2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 17, 1989
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South. Africa' media shows
From Associated Press reports
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Since becoming president two months
ago, F.W. de Klerk has promised re
peatedly to seek a "new South Africa."
To an extent, it is here.
In the old South Africa, whites would
have not turned on the state-run TV
news or looked at pro-government
newspapers and seen African National
Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu
gazing back, fist raised, a free man.
But on Monday, there was Sisulu,
flanked by six colleagues, on television
and the front pages of virtually every
daily paper in the country.
Their guerrillamovement technically
remains outlawed, but at a news con
ference Sunday following their release
from long prison terms, they made it
clear that they were back at work.
The ANC has never lost its hold on
support in the black community, but
most whites have accepted the
government's view that it was a com
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From Associated Press reports
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For Hardy Britze, the final decision to
flee West came after the dreaded East
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and demanded to know how a baker
could afford a French-made Citroen.
"They searched my business and
home, everything," Britze says.
Now, after abandoning friends and
parents in the city of Cottbus, Britze
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munist-controlled terrorist group, bent
on forcible seizure of power and impo
sition of a one-party system.
Since de Klerk replaced P.W. Botha
in August, however, the political cli
mate has changed dramatically. For the
first time, the government is openly
acknowledging the ANC's popularity
among blacks, and even relatively
conservative whites are beginning to
accept the inevitability of negotiations
between the guerrillas and the govern
ment. "A difficult, dangerous period lies
ahead of us, but this is inevitable if
there is to be a new South Africa," said
an editorial Monday in The Citizen,
one of the newspapers most loyal to de
Klerk.
The change in perceptions was epito
mized by the remarkably high-profile
coverage that pro-government media
gave to the ANC news conference
Sunday. Beeld, the largest circulation
daily for the Afrikaners who dominate
said only political reforms could take
him back to his communist nation, a
prospect he says he hopes will one day
come about.
"For them I'm a criminal now. We
look forward to being allowed to go
back to visit our homes some day, but
that won't happen without major politi
cal reforms," says the husky 23-year-old
Britze, relaxing over a few beers in
Frankfurt.
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the government, ran a banner headline,
"Sisulu Speaks Out," above a large
color photo of the seven ANC leaders.
The South African Broadcasting
Corp. showed the same scene on its
morning news, with Sisulu urging
"orderly and disciplined" pressure to
force the government into further con-,
cessions.
Beeld, significantly, played down
the freed prisoners endorsement of
continued guerrilla activity by the ANC
and began its article with Sisulu's call
for a democratic system in which either
a black or a white could be president.
There seemed to be no effort by the
newspaper, nor by the TV network, to
stir up antipathy toward the ANC.
The release of the seven ANC lead
ers, along with a member of a smaller
guerrilla movement, was the most dra
matic move yet taken by de Klerk, but
it followed a series of recent steps by
government officials aimed at enhanc
ing the prospects for black-white nego
lo ire refugee homme
Britze, his 23-year-old companion
Katrin Proehl, and their blonde, 4-year-old
daughter, Linda, arrived in West
Germany on Sept. 11, two days after
Hungary opened its Western borders to
the East German refugees.
For now, they share one room in a
city-run refugee home, furnished with
twin beds, a small table and desk with
chairs, a television, clothes closet and
wash basin.
"It's a little small, but we expected
things like that when we decided to
come here," Proehl said in an inter
view. "We expected to start at the bot
tom and work up."
Speaking as her daughter clambered
on the bed to watch TV, Proehl said the
family was encouraged by its welcome
here.
President prepares to sign budget
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President Bush
was poised to sign an order today cut
ting federal programs by $16 billion,
and his budget director said the cuts
would be felt faster than they were the
last time they were invoked.
The cutbacks are required under the
Gramm-Rudman balanced-budget law
change
tiations. Among these moves:
For the first time in years, the
government has allowed mass demon
strations and marches by anti-apartheid
activists. Hundreds of thousands
of people have joined these marches in
recent weeks, openly displaying ANC
banners which in the past were likely to
provoke police action.
The pace of desegregation has
quickened. Johannesburg, the country's
largest city, has eliminated the last of
its whites-only public facilities, and
only a handful of beaches remain seg
regated. De Klerk met for three hours with
three prominent anti-apartheid church
leaders, including Anglican Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, by far the longest such
talks in recent years between a head of
state and black activists. Government
officials held their first direct negotia
tions with activists on a 3-year-old rent
boycott in Soweto, the country's larg
est black township.
"Everyone has been so friendly and
helpful to us. And shopping fantas
tic. The first time we walked around the
Kaufhaus department store, we spent
an hour just looking and looking."
The couple came with just a few
clothes and personal belongings packed
in their car quickly for the trip from
Cottbus, about 70 miles south of Ber
lin, to West Germany. "We'll have to
start from scratch to furnish an apart
ment," Proehl said.
"We left a lot behind. We had our
cafe and bakery, our own business. We
had our own home. But because of our
car and business, we had the 'Stasi' in
our house checking on us."
"Stasi" is short for Staatsicher
heitsdiest, the East German secret po
lice. because of the failure of Congress and
the White House to agree on a deficit
reduction package.
Unless the House and Senate work
out a compromise version of their deficit-cutting
bills and send them to Bush
by midnight considered virtually
impossible because many lawmakers
were out of town the president is
required to sign the order.
"The very, very high odds are that ...
we'll end up in sequester," the formal
name for the automatic cuts, Richard
Darman, director of the White House
Office of Management andBudget, told
reporters today.
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Forest rangers urge campers
to eliminate all traces of visit
From Associated Press reports
BEND, Ore. The U.S. Forest
Service wants people to forget some
of the camping techniques they
learned as Boy Scouts.
And recognizing that times have
changed, the Boy Scouts have re
vised their handbook and are urging
young campers to leave their hatch
ets at home.
Rangers such as Michelle Kaptur,
who patrols the high wilderness of
the Cascade Range, are telling camp
ers that it's no longer good enough to
leave a clean camp in the wilderness.
The Forest Service wants you to leave
no trace of a camp at all, especially
not a ring of rocks where you built a
fire.
"When you leave a fire ring, the
next person says, 'Hey! There's a
camp! Let's use it!' " Kaptur ex
plained to a group of campers at
Quinn Meadows outside Bend. "After
300 people use it, it's not a wilder
ness anymore."
"There is this whole cultural im
age of what camping is," she said in
an interview. "In the new 'Star Trek
movie, there's a scene where they're
sitting around a campfire. They had
looked through the computer log to
find out what camping is. And it's
exactly true. You have to have a fire
ring. You have to have marshmal
lows. That's all true.
"But it doesn't work anymore.
There's too many of us for it to work."
A Londonderry affair
LONDON Marina Ogilvy is
two months pregnant and refuses to
marry the father until the child is
born. She says her parents are de
manding they marry now or have an
abortion.
It is a sad and commonplace tale of
modern morality, but it is also an
uncommonly public royal scandal:
Darman said the cuts would be
imposed at a very low level of federal
agency operations, making it harder for
bureaucrats to transfer money to com
pensate for the reductions.
When the automatic cuts were last
invoked for two months in 1987, they
were applied at a higher level, making
them easier to deal with, and they were
barely noticed by most Americans.
"It has a little more discipline to it,"
Darman said.
The reductions, spread evenly across
many defense and domestic programs,
are expected to total about $8.1 billion
for defense and $8.1 billion for domes-
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Ogilvy is 24th in line to the throne,
her mother being the first cousin of
Queen Elizabeth n.
The royal family recently suffered
the breakup of the marriage of Prin
cess Anne, the queen's daughter.
Now, royal-watchers say, Ogilvy, 23,
has broken palace taboos by going
public in lurid detail about her es
trangement from her parents, Sir
Angus Ogilvy and Princess Alexan
dra. The affair took on bigger dimen
sions Monday when Ogilvy, clutch
ing the hand of boyfriend Paul
Mowatt, broadcast a tearful plea to
her mother over BBC-TV.
"I want you to really stand by me
and love me as a mother," she said in
the taped interview with host Robert
Kilroy-Silk.
"I don't agree that Marina should
be pushed up the aisle into, as such,
a shotgun wedding," Mowatt said.
Ogilvy said in an interview pub
lished Oct. 9 in Today, a London
tabloid, that her parents had tried to
trick her into an abortion, disowned
her, and cut off her $160,000 trust
fund and $450 monthly allowance.
Contest to put sandwich on Stage
NEW YORK Gloria Horowitz
thinks her husband Sheldon is the
greatest thing since sliced bread, and
that's the way she wants him immor
talized: with a sandwich named in
his honor at the Stage Delicatessen.
The Stage, home of overstuffed
sandwiches named for celebrities, is
running a contest to select a common
person for a spot on the menu along
side the "Mike Tyson Triple Decker
Knockout" and the "Donald Trump
Power Special."
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tic initiatives. That works out to reduc
tions of about 4.3 percent in defense
programs and 5.3 percent in domestic
agencies.
The cuts are expected to be rolled
back as soon as Congress works out a
compromise deficit-reduction bill. The
Senate approved its version of the
measure late Friday, and House-Senate
negotiators could begin their meetings
this week.
But Darman said Sunday it might be
best if Congress left the spending cuts
in place instead of rolling them back.
"This time, if it goes into effect, I
think it would be good if people would
live with it and say, 'don't restore the
cuts,' " Darman said on the ABC-TV
program, "This Week With David Brin
kley." Automatic budget cuts took effect in
1986 and 1987 as well, but Congress
acted quickly to restore the lost funds,
a process that Darman called "phony."
The reductions are not expected to
be felt by many Americans, at least
initially.
"It affects a relatively small number
of people in our society" Rep. Bill
Frenzel of Minnesota, ranking Repub
lican on the House Budget Committee,
said last week.
The automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts,
when the law was enacted in 1985,
were intended to seem so horrific that
Congress and the president would be
frightened into cutting the federal defi
cit in order to avoid them.
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