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If you keep saying you want to do something with your life -here's your chance to prove it -------------------------------M For Information, write or phone toss: w_ _ Q_ MARYKNOLL MISSIONERS, 610 LONGFELLOW AVE. DETROIT,iI.48202 (313) 865-0990 Dear Father: Please send me information about becoming aF Maryknoll Priest ZQ BrotherEl SisterEl Namee Address City. State Zip - I do want to Ct______Sae_____ do something aaea a"a.a..a......_.aa....aa South African dissidents hit 'repressive' laws By JEREMY TOYE JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) - Plans to give South African of- ficials even wider powers to con- trol dissident groups have brought renewed charges of in- creasing government totalitarian- ism here. A "typical totalitarian mea- sure" was how Professor A.S. Mathews, of the law faculty at Natal University, described the government's plan to widen the scope of the Riotous Assemblies act to cover banning any meet- ing, no matter how small, in any place, no matter how private. The other measure now before Parliament would allow the au- thorities to stop the influx of funds from abroad to any "poli- tical" organization which the state president judges is sup- ported or influenced by a for- eign group. ALMOST by definition, these organizations will be those cri- tical of the all-white govern- Michigan Union OPEN REGULAR HOURS DURING BREAK ment's apartheid policies. The amendments to the riot act also appeared aimed at what state President Jim Fouche de- scribed recently as groups "bent upon radical, even revolutionary, political activities." Though the bills probably will be criticized by the white oppo- sition in Parliament - Helen Suzman of the small Progres- sive Party says she will do so "bitterly" - they will undoubt- edly become law, adding to the already impressive armory avail- able to the authorities. AT ONE END of the scale are the heavy weapons of the :Ter- rorism and Suppression of Communism Acts, measures which permit indefinite deten- tion without trial, arbitrary ban- nings and long-term house ar- rests without any recourse to the courts. At the other end are a host of minor regulations embodied in many acts, which enable the po- lice to take immediate action against individuals, and which circumscribe political activities. For example, political parties may not receive funds from abroad and may not be multirac- ial. The laws governing apartheid _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ("separate development") itself were seen by an expert legal commission set up by the Study Project on Christianity in an apartheid Society (SPRO-CAS) as encroachments on "personal liberty, family life, freedom of movement, speech and associa- tion." On top of this, it said, the "so- called security laws," such as the two now being consideredin parliament, "build upon an au- thoritarian legal tradition quite foreign to modern western socie- ties." ANOTHER legal academic, Professor John Dugard of the University of the Witwatersrand, compared it instead "with the: Communist regimes in Eastern Europe or the fascist system of Nazi Germany." The Christian Institute, which because of its stand against apartheid and its consequent support from abroad, will be on the firing line, anticipated the publication of the acts by de- claring: "This proposed legis- lation now removes all doubt that South Africa is a police state." Another target for the amend- ments to the Riot Act in particu- lar is the National Union of South African Students, many of whose members were involv- ed in violent clashes with police in May and June 1972, and eight of whose leaders are now banned. THE LIMITATIONS of the pre- sent Riotous Assemblies Act, which only allows the prohibition of a public meeting of 12 or more people, prevented police action against some of the student dem- onstrations, as they took place on campus. Observers thus see the amend- ments as a method of closing this loophole which the students say they will fight to keep open. But by removing any refer- ence to "public" and allowing any magistrate to stop even a meeting of two people, its theo- retical powers extend far beyond student demonstrations. In addition, the minister of jus- AS WITH other security legis- lation, the role of the courts is largely confined to judging breaches of the acts. They can- not consider the validity of min- isterial acts themselves. South Africa prides itself on its independent judiciary. Yet it is being called upon to consider laws which even the minister of justice himself, Petrus Pelser, admits do not always conform to the rule of law. But Pelser told a meeting in July last year that South Africa was under threat from numer- ous lines of attack. "It is a situation which, with- out a doubt, qualifies as an emergencyssituation and it sure- ly justifies the provision and implementation of the so-called rule of law," he said. The minister was roundly con- demned for this, with some cri- tics saying it was the govern- ment's own fault that the situ- ation was not, as he said, "nor- mal." OCCASIONALLY, judges indi- cate their disapproval of the laws, and in 1969, a protest by the judiciary over a law which allowed certain evidence to be excluded from the courts led to its significant modification. Yet in respect of the security legislation, there are many mem- bers of the leg31 fraternity who apparently agree with Pelser that the country is under attack and impose penalties according- ly. A group of parliamentarians from both sides of the house who constitutehthe much - criticized Schlebusch commission took the same view after examining the activities of the National Union of South African Students. They recommended the appointment of a permanent security commis- sion. AGAIN, Schlebusch , which is currently examining the Christ- ian Institute and, the Institute of Race- Relations, is not ans- werable to any court and reports only to parliament. Suzman warned that the des- tiny of South Africans was be- ing increasingly controlled by "a secret body of men taking sec- ret decisions." And the Rand Daily Mail said the regulations resulted from the government's "naked lust for power. We Style Hair ... 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