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U.S. student killed in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— Amy Biehl came to South Africa
last year to try to help disadvantaged
blacks.
On Wednesday, a mob of young
blacks in a squalid township stabbed
her to death two days before the 26
A pair of black teen-agers were
arrested Thursday and charged with
her murder.
She was believed to be the first
American killed in the township vio
lence that has killed more than 15,000
blacks since the mid 1980s.
“She wanted to give herself to the
African people,” a tearful Linda Biehl
said from her home in Newport Beach,
Calif. “She wanted to do whatever she
could to help them.
I was very worried about ner, out
she would say, 'Mom, I’m okay. I’m
doing this because I want to do this.
You can’t live your life in a shell.’”
Biehl’s final moments were typi
cal of her time in South Africa. She
was driving three black friends home
to Guguletu, in one of the more noto
rious black townships in the Cape
Town area.
According to police and witnesses,
youths lining the street stoned the
vehicle, then pulled Biehl out and hit
her in the face with half a brick.
Police said today they arrested two
teen-age residents of Guguletu and
that more arrests were expected.
Friends and acquaintances in Cape
Town, where Biehl had done research
for 10 months at the University of the
Western Cape, were unanimous in
describing Biehl’s dedication.
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assailants, they stabbed her several
times in the head. One of her compan
ions, Singiswa Be vu, asked the youths
why they were attacking her and was
told “because she is a settler.”
Settler is a term used by radical
blacks for whites, referring to the
original Dutch settlers who arrived in
South Africa in 1652.
Be vu was stabbed in the hand w hen
She wanted to give herself to the African
people. She wanted to do whatever she could to
help them.
—Biehl
mother of slain student
“She was one of the liveliest, most
intelligent and most committed young
people I knew,” said Kader Asmal, a
law professor at the university. “She
had this life-enhancing and lovely
presence.”
Melanie Jacobs, who shared a
house with Biehl, called her“my white
family, and I was her black family.”
When Biehl tried to flee from her
she tried to assist Biehl. The other two
passengers escaped unharmed.
African National Congress offi
cial Allan Boesak condemned the kill
ing as “racially inspired.” He said he
believed supporters of the militant
Pan Africanist Congress were respon
sible.
Boesak said the youths were shout
ing PAC slogans and wearing T-shirts
of the organization s siuuem wmg.
PAC spokesman Gora Ebrahim
said that the incident would be inves
tigated. _ ..
Until now, Cape Town townships
have been relatively free of the chron
ic violence in black townships in oth
er parts of the country.
Few whites have died in political
violence, however racially motivated
attacks by blacks and whites have
increased in the last year.
Militant blacks have targeted white
civilians and police as part of their
struggle against apartheid. One po
liceman was killed and three injured
Wednesday in three separate attacks,
according to police.
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police find Biehl’s attackers.
Boesak said such violence would
spawn further racial violence and cre
ate problems for talks being held to
end white minority rule.
The nation’s first multiracial elec
tion is scheduled for April 27, and
Biehl was involved with developing
voter education programs for the town
ships.
Biehl graduated from Stanford
University in 1989 and planned to
begin a doctorate program at Rutgers
University this fall.
$ 18 million goes to AIDS-infected husband
MIAMI — A jury put a price tag on
knowingly infecting your spouse with AIDS:
$18 million.
That’s how much a former exotic dancer
must pay her ex-husband for not telling him
she was infected with the AIDS virus.
Lucienne Wheeland, 29, was ordered to
pay $8 million in compensatory and $10
million in punitive damages to Bruce
Wheeland, 29, of Fort Lauderdale. She was
not in Dade County Circuit Court for the
verdict.
The man’s attorney, Marc SamofF, said it
was the nation’s biggest jury award to a man
infected through heterosexual sex. Most
i
awards have gone to AIDS victims infected
by tainted blood or a homosexual partner.
“It was maybe as much a social statement
as it was a damage statement ,” Samoff said.
“This is the first verdict that’s going to affect,
the general public.”
Wheeland, who has AIDS, said the ver
dict “should semi a strong statement” about
the need for heterosexuals to communicate.
The Brazilian dancer and Wheeland met
in 1989 and had unprotected sex. Wheeland
later found out the woman was HIV-posi
tive, but the two decided to marry anyway,
Sarnoff said.
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King speech to be honored
WASHINGTON — Police and other offi
cials of the nation’s capital are preparing for the
tens of thousands of people expected to attend
weekend events marking the 30th anniversary
of the 1963 civil rights
march.
But the preparations ap
pear almost routine in a
city that is the scene of
dozens of protests each
year.
“I think it’s going to be a
big day, but we’re going to
take care of it,” said Maj.
Robert Hines of the U.S.
Park Police, the law en
forcement agency that will
1929-1900 have primary responsibly
for crowd and traffic con
trol.
“Anytime you get 50,000,60,000 or 70,000
people all together it’s an interruption,’’ he said.
“But we ’ll have extra people working on to take
care of it."
Demonstrators are scheduled to gather near
the Washington Monument on Saturday morn
ing for two-mile march to the Lincoln Memo
rial, the place where Martin Luther King Jr.
delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech
during the original March on Washington 30
years ago.
From 200,000 to 250,000 people attended
that watershed event, but far fewer are expected
Saturday. Organizers originally predicted
250,000, but Walter Fauntroy, the march’s
national director, later scaled back that esti
mate, saying he expected “tens of thousands of
people/
In keeping with longstanding policies for
large demonstrations, police officials would
not say how many extra patrolman will be on
duty.
But “this will be a peaceful march,” said Sgt.
Joe Gentile, a spokesman for District of Colum
bia police. “It also recognizes Martin Luther
King, a man of peace.”
Preparations are going smoothly so far, said
Earl Shinhoster, a march organizer and south
east regional director of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored People.
“The city has extended itself fully,"
Shinhoster said.
Some groups across the country have said
they are having a hard time coming up with
enough money to pay their way to the march,
Shinhoster sard.
“There’s no shortage in the number of peo
ple who want to come up, but fund raising has
always been a problem for events like this, ’
said Shinhoster, who also helped to organize
marches commemorating the 20th and 25th
anniversaries of the 1963 March on Washing
ton and a 1989 march sponsored by the NAACP.
Omaha woman charged with stalking abortion doctor I
u ivia ha—An umana woman nas post
ed bond and faces a Sept. 10 arraignment in
a complaint that she was stalking an Indiana
doctor who weekly performs abortions at an
Omaha clinic.
In a complaint filed Aug. 20 in Douglas
County Court, Dr. James T. Howard of
Bloomington, Ind., alleges that Sharon
McKee, 37, has been following and intimi
dating him for more than a year.
A court clerk said Thursday that Mrs.
McKee was located on an arrest warrant
charging her with stalking Wednesday and
released anerposting S350of a$3,500 bond.
In an affidavit accompanying the com
plaint, Howard charged that McKee fol
lowed him out of Omalufs Eppley Airfield
on Aug. 6, and told him, “You deserve to be
blown away." He also said that on July 16,
McKee followed him at the airport and said,
“Think about it. You could go at any time."
Howard commutes to Omaha on a week
ly basis toperform abortions at the Women’s
Medical Center.
Stalking in Nebraska is a misdemeanor
fimishable by up to a year in jail and a
1,000 fine on first offenses, said Assistant
City Attorney Mike Tesar. Second and sub
sequent offenses are felonies.
Tesar conf rmed Thursday that McKee, a
member of the group Rescue the Heartland,
has been convicted on a number of lesser
charges for her anti-abortion activities. Those
charges include trespassing.
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