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Spreading like a brush fire out of control, the violence that has racked South Africa for the past two months last week engulfed areas that had previously been relatively untouched. Outside Cape Town, police and soldiers brutally smashed an effort by antiapartheid forces to hold a mass protest march. The police used shotguns, rubber bullets, whips and tear gas, and were assaulted in turn by rocks, bottles and homemade gasoline bombs. Angry mobs blocked main highways with barricades of burning tires, mattresses and even barbed wire. At least 32 people were killed in the week's disturbances, most of them...
Black Leader Steve Biko has been a martyr to South Africa's antiapartheid movement since his death in 1977 from brain injuries suffered while in police custody. In Pretoria last week, the South African Medical and Dental Council acted against two white government doctors for their treatment of Biko. Surgeon Benjamin Tucker was found guilty of "disgraceful" conduct, including failure to examine Biko properly and allowing police to move the badly injured prisoner 700 miles overland to a prison hospital. The panel also ruled that Surgeon Ivor Lang was guilty of "improper" conduct for, among other things, failing to notice...
Shortly before, leaders of the antiapartheid United Democratic Front coalition accused government-backed "death squads" of killing four black activists whose bodies were found in the Port Elizabeth area. The government denied any involvement...
Last week's votes highlighted the increasing opposition to the Reagan Administration's policy of "constructive engagement" with South Africa, which is designed to coax the country toward reform through strengthened diplomatic and economic ties. The antiapartheid movement, which feels that such cooperation has produced few discernible results, has argued instead for a forced disengagement from all American economic involvement, on the theory that this would put pressure on Pretoria to reconsider its racial policies. South Africa is so dependent on U.S. investments (now at about $15 billion), the argument goes, that the threat of losing them would be enough...
...Faculty Council last week reactivated the CRR to hear the cases of students involved in two recent antiapartheid protests; the April 24 occupation of the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House room where he was speaking...