COLLEGIAN 100 YEARS April 1887-April 1987 Reagan to review policy on S. Africa SANTA BARBARA, Calif. President Reagan, in a shift of direction, has ordered a high-level resassessment of U.S. policy toward South Africa where the white-ruled government has imposed a state of emergency, an administration official says. The review has been geared in part toward opening new avenues of communication to blacks and whites in South Africa, including “low-level” contacts with the outlawed African National Con gress, said the official, talking late Saturday on condition he remain anonymous. . U.S. officials have made contact with members of the ANC, the Zambia-based group of black activists that is banned in South Africa, the aide said. The official, who is participating in the study, ruled out the possibility that Reagan would impose any new economic sanctions as a result of the review, or that any specific action was imminent. The primary goal is to encourage a dialogue between the minority white government and its black opposition. Eerie evening Lightning strikes along Tussey Ridge, creating an eerie backdrop for the physical plant smokestack when viewed from the roof of Walker Building, Penn State By WINSLOW M. MASON JR. Collegian Staff Writer Gov. Dick Thornburgh yesterday joined University President Bryce Jordan and 65 excited students and their parents for the opening of the first Governor’s School for Agriculture, which will benifit high school students across Pennsylvania. “The Governor’s School, for Agriculture is recognition that the No. 1 industry in Penn sylvania today is agriculture and agricultu ral business,” Thornburgh told students and their parents. “We’re proud of you. We’re proud of Penn State.” The school provides five weeks of intensive instruction in the science and technology of food, agriculture and natural resources. It is fourth in a list of the governor’s state-fi nanced schools, preceeded by schools in the arts, international relations and the sciences. At yesterday’s opening at the Keller Con ference Center on campus, Thornburgh wel comed and congratulated those students who were selected for the program. He said the program is designed to provide the extra instruction needed to help students in the Commonwealth lead the country’s agricultu ral industry into the future. Through a $130,000 state budget allocation to the Department of Education, a schol arship will provide students with free meals, room, tuition and laboratory and computer activites. The University, which will incur no costs under the program’s budget, serves as host for the program, Thornburgh said, adding that the program’s intent was not to saddle the University with financial burdens. OPEC undecided on way By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press Writer BRIONI, Yugoslavia OPEC ministers re cessed for the day yesterday without agreeing on a strategy for ending the oil price slump, and the cartel’s five-day-old conference ap peared headed for an inconclusive end. The 13 members arranged to meet again today for what officials said probably would be the final session on this northern Adriatic island. A 90-minute session yesterday made no progress toward agreement, several sources said. the daily “We are opposed to apartheid.. .We are also opposed to sanctions,” the official said. the official said the administration has no intention of abandoning its policy of “constructive engagement,” a quiet-level diplomatic attempt to seek change in South Africa. But the review and its effort to contact black opposition groups marks a change of direction for the administration. U.S. policy is being coordinated with the British government of Margaret Thatcher, who, like Rea gan, is staunchly opposed to stiff economic sanc tions. The United States and Great Britain are two nations who still “have clout” with South African president P.W. Botha, the official said. The official also noted that the British have established contact with Oliver Tambo, head of the ANC. Frustrated by events in South Africa and the administration’s policies, the House earlier this month approved legislation requiring the total withdrawal of U.S. business interests from South Africa. The House bill would require total U.S. disin- hosts first Governor's School for Agriculture The students, high school sophomores and juniors from across Pennsylvania, applied to the program through their high schools, and were selected on the basis of their grade point average, class rank, letters of recommenda tion and a personal essay. Coursework for the students, taught by faculty of the College of Agriculture, includes topics in horticulture, plant physiology, bio chemistry, nutrition, veterinary science, ani mal physiology, and an introduction to basic radiation and radiation measurement. Seminars on economic policy, international development, ethics, rural sociology and ca reer counseling will also be provided to the students, and students may develop research projects with senior faculty. The students will also get an introduction to the Apple Macintosh computer and will be placed on an electronic mail account with the University, enabling them to access ongoing information about the school. After students successfully complete the program, they will receive an evaluation of their work and a special state certificate. President Jordon expressed his hope that those attending the school will pursue their college education at Penn State. Samuel E. Hayes, R-Blair, minority whip for the state House of Representatives who has been a key supporter of the program, said “agriculture is an important industry and, without it, our cities would be islands of dispair.” “If it wasn’t for Gov. Thornburgh and the General Assembly working with the gover nor, this day wouldn’t have happened,” he said, adding that the students attending this first governor’s program for agriculture are “Tomorrow I am leaving, that is the best news,” said Mana Saeed Oteiba, oil minister of the United Arab Emirates, after the session. He refused to comment on prospects for an agreement. Gabon’s chief delegate went home yesterday but said lower-level officials would fill in for him. Algeria’s oil minister left Saturday.* Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, said he did not expect a final agreement in Brioni but that he remained hopeful an accord eventually could be reached. “What we have to do is for every minister to go back home and consult with his government vestment from South Africa within 180 days of enactment and impose a trade embargo against that country except for key minerals needed by the U.S. defense industry. The review, conducted by senior members of the State Department and the National Security Coun cil, is to be completed within several weeks and then will go to Reagan, the official said. The official said the review came about follow ing a trip to South Africa of the so-called Eminent Person’s Group, made up of representatives of Commonwealth nations. The group, which spent six months studying the issue, said it saw little likelihood of a negotiated solution in South African. The official said the group’s effort halted in response to Botha’s emergency decree was abandoned too quickly in the face of the urgent need for negotiations. The group warned that tough economic sanctions offered the last chance to avert what it called “the worst bloodbath since World War II.” pioneers who will lead us into the future. Others involved with the program are: Margaret Smith, state secretary of educa tion; Richard Grubb, state secretary of agri culture; Arthur M. Gatty, state governor’s school director; Lamartine Hood, dean of the College of Agriculture; D. Kay Wright, com missioner for basic education; and Dr. James Mortenson, School of Agriculture di rector. “This represents the realization of a dream,” Thornburgh said of the program, adding that because Penn State is the state’s land grant university and serves the nation as well as the world, it is the best choice to host the program. “Penn State has been a good working partner with this government,” he said. He also emphasized that having members of his administration serving on the University’s Board of Trustees is beneficial to the relationship. During the school’s first week, students will participate in a trip to Longwood Gardens with researchers in horticulture and will spend a day at the Stone Valley Experimental Forest. Students will later visit the Hershey Corporation. Lynn B. Herman (R-Centre) and Ruth C. Rudy (D-Centre) were also among the digni taries who attended opening ceremonies. Senator Doyle Corman (R-Centre) had planned to attend, but could not make the event. Plans are under way to open a Governor’s School for Business at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school in Philadel phia, with an expected opening date of sum mer 1987. to stop dropping oil prices and meet again, probably in a month’s time,” Yamani said in a telephone interview with CBS-TV. The ministers appeared to have given up hope of reaching a unanimous agreement. Several sources, speaking on condition they not be identified, said the best the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could hope for was a majority decision on a price target and a new production policy, but that even this was far from certain. Iran, Libya and Algeria were holding out for drastic cuts in output. The other members favored a more moderate plan aimed at pre- Moderate Zulu leader denounces sanctions By MAUREEN JOHNSON Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Afri ca Surrounded by stamping supporters waving tribal clubs in Soweto, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the country’s main moderate black leader, warned yesterday of civil war between Blacks while new clashes flared. Youths hurled stones and a gaso line bomb as buses carrying Bu thelezi’s Zulu tribe supporters left Soweto’s Jabulani stadium after a five-hour rally, causing a thr.ee bus pileup in which 34 people were injured, witnesses and the govern ment reported. Witnesses said five men were killed at a migrant workers’ hostel in running battles with clubs and spears between Zulus and other tribes people. The witnesses said the Zulus had tried to force others to go to the rally. The government said police knew nothing of the clash. At the rally, Buthelezi also de nounced calls for economic sanc tions against South Africa, and told 13,000 supporters in the huge black township outside Johannes burg, “We will never be freed by marching armies from abroad.” The government exempted Bu thelezi’s rally from a ban on politi cal meetings, imposed June 12 under a national state of emergen cy. The Bureau of Information in Pretoria, the only source of offi cial information about unrest since the emergency, said in its daily bulletin on incidents that four additional Blacks were killed elsewhere. It said three were killed by other Blacks and one was shot dead by police firing into a crowd from which a gasoline bomb has been hurled in Port Elizabeth’s Zwide township. The latest fatalities, in the 24 hours to daybreak yesterday, raised to 85 the number killed since the emergency. Reporters who had been barred from entering Soweto for nearly two weeks were allowed to witness the rally yesterday. Buthelezi, hereditary leader of 6 million Zulus, has traveled abroad urging foreign governments not to impose economic sanctions. Anti- Gov. Dick Thornburgh and his wife Ginny pose yesterday with the students from the Governor’s School of Agriculture. The school, a special program for talented high school sophomores and juniors, provides five weeks of intensive instruction in the science and technology of food, agriculture and natural resources. venting a major erosion of the cartel’s share of the world market. Some officials said failure to reach an unani mous agreement need not prevent OPEC from succeeding in pushing oil prices higher, al though any increase would be gradual and might not begin until the autumn. “As long as we have Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the (United Arab) Emirates and Venezuela in the deal it will work,” said one source, speak ing on condition he not be identified. Those four countries account for nearly half of OPEC’s output. Monday, June 30,1986 Vol. 87, No. 11 14 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University ©1986 Collegian Inc. apartheid activists have accused him of being overly cooperative with the Pretoria goverment. At the stadium, the crowd cheered, beat drums and waved shields and clubs as Buthelezi arrived by helicopter. Buthelezi, wearing twisted scarves in the gold, black and green colors of his Inkatha movement, led thunderous shouts of “Amandla! ” or power, with the crowd answering with the Zulu response, “It is ours!” The chief told his supporters that a U.S. House of Representa tives vote calling for sanctions had “nothing to do with our well-be ing.” “They talk from a party politi cal position in which American pride asserts itself at your ex pense,” he said. In calling for an end to violence by Blacks against Blacks, he de clared: “I know that if we do not do something about the high toll of deaths of blacks at the hands of blacks, we are on the verge of a civil war situation which will nev er be stopped, even if liberation (from white domination) is achieved tomorrow.” During the five-hour rally, Inka tha youth groups danced before Buthelezi, carrying placards de nouncing calls for sanctions. Inka tha is a tribal and cultural movement which claims about 1.3 million members. Zulus had flocked to the rally from their KwaZulu homeland in Natal, 200 miles away, and from Johannesburg and surrounding mining towns. Meanwhile, two black labor leaders were reportedly detained without charge in a continuing state of emergency crackdown on black trade union officials. Most of them are prime advocates of tough economic sanctions against this country. Monitoring groups say there are more than 900 labor union mem bers among at least 1,500 people detained without charge under the emergency. Dozens more are in hiding, but union leaders who escaped deten tion had planned to resurface and challenge the government at a public meeting tomorrow. in Photo / Jean Hopper weather This afternoon will be sunsatio nali! Look for blue skies along with a cool refreshing breeze. High 78. Tonight it will be com fortably cool with a low of 54. Tomorrow, lots of morning sunshine will give way to an increase in clouds later. High 77 Heidi Sonen
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