Thursday, April 24, 1986
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By The Associated Press
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Mvica scraps pass laws; blades sSill voteless
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The white
government formally announced Wednesday that
it will make the most sweeping reform in genera
tions of apartheid by scrapping dozens of laws
that restrict the movements of blacks.
But it said blacks still will not be permitted to
live in white areas.
Anti-apartheid leaders complained that the
reforms, while welcome, do not address the
demands of South Africa's 24 million voteless
blacks for a share of political power.
In another action, Justice Minister Kobie
Coetsee announced Wednesday that the.sentences
of at least 20,000 prisoners will be reduced by six
months in a general amnesty to be declared May
31.
He said the amnesty, to coincide with the 25th
anniversary of the establishment of the Republic
of South Africa, will not apply to people impri
soned for offenses related to racial unrest,
robbery, rape or assault.
A total of 34 laws and proclamations, some
dating back 60 years, will be repealed when
Parliament, dominated by the government's
National Party, enacts the proposed legislation.
Enforcement of the "pass laws," which bar
blacks without permits from living or working in
white areas, was halted Wednesday, and the
government began releasing prisoners jailed on
pass offenses. The government said a maximum
of 245 prisoners were affected by the move.
Millions of blacks have been arrested under
the pass laws.
A policy statement submitted to Parliament
in Cape Town described the laws as "a relic of
the past." It said the system, called influx con
trol, would be replaced by "planned, positive
urbanization" involving a uniform identity doc
ument for all races.
Blacks will be free to move from one city or
town to another seeking work but will be allowed
to live only in authorized residential areas, not
with the country's five million whites.
Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of the
country's best-known black leaders, cautioned
blacks to "be aware of the small print" in the
government policy statement.
Murphy Morobe, a spokesman for the anti
apartheid United Democratic Front coalition,
questioned whether the government would
desegregate neighborhoods and give blacks a
significant political role.
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Spread in hosptials said rare
BOSTON A study of needle punctures and other accidental exposure
to the blood of AIDS patients has found that the spread of AIDS infections
in hospitals is extremely rare, even during direct blood-to-blood contact.
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control found that just two of
983 health-care workers exposed to AIDS patients' blood and other body
fluids went on to develop AIDS virus infections. Only one of these two
clearly got the infection from the hospital exposure.
The researchers described their findings as reassuring. Compared to
hepatitis B infection, they wrote, the risk of AIDS virus infection to
health-care workers exposed to patients with AIDS "appears to be
extremely low."
The one clear case of infection was a woman health-care worker in New
York state who accidentally jabbed herself deeply with a contaminated
needle during an emergency procedure on an AIDS patient. Two weeks
later, she developed flu-like symptoms that can occur in the early stages
of AIDS infection.
Later blood tests revealed that her body had begun to produce
antibodies to the AIDS virus, but while the woman has swollen lymph
nodes she has not developed AIDS.
Dr. Eugene McCray of the CDC described it as the first documented
case of occupational acquired AIDS infection among U.S. health-care
workers. However, Dr. Stanley H. Weiss of the National Cancer Institute
disputed this claim and said a case he reported last October was the first
clear case.
As of Monday, AIDS hadstruck 19,818 people in the United States and
claimed 10,408 lives, according to the CDC. Most of them are male homo
sexuals or drug abusers who share contaminated needles.
Atlania man charged
in slaying oi woman
ATLANTA A man who allegedly
stole to support a drug habit was
charged Wednesday with raping and
killing one of four elderly black
women whose slayings terrorized a
west Atlanta neighborhood. Police
said they would seek indictments
against him in the three other cases.
Richard Hunter, 31, was charged
with murder, rape and burglary in the
death of 85-year-old Annie Rochelle
Copeland, who was smothered with a
pillow in her apartment, said Public
Safety Commissioner George Napper.
Her body was found March 1.
"We believe the same person is
also responsible for the other killings
that have taken place," Napper said
at a news conference. "Within the
next couple of weeks we plan to take
all the evidence gathered at this
point to the district attorney and
seek indictments with respect to the
other cases."
The slayings were a reminder of
the series of slayings in 1979-81 in
which 29 young blacks were killed in
Atlanta. Wayne Williams was
convicted of murder in two of those
cases in 1982, and police later blamed
22 other deaths on him without
charging him.
Maj. B.L. Neikirk, who heads the
task force investigating the latest
slayings, said robbery was the
apparent motive.
Hunter "has a drug habit . . . (and)
the robberies were an effort to obtain
articles to sell (to support his) drug
use," he said.
Neikirk said Hunter had lived in
the area where the slayings occurred
until about six months ago.
The four victims were killed in an
area between the campuses of
Georgia Tech and Spelman College,
just west of downtown Atlanta. All
four were black women over 60 who
lived alone, all were smothered or
strangled between March 1 and April
9, and all were sexually assaulted.
Copeland was the first victim. The
others were Aretha Clements, 61,
found March 6; Dena Mike, 61, found
March 11; and Grade Hill, 65, found
April 9.
Neikirk said a tipster brought
Hunter, who is black, to the attention
of the police, and officers had been
watching him since Saturday.
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Hollywood diirectoir Preminger dead at 80
NEW YORK Otto Preminger, 80,
the autocratic director whose 37 films
included "Anatomy of a Murder," and
"The Man With The Golden Arm," and
often dealt with subjects then con
sidered taboo, died early Wednesday.
Preminger died at 12:42 a.m. in bed
at his apartment, with his wife, Hope,
and a nurse at his side, said police
spokesman Sgt. Ron Severin. He had
cancer.
He was known as an innovator,
challenging the film industry with
movies like the 1953 "The Moon is
Blue," which was opposed by the
Catholic Church; the 1954 "Carmen
Jones," a modern-day adaptation of
Bizet's opera with an all-black cast;
and 1956's "Golden Arm," which starred
Frank Sinatra and depicted narcotics
use.
He also appeared in five films, in
cluding "Stalag 17," in which he por
trayed the dictatorial commandant of a
German prisoner-of-war camp.
Preminger was born Dec. 5, 1905, in
Vienna, Austria, and earned a law
degree there in 1928. He came to the
United States in 1935 and the following
year made his first U.S. film, "Under
Your Spell."
He also was on the faculty at Yale
Drama School until 1940, and then
became a stage director in New York,
winning the Critics Choice Award and
Full Circle Award for Broadway produc
tions. Preminger's autocratic style as dir
ector caused some actors to rebel.
He got headlines in 1959 with
"Anatomy of a Murder," a courtroom
drama starring James Stewart and film
newcomer George C. Scott, and was to
include Lana Turner, who walked off
the set in a dispute with the director.
Preminger claimed she didn't like
her costume. According to "Inside
Oscar," the actress said she left be
cause "it was simply impossible to deal
with Mr. Preminger's unpredictable
temper."
In addition to his third wife, Pre
minger is survived by his daughter,
Victoria Elizabeth, and two sons, Mark
William and Erik Lee.
Erik Lee Preminger, 41, is the son of
stripper-actress Gypsy Rose Lee. Pre
minger publicly identified himself as
Erik's father in 1971.
Burial services will be held privately.
Fremont cuioiclo
FREMONT A Fremont man
committed suicide shortly after an
Indiana grand jury indicted him for
the 1979 murder of his wife, author-.
itie,said Wednesday. j-
flames Grauf,.34, was found.- j?sdT
a't t home at 4 pra. Tuesday, -auk
shot hifAselfin theWd with4i 12-
U 1 J
-gaugg shotgun, Dodge County Attor
ney Dean Skckan said.
An Elkhart, Ind.t Circuit Court
grand jury had indicted Graul at
2:10 p.m. CST, authorities said. The
grand jury determined that enough
evidence existed to charge Graul
with killing hi3 wife, Kathryn.
BEIRUT, Lebanon The Eevolu-
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Moslems said Wednesday that it has
killed kidnapped British journalist
Alec Collett. The group released a
video tape showing a man dangling
from a scaffold that it said was the
New York-based writer.
The four-minute tape was provided
to the independent Beirut newspaper
An-Nahar along with a typewritten
Arabic statement that the 64-year-old
Cqilt ps-'ieeeuted'j April 1 6
in the U.S. air aitack on Libya.
. Jhejiangf d man, Rearing a blaei . .
eye mask, bore a strong resemblance
to Collett's photographs that were
released by the United Nations upon
his abduction south of Beirut March
25, 1935,
LINCOLN Three Lincoln men
said they've taken orders for 30
dozen cf what they hope will become
the "cfHcial anti-terrorism T-shirt,"
featuring a picture cf Libyan leader
the interaction::! net-allowed symbol
a?.d reading "No Mo."
Todd Beers, Mike Clancy and
Dominique Cheene, founders of
Fashion Statements of Lincoln, said
it's difficult to find many Americans
who like Khadafy and that's good for
their business.
The men said that Khadafy was
chosen for the logo only because he
is,thd person most associated wtfh
,yr(S)sm. , t,
'"Vie want it Jo" be tjteVi-Jkl
uiw-vttiunsm i-fcnin, .encfera said.
Income limit
WASHINGTON - The House,
nervous about the political conse
quences of a move to boost members'
outside earnings capacity, reversed
itself Wednesday and reimposed the
old limits by an overwhelming
majority.
The lawmakers voted 333-68 to
undo Tuesday's quickie maneuver
that had lifted the ceiling on outside
earned income, far more than the
two-thirds majority needed to reinv
pose the old rule.
The action came even as many
members who voted to restore the
limit agreed that the cost-of-living
and of maintaining residences both
at home and in Washington had
outpaced the buying power of the
$75,100 congressional salary.
Frog leg laws
N'$W DELHI. India Two sneries
of t! pgs have been. placed under.
twil jif$ ppteqUii flaws, because a ?
growing gastronomic denfand ' 'for. f
their legs overseas threatens to
make them extinct, a government
official told Parliament on Wed
nesday. "The two species of fresh-water
edible frogs, rar.a hexadadyla and
rana tigrina, are exploited because
of the great demand for. their legs,
which are considered a delicacy
abroad," Minister of State for En
vironment Z.R.'Ansari said.
India is the world's largest ex
porter of frogs, selling them for food
and for medical research, mostly to
Western Europe. The booming frog
leg industry earns India $15 million
a year.