Thursday, September 26, 1985/The Battalion/Page 11
World and Nation
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South African judge forbids abuse of prisoners
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— A judge Wednesday barred police
from assaulting jailed activists after a
white government doctor testified
that hundreds of her inmate patients
were brutally assaulted.
Dr. Wendy Orr said prisoners she
treated in Port Elizabeth had bruises
and wounds showing they were sys
tematically assaulted and abused af
ter their arrest.
She said she also found cases
where one detainee was forced to
drink gasoline and another to eat
some of his hair.
Judge J.P.G. Eksteen’s order cov
ered all prisoners held under emer
gency powers in the Port Elizabeth
and Uitenhage regions.
It was the first time a court has is
sued a restraining order against po
lice abuse of prisoners held under
South Africa’s 9-week-old state of
emergency.
More than 3,500 activists have
been arrested since the emergency
was imposed July 21 in an attempt to
quell nearly a year of anti-apartheid
rioting that has left more than 700
dead, according to unofficial tallies.
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instructed the
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jails in Port Elizabeth and Uiten-
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Orr said she found that at least
286 people had complained of as
sault on admission to prison from
July 22 to Sept. 16, and in 153 cases
the injuries could not have been in-
llictedf lawfully.
In other developments:
• The government announced it
was redrafting the borders of three
tribal homelands, giving more land
to the black homelands but also tak
ing away some tracts and setting
them aside for whites. Now 125.000
Barnes of people exposed to AIDS
will stay confidential officials say
Associated Press
Somewhere, their names are on a
list. For the hundreds of thousands
of people who have been exposed to
the AIDS virus but may never de
velop the disease, confidentiality is
becoming a growing concern.
“I don’t have to point out the im
plications if you label somebody as
naving had an AIDS-positive test,”
said Dr. Mabel Stevenson, director
of the Red Cross blood bank in West
Virginia. “You can guess what the
reaction of the public will be.”
It starts with a frightening letter
from a local blood bank, notifying a
donor that routine screening cliscov-
ered exposure to the virus that
causes the deadly disease.
The national Centers for Disease
Control estimate that 500,000 to 1
million people fall into this category,
but only 5 percent to 20 percent will
actually contract the disease.
The stigma surrounding AIDS
can hurl the lives of even the healthy
into chaos if their exposure to the vi
rus becomes known. What if their
employers find out? What if the in
formation is made public?
Keeping the names of AIDS vic
tims and those who have been ex
posed to the virus secret is a major
concern of blood banks and state
health departments. Security is rar
ely breached. But fear of the disease
is rampant, and some worry that
those who have been exposed to the
virus may be branded for life, even
though tney may never contract the
disease.
State health departments report
cases of AIDS to the CDC, just as
they report other transmissible dis
eases. Confidentiality is protected by
law.
by Jeff MacNelly Gloria heads
for East Coast
at 135 mph
Associated Press
MANTEO, N.C. — Hurricane
Gloria, one of the most powerful
storms ever recorded in the open At
lantic, spared the Bahamas and
headed for the East Coast on
Wednesday as it spun across the sea
with 135 mph winds.
Gloria was threatening the Caroli-
nas, and a hurricane watch was
posted from South Carolina to Vir
ginia, including North Carolina’s
vulnerable barrier islands, where
campers began evacuating.
Although the storm, which had
packed 150 mph winds, weakened
Wednesday night, emergency plans
were drafted and residents were
warned to keep track of Gloria in
other coastal areas.
Before weakening, the 300-mile
wide hurricane had been ranked as a
“borderline” Category 5 storm, ca
pable of catastrophic damage. The
last time a storm anywhere near the
strength of Gloria hit the East Coast,
it killed 600 people in New England
in 1938.
“If it goes into the Carblinas, this
could be a very terrible storm,” said
Neil Frank, director of the National
Hurricane Center in Coral Gables,
Fla.
Even if Gloria’s winds weaken fur
ther before landfall, which could
come by Friday at a site yet uncer
tain, it might attain such a fast for
ward speed that it could be just as
dangerous because there would be
less time to evacuate, Frank said.
At 9 p.m. EDT, Gloria’s eye was
near latitude 28.0 north, longitude
74.2 west, or about 500 miles south-
southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. It
was moving northwest at 15 mph
and was expected to turn northward
gradually and increase its forward
speed.
A hurricane watch was posted
from Edisto Beach, just south of
Charleston, S.C., to Cape Henry,
Va., including North Carolina’s
Outer Banks. A campground on
Ocracoke Island, a short ferry ride
from Cape Hatteras, was evacuated
Wednesday morning, and residents
of Ocracoke and Portsmouth islands
were asked to leave.
Gloria was classified as a “bor
derline” Category 5 storm, on a scale
that rates hurricane strength from 1
to 5, said Hal Gerrish, a forecaster at
the hurricane center. A Category 5
hurricane is capable of catastrophic
damage.
A Category 4 storm has winds be
tween 131 mph and 155 mph, and
storms with higher winds are classi
fied Category 5. However, Gerrish
said Gloria was classified Category 5
because its low central barometric
pressure, which pulls in the wind,
fluctuated above and below 27.17
inches, the threshold for that cat
egory.
All hurricane warnings for the
Bahamas were lifted at noon.
blacks previously scheduled for re
settlement will not have to move.
• Police headquarters said riot
patrols found the charred body of a
black woman in Langa Township
near Cape Town and a badly burned
black man in Queenstown who died
in a hospital soon afterward. An offi
cer also shot and killed a black man
in a stone-throwing mob outside
Port Elizabeth.
• In Pretoria, police said they un
covered an arms cache containing
the makings of a car bomb and docu
ments indicating that black national
ist guerrillas already had picked out
a prospective target in the capital.
• Britain announced it was recal
ling its two military attaches from
South Africa and endorsing a list of
limited sanctions adopted previously
by other Common Market countries
in an attempt to force the white-
ruled country to adopt racial re
forms.
With the exception of blood banks
and some laboratories, no agency
has kept lists of the people exposed
to the AIDS virus — until last week,
when the Colorado Board of Health
became the first state agency to do
so.
Officials in Oregon and Arizona
say they have considered following
suit, but a majority of state health of
ficials contacted by The Associated
Press said they are not considering
such lists.
Health officials in Colorado,
where 124 cases of AIDS have been
confirmed, contend the list is nec
essary because all carriers may
spread the virus and need to be
counseled in ways to prevent trans
mission. The officials said confiden
tiality would be guarded and only
three people would have access to
the list.
9 Klan members indicted on charges of interracial harassment
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Culminating a
two-year investigation, the Justice
Department announced Wednesday
the indictment of nine Ku Klux Klan
members on charges they conspired
to violate the rights of blacks and
whites who were living or socializing
together.
The indictment, stemming from
an investigation of racial violence in
North Carolina during 1982, also
charged that the nine defendants
committed perjury before a federal
grand jury by denying any knowl
edge or involvement in a series of
cross burnings.
Assistant Attorney General Wil
liam Bradford Reynolds said, “While
I cannot comment on this indict
ment pending trial, I want to em
phasize that the Department of Jus
tice ... gives high priority to
investigating every allegation of ra
cial violence, whether Klan-related
or not.
“We will seek indictments in every
case where credible evidence is de
veloped and suspects identified.”
Indicted were Jerry Douglas Suits,
39, identified as the Titan, or leader,
of the White Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan in Iredell County; and his wife,
Mary Vestal Suits, 38, said to be the
Queen Kleagle, the leader of the
women’s unit of the Klan.
Also indicted were Tony Douglas
Earp, identified as leader of the
Klan in Alexander County, and
Klansmen Jerry Albert Henderson,
Michael Thomas Chambers, Rodney
Eugene Pope, Alfred S. Childers,
Dan Pritchard and Kenneth Ray
Blankenship.
The conspiracy count charged
that the defendants plotted to
threaten and intimidate several in
terracial couples in the two counties
because they lived or socialized to
gether.
The maximum penalty for con
spiracy, upon conviction, is 10 years
in prison and a $10,000 fine. For
perjury, the maximum penalty is
five years and a $10,000 fine, and
for interfering with people’s housing
rights, the maximum penalty is one
year and a $1,000 fine, the depart
ment said.
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