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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
(AP) — Regional police commanders
have begun lifting bans on meetings
and public gatherings that some
courts declared they did not have
the right to impose under the state
of emergency.
Anti-apartheid groups said
Thursday they will continue their
challenges in provincial courts.
Several students in the black high
schools of Soweto, which are pa
trolled by soldiers, said they had
been attacked by dogs. Under the
nationwide state of emergency im
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cumstances of such events cannot be
reported.
Thousands of youngsters have
boycotted schools this week in the
huge black township outside Johan
nesburg to protest the military pres
ence. The activities of security forces
cannot be reported without official
permission.
In Tembisa, another large black
township, the mayor resigned
Thursday. Tembisa has been in tur
moil for two weeks over the evictions
of at least 300 families in a rent dis
pute and the stationing of security
forces there.
Annica van Gylswyck, a Swede
who works with the anti-apartheid
group Black Sash, was released
Thursday evening after about three
weeks of detention.
Brig. Chris Swart, divisional po
lice commissioner of western Cape
E rovince, said Wednesday night that
e had canceled orders prohibiting
119 groups from holding meetings,
issuing publications or making post
ers in six magisterial districts. He
said restrictions also were lifted on
funerals for victims of unrest.
On Thursday, the Johannesburg
area’s police commander ended a
ban on outdoor funerals in the black
township of Alexandra.
Swart’s orders also barred news
media from quoting the groups,
which included the United Demo
cratic Front, the country’s largest
anti-apartheid coalition, and the
Congress of South African Trade
Unions, the largest labor federation.
A UDF official, who spoke on con
dition of anonymity, described
Swart’s move as “a great victory” but
said the coalition still would chal
lenge the orders today in Cape
Town supreme court.
Computer chip 'dumping' to end
U.S., Japan reach trade terms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan
has agreed to stop selling computer
chips at bargain basement prices in
the United States and to grant U.S.
semiconductor manufacturers a
larger share of their own market, the
Reagan administration said Thurs
day.
The five-year accord, in one of
the stickiest of all trade disputes be
tween the two nations, could in
crease sales of import-besieged U.S.
semiconductor manufacturers by $2
billion, U.S. Trade Representative
Clayton Yeutter said at a news brief
ing.
In exchange for the Japanese con
cessions, the United States agreed to
dismiss a series of unfair trading
complaints accusing Japan of
“dumping” the electronic devices in
this country at prices below what it
costs to make them.
Officials said the agreement, fol
lowing months of negotiations and
several missed U.S.-imposed dead
lines, came one minute before mid
night Wednesday, just as the Com
merce Department was preparing to 1
go ahead with hefty penalty duties
on the Japanese products.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm
Baldrige said the United States
would resurrect those cases should it
detect new evidence of Japanese
dumping.
“We were getting our lunch eaten
here by dumping,” Baldrige said. “A
lot of Americans have been put out
of jobs by dumping practices ini
tiated by the Japanese.”
Semiconductors — or chips — are
the tiny electrical circuits, usually
made of silicon, that store informa
tion and perform a variety of other
tasks in computers and a wide array
of other electronic devices.
World semiconductor sales soared
to $25 billion last year, with Japan
and the United States each account
ing for roughly $10 billion of that
market.
The U.S. semiconductor industry
claims that competition from low-
cost Japanese computer chips has
driven entire American companies
out of business and resulted in the
loss of some 50,000jobs.
The pact covers all semiconductor
trade with Japan for the next five
years, including any new genera
tions of so-called “super” memory
chips manufactured by Japanese
companies, Baldrige added.
Lawyer to handle hometown rape case
SAN ANGELO (AP) — A law
yer will return to her hometown
as special prosecutor in the sexual
assault case of a Mexican who was
abducted at gunpoint from a jail
in his own country and returned
to Texas to stand trial.
Assistant Harris County Dis
trict Attorney Trish Saum will
prosecute Refugio G. Gonzalez,
who is charged in a 1985 rape of a
Terlingua woman.
“If this case doesn’t get me into
Texas Monthly, nothing else
will,” Saum told the Odessa
American.
Non-deadly AIDS virus discovered
WASHINGTON (AP) — Can
cer researchers have created a
non-deadly version of the AIDS
virus, raising hopes the mutant
can be used to develop a treat
ment or vaccine for the always-fa-
tal disease, a new report said
Thursday.
The laboratory-altered version
wouldn’t destroy the genuine
AIDS virus that has killed more
than 12,000 Americans but could
compete with it in a victim’s body,
suggests the report by National
Cancer Institute researchers in
the edition of the journal Science
to be published today.
Thus, if an AIDS victim were
given the altered version, it would
go after the same immune-system
cells the AIDS virus attacks, with
out killing the cells.
USX rejects steelworkers’ contract offer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — About
42,000 USX Corp. steel workers
prepared to strike for the First
time in 27 years Thursday as the
company rejected an llth-hour
offer by the United Steelworkers
union to extend contract talks
stalled since Tuesday.
The strike deadline was mid
night EDT Thursday.
“It’s going to be a long strike,”
said Ron Weisen, president of
USW Local 1397. “(USX Chair
man David) Roderick is out to de
stroy us. We definitely will de
stroy him.”
Trading quiet on stock market front
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market closed out its worst month
of the year with a small decline in
quiet trading Thursday.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials dropped 4.08 to
1,775.31, finishing July with a
loss of 117.41 points.
Volume on the New York
Stock Exchange slowed to 112.66
million shares from 146.69 mil
lion Wednesday.
In Thursday’s session, analysts
said investors were relieved over
the government’s quarterly bor
rowing plans announced late
Wednesday. The Treasury said it
would auction $28 billion in
bonds and notes next week.
Commercial shuttle payloads
may be barred in future flights
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Cab
inet group is recommending that the
space agency be barred from accept
ing commercial and foreign pay-
loads when shuttle launches are re
sumed, a presidential spokesman
said Thursday.
If President Reagan accepts that
option offered by the Economic Pol
icy Council, it could lessen the need
for construction of a fourth orbiter,
estimated to cost around $2.5 billion,
to replace the shuttle Challenger
that exploded Jan. 28.
At the White House, spokesman
Larry Speakes said most members of
the Cabinet council favored the idea
of taking NASA out of the private
satellite launching business.
“The issue was particularly timely
in anticipation — in light of the shut
tle situation and the backlog of scien
tific and military missions . . . that
need to be flown,” he said. “And the
council was looking for ways to
launch commercial satellites to take
up the backlog.”
In other developments Thursday
involving the space program:
• Congressional investigators dis
closed that Morton Thiokol Corp.
skipped three of seven mandatory
safety inspections of the solid rocket
motor whose explosion destroyed
Challenger.
• The Air Force unveiled a five-
year program to emphasize the use
of unmanned rockets to launch sa
tellites to overcome the loss of Chal
lenger.
Interstate banking pushed
to help relieve Texas banks
AUSTIN (AP) — State Treasurer
Ann Richards and Banking Com
missioner James Sexton recom
mended Thursday that the Aug. 6
special legislative session consider an
interstate banking bill, with proper
safeguards for Texas banks.
“Current opinion holds that inter
state (banking) would be a partial so
lution to Texas banking problems,”
Richards said.
“I think interstate banking can be
part of the solution but I do not con
sider it a panacea,” she said.
“Interstate banking will not take bad
loans our bank books nor will it heal
out economy.”
Sexton said, “Why not do it now,”
to a joint meeting of the Senate Eco
nomic Development Committee and
the House Financial Institutions
Committee. “Texas banks need the
capacity to go outside and get some
capital,” he said. “We would take un
necessary chances by waiting (until
the 1987 Legislature).”
The joint committee met Thurs
day to decide whether to ask Gov.
Mark White to put interstate bank
ing on the special session agenda. So
far, White has called the session only
to consider cuts in state spending.
Sexton said the special session also
should consider a proposed constitu
tional change on drive-in banking
facilities. Attorney General Jim Mat
tox has ruled unconstitutional a
1985 law that allows drive-in, walk-in
facilities up to 20,000 feet from the
original bank building.
Newspaper says White will seek tax increase
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Mark
White is expected to recommend a
tax increase next week when the
Legislature convenes to deal with the
$3.5 billion state budget deficit, a
newspaper reported on Thursday.
The Austin American-Statesman,
quoting unnamed sources, said
White was expected to recommend a
tax increase in a plan to help erase
the deficit.
“It will include taxes. My under
standing is it’s going to take care of
the whole problem,” the newspaper
quoted one source as saying.
White’s proclamation calling the
special session that opens Wednes
day was limited to spending cuts, but-
a governor always has the option of
expanding the topics lawmakers can
consider in such a session.
The governor’s press secretary,
Ann Arnold, disputed the newspa
per’s report.
“The sources that (it) refers to are
dealing strictly in unsubstantiated
speculation,” Arnold said.
Texas A&M system officials said
as many as 20,000 students would be
turned away from the system’s four
schools if 34 percent cuts must be
made.
Larry Temple, chairman of the
College and University System Coor
dinating Board, said 23,500 faculty
and staff positions would be lost if
severe cuts are made in higher edu
cation spending.
Temple said he told White that a
proposed 34 percent cut in state
spending also would eliminate $115
million in appropriations for re
search at state universities.
Temple said such sharp reduc
tions could “erase the progress
Texas colleges and universities have
made over the past decade. It would
remove this state from the mains
tream of higher education in the na
tion.”
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