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2The Daily Tar Heel Friday, February 13, 1987 Ckffgym By WATT DIVENS Staff Writer Violence that will inevitably result from the oppression of the South African government cannot be stopped or condoned but people can have hope that after the violence there will be peace. Rev. Zachariah Mokgoebo of the Black Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa told about 200 people at a community-wide forum last night in the Beth HI Synagogue of Durham. The forum, entitled Voices from South Africa, includes speaking engagements in 23 cities, and is sponsored by the New Jewish Agenda, in cooperation with the Washington Office on Africa. Mok goebo spoke along with Rabbi Ben Isaacson of Congregation Har'el in Johannesburg in support of esta Legislature to vote on sun -restrictions By RUTH DAVIS Staff Writer Gun laws could be enacted and' enforced on a local level if the N.C. General Assembly passes a list of proposals by the Wake County Commission, Wake County Attor ney Michael Ferrell said last week. 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"Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.' Mokgoebo called on the South African government to release all political prisoners, withdraw sol diers, and hold free elections. "Too much time has been wasted, and too many talented people are depends on whether the need is perceived as local or statewide." The proposals presented Monday to Ferrell and Wake County Man ager Richard Stevens would: B require a person to pass a hunting safety course in order to buy a weapon or get a hunting license; a require hunters to wear blaze orange; from page 1 director's discretion, he said. Camp said. "SAFO is going to be preserved." Schroeder said, "The office has had many years of fine service, and this will continue the good parts of it." The Audit Board, along with Student Affairs, is currently review ing applications, and a new director will be selected within a month, Schroeder said. Efforts to reach Donald Boulton. vice-chancellor for student affairs, were not successful. 3? ,. i rotting in jail," Mokgoebo said. Children who saw their parents in non-violent protests helpless before police and soldiers have become militant, he said. Mogkoebo said this militancy makes violence in South Africa inevitable, and over 4,000 children between the ages of 10 and 18 have been arrested. Decrying "armchair liberalism," Isaacson asked the audience to take action in support of the non-racial centers and other protests. "If you think every now and then we should have a Be nice to the blacks week' or (if you protest apartheid) so you can say to the blacks 'look what we've done for you,' then that is wrong," he said. Isaacson called for a definite Jewish position on apartheid, noting B allow landowners to prevent people from carrying a gun or weapon onto posted land; B require that a person get lan downers' permission to fire a high powered weapon on their land; B create "safety zones" for areas other than corporate areas in which guns or weapons could not be used. Ferrell said he expected contro versy from local gun and hunting clubs on the proposals, although they were designed as a compromise between the clubs and the Wake County Commission. "The North Carolina Wildlife Federation and the Sir Walter Gun Club support the proposals, but some individuals within those groups do not," Ferrell said. But Mike Corcoran, executive director of the N.C. Wildlife Fed eration in Raleigh, said he was not present when the proposals were presented. He said he did support a hunter's training and safety course, the requirement of the landowner's permission before bringing guns on registered land and the blaze orange requirement. "1 am less enthusiastic about requiring the landowner's permis sion to fire a rifle or handgun on private property whether or not it is posted," he said. "1 support the ideas of safety zones, but not large, unnecessary chunks of the county being put under safety zones," he said. Max Greene, a N.C. Rifle Asso ciation member, said he also had that officially Judaism remains neutral on the issue. Isaacson told stories of his diffi culties with the South African government and with leaders of the Jewish faith. "Once 1 got a courtesy visit from a colonel in the (South African) secret police. He said 'your rope is very short I replied, 'Good, why don't you go hang yourself with it,' " he said. He also informed the audience that there was an agent of the South African government hiding some where in the crowd. "They were there at (the lecture in) London, and I'm sure they're here tonight. They have followed us everywhere else," he said. "We hope they're enjoying our lecture tonight." some reservations about the proposals. "The blaze orange is a great idea, except some animals, like ducks, turkey, geese and doves arent color blind," he said. "But it (blaze orange) is okay for deer and bear hunting (because they are color blind)." Stevens said 38 states required hunters to wear blaze orange, which has resulted in a decrease in the number of hunting accidents. He said the proposed laws were necessary in urban settings for public safety and for protecting private landowners. "Urban growth has changed hunt ing in Wake County; the proposals haven't," he said. Wake County Commissioner G. Herbert Stout also said the primary motivations for the proposals were public safety and complaints from private landowners. He said the population density in Wake County had risen, making the laws necessary. Commissioner Vernon Malone compared the proposals to speed limits. "They set up barriers and guide lines, but it's not taking away the right to own a firearm," he said. Commissioner Larry Zieverink said he also favored the resolution, but said he did not think the General Assembly will pass it. "The smaller counties outvote the major counties like Wake when it comes to passing laws in the state," he said. The smaller counties are less likely to approve the proposals, he said Moscow security silences protest for Jewish activist From Associated Press reports MOSCOW Security agents beat protesters and used snow plows to drive protesters off a Moscow street Thursday, the fourth day of rallies seeking the release of Jewish activist Josef Begun. The agents, who wore civilian clothes, also roughed up Western reporters and television crews covering the protest, which drew about 20 people at Moscow's Arbat shopping mall. I'.S. guards taken out of Moscow WASHINGTON The Marine Corps has recalled at least five of its U.S. Embassy guards in Moscow in the two months since another guard was charged with spying for the Soviets, Pentagon sources said Thursday. Martin seeks for landfill By PAUL CORY Staff Writer Gov. Jim Martin called for the elimination of landfills from North Carolina by the year 2000 at his weekly press conference in Raleigh Thursday. Martin said the current policy of disposing of solid waste by putting it in landfills "presents a threat to North Carolina's groundwater." Martin also called for the elim ination of the "zero standard," which forbids the presence of any amount of certain pollutants in drinking water. Martin said he would ask. the Environmental Management Com mission (EMC) to review the current groundwater standards, eliminate the unenforceable zero standard, and to set standards that insure safe drinking water. Martin proposed a water, sewer and solid waste revolving loan fund with $60 million in it, even though the state will only be appropriating $40 million for the fund. The other $20 million will come from a federal grant, he said. "This (the fund) would be able to help those communities that have a . need and have trouble meeting that need," Martin said. Martin also announced that he was setting up an inter-agency task force between the EMC and the N.C. Department of Health Services to expedite landfill permit requests. - Paul Wilms, director of the N.C. Division of Environmental Manage ment, said he agreed with Martin's statement that landfills pose a threat is immmmm News in Brief The transfers do not involve allegations of espionage, but rather charges that certain mil itary "good conduct" regulations were violated, officials said. Ku Klux Klan goes on trial MOBILE, Ala. - A federal jury on Thursday began deliber ating in a $10 million lawsuit against the United Klans of America that stems from the 198 1 killing of a black teenager whose body was left hanging in a tree. A Ku Klux Klansman con victed in the killing three years ago pleaded with the all-white jury to decide in favor of the black victim's family, who brought the suit. ive Jim Martin to North Carolina's groundwater., "They are a serious threat to groundwater, especially in the east ern third of the state," Wilms said. Wilms said that of the "leachee" the rainwater that percolates through landfills tested from various landfills, half was acutely toxic. '.- Martin's goal of eliminating land fills by the year 2000 is reachable, Wilms said . 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