European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday. November 3, 1985 South Africa clamps Down on press coverage Johannesburg South Africa. a ban on television radio an coverage of rioting in cities and Loonsk blanketed by emergency regulations. After weeks of criticism from the govern ment and local newspapers. Police minister Louis be Grange issued a declaration bar ring television Crews radio reporters and sound men and photographers from cover ing township unrest which in the past 13 months has claimed nearly Koo lives. Print reporters May under police escort government is concerned presence of television and other camera Crews in unrest situations which proved to be a catalyst to further newspapers have accused unnamed Tele vision Crews of inciting rioters to overturn cars and Rustage of cts of violence for the s association ers Wethe i. Fca. Representing Rica based overseas reporter damned the ban As Jas a a Rorren of censorship news of South from reaching be a statement issued after the Fca s emergency meetings a d the ban on correspondents entering an unrest area except under police escort raises alarming Imp Lica we View today s ruling As the beginning of the Slippery slide toward a totally con trolled press it said. Government officials said journalists were acc cite ,. Not All Fca Stocal report the police. Blackout was published in Sal in mint Gazette a move giving sub Iriti As lo"8 a5 the state of Emorgen the Gazelle notes that in is under the emergency regulations to take recording sound or visual of any riot Situ maximum penalties in terms of the wide emergency Powers arc a Fine of Rands 20.000 about $7,000 and 10 years jail or both. President pie ice w. Botha declared a state of emergency in the areas around to i Zaboth july 21. Cit _ _ from government violence in Black townships. Recently the emergency regulations were extended to include Cape town and surrounding districts after about 65 people were killed in coloured mixed race townships around the City since August. The current anti government unrest began in september 1984 and since then la Mcd nearly 800 lives. Since the state of As imposed on july 2 5,876 s 1 and 4-724 have been i i i Wiljo in police custody. A routine police unrest report saturday noted four incidents throughout the coun try with three arrests and one person lightly wounded. French general dismissed for assailing army Paris up a French general who blistering attack on the French Armei those of the United to tall Many has been dismissed the defense ministry said saturday. A ministry spokesman said Gen. Philippe Arnold 52. Commander of the 1st div at Trier Germany was relieved of his duties Friday night. His successor will be chosen wednesday by defense minister Quiles the spokesman said. Arnold who for Raj put Faa been commander Ofa St consid Rcd one of France so Feln Porlant garrisons in Gray and wednesday Deli Rcd a severe critique of the French military in a news conference at Trier. Actions behind their ration behind the British Arnold added that amx-30 b-2, Isuf Leop Ard 2 tank of off Luyand Britain Schulte complained bitterly thai the by decl for his division had dropped steadily in the past two years and that France had not been Able to incorporate sophisticated technology such As laser beams into its tank weaponry. We can no longer dare to participate in a shooting match with opposing whose tanks Hayes _ shells Jkuta a in set and in a screen Nold said. Javino reason for in dist an aide to former conservative Valery Giscard d Estwing. Bui French newspapers said it was obvious that Quiles appointed defense min ister following the resignation of Charles Herne in september Over the bombing of a Greenpeace ship by French secret service agents in new zealand was acting in re . Pessimistic on Philippines future unless Marcos makes drastic changes Washington a increasing civil unrest and a growing communist insurgency will Force change in the govern ment or the Philippines within the next three years unless president Ferdinand Marcos makes major reforms a new assessment concluded Friday. The prediction by the Senate Intelli gence committee marked another in a series of pessimistic v s. Forecasts about the future of the Philippines a key . Pacific ally and the Home of two Large american military bases. In the two years since opposition Leader Benigno Aquino was assassinated As he stepped off a plane on his return to Manila from the United states . Officials have become increasingly concerned about Marcos future. Last month. President Reagan sent sen. Paul Laxalt r-ncv., As a personal envoy to Manila to deliver a message to Marcos that the United states wanted Reform. Last week top state department and Pentagon officials told the Senate for eign relations committee that the for Mer . Colony is headed toward civil War on a massive scale unless Marcos makes drastic changes. Sen. David Durenberger r-minn., chairman of the Senate intelligence committee told a news conference Fri Day that i am hopeful Marcos will step but the ailing Marcos who has ruled since 1965, has shown no signs that he plans to do so and is out of touch with the seriousness of the threat to his govern ment Durenberger admitted. All we re getting from him is a Public relations barrage Durenberger said. While he said he does t know what should be done Durenberger said i m not suggesting that the United states should use Covert action to destabilize Marcos government or should Lake other Steps to ensure that Marcos successor is Friendly to the United states. The communists who fight under the name new Peoples army spa control or Are contesting areas inhabited by 10 million of the 53 million people in the Philippines the report said. In the two years since the Aquino assassination the spa has expanded so rapidly that it now poses a credible threat to the survival of the philippine government it said. From a total Force of a few thousand armed guerrillas in 1970, the spa has grown to probably Over 15,000 regulars and a somewhat larger number of part time irregulars the study concluded. The communist movement it indigenous and there is no evidence it has been supplied with weapons or Money by the soviet Union the report said but soviet attention to events in the Philippines is certainly on the the communist insurgency is very much a Home grown movement and its leadership will probably be hesitant to become dependent on the .s.r. For arms and funding if it can avoid doing so the report concluded. Besides the communists a significant non communist moderate opposition seeking change through democratic processes exists and the various groups have pinned their Hopes on next year s local elections and the presidential elec Tion scheduled the following year. Called nothing Short of a Miracle wayward satellite finally in right orbit Al Segundo up the is. Com Mercial satellite Industry is Back on the space missions in years twas reported off Lur Day. A wayward satellite which had drifted around Earth for six months finally reached its orbit Friday in what one described As nothing Shoi the lo5 Angeli Huhti s least 3 was launched from the Bay of the space shuttle discovery last april but the engines failed to activate themselves. With the recovery of least 3, Hughes Amercia satellite by Sinesi i it i the Navy and Alyze the insurance Industry in the United Stales. After a month of testing Hughes will turn the least 3 Over to the Navy and begin collecting revenues. Insurance companies that paid hughess85 million after the satellite was declared a loss last april could recoup As much ass65 million under an agreement Between Hughes and underwriters possibly easing Indus the space shuto i Asun least 3 i september and two astr Tiwu a it so ground controllers could Start the engines which they did sunday. Spouse to a Refl _ tanks was not projected blared a headline in the left lean ing liberation. Be quotidian quoted a parliamentary of tent to the socialist government. Deputy a Marie Taillet of the conservative Loracy party As Call ing Fortis him and a cry of alarm. It is necessary to quickly restore grow thin the military budget of 4 percent a year Taillet said. The National Assembly is scheduled to debate the military budget Friday. News update sex husband sentenced Newport Tenn. 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