Page 8-Friday, July 21, 1978-The Michigan Daily S. African prisoner dies; torture suspected P IE T E R MA R IT ZB UR G, South station, 100 miles northeast of this city, on his body," the doctor was quoted as the capital of Pretoria after being Africa (AP) - Another black South to a hospital in the coastal town of Em- saying. detained and questioned in the coastal African has died in police custody and a pangeni, the Johannesburg Star Before he died, Cane told doctors and town of Port Elizabeth. A subsequent black doctor said he appeared to have newspaper reported. He was being held his mother, Linah Cane, that uniformed inquest ruled that Biko had died of head been the victim of "systematic tor- in the Hluhluwe jail awaiting sentence police strung him ujp by the wrists in injuries, but no action was taken again- ture." for stealing $11,845 from a livestock the jail, the Star reported. Two st his alleged police assailants. Brigadier Ben Peiterse, com- dealer's vehicle, the paper said. policemen, one white and one black, Black community leaders and op- missioner of the Natal provincial inland He was the 26th black to die in police lashed him with rawhide whips and position parliamentarians often allege police division, announced yesterday custody in two years. beat him with a stick, fists and a brick police brutality in the treatment of that three policemen - two whites and A black doctor who examined Cane in because he refused to reveal where the black prisoners. a black - have been suspended from the hospital, Dr. B. S. Ngubane, was stolen money was hidden, he was Dr. Ngubane and Dr. L. J. Fourie, duty pending the outcome of an in- "completely nauseated" by his in- quoted as saying. district surgeon at the Ngwelezane vestigation. juries, hospital staffers told the Dr. Chris Myburgh, a national ser- Hospital where Cane died, performed newspaper. viceman doing civilian duty at the an autopsy and sent Cane's vital organs CARPENTER Paulos Ngolosi Cane, hospital, also examined Cane and was to the Natal provincial capital of Durbn 22, died last Thursday after he was DR. NGUBANE told the newspaper heard to exclaim, "This looks like for examination by the chief gover- moved from the Hluhluwe police Cane appeared to have been the victim another Biko," said the newspaper. nment pathologist, Prof. I. K. Gordon. I of "systematic torture." He was "black THE REFERENCE was to black Senior police officers here refused to and blue from head to toe and there was consciousness leader Steve Biko, who comment on the death, saying that the not one square inch of unmarked skin died in police custody last September in matter was under investigation. MCAT -"DAT -LSAT -'GRE GMAT -"OCAT -"VAT -SAT NMB LIR,DE, ECFMG*-FLEX*VQE NAT'L DENTAL BOARDS NURSING BOARDS Flexible Programs & Hours There ISa differenceMtt EDUCATIONAL C CENTER Test Preoaratid Specialists Since 1938 For Information Please Call: (313) 662-3149 Fa' Locations In Other Cities, Call: TOLL FREE:800-223.1782 toronto Puerto Rico and Luano, Sw terlan! Israeli women get draft break JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli Parliament has granted religious women a sweeping new exemption from compulsory military duty, a move applauded by some as a protection of women against "temptation" and denounced by others as an invitation to lie and evade the draft. The legislation was approved yester- day by a vote of 54-45 after one of Parliament's most bitter debates in recent years and after a 12-hour filibuster by the opposition Labor Party and the liberal Democratic Movement for Change. THE LABORITES called the bill discriminatory against the non- religious and predicted it would create a shortage in military personnel. It amends Israel's 1959 draft law, which requires women at age 18 to ser- ve 24 months in the military and men to serve 36 months. Most women serve as secretaries or in communications, though a few have joined a new armor program. Previously, women demanding military exemptions on religious grounds were examined by rabbinical boards. The new amendment requires only that women sign an affidavit asserting that they abide by Jewish dietary laws and do not travel on the Sabbath. ORTHODOX groups contend that the army's integration of sexes and sudden freedom from parental oversight can corrupt young women's morals. "It is impossible to put a Jewish girl in a framework where her parents have no control over her. The girls aren't stron enough to resist temptation," said Rabbi Menachem Porush of the religious Agudat Israel Party, whose four Parliament members, all rabbis, were the prime movers behind the bill. Thousands of draft-age women demonstrated against the amendment, parading such signs as "I served in the army and stayed a virgin." IRIS ERMAN, a leader of the protest movement, said: "It is impossible to give this kind of legitimacy to draft dodgers." She and others argue that dishonest draft evaders will get a two- year jump on women soldiers educationally and professionally. The Agudat Israel legislators last year threw their political support behind Prime Minister Menachem Begin's conservative Likud bloc, helping give it a parliamentary majority. In return,aBegin assured the Orthodox groups he would back them on the women soldiers issue. Because all Israeli governments have allied themselves with religious parties to form majorities, the universal con- scription law has never been fully en- forced. It was revealed during the recent national debate that the military had quietly begun granting exemptions to women on the basis of simple declarations. PRICE SALE selected merchandise " PANTS * SHIRTS * SHORTS * HOODED SWEAT- SHIRTS SAMS STORE, 207 E. Liberty 663-8611 One-acts off the mark (Continued from Page 3) THIS WAS emphasized by the staging, which was horribly detrimental to the spirited interplay the actors established. A chain of sketches must follow a dynamic rhythm much like that of a series of musical movements, and the ponderous, unneccessarily long set changes disrupted the action to no end. The actors, however, brought neurotic spunk to their roles, trading invectives and humorous quips, and wringing double-entendres and poignant observations from the dialogue. Michael Cooper played Ber- nie for laughs, and carried it off well, never losing his cocksure presence. His tale of a girl with an army fetish was most amusing. LAURA HITT, as Joan, was utterly bitchy, yet very affecting when shutting off the venom to speak to her child. Robert Meinkins and Jenny Klion worked well as Dan and Deborah. Their meeting scene might have come straight from a Woody Allen movie. Ultimately, though, Mamet's snappy dialogue and the intermittently in- spired performances only partially overcame the heavy atmosphere con- tributed by the wholly unstrategic staging. A play like this one needs lighter treatment. "You're a Good MAon, Charlie Brown" based on "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz presented by Ann Arbor Civic Theatre July 26-29 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Tickets: CURTAIN 8 pm Ch.ildre 16 and *"der who are accompanied by "o adult are t .00 off the regular price. Weds. July 26