State newspaper declares
own war on illiteracy
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Foul weather, Verplank
plague U.S. Open veterans
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Voi. a3 No. 160 USPS 075360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, June 13, 1986
South Africa declares state of emergency
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP)
— The government imposed a
nationwide emergency Thursday
and rounded up at fcast 1.000 people
in an attempt to quell black rioting,
but critics predicted the action would
incite greater rage.
Security forces arrived in the
night, hours before the emergent >
was announced publicly, at the
homes of anti-apartheid activists,
clergymen, churtn workers, student
and labor leaders of ail races.
“South Africans will not allow
themselves to be humiliated in order
to prevent sanctions,'' President P. W.
Botha said in a televised address to
the nation “If we have to be depen
dent on our Creator and our ability
alone, then I say let it be.”
Desmond Tutu, the black Angli
can bishop of Johannesburg, said:
“Only intervention by the outside
world can avoid Armageddon What
is the world waiting for?”
Botha proclaimed the state of
emergency from one minute alter
midnight (6:01 p.m EDT Wednes
day) in the entire country A 7-month
emergency lifted March 7 covered
only half of h.
The 70-year-old Afrikaner presi
dent acted just before the 10th
anniversary Monday of bloody pro
tests in the huge Soweto township, an
emotional event*certain to rouse new
anger in a black majority that has
rioted against white domination for
nearly two years. More than 1.600
people have been killed, nearly all of
them blar k
Armed police surrounded and
raided the headquarters of the Rev
Bevers Naude. 71, an Afrikaner who
has become a leading supporter of
black rights and is peesioent of the
South African (amnc il of Churches.
Naude said he knew of 1.200 peo
ple detained. The state-run radio put
the total at 1.000 in the initial sweeps.
Hundreds of activists went under
ground and escaped immediate de
tention. including Henrv Farzie.
Eastern Cape leader of the Cnited
Democratic Front anti-apartheid
coalition
Emergent \ regulations give police
and troops sweeping powers of de
tention without trial and search with
out warrant. As in the previous
emergency, they prohibit television
and photo coverage of riots, strikes
and action by security forces.
Botha, who already has tunned
public gatherings on the Soweto
anniversary , said radicals had drawn
up a program for three davs of mas
sive disturbances beginning Monday.
He told Parliament he knew the
world would react by heaping more
cntRism on the government, which
preserves supremacy for 5 million
whites and denies rights to 24 million
blacks, and perhaps by imposing
harsh economic sanctions.
SALT II treaty
declared ‘dead’
by White House
WASHINGTON JAP) — The
White House declared the SAI 1 11
treaty a dead letter Thursday, and
President Reagan said. “We are Koing
to try to re piece it with a better deal.
Presidential spokesman Larry
Speakes told reporters, T he SAL I
treaty no longer exists.
Reagan, told of Speakes state
ment, said. “Yes. I think you can trust
what Larrv Speakes said- .
Paul H. Nitre • senior Reagan
adviser on arms control, said the trea
ty no longer has any legal standing,
although Reagan is keeping the Un
ited Slates in technical compliance
with the pact
“If I were the Soviets, I would take
the point of view that if the United
States feels free of the constraints, we
do not have to observe them either,”
Nitre told reporters
“There isn't any legal obhnuua.
legality isn't involved, he said
Another White House spokesman.
Edward Djereuan, told reporters that
despite abandonment of the treaty,
efforts to restrain the arms race
would continue
‘'From the (J.S. government's
pome of view, restraint is not dead,"
Dferejian said. “We hope that mutual
restraint is not dead, and that de
pends a lot upon what the Soviet Un
ion does “
During his nationally-broadcast
news conference Wednesday night.
Reagan was asked, “What’s to replace
SALT at this poem, and why make
this decision now?”
Alluding to the Soviet Union, he
replied. "Didn't make it now. I said
we’ve got several months here in
which we re going to try to involve
them in the things they, themselves,
have been talking about and this is a
definite arms reduction program "
Later, when asked what he was
going to do about SALT, the presi
dent talked about plans to arm B-52s
with cruise missiles later this year,
and said. “Now we’ve got several
months before we reach that point.”
Speakes, asked about the presi
dent's statements, said he assumed
Reagan was referring to a possible
decision to withdraw some other mis
siles at that time, thus keeping the
United States within the limits spelled
out in the treaty
In any event, Speakes said. “There
is nothing confusing about what I
said here this morning and these are
the farts -
“SALT no longer exists, and the
only possible decision that could he
made in the fall once (the cruise mis
sile) goes on the B-5Aas. ‘Do we com
pensate in any way?.*” Speakes said.
Do we take something else out of
operation?”
Speakes added that any decision to
do so “will be based on what the
Soviets do and not on the SALT
agreement "
Regarding SALT 11. Reagan said,
“The time has come to replace a trea
ty that was never ratified, that has
now gone beyond the length of time
for which it was designed, which they
(the Soviets) have never observed,
have been violating since its incep
tion. to replace that with a legitimate
arms reduction treaty."
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., appearing
on NBC-TV’s “Today” program,
said, however, he thought Reagan
had hacked off from an inclination to
breach the treaty.
“I thought he made it clear that, in
his own mind, we were still com
plying. and I thought he made it clear
that in his mind he was going to await
developments over the next four or
five months, not only Soviet non-
compliance but also the question of
progress in Geneva,” said Nunn,
senior Democrat on the Armed Ser-
vices Committee.
Speakes said there had been no
change since Reagan announced on
Mav 27 he would no longer he hound
by the limits of the unratified treaty
in view of Soviet violations
He said he was stating the presi
dent's policy and “stating it with his
full approval "
Tax overhaul
Senate retains special provisions for oil industry, 77- 20
WASH INGTON (AP) — The Sen
ate refused Thursday to restore de
ductions for state and local sales taxes
to its htg tax-overhaul plan and beat
an effort to strip away a special break
for the oil industry
Defeat of the sales-tax amend
ment by a voice vote bolstered the
resolve of the hill's managers to
guard it against any significant
c hange. Then, in the latest chapter of
an oil-tax battle that is almost as old as
the income tax itself, senators voted
77-20 to retain the special provision
for the industry
Sen. Ixiwell W'eicker, R-Conn.,
said. “Tax shelters all over the lot
would be closed out” by the Ml —
“but not for oil and gas "
“I ask for nothing more than is
applied to evervone else,” he added,
urging the Senate to eliminate a spe
cial exception that would save the
C roleum industry SI.5 billion over
f years.
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore.. chair
man ol the Finance Committee, said
that when the panel was finishing
work on the bill last month, the entire
far-reaching measure was threatened
unless the od exception was included.
“Are you going to risk the whole
bill on keeping (the provision) out of
the bill?” he asked Once the provi
sion was included, he noted, the bill
passed 20-0.
Sen. Russell B. Long. D-La,
shouted. “This industry is not only
plagued by prejudice, it's plagued by
hatred." He called it the most de
pressed industry in the nation and
said the tax hill would make invest
ment in oil and gas tar less atiracthre
Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-
kan . said, “If we start down this road
now (trying to change the hill written
by the Finance Committee) there*M be
a lot of amendments" affecting other
industries. He said the life insurance
industry — a big one in Weicker’s
state — could be a target, for ex
ample
(Vie of the central features of the
See Tax, page 10
154-year-old
lobster dies
at Sea-Arama
GALVESTON (AP) — Conan, a
22-pound lobster estimated to be 154
years old. died at Sea-Arama’s
Manneworld where he had been liv
ing since a Dallas-area family don
ated him to the center instead of eat
ing him, a spokeswoman said
Thursday.
Conan died either late Tuesday
night or early Wednesday morning,
said Marine world spokeswoman Gtni
Brown. The lobster was moking. a
process that occurs every two to five
years and is stressful, she said
Conan, a popular attraction at
Sea-Arama. will he buried Friday on
the grounds, she said
Agency predicts 54,000
will die of AIDS in 1991
WASHINGTON (AP) — More
people will die annually of AIDS five
years from now than were killed in
traffic accidents last year, the Public
Health Service predicted Thursday
in calling for a national commission
to guide America's response to the
deadly illness.
The agency projected that 54.000
victims will die as a result of AIDS
during 1991, most of them people
who are infected now hut ao not
know it. By comparison, auto acci
dents killed 45,700 people in 1985,
according to the National Safety
Council.
The health agency also predicted
that 145,000 people will be sick with
AIDS in 1991. and that treating them
will cost between $8 billion and SI6
billion during the year.
“The numbers are staggering,'
said Dr. Donald Ian Macdonald, who
heads the agency. “This is a major
problem, probably bigger than the
Public Health Service. These num
bers make it vei^ dear that our work
must be inten sified
Macdonald, acung assistant secret
ary for health in the Health and Hu
man Services Department, made the
comments as he released an update
of tha agency's master plan for con
trolling AIDS.
The plan was drafted during a
three-day session in West Virginia
last week at which 85 AIDS experts
from throughout the nation met to
compare notes and draft recommen
dations
“Clearly, a national, coordinated
response is necessary,” Macdonald
saio “We are suggesting that a na
tional commission representing pub-
Ik. private and voluntary sectors, as
well as all levels of government, be set
up to look at anticipated needs and
resource availability, and to make re
commendations on how all sectors of
our society can handle this major
crisis."
The agent v also said it stands by
the overall goals it set last year: to
reduce the spread of infection by
1987; to slow the increase in AIDS
cases bv 1990; and to eliminate the
See AIDS, page 10
State GOP meeting
attracts ’88 hopefuls
DALLAS (AP) — A raft of na
tional GOP leaders — including
Vice President (ieorge Bush and
others who have eves for the pres
idency — will be on hand to rally
the Texas Republicans at their
1986 convention, officials said
Thursday.
More than 8,000 Republicans
are expected to gather June 27-28
at the Dallas Convention (.enter,
where Bush and President Reagan
were nominated in 1984 for the
nation's two highest offices. Texas
GOP Chairman George Strake
said.
"We’ve had an mtredibfr re
sponse from our national politkal
leaders” to in\ nations to come to
Texas. Strake said. "And the in
terest level is higher than it ever
has been in our history.”
Other speakers s« bed tiled to
address delegates as they chose
pans leaders and a platform in
clude L'.S. Rep Jack Kemp, R-
N.Y., Treasury Secretary Jim Bak
er. Secretary of the Interior Don
Hodel and Senate Majority lead
er Bob Dole.
" I exas is key to any candidate's
operation.'' Strake said, conced
ing that “some of our speakers are
lookme at 1988. ’
But he said that state Republi
cans are "more concet ned with re
tiring Gov. Mark White."
Former Gov. Bill Clements,
who won his party's nomination in
the May 3 primary, will be intro
duced at the June 27-28 conven
tion bv his unsuccessful oppo>
nents. Kent Hance and Tom Loef-
fler. ,