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for the firing of Benton
Twp. police officer Ed
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be ting Benton Harbor igh
C 001 Principal J es tter
. th night stic after stop-
ping utter for allegedly
peeding Thur day, ept. 3 on
Union treet near apier
A enue bout 11:20 p.m.
Under the leadership of
Rev. Delano Bowman, pastor
of Union Memorial AM.E.
Church, concerned citizens
picketed the Township Hall
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By Gwen CAAUlU�J
(NIS) A marked increase in
atrocities in South Africa-oc
cupied amibia is expected to
be the topic of an upcoming
session of the U oited ations
Security Council.
The Council was petitioned
to hear that case by repre
senatives of the frontline
states, nations bordering
South Africa, and the outh
West Africa Peoples Organiza
tion ( WAPO).
WAPO, which is fighting
to free Namibia from the
apartheid colonial occupation,
has documented repression,
assaults and intimidation
against civilians.
SAPO Information
Secretary Hidipo Hamutenya
said the ecurity Council ses-
ion is expected to be held
this month. e insisted th t
th new evidence of outh
Africa's war gainst the
amibian people "is further
pr of of the need to impl -
men U Resolution 435 a
plan for amibian inde
pendence which South Africa
refuses to accept.
Reports of atrocities have
also been filed by independent
press, church and lab r or
ganizations inside amibia.
South Africa has stationed
approximately 100,000 troops
there and instituted ever I
paramilitary units which hav
been blamed for committing
murder, torture, abduction
and detentions.
One of the most recent inci
dents involved a ranking
SWAP 0 member, Daniel
Tjongarero, who b ing
held along with six others, in
communicado. He was ad
mitted to the ho pita! on ept.
2, reportedly suffering from in
ternal injuries.
According to the The
amibian, a weekly tabloid
Tjongarero's family do t r
was pr hibited from e ing
the 40- ear- ld man ho is
pi gued with a terminal kid
ney dis
ce sea ge
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Conye s' B_·
boosts cause
ATLANTA, GA - Millions
of Americans support issues
and policies that the leader
ship of the Republican and
Democratic parties ignore, a
third party presdiential can
didate told a convention of
300 supporters here this past
ee end.
here are m of
. people in this country --- the
majority of people in this
country --- whose beliefs,
desires and aspir tions are not
realized by public policy,"
charged Dr. Lenora Fulani, an
independent presidential can
didate and national spokesper-
on for the ew Alliance
Party, before a crowd of sup
porters at the ational
People's Convention.
Fulani points to th fact
that millions of Americans sup-
Continu do 3
ea d
Other recent reports indi-
. cate stepped up shootings in
the war-tom northern region
where a dusk to dawn curfew
has been in effect since CJ7 •
Over the past month
several people ere shot for
all dged curfe violation. In
one incident,' an older oman
and a young girl with her b b
tr pped to b r back r
killed instantly by h t fr m a
h licopter gun hip.
Tho e three and a fourth
victim, a man indentifi d as
Dishela, were all t 'en to the
Ondangua air b her he
later died.
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