Riots erupt
By JAMES F. SMITH
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa The tide of riot
sweeping South Africa returned to Soweto.yesterday,
breaking months of calm in the vast black township
that was the flashpoint of deadly racial turmoil nine
years ago.
Rioters stoned, looted and set fire to cars, trucks and
stores in several neighborhoods of the community of at
least 1.5 million people southwest of Johannesburg.
Police said a mob of about 100 black youths stoned a
tour bus carrying seven American, British and West
German tourists. Three windows in the bus were
smashed but no one was hurt, they said.
Witnesses reported that police attacked rioters with
birdshot, rubber bullets and tear gas. Baragwanath
Hospital said eight youths were admitted with birdshot
wounds.
"Wherever the police meet a group of people, they
open fire. Klipspruit (neighborhood) along
Potchefstroom Road is just engulfed in tear gas," said
a reporter who was on the scene at nightfall. "There is
general chaos in most parts of the township."
Riots continued in black townships elsewhere in this
white-ruled nation, with incidents reported in all four
provinces.
Police headquarters in Pretoria said three blacks
were killed Tuesday night and early yesterday a
woman in unknown circumstances at Witbank, east of
Johannesburg, and two men shot by police during
disturbances in Actonville, east of Johannesburg, and
Bush visits
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
, WASHINGTON, D.C. President Reagan was
taken off intravenous feeding and put on a mostly
liquid diet yesterday as he continued what Vice
President George Bush, visiting him for the first
time during his convalescence, called a dramatic
recovery from cancer surgery.
Bush said Reagan was "running high and
looking good" four days after having a malignant
tumor removed from his colon.
"It really is dramatic the way the recovery is
taking place," the vice president said.
Bush spent about 45 minutes with the president
in his suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital in
suburban Maryland. They discussed foreign and
domestic affairs and Bush said the president was
"clearly read up" on the issues.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said
Navy Capt. Dale 01ler, the head of surgery at
Bethesda, reported that Reagan's digestive
system was beginning to return to normal and
placed him on a diet of liquids such as bouillons,
apple juice and tea, as well as Popsicles and Jell
0.
The spokesman said the president had gelatin
and tea for lunch and was to be served bouillion
and tea for dinner. He said Reagan "was awake
throughout the afternoon, walking around the
suite, attending to routine paperwork and
reading."
Speakes said the president had his first
uninterrupted night of sleep Tuesday night,
retiring shortly after 11 p.m. EDT after watching
the movie "To Have and Have Not," with
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, on
television
He said Reagan awoke about 5 a.m., went back
to sleep and woke again at 8 a.m. As he left his
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in Soweto after months of calm
Queenstown in the eastern Cape province.
Tens of thousands of black students joined school
boycotts in at least 26 cities and towns, the government
said. Schools reopened last week after a month-long
winter holiday.
Soweto is South Africa's largest black township. It
had remained relatively free of the rioting that has
engulfed other black towns for•more than 10 months in
protest of apartheid, the white minority's legalized
system of race discrimination.
In the current wave of rioting, much more than in the
past, mobs have attacked local black officials and
black policemen, who are seen as tools of the white
government.
More than 450 blacks have been killed. The death toll
was 575 in rioting that started in Soweto on June 16,
1976, and spread across the country.
Some observers attribute the relative quiet in Soweto
this time to improvements in housing and other
facilities there since the 1976 uprising.
Police and soldiers on horseback dispersed a crowd
of about 1,000 youths at a Soweto court building early
yesterday morning, before a hearing began for 107
blacks charged with demonstrating illegally last
Saturday.
Witnesses said police fired several rounds of tear gas
and one canister landed in the courtroom.
Police said they arrested 40 youths who hijacked a
bus to reach the court, and briefly detained about 400
more in hijacked buses but let them go because the bus
company did not press charges.
Reagan for first time
room to walk the length of the hall in his suite,
Speakes said, the president quipped, "Tennis,
anyone?"
Doctors removed a nasal tube used to draw out
gas and fluid from the president's stomach.
Reagan, who had complained of some irritation
from the tube, quipped, "This is Christmas in
July."
The physicians described Reagan's condition
as excellent, his vital signs as stable and his,
spirits as - good, according to Speakes.
The spokesman said the president signed
several nominations and a supplemental
extradition treaty with Britain, designed to assist
in combating terrorism.
Speakes said Reagan heard the sirens of the
Bush motorcade arriving and surprised his
visitor by getting out of bed to greet him in an
adjacent sitting room.
"I got up there prepared to wait, and out came
the president to greet me, walking, and sat in a
straight-backed chair and looked very well
indeed," the vice president-Old reporters.
Bush was accompanied by his chief of staff,
Craig Fuller; the president's chief of staff,
Donald T. Regan; and Speakes.
Speakes said the president's "first words to the
group were to deny still another report of his
demise," referring to rumors of his death that
circulated in some international financial
markets.
' "Somebody must be trying to make a buck,"
the spokesman quoted Reagan as saying.
He said they discussed a breakfast meeting
with Senate Finance Committee Republicans
earlier in the day, at which Bush substituted for
the president, and that Reagan "emphasized his
interest in the budget deficit, which obviously
still concerns him."
Speakes said the president told his visitors,
Collegian
Soldiers watch a burning minibus on a street in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, after rioting flared
yesterday following several months of relative calm.
"We have to show real dollars in domestic
spending savings. That's the only way. Go tell
them that."
Bush, who made a fortune in the Texas oil
fields before entering politics, said, "There's an
expression in the oil business, 'Running high and
looking good,' when you are drilling a well, and
that's the way he is, running high and looking
good."
`Me was very much concerned -about the -- - •
Oroblems of agriculture and there were other
subjects, too, but the main point is he was clearly
read up and concerned about the various
problems just as if he were sitting in the Oval
Office," the vice president said.
Bush said Reagan "clearly needs some more
time" to continue his recovery and added, "I
think he hurts from time to time." But he said the
president told him, "I feel fine right now," and
Bush said he was "impressed with the recovery,
his obvious strength."
He said they did not discuss how soon the
president will get out of the hospital. The White
House says he is expected to be released over the
weekend or early next week.
Bush said Reagan showed "no indication" of
being depressed over his condition.
"The upbeat humor, unfailingly present in
normal circumstances, is very much present
today," he said. "We had a very good repartee,
kidding and joking."
He said they did not discuss Reagan's
unprecedented delegation of presidential power
to him during the period he was under the
anesthetic on Saturday.
"I assured him that things were functioning
well," he said. "Obviously they would be
functioning better if the president , were there in
the Oval Office, but they are clearly going ahead,
and I told him that."
Thursday, July 18, 1985
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©1985 Collegian Inc.
Outcome of festival
pleases organizers
By MICHELLE DENISE VICHNIN
Collegian Staff Writer
To approximately 300,000 people
the 1985 Central Pennsylvania
Festival of the Arts meant six
days of live entertainment, craft
aleS and museumrexhibits.
To the organizers of the week
long extravaganza, however, the
Arts Festival represented the
culmination of almost a year of
preparation and planning.
"It was definitely the biggest
Arts Festival ever," said Lurene
Franz, managing director of the
Arts Festival. "In terms of the
amount of people who came to the
festival and the number of
offerings, this years Arts Festival
was bigger even than last
years.' "
Franz also said that people who
attended the festival were
"thrilled with the quality of the art
it was of good caliber." Visitors
were also impressed with the Arts
Festival paraphernalia. "We ran
out of all adult-sized T-shirts. The
posters went well, and it seemed
as though everyone wanted a
souvenir."
The main concern of the
coordinators of the festival was
how everyone would react to the
new route. "It was a necessary
thing," emphasized Franz. "The
route was changed in an attempt
to save the elms on campus."
The previous route consisted of
both sides of the Old Main Mall
and the Henderson Mall and
stretched into town all the way to
Fairmount Avenue. The new
route, however, did not use this
area.
"It hooked in town and provided
a link between College Avenue and
Pollock Road, which was
important because it provided
continuity for the customers," she
said.
"We received nothing but
positive comments about the
route," said Mary Ann Haas,
President of the State College
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Borough Council and liason to the
board of the Arts Festival. "Even
with the tremendous crowds, there
was room to walk and browse, or
room to stop and really look at the
wares."
Elwood G. Williams, chief of the
State College Police Department,
said he felt that "the new layout
caused a few traffic circulation
problems. We'll have to
reexamine this route and see what
kind of alternatives we have for
next year."
Franz and Haas said they were
both delighted with the extent of
community involvement in the
Festival.
"What I found to be amazing
was that such a big segment of the
community, and that includes the
on-campus student community,
supported and worked for the
festival," Haas said.
Franz said the public was "very
cooperative. We had good
volunteers doing a crackerjack
job."
The number of volunteers
cannot be pinpointed, but the
figure is estimated to be around
2,500. "You must remenber that
these are official volunteers,"
Franz said. "Many helped
unofficially by offering directions
and by welcoming visitors to State
College."
Although major parking
problems were avoided by the
shuttle bus service to and from the
Beaver Stadium parking lot,
parking was tight downtown. "I
wasn't prepared for the influx I
got on Saturday," said Don
Thompson, coordinator of parking
for the festival.
Unfortunately, a few minor
incidents of stealing and
vandalism occurred during the
festival. "We seemed to have
more thefts reported from the
vendors than in the previous
years," Williams said. Also, the
canvass of the new West Halls
stage was cut and stolen.