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The Daily Tar Heel Friday, April 4, 19863 nvestanennlt isom mmi to c 9 UeirlseHey protesters airirested. Protesters-' stasfc mock attack BI RKKU.Y. Calif. AP) Police moved in on a shantytown Thursday erected on the University of California at Berkeley campus during an anti apartheid protest, arresting 90 people. At least 29 people were injured in the ensuing clash which destroyed the shantytown, officials said. Fighting broke out between club wielding officers and demonstrators who hurled bottles and rocks while attempting to block police buses by throwing trash cans, constructing barricades or sitting in roadways. Two men were arrested for allegedly possessing firebombs after police received a threat that California Hall would be burned, and charred paper was found stuffed in the gas tanks of three university cars, authorities reported. About 1,000 people later gathered By GORDON RANKIN Staff Writer The UNC Anti-Apartheid Support Group is continuing its efforts to persuade the Board of Trustees to withdraw all of its investments in American corporations operating within South Africa. The student organization was awarded a time extension last week allowing the shanties to remain in front of South Building for an unde termined amount of time. Laura Azar, a freshman group member from St. Petersburg, Fla., said a total of nearly $2 billion has been devoted by large U.S. companies to the development of commercial activities in South Africa. UNC presently has stocks and bonds valued at approximately $8.8 New research to be discussed this weekend at AIDS symposium By MARIA HAREN Staff Writer A symposium on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome will be held April 4 and 5 in Memorial Hall to update health professionals and inform the public, said the co-director of the event. Dr. Caroline Becker, associate pro fessor of epidemiology, said speakers on Friday will give a general overview of AIDS, while Saturday speaker ' will concentrate on the clinical side of AIDS - the research and treatment. "The speakers are active in the research of AIDS," she said. "Those from UNC have spoken at many symposiums and have given AIDS seminars." She said the speakers were chosen based on their research expe rience . and the topics on which they would speak, in order to get a mixture of subjects. Planning for the event, sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and the Division of Community Health Service at the UNC School of Public Health and the UNC School of Med icine, began last fall, but because of the coming winter weather, the symposium was scheduled for April, Becker said. Friday: Dr. David Weber, assistant professor of medicine and co-director of the symposium, will speak at 9:00 on "Epidemiology of HTLV-III Infec tions." Dr. Eugene McCray, medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, will discuss "Prevention of HTLV-III Transmis sion; CDC Guidelines." Attorney Richard H. Robinson, assistant to the UNC System President, will speak on "Policy Formulation for Institutions" at 1:15, and at 2:00 , Dr. Rebecca Meri wether, head of the the Communicable Disease Control Branch in Raleigh, will discuss "Policy Formulation for State The College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Music Announce AN EVENING WITH RICHARD ABLER William Neal Reynolds Visiting Professor of Music and Artist -In-Residence Mr. Adler, Composer of The Pajama Gamey Damn Yankees, and other Broadway and popular hits, the symphonic works Wilderness Suite, and The Lady Remembers written for the Centennial Celebration of the Statue of Liberty will discuss his music and sing some of his songs. Wednesday, April 9 8:00 pm Hill Hall Room 107 The public is cordially invited No admission charge at a peaceful rally to hear protest leaders call for a student strike Monday and vow to rebuild the shantytown that has been torn down twice by university police. . The action began before dawn when, police put between 100 and 120 demonstrators in the buses. Hundreds of other protesters quickly surrounded the buses, preventing the police from taking them to jail. At 7:30 a.m., the buses moved out, with baton-swinging officers strug gling with demonstrators who hurled objects. About 150 demonstrators and 50 police remained after the buses left, but the campus returned to its usual calm. Authorities said some 50 demon strators who could not fit on the buses were photographed by police and will million invested in such companies. The intention of Azar and other group members is to convince the University to initiate a process by which all such investments would be withdrawn bv December 31, 1989. "Because it (UNC) is a liberal institution based on a code of honesty and fairness, continued investment in corporations involved in South Africa is pure hypocrisy," said Azar. The 33 companies to which UNC has committed finances include some of the largest corporations in the United States. UNC also has investments in Amer ican Express, General Motors, General Electric, and Coca-Cola, companies with major investments in South Africa. A report recently issued by the and Local Governments." Dr. Harold Ginzburg, special assistant to the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will discuss "Ethical and Legal Issues Regarding AIDS" at 2:45. Dr. Stephen Morin, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Cali fornia at San Francisco, will wrap up Friday's speakers at 4 p.m. Saturday: Dr. John Phair, chief of " infectious diseases at Northwestern University, will .speak on "Epidemiol- ogy "of HTLV-III Virus: Results of Prospective Studies" at 8:30 p.m. "Basic Virology: Research Update" will be Dr. Max Essex's topic at 9:45. Essex is Harvard University's cancer biology chairman. Dr. June E. Osborn, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, will discuss "The AIDS Epidemic: A Challenge for the 1990s" at 10:45. Deputy chief of critical care medicine at the National Institute of Health's Clinical Center, Dr. Henry Masur, will give an "Overview of Opportunistic Infections: Recognition and Management" at 1:00. At 2:00, Dr. Dale Bredesen, instructor in neurology at the University of California at San Francisco, will discuss "Neurologic and Psychiatric Aspects of AIDS." Concluding the symposium will be Dr. Marty Hirsch, medical director of virology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard associate professor, speaking on "Current Treat ment and Trends for the Future" at 3: 15. While scientists, health workers, educators and others in the field will attend, the public is also invited, Becker said. Registration is mandatory and student fees are $15 a day or $25 for both days. The regular rate is $50 a day or $85 for both. "I expect about 400 people to attend each day," she said. be subject to arrest later. All those arrested were served with a ' copy of a temporary restraining order issued by a judge on Wednesday. Superior Court Judge Harry Ramsey barred demonstrators from erecting the shanties close enough to any campus building to constitute a fire danger. The makeshift plywood and card board shanties, used to symbolize the homes of South African blacks, were placed at California Hall, where Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman has his offices. Sixty-one protesters were arrested there Tuesday, and the structures torn down, but the shanties were rebuilt by Wednesday night. The demonstrators want the univer sity to withdraw about $2.4 billion it has invested in companies doing business with South Africa. The 10 largest UNC investments are: Eastman Kodak $71 7,200 Johnson Controls ....$709,700 CBS, Inc.. $620,000 IBM .............$603,200 Exxon Corp $444,000 Dresser Industries . . .$354,900 American Home Products $349,200 Boeing Co ....$287,500 Owens-Corning $281 ,000 Hoover Co $21 5,000 towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro stated that they have ordered products or services from such businesses as Ford Motor Company, McGraw-Hill Book Publishing Co., Inc., and Fully Lined r i tt T-m r i Sal SteoHs S S n ji Si) Elsewhere to $110 Now discover major savings on suits and find all the styles you've been looking fori Come save now and select from a beautiful array of junior and misses suits in linen-looks, polyester gabardines and. the latest spring blends. See classics and novelties, including notch collars and cardigans, in a spectacular array of shades. 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The procession then moved past the Pit and toward the shanties in front of the South Building, where the group had con structed several grave sites of rocks and wooden crosses in memory of blacks killed in recent violence in South Africa. The mourners were led by group members Kelvin Nivens, a freshman bbeJ NCNB, all of which are known to have considerable holdings in South Africa. The Chapel HillCarrboro; City School Board has also performed transactions with such companies. aSuirdlay,Apiro 1S WM. WIV wM w. Pius! These Exciting Spring Specials! Hurry in for best selection while sale quantities last' V o CHAPEL HILL The Village Plaza 225 South Elliott Road o Open Monday Saturday from Charlotte, and Marguerite Arnold, a freshman from Blowing Rock. As they assembled for the funeral, members of the Tin Drum Theatre attacked the mourners with toy guns while recordings of gunfire played from a portable cassette player. The crowd scattered as several support group members lay in front of the shanties. The funeral march was a re enactment of a March 26 funeral march in Bophuthatswana, South Africa, in which South African police attacked 5,000 mourners, killing at least 24. Dale McKinley, a group member who spoke following the march, said the attack symbolized the oppressiveness of the South African security forces. , The march also recalled the anni A letter sent collectively by the Anti Apartheid Support Group to each member of the UNC Board of Trustees proposed a new University investment policy with eight major considerations. Chief concerns addressed by the group were that stock purchases cease, that previously acquired stocks would be sold off, and that UNC would make contributions to the cause of educa tionally deprived South Africans. The three key proposals read as follows: UNC will not make any new pur chases of stock or bonds in any corporation doing business in South Africa. 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Bob Boster, artistic director of the Tin Drum Theatre, said divestment was not only a monetary issue but a moral one. The mock attack was meant as a sign of sympathy for South African blacks who have been killed while attempting to bury their own, he added. The group has planned a rally Friday morning in front of the Carolina Inn, where the University Endowment Board is scheduled to meet at 9:30 a.m. Africa, and that by 1989 UNC will have sold 100 percent of such stock. UNC will donate $10,000 to the South African Institute of Race Relations to facilitate the higher education of poor South Africans. Other proposals address the desires that UNC inform the corporations of its new policy and encourage other universities to divest. According to Azar, a number of academic institutions have already divested. In 1978, the University of Wisconsin withdrew its $10 million investments completely, as did Mich igan State with its $8 million in 1980. Azar added that in most cases in which universities have either partially or totally divested, they have at least broken even, and in some cases profited from the action. a. STL Cr-7- GARY ,pl:.; (o) (6) Version 1
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