European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 13, 1985 the stars and stripes s. Africa says it May oust foreign Blacks Johanni Isburg. South Africa a the government declaring that Charity begins at Home said monday it May have to Send Home thousands of foreign Black workers if sanctions Force More South Afri cans out of work. Minister of manpower picnic Duplessis denied a report in an influential financial newspaper that the government already had approved he expulsion of some of the 1.5 million Black foreign workers Many of whom work in the Gold and Diamond mines that Supply much of South Africa s hard currency. Bui Duplessis said contingency plans were being drafted to Send Home foreign Blacks if necessary in the future. This action has been forced on the South african government by those who favor sanctions and disinvestment without having regard for the detrimental effect on innocent peo ple he said. Since Charity begins at Home the government has no option but to give prefer ence to the needs of its own citizen As regards Job opportunities Duplessis said in a statement issued in Pretoria the Cani Tal. Business Day which closely reflects inc thinking of business leaders re Porcu thai inc expulsions had been endorsed by senior Cabinet and military officials. An accompanying front Page editorial said inc mad ind provocative act would ensure tougher foreign Steps against South Africa. Support for sanctions even if they mean increased hardship arc viewed by Many As a peaceful Way of pressuring the White led government to move away from apartheid and to share Power with the Black majority. The government hinted two months ago at the possibility of expelling foreign work ers if sanctions and divestment damage the Economy and drive up unemployment. President . Botha has said sanctions would Hurt Blacks within South Africa and in neighbouring countries More than Whites. The tiny kingdom of Lesotho for exam ple derives at least 50 percent of its Gross National product from 139,000 of its work cars who Are employed in South african mines. Zambia has endorsed sanctions while other countries such As Zimbabwe and Mozambique agree in principle but say their economies could not stand retaliatory South african pressure applied because of sanctions. Mozambican Leader Samora Machel called for International pressure during his recent trip to the United states but he said his country would be Hurt by expulsions because 60.000 mozambicans legally work in South Africa. The business Day Story sent Sluck Waves through the mining Industry which employs about 210.000 foreign Blacks.  of South Africa s own Blacks shun danger Ous underground mining jobs making the Industry dependent on foreign migrant workers. The government a s .150,000 foreign Blacks arc legally employed in South Afri Ca while 1.2 million arc illegally employed. It would take years for us to recover if foreign workers were expelled said Clive Knobbs president of the chamber of mines the association of mine owners. It also presupposes we could find the people to replace the migrant  hot added there would be a massive outcry from the mining Industry. Many of these Guys have been working for us for years. They Are the sons and grandsons of workers who started with  Duplessis said there is no immediate plan or desire to summarily repatriate Large numbers of foreign  he said the contingency planning is under Way to minimize personal hardship and to ensure stability in affected industries if expulsions be come necessary. In other developments monday police reported sporadic anti apartheid Riding around the country but no new deaths in the 15-month-old violence that has left at least 800 dead. Several clashes occurred sunday and Early monday in a Clodi one of Pretoria s Black townships not previously involved in unrest. Authorities released 19 activists in port ii Ubich who helped Lead a four month Black consumer Boycott of White owned shops. On Friday supporters endorsed a two week suspension of the Boycott to get negotiations going again and called on the government to release the leaders As a show of Good Faith. About 32 arrested activists in Cape town began a hunger strike to protest Extension of the state of emergency last month to the Cape Region family members said. The prisons department said it would not Force feed the strikers in keeping with International rules on treating prisoners. To a giant mislay his Wristwatch what s filled As the largest wrist watch Eer ind the claim seems unlikely highly unlikely to be challenged hangs from the of of a building in downtown Madrid. The fac tory promotion in the Spanish City fld tar discs a new Swiss made timepiece. The dimensions of the jumbo watch about 162 Yards lung with a face about 20 Yards across and a weight of 5 tons. It la be on display for several weeks. Hussein says Arab hag soon font Over Jerusalem Amman Jordan a King Hussein Jed military cadets that the Arab Flag will soon Fly am Jerusalem and warned of a crackdown against Yuan rebels in an overture to the Arab neighbor that opposes his plan for peace with Israel. J meanwhile Palestine lib Ratia organization chair Man Yasser Arafat who has Jol with Hussein in pro posing the plan for peace Wither jewish state said in an interview broadcast sunday i Budhazi that the pales Tinian people will never yet the gun fall from their hands.1 f the jordanian monj4b. Whose plan with Arafat Calls for Israel to re Linqui lands seized in the 1967 Middle East War in exch Jfe for peace told a military gradual ing Clais that Tyrest Bank s major City lost in that conflict will soon under Arab control again. It will none Long before the Day that the Arab Flag will Fly Over Jerusalem and the voices from the mosque co will cry cod is great and the Bells will ring from. Church if Hussein said at the Royal military Academy in Amman. Israel which captured the old City of Eastern Jerusa Lem from Jordan in 1967 and later annexed it. Has said it will never relinquish control Over the site which is holy to jews christians and moslem. Peace Hussein said should be based on right and Justice and should restore the occupied territories to their legitimate  he did not say How arabs would regain control Over Jerusalem. Jordan seeks negotiations with Israel through an inter National peace conference including the five permanent members of the . Security Council the Plo and All other parties to the Arab israeli conflict. Israel seeks direct negotiations with Jordan. Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres told members of his labor party on saturday that Jordan and Israel were very close to holding negotiations. Syria the major Arab foe of Arafat has opposed Hus Sein s plan. In an open letter sunday to his prime minister Zaid Rifai Hussein said he had Only recently discovered that syrian dissidents opposed to president Hafez Assad s government were being harboured in Jordan. A suddenly the truth is revealed Hussein said in the read in part on state run television. We realize not known. Is out that some who did have a connection to the bloody  in Syria were present in our quarters and were Shalt cd Iby those whose hearts were devious and disguised in to clothes of our a Caligiori Hussein s letter said. Jordan is one of to few Arab nations on relatively Good terms with the Mosna brotherhood a fundamentalist group Syria considers Ron Siulc for assassinations and bombings that  a 1982 Battle at Llama that left hundreds of people Deal Syria had accused Jordan Oft dancing and training the moslem brotherhood members lucidly responsible for the terror attacks. Charging that he us been deceived in the past Hussein said there is no Rake among us after today for any betrayer plotter or agent Orau  Rifai is to visit Damascus soon for saudi nubian sponsored talks on reconciling the two countries web fell out in 1980