European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes March Anthony Lewis Nof much has changed since bloody Sharleville on March 25 years several thousand Blacks gathered in the town of South they were to protest against the apartheid from be Hind a police fired into the crowd 67 were killed and 186 most of them shot in the the Sharleville massacre was a turn ing Point in the tragic history of South Africa but not the one expected at the Many then saw it As a signal that the country racist system must soon to the the years that followed saw the ruthless consolidation of White the Black majority did not reach for Power at that convulsive its tradition of nonviolence was As Blacks were capable of extraordinary and it turned out that White leaders had no compunction about using All the oppressive instruments of the modern state to suppress yearnings for human and political a generation after not one of the Basic apartheid Laws has been re Blacks still must carry passes at All 73 percent of the pop May not vote in the land of their Blacks May not own real estate in White 87 percent of the Blacks May have to live separately from their once the Pride of South has been twisted into a mockery of Justice in order to prevent challenges to White consider the terrorism passed a few years after it is terrorism under the act to interrupt an Industry by a peaceful for example in order to pro Mote any Indus social or economic aim or it is terrorism to encourage feelings of hostility Between different population thus a Young Black Man who wrote an anti White poem and showed it to one a 17yearold was convicted of in such political cases the White parliament has reversed the Burden of so a defendant must in effect prove himself the prosecution is allowed to use hearsay there is no Hareas the prosecutor May deny taking that Issue away from the suspects May be held in Soli tary confinement indefinitely without barred even from seeing a in other any South african who dissents from the system of White supremacy May be prosecuted without a Good part of what people in both the United states and South Africa have regarded As essential to a fair the quoted words were said by a leading South Afri can Sydney such use of the Law is not at this moment 16 leaders of the Princi pal opposition the United demo cratic Are in jail charged with terrorism and treason but with no specifics Given them yet of what they Are supposed to have the attorney Gen eral has ruled out so they May be in prison for two years even if there is no Case against them in the ingenious uses of the Law have not stopped with turning trial procedures up Side parliament has enacted stat utes depriving eight million so of their South african beyond the Law there have been police measures to suppress dissent measures that often include violence and in 1976 some 600 schoolchildren were shot in in the last year More than 100 Blacks have been whole townships swept by the what has happened since Sharleville makes Clear Why Nelson the most widely accepted Black Leader even after 21 years in reacted As he did when president Botha offered to free him if he renounced let him renounce Mandela let him say that he will dismantle on this anniversary Many thoughts will come to the minds of those who love South what moves me especially is the sense of the terrible waste apart Heid causes in human Energy and South Africa happens to have in it people of amazing Talent and White and but the Whites Are sapped by the work of enforcing and the Blacks look at a Black child in South Africa an articulate child and try to imagine How it is to be barred by because of the Accident of from Ever playing a full human part in your country editors note this week South african police fired on a crowd of protesters in the Black township of at least 17 protesters were the shootings occurred on the 25th anniversary of the Sharleville o1985 new York times Syndicate a hell of a r40t6 if Gorbachev can impress people just by seemm5 to be a personable a look at russian new Leader 5 v5ars com rape f apr porn w n6 but pet dear or thank soviet Union feels same when do you get More flexible Leader