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hodesia
United Press International
I WASHINGTON — Prime Minis-
Irlan Smith of Rhodesia said Tues-
he will pursue his plan to bring
lack majority rule to the African na-
lon despite its rejection by the
hjnited States and giierrilla forces.
I Smith, in unofficial talks with Sec
tary of State Cyrus Vance, made no
logress in trying to win American
Ipport for the transitional govern-
lent plan which is supposed to lead
I black majority nde by the end of
le year- , , It ,
Guerrilla forces and the United
■tates have rejected Smith’s tran-
Itional government. Vance wants all
L-ties in the escalating war to join in
(peace conference to seek an end to
jie civil strife.
Smith said Tuesday that his coun-
y would move forward with its
htemal settlement, even if the black
uerrilla leadership did not accept it.
"If there is no settlement, you'll
nd us in 10 years going along the
ray we are now,” Smith said. ‘By
ben, I’ll be sitting quietly on my
arm. If we don’t get support we'll
ontinue because we believe in
lajority government.”
Smith and a fellow member of the
xecutive council member, the Rev.
Jdabaningi Sithole, appeared on na-
ionwide televison, on ABC-TV’s
Good Morning, America, ” and then
poke to reporters at a Washington
reakfast arranged by Foreign Policy
agazine.
The unofficial visit of Smith and
iithole to the United States coin-
ided with the announcement in
Ihodesia that the breakaway British
olony is to abolish all laws involving
THE BATTALION Page 3
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1978
Helps prisoners
Amnesty International forms at A<b-M
By BECKY DOBSON
Battlion Reporter
A chapter of Amnesty International, a group which works to free
y. ** calls prisoners of conscience, ” has been recognized by Texas
A&M University.
It was organized on campus last April, but gained recognition by the
U niversity Sept. 18, according to one of the co-chairmen of the local
chapter, Leonard Seelig.
loday in more than 100 countries, over half a million prisoners are
punished solely for their race, religion or ideas, according to informa
tion released by AI. These prisoners of conscience, ” as they are called
by the group, are isolated from family and friends, locked away in jails
or concentration camps, or declared insane and consigned to mental
institutions.
Tfu s organization is not connected with the draft dodgers of the
ietnam era, Seelig said. He said many people associate the group
wi "! unift dodgers during the Vietnam war because of their name.
The local group is part of a worldwide movement with headquarters
in London. It puts pressure on governments to practice fair treatment
in the arrest and imprisonment of their citizens.
Seelig said the object of the organization is to secure throughout the
world the observance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
written by the United Nations. Virtually all of the countries that AI
deals with have signed the document, Seelig said. Each chapter of AI is
assigned up to three prisoners, says Becky Rivera, coordinatory of the
Texas A&M group. She said in order for prisoners to qualify for AI
assistance, they cannot have a record of violence and must be from a
country different from the AI chapter appealing on their behalf.
Seelig said AI is not political in any way and does not support the
actual viewpoints of the prisoners they try to help.
“AI does not work for prisoners whose views are politically violent,”
Seelig said. “Amnesty only gives the cases out when they are 100
percent sure there is no violence involved. ”
The local chapter has been assigned two prisoners, each in a foreign
country.
Seelig said one of the prisoners is from Taiwan. Nina Huang was a
college student when she was arrested in July of 1976. No formal
charge was ever brought against her. The length of her sentence has
not been given. Seelig says no one has been able to contact her since
her arrest.
Alajondro Martinez is the other prisoner of conscience the local AI
chapter is investigating. Martinez is a 40-year-old from El Salvador.
He organized a trade union at the sugar mill where he worked. In 1977
he was arrested while participating in a strike at the mill. Martinez has
never been formally charged with anything, Seelig said, and the length
of his sentence is unknown.
Rivera said members of the local AI chapter will study the constitu
tions of both prisoners’ governments, and will try to secure more
information on the prisoners. Then members will write letters indi
vidually to the governments to say that these citizens are not being
dealt with as their own laws dictate.
“Amnesty pressures the government by effectively bringing human
rights violations to the attention of the public,” said co-chairman Elia
Tasca.
AI received the Nobel Peace prize in 1977.
Tasca said the point of the AI chapter’s recognition on campus is to
draw concerned students, but membership is also open to non
students.
“We want this to be an organization encompassing all members of
community,” Tasca said.
race discrimination. Smith said that
American officials did not know of
the change when he and Vance
talked Monday.
Smith repeatedly told his Ameri
can audiences that he and his tran
sitional government have fulfilled
their part of the bargain made by the
United States and Great Britain. He
said they insisted that he move to
ward one-man, one-vote black
majority rule in order to be reac
cepted into the family of nations.
"What more do they want?,”
Smith said. ‘T've done my part and I
was told I’d be accepted. We are now
waiting for them to do their part.”
Smith said he would like to take
his case to the White House but no
meeting was announced. State De
partment spokesman Hodding Car
ter said that Vance would be willing
to meet the Rhodesians again.
Warnke to quit
after SALT II
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Chief U.S.
firms negotiator Paul Warnke said
Tuesday he will resign from the ad
ministration sometime after the
U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks in
Moscow Oct. 22-23.
Warnke, the target of hard-line
conservative criticism in Congress,
said he planned to return to his
Washington law firm headed by
former Defense Secretary Clark Clif
ford. Warnke said no “target date”
for his resignation had been set.
But it will be after the Moscow
trip,” he said.
The White House is expected to
announce the resignation soon.
Warnke, 58, made the disclosure
to UP1 as he entered a meeting of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee to brief the panel on the strategic
arms negotiations. Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance is expected to wind up
final details of those talks during his
forthcoming Moscow trip and an
nounce a U.S.-Soviet summit con
ference at its conclusion.
Warnke has been the subject of
continuing attacks by Senate hard
liners who believe he is too anxious
for a SALT II agreement. His diffi
culties with congressional conserva
tives go back to his nomination.
He was confirmed by the Senate
by a vote of58-40, a margin conserv
atives felt was a clear signal of major
reservations about his abilities as a
negotiator.
Warnke, in private conversations,
however, has said the Senate vote
never interfered with his negotia
tions.
A published magazine article he
wrote prior to his nomination irked
conservatives who said he was calling
for unilateral U.S. action to halt the
arms race in the hopes the Russians
would follow suit.
Warnke’s return to law practice is
likely to be seen as a gesture by the
administration to assuage conserva
tives prior to the push for Senate
ratification of the SALT II accords.
But officials at the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, which
Warnke heads, deny this is the case.
They say it has been known for some
time that Warnke wanted to return
to private life.
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