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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.
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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
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Environmental Protection
Agency convinced him that
residents of the area have
''no reason to be
concerned.' ’
"We don't perceive that they
are *n any danger." he said.
An PCX' statement said "the
measured values am relatively
low when compared to the
limits developed by various
standards-setting
organizations."
A consulting engineering
firm retained by the National
Radio Broadcasters Association
has said that non-ionizing
radiation — the type sent out by
FM radio stations — "in large
quantities can...cause dif
ficulties such as ihe heaiing of
body tissue."
The radiation in FM radio
waves dissipates within a few
hundred feet.
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