European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday september 15,1985 paper bans doonesbury strip about a we Lynchburg a. A the Rev. Jerry fal Well s Hometown newspaper has refused to publish the doonesbury comic strips lampooning his stand on South Africa. Falwell said he has been Able to see the series anyway and found it in bad taste. The evangelist said of cartoonist Garry Ted eau i personally Don t care what he says about me As Long As he spells my name Falwell pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg and founder of the politically conservative moral majority organization Drew criticism several weeks ago when he condemned the use of economic sanctions against the White minority government of South Africa. Like president Reagan he argued that sanctions would Hurt South african Blacks economically without doing much to change the nation s policies. Doonesbury episodes last week depicted Reagan Mak ing at Harwell s initiative a Benefit recording for South Africa similar to the Usa for Africa recording and live Aid concert used to raise Money for african famine Relief. Another episode had the cartoon Falwell saying the song s message includes a respect for the Freedom of people to live How they choose even if that Means living apart. Being apart in t necessarily an in the strip Falwell then gives the name of the re cording group As apart Aid. The South african government s policy of racial separation is called apartheid. The news & daily Advance of Lynchburg did not carry the strips last week but Falwell said Friday he obtained copies from a reporter. He called the strips typical political cartoons. They Are Vintage doonesbury. I think the local paper objected to the portrayal of president Reagan As a racist. I think that s in bad executive editor William c. Clinic said the decision not to publish the strips Drew Only a few complaints. Publisher t. George Washington said in a Story that the doonesbury strips would not be run this week. Washington said Trudeau s satiric play on the we Are the world Benefit recording was offensive and the car Toon strips were racist and in bad taste. The Lynchburg newspaper offered to let any of its readers who wanted to see the strip do so at its offices. Cline said Only a few readers took advantage of the offer. Lee Salem editorial director for Universal press Syndicate which distributes the strip said he did not know of any other of the 835 papers that carry doonesbury that pulled the series. Trudeau never comments on such matters Salem said. Botha condemns businessmen s meeting Anc Johannesburg South Africa a president . Botha saturday charged business leaders with showing weakness to the enemies by meeting with exiled Black guerrilla leaders in Zambia. Renewed anti apartheid disturbances erupted overnight with youths stoning vehicles or hurling gasoline bombs in the Black districts of five major cities police reported. In Cape town s Athlone suburb for peo ple of mixed race and port Elizabeth s new Brighton township police opened fire on rioters wounding one in each of the clashes. No new deaths were reported in the 13 months of violence that has killed More than 700 people. Friday s meeting Between top South african executives and outlawed african National Congress Leader Oliver Tambo was organized by zambian president Kenneth Kaunda. Botha was quoted As saying he could not forbid the businessmen from talking to these but i do not know what they Are going to achieve other than to show signs of weakness to the enemies of South Africa Botha was quoted As saying in an interview with Johannesburg s afrikaans daily news paper beheld a supporter of the White minority government. A delegation of seven businessmen and newspaper editors headed by Gavin rally chairman of South Africa s giant mining corporation Anglo american huddled with Tambo and five other guerrilla chiefs at Kaunda s private Lodge in Zambia s Luang a game Park. The zambian Leader at tended the meeting. Both Tambo fighting a guerrilla War to topple Botha and the White businessmen said after the six hour meeting they planned to talk again and that the contacts could Mark the beginnings of peace for this violence wracked country. But Botha s comment appeared to quash widespread speculation that Friday s meet ing could Lead to a face to fact Between Botha and Tambo whom the White govern ment regards As a terrorist and accuses of running a communist organization. Botha has said he will never meet with the african National Congress or release its top jailed Leader Nelson Mandela unless it renounces violence. Meanwhile anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu banned by the government from hold ing a proposed two Day Church meeting this weekend released the text of a new attack on apartheid he had hoped to deliver at the conference in Johannesburg s Soweto Black township. If you want peace work for Justice Tutu said in the text quoting from Pope John Paul ii. If there was Justice in South Africa. We would not have a state of emergency with so Many lulled or detained leaving a legacy of bitterness hatred and anger which will burst out in a convulsion of Vio asat from Page 1 Tio ship with the soviets and will destroy the future of arms but Pentagon spokesman Fred Hoffman Laid the soviet Union Long has had an operational asat system. The United states is developing its asat capability to redress this serious imbalance to deter soviet threats to us. And Allied space systems and to deny any Adver sary advantages rising from the offensive use of space based systems Hoffman said. According to Randolph the asat weapon slammed into its target at 4 42 Edt. That was a few Houra after an f-15 Jet carrying the missile took off from Edwards fab in California he said. After the asat weapon was launched from the Jet at an Altitude of 39,000 to 40.000 feet it flew into space. There its miniature homing vehicle locked onto the target with infrared sensors and destroyed the satellite on Impact. The hit was confirmed both through ground based radar in California and through telemetry radio signals generated by the old satellite and the miniature homing vehicle itself Randolph said. The satellite was in fact destroyed he said adding the air Force did not expect the debris generated by the collision to cause any problems in space or through fallout into the atmosphere. Randolph Laid the 1,900-Pound target was launched into space feb. 24,1979. It was used for seven scientific experiments including the measurement of Gamma Ray sources in space and solar winds. Randolph said the satellite Long ago outlived its usefulness. Soviet radio on saturday condemned the successful american asat test As a dangerous step leading to the deployment of weapons in space. In this Way Washington in Defiance of College football Semson 20, Virginia tech 1 Delaware 14, naw 13 Georgia 17, Baylor 14 Georgia tech 71, North Carolina is i Kansas o. A Anderm 11 loud Ham Carolina 13 Maryland ii Botlon comma 13 Michigan Slatt 12. Alliona Slata 13 Perm slate 27, Temple 25 Laxalt lauds Star wars7 at sub launch Groton Conn. A president Reagan Star wan space defense Initia Tive u the Best Hope for a More stable and secure world is. Sen. Paul Laxalt r nev., did saturday at the launching of the Trident class submarine Nevada. The launching of the eighth Nedcar ered missile armed Trident class submarine at the electric boat shipyard also Drew pro tests by anti nuclear weapons demonstrators. President Reagan and i together with millions of others on this planet believe it is far More rational and moral to have a policy that will enable us to destroy missiles in space rather than kill people on Earth Laxalt said of the space defense proposal. The administration has proposed spend ing $26 billion on research through 1990 in Hopes of developing weapons that would be based in apace and used to shoot Down mis Siles tired at the United states. Congress appropriated $1.4 billion for research in the current fiscal year. Lavail s wife Carol broke the traditional bottle of Champagne against the submarine. The 560-foot-Iong submarine which will carry 24 indent missiles is the third Navy vessel to carry the name Nevada this Century. The Nevada is still about a year away from joing the Fleet. It will be docked in Groton while equipment is installed and tested. The coalition to Stop Trident helped organize a Short March to electric boat s main Gate in Groton calling on the govern ment to join with the soviet Union in a comprehensive test ban treaty. Lence and police banned the meeting of the South african Branch of the world conference on religion and peace maintaining it was a threat to Law and order. On Friday Tutu denounced the ban As crazy adding they not Only make it impossible for peaceful protest. They Are scared of people discussing meanwhile up reported that the Ca Nadian government announced Friday a voluntary ban on Loans and sales of crude Oil to South Africa. Up also said Canada imposed an embargo on direct flights Between the two countries to protest apartheid. External affairs minister Joe Clark told the House of commons that Canada could have limited but real influence on the South african government. He warned that Canada would impose further sanctions unless there was real movement toward re form up said temperatures widespread protests of the world Public took a dangerous step directly leading to the deployment of a new class of weaponry strike space weapons the radio said in the first soviet reaction to the test. The soviet Union earlier had threatened to resume testing of its own killer satellite weapons if the United states proceeded with Fri Day s test. The soviets have observed a self imposed moratorium on the testing of their anti satellite weapon since 1983, calling on the United states to do the same. Reagan and Weinberger have ignored the suggestion saving the soviets can afford to make such an offer because they have the world s Only operational system. Both superpowers Are heavily dependent on satellites for spying communications and Early warning of attack. The soviet system consists of a Large ground based rocket equipped with an explosive killer the soviet asat Hunts Down its target within two or three orbits of the Earth and then when close explodes to destroy the target Randolph refused to answer a question about whether the United states might be creating a new imbalance by developing a technically Superior anti satellite system. Iep Timber h l h39 a a Tim a u Asi a so 65u n a a n 45 8141 60 37 61 69 45 a so t4 47 u 43 8173 n 47 75 52 a a 31 a a a 64a 90 73 0u a n u52 is 57 a Albany Al cd r Baltimore bluing Birmingham Boll Botlo Buffalo Burlingto Charleston . Chan Atlon Cincinnat Cleveland Dana a. Worth Denver Dei Molne Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Kanui Citlai Vagai l a n a m 49 70i n 70 m47 a a 74 74 17 49 Tia a a Uso. A 71 90 41 64 41 t4i a a a a m a40 n 57 7271 n 47 71 0 m 6 73u37 a Al 99 52 15 u 70 Little Nock lot Annlou Livine Memphis Miami Baactlmptt-31. 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