13 arrested in
By JAMES F. SMITH
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Police commandeered a bus
Police swooped on anti-apartheid carrying 60 mourners back to
activists yesterday, and reported Johannesburg from a funeral and
arresting 113 people on the first day detained 22 passengers, friends of
of a state of emergency aimed at those aboard the bus said.
ending 10 months of unrest among Police declined to release the
blacks. names of those seized or give details
In one of the few clashes reported, of other actions taken under
police headquarters said a police emergency powers, but said that
patrol shot and killed three blacks in altogether, 113 people had been
a rampaging crowd in Tumahole, arrested.
the black township at Parys 75 miles There were also reports of
south of Johannesburg. Parys and predawn roadblocks and searches in
Tumahole are not among the 36 Kwa-Thema township east of
cities and towns covered by the Johannesburg, but by midmorning
emergency declaration. reporters saw no sign of a police
The state of emergency, which crackdown there.
gives authorities broad new powers, Police headquarters in Pretoria
Italy ruler views wreckage
By JENNIFER PARMELEE
Associated Press Writer
STAVA, Italy Italy's president
flew to Stava yesterday and vowed
that justice would be done if
negligence caused a dam to
collapse, burying the alpine village
under a huge wave of mud and
killing at least 200 people.
President Francesco Cossiga
went by helicopter to Stava, which
on Friday was transformed in 20
seconds from a scenic tourist
resort in the Dolomite mountains to
an expanse of mud covering three
hotels and scores of houses.
Officials at the scene said
yesterday that 195 bodies had been
recovered. They said the final toll
would certainly pass 200 because
many of the 51 people missing were
feared dead.
The last of 19 survivors was
pulled from the mud Saturday
morning, after being stuck neck
deep for 18 hours.
Italian newspapers reported
yesterday that local residents said
a leak appeared in the dam in May,
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was the first proclaimed by the
white-minority government in 25
years.
and that officials were trying to
determine if repair work weakened
the structure.
The state prosecutor in Trento,
Francesco Simeoni, on Saturday
questioned one of the owners of the
mining company that used water
from two artificial lakes behind the
earthen dam to filter industrial
wastes.
The owner, Giulio Rota, said
later the tragedy could not have
been foreseen, and that the
company "constantly inspected the
state of maintenance of the dam."
Simeoni sent out 30 judicial
notices to public officials in the
area and people connected with the
company, telling them they were
under investigation. No charges
were filed, but he said he would not
rule out arrests later.
Officials earlier said water
apparently seeped into the 20-year
old dam and cracked it after recent
thunderstorms. The site is 193
miles northeast of Milan.
"Justice must be done. I am
convinced that the courts and the
government will succeed in
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S. African state
said a black man was shot dead . blacks, joined anti-apartheid groups
Saturday night when a mob stoned a in saying the government should
police camp in a township of the negotiate with black leaders, not jail
eastern Cape Province. them.
In other riot-torn townships, the "The harsh surgical methods will
police presence appeared minimal. be treating symptoms and not
Youths played soccer and adults causes," the Mirror said.
went to church as usual. President P.W. Botha declared
Comment by yesterday the emergency Saturday in 36 riot
newspapers was largely restrained. torn cities and towns, where most of
The Johannesburg Sunday Star, the more than 450 deaths have
often critical of the government, occurred since last August. Botha
said the government must open a said black radicals were carrying
dialogue with black leaders. But the out "acts of violence and thuggery
paper added: "It has become clear ... mainly directed at the property
that the situation could not be and person of law-abiding black
allowed to go on, eroding law and people."
order, bedeviling efforts to find "This state of affairs can no
solutions... Action had to be taken." longer be tolerated," he added.
The Sowetan Sunday Mirror, a The declaration empowers police
Johannesburg newspaper for to arrest without warrants, detain
carrying it out," Cossiga said at
the emergency rescue center in
Tesero, about two miles from
Stava.
Earlier yesterday, Cossiga
visited the Santa Maria in Assunta
Church, serving as a temporary
morgue, in nearby Cavalese.
Cossiga knelt and touched the
small white coffin of a child, one of
dozens of coffins laid out.
Choking on the odor of
formaldehyde, a chemical used to
preserve the bodies, he put on a
gauze face mask like those worn by
relatives who came to identify the
remains of their loved ones.
Officials later removed from the
church bodies still unidentified,
and took them to an undisclosed
location.
Cossiga was among hundreds of
mourners who packed St. Eliseo
Profeta Churclun Tesero.
Archbishop Alessandr6Maria
Gottardi of Trento led the hour
long memorial Mass. He joined the
chorus of voices asking why the
tragedy happened and who was
responsible.
Reagan returns to the White . House
By TERENCE HUNT Office, but the timing is not certain. up to eight weeks for Reagan to recover fully.
Associated Press Writer Today, Reagan's only appointments are brief Later yesterday, Roussel said Reagan had
-
meetings with White House chief of staff Donald begun making a series of phone calls from the
WASHINGTON, D.C. President Reagan, T. Regan, Vice President George Bush and White House to members of Congress in an effort
after his first night at the White House since national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane, to urge progress on deficit reduction and
undergoing cancer surgery, spent a quiet day in followed by a haircut. breaking of the impasse over the federal budget.
the family living quarters yesterday and was' Altogether, the staff meetings are to last a total "The president this afternoon has initiated
quoted as saying, "It's sure nice to be back of 30 minutes, but Roussel said they may run some phone calls to members of the Senate,
home." longer. asking them to allow a vote on the line-item
Reagan, who returned Saturday after eight No appointments are booked on Reagan's veto," an administration-endorsed measure that
nights at Bethesda Naval Hospital, slept well and schedule beyond tomorrow, when he greets faces the threat of a continued filibuster, Roussel
was up around 8 a.m., said a spokesman, Peter President Li Xiannian of China, making a state said.
Roussel. After a breakfast of bran cereal, visit to Washington. The arrival ceremony and As he returned to the White House on Saturday,
banana, toast and honey with his wife, Nancy, Reagan's participation in the state dinner that an obviously upbeat Reagan, smiled and waved
the president planned to catch up on paperwork. night will be abbreviated, and the president's to a large crowd on the South Lawn. Aside from
"He's looking forward to resuming his meeting with the Chinese leader will be appearing stiff as he walked, Reagan looked very
schedule," Roussel said. conducted in the mansion instead of the West fit.
As he recuperates in the weeks ahead, the 74- Wing working office, aides said. Doctors who removed a two-inch, cancerous
year-old president will have a reduced work load, In planning Reagan's schedule after growth from the president's colon said there was
operating for the most part out of his East Wing Tomarrow, Roussel said, "We'll take it a day at a no sign it had spread and that chances were
quarters. Reagan probably will make a brief time. You'll see him gradually working into a better than 50 percent he was completely cured
appearance sometime this week in the Oval regular schedule." Doctors have said it will take and would not suffer a recurrence.
8,200 walk out in
By EARL BOHN
AP Business Writer
PITTSBURGH Approximately
8,200 United Steelworkers
members, unwilling to take 18
percent pay cuts without
negotiations, struck Wheeling-
Pittsburgh Steel Corp. yesterday, a
move management says may
eventually force liquidation of the
nation's seventh-largest steel
producer.
It was the steel industry's first
major strike since a 116-day
nationwide walkout in 1959.
"I've heard this propaganda
about liquidation until it nauseates
me," said Paul Rusen, chief USW
negotiator for the strikers and
approximately 10,000 company
retirees. "There may be a
liquidation (firing) of the
executives of this company ... not
the jobs of our people."
Wheeling-Pittsburgh, with annual
sales of about $1 billion, has been in
Chapter 11 reorganization under
federal bankruptcy laws since April
16.
During Saturday's last-ditch
talks to avert a strike, company
Vice President Joseph Scalise Jr
Rescue teams work in the mud among debris In an attempt to recover bodies at this Dolomites resort. The fury of the
water destroyed houses and hotels killing hundreds of people in Stave, Italy.
warned repeatedly that Wheeling-
Pittsburgh could be forced into
Chapter 7 liquidation by a strike.
Picketing started at 12:01 a.m.
yesterday at Wheeling-Pittsburgh's
nine plants in the Ohio and
Monongahela river valleys of
western Pennsylvania, northern
West Virginia and southeastern
Ohio.
No talks were scheduled
yesterday.
The strike halted production.
Shipments and sales will stop
whenever stockpiles of finished
material are exhausted, which
union members say might not
happen for a month.
Federal mediator Robert
Housholder, who called the
bargainers "pretty hard-nosed,"
said he and mediator Carmon
Newell might call the two sides
together if neither side requested a
resumption of talks within several
days.
The leading issue is the size of
wage and benefit concessions the
union should grant to help
Wheeling-Pittsburgh overcome
long-standing operating deficits
and emerge from Chapter 11 as a
profitable company.
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of emergency
and interrogate suspects for 14 days space under a front-page editorial
without charge, impose curfews, banner, saying restrictions under
seize control of property and limit or the emergency meant "you will
ban press coverage in affected never know what we had to say
areas. about it. This comment column is an
The communities covered include indication of how press freedom has
Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth, been restricted by the regulations."
two major population centers, as A spokesman for the Detainees
well as smaller towns. Parents' Support Committee said
A police spokesman, who those arrested under emergency
demanded anonymity, said Gen. powers included at least four white
Johan Coetzee, commissioner of activists as well as black members
police, planned meetings today with of the United Democratic Front •
editors to discuss limits on press anti-apartheid alliance.
coverage of actions taken under The last state of emergency was
emergency powers. in 1960, when violence followed
Police refusal to release details of police killings of 69 black protesters
actions yesterday may foreshadow in Sharpeville, south of
a curtailing of information. Johannesburg. Police arrested
City Press, another Johannesburg 11,503'people during that 156-day
newspaper for blacks, left a blank emergency.
U.S. Steel strike
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Warren that they have a concern as to the
W. Bentz last Wednesday way Dennis Carney is managing the
authorized the company to dissolve company," Rusen said.
its union contract, which was to run Rusen said the banks and other
for another 12 months, as a cost- creditors to whom Wheeling
saving move. Pittsburgh owes nearly $530 million
The company immediately would step in an pressure
voided the agreement and said it management to settle with the
would impose an 18 percent wage union before it became necessary to
and benefit cut and alter work rules liquidate the company.
beginning at 12:01 a.m. yesterday. If Wheeling-Pittsburgh is
The union went on strike rather liquidated, the court would
than accept the changes, which supervise the sale of company
union bargainers said were unfair assets and divide the proceeds
and unnecessary. among creditors, possibly at a rate
Rusen said he saw evidence that as low as a few cents for each dollar
Chairman Dennis J. Carney and his owed.
bargaining team may not have the
full support of Allen E. Paulson, a "The creditors, the banks are not
major shareholder, company going to allow a liquidation when
director and chairman of there is an opportunity to recover
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., and with a viable company in the future.
Nisshin Steel Co. Ltd. of Japan, They are not going to turn an
which last year joined Wheeling- opportunity to recover their money
Pittsburgh in planning a new steel into a (liquidation for) 10 or 15 cents
coating facility. on the dollar," Rusen said.
The union leader said Paulson "Somebody will operate this
and the Japanese took steps company," he said. "It's the most
recently to have Bentz create a modern. It has the best potential to
committee of shareholders to have produce."
a voice in developing a "We're modern enough that
reorganization plan. we're losing our shirts," Carney
"That is a strong indication to me testified before Bentz last month.