European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday september 30, 1985 businessmen demand end to apartheid Johannesburg up leading businessmen sunday demanded the abolition of apartheid and negotiations with accepted Black leaders on a shared future for All races in riot torn South Africa. The Calls published in newspaper advertisements and interviews came after six people died in fierce clashes near Durban saturday Between traditionalist Zulu tribesmen and Black radicals. They came also on the eve of a major policy address in the Southern coastal City of port Elizabeth monday by president Pic scr Botha to the Cape provincial con Gress of his ruling National party. Ninety one business leaders including mining magnate Harry Oppenh Cimer signed full Page advertisements in afrikaans and English sunday newspapers de Claring there is a better the message was signed and paid for by English and afrikaans sneaking business men and by leaders of foreign companies including Kodak general motors Hewlett Packard and Bow. We believe there is a better Way for South Africa and we support equal Opportunity respect for the individual Freedom of Enterprise and Freedom of movement they Saia. We believe the Reform process should be accelerated by abolishing statutory race discrimination wherever it exists negotiating with acknowledged Black leaders about Power sharing granting full South african citizenship to All our Peoples restoring and entrenching the Rule of the signatories included businessmen who flew to Lusaka Zambia earlier this month for ice breaking talks with exiled african National Congress guerrillas opposed to White Rule. Or. Anton Rupert the country s fore most afrikaner businessman did not sign the advertisement but delivered a similar message in a rare interview with opposition English language newspapers and with the pro government rapport afrikaans news paper. Apartheid is dead but the Corpse stinks and it must be buried not embalmed he said. This is not the time to be proud this is a time for quoting Swiss theologian Uldrych Zwingli he said my advice to today s leaders is for god s Sake do something Brave " in port Elizabeth Center of the worn rioting in a yearlong Black uprising that Hai claimed about 720 lives supporters of the ruling National party gathered for a provincial Congress due to be opened by Botha monday evening. Botha failed to make major reforms last month when journalists from around the world gathered for an address to supporters in Durban but analysts said he might deliver a significant message monday in the last of four provincial congresses. Botha frequently has promised to abolish inequality among the races but he has rejected a Universal franchise desegregation of schools and residential areas and talks with the exiled Anc. $ i Biff Ion in arms lost or stolen annually Dod says York up the Pentagon says a billion Worth of weapons is lost or stolen each year and tens of millions of dollars Worth of them end up on the Black Market according to a report published sunday. Officials from the defense department other Federal agencies and members of Congress Lold the new York times that theft from . Military bases ships and warehouses was the principal source of the Black Market s Supply of advanced Ameri can made weapons intended for military use. The weapons often become available for Sale to hostile governments or terrorists potentially contributing to the problem of terrorism the government is trying to fight the times said. Land mines plastic explosives missiles bazookas grenade launchers and artillery have reached inc Black Market the newspaper said. The military sorts and stores so much weaponry in its $80 billion stockpile that it loses or misplace $1 billion Worth per year the times said. Federal officials say it is impossible to know How much of the missing weaponry is stolen although they contend much of it is simply misplaced due to poor record keep ing the newspaper said. Pentagon officials say they have improved their record keeping and Security since two years ago when the general accounting office said the magnitude of the inventory accuracy problem is much greater than has previously been Rico Gnu cd by the department of we re keenly aware of the problem and looking at everything we can do to try and fix it said James Ray the Pentagon s Deputy director for Supply and programs. The problem is pretty widespread said defense department Deputy inspector general Derek Vander Schaaf. It leads us to believe there arc a lot of holes in the Supply system we need to plug in the last two years the . Customs service has arrested an increasing number of people who were trying to sell missiles weapon parts military aircraft and other serious stand alone weapons systems to Libya Iran and other customers commis once William von Raab said. Clearances from Page 1 Vised that it expects to satisfy the require ment in a timely defense contractors had eliminated 149.599 existing clearances or 10.7 percent of the whole by sept. 14. Snider continued. In Short the Overall objective has been but Snider also said the Pentagon approved some exceptions to Weinberger s order. While he declined to offer figures he said the goal won t be met by the National Security Agency and the defense Intelli gence Agency because their employees have an undisputed need for a clearance. We will Analyse the results of this Effort when they arc reported to us and attempt to identify those components where further reductions May appear Snider also noted however that Navy Secretary John f. Lehman or. Has set a goal of reducing Navy clearances by 50 percent As soon As possible and Weinberger also ordered a 10 percent reduction in the number of new requests for Security clearances during fiscal 1986, which begins tuesday. The Navy s higher goal of 50 percent was a direct response to the Walker family spy scan dal which erupted in May with the arrest of John Anthony Walker a retired warrant offi cer w to was accused of passing Navy secrets to the soviet Union Over a 20-year period. Walker s arrest was followed by the arrest of his son Michael a Seaman on the aircraft Carrier Nimitz his brother Arthur j. Walker a retired Navy lieutenant com Mander and his Best Friend Jerry a. Whit Worth a retired Petty officer. Arthur Walker was convicted on aug. 9 on each of the seven counts filed against him. The trials of the other three have yet to begin. Last june Lehman and adm. James d. Walkins the chief of naval operations admitted the Walker ring caused serious damage to the nation s Security particularly in naval communications. All four men held at least a secret clearance while plane crash kills 17 Frankfurt on Parachute run in a. Jenkinsburg a. A an air plane filled with parachutists crashed on take off from a private Rural Airstrip sunday kill ing All 17 people aboard officials said. The single engine Cessna 208 caravan crashed in a pasture about 12 30 . Fed eral aviation administration spokesman Roger Myers said. The air plane was apparently climbing out after taking off and a witness slated that the engine stalled said Preston Hicks a National transportation safety Board investigator who was on the scene. Grady Wyatt who lives near the crash site about one mile from the West wind sport Parachute Center was in his Yard when the plane flew Over just above the treetops. Panel oks nominee Washington a the Senate governmental affairs committee has unanimously approved president Reagan s nomination of James c. Miller to be director of the office of management and Bud get. Miller chairman of the Federal Trade commission since 1981, is expected to win easy Senate confirmation by next week. The plane came up and looked like it could hardly stay up. A few minutes after that i heard a crash what sounded like a crash said Wyatt. The plane came to rest on its Back its cock pit destroyed but the wheels intact said Butts county fire chief . Vaughn. The first report to us was that there were 17 persons on Board and All were injured fatally Myers said. Rescue workers spent two hours pulling bodies from the wreckage. They were taken to a National guard armory in nearby Jackson. 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