Page 14 Saturday, June 14,1980-The Michigan Daily
CONSTITUENTS ADDRESS COMMITTEE
Democrats formulate platform
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The con-
stituent groups that built the
Democratic Party, with only few. at-
tacks on the Carter administration,
took their case yesterday to the com-
mittee writing the party's 1980 plat-
form.
They urged special attention for
women, minorities, the elderly, the
cities, human rights, abortion rights,
education, and energy.
THE 158-MEMBER Democratic
Platform Committee continued
hearings on a position paper for the
August convention, attempting to
squeeze in nearly 100witnesses.
Few of the witnesses showed special
leanings toward. either President Car-
ter or Sen. Edward Kennedy, but most
spoke for the traditional Democratic
program of government taking a strong
role to helpcitizens.
Kennedy's program more closely
follows the traditional Democratic ap-
proach than does Carter's.
PATSY MINK, president of the
liberal Americans for Democratic Ac-
tion which has endorsed Kennedy, at-
tacked the administration's policies as
unworkable.
"If a Republican administration is
elected this year, and enacts the
program its likely nominee is advan-
cing, it can only lead to economic and
social disaster," said Mink, a former
member of the House from Hawaii.
"Unfortunately, we find a
Democratic administration and many
Democratic members of Congress who
are proponents of many Republican
ideas - philosophies that put individual
gain before the public good," she said.
ELAINE KARMARCK, the commit-
tee's executive director, said she ex-
pected the bulk of testimony during the
three-day hearing to address
traditional Democratic issues rather
than either Carter or Kennedy
programs.
She said the witnesses wanted to
promote their own constituencies.
Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio),
asked the group to "correct the in-
justices suffered by so many women
under the Social Security system."
Rep. Mickey Leland (D-Texas),
urged them not to forget blacks,
Hispanics and other minorities "whose
support has been absolutely necessary
to elect party nominees."
South Africa bans
political protests
From UPI and AP the nation prepared at tt
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - for the services to comn
South Africa yesterday banned all Soweto racial rioting four
political demonstrations in the country, which more than 600 peopl
apparently to head off planned weekend
commemorations by non-whites of the Then, in a special
bloody Soweto riots of 1976. proclamation issued s
The move came hours after Prime midnight, Justice Min
Minister Pieter Botha warned Schlebusch banned, unde
protesting black and mixed-race Riotous Assemblies
students that his government will "not gathering of a political na
tolerate efforts to create anarchy." than 10 people not
THOUSANDS OF non-whites across authorized by him.
The ban, which lasts fro
the end of June, prohi
Cambodiians meetings to discuss gove
of any kind "or at which
boycott or strike is en
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against or in support o
return to memoration of anything.'
THE GOVERNMENT'S
h elI all but purely religiouss
homelandned by black and mixed
and clergymen for tomori
day in remembrance of
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KHAO I DANG, Thailand (AP) - Soweto.
Anxiety and confusion prevailed
yesterday among some of the 130,000 In New York, the United Nations
Cambodians here, one of the two Security Council called unanimously
largest camps in Thailand preparing yesterday for South Africa to release all
for the first mass repatriation of political prisoners, end political trials
refugees. and act immediately to scrap its race-
Some relief workers feared the segregation policy.
refugees might be coerced to go back to
the homeland they had fled. Western countries on the 15-nation
THE REPATRIATION is scheduled'I
THE EPARIAION s shedled council joined with the Third World
to begin Monday at this huge camp near majority to approve a resolution that
the Cambodian border. U.N. officials had been negotiated between the
and Thai military officers first will in- Western and black African nations.
terview the refugees to determine if
they-are returning voluntarily. The council showed the same
On Wednesday, the program is to unanimity in previous periods of unrest
begin at the Sa Kaew Camp, 30 miles in South Africa - adopting resolutions
away. Relief workers there fear in June 1976 and October 1977 condem-
pressure is being exerted by Cam- ning "massive violence and
bodian backers of former Premier Pol repression" there and voting an arms
Pot who entered Thailand among the embargo in November 1977.
refugees.
Yesterday's vote came at the coun-
MON D AY NIGH cil's fourth meeting on "the question of
South Africa." The 50-nation African
T LHDESBLT DEgroup asked for the debate at the urging
of the African National Congress, a
movement outlawed in South Africa
I N that took responsibility for recent
.am. sal5o- 9E9oil efineriethere.
Safe and sound APPhio
Firefighters in protective suits contain a chemical spill inside a semi-
trailer truck in Kalamazoo Thursday night. The 50-gallon drum contained
Trimethyl Phosphite which was being shipped to the Upjohn Co. from
Bucks, Alabama.
ur indicts third
Abscam congressman
WASHINGTON (AP)-A federal indicted earlier this month.
grand jury charged yesterday that Rep. Four other House members and a
John Jenrette Jr. took a bribe after senator have been implicated in the
promising to introduce legislation that proble in which FBI agents posed as
would allow an Arab businessman to front men for fictitious Arab
remain in the United States. businessmen seeking legislative help.
The indictment said the South "I'm relieved and yet deeply sad-
Carolina Democrat arranged for a dened," Jenrette told a news conferen-
Richmond, Va. businessman, John ce in Florence, S.C. He said he was
Stowe, to receive a $50,000 bribe from relieved the investigation was moving
an FBI undercover agent last Dec. 6. toward a conclusion but saddened
The three-count indictment said because he felt the Justice Department
Jenrette and Stowe, who also was indic- had been trying to find wrongdoing in
ted, believed the federal agent was his activities for the past five years.
representing an Arab businessman. Jenrette, who is running for re-
JENRETTE IS THE third member of election, accused the Justice Depar-
Congress to be indicted as a result of tment of "trying to do at the ballot box
the political corruption investigation what they failed to do at any jury box."
code-named Abscam. Reps. Raymond He said he planned "to continue a
Lederer and Michael "Ozzie" Myers, rigorous campaign and to be
boJ ,)'epest3 opts °_ e, renominated and re-elected."
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