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NO PROBLEM/ ry W/' ///' \' m 4? r/A by Tom Batiuk Naval doctor charged with negligence Sunday Night Special $5 95 i FO|T ; ^SHILOH ^STEAKHOUSE l Vf- i*- - *>«- - W ty-iq -• ^ JUST LET ME KNOOU WHERE YOU'RE STAVING AND I'LL SEE TO IT THAT A SHIPMENT IS WAITING FOR VOO WHEN VOO ARRIVE / South African guerillas call for violent uprising Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The African National Congress on Thursday called for a full-scale uprising against white rule, urging black police and soldiers in South Africa “to turn your guns against your masters.” “The end of apartheid is near,” the guerrilla organization said in its “call to the people,” sent from ANC’s office in Lusaka, Zambia. It was the strongest such sum mons ever issued by the black na tionalist group, whicn was formed in 1912, banned by the government in 1960, and which abandoned its pol icy of non-violent resistance the Fol lowing year. The ANC also said South Af rican police set a trap that was responsible for the hand grenade and bomb ex plosions that killed eight blacks and wounded seven in townships east of Johannesburg on Wednesday. It said police posing as guerrillas gave grenades to inexperienced ac tivists and “deliberately instructed them wrongly,” causing the gre nades to blow up in their hands. Police headquarters in Pretoria gave a different account. It said the grenades or bombs went off in the young men’s hands as they prepared to attack black policemen’s homes in a “coordinated terrorist attack.” The wounded men were hospitalized un der police guard. News reports said they could face charges of sabotage or terrorism. The multiracial South African Council of Churches rejected the po lice account, saying it shared “the be lief of the people (in the townships)” that the grenade incidents “came from the side of the authorities.” The council suspended a national meeting in Johannesburg so dele gates could attend a memorial serv ice for grenade victims in Duduza township. The ANC urged black soldiers and police to “earn your place in the free South Africa that is coming by organizing to turn your guns against your masters.” The statement was sent by telex and was issued on be half of 250 delegates who last week attended ANC’s first members’ con ference since 1969. The document followed a sharp rise in rioting and bombings. ANC President Oliver Tambo told reporters in Lusaka on Tuesday that the conference had vowed to in tensify guerrilla war, and that more civilians were likely to die. Last September, rioting against apartheid — the government’s racial segregation system by which 5 mil lion whites control 22 million blacks — spread in black townships across the country. White areas were largely unscathed, but more than 400 blacks perished in the violence. The ANC has said blacks are making large parts of South Africa “ungov ernable.” The ANC has stepped up sab otage recently. On Wednesday, bombs in the Transkei tribal homeland destroyed a fuel depot, setting off a huge fire, and damaged a power station and water line in Umtata, the capital. Two days earlier, a mine blast damaged the Johannesburg offices of an explosives firm that fired 600 workers in a labor dispute. Arkansas teacher union to fight mandatory competency testing Associated Press LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Education Association president said Thursday the union will fight in fed eral court a required competency exam that was failed by 10 percent of the state’s practicing teachers. But President Peggy Nabors cau tioned the public “against drawing hasty conclusions” about the teach ers who flunked. Arkansas is the first state to re quire teachers already on the job to be tested for basic skills in order to retain their positions. Georgia and Texas are planning similar exams'. The National Education Associa tion will join the state teachers union in the court challenge, Nabors said. The examination tests reading, writing and mathematics skills of certified teachers and administra tors. Teachers who fail may retake the test. Teachers who don’t pass the test by June 1987, or who refuse to take it, won’t be recertified by the state. Some teachers boycotted the March 23 test. Results released Wednesday by Gov. Bill Clinton showed that 90 percent of the 28,276 teachers passed all three parts of the test. Failure rates were 7 percent in writing, 5 percent in reading and 3 percent in math. Teachers had to correctly answer 70 percent of the questions to pass the math and read ing portions. Writing was graded pass-fail. “We’ve identified the problem, and now we’re going to go out and solve it,” the governor said. Nabors said union’s suit would challenge the testing law, passed by the Arkansas Legislature in 1983. “Do not draw hasty conclisions. The test does not measure teacher competency,” Nabors said. “We can not conclude that teachers who. scored below the cutoff point. . . ^re incompetent.” The test also has been criticized by educators who claim it is culturally biased, a charge denied by state offi cials and some administrators. The Marianna School District in Lee County had the highgest failure rate — 34.5 percent. Superintendent Dick B. Clough said about 65 per cent of the district’s 221 certified personnel are black. “I don’t think it’s wise to try to read into or speculate on test scores,” Clough said. Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Navy, convening a board of general court- martial, formally charged Dr. Don ald M. Billig on Thursday with “cul pable negligence” by bungling sur gery that killed four heart patients at the Bethesda, Md., Naval Hospital. The Navy also charged Billig with 28 counts of dereliction of duty, six more than it had announced last Wednesday when it disclosed the recommendations of a special inves tigative board. The 28 counts all al lege that Billig performed open- heart surgery without the presence of another cardiothoracic surgeon as required. The formal charges released Thursday also identified for the first time the three men and one woman who died, allegedly because of sub standard care rendered by Billig. Lt. Stephen R. Pietropaoli, a Navy spokesman, further disclosed that none of the four were on active duty at the time of their operations, meaning their relatives are in a posi tion to sue the Navy for damages. Under a legal doctrine upheld by the Supreme Court, active-ciuty mili tary personnel are generally pre cluded from pursuing such liability suits. That doctrine does not apply to patients who are dependents or retired. The 54-year-old Billig was re cruited into the Navy in late 1982, given the rank of commander, and assigned to Bethesda — the Navy’s premier hospital — in January 1983. He became the chief of heart sur gery in June 1983, a position he held until November 1984 when his priv ileges were suspended amid ques tions about his “surgical compe tence.” Last April, he was formally re lieved of his duties. Billig and his attorney, Lt. Neil Worden, have declined to discuss the case. The Navy, in releasing its “charge sheet,” asserted it could prove that four people died due to Billig’s neg ligence. The Navy investigation also has disclosed that Billig’s vision was flawed and that the sight from his right eye “could not be corrected to any better than 20-400.” Pietropaoli said he could not dis- _ close any additional information about the four people who were al legedly killed by Billig except that none were on active duty at the time of their deaths. One of the four had been identified previously, however, _ as a retired Army major. A Navy official who asked not to be identified said it appeared likely that Billig’s court martial would be gin next month. If convicted on all 32 counts, Billig could face a maxi mum penalty of dismissal from the Navy and 26 years of confinement at hard labor. Mother directs attention to firstborn Smaller of twin panda bears dies Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The smallest of the 2-day-old twin pandas, a pink furry baby that had been ignored by its mother, died Thursday in Chap- ultepec Park Zoo, the zoo’s adminis trator said. The baby, which fit in the palm of a hand, lived for 37 hours in the care of zoo employees, who held it around the clock and caressed it. Ying-Ying, the mother, who was in fine condition Thursday, had fo cused all her attention on the first born, administrator Marla Elen Hoyo said at a news conference. “She’s a sensational mother,” Hoyo said. She said Ying-Ying probably did not even realize she had a second baby, which was horn two hours and five minutes after the first on Tues- CATALENA HATTERS —Specializing In Custom Made Hats and Expert Felt Hat Renovations Old hats Made Like New Just in Time for Winter Wear •Cleaned •Reblocked •New Sweat Bands •New liners •New Ribbons •Reshaping New Arrivals • Hat Accessories • Gift Certifications Class of '72 Satisfaction Guaranteed Downtown Bryan 203N. Main 822-4423 day afternoon. “When she saw the second one it seemed like a strange thing,” Hoyo said. “Ying-Ying has been holding the first baby continuously to her chest and licking it.” She said the firstborn, about twice the size of the one that died, seemed to be doing well. She said the zoo would conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death but a definite answer was not expected for about a month. Sam ples will be sent to the U.S. National Zoo in Washington to compare re sults, she said. The smaller panda weighed 2.4 ounces and measured 5.6 inches at birth. Hoyo said it suffered a “respira tory crisis” early Wednesday night, during which it was gulping air through its mouth instead of breath ing through its hair-breadth nostrils. It died quietly at 4:10 a.m. Thurs day, she said. She said the baby was believed to be male, although it was impossible to determine the sex with complete accuracy this early. Neither of the twins had a name yet. 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