state/nation/world Eight killed in South African violence By ANDREW TORCH IA Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Violence swept black townships throughout this white ruled nation, killing eight people and injuring dozens in three days, official and civilian sources reported yesterday. Police used whips, rubber bullets, tear gas and shotguns, and crowds threw stones and gasoline bombs in clashes in black townships at Theunis sen, Graaff Reinet, Parys, Queenstown and Port Elizabeth a 560-mile stretch of land reaching from the south coast almost to Johannesburg. In several cases, accounts by spokesmen at national police headquarters in Pretoria and by residents of the townships differed widely and could not be reconciled. Police reports listed 41 incidents of rioting in 20 black communities and said at least 45 blacks were arrested. More than 10 months of rioting against apart heid, the legalized race-separation imposed by the white-minority government, have cost the lives of about 450 blacks. About half perished in encounters with police. The others were killed in fighting between rival anti-apartheid groups, criminal assaults, and attacks on local black officials and black po licemen who are seen as fronts for white rule. Remembering Governor Dick Thornburgh accepts a POW—MIA flag from Charles Langley, left, of Upper Darby Township, Chuck Fraser of Ridley Township and Geno Bermea of Albuquerque, N.M. during ceremonies in Harrisburg yesterday. The men Brock: jobs will be lost unless deficit reduced By J.ULIE AMPARANO Associated Press Wilier SAN FRANCISCO The na tion's unemployment rate will rise or remain the same unless Con gress reduces the federal deficit, Labor Secretary William Brock. said yesterday in his first speech to a union audience since taking office in April. "If the budget is reduced we will see more jobs; if the budget re mains the same, we can expect unemployment to go up," Brock told the Communication Workers of America's annual convention. The deficit, estimated at $213 billion for the current fiscal year, is "like a big, black cloud that hangs over us," Brock said at a news ccnference after his speech. "!The unemployment rate in the nation will pretty much remain unchanged until Congress resolves the budget problem," he said. The unemployment has stood at 7.3 percent for the past five months. Brock was sworn into office April 29 to replaced Raymond Donovan, who resigned in the midst of criminal proceedings stemming from his former posi tion as executive vice president of a New Jersey construction firm. The CWA, the world's largest telecommunications union, rep resents more than 650,000 work ers. In his speech, Brock also called for tax reform to help labor. Residents of Masizakhe township near Graaff Reinet said police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at houses, individuals and groups of blacks for at least five hours yesterday. They also said police fired on a crowd leaving a church Sunday night, wounding more than 20 people and killing a man. Residents said they were afraid to take casual ties to doctors' offices because police waited there to arrest the wounded, so they rounded up vehicles to carry victims to doctors as far as 155 miles away. They said the trouble apparently arose from a general strike and consumer boycott called Sat urday to protest the slaying by unknown assail ants of Matthew Goniwe, a Cradock teacher whose dismissal caused one of the first school boycotts in early 1984 and made him a nationwide symbol of resistance. A spokesman at national police headquarters in Pretoria, who spoke on condition of anonymi ty, said police in Masizakhe dispersed a stone throwing crowd and arrested one man. He said six policemen were injured, and confirmed an earlier resident's report that one demonstrator was killed. Police in Darlington, near Fort Beaufort, said they found a charred body under a pile of burning tires. "For too long we have burdened our workers and firms with a tax system that rewards accounting creativity instead of jobs creativ ity," he said. Discussing the difficulty unions. have had in negotiating contracts, Brock said, "No one can deny labor has lost a lot, but both labor and management have fallen on tough times." Many labor advocates have at tacked administration policy as anti-labor and have charged that it has fueled management attacks on unions, but Brock said he did not see labor-management con flicts as a trend against organized labor. Instead, he attributed the prob lems to worldwide competition, which puts "a lot of pressure on management and labor." "We are slowly coming to grips as a society that we are part of a larger picture," he said. "We must face the challenge of world wide competition more squarely than ever before." Brock also defended the Reagan administration's advocacy of low ering the minimum wage to teen agers to reduce unemployment among that group. "Currently, youth unemploy ment is one of our most intractable problems," he said. "When 45 percent of black teen-agers can't get a job, it becomes a human tragedy for them, and a national tragedy for us." walked from Upper Darby to Harrisburg with the flag in one week to remind the country of POW—MIA's. At right is Jack Pearce of Milford, Pa., whose son was declared missing in Vietnam in 1972. 'Star Wars' test partly successful By NORMAN BLACK AP Military Writer WASHINGTON The Pentagon conducted the first in a series of new "Star Wars" laser experi ments over the weekend in Ha waii, but the test was only partially successful because laser operators were unable to lock on the target properly, sources said yesterday. A laser station on the island of Maui had succeeded in focusing a laser beam on a fast, high-flying rocket, but had failed to bounce the beam off an eight-inch reflec tive shield attached to the rocket, said the sources, who asked that they not be identified. The Pentagon had announced July 10 it was preparing a new round of laser tests similar to one conducted last month when a low power, blue-green laser was re flected off the space shuttle Dis covery. While declining to say when the experiments would be gin, the Pentagon explained the new tests would involve firing small, higher-flying rockets into space from Hawaii and then at tempting to hit a "retro reflector" attached to the rocket's side. Yesterday, the Pentagon's Strategic Defense Initiative Orga nization, which directs the Star Wars program, issued a brief statement saying the first of the five planned experiments had In Orange Free State, police scattered a stone throwing crowd. One woman was reported killed and 21 men were wounded. The men were ar rested after treatment. The South African Press Association said pu pils threw stones and burned down two schooliin Theunissen. It said several were injured when police called in reinforcements to quell the riot. About 300 people attacked government build ings and destroyed homes of two black officials after a high school principal refused to allow a meeting of the militant Congress of South Afri can Students, the agency said. Police headquarters said it had only a report of a minor incident at Theunissen. Residents of Tumahole, near Parys, said about 200 people marched to the offices of a white-run administration board to demand rent reductions. They said houses of former councilors were stoned and thousands went on strike in memory of a man from the township who died in detention a year ago. One young man and a policeman were serious ly injured, residents reported. Police said only that they arrested three blacks after stone-throwing incidents. George Phake; a member of the township Civic Association, said three policemen's houses were burned in Ratanda, east of Johannesburg. been conducted early Stmday morning in Hawaii. "It was only partially successful due to technical difficulties not associated with the experiment," the Pentagon added. -Officials in the Star Wars office refused to elaborate, beyond say ing a Terrier-Malemute rocket had been successfully launched from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility and traveled al most 450 miles into space and that the laser had, in fact, been fired. The sources did not call the test a failure, but said the laser station "had difficulty finding the right thing to focus on. They hit the rocket with the laser, but not the reflective shield, and so they didn't get a reflected beam back from the rocket the way they wanted." "The next time they do it, they won't have the same problem," one source said. "It's like learning how to drive on a simulator, then going out on the road in a car and finding out things are different on the highway." . The sources explained that prior to launching the rocket, the Penta gon had conducted a special com puter simulation to help show laser operators on Maui what to look for. That simulation pre dicted the laser station wouldn't have any trouble picking out the reflective shield attached to the rocket. Admin. pushes for abortion overruling By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. The Reagan administration yesterday urged the Supreme Court to over turn its 1973 decision legalizing abortions, arguing that women should not have a constitutional right to end their pregnancies. Justice Department lawyers said the 1973 ruling in a case known as Roe vs. Wade "has proved inherently unworkable," and wrongly infringes on states' rights to limit abortions. At Bethesda Naval Hospital, where President Reagan is recov ering from intestinal surgery, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the president had approved of the brief's filing. Both "pro-life" and "pra choice" forces predicted that the bold move will fail. The court two years ago strongly reaffirmed by a 6-3 vote the 1973 ruling, and its membership has not changed since that 1983 ruling. Douglas Johnson, legislative di rector of the National Right to Life Committee, called the 1973 ruling "disastrous" but added, "I have no reason to believe that the cur rent Supreme Court would over turn the decision." Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women, called the attack on Roe vs. Wade "unconscionable and perfectly predictable." "It is a desperation tactic that's not going to work," she said. "It is a continuation of the Reagan ad ministration's war on women." The government's "friend-of the-court" brief in two abortion cases to be studied in the court term beginning in October argued that the justices should "return the law to the condition in which it Group claims that Reagan exaggerates Nicaraguan abuses By BRIAN BARGER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON—. A human rights group accused the Reagan administration yesterday of exag gerating human rights abuses in Nicaragua, and said such reports were intended to justify military action against the Sandinista gov ernment. Americas Watch, a human rights monitoring group affiliated with Helsinki Watch, said in a report, "There is not a policy of torture, political murder, or disap pearance in Nicaragua." The report said some human rights abuses have occurred, mainly in 1981 and 1982, but added that the government "has acted in some cases to investigate and pun ish those responsible." "Allegations of human rights abuse have become a major focus of the administration's campaign to overthrow the Nicaraguan gov ernment," the report said. "Such a concerted campaign to use hu man rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S.-Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause." The group said the anti-govern ment Contra rebels are guilty of far more human rights abuses than the Nicaraguan government. "The most violent abuses in human rights in Nicaragua have been committed by the Contras," the report said. "Contra combat ants systematically murder the unarmed, including medical per sonnel, rarely take prisoners and force civilians into collaboration." The Reagan administration has accused the Sandinista govern ment of being "totalitarian," and engaging in systematic repres sion, including religious persecu tion. The report said Reagan admin istration reports on conditions in Nicaragua were exaggerated, and said characterizing the Sandinista government as totalitarian is un justified. Elliot Abrams, assistant secre tary-designate for Inter-American Affairs at the State Department, attacked the group's findings. "I find it ludicrous" that anyone would say there is an im provement in human rights in Nicaragua, he said. The Daily Collegian Tuesday, ,July 16, 1985 was" before Jan. 22, 1973, when the decision in Roe vs. Wade was announced. That would leave states free to impose whatever limits they deemed. appropriate including banning all abortions except those necessary to save a woman's life. In the 1973 ruling, the court said a woman's decision to have an abortion during the first three months of her pregnancy must be left to her and her doctor. The court said states may inter fere in the woman's abortion deci sion during • her pregnancy's second trimester only to protect the woman's health, and may take steps to protect fetal life only in the third trimester when the fetus has grown "viable" that is, able to live outside the womb. Invalidated provisions of the Illinois law required doctors to use abortion methods least likely to harm the fetus if there was a possibility that it was viable and required doctors to tell patients that certain kinds of birth control cause "fetal death." The invalidated Pennsylvania abortion regulations would have required• —That a woman seeking an abortion be told about "detri mental physical and psychological effects which are not accurately foreseeable." —That the woman be told medi cal assistance benefits may be available for prenatal care and childbirth. —That doctors who perform abortions file reports with state officials explaining how they de termined that a fetus aborted in a pregnancy's second trimester was not capable of living outside the womb, —That certain abortion methods be used at various stages. "If anything, the situation is deteriorating. If you look at the attitude in Congress, in Western Europe, everyone recognizes that except, apparently, Americas Watch." The report said ‘ the issue of religious persecution in Nicaragua is "without substance," although it acknowledged some cases of abuses, including the expulsion last year of 10 foreign priests after they participated in an anti-gov ernment demonstration. But the report concluded: "There is not a policy of anti-Semi tism, nor are Christians...perse cuted for their faith." The report said the Sandinistas' human rights record with regard to the Miskito Indians "has im proved dramatically," since 1982. It cited a government amnesty announced last year, negotiations with Miskito leaders, and repa triation of Indians who fled Nica ragua during 1981-82 when the government forcibly relocated thousands of Miskitos from the border areas. The report noted, however, that the Contras' treatment of Miskitos and other Indians "has become increasingly more violent." The November 1984 elections in Nicaragua, "though deficient, rep resented an advance over past Nicaraguan experience, and a pos itive step toward pluralism," the report said. But it also said the Nicaraguan government "should be prodded to take additional steps to advance the democratic proc ess." President Reagan has described last year's election as a "Soviet style sham." Americas Watch also charged that some Contra factions engage in "indiscriminate attacks against civilians." "There have been many cases of torture and cruel and degrading treatment against prisoners taken by the Contras," the report said. It said Contra leaders have acknowl edged the use of such tactics as a means of obtaining information. "The Nicaraguan government must be held to account for the abuses which continue to take place, like restrictions on press freedom and due process," the report said. "But unless those abuses are fairly described, ther debate on Nicaragua ceases to have meaning." This years Art's Festival has come and gone, .' ; 4, 1,-,y. , 1,,..i'' .'--,-.,,-„ «- -;:•,,,...; '!'''„ e7lJiyte :, if ,-...::: tri 4 t 4 * ~. ,: 4 ,.% ff., 1 ,a - r -;•=4 • 441 ;• fc 1 ;1; :tin% ' \,..',..:,. ~ r "e -• . „ ' • •••,.. "Nt, i cs ===i but it won't be forgotten sal i• 3;:;i;.,.% • 4.% MN rf _ . The Daily Collegian Tuesday, July 16, 1985-3 f;' au, , • ii i. 11 ;. . r:..1 , (.4 ' ' - r:' . 1 :T '. t, - " . I 'i; O ' I 1 . ...11PIP . 40A Photo /Jeff Bustraen (Clockwise iron top right): About 300,000 people came to State Col lege for the 1985 Arts Festival. Bart Sweet came all the way from Bettelo, N.Y., to see the handiwork on display at this years festival. There were a wide array of cultural acts represented at this year's festival, one of which was the belly-dancers who performed un• der the festival tent. Nine•year•old Angel Linares cooled off during kids' day by enjoying the water slide that was set up in the Central Parklet. The Jester entertained people all over the festival route by performing some of his magical acts for them. Stacie Evans tried her hand at a little artistry of her own at the art in the parklet on Friday afternoon. Collegian Photo I David Humiston
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