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Ranc[ rallies regains value
South African miners keep working
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Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— The black miners’ union, striking
the nation’s gold and coal mines,
said thousands of workers stayed on
the job Monday under threat of vio
lence. The rand rallied strongly af
ter government intervention, re
gaining value lost in last week’s
nosedive.
Police reported rioting in mixed-
race townships, mostly around Cape
Town. There were no immediate re
ports on casualties.
More than 650 people have been
killed in a year of noting against
apartheid, the race laws that guar
antee supremacy for South Africa’s
white minority. Nearly all the victims
have been black.
“Hundreds of workers have been
injured by rubber bullets and tear
gas,” said a statement issued Monday
night by the black National Union of
Mine Workers. Management
spokesmen said they knew of no vio
lence, and police said they had not
been called in.
The union, demanding higher
pay, issued its strike call to 60,000
day th;
officia
28,000 were out. Company officials
said about 12,400 workers walked
out at six gold and coal mines. Black
miners earn about 350 rand a
month, $157 in terms of a 45-cent
rand. White miners are paid about
ega
all black miners live in dor-
ied the allegation.
Nearly
mitories and have contracts of up to
18 months. Foreign blacks work in
the mines, but cannot belong to the
union.
The General Mining Corp. said
“Hundreds of workers have been injured by rubber
bullets and tear gas. ” — the black National Union of
Mine Workers in South Africa Monday night. Manage
ment spokesmen said they knew of no violence.
2,000 rand.
It was impossible to verify the ex
tent of the strike at the mines. Re
porters were not allowed into the
area and it is illegal for workers to
picket outside the mine gates.
Union spokesman Howard Ga
briels acknowledged that most min
ers went to work but said private
mine security guards told them they
would be fired and sent home to
their black homelands if they walked
out. Management spokesmen den-
strikes affected five mines.
Gold Fields of South Africa,
which employs about 40,000 of the
60,000 men, said 3,500 of the 4,800
miners at its Deelkraal gold mine re
fused to work.
The three-year-old union claims
to represent 230,000 of more than
500,000 blacks employed in the min
ing industry.
Mine management unilaterally
granted pay raises of 14 to 19 per
cent, but the union demanded 22
percent across the board.
The rand rallied with the aid of
central bank intervention, regaining
the value it lost last week, which
caused the government to suspend
trading on the currency and stock
markets.
President P.W. Botha’s govern
ment suspended trading on the for
eign exchange and stock markets last
Tuesday after the rand plunged 10
cents to a record low against the dol
lar of about 35 cents.
South Africa’s reserve bank inter
vened when the currency market re
opened Monday, selling dollars in
support, and the rand closed at
44.95 cents.
The stock market was off sharply,
but trading was light, as it usually is
on holidays in Europe or the United
States. Monday was Labor Day in the
United States.
U.S. and European banks have
begun calling in loans, and the gov
ernment announced Sunday that
payment of principal on foreign
debts will be suspended until at least
Jan. 1. It said interest obligations
would be met.
Reagan
plugs new
tax plan
Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. —
President Reagan, plugging his
tax revision plan with a feisty
speech in Harry S. Truman’s
hometown, declared Monday that
“we ought to take our current tax
system out and string it up.”
Proclaiming himself “rarin’ to
go” after a three-week California
vacation and convalescense from
cancer surgery, Reagan said the
people who oppose nis tax pro
grams are “the people who have a
vested interest in the status quo.”
"Those vested interests just
hate it when we talk about re
form, and they loved it when they
thought 1 was laid up and out of
action,” the president said in pre
pared remarks.
Reagan said the current tax
system penalizes families, hinders
economic growth and is not pro
gressive as some opponents of his
proposed overhaul contend.
11 to be tried for Wells Fargo theft
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A
U.S. magistrate ordered that 1 1
Puerto Ricans charged in connection
with a $7 million Wells Fargo rob
bery be sent to Connecticut to stand
trial.
U.S. Attorney Daniel Lopez Romo
was quoted in the San Juan Star
Monday as saying the 11 were trans
ported to Connecticut Sunday night.
More than 100 federal officers
guarded the courthouse Sunday as
the magistrate, Justo Arenas, held
separate hearings for the 11. A po
lice helicopter circled overhead, and
law officers blocked traffic and stood
guard dround the building.
About 1,000 protesters carried
signs and chanted outside the build
ing, claiming the suspects were being
persecuted because of their cam
paign for independence for Puerto
Rico, a U.S. commonwealth.
As each decision was announced
the defendant shouted “Viva Puerto
Rico Libre! (Long live free Puerto
Rico!)”
Arenas held the hearings during a
10-hour period beginning early Sun
day and ordered each defendant to
be sent to Connecticut for trial in
connection with the 1983 robbery.
Three other suspects remain at
large, including Victor Manuel Ge-
rena, the man identified by FBI Di
rector William Webster as the key
figure.
Webster said Friday that Gerena,
a former Wells Fargo guard, had
fled to Cuba with some of the money
and had received sanctuary.
The 11, all suspected of being
members of the Machateros — Ma
chete Wielders — terrorist organiza
tion, were arrested Friday.
Fire burns 4 blocks in New Jersey
Associated Press
PASSAIC, N.J. — A massive fire
engulfed a four-block industrial
complex Monday and spread to a
warehouse filled with fuel and at
least 15 apartment buildings and
houses, forcing more than 150 resi
dents to flee, officials said.
T he fire, which was reported at
1:30 p.m., spread to apartment
buildings and homes along a six-
story brick complex that houses
about 100 small businesses, fire bat
talion chief Frank Termyna said.
It then spread to a block-long
warehouse where 16,000 gallons of
kerosene and diesel fuel were
stored, feeding flames more than
100 feet high, Passaic firefighter Ed
ward Peterson said.
The blaze continued to burn out
of control seven hours later.
The firefighters’ efforts were tem
porarily hampered by turned-off
fire hydrants and low water pres
sure, but pressure was eventually re
stored. Firefighters also pumped wa
ter from the nearby Passaic River.
Firefighters evacuated residents
within several blocks of the blaze,
f oing from building to building,
icking in doors and ordering peo
ple to leave immediately. They
smashed windows of parked cars to
roll them away from the scene.
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