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June 17, 1986 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Digest By The Associated Press News r-- : " " -J ,y off Amaxctiy9 foiled Millions of blacks stay home on anniversary of bloody uprising In Brief JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -Millions of blacks stayed away from worV Monday, the date on which a blooey uprising began in Soweto in 1976, but the government said its state of emergency thwarted plans for "a day of anarchy." Black activist Winnie Mandela was given a government order instructing her not to speak to journalists and to stay home at night. "It's just like being back in prison again," she said. The government said the order would apply until Friday. The broadest restrictions ever im posed on news coverage in South Africa were announced before dawn. They kept reporters out of Soweto, a black city of 1.5 million people near Johan nesburg, and all other black townships and banned reports on action by secur ity forces. Louis Nel, the deputy information minister, said early in the day that "plans to turn June lb' into a day of anarchy have been foiled." An aide, Leon Mellet, said soldiers and police "are on standby at every possible place where trouble could be expected, anywhere in the country." Residents in Soweto and in eastern Cape Province townships outside Port Elizabeth said some youths blocked roads after nightfall with barricades of burning tires and debris. Other residents, reached by tele phone after a 24-hour break in service ended, said most areas appeared quiet. Soweto resident said small groups of young blacks chased and stoned cars belonging to some of the few residents who went to work and some gunfire was he aid. Bishop Desmond Tutu, the black Anglican cleric who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, told a church mem orial service that the prohibition of non-church gatherings was "grossly insensitive and highly provocative." "They are trampling our dignity un derfoot and rubbing our noses in the dust," he told an audience of about 500 whites and a few blacks in downtown lohannesburg. The government imposed t he nation wide emergency at 12:01 a.m. last Thursday, claiming black radicals plan led attacks and rampages. Monitoring roups said police rounded up nearly 1,000 people opposed to apartheid, the ace policy that preserves supremacy lor South Africa's 5 million whites and denies rights to the 21 million blacks. Nel said President P.W. Botha's gov ernment considered Monday "a normal working day" and would make sure blacks who wanted to work could do so. He said 21 of the 31 people killed since the emergency was imposed died at the hands of other blacks and only seven were killed by security forces. Two whites and an Indian were killed and 6!) people wounded by a car bomb explosion Saturday night in Durban. Kay Swart, a liberal opposition mem ber of Parliament, said the white autho rities were "outdoing the gentleman of the Kremlin. For the vast majority of South Africans, what the state presi dent had implied ... would be the con sequences of a communist takeover were already reality in this country." Government orders forbid reporting the response by security forces to vio lence in the townships, as well as police and army movements. Mrs. Mandela, whose husband Nel son has been in prison since the early 1960s, said she was at her home in Soweto when she learned of the restric tions against her. Speaking by telephone to the Asso ciated Press, she said: "I am to be restricted to my house from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. I am also forbidden from giving interviews to the press and all that sort of junk." Blacks stayed home Monday or went to small church services, the only commemorative gatherings allowed. The Soweto uprising began June Hi, 1976, with demonstrations by school children against a new law directing that they be taught in Afrikaans, the language of the white Afrikaners who control the government. At least 575 blacks were killed, according to official figures, in vio lence that spread across the country for more than a year. The "Soweto Uprising," as many call it, subsided late in 1977 after the government banned 19 organizations and put res trictions on dozens of anti-apartheid leaders. A drivers' strike stopped bus servi ces for blacks in Johannesburg and Pretoria that normally carry 700,000 passengers a day. Another in black areas at Port Elizabeth and Cape Town was reported nearly as effective. Leon Mellet, spokesman for the go vernment information bureau, said the number of blacks off the job ranged from 90 percent in Johannesburg and adjoining industrial complexes to 30 percent in Durban. The bureau now is the only official source of information about black unrest, in which about 1,700 people have been killed since September 1984. Nebrayskan Editor News Editor Editorial Page Editor Copy Desk Chief Night News Editor General Manager Production Manager Bob Asmussen. 472-1766 Kent Endacott Jim Rogers Julie Jordan Hendricks Joan Rezac Daniel Shattil Katherine Policky iiy NeDraskan (u;ei iwhjuj is by the UNL Publications Board The Daih published by Monday throuQh Friday in the fall and sprinq semesters ana Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has access to the Publications Board. For information, contact John Hilgert. 475-4612. Subscription price is S35 for one year. Postmaster: SenJ address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34. 1400 R St.. Lincoln, Neb. 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln. NE. Hi MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1988 DAILY NEBRASKAN Supreme Court ends busing in Norfolk, Va., schools WASHINGTON The Supreme Court cross-town busing of elementary stu- on Monday cleared the way for an end dents. to the busing that for 15 years has William Bradford Reynolds, head of racially balanced elementary schools the Justice Department's Civil Rights in Norfolk, Va. The court, by a 6-3 vote, turned down an emergency request aimed at post poning the city school board's neigh borhood schools plan, called by oppo nents a tool of "resegregation." When the plan takes effect in Sep tember, 10 of the city's 35 public ele mentary schools will return to being virtually all-black. Controversy over the case gained national prominence in 1984 when the Reagan administration urged a federal appeals court to allow a halt to the LOOK WHAT WE'VE GOT FOR YOU ICE CREAM DELIGHTS Shakes Best in town! Made just the way you like urn. 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Even if the formal appeal is granted review before the end of the current court term in July, no decision is likely until sometime in 1987. Hundreds of school districts, includ ing those in most major cities, operate court-ordered busing plans for racial desegregation. But only a few have per suaded courts, as Norfolk did, to declare their systems fully integrated and end court supervision. Canyou afford togamble with the LSAT, GM AT, GREprMCAT? Probably not. Stanley H. Kaplan has helped over 1 mil lion students prepare for their grad school exams. So if you need a refresher class, or even if you're fresh out of college, call. Why take a chance with your career? STANLEY H. KAPLAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER LTD. The worlds leading test prep organization. For MCAT LSAT Lincoln class schedules call the Omaha center collect: (402) 345-3595. Soviets leading in space LONDON The Soviet Union has taken an "almost frightening" 10-year lead over the United States in its space program, Jane's Space Flight Directory says in its latest edition, published Tuesday. Editor Reginald Turnill writes that the biggest surprise about the U.S. space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28 was that NASA had made no contingency plans for the space program in case of an accident. He said that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had a 100 percent flight safety record for 25 years and "no transport system can hope to maintain such perfection in the face of human fallibility." Turnill's assessments came in the introduction to the 1986 directory, published by the company that produces the authoritative Jane's reference works on aircraft, military vessels and weapons systems. "The Soviet lead in space is now almost frightening," wrote Turnill, adding that because of the Challenger shuttle disaster, plans to use the shuttle as the West's main satellite launcher had failed beyond recovery. Prison populations packed WASHINGTON The number of inmates in state and federal prisons topped the half-million mark last year as tougher sentencing packed already overcrowded facilities, the government said Monday. As of December 31, the state and federal prison population stood at an all-time high of 503,601, with the addition of 39,000 new prisoners in 1985, according to new data gathered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The bureau, an arm of the Justice Department, estimated that by year-end 1985, the state prisons were operating from 6 percent to 21 percent above capacity, depending on definitions used to determine overcrowding. The federal system, which has a total of 40,200 prisoners, operated from 23 percent to 54 percent above capacity, the bureau's report said. Marcos: overthrow deadly HONOLULU Ferdinand E. Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for 20 years, says his successor has become the world's most powerful dictator but is too weak to make her own decisions and prevent a communist takeover. Marcos, in an interview with The Associated Press, said he would not fight Corazon Aquino's government and had advised his supporters to remain peacefuil. He said a civil war over his claims to the Philippine presidency could cost a million lives. "We are not going to kill Filipinos just because I want to be president," Marcos said. He claimed an election victory over Mrs. Marcos, but her supporters charged that was a result of fraud. Marcos for the first time acknowledged concern that some of his suppor ters are "getting out of control." He said many are getting impatient and threatening to try to take over the government even before he returns. He said some had approached him at his Honolulu home urging him to back violent efforts against the 314-month-old government of Mrs. Aquino, who became president in a military revolt backed by civilian demonstrators and Roman Catholic church figures. He said one of his too political supporters, referred to by opponents as "warlords," cried over the phone when he told him to give up the fight. The powerful politician from the island of Mindanao,-Ali Diniaporo, had wanted to make a stand against the new government's efforts to replace him as governor of a Mindanao province, Marcos said. Farm Aid continues relief AUSTIN The Farm Aid project, which staged a benefit concert in Illinois last fall and plans a second in Austin on July 4, has so far spent or committed $4.3 million on programs in 37 states, officials say. The project has $2.7 million remaining in its relief fund, which organizers hope will be bolstered by proceeds from the second concert. Among the programs funded to help debt-ridden farmers are food pantries, telephone hot lines, legal services, community outreach programs and scho larships, officials said. The first concert at Champaign. 111., which cost about $2 million to produce, and subsequent solicitations through advertisements have attracted about $9 million in donations, said Farm Aid director Carolyn Mugar. Bill Wittliff, an Austin screenwriter who helps oversee the funds, said the total changes daily because donations continue to come in. Funds are deposited in a Champaign bank, but donations from Farm Aid II will be kept in an Austin bank, Wittliff said. Singer Willie Nelson, organizer of the Farm Aid project, has made all decisions on spending the funds and signed the outgoing checks, Wittliff said. Nelson has received suggestions from many sources, he said. The 1 4-hour Farm Aid II concert July 4 at the University of Texas' Memorial Stadium will include more than 50 entertainers'' and bands. The concert will be carried live on the cable television channel VIM. Viewers will be asked to phone in pledges. Nelson isn't predicting how much money Farm Aid II might raise. Farm Aid is administered from the singer's studio at Briarcliff, near Lake Travis, and from a small office in Cambridge, Mass., with a staff of two full-time and two part-time employees. Mugar, who runs the Massachusetts office, said Nelson's personal secre tary, Jody Fisher, also does a considerable amount cf Farm Aid work but isn't on the payroll. CUSTOM-HAIRSTYLING AND BARBER-SERVICE NEBRASKA UNION LOWER LEVEL APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE 472-2459
