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...happened to him. He had kept a diary of everything. How they tormented him with talk that he had Parkinson's disease and how Dr. Obukhov brought him a book on Parkinsonism and said he had got the disease from his hunger strikes, adding, "You will become a total invalid, unable to unfasten your own trousers." Judging from what Andrei told me and the symptoms that partly remain (involuntary jaw movements), I think he suffered a stroke or a severe cerebral vascular spasm because of force- feeding or inoculations...
...press decision, though, did not affect tough new curbs announced last week by the government in its continuing tussle with reporters. The new strictures were imposed to close a loophole in the complex media regulations. The government had earlier conceded that some prohibitions were invalid because the measures had not been published as required by law. As a result, reporters were able to provide detailed accounts when the bloody confrontation that left 24 dead erupted a fortnight ago in Soweto. Last week, as the township girded for further violence, Pretoria issued the most stringent press restrictions yet, this time properly...
...meantime, following a legal challenge by the country's leading English-language newspapers, the government conceded that two of its emergency orders concerning the press had been promulgated improperly, and were therefore invalid. One order forbade the press to cover actions of the security forces, and the other banned journalists from black residential areas. The directives were thrown out by the court because the government had failed to announce them in the official gazette or by public proclamation, but had simply dispatched them by telex to the South African Press Association. The government can still put the measures into effect...
...Durban, meanwhile, a three-judge Supreme Court panel struck a body blow at the country's ten-week-old state of emergency. On Monday it ruled that two key provisions of the emergency regulations concerning arrests and detentions were invalid. The court held that Botha had overstepped his bounds by empowering security forces to detain without charge anyone considered to be a threat to public order. The suit had been brought on behalf of Solomon Tsenoli, a black detainee who was arrested June 12. After Tsenoli was released, there was a rush of activity in all four provinces as lawyers...
Powers also says that Bozzotto fails to distinguish between valid and invalid workers' problems, and fights for anyone who complains. "We've had more arbitration with Local 26 than with all the other unions combined," he says. "Because of his ideological orientation, he sees management as the enemy instead of another person, and he refuses to compromise...