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...Botha's order affected only six districts, all relatively rural and quiet, of the 36 areas given emergency status. Then Botha took away with one hand what he had given with the other: he extended the emergency measures to eight more districts, including, for the first time, riot-racked Cape Town...
...Cape Town disturbances culminated in a chaotic riot in the heart of the city's white sector. Bewildered lunchtime shoppers there dived for cover as police launched an assault on a group of blacks outside a courthouse in which three men were on trial for murdering a police officer. Hundreds of bystanders of several races were caught up in the fray as security officers used truncheons and whips in their efforts to clear the streets. In predawn raids the following day, police arrested more than 60 activists, including leaders of the multiracial United Democratic Front, 16 of whose members...
...week's end the number of deaths since the disturbances began in September 1984 had exceeded 800, including more than 70 in the Cape Town area. A U.D.F. official said that with the arrests and the new state of emergency, the Botha government has made "an open declaration of war upon the people of Cape Town." --By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Bruce W. Nelan/Johannesburg, with other bureaus
...week after the new regulations went into effect, many foreign journalists continued to be baffled by them. "We still are not certain where the boundaries really lie," said Michael Buerk, a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After two black men were killed by police outside Cape Town, early police reports and accounts provided differing versions of how the incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent...
...emergency regulations in force since last July. The seven claim they were beaten, hooded with plastic bags, dunked in buckets of water containing tear gas and tortured with electric shocks. The case was dismissed on a technicality. Meanwhile, some 200 to 300 detainees being held at prisons in the Cape Town area reportedly began a hunger strike to protest their confinement. VIET NAM A Bid to Break an Impasse...