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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
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of mourners at a funeral in Port
Elizabeth's Zwide township for
four blacks killed in riots.
Botha was the guest at the an
nual Easter assembly of the con
servative blacks’ Zion Christian
Church, held on a hillside near
Moria in northern Transvaal
Province. He applauded the
church’s stand for law and
order and called on all blacks
and whites to “come together
and talk to each other as we are
doing now.”
Church followers came to
Moria in more than 1,000 buses,
in private cars and on foot to at
tend the 75th anniversary of the
founding of the church. Leaders
called it the largest Easter
gathering' in Africa. 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.