Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, October, 15,1985
World and Nation
SHOE
by Jeff MacNelly
Rioters kill white soldier
in Cape Town suburb
Associated Press
Beirufs children have lost direction
(continued from page 1)
fashions, Hala Tawil, 22, an tnglish-
language student at the university, is
more concerned with survival.
She lias learned which corner ot
her house provides the best protec
tion during shellings, how to study
by candle light during the frequent
power cuts, how to get through the
often bewildering jigsaw puzzle of
militia checkpoints, how to get by
without the things that girls in other
countries take for granted, like
going dancing or to the movies,
going out on a date.
“We’ve lost a lot of things because
of this war,” she said. “We’ve lost our
youth because what has gone will
never come back. There is no pur
pose anymore, nothing to aim for.”
Moslem (>hazi Sabbagh, 20, an
other university student, said, “I
can’t sleep unless I hear the sounds
of shells."
On quiet nights he plays a tape he
made of the shellfire, the mortars,
the rocket-propelled grenades, the
AK-47s, what Beirutis call “the sym-
phony.”-
Michel Ayyoub, 21. was 11 years
old when the war started. His family
was shelled out of three homes be
tween 1975 and 1983 and he now
lives in Christian East Beirut.
He attended the university, which
is in Moslem West Beirut, until 1983
but had to give up his business stud
ies when it became loo dangerous to
cross the CJreen Line. Now he's an
artilleryman with the Lebanese
Force militia.
“1 had some sense in my mind
when 1 was a kid,” he said. “Now I'm
a crazy man. Half my life’s been
spent in war.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— Rioters killed a white soldier for
the first time in 14 months of unrest,
and mixed-race youths smashed
shops and car windows in a white
suburb of Cape Town, authorities
said Monday.
fhe anti-apartheid rioting until
recently was confined to black and
mixed-race townships.
fhe African National Congress
guerrilla movement, which is fight
ing from exile against white-mi-
noritv rule, has called on blacks to
carrv the uprising against racial se
paration policies into white areas.
The soldier, army CpI. Johan
Schoeman, 19, was stabbed to death
Sundav afternoon in the black dis
trict of Kwazakele. outside Port Eliz
abeth, when troops dashed through
the township’s alleys pursuing rock-
throwers, the South Af rican Defense
Force said.
In r.ape Town's Wvnberg suburb,
about ()0 youths went on a rampage
in a white shopping area af ter police
used tear gas to break up a meeting
of about 1.()()() students at a school in
an adjacent mixed-race neighbor
hood. witnesses said.
have been killed bv
more than a
The mob broke the windows of
cars and of at least four stores bef ore
police arrived, said reporters who
-witnessed the brief action.
The others
police.
Mobs have killed
dozen black police.
In recent weeks, police repotted
lire bombings of white houses in dis
tricts east of Johannesburg, near
Port Elizabeth and outside Cape
T own, none resulting in death.
T he youths scattered before po
lice could act.
At least 750 jieople, nearly all of
them black, have died since August
1984 in almost daily unrest arising
from apartheid, the nation's system
of enforced racial segregation by
-which 5 million whites dominate 24
million blacks.
Police also increased patrols on
major thoroughfares around Cape
T own following an increase in ran
dom stonings and fire bombings ol
passing whites in cars.
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A eight-year-old girl was burned
in one such attack last week.
T he End Conscription Campaign
side I M ondav that Schoenians death
was another reason to pul! the
troops out of the townships.
“In other countries young men
like me plav tennis and chase girls.
Here we’re trained to kill people.”
He said he wants to emigrate to
the United States “because it’s not
getting any better here.”
Three other soldiers have been
killed in crashes of armored vehicles
on riot duty in black townships, but
this was the first time rioters at
tacked and killed an armv man on
riot patrol, the Defense Force said.
At least six whites, including
Schoeman. have fieen killed after Ih-
ing caught in rioting in or near black
townships.
1 he organization, made ui
largely of white foes of aparthei
opposes South
The government says about a
third of those killed have been blacks
killed by other blacks, often those
suspected of collaborating with
white authorities.
Africa’s draft o[
white men l>ecau.se conscriptsarebfr
mg used in township riot duty. Il
says the draf t should lie replaced bv
a volunteer military, to give young
men “the choice as to whether thev
want to fight and die for apartheid
White urges improvement
(continued from page 1)
to do to build a world-class System
of higher education.”
To illustrate the “high quality”
of higher education in Texas,
White mentioned Monday’s an
nouncement that researchers Mi
chael Brown and Joseph Gold
stein of the University of Texas
Health Science Center in Dallas
had won the Nobel Prize in medi-
• Continue to recruit the “verv
best people in the nation for our
nniversitv faculties.”
• Expand two, or possibly
three, universities to make them
“nationally regognized research
universities. There are several in
stitutions that would be g(x>d can
didates for such an expansion.”
Hobby said Texas ranks a
“poor fifth” among the states in
capturing research dollars, and
he suggested a four-point pro
gram to “put Texas in the first
rank of the states on which the
economic future of the country
will depend.”
• Try to guess “what’s going to
fie called ‘high-tech’ 20 years
from now and start to do the
right kind of research and devel
opment work.”
• Attempt to attract to Texas
“at least one of the new national
laboratories that may lie estab
lished by the federal government
in the next decade."
Priest gets 20 years for child molesting
Associated Press
LAFAYETTE, La.— A defrocked
Catholic priest pleaded guilty to a re
duced charge Monday and was sen
tenced to 20 years in prison.
The priest scandalized his devout
Cajun parishioners when he con
fessed to sexually abusing more than
three dozen children.
Gilbert Gauthe Jr., 40, changed
his original plea of innocent by rea
son of insanity as court opened for
the trial that would have required
testimony from the 11 altar boys he
was charged with molesting.
District Judge Hugh Brunson told
Gauthe his crimes had “laid a terri
ble burden on those children, their
families and society — indeed, your
God and vour church as well.”
"it mav lie that Cod in his iniinite
mercy may find forgiveness for your
crimes,” Brunson said, “but the im-
perative of justice ... cannot.”
Gauthe’s plea change and sen
tence were worked out by prosecu
tors and defense lawyers during ne
gotiations throughout the weekend.
District Attorney Nathan Stansbury
said.
Prosecutors dropped an aggra
vated rape charge carrying a manda-
tory life sentence in exchange for
Gauthe’s plea of guilty to 11 counts
each of child pornography, crimes
against nature and contributing to
the delinquency of a minor.
The sentence will lie served in a
state prison at hard lalxir with no
|M>ssiliilitv of parole, said Stansbury,
who refused defense pleas for a sen
tence to a psychiatric institution.
Gauthe, the former pastor of St.
John’s church in tiny Henry, wore a
black business suit with no clerical
collar and made no statement. His
onlv words were "yes, sir” and “no.
sir,” in response to the judge’s rou
tine questions.
Gauthe’s lawyer, F. Ray Mouton,
did not stop to talk to reporters after
the sentencing.
Stansbury said he was willing to
drop the possible life sentence in or
der to spare the victims from having
to take the witness stand in open
court.
“We could have taken it to trial
and gotten a few more years.”
Stansburv said, “but I don’t know
that the community would have
lieen helped bv hearing the gory de
tails from the little boys."
T ed Gamphell, the father of one
ol the victims, said he had mixed
feelings about the plea.
"In a way. it’s good that the kids
didn't have to get up and testify,"he
said, “but I’d like to have seen him
get more time.”
AH of the victims’ parents agreed
to the deal, Stansburv said.
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Phone service offering original children’s stories
Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Once
upon time, there were books. Then a
man named Bell invented the tele
phone. Then a man named Wayman
invented StoryLine. And everybody
lived happily ever after. Especially
parents.
The brainchild of Phil Wayman of
Salt Lake City, StoryLine offers one-
to four-minute-long original stories
for children by telephone for a nom
inal charge.
"We have teaching stories, fun
stories, things to help children both
learn to obey their parents and enjoy
life,” Wayman said.
StoryLine has been available in
New Mexico since late August and
has gotten about 800 calls during
that period, Wayman said.
The stories aren’t aimed at any
specific age group, but Wayman said
the children who call generally are
between the ages of 0 and 12.
“We have some teen-agers who
enjoy calling; some adults and some
younger children," he said. “My 2-
year-old, I get him on the line and
he won’t let me have the phone
hack.”
I he stories change every day, al
though Wayman said, “The better
ones we like to repeat.”
The service has a stock of about
200 stories, and calls are accepted 24
hours a day.
Some of the stories try to teach
children a lesson.
“There’s one about a little boy
who likes to eat candy and eats and
eats and eats too much, and the story
illustrates how it’s better to eat better
foods and a little candy,” he said.
Other tales fall into the “fun” cat
egory, “like one we call ‘Cackle
Witch’ that we have upcoming for
Halloween," he said.
T he children’s stories come from
a staff of part-time authors, many of
whom are school teachers.
About once a week, the group gets
together to record stories for future
StoryLine use, sessions Wayman de-
scribed as “a lot of fun.”
The idea for StoryLine arose
through a combination of Wayman’s
knowledge garnered from his job in
publishing computer manuals, his
background as a member of a family
that is full of teachers, and Mountain
Bell Telephone Co.’s ScoopLine
Service available to companies spon
soring a variety of information and
marketing services for customers on
a fee basis.
“1 knew ScoopLine was available
and looked at tne resources 1 had.
All my life I've lieen close to things
having to do with children ... It was
just like a nat.iral for us and some
thing we could offer the general
public," Wayman said.
He started StorvLine in Utah in
May and expanded it into New Mex
ico in late August when ScoopLine
became available in this state.
StoryLine runs 33 cents a minute
in Albuquerque.
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