dication."
The other two men were not immediately available for
comment.
The government's most recent investigation apparently
grew out of a separate lawsuit filed by the Justice Department
in February 1975 which charged that in 1963-64 the firm ac
cumulated a total of $42.85 million in accounts of Swiss cor
porate entities controlled by Phillips.
During the eight-year period, the suit alleged, $585,000 was
contributed to candidates for state and federal offices, in
cluding a $lOO,OOO donation toward the re-election of President
Nixon.
In December 1975, Phillips and Keeler pleaded guilty to
charges of violating federal election laws prohibiting cor
porate campaign contributions. Both paid fines and the
$lOO,OOO donated to the Finance Committee to Re-elect the
President was returned to Phillips.
The indictment yesterday charged the conspiracy was
carried out on a worldwide scale from Bartlesville, Okla.,
Phillips' headquarters, to Washington to Geneva to London to
Panama City.
Weather
Despite today's chilly start, the late summer sun will warm
the temperature up to a pleasant 72 by afternoon. Tonight's
clear skies will allow the mercury to drop to a cool 50. The
'start of the Labor Day weekend will bring partly cloudy skies
with a chance of a few showers by Saturday afternoon. The,
high tomorrow will be 78.
with U.S. Sectretary of State Henry A
Kissinger. ,
Kissinger has promised to press
Vorster to introduce "equality of op-
Black leader wants superiority
LONDON ( UPI) Black South
African student leader Tsietse Mashinini
said in an interview broadcast Thursday
that blacks in his country will no longer
be satisfied with equal rights they
want to dominate the whites. Mashinini, who said police had offered
"The black people are no longer in- $435 for his capture, has since left South
terested in having equal rights with the Africa, the company said.
white people in South Africa," Mashini The student said in the interview that
said. "They want the tables to be turned he was aware that blacks' demands
so that the white man can get a taste of could result in a "lot of people being
his own medicine, and feel what it is like killed.
to be oppressed." • • "I, don't really like it," he said. "I wish
The 19-year-old Mashimm t rident-- some soltition could come in whe're SOuth
of the Students Reptesentive Council in Africa could be a peaceful country."
the segregated township of Soweto ' But asked if there were any alter
outside Johannesburg,, led a June 16 natives, Mashinini said "I don't see it
demonstration in Soweto against the use happening. "
Photo by Edward Palsa Jr
portunity and basic human rights" in
South Africa. But the South African
leader has made it clear external
pressure will not alter South Africa's
policies.
of Afrikaans as a teaching language in
black schools. Police fired on the
protesters and the ensuing riot marked
the start of the worst racial violence in
South African history.
Deliverance
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Vol. 77, No. 31 20 pages University Park, Pennsylvania
Published by Students of the Pennsylvania State University
The report is the result. of a five-year
investigation launched after the Irish
government charged in December 1971
that Britain had tortured prisoners and
violated human Tights in Northern
Ireland, It was released simultaneously
in London, Dublin and Strasbourg.
"We do not challenge the report," a
British government official said. "We
do not deny that unpleasant things
happened. But it's a thing of the past.
We no longer use the interrogation
techniques described in the report."
The IRA's Provisional wing has been
waging a guerilla campaign in the six
counties of Northern Ireland for seven
years to end British rule and unite the
province with the Irish Republic. A
backlash by Protestant paramilitary
groups turned the situation into a virtual
civil vva'f - and Britain' toofc'zi - ree - dfrect
rule after suspending the provincial
parliament.
The commission's findings and the
Irish government's determination to
Kepone also was found this summer in
Spring Creek, northeast of State College.
The chemical was produced 13 years
ago by the Nease Chemical Co. plant on
Route 26. State officials are in
vestigating.
The James has been closed to com
mercial fishermen but the con
tamination has spread to' the
Creek water, destined for the Shingletown Gap Reservoir near Boalsburg, cascades over boulders
British troops
beat, tortured
IRA
suspects
LONDON (AP) British troops and
police tortured and mistreated
suspected Irish Republican Army
members in Northern Ireland during the
last five months of 1971, the European
Commission of Human Rights said
yesterday.
The British government did not deny
the charges, but said its forces no longer
used such tactics.
The commission's 600-page' report
cleared Britain of charges of otherwise
violating human rights with tough anti
terrorist legislation and noted that those
who had been mistreated were paid
substantial compensation.
The 13-member commission, based in
Strasbourg, France, also ruled that
British forces did not discriminate
between feuding Protestants and Roman
Catholics in its policy of holding suspects
without trial.
Executives acquited
in Va. Kepone trial
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (UPI) Two
Allied Chemical Corp. executives were
acquitted of conspiring to thwart federal
environmental laws yesterday in
Virgina's Kepone contamination
disaster.
Frank L. Piguet and Gerald P.
Williams were found innocent of con
spiring to falsify discharge permits for
Allied's Kepone-making plant in
Hopewell, Va.
Industrial waste from the plant, laced
with the pesticide Kepone, flowed
through the city's sewer system in
violation of federal law and contamin
ated the James River and its marine life.
press its charges have strained relations
between Dublin and London at a time:
both are fighting terrorism.
for.
Merlyn Rees, Britain's secretary o
Northern Ireland, angrily accused
Dublin of "raking up" the past. "I can
see no justification for the Irish'
government's persistance in pressing it:
The only people who can derive any:
*satisfaction from all this are the .
terrorists."
Irish Foreign Minister Garret Fitz:
gerald said, "The links between our two
governments arp so strong that any.
strain that might be put on them is not a
serious one."
The report came less than 24 hours
after the Irish parliament declared a
state of emergency as the first step in an'
attempt to end actions by the IRA and
Protestant extremists in the republic. '
The commission said it found British
interrogators had used five torture
techniques designed to deprive victims
of their senses of sight, touch and
hearing and restrict their movement in:
11 of 16 "illustrative cases" presented by
the Irish government.
The techniques described were:
Hooding detainees with thick black.
cowls except when interrogating them.
—Subjecting them for long periods to.
"white noise" continuous high-pitched
hissing "calculated to isolate them from .
communication."
Depriving detainees of sleep.
Depriving them of food and water
"other than one round of bread and one
pint of water at six-hourly intervals." '
Forcing them to stand spread=
eagled against a wall, supported by their
outstretched fingers, for long periods.__
The' report said the torture was usd
during August, September and October
of 1971. Those allegedly tortured were
among nearly 350 men rounded up in
predawn sweeps Aug. 9, 1971.
Chesapeake Bay, a major East Coast
seafood producer. Virginia authorities
are weighing an extension of the fishing
ban to the bay.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert R.
Merhige Jr., hearing the case without a
jury, acquitted the men at the start of
the trial's third day because "this is not
a pollution case. This is a case of
whether these two men have violated
the law and I am not convinced beyond a
reasonable doubt."
Three other present and former Allied
executives James G. Sawyer, Joseph
A. Smith and Virgil A. Hundtofte have
pleaded guilty to related Kepone
charges and were among 10 persons to
testify against their former colleagues.
The three gave conflicting testimony
on whether there had been an agreement
at the Allied plant to conceal the fact of
the discharges from the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Army Corps
of Engineers.