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world beat Sudan’s transition continues KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s new military junta dismantled the state security council and completed a roundup of former government leaders following the coup that deposed President Gaafar Nimeiri, the official news agency SUNA said Sunday. It said anti-Nimeiri demonstrations and a general strike were continuing. Nimeiri, considered one of the United States’ firmest allies in Africa, remained in Cairo, capital of neighboring Egypt. SUNA reported its transmissions had been interrupted temporarily Sunday "because the . masses of the people today decided to con tinue the political strike and civil disobe dience until the state security apparatus was disbanded and all the figures of the' defunct regime arrested and put on trial.” “We resume our transmission now that the state security council has been disbanded and all the prominent figures of the defunct regime have been arrested,” the agency reported, without giving details of the arrests. “Brothers in the engineers’ union have volunteered to operate our transmission equip ment because the political strike and civil disobedience is still continuing.” Gen. Adbul-Rahman M.H. Swareddahab, who announced Nimeiri’s overthrow on Satur day, said earlier that the army would take over the security agency, and appropriate its weapons and communications equipment. In Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Krajeski said U.S.' charge d’affaires David Shinn met Swareddahab in Khartoum Sunday at the general’s request. Krajeski said Swareddahab “expressed in terest in the maintenance of continued good relations with the United States and apprecia tion for the assistance the United States has . provided Sudan in recent years.” • Demonstrators marched on the. head quarters of the State Security Department bn Sunday to demand its liquidation. The General Command’s order followed. • SUNA said earlier the new regime was rounding up “all” of Nimeiri’s supporters. Botha calls for unity at Easter assembly MORI A, South Africa (AP) — President Pieter “P.W.” Botha told an Easter assembly of some 2 million black churchgoers that blacks and whites must stand together against “messengers of terror.” And the country’s largest alliance opposed to white minority rule vowed more mass actions. Leaders of the United Democratic Front, at a con ference Sunday in Azaadville, specifically called for a New Zealand rugby team to cancel its planned tour later this year, say ing it could lead to bloodshed; Both gatherings came during a weekend of violence in six black townships in eastern Cape Province. Police used tear gas Saturday to disperse thousands Every TI calculator comes with one extra number* 1-800-TI- CARES When you buy a Texas Instruments calculator you don’t just buy a calculator, you buy Texas Instruments’ com mitment to quality. It’s a commitment backed by a fully developed service network that includes the above toll-free number you can call from anyplace in the United States. If you have any applications, operations, or service questions, call us Monday thnj Friday between 9 am and 4 pm CST, and we’ll be glad to help. If your calculator needs repairing, we’ll direct you to one of our 46 conveniently located service centers for an immediate exchange. 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Crowd estimates came from both jour nalists and church officials. • The fundamentalist Zion Christian" Church, headed by Bishop Barnabas Lekgenyane, shuns the political activism for black rights followed by most of the- Roman Catholic, Anglican and other English-speaking churches. Botha told the vast audience, “We shall not tolerate people who come from far away with evil minds to kill and injure in nocent people. We must not allow them to burn our houses and destroy our property. We must all stand together against these messengers of terror Our trust in God must enable us to withstand evil with firmness.” He did not mention the violent protests against his government’s policy of apar theid. or racial separation, but said. “In the past, we have not really listened to each other. Let us start listening to each other as we are doing now. We must jointly strive to find out what our problems are. Then we must jointly strive to find solutions to our problems/’ “There is no hatred we can not heal with love," he added. At the United Democratic Front conference, leaders said their supporters would “go into the streets time and again" to oppose apartheid. It was the multi-racial front’s first national conference since it was founded in August 1983 as a coalition of community groups and trade unions. About 310 delegates plotted strategy and elected a new executive committee. Patrick Lekota, a front spokesman, told reporters, “We remain entirely committed to our non-violent approach, but our programs will obviously in volve more and more mass ac tion. The struggle must be plac ed in the hands of our people.” He said the front would mobilize its 600 affiliate organizations, with more than 2 million members, to oppose the planned New Zealand rugby tour. In late 1984 and last February, 16 leaders of the Democratic Front were arrested on treason charges and are still being held without bail. Popo Molefe, national general secretary, said the conference elected a new executive board of 16 members, reduced from 39, to streamline the decision making process.
