Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 18, 1986 Students hold Mandela protest (Continued from Page 1) asked. He also said the board would lean against making the exception because it considers the University's decision to divest 90 percent of its investments in companies that do business with South Africa a strong stand against apartheid. "We felt strongly about it, and people told us that it would be a great step to take, so we made the ex- ception. We had to move mountains to get divestment." OTHER regents yesterday would not discuss making an exception for Mandela. But one regent - Sarah Power (D-Ann Arbor) said as she left the regents room after the students BLOOM COUNTY Watch for it in had occupied it, "A bylaw can be changed." Leaders of the Free South Africa Coordinating Committee, responsible for the protest, said they hope to stay in the building until late this after- noon. Robert Potter, the University's director of communications, said the students would be alloweed to stay, and in fact, people were allowed to leave and enter the building at will last night. POTTER, however, when asked if the University would take any action if the students still occupied the room when the regents arrive this morning for the second-day of their monthly meetings, replied: "We'll have to make that decision then." Barbara Ransby, a leader of the group, said they had not decided how to react to the regents meeting, or whether they would try to stay in the room past tomorrow. Ransby helped organize a two-week blockade of a Columbia University building last spring in an attempt to get the school to divest. The protest began after five speakers urged the regents during the meeting's public comments session, to give Mandela the degree. After the last speaker, Ransby, announced they would hold an all-night vigil in the room. The regents left through a back door. The number of students in the room fluctuated from about 150 during the meeting, to about 30 afterwards, then to about 150 again to listen to South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus speak last night. K h. \~ - \K\iac! Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON MSA military researcher Ingrid Kock listens to Free South Africa Coor- dinating Committee leader Barbara Ransby's speech at yesterday's regents meeting. South African poet calls for continued pressure IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS El Salvador army officials accused in kidnapping ring SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Two men arrested for allegedly working with rightist kidnapping rings said yesterday that two army colonels and a major on active duty were involved in carrying out the abductions of prominent businessmen. The accusations came as leaders of the country's coffee industry urged the Senate to investigate alleged "interference" by U.S. Ambassador Edwin G. Corr in domestic politics. Lt. Rodolfo Isidro Lopez Sibrian and Urlando Llovera, in separate ap- pearances before a military judge, said the three soldiers - Lot. Col. Robert Mauricio Staben, commander of the U.S.-trained Hrce Battalion, Col. Joaquin Zacapap, and Maj. Jose Alfredo Jimenez - were involved in at least five kidnappings since 1982. Lopez Sibrian, removed from active duty in 1983, and Llovera, his father-in-law, both arrested March 31, said they did not participate in the kidnapping ring. House speaker says GOP faces difficulty on Contra bill WASHINGTON - House speaker Thomas O'Neill Jr. said yesterday he thinks the Republicans face long odds in their gamble to win an up-or-down vote soon on President Reagan's program of aid to Nicaraguan rebels. O'Neill told reporters that "in my judgment, the president had his best chance" on Wednesday, when consideration of the issue was halted abrup- tly by a GOP tactic aimed at divorcing the vote from an unrelated spending bill that President Reagan wants to veto. Told of O'Neill's prediction that the GOP would have problems in getting the Contra aid issue considered as a separate :measure, House Republican leader Robert Michel (R-Ill.), said, "I don't think we'll have difficulty. We're going to come down hard on our own people." Michel said his goal is "a free-standing bill" limited solely to the question of giving military and other assistance to the Contra coun- terrevolutionaries. ~Stalin's daughter returns to U.S.; granddaughter to U.K. CHICAGO- Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana. Alliluyeva has returned to the United States, which she criticized when she defected back to the Soviet Union after 17 years in the West, but her whereabouts yesterday remained a mystery. Her ex-husband, William Wesley Peters, said in Scottsdale, Arizona, that she was expected to surface shortly. Alliluyeva, 60, arrived at Chicago's O'Hare Airport on Wednesday on a flight from Zurich, said Cherise Mayberry, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Customs Service at the Airport. Her former husband "is not at liberty to give out information as to the whereabouts of his ex-wife, and he expects that she will make this infor- mation available shortly," said Tere Teames, secretary to Peters, the chief architect at Taliesin West. an architectural institute. Alliluyeva's departure from the Soviet Union came one day after her- American-born daughter, Olga Peters, left to return to the Quaker boar- ding school she had attended in England before the move to Moscow. Teen comits suicide on t.v. AMHERST, Mass. - A 17-year-old boy drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid on live, closed-circuit television and died on the floor of the Hampshire College studio while his brother and friends laughed and urged him to quit joking, students said yesterday. When Andrew Hermann refused to quit his "act" on the comedy show, students carried him to a hall. Security guards later found he was dead. "Everyone thought it was a joke. No one realized he had actually done it," said Philip Jackson, student producer of the student broadcast. "We've had some rather extreme things on the show. One time a group of Arabs came on and hijacked it. Everyone thought he was fooling." Hermann's older brother, Stephen, a Hampshire student who served as co-host of the program siad, "I thought, like everyone else,.,that it was just an act." "I had intuitive feelings that something was going wrong, but it didn't register. It fit so well into the entire speech," he said "He said he would die for his views about the administration of this cam- pus. It was tongue-in-cheek humor. He was joking. But what he did was serious.' Hermann described his younger brother as a very intelligent youth who was bored with high school and had "other problems." He said Andrew had planned to attend Hampshire College next year and had been accep- ted. GNP increases 3.2 percent WASHINGTON-The real gross national product grew at a healthy an- nual rate of 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 1986 as an improving trade balance, low interest rates and low inflation combined to stimulate the economy, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The preliminary GNP estimate falls squarely in the middle of gover- nment and private forecasts of 2.5 to 4 percent growth. It reflects the swiftest pace of economic growth since the first quarter of 1985 and a quick rebound from the dismal 0.7 percent gain during the final quarter of last year. The real GNP grew $28.4 billion to $3.62 trillion last quarter, according to the Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The estimate is based on incomplete data and will be revised twice, in May and June. 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W Brutus led a sports boycott kicking South Africa out of the 1972 Olympics because of its racist policies. He was then labeled by the South African government as one of apartheid's top 20 opponents, and was imprisoned for 18 months at Robben Island. There, he met Mandela and other activists. "The situation in South Africa, as I'm sure you are aware, has shar- pened dynamically," he said. "Since August, there has been ferment, con- tinual challenge to the apartheid system, until it is almost at the breaking point." He said evidence of outside pressure on the apartheid gover- nment by divestment is one of the most important factors in generating tension in South Africa. The South African government reports eight bankruptcies a day, and a steady drain of the white population. This economic and political pressure will "contribute to the gradual breaking up of that struc- ture," Brutus said. 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