s : 2AThe Daily Tar HeelThursday, August 31 , 1989 World and Nation " HI die Dim From Associated Press reports NEW DELHI, India Protesters blocked railroad tracks and battled police during nationwide demonstra tions Wednesday against Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Officials said 1 1 people were killed and more than 100,000 "arrested. The nationwide strike shut down commerce and transportation in six states controlled by opposition parties but had less effect in the 19 states governed by Gandhi's Congress Party, Press Trust of India said. Several clashes broke out between government supporters and opposi tion demonstrators and at least four people died when a bomb was thrown at a bus, police said. Police used batons and tear gas to break up crowds nationwide, news reports said. At least 80 people were injured and 103,450 were arrested nationwide, police said. Opposition parties had called the strikes to focus attention on alleged government corruption. Gandhi must Souttti African wonmeo arrested From Associated Press reports CAPE TOWN, South Africa Police arrested more than 200 women, including the wife of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, during a protest march in central Cape Town as part of a nationwide defiance cam paign. Many of the women, blacks and whites, sat on the street and chanted freedom songs before police led or carried them into vans. In Pretoria, eight blacks and two whites were arrested for trying to desegregate the capital's whites-only buses, another phase of the defiance campaign. The two whites were women who bought bus tickets for blacks. Twice this week, shots have been fired into the homes of organizers of the Pretoria campaign. Police stopped the throng of placard-carrying women in Cape Town after they emerged from a church hall to begin a march to the British Embassy. They intended to ask Britain to protest the South African government's handling of student unrest in the Cape Town area and to intercede on behalf of three black activists facing execution for a 1986 killing. In addition to Leah Tutu, those nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnrvTnrinfTrvTnri "Put A Little South In Your Mouth " at DIPS COUNTRY KITCHEN DumpUn's BBQ Chicken Seafood &18 choices 405 Rosemary St. 942-5837 Open 8am-1 0pm Monday thru Sunday IUUUUUUUUUUUUWUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUI Back - Io Specials VI Hi 919-92ffi29 Uhiersity Mall, ChdRel nationwide Dndiaum call new parliamentary elections later this year, and the strike has been per ceived as being the start of the oppo sition's campaign. The strike closed shops, businesses and schools and stopped rail and transport services in the six opposition-government states. In other regions, it evoked only a limited response, although there was a drop in business activity and attendance at schools, colleges and offices. About 2,700 people, including 16 lawmakers, were arrested for sitting on railroad tracks to block trains in southern Tamil Nadu state, police said. Press Trust said at least 11 people were killed in clashes involving police and pro- and anti-government factions. It said seven deaths were reported from the northeastern state of Tripura, which borders Bangladesh, in fighting between members of the Congress Party and the Marxist Communist Party. Four people were killed in the arrested included Mary Burton, a white woman who heads the Black Sash civil rights group, and Dorothy Boesak, wife of the Rev. Allan Boesak, a prominent mixed-race activist who is president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Many of the marchers sat in a street adjoining a small plaza until they were led into police vans and driven away. Scores of onlookers cheered them. Police said the women would be charged with participating in an illegal gathering. A white activist involved in the defiance campaign, Willie Hofmeyer, was admitted to a Cape Town hospital Wednesday with suspected internal bleeding, his father said. Hofmeyer has been on a hunger strike since he was detained by police last week dur ing a protest at a branch of First National Bank, sponsor of an ongoing tour by an international rugby team that activists say violates the sports boycott of South Africa. The South African Council of Churches, which supports the defi ance campaign, announced plans for an outdoor rally Saturday in Soweto, the vast black township outside Johannesburg. The church council's general secretary, the Rev. Frank Chikane, said the rally was intended of vegetables - School Jeans m-m (Dff! 1DX-JDX (Dff! fall& Winter Merchan dise Arriving Daily! I M IV ill Mil" "VI fill states of Kerala and West Bengal, both governed by the Marxist Communist Party, it said. V.P. Singh, the leader of an opposi tion coalition trying to unite political groups against Gandhi, said the strike was a success. "We are very confi dent of the future," he said at a news conference. Singh's National Front had called the strike and was supported by the Marx-ist Communist Party, the Communist Party of India and the right-wing Indian People's Party. Federal Home Minister Buta Singh claimed the strike failed and that "the forces that inspired it have been deci sively defeated." He said that except in the opposition-ruled states, citizens rejected the strike call and federal government organizations nationwide functioned normally. In New Delhi, thousands of gov ernment employees slept in their offices Tuesday night so they could report to work on Wednesday. The government had threatened not to pay as a forum for blacks to express their opposition to the white-controlled government in a peaceful manner. Outdoor rallies are illegal unless authorized by the government, and Chikane said he hoped Saturday's event would be approved. Tutu and Boesak are among the scheduled speakers. Tuition UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin said he did not oppose the amount of the increase. "The amount of the increase is not unreasonable, but the late impo sition of it, so that we've had to double-bill and rearrange financial pack ages, is a serious inconvenience to students and the University." John Tart, co-chairman of the N.C. House Appropriations Committee, said the increase put UNC tuition closer to tuition at other state institu tions in the country. "We looked at what other colleges outside the state are charging. "We did consider a 20 percent increase (in out-of-state tuition)." Out-of-state tuition is still lower than at most public schools, Tart said. "We could have gone up a little more on out-of-state tuition and still would have been in line with what other states are charging." Hardin agreed. "You (students) still have a pretty good deal relative to other universities. "I think the main point there is that it was a very, very large dollar Attention Professors: When the term has begun and your textbooks are still not in stock, call Kinko's Copy Center. We will contact the publishers and, with permission, reproduce the first chapters of the book so your students can stay on schedule. You can depend on Kinko's. pen BQ Clours. 114 IV. Franklin St. 9 jik 9 1 k viod-wtvw Buy a complete pair of glasses at our regular low price and get a second pair FREE! Equal or lesser value. Includes all frames. (Second pair is not from a select group.) Also includes plastic single-vision or standard bifocal lenses, UV400 protective coatings, all tints including sunlenses, scratch-resistant coatings, hand-polished lens edges, and ultra-thin Pentax lenses. 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Parliamentary elections must be called before January. The strike was a rare show of unity for the normally fractured opposition. in march Before dawn Wednesday, a bomb exploded at the home of a member of the Indian chamber of Parliament, causing damage but no injuries. Police said the explosion wrecked a door and several windows at the home of Ahomed Lambat in Alberton, southeast of Johannesburg. There was no claim of responsibility. increase imposed very late. It's bound to be a difficulty for out-of-state stu dents and families, especially because we don't have any way to alleviate that with financial aid except for any available federal aid. "I don't want to let out-of-state tuition get too far ahead of the game." Spangler said the increase shouldn't be a problem for out-of-state students. "Tuition is a relatively small part of the costs of out-of-state students. Travel costs and other costs indicate they have the ability to han dle the increase in tuition. "Were they going for cheap educa tion, they would stay in their own state." Todd Williams, a junior from Elon, said the increase would affect his par ents more than it would him. "But I think they should have staggered the increase." Kristy Mayhue, a junior from Richmond, Va., said she was con cerned about the increase. "It does affect me because I don't want to have to make my parents pay more." the copy center on second pair. woocJcroFt B collections. 2 New York teens charged in connection with murder From Associated Press reports NEW YORK Two white teenagers were indicted Wednesday on murder charges in the killing of a black youth last week that has set off a racial furor in the city. The indictments were returned in Brooklyn Criminal Court just one hour before the scheduled funeral of Yusef Hawkins, 16. At a wake Tuesday for Hawkins, mourners jeered Mayor Edward Koch. Keith Mondello, 18, and Pasquale Raucci, 19, of Brooklyn, were charged with murder, riot, assault, criminal possession of a deadly weapon, unlawful imprison ment and civil rights violations. Mondello was the alleged leader of a gang of up to 30 whites, armed with baseball bats and golf clubs, that allegedly attacked Hawkins and three friends Aug. 23 in the predominantly white Bensonhurst neighborhood. ""This is nothing more than a political indictment," charged, Mondello's lawyer, Stephen Murphy. Friends defend teacher MOULTRIE, Ga. A former Teacher of the Year was defended Wednesday by friends who testified they believe her claim that she didn't know her husband was grow ing marijuana in a vine-covered greenhouse behind their home. Student leaders also questioned the out-of-state increase. "If you're going to raise tuition, you'll make Carolina a more and more elitist school for out-of-state students," said Gene Davis, Student Congress speaker. Lewis said the increase would drive away out-of-state students. "It's still a bargain, et cetera, but it won't be for long. If that low price means we get high quality students, then we lose one of our competitive edges. "If you combine that (losing stu dents) and faculty benefits going down, we'll not only be out of the top 10 but out of the top 25." The legislature should have acted earlier to give students and schools time to prepare, Lewis said. "That leaves people no time to respond. It's bad on students. There was no way for the financial aid office to respond." But Tart said the late decision was unavoidable. "It just takes that long to make a decision. We don't know how much money the state's taken in until the latter part of July." The legislature did not provide extra financial aid money for the UNC-system for this academic year, Helium Balloons Singing Messages Cakes, Candies, etc. Unusual Care Packages & Decorating Service 967-3433 We're Only A Phone Call Away ! 208 W. 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"We need time so the spirit of reconciliation can overcome the spirit of confrontation, but for Cambodia the hour of peace will come," Roland Dumas, the French foreign minister, told the confer ence just before adjourning the final session. Some delegates said the failure increased the likelihood of full scale civil war when Vietnam with draws its military forces Sept. 27 after nearly 1 1 years of occupation. from page 1 but $500,000 has been set aside for the system for the 1990-91 year. Eleanor Morris, director of the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid, said loan money to counteract the increase would be available. The biggest inconvenience to the office will probably be processing addition al forms submitted by students asking for more financial aid because of the increase, she said. "This could mean as many as 3,000 to 4,000 revisions. It's going to be very costly to provide students with additional funds that they will need." 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