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WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The
Senate, following President Reagan's
milder approach, voted Monday to post
pone action on legislation that would
impose economic sanctions on South
Africa for its system of racial separation.
The vote in the Republican-controlled
Senate was 53 to 34.
Democrats accused the Senate of
abrogating its responsibility to make
law on this controversial issue and
promised they would try again later to
force a Senate vote on the bill.
Last week, Republican leaders pre
dicted the bill would pass overwhelm
ingly despite Reagan's strong opposi
tion to sanctions against the white-ruled
government.
But facing certain political defeat,
Reagan on Monday announced he would
take unilateral action to impose limited
sanctions and Republican leaders
agreed to try and postpone action on
the stronger, more restrictive bill.
Among other things, Reagan an
nounced a ban on U.S. computer sales
to agencies that administer apartheid,
curbs on exports of nuclear technology
and a ban on new bank loans to the
South African government that would
not benefit all races.
In addition, he said he would con
sult with U.S. trading partners under
the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade about a ban on importing South
African Krugerrand gold coins.
Today's vote came on a motion to
stop an obstructionist debate and pro
ceed to a direct vote on the bill. Anti
apartheid forces, led by Democrats,
needed 60 votes to cut off debate but
only won 53.
In Johannesburg, South African
President P. W. Botha and one of his
leading black opponents, Bishop Des
mond Tutu, both attacked Reagan's
limited anti-aparthied sanctions but
from opposite political sides.
Botha said in a statement that the
sanctions were regrettable and would
reduce Washington's ability to influ
ence events in Sothern Africa.
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Tutu also
criticized the sanctions, telling repor
ters that the mildness of the measures
would make the Pretoria government
"quite happy."
"He doesn't care two beans about
black people in South Africa," Tutu
said of Reagan. "I don't think he cares
at all . . . ."
In Moscow, the official Soviet news
agency Tass said Reagan's sanctions
were so full of loopholes they were
meaningless. "The 'sanctions' announc
ed by Washington . . . once again ex
pose the Reagan Administration as an
accomplice of the racist butchers," it
declared.
The Soviet Union supports the idea
of comprehensive United Nation sanc
tions against South Africa, but dis
misses any lesser step as a meaningless
ploy.
Britain may end up virtually alone in
opposing European Community sanc
tions against South Africa after Rea
gan's decision, diplomats said. Speak
ing on the eve of foreign ministers'
discussions here on a common stand
toward Pretoria, they said the timing of
Reagan s announcement appeared to
embarrass the ministers. A decision to
impose sanctions would have to be
agreed upon, unanimously and Britain's
agreement was therefore vital, they
added.
The sanctions are expected to have
little impact on the domestic economy
or on U.S. and other foreign corpora
tions with business interests in South
Africa, banking sources said Monday.
However, if U.S. economic sanctions
against South Africa prompt retaliatory
action, Amercian industry would quickly
discover how dependent it is on South
African minerals to keep its production
lines open, officials said.
South Africa is the United States'
biggest supplier of chromium needed
to harden steel for aircraft and plat
inum, used to refine gasoline. A recent
Commerce Department study on South
African mineral resources said a con
tinued supply was vital to President
Reagan's military buildup and U.S.
industrial preparedness in the event of
a national security crisis.
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U.S. reaffirms support
Thai coup attempt crushed
BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuter)
Thai troops issued a "surrender or
die" ultimatum and crushed a coup
attempt masterminded by a dis-'
gruntled former army colonel Monday
after a 10-hour confrontation in which
four people were killed.
Among the dead were two Western
journalists caught in a hail of gunfire
in the center of Bangkok from tanks
manned by rebels. Fifty-nine other
people were wounded, authorities
said.
The dawn attempt, involving up to
500 rebels who comandeered 22
tanks, collapsed after the government
issued a "surrender or die" ultima
tum. Authorities said the two ring
leaders, Col. Manoon Roopkhachorn
and his brother, air force Squadron
Leader Manas, have surrendered.
Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda
raced home from an official visit to
Indonesia after the coup attempt. He
went on television shortly after land
ing in southern Thailand and said his
first priority was to restore'national
unity and clear up any misunder
standings in the military.
Prem survived an abortive takeover
bid, dubbed The April Fools' Coup,
led by Manoon in 1981. Monday's
revolt, mainly affecting the area of
Government House in the old quarter
of Bangkok, caught Thais by surprise
and many were unaware the attempt
had taken place.
The United States said Monday it
regretted the attempt by rebel soldi
ers to stage the coup and reaffirmed
its strong support for Tinsulanonda's
government.
State Department spokesman Ber
nard Kalb told reporters, "The U.S.
strongly supports the legally consti
tuted government of Prime Minister
Prem and is pleased by reports that
the royal family is safe," he said.
Among the four dead were Austral
ian television journalist Neil Davis,
who covered wars, coups and revolu
tions, death and mayhem for 21 years.
Monday he filmed his own death.
Davis, 51, of NBC News, and his
soundman, William Latch, were film
ing rebel tanks moving on an army
radio braodcasting building in Bang
kok when they were both hit by fire
from the tanks.
Australian Gary Burns, a Visnews
cameramen, related the incident in
an interview: "Everything happened
in a flash. We were on a direct line of
fire and I think I saw the machine
guns on four or five tanks fire directly
at the broadcasting building before
we all hit the dirt."
Burns said Davis, still filming,
rolled on top of hint and said, "I'm all
right, I'm all right."
"During a lull in the shooting I
rolled him over to help him up
but . . . he was dead," Burns said.
"He died filming his own death."
NewsmsTkors
A roundup of the day's happenings
House majority leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, on
Monday accused the Reagan administration of contribut
ing to air safety problems by slashing the number of
federal aircraft inspectors by 25 percent since 1981 and
for refusing to spend $3 billion in available funds for
Doppler advanced radar equipment.
Democratic Mayor Edward Koch, 60, a symbol for
millions worldwide of what's right and what's wrong in
New York City, is expected to easily win renomination for
a third term in today's Democratic mayoral primary. Win
ning the nomination is often tantamount to winning an
election in NYC. where Republicans are considered an
endangered species.
From Paul Newman, at 60 the youngest, to Cary
Grant and Isaac Bashevis Singer, both 81, McCall's maga
zine has announced its picks for the 10 sexiest American
men who are age 60 or older. President Reagan, 74, made
the list, as did Frank Sinatra, 69; Joe DiMaggio, 70; John
Huston, 79; Norman Mailer, 62; John Forsythe, 67, and Lee
Iacocca, 61. "There's enough accumulated explosive force
radiating from Grant, Newman, Singer, et al., to send a
rocket to the moon ... and farther," McCalls said.
Three-year-old Prince William, second in line to the
British throne, is expected to be enrolled this month,
along with 23 other young pupils, at a multiracial Montes
sori kindergarten class where he will be taught such
non-royal chores as washing the dishes.
YevgsEy Yevtcshenio, the Soviet Union's "angry
young man" of the '50s, published a poem in the Commu-j,
nist Party daily Pravda in support of Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's drive for economic renewal. The poem, "The
No-Risk Takers," poked fun at bureaucrats and managers
who prefer an easy life to "rolling up their sleeves and
helping transform the Soviet economy." Once at odds with
authorities, Yevtushenko, 52, has mellowed with age. Last
November he received a state prize for his poem, "Mama
and The Neutron Bomb."
West German gpyhunter Hans Joachim Tiedge,
who defected to East Germany last month, has written a
letter to his three daughters defending his decision and
saying he is being well cared for. "Sometime in the not too
distant future we will meet again here," he said in the
letter.
In Tehran, Iran, well-known singer Neemat Agasi
was publicly flogged along with some of his audience for
gambling and drinking at a party. Agasi received 50 lashes
and was sentenced to one year in exile. A Tehran public
prosecutor who oversaw the whippings said afterward- "As
I promised in my speech before Friday prayers, perpetra
tors of corruption, prostitution and vice will be dealt with
resolutely."
Pete Rose, player-manager of the Cincinnati Reds
who singled twice Sunday to equal Ty Cobb's all-time
career hit record of 4,191, didn't play Monday because the
Reds' opponent, the San Diego Padres, started left-hander
Dave Dravecky. Rose plans to play Tuesday against right
hander LaMarr Hoyt.
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Neo-Nazis go on trial in-Seattle
SEATTLE Eleven sell professed neo-Nazis went trial h Seattle on
Mond ye-,'! federal racketeering charges stei?te!n;&;:- &ctMtks prosec
utors contend were simti at overthrowing the U.& j.;;nf.n'nt.
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- Tits indictment ewers crimes committed in five s tilts, including the
June ISSi maefcine-gun murder in Deiner, Cola, cf Aha Berg, a sharp
tongaed Jewish radio talk show host who fcai ceedled the white
supremacists,
Iran, Iraq report raid on front
MANAMA, Bahrain Iran and Iran reported a ixjcr fcnnmd battle on
the northern front of their Fersiaa Gulf war zom f.!ur.i with each side
S2jir3 it killed hundreds. '
Baghdad also said its warplaacs feambed Kliarg fe!r.d zzm dropping
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front, killing hundreds cf scalers c;-t;:r:::j &tri';'.5 territory, but
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