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Raliers build shanty in an apartheid protest
By STEVE HERZ
and MICHAEL LUSTIG
A nationwide protest against apar-
theid began on the Diag yesterday as
the Freee South Africa Coordinating
Committee (FSACC) constructed a
shanty that will remain on the center
of campus until April 6.
Committee coordinator Barbara
Ransby began the National Weeks of
Action Against Racism and Apartheid
with a rallying speech condemning
University policies in South Africa.
"We are going to build a shanty on the
diag," said Ransby, "We are going to
try to save this University from
carrying out its policies in South
Africa."
THE UNIVERSITY has divested all
but 1 percent of its holdings in com-
panies that do business with South
Africa. University faculty and staff,
however, last year contributed $15
million to a pension fund that holds $6
billion in South Africa-related in-
vestments. The Universtiy also con-
tributed $31 to the pension plan
through its general fund.
Ransby, whose coalition also ad-
dressed the Board of Regents yester-
day, said, "The University's position
is unacceptable and immoral. If the
regents really are against apartheid,
Daily Photo by CHRIS TWIGG
Three protesters build a shanty in symbolic protest against apartheid in South Africa and racism at home.
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Cult
members
not social
misfits
By SUZY ROSTLER
People who join cults are not
necessarily social misfits, but are
looking to change their lives, Rev.
Galen Hora of the Lord of Light
Lutheran Church told a group of
students at South Quad earlier this
week.
"It's just not the social misfit that is
attracted to cults," Hora said during a
two-day presentation that provided
students with information about
alternative religious groups such as
the Hare Krsnas, the Unification
Church, and the Baghwans. "The
people who join cults are fed up with
who they are, and in order to make a
change in their lives, they affiliate
themselves with a radically different
group than who they grew up with."
Although Hora could not estimate
the number of University students
involved in cults, he guessed that it is
smaller than in other parts of the
country.
"At South Dakota State University,
for example, there is more of a
problem with cults. Students are
coming out of naive congregations
and are searching for simple answers
to new and complex problems," he
said.
. Hora believes that students turn to
alternative religious organizations
because they provide students with
"definite answers to very complex
questions.'
"The word cult is used when a group
is following a man rather than God,"
said John Williams of the Unification
Church.
Williams joined the Unification
Church in 1973, during a time when he
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we want to see that translated into
concrete policy. The University
autonomy is not more important than
the lives of our brothers and sisters in
South Africa."
Ransby said her group will demand
that the regents divest the Univer-
sity's remaining half million dollars
of South African investments. "A
former South African president once
said, 'Every dollar invested in South
Africa is a brick in the wall of apar-
theid.' We want the University to
divest its remaining money, remove
that brick, and break down the wall."
RANSBY said the committee
received a letter from University Vice
President for Student Services Henry
Johnson saying the administration
will allow the shanty to stand for the
two-week rally because "the Univer-
sity sees it as an educational
mission."~
Ransby said she was not par-
ticularly worried about recent events
at Dartmouth College, where about a
dozen students who worked for the
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IBM wants charges dropped
against Brown protesters
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - IBM asked a judge yesterday to dismiss
trespassing charges against Amy Carter and 13 other college students
who staged an anti-apartheid protest at its office.
IBM Branch manager Leonard DiIuro told District Judge Francis
Darrigan the company wanted to drop the charges "for business
reasons." He refused to elaborate to reporters afterward.
City police arrested the students Wednesday about 30 minutes after
they began a sit-in protesting IBM's dealings in racially segregated South
Africa. They were released on personal recognizance.
The protesters had said they would stay in the IBM building until they
were arrested or until the company stopped doing business in South
Africa.
The demonstrators are members of Borwn Free Southern Africa
Coalition. Carter, the youngest of former President Jimmy Carter's four
children, has been a coalition member since coming to Brown in Septem-
ber 1985.
Mitterand appoints Paris
mayor as new premier
PARIS - Francois Mitterand, a Socialist, appointed conservative
Jacques Chirac as France's new premier yesterday, and the nation began
its novel experiment in cooperation between two leaders from rival
political camps.
It is the first time the president and his government have renresented
opposite political philosophies since Charles deGaulle created the Fifth
Republic, with its strong presidency, 28 years ago.
Mitterand and Chirac have pledged to cooperate, but the stage is set for
an eventual constitutional conflict. Mitterand's presidential term runs
until 1988.
The new premier made clear that he plans to exercise all the con-
stitutional powers of his office and government to set and execute
national policy, much of which will be aimed at reversing Mitterand's
Socialist course.
He said he would move immediately with' economic measures, in-
cluding a start on selling state-run industries to private investors, and the
most urgent measures would be implemented by decree.
Bomb blast kills two in Paris
PARIS - A bomb exploded at a shopping mall on the Champs Elysees
boulevard in central Paris, killing two people and injuring 28. It was the
latest of a series of bombings in the capital.
Police sources said a second bomb was found a short time later on the
tracks in Paris' main underground subway and regional train station.
Several thousand rush-hour passengers were evacuated from the station
while a bomb squad neutralized the device, according to the sources who
stipulated anonymity.
There was no immediate word on property damage at the Point Show
arcade.
Fire Department officials said at least 15 people were injured. The of-
ficials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they did not know how
seriously the injured were hurt.
The explosion occurred minutes after it was announced that Jacques
Chirac, the mayor of Paris, had accepted Socialist President Francois
Mitterand's offer to become premier of France and form a government.
Chirac, a conservative, was speaking on national television when the.
blast took place at about 6 p.m.
NYC passes gay rights bill
NEW YORK - The City Council approved a gay rights bill yesterday,
15 years after a similar bill was first introduced in the early days of the
homosexual rights movement.
The bill would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in
housing, employment or public accommodation.
More than 100 police officers were assigned around City Hall as suppor-
ters and opponents gathered to await the vote.
The gay rights bill grew out of a police raid on a gay bar, the Stonewall,
whichmset off riots in 1969 and is considered the flashpoint of the
movement.
Among the leaders of the battle were Roman Catholic Cardinal John
O'Connor, who denounced the bill, and Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore, who
supported it. Mayor Edward Koch was also in favor.
Councilman Noach Dear said he though homosexuals had pressed for
the legislation because "they want society to accept them as normal
human beings. I don't accept that. That's deviant behavior and they will
pass it on to our children."
Aquino drafts new constitution
MANILA, Philippines - The draft of a new, interim Philippine con-
stitution would abolish the National Assembly and vest all law-making.,
powers in President Corazon Aquino in a democratic revolutionary
government, it was disclosed yesterday.
A cabinet official, who dealt; with reporters on condition of anonymity,
said Aquino wants to "soften some provisions" of the draft so she does not
have to call her government "revolutionary."
The official said Aquino planned to announce the new constitution Mon-
day. He did not say why he released the draft yesterday.
The draft says, "This government is revolutionary in origin and nature,
democratic in essence and transistory in character."
It would give Aquino the law-making powers of the National Assembly
and would prohibit any court from questioning her authority or the
validity of any law she decrees.
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