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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1985)
Vouch of Class Quality Resale for women and children. Specializing in natural fibers for women. Mon.-Fri. 1000-5:30 / Sat 1000-5:00 2650 Willamette • 343-0095 Cash Paid for Ootkinf World news_ Group cites S. Africa jailings JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Police have (ailed nearly 9,000 people this year in their attempt to quell rioting against white rule, including many children and teen-agers who have been beaten or confined with criminals, a monitoring group said Thursday. "Never in the recent history of South Africa has repression been greater,” the Detainees Parents' Support Committee said. Witnesses said police used rubber whips and clubs on about 150 white people who held a candlelight procession Wednesday night in (’ape Town. Police began using such methods last week to disperse groups of people holding candles in protest of arrests under the state of emergency imposed on riot-tom black and mixed race districts. There were unconfirmed reports that police detained Jabu Ngwenya, head of a committee in Soweto, the huge black city outside Johan nesburg, that is organizing Christmas season boycott of white-owned stores. The boycott has spread, and chambers of commerce say it has cost some merchants in the Johannesburg and Pretoria areas up to 90 percent of their business in recent days. Boycott organizers in Pretoria said they were trying to control groups of young ''enforcers" who confiscate and destroy goods bought from white shops. Some peop'e have been forced to eat or drink what they bought, including soap and motor oil. Police reported no new deaths Thursday in scattered rioting against apartheid, the official •yscrni of race discrimination that keeps South Africa's 5 million whites in control and denies rights to the 24 million blacks. At least 900 people have been killed since the violence began almost 16 months ago, nearly all of them black. The South African institute of Race Relations, which compiles statistics from police reports and newspaper accounts, puts the figure well above 900. OLD TOWN IE CORVALLIS *w«y 300 S W ietfeteon SALEM t30 S E High St Good Toward Large Pizza One Buck Per Pizza Coupon Expires 1/6/86 C**h Value 1 /30th of One Cent DUCK ==UOBookstore== The Polar Express A remarkable Christmas story for every collector of art and fantasy T H E P O L A R I X P R \ S S Written and Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg In strange and moving earth-shades of full color art, Chris Van Allsburg paints another worldly classic of the Christmas season that more than rivals his previous imaginative books, The Garden of Abdule Gasazi, Jumanji and The Wreck of the Zepher. Van Allsburg’s newest story revolves around a boy and a mysterious train that waits for him late one night after the town has gone to sleep. He boards the train — The Polar Express — and begins an adventure that takes him to the North Pole and Santa’s workshop, and back to his own home on Christmas morning. 5®5 Now In the General Book Department Your Store Since 1920 13th * Kincaid M F 7:304:30 SAT 1000-3:00 Supplies SM 4331 Pace 4A Congress gets nowhere on funding measure WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress, unable to agree on a multi-billion dollar funding measure for the full fiscal year, whisked through a stopgap bill Thursday needed to tide many federal agencies over for the weekend and prevent disruption of government services. At the same time, administration officials reported pro gress in their efforts to cajole Republican lawmakers into reviving proposals for major overhaul of the tax laws the top item on President Reagan's second-term domestic agen da. The stopgap spending measure replaced an existing bill due to expire at midnight, and was approved first by a voice vote in the House. The Senate quickly followed suit, with Sen Mark Hatfield. R-Ore . chairman of the Appropriations Committee, saying that the alternative could be the "furloughing of federal employees" if the federal till ran dry. Senate Majority leader Robert Dole said it would be an "abdication of everything we’ve done all year" If Congress left town without finishing work on the spending cuts. But others said agreement would be difficult, since many of the proposed cuts involve domestic programs. Seattle FM radio towers not dangerous, FCC says WASHINGTON (AP) — Peo ple who live or work on Cougar Mountain near Seattle are in no danger from radio waves emit ted by the seven KM radio towers there, a Federal Com munications Commission scien tist said Thursday. Robert Cleveland of the KCC’s Office of Science and BOOKSTORE Read this, or get lost. 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Although there Is no federal standard for radiation tolerance by humans, the PCC relies on a standard set by the American National Standards Institute of 1,000 microwatts per square centimeter. Other standards set the limit at 200 microwatts. The PCX: said it selected ANSI guidelines because "they are scientifically based, widely ac cepted. and applicable to the general population." Fridav. December 13. 1985
