European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Maureen reagans Promise wins ovation Kenya a Maureen the head of the delegation to the conference on won an ovation tuesday when she pledged that americans would not Block other delegates from expressing their political president reagans daughter also that her delegation will work to keep Broad political issues with Only a nominal connection with the unique concerns of women from dominating the Reagan received loud applause when she called for a conference of by women and for women and also when she pledged that she would not prevent any woman from using the conference As a platform for Politi Cal other speakers tuesday included Susan the wife of egyptian president Hosni who called for a decisive stand against South Africa sys tem of racial she also spoke of the plight of palestinian women in Israel occupied it is unbelievable that women can effectively participate in developing their society under foreign occupation and the Secretary general of the Union of palestinian Salwa Abu praised reagans speech As a step Forward in the relations Between Palestine and the United United press International least the administration has called us by our the women of it is a step Forward in our Khadra should make a better Effort to understand the Core of the problem of the women of pales Tine she Reagan said the White minority govern ments policy of race is abhorrent to the government and people of the United in addition to its demeaning and destructive effect on the Black people of South its effects upon women Are especially be she said the strategies to be drafted at the conference for women advancement Over the next 15 years will address ways to overcome this evil and inhumane since the opening of the delegates of the african National Congress a guerrilla organization fighting to overthrow South Africa Whiteley government have been occupying the seats set aside for South Afri we shall stay Here throughout the if any South african delegates do we shall not said Anc Delegate Ruth on the United states and third world coun tries reached a Compromise on voting procedures to be used during the american feminist Betty Friedan right talks strategy during a seminar in a photo both the United which demanded consensus approval of All and the developing countries which form the largest voting Block and sought majority claimed Victory in mondays under the the delegates will seek Consen sus on each but individual resolutions May be put to a Reagan called the Compromise a moral Victory a Victory for the but third world delegates said the Victory was theirs and the United states had saved majority votes would almost assure passage of their voting procedure is important because such issues As the status of Black women in White ruled South Africa and Arab women in territory occupied by Israel May pit the United states against a combination of third world and Eastern bloc ambassador Alan the Only Man in the said the Compromise put delegations under a moral obligation a commitment of Trust to try to reach a who is the representative to the eco nomic and social said any country moving away from a consensus would Bear the onus of introducing those divisions into the the Compromise came a few hours after the opening of the which Marks the end of a decade dedicated by the United nations to the advancement of it has attracted More than official delegates and some observers and participants at nongovernmental workshops that started july South Africa disturbances leave 8 dozens Hurt South Africa a three Days of clashes Between Black protesters and police in a string of Black townships have left at least eight people dead and dozens police and wit Nesses police reports said at least 20 communities erupted in violence from the South coast As far North As and at least 45 Blacks were the outbreaks Are the latest in 10 months of anti segregationist rioting that has claimed at least 450 Black about half of those were killed by and the others perished in criminal attacks on Blacks viewed As cooperating with and fighting Between different groups opposed to the govern ments institutionalized racial separation South Africa 22 million Blacks cannot vote or hold citizenship and Are ruled by a White minority of 5 in Masi Zakshe township near Graaff re about 100 Miles North of port Eliza residents said unrest carried into a third Day with police firing tear Gas and rubber bullets at individuals and crowds of Blacks for at least five the speaking on condition they Are not reported that police opened fire on a crowd sunday killing a Man and wounding More than 20 they said the violence apparently stemmed from a general strike called sat urday to protest the slaying by unknown assailants of Matthew a teacher from nearby his dismissal caused one of the first school Boycotts in Early 1984 and made him a nationwide Symbol of their accounts differed with a police re port from a spokesman at National police Headquarters in who said police in Masi Zahnke broke up a Stone throwing crowd monday and arrested one the who declined to be identified following department said six policemen were injured in mondays upset and a Black protester died Masi Zahnke residents said they did not take the wounded to doctors offices out of fear the police would arrest they said they transported casualties to doctors As far As 155 Miles West of in the township of a mans charred body was found under a stack of burning police said in Orange free police dispersed a crowd hurling they said one woman was killed and 21 men were they the South african press association said pupils rioted and torched two schools in and several were wounded when police arrived to put Down the Uris about 300 people attacked government buildings and destroyed Homes of two Black officials after a High school principal re fused to allow a meeting of the militant Congress of South african the Agency writer Heinrich Nobel Dies Germany a Rich the Nobel prizewinning writer whose novels and Short stories captured the essence of postwar Ger died his publisher he was 67 years a spokeswoman for publisher Kiepen Heuer and Witsch said Boell had been released from a Cologne Hospital tues Day morning and died shortly before 3 at his Home in the Eifel she declined to give the cause of Boell had been ill for some time and had been under medical he won the 1972 Nobel prize in liter Boell was Best known such novels As billiards at half past the group portrait with lady and a series of snort in those often satiric he criticized postwar its nazi past and the Nobel laureate Rose to Fame in Germany in the Early 1950s with a series of novels and Short stories Chroni cling the effects of nazism and the two world wars on germans and their rapid drive toward reconstruction of their society after the Cologne native was a longtime supporter of the nations left Wing social democratic and in 1983 caused a Heinrich Boell stir when he announced he would vote for the Radical environmentalist Green at the Boell said he Felt the greens unorthodox approach should be represented in parliament and added he was perplexed by hostility to intellectuals he had found in the coun try mainstream political
