The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, November 30, 1977-Page 7 S. AFRICANS GO TO THE POLLS Vorster's white defiance garners votes JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's general election today may be remembered as the one in which Prime Minister John Vorster ran against U.S. President Carter. Leaders of the National Party, which has ruled this racially divided country of 26 million people for nearly 30 years, have been. preach- ing a simple message to the 2.2 million white voters: Vote National and tell the world with one voice what South Africa thnks of foreign inter- vention in domestic affairs. And that message appears to be carrying Vorster's party toward its biggest election victory in the white- ruled country where the 19-million black majority is not allowed to vote. OPINION POLLS have indicated the 63-year-old Vorster may increase the 116 seats he now holds in the 165-seat parliament by between 10 and 20 in a major sweep of constitu- encies now held by splintered opposi- tion parties. The anti-government newspaper Johannesburg Star predicted, how- ever, that only about one million of the 2.2 million registered voters will vote. And the blacks, whose future is a key issue in the election, will have no say. The election campaign has coin- cided with a mandatory arms embar- go imposed by the United Nations, international ire over the death of black activist Steve Biko in a South African jail, and a crackdown on black organizations and newspapers. TYPICAL OF the defiant mood of South Africa's leaders, Foreign Min- ister R. F. Botha said recently: "The United States insists on one-man, one-vote in South Africa knowing it must eventually lead to our destruc- tion.' This, he said, is what the West wants because a white government in South Africa hinders Western efforts to woo the Third World. Information Minister Connie Mul- der put South African reaction crisply during a campaign meeting: "President Carter is the most rotten president America has had in the last three decades." And Vorster received his most resounding ovation immediately aft- er the United Nations voted the embargo. "THERE ARE those in the world outside who believe that with the mandatory.arms embargo they can bring South Africa to its knees," he said. "But let me tell them tonight they have another guess coming." But the issue of foreign meddling has overshadowed two other reasons cited by Vorster for calling elections 18 months ahead of schedule. One is a proposed new constitution to provide separate parliaments for the 4.3 million whites, 2.5 million colored, or persons of mixed race, and 750,000 Asians. The black major- ity would remain excluded. Vorster has assured the electorate that whites will remain firmly in control under the proposed constitu- tion. Blacks will continue to exercise political rights only in tribal home- lands, constituting 13 per cent of South Africa's land area set aside for them. The second reason is to test the new oppositiqn line-up. THE REAL questions to be deter- mined by the election is how much the Nationalists will increase their present 70 per cent majority in the 165-seat parliament, now 116 seats, and that depends on how many English-speaking voters swing to- ward the government dominated by Afrikaners, and which of the two main opposition parties will form the t I official opposition.% The Nationalists have fielded 148 candidates and it is the only party to put up a sufficient number for a majority in parliament. Others contesting the election are the tiny South African Party with six seats and the ultra-right-wing Her- stigte Party which has never won a seat. Two seats were vacant when parliament was dissolved in Septem- ber. A recent opinion poll published by the Afrikaans Sunday newspaper in- dicates the English vote for the National Party will jump from 18 per cent in the 1974 election to 31 per cent. The English speakers represent about 36 per cent of the whites. Despite all the fulminations against the West, the question really is not what South Africans think of the United States, arms embargoes and what South Africa calls "double standard" attacks on the govern- ment's racial policies. But rather it is the old agony of finding a workable political solution to a situation where disenfranchised blacks outnumber whites 5 to 1. leaders, as a solution for these final say. groups. Blacks still will be expected to exercise political rights only in the rural tribal homelands constituting 13 per cent of South Africa's land area set aside for them. The Progressive Federal Party has criticized the constitutional plan as an attempt to entrench apartheid under a dictator - a reference to the white president who will have the The progressives want to dis- mantle apartheid laws immediately, including those covering housing and schooling, and hold a multi-racial constitutional conference to decide the new order. The New Republic Party envisages whites, coloreds and Asians inIe federation linked to black homelands in a confederation. THE NATIONALISTS their constitutional plan, been rejected by colored point to which has and Asian Battered wife is found innocent of charges in husband's murder MARQUETTE (UPI) - A woman who portrayed herself as a battered housewife was found innocent of murder yesterday in the shotgun- slaying of her husband. The verdict clearing Sharon Mc- Neary, 42, was returned following a two-day non-jury trial by Marquette County Circuit Judge John McDon- ald, who said the prosecution failed to prove she had not acted in self defense. MCNEARNEY HAD been charged with shooting her husband, George, 45, as he walked in the door of their home last Feb. 12, emptying both barrels of a 20-gauge shotgun. Another Michigan murder case raising the rights of battered house- wives ended in Lansing last month with a jury finding Francine Hughes innocent by reason of temporary insanity in the torch slaying- of her husband following 13 years of physi- cal abuse. McNearney's only defense was a tape-recorded statement given to Marquette Police detectives imme- diately following the shooting in which she told of an argument with her husband earlier in the day and her fear that she would face physical violence upon his return. CAPT. MARVIN Gauthier, head of the department's detective division, told a reporter after the trial there had been a history of wife beatings involving the couple, who have teen- aged children. Gauthier, who did not testify at the trial, said McNearney had been arrested for felonious assault a year and a half ago for firing a gun at his wife. McNearney, in her statement pre- sented at the trial, also told of past batterings. No defense witnesses testified in the case. There were nine prosecu- tion witnesses, most of whom had spent time with the victim on the day of his death. McDonald, reached at his home after the trial ended, refused to discuss' the basis of his ruling in detail. It all adds UPI Birth defects are forever. Unlessyou help. TO PROTECT THE UNBORN AND THE NEWBORN March of Dimes THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY'THE PUBLISHER Egypt, Israel ready for Mideast summit --- ------- ... --.. - -. --.... 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