Bomb Detonation Injures 17 in Latest Apartheid Unrest
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Chemical warfare - page 4 VOL. XXL MO. 5 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1986 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Bomb detonation injures 17 in latest apartheid unrest Associated Press The bomb demolished the front windows o f a Pick-n-Pay JOHANNESBURG, South store in the Montclair shop Africa. - A bomb left at the ping center and tore a hole parcel counter yesterday blew in the ceiling, said Vernon out the front of a store in a Mitchell, general manager of middle-class white suburb of the chain of budget depart Durban. Police said 18 blacks ment stores. and whites were injured, in He said the bom b was cluding a 3-year-old girl. deposited at the counter The whole place was filled where customers leave their with smoke within minutes, their bags and packages according to Larry McDonald, while shopping. The counter a pharmacist. He described and a nearby cigarette and the scene as chaos, and said candy kiosk were destroyed. people were screaming and running everywhere. Government spokesmen Dr. John Keenan, acting said one of those seriously in chief of emergency services jured was the cigarette seller, for Natal province, said the 3- Monica Strydom, who had year-old white child and four wounds on her head and other people were seriously hands. wounded. The government Two of the previous bom and witnesses said the bings occurred in Durban. casualties were 12 employees Eight people have been killed and six customers. and 145 wounded in the nine explosions, the last of which It was the ninth bombing was Aug. 2 in Walvis Bay on since the government im the Atlantic coast. We must be in the front row posed a nationwide state of emergency June 12 in an at No one has claimed re Senior ticket distribution traditionally signals line which began early Sunday morning. tempt to quell racial unrest sponsibility for any of the at cookouts and sleeping bags at the ACC and Those students who spent the night were and started arresting tacks, but the government this year was no exception. Seniors Jay Vos- rewarded, however, with an early-morning thousands of people without blames guerrillas of the burgh and Molly Meyer hold their place in a visit yesterday from Coach Holtz. charges. African National Congress. Soviet passenger liner sinks; casualties untoldCorby’s Associated Press Search and rescue opera sinking of a Soviet passenger and that there has been loss tions continued last night, liner in seven months. o f life. MOSCOW - A 6 1 -year-old about 20 hours after the ship It did not say how many assets sold The official announce Soviet ship big enough to went down, according to offi people were aboard, how ment, distributed by the Tass carry at least 870 passengers cials in the Black Sea ports o f many were dead, if any to brothers news agency, said only that collided with a freighter at Odessa and Novorossiysk. foreigners were among the the 17,053-ton Admiral Nak night in the Black Sea and A naval Ministry official said passengers or what route the MARILYN BENCHIK himov collided with a cargo Copy Editor sank with a loss of lives, of by telephone late yesterday ship was following. ship not far from Novoros ficials said yesterday. They that the freighter remained Lloyds Registry of Ships, siysk and sank on the night The assets o f CTI, Inc., did not give a casualty figure. afloat. He would not answer published in London, says of Aug. 3 I. the parent corporation of Foreign radio monitors other questions. the ship had berths for 870 Corby Tavern, are being said they did not hear a Soviet media carried only Rescue measures have passengers. A Soviet citizen sold to Thomas and Robert distress signal after the colli a brief statement from the been taken, the official news who sailed on it in 1971 said Przybylinski for $75,000, sion between the passenger Communist Party Central agency said. It also said that many other fourth-class pas according to James Brad ship and Soviet freighter Sun Committee and Soviet gov necessary assistance is being sengers customarily slept on ley, the attorney represent day night. ernment. It was the second rendered to those affected the uppermost of its decks. ing the corporation. The ruling that allows CTI to sell these assets was Anti-Reagan rhetoric marks Gadhafi speechdeterm ined in the U.S. Associated Press coup that brought him to The crowd shouted, When The Soviets have supplied Bankruptcy Court in South power. you call us, o commander, we Libya with two frigates, MiG Bend on Friday. TRIPOLI, Libya - Moammar As the crowd held aloft his will leap into the fire! ’ jet fighters and military The sale of the assets Gadhafi celebrated his 17th portrait and applauded, the was finalized in order to in Flanked by Soviet officials, transport planes to replace anniversary as Libya's leader 44-year-old colonel gestured clude the sale of the Alco Gadhafi later reviewed a 90- losses from U.S. attacks in yesterday by deriding Presi with a silver pointer as he hol and Beverage Permit, minute military parade by the Gulf of Sidra in March and dent Reagan and praising So vowed to recruit an army from said Bradley. more than 18,000 soldiers on Tripoli and Benghazi in viet leader Mikhail Gorbac Central America, Africa and Before the Przybylinski and Soviet-made tanks, SA-5 April. hev, saying the Libyans and Asia if the United States didn't brothers can set up the surface-to-air missiles and Russians share common in cease what he called its con This anti-American out restaurant-tavern busi Scud ground-to-ground mis terests. frontational policies. burst by Gadhafi came after ness, they need a variance siles. If Reagan does not stop his four months of silence follow that will allow them to by "Reagan is a madman, stupidities,I will form an in Gadhafi mixed insults to ing the U.S. air raid on April pass a city ordinance which physically and psychologi ternational army to fight Reagan and criticism o f U.S. 15, when sites hit included prohibits two alcohol es cally sick,**Gadhafi told a flag- America everywhere, and I policy in his speech with com his home in Tripoli. An tablishments to operate waving crowd of 5,000 in am sure that in a few years pliments for Moscow, which adopted baby daughter was within 1000 feet of each Green Square, gathered to the world will be rid of this he said stood by its respon one those killed in the air other. hail the Sept. I, 1969 military new Nazi empire, he said. sibilities toward Libya. strikes. 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