European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2, the stars and stripes Friday september 20,1985m j the St a j 2 More deaths As South Africa turmoil rages Johannesburg South Africa a police said they shot and killed two mixed race people including a 10-year-old boy in fierce Street clashes around Capetown where hundreds of thousands of youths were locked out of school. Residents reported a third victim was killed in the wednesday clashes but police said they had no knowledge of it. Lawyers said that they would seek a court order next week for the release of the Rev. Allan Loesak a top anti apartheid Leader whose detention on aug. 27 triggered violence in Cape town. Police Are holding Loesak under the internal Security act which permits indefinite detention without charge. Loesak who is of mixed race had planned to Lead a March in Cape town the next Day to demand the release of Nelson Mandela head of the outlawed african National Congress guerrilla movement. Near the capital of Pretoria police firing rubber bullets and tear Gas broke up a funeral party for a 4-year-old Black riot victim. Twenty two Blacks had been arrested by Nightfall police  Cape town s sprawling mixed race districts where parents and children for a second Day tried to Force open schools youths put up burning barricades in the Elsie s River suburb and took to the streets in the neighbouring Valhalla District. Police reported in a communique that one Man was shot to death in Valhalla when police opened fire with shotguns on a Stone throwing crowd. Another was killed in Elsie s River when youths stoned cars and tried to loot a liquor store. The report described both victims As men but Cape town police said one of the victims was a 10-year-old boy. The child whom police earlier had reported was a girl was not identified. Pretoria Headquarters said they had no knowledge of a earlier report from Cape town police that another Man was killed in the City s Mann Borg District for mixed race  schools in Cape town s mixed race districts were closed sept. 6 after two weeks of anti apartheid rioting. Officials said they were unlikely to reopen until oct. 1, keeping about 370,000 youths out of classes. Thirteen months of anti apartheid rioting have claimed at least 660 lives according to government figures. A private monitoring group said More than 700 have died. Outside a Central Cape town police station police wielding whips waded into 50 people trying to present a petition about relatives who Are among about 1,000 apart Heid foes detained without charge under South Africa s eight week old state of emergency. The group said they feared the prisoners were being tortured. Some of the crowd who had linked arms led in the fracas and several passers by were knocked to the ground witnesses said. Twenty people were arrested and ordered to appear in court next week. In a separate development the military said nearly 500 South african led troops were battling to destroy a estimated 400 to 800 Black nationalist guerrillas in South Ern Angola. Troops swept across the Border from South West Africa or Namibia on monday. The guerrillas have fought since 1966 to end South african Rule Over Namibia. Beirut from Page 1 night that no More releases were Immi  unconfirmed reports about Weir s re lease surfaced sunday with an Anonymous Telephone Call to the Reuters news Agency. The presbyterian Church said Earl wednesday that Weir had been freed. Soon afterwards Reagan supplied the official confirmation that Weir was Back in America Safe with his  i am Happy for him and his family the president said but i will not be satisfied and will not cease our efforts until All the hostages the other six Are  later As he boarded air Force one to return to Washington Reagan held up six fingers and said six More to  lbs news reported wednesday evening that according to an intelligence Community source. Weir was apparently release Din order for him to deliver a message to . Officials. The contents of the message Are not known but the circumstances Sug Gest that it could Lay out conditions for re lease of the other  Djerejian when asked about the cd report said obviously the Rev. Weir had things to say about the hostage situation but i can t get into  Weir 61, a presbyterian minister was kidnapped by terrorists May 8, 1984, in Beirut. Neither Reagan nor Djerejian offered any details about his release. Djerejian said Weir was in Norfolk. Va., although a Church official said later in the Day that the minister and his family had left the City but we Don t know where  doctors described Weir As being in Good mental and physical condition Djerejian said. He said the United states had absolutely made no Deal with the terrorists who had held Weir Pur position on negotiating with terrorists is very Clear he said. Asked if the United states had Given up anything to win Weir s release the spokes Man said i m not going to get into  Djerejian refused to answer questions on Why Only Weir had been freed. He said we have been in touch with a number of governments and various contacts including the syrian government Reagan himself was asked upon returning to Washington whether Syria was involved in Weir s release. I can t comment on that the president said. Later in the Day a senior state depart ment official indicated that Syria had played a role at least to some degree in dealing with the Weir Case. The official who spoke on condition that he not be identified said Syria had not been so clearly connected to the release of Weir As it was to the freeing in june of 39 americans held hostage after the hijacking to Reimt of trans world airlines flight 847. A state department official speaking Only on condition of anonymity said Weir told Debric fers that he had been held in Lebanon during the entire length of his Captivity. The official said Weir had not been tortured and that for someone who s gone through what he s gone through he s in pretty Good condition Weir was kidnapped at 8 15 . While walking in moslem Beirut with his  men jumped out of a White Peugeot 504, forced him into the car and drove off police said at the time. A native of Salt Lake City Weir graduated from Princeton theological sem Inary. He served As a pastor in Oakland calif., and As a . Army chaplain before being appointed to Lebanon As a missionary in 1953. Rent in arabic he worked with the National evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon and was Active in Relief pro Grams in Lebanon. When Weir was kidnapped a Man claim ing to represent islamic holy War or islamic jihad a terrorist group told the French news Agency Agency France press that his organization was behind the incident. In addition to Weir islamic jihad Alt has claimed responsibility for abducting the other six americans. The americans who remain captive and the dates they were kid napped Are William Buckley 56, . Embassy political officer March 16,1984. Peter Kilburn 60, a librarian at the american University of Beirut dec. 3,1984. The Rev. Lawrence Jenco 50, a roman Catholic priest Jan. 8,1935. Terry Anderson 37, chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press March 16,1985. David Jacobson 54, director of the american University Hospital May 28,1985. Thomas Sutherland 54, Dean of Agri culture at the american University june 9,1985. Reagan from Page 1 minute speech when he announced that the Rev. Benjamin Weir a 61-year-old presbyterian missionary had been released 16 months after being kidnapped in Lebanon. Six other americans remain captive. At his televised news conference in Washington on tuesday night Reagan fielded questions about Trade foreign policy arms control and the disease aids but did not get a single question about his tax plan. Reagan Drew loud cries of no from his audience when be asked Are those politicians right when they say you Don t care after returning to the White House Reagan met with sen. Robert Packwood r-ore., chairman of the Senate finance committee who said afterwards so Long As we Are prepared to stay Here until Christmas and i Hope we arc we can get a tax Bill to the president this  the president s appearance at the 166-year-old statehouse marked his first visit to the state since he took office in 1981. His Victory in new Hampshire s first in the nation presidential primary in 1980 was a major Milestone on his path to the presidency. Many of you were Active in that Campaign he told his audience. Together we started something that has changed the face of  aides said Reagan now has visited 44 of the 50 states since becoming president in january 1981. The exceptions Are North Dakota South Dakota Idaho Maine ver Mont and Rhode  his appearance wednesday Reagan has campaigned for his tax plan in 16 cities in 14 states since memorial Day. Noting new Hampshire s relatively Low taxes the president charged that the Feder Al tax system rewards Rich states with big budgets and High  you people who be been responsible and kept your budgets Low Don t receive an equal Benefit he said. That s no Way Torun a Federal tax  Reagan said new Hampshire which has neither an income tax nor a general sales tax is one of the Low tax states thanks to responsible leadership of Republican gov. John Sununu and nil predecessors. Deputy White House press Secretary Al Bert r. Brashear said new Hampshire has the lowest per capita state tax in the nation at $433, and ranks 40th in combined state and Federal taxes at a Little Over $800. Britain Are now  crisis has brought relations Between the two countries to their lowest Point in years and this is the first time expulsions Nave stretched into a fourth round. Sixty two diplomats journalists and businessmen 31 for each count have been ordered out of London cow in the past six Davs. Foreign  Howe said in a Statum Vtha soviet authorities must her the full responsibility for this Able  Howe said this severe setback to United kingdom soviet relations was not of our choosing. An improved relationship with Moscow cannot be bought at the expense of Vic s National Security. Lesson has finally been  will exist for the pro vement in u.k.j0hlhrnons which has been and us main the British gov intimate  Howe said the soviet Union is response bile for the crisis because it authorized the intelligence and subversive activities exposed by London Kab chief Oleg a. Gordi Evelti who the foreign office said last thursday had defected with a list of soviet agents operating in Britain. Following Gordievsky s defection the British expelled 25 soviet officials and accused them of being spies. The soviets retaliated by ordering out 25britons on saturday and on monday British threw a of the latest Sovi while flying from Cairo to she told rape Lablab he British Domestic news Agency a Bluj rated the Core of their the soviet sue. Sive and intelligence operation in Britain Sowe shall not respond further to their wholly unjustified expulsions. I Hope this is an end of the matter and that we can get on with a constructive relationship. 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