Biko died of brain injuries Businessmen JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA (UPI) -- bly to start criminal proceedings. This led to blood clotting and al- talk of trade The official autopsy on South Afri- Police Minister Jimmy Kruger Wed- so to acute kidney failure, they ca's black power leader Steve Biko nesday predicted the attorney gen- said. says he died of severe brain inju- eral would decide to hold an inquest The sources said medical reports with Cubans ries in a Pretoria police cell, "in view of the fact.of the over- on Biko also showed that in the last HAVANNA, CUBA (UPI) -- A group of sources close to the Biko family seas reaction and the public reac- week of his life Biko was suffering American businessmen wined and dined said Wednesday. tion to the Biko matter." from several symptoms of possible by their Cuban hosts in a plush, The sources said that according to The autopsy report and a police brain damage, including a condition pre-revolutionary resort hotel Wed- the autopsy report Biko died of investigation have not been official- called "echolalia" where a patient nesday got down to nuts and bolts brain damage which led to blood ly released. repeats automatically what he hears discussions on the possible reopen- clotting and acute kidney failure. Biko died Sept. 12 -- the 20th in his presence. ing of trade between their two na- He also suffered two broken ribs, black to die in police custody since There also was evidence of some tions. they said. March, 1976 -- and his death touched one-sided weakness of the body, a The business group, third of its The autopsy, performed jointly off an international and national speech defect and a disorder called kind to visit Cuba this year, also Sept. 13 by Chief State Patholo- furor. Kruger first said Biko had "planter's toe," where the patient's hoped for a visit with Prime Minis- gist Johan Loubser and Biko family- been on a week-long hunger strike at toe jerks upwards involuntarily, an- ter Fidel Castro. appointed pathologist Dr. Jonathan the time of his death but later de- other sign of brain damage. Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Thomas P. Gluckman, was handed to the Trans- nied it. It was in this condition that on O'Neill, leading the trade mission vaal Province attorney general, Ja- The family sources said Biko died Sept. 11, Biko was driven overnight through a one-week tour of Cuba, cobus Nothling, on Tuesday. of a head injury of the "contra-coup the 750 miles from Port Elizabeth, Wednesday said the more than 60 mem- Nothling must decide whether to type," caused by a blow on the oppo- on the southeast coast, to Pretoria bers of the delegation representing hold an official inquest on the ba- site side of the head from the point where he was placed in a prison cell, about 30 Massachusetts businesses sis of the autopsy report or possi- of worst damage. the sources said. "were looking forward to meeting with Cuban empresas" (officers of Cuban business enterprises). Previous trade delegations from Chicago and Minnesota met with Cas- tro. Offidals told The Naug'o -boea d0ait Vol. 32 No. 206 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Thursday, October 27, 1977 to start plans for peace talks GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (UPI) -- U.N. Baader death reported suicide security officials have been told to make contingency plans for a resump- BONN, W. GER. (UPI) -- An official "An investigation shows unequivo- gart's Stammheim prison and informed tion of the Middle East peace talks German report said Wednesday an in- cally that the deaths were suicides," the other four gang members of the on or around Dec. 21, U.N. sources vestigation shows "unequivocally" said the report of the Justice Min- plot's failure over a secret commun- said Wednesday. that Andreas Baader and two members istry of the state of Baden-Wuerttem- ications network which used the wires They were told that if the confer- of his terrorist band committed sui- berg. of the prison radio system, the re- ence does take place advance person- cide and were not murdered in prison The report said the exact time of port said. nel should arrive in Geneva Dec. 17 as some of their supporters charge. the suicides still has not been de- The prosecutor's office in Stutt- with a formal opening on Dec. 21, termined but was probably after Ger- gart said today a medical examina- the sources said. It said a fourth member of the man commandos stormed the hijacked tion of Miss Moeller and the three The instructions to security offi- band, Irmgard Moeller, survived a jetliner at Mogadishu Airfield in dead members of the Red Army faction cials at the U.N. European Headquar- suicide pact probably agreed on af- Somalia at 2:05 a.m. Oct. 18. had shown no sign of drugging or gas. ters in Geneva were told, however, ter failure of a terrorist plot to Jan Carl Raspe probably heard a The official report said it is not that this is still far from decided, exchange them for 86 hostages on a newscast on a transistor radio he known how the weapons were smuggled and that security plans should be hijacked Lufthansa airliner. had concealed in his cell in Stutt- into the prison. made only on a contingency basis. U.S. suggests delayed arms embargo UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- The United close contents of the proposal im- to rescind his new anti-black mea- for sanctions and criticized the States circulated a proposal in the mediately. sures. Western powers for continued cooper- U.N. Security Council Wednesday But reports from Washington and The United States a year ago ve- ation with Pretoria. calling for a time-delayed arms em- U.N. sources said the United States toed a proposal for an arms embargo Sone Western countries, he said, bargo against South Africa if Pre- now favors an arms embargo and pos- against South Africa. still refused to comply with the U.N. toria refuses to step back from its sibly other sanctions against South Diplomatic sources said Wednesday call for an end to all military, recent crackdown on opposition lea- Africa, delayed to give Pretoria the council members were discussing economic and other cooperation with ders. time to get its house in order. the U.S. idea, offered as a compro- South Africa. mise mandatory arms embargo and a "We have a proposal and we are The reports said Washington's ban on official or private invest- He said it was not South Africa discussing it with the members of idea is to impose the embargo after ments in and loans to South Africa. alone that should be condemned. the council," said Tom Offenburger, six months if there is no improve- Speaking in the council Wednesday He said the support of the Western spokesman for U.S. Ambassador An- ment in South Africa and if South Soviet Ambassador Oleg A. Troyanov- states amounted to "connivance with drew Young. He declined to dis- African Premier John Vorster refuses sky supported the African proposals racism and apartheid." Enterprise makes last free flight & concrete landing EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. (UPI) more than 11,000 feet per minute to The 75-ton orbiter was blown from over again, are to be the space The space shuttle Enterprise dropped a landing on a concrete runway and the 747 as it had been in four pre- transports of the future. They are from the back of its jumbo jet a royal welcome. vious free flight tests, but this to carry people and equipment into mothership Wednesday in its last Prince Charles of Great Britain time it made its steepest and fas- orbit and back again. free flight, falling at a rate of was waiting near the landing site test descent, up to 26 degrees and when the Enterprise came in like a at about 320 miles per hour. dive bomber. He flew by helicopter from Los Angeles where he was making Separation came at 8:52 a.m. and Committee approves Soviet tanker runs a two-day tour. the Enterprise swept in for its This last flight of the shuttle- landing two-minutes and one-second orbiter prototype made its first later. concrete landing Wednesday breaking The Enterprise is to be modified cut-rate loan program aground & spills oil quickly after a one-minute 55-second for space flight and is to be among drop from 17,000 feet to end its the early shuttles sent into space. for solar energy flight testing at this desert air The shuttle craft, the first space. A Soviet tanker WASHINGTON (UPI) A House-Senate STOCKHOLM (AP) -- base. ships designed to be used over and -- has been leaking thousands of gal- conference committee on energy Wed- lons of oil into a narrow sound nesday approved a $100 million pro- south of Stockholm. gram of cut-rate loans to encourage The tanker, carrying more than the use of solar energy. four and a half million gallons of Navy boat goes A.W.O.L. The program calls for the govern- oil ran aground Wednesday. At ment's National Mortgage Association least six other ships have rushed NORFOLK (AP) -- An unarmed Navy boat A fishing boat radioed the Coast to buy, insure and handle loans at to the scene to help in the cleanup went A.W.O.L. Wednesday. Guard in the evening that the boat a low interest rate, to help people operation. The radio-controlled boat was being had run aground near Reedvill in install solar panels or other equip- The oil slick from the leak is escorted by another Navy vessel ear- Chesapeake Bay about 50 miles from ment that can transform the sun's reported to be one and a half miles ly in the afternoon when it stopped where it had left its escort.