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Dy JEAHHIE FARIS .
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Black South Africans have become trapped in an
intensifying spiral of violence that continues even as
the government promises reform, an exiled South
African student activist told about 20 students during
an informal discussion Wednesday afternoon in the
Alumni Building.
"Today in South Africa we're witnessing a situation
where people have decided to take their destinies into
their own hands," said Don Ngubeni, who was exiled
in 1984 for working with the United Democratic Front
and now lives in Zambia.
The UDF is a multiracial coalition of over 600
organizations that was created in 1983 to fight
apartheid.
Ngubeni said South Africa's problems peaked after
the leaders of the white government passed a
referendum in 1983 to incorporate Indians and blacks
into a tri-cameral parliament.
In the 1984 elections, the seats allotted to blacks
and Indians were , not representative of the votes cast
for them, he said.
The crisis has escalated since 1983, Ngubeni said.
South Africans have begun to protest rent increases,
which he said raise money for the government. There
have also been wide-scale student and consumer
boycotts.
"There was a call issued by the AN C (African
National Congress) that the country must be made
ungovernable and apartheid must be made unworka
ble," he said.
The government has hot remained complacent,
Ngubeni said. The use of severe violence, death squads
and a day-to-day state of emergency have been used
to try to control the situation, he said.
But the recent combination of international
condemnation of apartheid and the internal unrest have
forced the South African government to respond with
promises of reform. '
Ngubeni said the improvements are unlikely to
materialize. "YouVe got to be careful not to take these
people at face value," he said. "Whenever they say
something, they mean the exact opposite of what they
said."
The recent announcement by the South African
government to lift the state of emergency was deceiving,
Ngubeni said. The announcement was accompanied
by the enactment of a law that permanently legalized
any state of emergency powers that the police have
held, he said.
"The . . . government cannot bring about reform,"
he said. "Apartheid must be destroyed. It must be
uprooted and a new system should be brought about."
Ngubeni said this new society should be democratic,
egalitarian and non-racial. Because freedom is
indivisible, society cannot be divided so that one part
is free and the other parts oppressed, he said.
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Panel gives little merit to rep ort
that Marcos gave to campaign
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON A Philippine
official said Wednesday he did not
give much credence to a document
brought to the United States by
former Philippine President Ferdi
nand Marcos indicating that contri
butions of $50,000 were made to the
1980 presidential campaigns of
Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
"I did hot give it much credence
because it does not bear any signa
ture or any initial," Jovito Salonga,
head of a Philippine commission
investigating Marcos' finances, told
the House Foreign Affairs subcom
mittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs.
The subcommittee is investigating
Marcos' U.S. holdings.
Representatives of both cam-
Ksllonal
paigns said they knew nothing of the
purported contributions, and con
gressional sources said it was not
clear if the money actually haid been
given.
The list of contributions has been
referred to the Justice Department's
criminal division for further inves
tigation, the sources said.
As the hearing ended, Rep. Ste
phen Solarz, D-N.Y., chairman of
the subcommittee, said the panel's
investigation has shown that Marcos
led a government that "existed for
the primary purpose of looting and
plundering the wealth of the nation."
WASHINGTON (AP) The Treas
ury Department has come out with the
first major changes in U.S. currency in
more than 50 years, but the redesign,
although slight, is not pleasing to
everybody.
Some in Congress are charging that
bank tellers and store clerks will need
magnifying glasses to spot the two new
anti-counterfeiting devices. Others
contend that the whole exercise is a
smoke screen to hide the government's
real intention to flush out billions of
dollars in the underground economy.
Treasury Secretary James Baker
announced on Tuesday that the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing will begin
adding a tiny plastic thread and micros
copic printing to U.S. money to try to
thwart counterfeiters with access to a
new generation of sophisticated copying
machines.
The government spent several years
and $32 million studying a variety of
options to make American currency
tougher to counterfeit. It considered
and discarded such options as changing
the color to adding a three dimen
sional hologram that would flash bright
colors when viewed in the light.
' In the end, officials decided to opt
for two more subtle changes that are
not likely to be noticed unless the
currency is studied carefully.
One addition will be a clear polyester
thread running from the top of the bill
down the bottom on the left side of the
portrait.
The thread will be invisible until the
money is held up to the light. Through
light, the thread will appear along with
printing.
On the $1 bill, the printing will be
"one USA one USA" along the length
.of the thread. "USA" will be printed
on the threads woven into all the bills
but the denomination will change
depending on the value of the bill.
The other change will involve print
ing of the words "United States of
America" repeatedly around the por
trait. The words will appear as a black
line until held under a magnifying glass.
Both of these changes will be impos
sible to reproduce even with the
sophisticated color copiers that are now
showing up in offices, Treasury officials
said.
But Rep. Frank Annunzio, chairman
of a House Banking subcommittee on
coinage, said the Treasury changes are
too subtle.
"If the Treasury implements this new
currency, they ought to provide every
person in America with a magnifying
glass," he said.
It's high noon for Reagan's plan;
ouse set to vote on Contra aid
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Wednesday's story on the shanties
constructed by the UNC Anti
Apartheid Support Group in front of
the South Building incorrectly reported
that the rally held by the group Tuesday
afternoon took place in the Pit. The
rally was held on the quad, where the
shanties are located.
Wednesday's story on former N.C.
governor Jim Hunt's speech incorrectly
reported that the governor was elected
in 1980. He was re-elected that year,
and was orginally elected in 1976. The
Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors.
In a story titled 'Ogden handles game
time hunger', that appeared in Wednes
day's Daily Tar Heel reported that
Ogden Allied had bid on the contract
for UNC's food services, presently held
by ARA. Since then, the DTH has
learned that Ogden has not actually bid
on the contract, but has received
information about it and plans to do
so.
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WASHINGTON (AP) President
Reagan, scrambling for votes to win
$100 million in military , aid to the
Nicaraguan rebels, offered Congress on
Wednesday a compromise that would x
limit the assistance to "defensive"
weapons, training and logistics for the
first 90 days.
With Thursday's showdown House
vote expected to be extremely close, the
White House gave congressmen a draft
executive order that they said Reagan
would sign if the $100 million was
passed.
The draft order would restrict the first
90 days of aid to the contra rebels to
weapons "for defense against air
attacks," training in small-unit warfare
and logistical aid. The aid would be
stopped if the rebels engaged in human
rights violations or drug smuggling.
Under the president's plan, all types
of military aid would be permitted after
90 days if the leftist Nicaraguan
government does not negotiate seriously
with the rebels a step the government
has repeatedly refused to take, charging
that the Contras are a creation of the
United States.
Congress could block the aid at that
point, but that would require majority
in both the House and Senate. Reagan
could then veto such a move, and it
would require a two-thirds majority in
each house to override him.
Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md., chair
man of the House Foreign Affairs
subcommittee on Latin America, said
the proposed compromise "doesn't
really change anything....It's an obvious
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indication that the administration
doesn't have the votes on the merits and
they're grasping for ways to get some
votes."
But Rep. John McKernan, R-Maine,
a swing voteT said that while he was
still undecided, the new proposal made
him more likely to vote for the $100
million.
In a statement accompanying the
draft order, Reagan said he favored a
negotiated solution with the leftist
Nicaraguan government and that
"approval of my request for additional
assistance. ..does not mean that a
military solution is inevitable." ,
While the House debated, a fresh
appeal to avoid the use of force in the
Central American nation was made in
Washington by the eight-nation Con
tadora group of Latin American coun
tries seeking a peaceful settlement in the
area.
Speaking at a meeting of the Political
Council of the Organization of Amer
ican States, Venezuelan Ambassador
Edilberto Moreno said it was necessary
to reiterate the obligation of all member
states of the OAS "to solve their
controversies exclusively by peaceful
means and to abstain from the use of
force directly or indirectly."
Moreno said he was speaking for
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico,
Panama, Peru, Uruguay aifid
Venezuela.
Chile's new ambassador to the OAS,
Javier Illanes, declared his country's
"decided support for the Contadora's
peace efforts."
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill
Jr., D-Mass., described the upcoming
House decision as a "Tonkin Gulf vote,"
a, reference to the 1964 resolution that
enabled then-President Johnson to
introduce U.S. troops in Vietnam.-
"I see this leading to war," said
O'Neill. "I see a quagmire down there."
O'Neill said the Democrats main
tained a 10- to 15-vote lead and had
seen "no erosion" over the past days
despite an intensive personal lobbying
campaign by Reagan.
In the House debate, Republicans
charged that defeat of Reagan's prop
osal would amount to abandoning
Nicaragua to communism, while Demo
crats contended that approving the aid
would launch the nation on a course
for war.
"The United States is embarked on
a lonely crusade of support for the
Contras," said Rep. Lee Hamilton, D
Ind., House Intelligence Committee
chairman. "Nicaragua is not an issue
of supreme national importance. It is
a small, dirt-poor country with scarce
human and material resources."
Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., urged
passage of the aid as necessary to stop
the spread of communism in Central
America. Those Sandinistas, those
communists (in Nicaragua), are closer
to me in Louisiana than I am to New
York City," he said.
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