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for the firing of Benton
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. 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
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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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