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July 16, 1985 - Image 11

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Police break up
riots, kill three
in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa by police under a heap of burning car
(UPI) - Police firing shotguns and tires," the police report said.
tear gas killed two black men and a Twelve black councilmen and six
woman while breaking up riots in black policemen have been killed this
several black townships, police said year by black radicals who see them
yesterday. A fourth person was found as "collaborators" with the white
burned to death. minority government.
Police in Pretoria said 24 blacks MANY OF the victima were doused
were wounded and arrested during with gasoline and burned alive.
the riots that erupted Sunday night Others were burned under piles of
and yesterday and another 17 blacks tires or stoned to death.
were arrested for arson and stone- More than 300 houses belonging to
throwing attacks across the country. black police and municipal officials
have been destroyed in related at- Associated Press
IN ORANGE Free State province, a tacks. Just Pe
black woman was killed and 21 men Racial unrest in black townships Just whittling
were wounded and arrested by police has claimed at least 460 lives since
who fired tear gas and rubber bullets September. Frank Baldino holds one of 20 model ships he has whittled. The 75-year-old Lansing man says he's not an artist,
into a crowd of blacks attacking the just a whittler.
home of a black councilman, police IN SOWETO, a township 10 miles
At Graaff Reinet, about 500 miles south est roJohn nesboug poli
south of Johannesburg, a black man used tear gas to disperse crowds who C m o i n r b l f e e c
was killed, two were wounded and looted shops and delivery vehicles and
four were arrested by police trying to stoned a bus. . . BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) - national government," the statement be an effort to demonstrate flexibility
stop a large crowd of blacks from tor- At Theunessm i the Orange Free Communist Khmer Rouge rebels, in a said. in advance of a U.N. General Assem-
chig government offices and State province, black students burned major policy shift, said yesterday THE POLICY shift followed a flurry bly vote on Cambodian recognition
were injured, several cars early Monday. Local they would accept the creation of a of diplomatic activity by members of later this year.
In the black township of Ratanda, residents said a number of children "capitalist" government in Cambodia the Association of Southeast Asian "Experience has clearly shown that
east of Johannesburg, police fired were injured as police moved in to and expressed a willingness to sign a Nations, or ASEAN, aimed at ending when Vietnam attacks Cambodia,
shotguns into a crowd of blacks who quell the unrest. peace treaty with Vietnam. Hanoi's 6-year-old occupation of both Vietnam and Cambodia are
were stoning the homes of fellow Three police officers were injured The guerrilla group, which has been Cambodia. miserable," the Khmer Rouge
blacks andkilleda btack man. by firebombs in the Mlungisi black fighting Vietnam since Hanoi's troops At a meeting last week in the statement said.
suburb of Queenstown, about 150 invaded Cambodia in late 1978, said in Malaysian cz >ital f Vial- Lumpur,
miles west of Johannesburg, a bus a radio broadcast they would ASEAN foreign ministers , iewed a 'Wh _ - .-namese aggressor
A FOURTH person was killed at was stoned by a crowd of blacks, in- welcome the participation of the call for talks between :.; anouk's forces are all withdrawn from Cam-
Darlington, about 100 miles east of juring two black women passengers. Hanoi-installed Heng Samrin coalition and Vietnam. Hanoi rejected bodia, we will sign a non-aggression
Graaf Reinet, police said. In addition, rioters stoned a store and regime in a new government. the ASEAN appeal. agreement to live peacefully and
"The charred body, suspected to be the home of a black town council THERE WAS no immediate respon- According to Bangkok-based respect each other for many decades
that of a black person, was discovered member. se from Vietnam to the proposals, diplomats, the Khmer Rouge's con- and even many hundreds of years,"
which the broadcast said were drafted ciliatory policy statement appeared to the statement said.
at a meeting July 5 and July 6 at an ___
* undisclosed location in Cambodia.
Ng remains in Canada The broadcast was monitored in ' s tube y' born af'U'
The Chinese-backed KhmatRo'U ,
CALGARY, Alberta (UPI) - A "HE WOULD be more or less with an estimated 40,000 guerrillas (continsediromPagei
drifter suspected in up to 25 California tacitly saying that he would approve under arms, is the largest and best- than that of regular pregnancies. The birth over the weekend was the first
sex-torture slayings was ordered capital punishment which would be equipped faction in a U.N.-recognized success rate of both regular and in birth; the other is due in December.
yesterday to remain in custody in contrary to what they (the gover- Cambodian rebel coalition led by vitro fertilization is about 10-15 per-
Canada until a hearing in September nment) have said for a number of years Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Two non- cent. Whether or not the program has in-
on local charges stemming from his in this country," Devlin said. communist rebel factions are also part creased demand for this procedure in
arrest. In Ottawa, a federal official said of the government-in-exile. It is not necessary for the birth to the area is difficult to tell because of
If the preliminary hearing, set for Canadian Justice Minister John Under the leadership of Pol Pot, the take place under supervision of in the high cost. "The problem is not
Sept. 12, determines that Charles Ng Crosbie's office has been "swamped Khmer Rouge was blamed for the vitro fertilization specialists once the demand, the problem is paying for
should be tried on the Canadian with calls and letters from people deaths of more than 1.5 million Cam- fetus begins proper development in it," Ayers said.
charges, defense lawyer Brian demanding to know why it's taking so bodians during a reign of radical the womb, according to Ayers. .
Devlin said, the 24-year-old former long to extradite Ng." terror between 1975 and early 1979, . The University's experienced team
U.S. Marine will likely remain in "There is concern among the public when Vietnam overran Phnom Penh But the additional trauma, expense, on the IVF/ET program includes en-
Canadian custody at least until that Ng is not being sent back quickly and occupied the country. and time make vitro fertiizat ion docrinologists Ayers and Dr. Edwin
January or February, and appeals but everything is being done accor- IN THE BROADCAST, Khmer ntraprone to disappointment than on la Men
could keep him in Canada even ding to the law," said Justice Depar- Rouge officials said they envisioned naturalconception. Menon, Alan Menge, and Diane
longer. tment official Bill Corbett. "We can't "the regime of Cambodia in the future IT COSTS about $3,000 per y To Kelsey; and nurse clinician and coor-
OTHER details of the hearing do anything until the U.S. makes a as a liberal capitalist regime in per dinatr Ann Brown.
yesterday were kept secret by Judge request for his extradition." economy and a parliamentary regime cy it takes four attempts, or four of The world's first "test tube haby,"
Edward Adolfe at Devlin's request. U.S. authorities, meanwhile, were in politics...We welcome other Cam- cy s es Ts four o The Brd', wts b bab7,"
+Devlin noted the case had rekindled peaigdocuments for N's ex- boinicuigHn arnadthe woman's cycles. This comes to Louise Brown, was born in 1971 at
preparing g -bodians, including Heng Samrin and about $12,000 and insurance currently Cambridge, England. The number of
a long-simmering debate over capital tradition from Canada, which may be his group." little of this. babies since then conceived outside
punishment in Canada, where denied unless California officials The seven-point policy statement covers very babies since then tenudisodfo dtstdc
executions were outlawed more than promise not to put Ng to death if he is also appeared to accept, for the first "A lot of infertility procedures the womb is approximately 600.
10 years ago. convicted of a capital charge there, time, the possibility that the Khmer couples end up paying out of their own
Ng could face the death penalty if he Canada has no death penalty. Rouge might be excluded from the pockets," Ayers said.N
is extradited to the United States and Ng, accused of shooting a depar- government after Hanoi withdraws its No one faces canceralone.
convicted of charges stemming from tment store guard in the hand July 6 estimated 160,000 troops from Cam- Sixteen couples have so far un- Call us.
the slayings in California. But Devlin during his apprehension in Calgary, is bodia. dergone in vitro fertilization at the
sad twol b "yociicl"o techarged with attempted murder, rob- The Khmer Rouge "through elec- University. Four pregnancies have ~ MI~ ACRSCl
Canadian justice minister to extradite bery and weapons possession. tions-may or may not-be-able to par- resulted but only two have continued
Ng. ticipate in the responsibilities of the successfully. Jennifer Robichard's

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