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Twenty armored vehicles sealed off the nearby black township of Bekkersdal, and police conducted a house-to-house search for those involved in the officers' deaths. At one roadblock, they arrested two men carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and six hand grenades. A total of 86 blacks were charged with murder or public violence, while an additional 250 people were detained and interrogated...
More than 40,000 people packed the soccer stadium in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, to attend a funeral rally for twelve blacks killed during a clash with police three weeks ago. Diplomats from the U.S. and ten other Western countries were among those who had come to pay their respects to the dead, including a two-month-old baby who suffocated from tear-gas fumes. While police looked on from a hill above the stadium, the mourners sang freedom songs, waved the black, green and gold flag of the outlawed African National Congress and cheered speeches by both...
...federation's ambitious agenda includes the call for foreign divestment and nationalization of major industries, the release of Nelson Mandela, the withdrawal of government troops from the black townships and the abolition of the pass laws. Barayi said the federation would lead a campaign for blacks to burn their passbooks publicly if the law is not revoked within six months. That threat prompted grim reminders of the last widespread protest against the & pass laws, which ended with the deaths of 67 people after police opened fire on a demonstration in the black township of Sharpeville in 1960. The A.N.C., which...
...technologies as high-temperature incineration and in failing to back innovative approaches for detoxifying chemical wastes (see box). EPA has projects under way in these fields, but the pace is slow, the funding inadequate, and there is little sense of urgency. Barbara Vecchiarelli, a citizens'-group leader in Marlboro Township, N.J., admires Daggett's dedication to his work but, nonetheless, complains about EPA in general: "They don't have the technology to handle chemical pollution. The problem is bigger than they are, and they're afraid to admit it to the American people...
Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, one of the country's more moderate black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that...