African National
By JAMES F. SMITH
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Black guerrillas said yesterday
that a state of emergency under
which the white-minority
government has rounded up
hundreds of people is "an open
admission . . . that it is losing
control."
The African National Congress,
which carries on its guerrilla
campaign from exile, said the
government's "desperate actions
signify the beginning of the end of
. the apartheid system."
Police reported continued •
scattered rioting, and said a patrol
shot and killed two young blacks and
wounded five others when a mob of
about 4,000 people attacked a
policeman's home in the township of
Tsakane, east of Johannesburg.
Another black was killed earlier in a
separate clash in nearby Thokoza,
the spokesman said.
A spokesman for the Detainees
Parents' Support Committee said as
many as 200 people were arrested
late Sunday and early yesterday
100 each in the Johannesburg area
and the eastern Cape Province. The
Eastern Province Herald said it
knew of 80 to 90 detentions in the
eastern Cape alone.
Police announced 113 other
arrests Sunday under South Africa's
Board
trustee
retires
By PATRICK RABIN
Collegian Staff Writer
The second longest-serving
member of the University's
Board of Trustees has asked not
to be reappointed to the Board
after his three-year term that
expired June 30.
William K. Ulerich, 75, owner
of several radio stations
including WXLR and WMAJ in
State College and publisher of
The Progress newspaper in
Clearfield, said that after serving
on the Board for 26 years, "it is
now time to turn matters over to
younger hands."
University President Bryce
Jordan said he regrets Ulerich's
decision because, "he's been a
tower of strength on the Board."
Jordan said that Ulerich has been
an extremely effective
spokesman for the University
because of his statewide
recognition in the print and
broadcast media
Ulerich, a 1931 University
graduate with a degree in
journalism, was appointed to the
Board by former Gov. John S.
Fine in 1951, and served until
1956. He was reappointed by
former Gov. William W. Scranton
in 1964, and served as president of
the Board from 1976-1978.
He said that one of his proudest
acheivements as a trustee was
opening Board meetings to the
public under the Sunshine Law
during his time as president.
Trustees appointed by the
governor serve until their
replacements are found. Ulerich
says he will, continue to attend
meetings as president emeritus
after he is replaced. This means
he can participate in discussions,
but cannot vote.
Only H. Thomas Hallowell, who
has served since 1950, has been on
the present Board longer than
Ulerich.
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Plenty of brillant sunshine today
backed by bright blue skies.
High 77. Tonight, clear skies and
chilly temperatures with a low of
50.
the
daily
first emergency decree since the the
spread of violence that followed the
1960 Sharpeville riots. Sixty-nine
people were killed in those riots.
Police said they would have
further reports today on detentions
under the emergency, which was
declared Saturday'and applies in 36
cities and towns.
. Nearly 500 blacks have been killed
in 11 months of violence aimed at
white-minority rule, according to
private monitoring groups. Police
said one man was shot to death
yesterday east of Johannesburg
when officers fired into a crowd
attacking them
Three blacks were shot dead in a
similar clash Sunday.
Gen. Johan Coetzee, the police
commissioner, backed off a plan to
censor articles about riot areas but
appealed to newspapers to "scale
down information connected to the
unrest." He said news reports had
fed racial strife.
Coetzee told both domestic and
foreign correspondents they could
not use names of those detained
until police confirmed them. He said
such a list would be available daily.
Police are empowered to arrest
people without warrants, detain and
interrogate suspects for 14 days,
seal off areas, seize property,
impose curfews and control press
reporting.
The detainees commitee issued a
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steps of Old Main yesterday. The two took a break to enjoy the afternoon sun
when the clouds took a welcome break.
Research grant:
From staff and wire reports
The University's Applied Research Lab will
receive a grant of more than $BO million to
conduct research on undersea warfare, a
spokesman for U.S. Rep. William F. Clinger,
R-central Pa., said yesterday.
The contract is a continuation of funding for
the 40-year-old Applied Research Laboratory.
It will permit the lab to continue research and
development on underwater guidance and
control systems for torpedoes, on propeller
and engine designs and on computer
simulations of ocean performance.
A small part of the contract also will finance
the Laser Articulating Robotic System, or
Lars, said L. Raymond Hettche, ARL
director. The Lars system calls for a laser
equipped robot to fabricate parts according to
Collegian
Congress says apartheid ending
statement saying people in the black
townships would see the emergency
as "a declaration of war."
A spokesman, who asked not to be
identified, said'the group had
identified about 90 of those detained
over the two days, adding that
police had raided offices of civic
associations, student groups and
other organizations. He said that
among those known held were 53
community leaders, six clergymen,
12 students and eight trade union
leaders.
Two well-known Asian leaders
from Johannesburg, a lawyer and a
doctor, also were picked up, he said.
Prices on the Johannesburg stock
exchange fell sharply as foreign
investors sold off shares in response
to the emergency, dealers said. The
key gold index fell from 967.3 to
914.1, a particularly steep drop.
The African National Congress,
the main guerrilla group fighting
white rule, said President P.W.
Botha's emergency proclamation
would spur South Africa's blacks in
the fight against white rule. •
"Botha's desperate actions
signify the beginning of the end of
the apartheid system," ANC
Secretary-General Alfred Nzo said
in Lusaka, Zambia. "The
proclamation ... constitutes an open
admission by the Pretoria regime
that it is losing control and can no
longer rule in the old way."
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design specifications or to do routine
inspection, he said.
"The concept is to actually marry a robot
with a laser . . . and have a robot to be able to
control a laser beam. If you can do that in a
very precise way, it allows you to do a whole
bunch of things, including inspection,
welding, things like that," Hettche said.
The lab, which was established at Penn
State in 1945 from the remnants of Harvard
University's Underwater Sound Laboratory,
is known for torpedo research, said James
Probus of the Navy's Research and
Development office.
Penn State's ARL conducted the
foundational work on the Mark 48 torpedo,
which the Navy uses today, Probus said.
The lab also conducted early pioneer work
Nzo said the ANC's campaign "to
make apartheid unworkable and
South Africa ungovernable will
intensify exactly because martial
law makes apartheid rule that much
more intolerable."
Botha refused an opposition
request to reconvene Parliament to
discuss the emergency. The
president said action, not talk, was
necessary to end the unrest: "It is
U.S. avoids criticizing gov't.
By MICHAEL PUTZEL
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D.C. The White House yesterday
blamed apartheid as "largely responsible for the
current violence" in South Africa but carefully avoided
criticizing the white-ruled government's assumption of
extraordinary police powers to deal with growing
racial unrest.
In a cautiously worded statement, White House
spokesman Larry Speakes called on the Pretoria
government of President P.W. Botha "to exercise its
responsibilities in a scrupulous manner."
Botharrejecting opposition calls for reconvening
parliament to discuss the latest violence and
declaration of a state of emergency, said: "It is and
remains the responsibility of the government to ensure
the safety of its people. My government will not shirk
that responsibility."
Speakes said, "The South African government bears
a considerable responsibility at this time. It says it
seeks to restore law and order, and that is
27 injured in Denmark
from terrorist bombs
By STEPHEN H. MILLER
Associated Press Writer
COPENHAGEN, Denmark Bombs tore open a
U.S. airline office and damaged a synagogue and
Jewish nursing home yesterday in Copenhagen, a
European capital that had previously escaped the
recent international terrorist wave. Other suspected
bombs were found before they could explode.
Twenty-seven people were injured, at least three
seriously, authorities said. Three Americans were
among those who suffered minor injuries, the U.S.
Embassy reported.
Police later announced they had taken six foreigners
into custody for questioning in the bombings, but they
did not disclose their identities.
In Beirut, Lebanon, an anonymous telephone caller
told The Associated Press the attacks were carried out
by the Shiite Moslem terrorist organization Islamic
Jihad to avenge an Israeli raid on a southern Lebanese
village Sunday. The claim could not be verified.
One bomb gutted the quarters of Northwest Orient
Airlines near Copenhagen's Tivoli amusement park.
Northwest Orient is the only American airline with
offices in the Danish capital.
Another attack, which some bystanders said
involved two bombs, damaged the Copenhagen
Synagogue and an adjacent Jewish home for the
elderly, the Meyers Minne Nursing Home, on a narrow
street near Cbpenhagen's 17th-century Round Tower.
J. H. Hasselriis, a deputy police director, said there
was only one bomb at the synagogue and it apparently
was planted in advance. The bomb at the airline office
was either thrown at it or placed outside just before it
exploded, he said.
He said each of the bombs was estimated to have
contained 4.4 pounds of explosives.
Both attacks came within minutes of each other in
mid-morning, as shoppers crowded nearby streets,
taking advantage of late summer sales.
Harald Ruetz, a Northwest Orient manager, said one
employee and two customers were in the office at the
time of the explosion, which appeared to have been set
off outside its plate-glass windows.
"Otherwise, she would have died," he said of the
employee, who escaped with minor injuries. Ruetz said
he did not know how badly injured the customers were.
An employee of the nursing home said about seven of
its residents had been injured, none seriously. The
in 1949 that led to submarine-launched
missiles, such as the Trident I and Trident 11.
ARL developed the Stored Chemical
Energy Propulsion System, or SCEPS engine,
which Hettche called a revolution in undersea
propulsion. The engine makes little noise to
alert enemies of its approach, he said.
"I'd suspect that you'd find ARL
contributions in every submarine that goes
out into the ocean, including maybe the
Russians," said Eric Walker, a former
Harvard researcher who brought ARL to
Penn State at the Navy's request when the Ivy
League school suspended war-related
research after World War 11.
The campus laboratory conducts much of
its design tests in a 110,000-gallon Navy-owned
water tunnel.
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and remains the responsibility of
the government to ensure the safety
of its people. My government will
not shirk this responsibility."
The government-run South
African Broadcasting Corp. scoffed
at "the old refrain that the state of
emergency has been declared to
suppress legitimate protest and that
it is the government's alternative to
real reform. ... Negotiation is
understandable, but we look to the South African
government to exercise its responsibilities in a
scrupulous manner." •
Asked if that could be interpreted as a criticism of
the emergency declaration, the spokesman reiterated,
"We look to them to exercise their responsibilities in a
scrupulous manner."
"We are very disturbed by the violence that is
occurring in South Africa," Speakes said, repeating a
State Department expression of concern issued over
the weekend. "It is counterproductive and advances no
one's interest."
But the White House spokesman went a step further
to remind the government of its responsibilities and
place at least part of the blame for violence on the
system of racial segregation.
Asked if the United States was moving away from its
policy of "constructive engagement," in which it seeks
through diplomatic persuasion rather than imposition
of sanctions to encourage the government to change its
apartheid policies, Speakes said, "No, it is not."
other victims apparently were passers-by at the two
sites.
Police said about half the injured were Danes and
half foreigners. The most seriously injured victim was
reported by police to have suffered burns over 85
percent of the body.
Hasselriis told reporters six foreigners were being
questioned but had not been formally arrested. He
declined to give their nationalities, but indicated they
came from Mediterranean countries.
Hasselriis said none of the six were detained near the
bombing sites. The Danish news agency Ritzau said at
least some of them had been trying to leave
Copenhagen on the 40-minute hydrofoil boat link to
nearby Sweden.
Police were investigating a suspected bomb in a
Northwest Orient flight bag pulled from Copenhagen's
New Harbor, near the hydrofoil dock, Hasselriis said.
News photographers said another suspected bomb was
found in a courtyard of Christiansborg Palace, seat of
Denmark's Parliament, but police said later it was not
an explosive device.
Military bomb experts said the device fished out of
the harbor appeared to be of the same type as those
used at the airline office and synagogue, Danish
television reported.
Prime Minister Poul Schlueter issued a statement
expressing "sorrow that we now experience that
Denmark too is hit by terrorist activity. We have
escaped for many years, while unscrupulous men and
organizations have spread death and destruction in
other European countries."
The Beirut caller indicated Copenhagen was
targeted precisely because Denmark had escaped
terrorist activity until now.
"If certain countries believe they are free of our
strikes, let them know that sooner or later we shall
reach ... the headquarters of all Western and Arab
leaders who spin round the imperialist universe," the
caller said.
"One of our cells in the Scandinavian countries" had
retaliated for "the barbaric attack on the village of
Qabrikha," the caller said.
Israeli troops raided the south Lebanon villages of
Qabrikha and Sejoud on Sunday, and at least three
local residents were reported killed.
Chief Rabbi Bent Melchior said the Copenhagen
Synagogue bombing came some two hours after the
end of morning prayers involving about 20 people.
impossible in the prevailing
circumstances."
Sir Shridath Ramphal, secretary
general of•the Commonwealth of
Nations, said in London that the
government action meant South
Africa must be treated as a
"terrorist organization.... It is
apartheid that is producing a state
of emergency, not the resistance to
it."
Researchers also do computer simulation
and open-ocean testing of the design concepts
something that distinguishes Penn State's
ARL from the four other university research
labs used by the Navy, the director said.
About 350 people, including students on part
time, work at the lab, which receives about 95
percent of its funding from the Navy.
"The $BO million is a continuation of the
work we've been doing for 40 years a lot of
it," Hettche said. "What we've given the
Navy is 40 years of continuity, corporate
memory and literally hundreds of students
educated in Navy technology."
The school was expected to formally
announce the contract at a news conference
today.