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.
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“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.
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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
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