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Minister meets detainee’s lawyers,
2 hunger strikers freed of jail
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa — A government minis
ter met Tuesday with lawyers
and parents of some of the
nearly 300 black detainees
who have vowed to starve
themselves to death unless
they are freed or charged with
a crime.
In support of the hunger
strikers, Anglican Archbishop
Desmond Tutu called on An
glicans. to fast each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
After a two-hour evening
meeting with Adriaan Vlok,
minister of law and order, one
member of the six-parent dele
gation, Wallace Motsetsi, said
he felt there was ‘‘a ray of
hope.” But delegate Willie
Bokala said the meeting
‘‘achieved nothing.”
Bokala said he was guardian of
Clive Radebe, 25, who he said has
been in detention since November
1987 and entered his 21 st day of a
hunger strike Tuesday.
“We arc faced will) the difficult
situation that children may die in
detention,” Bokala said before the
meeting.
Lt. Peel Bothnia, spokesman
for Vlok, said detainees are
reviewed and released every
day, and 17 were freed Tues
day.
But he warned it was dan
gerous to free detainees who
were on hunger strike “be
cause they might go out and
fill themselves up and they
could die.”
He said two were freed
Monday, two days after they
started eating again. He
said they were not re
leased because they broke
their fast, but because of.
the regular review of de
tainees.
Some strikers have not
eaten for 22 days, and 21 re
portedly have been hospital
ized. Vlok says fewer than
1,000 people are being held
under national emergency laws
which allow indefinite detention
without charge. Some have been
held without charge since June
1986.
Leaders urge strike end
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Anti
apartheid church leaders Wednesday urged
some of the 300 detainees on a hunger strike
to suspend the fast while efforts are made to
resolve the crisis.
The detainees, some of whom have not
eaten since Jan. 23, are demanding they be
, released or put on trial. Twenty-one have
| been hospitalized, and church leaders said
they were worried about the health ol the
; men.
“We urge the delamees, particularly those
already in the danger zone, to suspend their
action while church leaders, lawyers, com
munity leadersand the public seek waysol re
solving the problem,” the Rev. Frank
Chikane told a news conference in Johan
nesburg.
Ortega agrees to changes,
elections now moved up
COSTA DEL SOL, El Salvador -
President Daniel Ortega of N icaragua
on Tuesday promised earlier elec
tions and campaign reform, and lead
ers at the Central American summit
agreed to try to dismantle the Nicara
guan rebel movement.
But the five presidents did not
resolve what was the major stum
bling block during the two days ol
talks - verification oi progress toward
democracy under the Central Ameri
can peace plan.
Nicaragua’s leftist government
committed itself to hosting U.N.
observers to guarantee the integrity
of presidential, legislative and mu
nicipal elections to be held on or
before Feb. 25, 1990, 10 months ear
lier than scheduled.
Ortega also promised to ensure
that opposition parties have access
equal to that of the Sandinistas to
radio and television air time during
the campaign.
The leaders agreed to draft within
90 days a detailed program to effect
“the demobilization, repatriation or
voluntary relocation in third coun
tries” of an estimated 20,000 Nicara
guan rebels and their families in
neighboring Honduras. The U.S.
backed rebels, known as Contras,
have been fighting Nicaragua’s gov
ernment since 1981.
The declaration signed by the
presidents said Nicaragua’s electoral
law would be reformed and opposi
tion parties would be represented on
the Supreme Electoral Council.
Elections had been scheduled for
November 1990. Ortega’s term is
scheduled to end in January 1991.
Ortega, asked if moving up elec
tions implied he would hand over
power before the end of his term,
said: ‘ ‘Power resides in the people. In
February of 1990, the people will
again be voting, exercising their will,
their decision, their power to say w ho
will govern.”
Nicaragua also comm itied itself to
release of political prisoners, includ
ing jai led Contras and former sold iers
of the late President Anastasio So
mo/a, whom the Sandinistas over
threw' in July 1979.
Paul Reichler, a U.S. lawyer and
adviser to Nicaraguan, said up to
1,600 prisoners could be released. He
said about 100 former Somo/a sol
diers and Contras would not be re
leased because they were jailed for
heinous crimes.
Study: Milk floats to top of saturated fats
CAMBRIDGE-:, Mass. - Youngsters who
love milk should slick to the fat-free variety,
because dairy products have surpassed meat as
the top source of unhealthy saturated lal in
teenagers’ diets, a researcher says.
Studies by Dr. Curtis I-.Ilison at two elite
New England prep schools found that per
cent pf students' daily intake ol saturated fat
comes from milk cheese, ice cream and other
dairy food.
Preppies are not unique in what they eat.
according to Ellison, who said at least two
other unpublished studies have reached similar
conclusions.
Elating too much saturated lal raises choles
terol levels m the bloodstream. This clogs the
arteries that feed the heart. Decades ol bad
eating eventually can result in a heart attack,
but many experts believe that the damage
begins early in life.
Ellison measured the sources of salt and
saturated fat in the diets of students at Phillips
I Exeter Academy m New Hampshire and Phil
lips Academy in Andover, Mass., as part of a
study of dietary changes.
I He found that alter dairy products, meat,
fish, poultry and eggs provided 28 percent of
the students’ saturated fat: baked goods and
cereals 16 percent; ketchup, gravy and other
“food adjuncts” 7 percent; fruits and vege
tables 7 percent, snacks 6 percent, and every
thing else 1 percent.
Ellison said that many people shy away
from red meat because of its fat content, but
they sometimes substitute kinds of cheese,
such as chcddcr cheese, that contain far higher
levels of saturated fat.
“Kids love milk," he said. “Some of them
drink two liters a day, and they grow up think
ing dial it’s a good thing to have. We are not
trying to lake their milk away. Just take the fat
out of it."
Ellison presented his data Tuesday at a
program on school lunches held at Massachu
setts Institute of Technology's Clinical Re
search Center.
Ellison is among health experts who believe
youngsters should cut down on saturated lat
and salt to establish gixxl eating habits and
prevent coronary artery disease and high bhxxl
pressure as they gel older.
Ellison said the average cholesterol levels
of U.S. youngsters is between 160 and 170. I he
ideal is 110, although this is probably not
obtainable if they follow a typical American
diet.
“Our target is to gel all children in the
United States down around 140 over the next
10 years,” he said. Even widt cholesterol lev
els this low, some of them will still have
cholesterol over 200 alter they reach adult
hood.
Election day
Terrorists kill Sri Lanka voters at ballot box
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Terror
ists killed at least 56 people Wednes
day during the first parliamentary
elections in 11 years, police reported.
One victim was a Cabinet minis
ter’s son. Another was a cyclist seen
lying dead in the road, shot from a
passing car minutes after he voted.
Extremist gangs attacked election
officials and assaulted several poll
ing places with bombs and gunfire,
wounding at least 20 people, authori
ties reported.
The government announced a na
tionwide overnight curfew beginning
at 9 p.m. “in order to assist security
forces to implement law and order.”
Election officials said about 65
percent of the 9.3 million eligible
voters cast ballots despite the vio
lence and threats of intimidation
from Sinhalese and Tamil extremists.
Only 55 percent voted in the presi
dential election in December.
Nine political parties and 10 inde
pendent groups competed for the 225
scats in the new Parliament. Results
were expected Thursday.
Police blamed terrorists of the
Sinhalese majority for 47 killings,
including that of Jayaniha Malli
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marachichi, whose jeep was am
bushed in a Colombo suburb. His
father Weerasinghe is fuel minister.
Officials said police killed seven
Sinhalese who attacked polling sta
tions and two people were reported
killed by Tamil terrorists in northern
Sri Lanka, stronghold of the ethnic
minority.
Sinhalese extremists began an
anti-government campaign in July
1987 and opposing the elections was
part of iL
They say the government has
given too much to Tamil rebels, who
seek an independent homeland in the
north and east, in an attempt to end
the ethnic civil war that has taken at
least 8,500 lives since 1983.
Tamils, who arc predominantly
Hindu and make up 18 percent of Sri
Lanka’s 16 million people, claim
discrimination by the Sinhalese, most
of whom are Buddhist. The Sin
halese, 75 percent of the population,
control the government and military.
More than 1,500 have been killed
in the backlash from extremists in the
Sinhalese community, and elections
had been postponed because of the
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Most of the violence Wednesday
was in the southern and central re
gions, the Sinhalese heartland of this
island off the tip of India, which was
renounced for tranquil beaches,
gemstones and lea before the ethnic
warfare began.
Voting was brisk in Colombo, but
most merchants closed their shops in
case of trouble.
President Ranasinghc Premadasa,
elected in December, predicted vic
tory for his United National Party,
which held 139 of the 168 seats in the
last Parliament.
“We have given maximum pro
tection to the voters,” he told report
ers on a 500-yard walk to a voting
station from his of ficial residence in
central Colombo.
He was followed by hundreds of
cheering supporters dressed in caps
and .vests of green, the party color.
Voter turnout was fairly high in
urban areas, election officials said,
but threats from Sinhalese extremists
left polling places in many rural dis
tricts nearly deserted.
P. Sydney Fernando, a Sinhalese
Colombo, said ‘‘I am scared to vote”
because a bomb wounded at least six
people earlier in the day at the Dib
beddi voting station.
Few vehicles were on the winding
roads of the southern hill coutry.
Soldiers in camouflage uniforms
stopped passers-by for random
searches.
Police said the 56 known victims
were shot or slabbed to death in a
series of incidents. Five people, in
cluding three women, were killed by
gunmen who riddled a car carrying
members of the governing party in a
Colombo suburb.
Sinhalese militants killed a soldier
and two election officials in an am
bush of their jeep near Bandarawela,
80 miles cast of Colombo, police
reported.
They said the bodies of II Sin
halese men were found in central
Anuradhapura and Kandy districts
and at least seven bodies were found
in southern Matara district.
In Mahiyangane district in central
Sri Lanka, five election officials were
reported missing after their two jeeps
and ballot boxes were found burned.
