The Michigan Daily-Friday, June 20, 1980-Page 5 S. African bank bill sparks : Senate debate LANSING (UPI) - Legislation barring deposit of state funds in banks loaning money to firms with South African connections sparked Senate debate yesterday, as opponents argued Michigan should stay out of inter- national affairs. That measure and a bill prohibiting employers from sexually harassing workers were placed in position for final Senate action. THE BANK deposit bill - heavily pushed by black lawmakers - would prevent the state from depositing funds in banks with even indirect ties to racially segregated South Africa. Any bank loaning money to a South AP Photo African firm or an American firm with Town, South subsidiaries or branches in the white supremacist nation would be ineligible for state accounts. Y : Sen. Basil Brown, noting current rioting by disgruntled South African blacks, said Michigan should not en- courage business in the apartheid Li' nation by letting its surplus funds be used as loans. otting classes "WE HAVEN'T been willing to do go to protest in- more than give lip service to human the segregated rights," the Highland Park Democrat said. ven more com- But Sen. Donald Bishop (R- area yesterday, Rochester) argued the bill would rule mber of strikers. out deposits in almost every bank in d Motor Co. was Michigan and cause severe problems assembly plant for the state treasury. to obtain parts An emotional Sen. John Kelly (D- lighting firm Detroit) insisted ill effects the state suf- fers would be recovered through human gains made in South Africa. INJURED IN WEDNESDAY'S rioting, a young man is treated before being taken to a hospital near Cape Africa. Four days of riots reportedly left at least 42 dead across South Africa. RELIGIOUS LEADERS TRY TO 'SAVE' COUNTR S. African riots contmin JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)-Black religious leaders urged Prime Minister P.W. Botha yesterday. to meet with them to "save the coun- try" following another day of violent protests and strikes in this white-ruled land. As many as 42 people have been reported killed this week. The South African Press Association reported that violence around Cape Town continued, saying police arrested 40 people yesterday and used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 350 striking non-whites. POLICE OFFICIALS told the press association no one had been injured in- the confrontation in the mixed-race township of Ravensmead. But the news service said police wounded at least two people when firing birdshot to break up a stone-throwing crowd in the black township of Uitenhage outside Cape Town. Gen. Mike Geldenhuys, the police commissioner, said the situation around the country was "quieter than it has been since the beginning of the current wave of unrest" on Monday, the fourth anniversary of the start of the 1976 Soweto riots that left nearly 600 blacks dead in eight months of unrest. BUT THE SOUTH African Press Association carried an account saying. police wounded at least two people after firing birdshot to break up a stone- throwing crowd in the black township of Uitenhage outside Cape Town, where police were said to have used tear gas to disperse a crowd of striking workers. Bishop Desmond Tutu, a leading black moderate, was quoted by the Post, whose circulation is largely among blacks, as saying the South African Council of Churches was prepared to accept the conditions laid down by the prime minister to meet with him. Botha said Wednesday he would agree to see black church leaders if they openly rejected communism for South Africa and denounced organizations, including the African National Congress, that used violence against the government of the white minority. Whites make up about 17 per cent of the country's approximately 28 million people. "WE HAVE NO problems with any of the conditions set down though we would have preferred to meet without conditions," said Tutu, the church group's secretary general. "We could, for instance, also make conditions like asking for the release of political prisoners or the calling of a national convention. But I am prepared to do anything to save the country." The government has not yet indicated a meeting will take place. If it does, it would be the first since mixed-race students began boyc nearly three months a ferior education under system. Workers struck sev panies in the Uitenhage bringing to 5,000 the nui A spokesman said For( forced to close an a because it was unable from an automotive struck the day before. MO NOW SHOWING (PG) VIES AT BRIARWOOD IL