Thursdoy, August 12, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Rhodesian city struck Rioting erupts in Cape Town by Mozambique raid SALISBURY, Rhodesia (R) - Regular Mozambique Army troops launched a mortar attack yesterday on one of Rhodesia's largest cities, and sources here said the attack was in apparent -,prisal for a bloody Rhodesian raid across the border last Sun- day. Rhodesian officials said the Mozambicans fired about' 30 mortars into Umtali, a city of 55,000 one mile from Mozam- bique's border. They reported no casualties but said several houses were damaged. SEVERAL British - built Rhodesian fighter - bombers flew across the border after the shelling of Umtali, but officials would not say if they attacked targets in Mozambique. The Rhodesian raid Sunday was on a base camp of black Kansas sniper kill1s tfte3o (Continued fromn Page 3) -Police recovered two rifles and searched the building to be certain no accomplices were in- volved. STOUT SAID police had not pieced together the sequence of events leading to the shooting, but the suspect was interviewed at a Wichita hospital where he was reported in serious con- dition. Stout said no motive for the shootings had been established, and reports that the suspect was seen parking a car with Okla- homa license plates had not been confirmed. nationalist guerrillas operating from Mozambique. Officials said the raid killed 300 guerrillas, 30 Mozambican soldiers and 10. civilians. Black guerrillas have been using Mozambique, with approv- al and backing of the Marxist Mozambican government, as a base from which to launch their attacks on white-ruled Rhode- sia. RHODESIAN security sourc- es first said they weren't sure if the mortars were launched by guerrillas or regular Mozam- bican forces. However, they said later the mortars came from troops of the Marxist gov- ernment, launched two or three miles inside Mozambique. They gave no indication how the de- termination was made. Sunday's attack on the guer- rilla base was the third time Rhodesia has acknowledged crossing the border, but Moz- ambique claims such crossings occur much more often. Residents of Umtali said they had been expecting some sort of retaliation since the Rhode- sian raid Sunday. ONE YOUNG SOLDIER at Umtali said, "We're living right on the front line, only a few kilometers from where the terrorists are launching their attacks on us, and we know what to expect." In a communique, Rhodesian security officials said two bor- der posts, one near Umtali and one at Villa Salazar in the far sontheast of Rhodesia, were also hit by mortars and rockets fired from Mozambique yester- day. Some black Rhodesians were skeptical of the official claims that more than 300 guerrillas were killed in the raid, which followed a guerrilla attack in which four white soldiers were killed near Umtali. CAPE TOWN, South Africa 0) -Blacks went on a rampage of burning and looting in the black townships around Cape Town late yesterday, police said. At least 15 blacks were killed and 50 injured. Police said that after a day of unrest, blacks began rioting in the streets last night, burning buildings, looting liquor stores and attacking cars. HEAVILY armed riot police units fought pitched battles with the rioters in township streets. Unofficial reports said at least four of the victims were killed by police gunfire. Most of the trouble was re- ported in the black townships of langa and Guguletu, just north of Cape Town. Police repeatedly used tear gas and fired shots to break up crowds, including a mob of some 300 blacks that marched on a police station at Guguletu. Road- blocks were thrown up around the townships by police who were helped somewhat by rain and, briefly, a hail storm. AMBULANCES and fire en- gines moved into the troubled areas under police escort to collect the injured and dead and pt oit the fires., The riots were the first serious outbreak in the southern part of the white-ruled country since black rioting erupted in mid- June in the Johannesburg and Pretoria area, 800 miles north- east. The latest deaths bring to 207 the number killed since rioting first broke out in the black township of Soweto outside Jo- hannesburg. At least 27 have died in the past week: THE UPHEAVALS in Cape Town were the worst in a day of scattered incidents. Police reported arson, stoning and marching in other segregated black townships across South Africa, but said most of the in- cidents were minor. In Alexandra township near here, club-wielding black work- ers dispersed a band of black youths who were trying to stop them from going to work, point- ing up a generation gap in the racial troubles. "The youths just scattered when the older people ran at them with their 'kieries'," said a policeman. The workers carried knobkieries, the short, heavy wooden clubs borne by African warriors in the past. A MAJOR factor in the pro- tests has been the attempts of black youths to get the older generation of blacks to boycott their jobs in the white-run fac- tories and businesses in Johan- nesburg. The workers have generally resisted, although students have stoned buses, erected street bar- ricades, sabotaged a railway line and attacked people com- muting to work. Police said they were unable to protect everyone and urged "law-abiding workers" to arm themselves with clubs to fight off the youths, whom the police describe as tsotsis, or thugs. Armed police escorts were also put on buses running into Alex- andria and Soweto. THE UNREST reflects anger over the detention of student leaders after the June riots in which 176 persons died but it has taken on the image of a general black youth campaign against South Africa's apartheid, or race separation, laws. Promises by South Africa's white majority government te look into the grievances of stu- dents and urban blacks in gen- eral appear to have had little impact. One of the most serious dis- turbances yesterday was in the township of Sebokeng, near Van- derbijlpark, where nolice dis- persed some 30 blacks stoning vehicles and buildings. Police fired warning shots and teargas. California Indians pounded acorns into a flour from which porridge and bread were made. Ford, Reagan may face Buckley nomination threat (Continued from Page 3) The thinking, Nessen said, is that if Buckley permits his name to be placed in nomination as a third entry, the action will ptill votes away from Reagan. Meanwhile, Ford managers said the President had more than enough delegate votes to win the presidential nomination. But they conceded they were prepared to compromise on some potentially explosive plat- form issues to head off the pos- sibility of divisive floor fights. "WE'VE GOT something in the neighborhood of 1,135 votes and our job is to hold what we've got," said Sen. Robert Griffin of Michigan, Ford's con- vention floor manager. It takes 1,13 delegate votes to nominate. The latest Associated Press tally of delegate votes, based on binding commitments or stated ,references, gave Ford 1,105, Reagan 1,032, with 122 uncom- mitted. Griffin said he knew of no potential defections among Ford delegates in New York if Buck- ley got into the race. AT HIS New York news con- ference, Buckley denied he was a "stalking horse" for Reagan conservatives interested in using a Buckley candidacy to block Ford. The senator said he would give his endorsement to a move to push his candidacy "only if I felt I could contribute to the national and party interest to free up the convention." Buckley refused to identify the individuals who had ap- proached him except to say that Sen. Jesse Helms of North Caro- lina, a Reagan supporter, was one of them. HELMS TOLD reporters he was a great admirer of Buckley but intended to continue sup- porting Reagan. Speculation on the purpose be- hind the Buckley trial balloon centered on two theories. One was that it was an effort to siphon New York delegation votes away from Ford. The other was that it was a move by conservatives still angry with Reagan over his choice of Sen. Richard S. Schweiker as his running mate. John Sears, Reagan's cam- paign manager, was asked in Kansas City about the possible entry of Buckley into the race, and he said, "We have not en- couraged anybody to enter the race . . . Our position is that if people do enter the race that's their decision." PTP struggles. with tough stuff (Continued from Page 6) on in those three acts: people get hired and fired, make the wrong pictures and fall in love, but that, as they say, is show biz, and everything is just swell for the final fadeott. I WISH I COULD tell you without reservations that Once in a Lifetime was just swell. Only it wasn't, and I had sev- eral reservations. First, the play itself. Kauf- man and Hart wrote it in 1929 - the epoch of Buddy Rogers and the Vitaphone, and light years away from that of Rob- ert Redford and Sensurround. Obviously the script could not be updated and the director did some nice things with the mate- rial he had, but the play is a distant period piece and it is long. Regrettably, some of the cast members contrived to make it seem even longer. My biggest complaint about the cast as a whole is that it was a very noisy group. In a number of scenes and at the close of each act the director filled the large Power stage with the entire ensemble, and told them, I'm sure, to do as much "business" as possible as loudly as possible. Often their ad libs stepped on the lines on individual actors. And I didn't want anyone to step on the lines of some of the support- ing cast, notably Diana Daver- man as the wonderfully fraudu- lent columnist Helen Hobart; Jack McLaughlin as beleaguer- ed playwright Lawrence Vail; Charles Sutherland as the movie mogul; and Janna Morrison as the empty-headed object of George's affection. UNFORTUNATELY, the sup- porting players were uniformly stronger than the three leads, Badegrow, Wojka and Forth. I think I can safely say that I have never felt less kindly dis- posed toward an actor than I did toward Mr. Forth, who - the program noted - will be going to Julliard this fall. He had more posturings, lunges and body weavings than a Dior mod- el, and delivered his lines with shouts and snapping fingers that would have done credit to a cheerleader with an over-active thyroid. Badegrow also came on too strong and hard for the first act, but softened as the play went on and turned in a pleasant though not over-subtle performance. Wojda, as the dope of the trip who ends up running the studio, needs to work on his posture a bit but was otherwise fine. Mikell Pinkney's direction had some nice touches to it, though some of them were a bit too prolonged. For instance, the credits and the scene locales were flashed on a silent silver screen facsimile a b o v e the stage. Clever idea. And the strobe lights at the end of each scene were a clever idea the first time, but not the second or the third or ... I bow to the costume design- er, Marty Pakledina, who with a cast of over 50 had his work cut out for him. Regardless of the Rep's per- formance, winding up another summer, if you get a second once in a lifetime chance to see this play, do. There are still enough wonderfully funny min- utes in that vintage script to make Neil Simon check his laur- els. ~55~553~I t * 1-n " "- " TONIGHTI Lina Wertmuller's LOVE AND ANARCHY (Lina Wertmuller, 1973) AUD. A-7 & 9:15 tiancarlo Giannini plays an anarchist won stays at a Roman brothel while waiting to assassinate Mussolini. Mariangela Melato gives a hysterically funny performance as his contact. Lusciouscinematography of Italy in the '30's wertmuhler, who used to work for Felini and who also directed THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI, makes this movie fast and funny. "Extravagant and operatic."--The New Yorker. Italian, English subtitles. $1.25-AUD. A ANGELL HALL 4.. LI- FREE WHEEII S 50c Discount on Admission With Student [. HOURS: Fr. & Sat. 8 p.m.-2 oam. WEEKLY HOURS: 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 51 UE. Liberty 994-535 ..n .______- N Li L9 L1 r~~i --V i0