European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 18, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 Church envoy meets with kidnappers Terry Waile envoy of the archbishop of Canterbury at Beirut press conference. . Lebanon a Terry Wail the archbishop of Canterbury envoy said sunday he has met with the kidnappers holding americans hostage in Lebanon. Before flying out of Beirut to consult with . Office is. Wail stressed at a news conference positive Steps have been taken. But the situation remains very difficult and very dangerous. There is Mill a Long Way to Waite pave no details of the identity of those he met or when or where the meeting was held. His Clandestine meeting is believed to to the first by a Western intermediary with the kidnappers. He said he was satisfied that the four american hostages who wrote to archbishop Robert Kuncic nine Days ago arc alive and Well. Asked if he saw any of the hostages when he met with the kidnappers Wail said. No hut he stressed the i. Although he is flying out of Beirut for consultations my Mission is not i shall have to keep almost All the information i to itself in order to protect lives he told a news conference in the lobby of the Commodore hotel in West Beirut. Waile added lives am at risk and a wrong word or wrong move could Cost lives. I am not Leing Over dramatic and i would urge you to continue to be careful and not to endanger the situation by report ing beyond what i am saying s. African Hospital tires Black workers nurses Johannesburg South Africa a authorities at a Large Black Hospital in Soweto fired about 800 student nurses for illegally striking and soldiers took Over their duties officials said saturday. Dismissal of the nurses came a Day after several Hundred cleaners and other employees were fired in a separate wage dispute at Baragwanath Hospital in the Black town ship near Johannesburg. In other developments police reported scattered rioting in at least nine Black town ships around the country that left two Blacks dead. They said a crowd of Blacks killed a 63 year old Man in Rural Cradock and set his body ablaze. In the other fatal incident they said a policeman shot and killed one Black Man and wounded two when a mob stoned the officer in Upington a Small sheep farming town in North Western South Africa. Repeated clashes Between police and rioters Nave occurred in Upington in recent Days. Hunnic Van Wyk. Provincial director of health services said the Baragwanath hos Pital nurses were sent Home after they re fused to end a strike begun thursday. The strikers say they earn the equivalent of $56 to $68 a month and want a monthly raise of about $38. They also arc demand ing better treatment and the lifting of an 8 . Curfew in nursing school dormitories. Van Wyk said soldiers and civil defense volunteers were doing cleaning chores and other work normally performed by student nurses and the fired Domestic staff. He de Nied news reports that conditions at Barag Wanash were chaotic saying services were returning to Normal. The Johannesburg Star newspaper said doctors had described the situation As chaotic with patients sleeping in soiled Linen Din accumulating and injections not being administered regularly. Casualty staff have been or dered to admit Only desperately ill Baragwanath the largest Hospital in the Southern hemisphere with a staff of nearly 10,000, is the Only Hospital in sow clo the nation s largest Black township with a population of nearly 2 million. Meanwhile Winnie Mandela wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela prepared to Fly Back to Cape town to be near her husband while he recovers from prostate gland surgery said her lawyer Ismail ayob. The government earlier ordered her to return to her Horn own of Brand fort by Friday in compliance w nor. Lycar old banishment order. Via widely regarded As the most in Portal. Ack Leader in South Africa was sentenced to life in prison in 1964 for plotting sabotage. Mrs. Mandela said Friday he was recovering Well from the surgery two weeks ago but she did not know when he would leave the Cape town Hospital and return to near by polls Moor prison. Mrs. Mandela has been arrested several times for breaking her banishment order which restricts her to Brand fort bars her from meet ing More than one person at a time and prohibits her from being quoted in South Africa. Authorities have reported More than 800 deaths in 15 months of violent demonstrations against the government s apartheid policies under which 5 million Whites deny the vote to 24 million Blacks. About a third of the deaths resulted from Blacks attacking other Blacks regarded As government collaborators and the other victims were shot by police. Police reported an explosion Friday night in Wolkom 105 Miles South of Johannesburg damaged an ice rink 400 Yards from the hotel where an australian Cricket team is Maying. A police spokesman said the dynamite blast which caused no injuries May have been a revenge attack against the owner of the rink because of a local dispute. Anti apartheid activists have vowed to pro test the 22-match Cricket tour which begins next Friday in Defiance of an International Boycott against sports links with South Africa. But the police spokesman who cannot be identified in keeping with regulations said we have no indication whatsoever that this was aimed in any Way at the workers at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg s Soweto township show i hair Solidarity after being fired in a wage dispute
