The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 23, 1985 -Page 11 Apartheid protests result in 4 deaths, 57 jailed (Continued from Page 1) UNDER the measure, police have virtually unlimited powers of arrest, seach and seizure in riot-torn areas around Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu offered yesterday to mediate peace talks between black leaders and the white minority gover- nment, warning that "True security and peace (cannot) come from the end of a gun barrel." "Despite the deep hurts and frustrations and grievances in the black community, there is a vast door of goodwill still available. I once K gain offer myself as a broker to start hese crucial negotiations," Tutu said. IN WASHINGTON, President Reagan denounced South Africa's system of racial segregation known as apartheid and said Pretoria "hearsa considerable responsibility" for the current violence. :olly rnoto by DRRIAN SMITH Snoozing A sleeping student forgets about his books and takes a nap in the sun at Regent's Plaza yesterday afternoon. )elegates protest U.N. women s conference NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) - Delegates But Reagan stopped short of calling from Arab, African and East bloc for a lifting of the resttrictions, saying countries, shouting "Zionists go home," lnly that the United States looks "to walked out of the U.N. Decade for outh Africa to restore order ... in a Women conference yesterday, disrup- scrupulous manner." He said he still ting a speech by the head of the Israeli opposes sanctions against Pretoria. delegation. The United States came under at- In Pretoria, Botha defended the tack from Cuba and other Third World suspension of legal rights under countries who accused Washington of emergecny rule and rejected a call by supporting "state terrorism" in Cen- the white opposition party for a tral America. special session of Parliament to THE WALKOUT during a plenary debate the emergency. session triggered a formal Israeli protest to the United Nations. Sarah 1 SOUTH Africa needs special Doron, and Iraeli parliament member security measures, not debate, to end and Israeli delegation chief, accused the racial unrest that has claimed the the Palestine Liberation Organization lives of 480 people since September, and Libya of organizing the demon- Botha said. stration. "It was illegal and unheard of. It "It is and it remains the respon- was not civilized," Doron said. sibility of the government to ensure "I am very angry. We are in the safety of its people," Botha said. Nairobi to discuss peace. To discuss "My government will not shirk this peace you need dialogue and with a responsibility." walkout there can be no dialogue," shesaid. Black sources in the southerncity of MAUREEN REAGAN, President Port Elizabeth and nearby Uitenhage Reagan's daughter and head of the said some black people were rousted U.S. delegation, called the walkout from their beds during the night by "sad" and said it violated the spirit of police who allegedly whipped families the conference, which marks the end and arrested local community of the U.N. Women's Decade. ladersn "I hope such a thing does not hap- pen again," Reagan said. Scores of delegates from Arab, In addition to the 113 arrests con- Africa and Eastern European coun- firmed by police at noon Sunday, tries, including the Soviet Union, black sources said police in predawn Syria, Bulgaria and Morocco, took aids yesterday arrested an ad- part in the disruption. Such actions ditional20 people in Port Elizabeth, 14 rarely occur at a U.N. conference. in Uitenhage, 13 in Steytlerville and 10 SOME DELEGATES shouted in Graaff Reniet-fora totalof 170. "Zionist terrorists, go away" and "Zionists go home" as they left the room. Dorn cut short her scheduled 15-minute speech because of the disruption. Police were called to the conference center but the demonstrators retur- ned to their seats after Doron con- cluded her remarks. Egypt, Jordan, Poland and Romania did not join in the protest. THE SQUABBLES erupted as the Women's Decade conference began its second and final week. The meeting was called to review the achievements of women in the last 10 years and to plot strategies for development through the year 2000. The anti-Ar ierican attacks, which came as dele, ates worked on the final conference document, we e sparked by an anti-terrorism ai -,ndment proposed by the United States, which accused unnamed "outlaw states" of aiding terrorists. The United States wants to include the amendment in the final document, to be voted on by the 160 attending nations when the conference ends Friday. But the proposal has been op- posed by the Soviet Union, which called the amendment's language "uncivilized," and other Eastern European countries. Third World delegates contended the Ur.r.. jponsored terrorism in Central Amer ca. Washington has drawn criticism for supporting rebels trying to topple Nicaragua's gover- nment. "Extremely grave is the fact that this state terrorism is practiced precisely by the powerful United States of America," the Cuban delegation said. Cuba also accused the Reagan ad- ministration of plotting "the assassination of heads of states which the U.S. wishes to destabilize." Asner, NJA work for social justice (Coninedfr Page1) introspection into their own faults. beginning. Liberation theology from Thursday to Sunday, ran daily Adrienne Rich, a poet and the third focuses on the first commandment workshops and study sessions member of Saturday nights panel, thatweshouldhaveno strange idols." covering the various platforms of the claimed that "Palestinian memory- "WE should get back to knowing group. The meeting included such has been violently obliterated." God. Liberation theology gauges our subjects as history of U.S. Interven- RICH SAID she could say this in work for all people - children, the tion in Latin America; Economic Saturday night's company without sick, the hungry, the oppressed, the Justice, Class, and Anti-Semitism; her words being construed as anti- imprisoned. We canot be only for our- Feminism for Jewish Men; and Jews Semitic. She does not feel this holds selves," Asner said. and Blacks - Exploring the Jewish true for the majority of American This broad spectrum of causes side. Jews. typifies the New Jewish Agenda. In THE WORKSHOPS and study "American Jewish self- 1981, many worried that moralistic sessions are only the beginning of introspection is silent in America," passion obscured more concrete ap- what Agenda members hope will be Rich said. "Our people had been told proaches to society's problems. The an introspectivelook at what it means to commit suicide before idolatry, yet 1985 first national convention of the to be a Jew - a progressive Jew and Israel has become an idol for many New Jewish Agenda - with its an American Jew. American-Jews." workshops, study sessions, and voting One of the most controversial issues Asner voiced a similar distain for plenaries - sought to alleviate the that has been examined is a idolatry. problem. Palestinian homeland. The N.J.A. has "As the chosen people we were been criticized as being too sym- given a certain destiny by God. I'm The New Jewish Agenda continues pathetic to the Palestinian people. not sure Progressive Jew is the right to iron out difficulties that come with However, the NJA combats such word," Asner said. "Instead we being such a young organization, but criticism by charging American Jews should be looking back and examining members plan on being heard above with . silence and lack of self- our marchng orders given to us in the all else.