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A3393-C1-03-Jpeg.Pdf U Thant a< report on p r * A<3Rivonia SAPA-REUTER f H E chairman of the United Nations bpecial Com­ mittee on Apartheid interrupted a meeting of he committee yesterday to declare that the world >ody could not ignore the challenge of South Africa’ s esumption of the Rivonia sabotage trial. He asked he Secretary-General, U Thant, to report urgently Mr Telli, of Guinea said the1'*11 tlle m a,tC r- moral authority of the TTniterii ! Powers. * , t .. ou3“ °ns had been called into i The South African vlew that^he Question by South Africa’s decision matter was sub judice was unten 5 go ahead witnwith tnethe tristrial. ahle ” T ) , . ^ ______ . a u ie . f.he J P * General Assembly on Octo- ‘•We have learnt to respect the I « n J r ’ .by a vote of W6 to one, legal acumen of South Afr , f,or the abandonment of lawyers and Jadw , whatever^else inline i and the release of all we do not respect them for. ne cal prisoners unconditionally. said. ..I •eta™ ~iall° asked that the Sec- “ Mv delegation, therefore, is to view With serious ireennGeneral u Thant, report ■esoimy 0n the effect of the )V as Previously requested yti ltle Assembly. ments are put forward. haM ? clear to the whole world nent South African Govern- m unf135 chosen again to cast ence e^ulvocal and brazen chal- ‘ " » i heiC*iitS demanding the release of tr a d e d ^ lsoI ' e ls in the trial ‘Challenge ’ onsulatoUtS1A? the s °uth African An o™ m New York yesterday. lnmmittoanSer °f the American hatThn ? °n Africa estimated m Rivonia hr turn 'k People took part in Hr °:t?our demonstration, hr j ‘ aiti tbat about a third of ne demonstrators were Negroes. trial ‘ey included Africans from a i .niber of missions to the United NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Mr. Nations. Diallo% Telli, Guinean chairman of the U.N. special committee on j Unemotional i apartheid, said yesterday the, „the Trusteeship Committee I moral authority of the U.N. had j been called into question by j ,? rday Japan sounded a note South Africa’s decision to go to thUt'on on members’ approach ’ ahead with the trial of 11 men . Mr® # °ath West Africa issue. j charged with sabotage. j deWnt^ 0*1 Chiba’ the Japanese seek n r ’ tbe com m ittee to The General Assembly on Octo­ ber 11, by a vote of 106 to one, soR e t t 1 meaSUres t0 try t0 j called on the South African dangerous situation^ W&S a m 'y authorities to abandon the trial and to release all political swept "awT./6^ must avoid being; prisoners unconditionally. They should by their emotions.! which mSL1? avoid any action Mr. Diallo interrupted yester- dav's meeting of the special com­ S;0n o f the WoPrrid3UcdlCuert.the deCi‘ ! mittee to ask that the Secretary- | General report urgently on the advocaUng01SePcurHv c'St ° f nations ; effect of the resolution as pre­ °n political klnerf . S°uncil action viously requested by the Assembly, i °f South WestP CtS Question i After reading a Press report on Mr. e . p 1 I the resumption of the trial Mr^ Ceylon d eW atf,°0aiarasw-amy, the Diallo recalled that the South T?e 11 was8 inn told the commit- African Cabinet had met after the ? nlted N?tion^ ?°rtUne Ior the adoption of the Assembly s resolu- A frica’s m andate ° reVOke South lion and had rejected its appeal tory while fhr 1 dver the terri- as an unwarranted interferwice in Was consideringmif rnational court South Africa's internal affau.. -It is clear to the whole world that the South A fricanders But Frustrated ment has chosen again to cast an unequivocal and brazen duUwwe ^ & e^ablfshed^ 10113 Presence to the U.N.,” Mr. Diallo declared. General mainc reason why the —SapaReuter. ________ _ _ _ _ _ _ frustrated Assembly had been iits resolut nnitS attempts t0 have Respected « ™ p!®mented and co-operation S~Unh Africa was the i given to h ani? enc°uragem ent 10 her by certain great Command, also referred to In the indictment as the National Libera­ tion Movement and its national Defence objections executive committee, and Umkonto vVe Sizwe (Spear of the Nation). STftK lof/ijf&H J # During Dr. Lowen’s argument Kantor — himself a lawyer — fre­ quently nodded his head and upheld by judge smiled as a telling point was made. Dr. Lowen said indictments were framed not for counsel or attor- rJpilE INDICTMENT in ihe Ki\onia sabotage trial has j neys but for the accused, who been quashed. The Judge-President, Mr. Justice must know the case he had to meet. de Vi et. made this order in the Pretoria Supreme Court “Kantor, who is an attorney, does at 3.30 p.m. today. not know the Suppression of Com­ munism Act. This means that the State will have to "He had no legal library at his disposal while he was a 90-day redraft the indictment, present it to the detainee. As an awaiting-trial accused, give them sufficient time to study prisoner he has no legal library. “To tell him, in reply to a ques­ the charges and to request further particulars tion, that the count is to be read and give them time to study those further in conjunction with Section 12 does not inform him what cgse particulars. he has to meet. "Kantor’s sister loved Wolpe. The case, therefore, cannot almost certainly be I Wolpe was a Communist. Wolpe heard this vear J-l for the acts while he was in jail, neara tills yeat. j. j plan a murder with someone, 1 could not make a living at the bar, so Kantor good-heartedly took Mr. Justice d e Vet, after then get arrested and mv trienc then carries out the murder, ant I him in. I)r. y utar had ended his argu­ — *. —... “Is Kantor his own police dog ment on the defence applica­ not responsible too? Dr. Yutar I to run around his offices to see tion to quash said it was most asked. | who visits Wolpe? Dr. Yutar said he would produce “But even if Mandela visits improper. when accu sed evidence of donations from 25c Wolpe on purely legal business, people ask for particulars to to R240,000 from African states. does that make Kantor a Com­ say to them that this was a He would, with the permission munist?” asked Dr. Lowen. At the end of his argument Dr. I matter they knew all about. of the court, produce a document in Mandela’s handwriting about Lowen apologized to the court for his visits to African states. j being "too emotional” at certain ! " presupposes thev are ; S stages during his address. i g u d t y .” The judge: Documents you allege to be in the handwriting of After him Mr. A. Fischer, Q.C., I am satistied the information the accused. who represents all the other ac- anriV asked f°r ■should be given Dr. Yutar: Documents that will cused except Hepple, resumed his lndlctment cannot stand be proved to be in the hand­ argument for quashing o f the ,,tbe absence of that information. writing of the accused. I charges against them. r II, is ndt the function of the 1 The judge: No. Documents you Reading from a judgment by I ff urJ; to draw an indictment for allege, at this stage, to be in the Mr. Justice Greenberg, using the i the State. handwriting of the accused. words of the judge, he said: “ I i The judge said it was possible,: | suggest there is very little lard in „ ,hc application for quashing was Summary the haunch of venison of this in­ acceded to, the ridiculous posi- dictment.” Mr. Fischer said that the acts of : defennW0Uid be reached Of the i Dr. Yutar: I feel the force ol adinn having to ask for an ■ sabotage set out in the indictment your lordship's suggestion. Am 1 inav have been committed by some n e «T T ent after each State wit- , required to summarize all or sonif organization and not the accused. 1 thnr » gIven evidence to study that evidence. of the documents and summarize Unless the State says who carried the evidence I shall lead? out these acts, how is the defence brenari accused should be able to The judge: The authorities saj to meet the charges? ibegfns ■ trial before the trial you should give very full par­ ticulars. You have not done so. 1 “ Either the State knows who VO days Dr. Yutar: Then I am prepared committed the lets or it does not to go back and make a summary know. If it doesn’t know, then it of the documents and the evi­ doesn’t know that the acts were d is ch n ,i^ aCcused ~ Hepple was dence. I am prepared to submit committed by any of the accused," reven T Uer toda-v “ to an order to deliver further j Mr. Fischer said. status th°, ,the 90'day detainee particulars. When Hhe"V lost earlier this month The judge: I don't think 1 or LINK NECESSARY indictment. W6re SerVed with thp the defence will be satisfied with He could not see how, if the that. accused were members of a banned Drffnn6ad °.f being awaiting-trial organization, this could lead to w«h access to legal re The Judge: How long will it take you to draft those particulars? — them committing various acts, such bf l i ? they wlQ now again I want to be as accurate as pos­ as putting lighted matches in a I sfdeM h°m COntact " 1tb ‘ be ou " letter box.
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