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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday april 25, 1978 new style Szuc ends profess against s. African apart Tare Seldom As violent As in the i 96 by the associated frets Mark Rudd spoke at Columbia and the demonstration followed. But the year is 1978, not 1968, and today s student move ment against South Africa is a far chant from the Days when a fiery Young Rudd led Radical youths across the nation s campuses Parks and  growing movement is More sophisticated in its goals More quiet less violent and sometimes even polite. An example we Don t want to Inco Nve Mark Ltd. Sometimes even polite Nolence him any More than we have to said a Wesleyan University student explaining Why protesters sitting in at the president s office took off their shoes so As not to harm the carpet and spread papers to protect  time the students do not seen so alone either. Churches and civil rights groups Are protesting South Africa racism. Some Banks Are refusing to lend to the country. The Portland. Ore. City coun cil has passed a Resolution condemning ads for South african Gold  target of the protests is apartheid government mandated racial separation and the complaint is that american corporations doing business in South Africa help perpetuate it As a Way of life. The students chant is get out of South Africa but it is not As ambitious As get out of  they Are not trying to move an entire government. Just their schools. They want colleges to pull out in vestments in companies doing business in South  is estimated that $1.7 billion in Ameri can capital is invested in South Africa and that . Banks hold $2.2 billion in Loans to the country. A Senate subcommittee report lists 260 american businesses involved in South Africa. Among the largest Are Mobil Oil Exxon Standard Oil of California general motors Ford Chrysler ism control data corp. And nor corp., the old. National Cash Register. In turn colleges and universities have Large investments in these companies. Brown University in Rhode Island has $23 million invested in 44 rums that oper ate in South Africa. Indiana University has 20 percent of its endowments in such companies. The University of California s $783 million in common stocks include $449 Mil lion in these companies. The demonstrations have been mostly in areas where the 1960s student movement started the Northeast California parts of the Midwest. From Amherst in Massachusetts. To the University of Minnesota to Stanford in California administrator shave both agreed and walked. Some 1,000 students demonstrated at various University of California campuses last year and some 300 students disrupted a regents meeting. In response the re gents will consider forming an advisory Council including students to recommend when a corporation appears to be in Viola Tion of fundamental social and moral con  would change the policy of Basing investment on financial return alone. At Vassar College in Poughkeepsie . Some 200 students picketed with signs that read Don t Bank on apart  other new York schools also saw protests students blocked the exit last week when Cornell University s invest ment committee met. At Syracuse 2,200 students signed petitions asking the University to get rid of $8 million in companies that do business in South  committee of Syracuse s trustees approved a proposal to keep the stocks but Call on the companies to follow a set of principles adopted by a number of col Leges that urge equal pay for equal work integrated work forces and other ways of improving racial relations. Not All the protests have been As mild. At Stanford University 200 students were arrested for refusing to end a sit in. Some went Limp and had to be carried out but there was none of the fighting resistance of the 60s protests. At the University of Wisconsin 25 pro testers tried to crash a regents meeting in february. Police shot Mace into the crowd and arrested three people for disorderly conduct. The University s regents later voted to divest itself in As prudent but rapid manner As possible of investments in workload revamping urged companies which by to bar i discrimination. They Hant $5.74 million in such stocks $5 million to go. Such Success has not every demonstration against South Africa cup Tennis matches so i irsr11 policies. Vanderbus refused matches and treasurer 1 said if we make Chaog menu it will be on and Only. We Don t make asking what firms do t Africa and which Don to at the University of i refused to get rid of lion in stocks and Bruckner said the investments is to get i the Board to commit Tebei social Issue would end at Freedom of members of to he noted that Chicago itary recruiters during f because of its comm varsity. There have been stations at Chicago none of it has been i where Rudd spoke last i now solved problems with the riots of 1988. I chanted Stop the lies now and then went Homes Rudd who walked Omri tors but did not Lead Thi moment when he saw a c who had been there  60s. They How Are you Huv Ujj moved asked the o and a construction i Carter ill police patrol Manning criticized on said Washington Kupij a gov emment bounced Survey of 321 Law enforcement agencies showed monday that Many of them could sharply improve the effective Ness of police patrols without extra Cost by making simple shifts in workloads. About one half of the agencies currently assign equal numbers of officers to each patrol shift even though 45 percent of the Calls for police action come during the 4p.m. To Midnight shift the report said. The Survey conducted by the University she suffered twin defeats in school South Bend fad. Up Victoria Marie Ball could believe the tag born loser could apply to her especially As i relates to her sibling rivalry. Twice in four years Victoria will graduate As salutatorian in her class. This time it s the class of 1978 at St. Mary s College the sister institution of the University of notre Dame. She has a 3.996 average on a 4.0 system. Top graduate of the class of 427 students however will be the same person who beat out Victoria four years ago at Bellevue High school in Ohio her twin sister Vale Rie. Valerie finished with a 3.985 average. And a mathematician can determine that s less than three hundredths of a Grade Point difference. Both were majoring in nursing. Both also intend to go on to graduate school after a year of work at hospitals. Victoria says the pattern was set when they were  was born second she said. Science Center in Washington with a $92, 000 Grant from the Law enforcement assistance administration was reported in two handbooks designed to help police departments improve their operations. This is a nuts and bolts report that will be useful to urge and Small  acting Leaa administrator James  said. Patrol is the Backbone of policing and is the single most important police activity Gregg said. Officers salaries account for most of a department s budget so it is important to use them  William Gay. One of the report s authors said a major objective is putting patrolmen where crime occurs. It is not uncommon for patrol officer sin buoy communities to run from Call to Call during the evening watch while offi cers on the night after Midnight watch Are assigned few service Calls and have Large amounts of uncommitted time the report said. Arms Pai Washington up Carter plans to submit us my Middle East arms pack Btl this week and will with furl package if any portion of Ili press Secretary Jody Powels i see no possibility t would accept any us said of the proposal to sell a t fighters to Egypt saudi the president will i if any portion of the Ppowell said. We feel wed port that is necessary.". D the three Way Deal Eaton Al 60 highly sophisticated saudi Arabia 50 of is Figol 7sf-16sand 15f-Lssu l would total $4.8 billion. A ". Senate unit probes agent defector split in i Washington api the . Senate Ciata. And unit not Trita a in  Nfn i i. _  in a the . Senate intelligence committee confirmed monday that it has started an inquiry into allegations that the Cia decided a soviet defector was genuine despite Strong feelings by some senior agents that he is a soviet agent. The defector Yuri Nosenko. Now is working As a consultant for the Cia. A spokesman for the committee. Spen cer Davis acknowledged that the commit tee was checking out the allegations nude in a new Book by Edward Jay Epstein. He said the committee s probe was directed toward whether the Cia cleared Nosenko despite misgivings by senior officials and was not focused on Whethe Nosenko was an actual defector. Epstein s Book. Legend contends that two branches of the Cia concluded tha Nosenko. Who defected to the . In 1964. Was a phony but their conclusion was overridden. Nosenko claimed at the time of his defection to have personal knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald s two year stay in the soviet Union before the assassination Uff ormer president John k. Kennedy. The defector said soviet officials regarded Osward As suspicious and had no substantive dealings with him. Epstein s Book alleges that senior Cia officials concluded that Nosenko was sent us he s Wilh a ring message about Oswald by the soviet secret police. N cow alleges at the Cia andp"8/. I a agencies could not decide  -10T110 legitimate defector and that he was eventually declared the Washington Post said some senior i s. Intelligence officials some of whom Nave been fired or retired in various per Sonntal changes at the Cia fear that Nosenko s acceptance compromised .intelligence efforts. But it said others including those now in charge of the Cia believe thai Nosenko is a genuine  the Post reported that Cut Nosenko entered on the Obj them he had to defect Belij sians had become sushi Zmij were recalling him. It Sis vials were suspicious 1-" said the soviets never i. After he appeared in we bounced he was a defect from past procedures statements about his Job with his career history Tion coincidental came at the Warren commission a the Kennedy assassination  
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