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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday january 4,1986 doctor who protested beatings of Blacks quits s. Africa Post Johannesburg South Africa a a White doctor who obtained a court order restraining police from assaulting political prisoners said Friday she has re signed her government Post because a series of death threats added la my  Wendy Orr 27, caused a sir last sep tember when she filed suit and testified that hundreds of inmate patients she examined in port climb ctr mos ii blocks held William charge had been brutally assaulted by Security police. Earlier police Headquarters in Pretoria reported that four Blacks including three burned to death were slain overnight he apparent victims of Blacks turning on each other in the racially divided country. In another development police banned a memorial service saturday in port Eliza Beth for leading White anti apartheid activist Molty Blackburn. Her funeral thursday attracted about 20.000 Black mourners and hundreds of Whites in a rare multiracial outpouring of grief and political Fervour announcing her resignation Orr who was switched from prison work to Aid age Homes and was shunned by some colleagues after filing suit said n series of telephoned death threats have just added to my mis  "1 just have to get out of the Job i am in and out of port Elizabeth she told report ers. She has applied for a Jab in a Black clinic in Johannesburg township that is run by Volunteer workers she said. In an unprecedented action for a govern ment employee last sept 25 3he won a temporary order by a supreme court judge barring police from abusing political detainees in the part Elizabeth and site phage districts of the Eastern Cape. The slate did not oppose he order. Stale lawyers have until Jan. 27 to file testimony and a final hearing is scheduled feb. 4. By police count 6,616 people of whom 452 Are still held have been picked up since the go1. Ziment imposed a state of emergency last july 21 in a bid to quell anti apartheid rioting. Released detainees and support groups have made repeated charges of police brutality against detainees. The police commissioner far the Eastern Cape Brig. Ernest Schactler invoked catch All police Powers Friday under a 5 month Aid slate of emergency to ban the memorial service for Blackburn. Blackburn 55, a member of the whiles Only elected Cape provincial administration died with a while civil rights lawyer Brian Bishop in a car crash on dec 28. The four deaths reported Friday brought to 22 the official death toll in violence across South Africa since new year s eve. Police have blamed most of the slayings on political or tribal disputes. But in the worst hit area the Mineral Rich tribal District of mouse slated for merger into the neighbouring tribal Home land of Kwande local Black legislator Marci Cheju claimed thursday that at least 20 people have died there alone in the past few Days. The body of one of the Blacks whose deaths were reported Friday was found in own Debele said a police communique it said he had been allegedly murdered in a faction  the slaying brought o eight the number of deaths confirmed by police in the area since new year eve police arrested eight Blacks armed with gasoline bombs and in another incident in mouse fired tear Gas to disperse an angry crowd police said. Reagan has Praise Tor Mexico mexican. Mexico a pre Sidenia Reagan Mcl Friday with mex ican president Miguel de la Madrid and praised the measures his govern ment has taken in confronting mexi co s y 6 billion debt Burden. I m impressed with the commit ment you be made to meet this Chal Lenge and to Lake the necessary Steps to achieve a robust growing mexican Economy Reagan said. Reagan made his comment during a Toast to the mexican Leader before a luncheon that wound up the presi Dent s four hour visit de la Madrid in his Toast endorsed the measures the us govern ment hat taken o ease latin Ameri Ca s debt crisis but said the United state and other industrialized coun tries should give urgent attention to the Issue in a spirit of shared responsibility. Reagan attended the Bonier mini Summit on i Way Back to Washington after a we Klong vacation in California. Prisoners from Page t the governor said. The hostages several lacking shoes walked out one by one. Some were accompanied by Moore who went to the prison once final details of the release had been arranged. Bar inmate grievance committee when guards were Back in Contra of the prison. His press Secretary John Price said the meeting would take place after guards thoroughly Check the prison. Moore planned to Meel with a six Mem six hostages were released thursday of buses from Page 1 German police and Rescue units arrived promptly school and Community officials did not hear about the Accident for 30 min utes Hydar said. Radios also Are used in most buses in he Dodds Atlantic Region. James Willis chief of logistics said school officials do not require the radios from commercial transportation companies that Supply the buses but about 60 percent of the buses already Are equipped with them. Willis said he expects that officials will re quire commercial companies to provide radios we re concerned about terrorism he said. Buses in the Dodds Mediterranean re Gion do not have radios John Lohmer a logistics management specialist said he is awaiting the results of the Jilot project in Germany to see if the radios Are Worth while. He is also awaiting possible funding from Dodds Headquarters in Washington. We can t initiate it ourselves because we Don t have the Money Lohmer said. Dodds Germany has spent about 1200,000 installing radios in buses in four air farce and two army communities As part of a test program that was approved in 1984. They include Rhein main Spang Dahlum Pitburg and Hahn air bases Ana the Heidelberg and Stuttgart army communities. Heidelberg and Stuttgart have received and installed their radios. Air Force communities have Between one third and two thirds of he radios ordered for them. Libya from Page 1 a half dozen diesel powered submarines and anti aircraft guns and radars. The Pentagon sources said an aircraft Carrier Battle group based at Norfolk vs., had been told to make initial preparations for an unscheduled deployment to the Mediterranean. The sources identified the Carrier America As the recipient of the order. There were Indi cations that Navy contingency plans might include a similar order for the battleship Iowa. There has been no order to deploy said one source. They have been notified to make prudent preparations. If there is going to be a Long term terrorist threat it might make sense to have two carriers in Stead of one in the  once dispatched the America and its group would require about 10 lays to make the Atlantic passage. On wednesday Aba Day vowed a never ending War if an aggression on Libya  Libya sent its ships to sen thursday and ordered its forces on Alert. . And israeli officials have begun exploring military economic and diplomatic sanctions against Libya because they be Lieve a palestinian faction headed by pales title liberation organization renegade Abu Nidal said to be based in Libya was responsible for the Airport attacks. On Friday in what Navy officials went to pains to describe As a routine action the Aimer Coral sea and its Battle group ended a Holiday port leave in Italy and steamed into the Central Mediterranean. Sources said the group includes two cruisers two destroyers and two frigates. One source said the Carrier is equipped with four squadrons of f-18 Jet fighters one Squadron of a-6 attack Bombei and several e2-c Hawkeye radar planes. Each Squadron has roughly a dozen planes. Rome police find grenade left by terrorists Rome up Airport police found it hand grenade Friday in a travel bag left behind by one of the four palestinian terrorists who attacked passengers at Rome s Leonardo a Vinci Airport on dec. 27. Police said they found a Small tug con Taining the a Reinje among a stack of bog Gage belonging to victims of the attack. They were acting on a tip provided during the interrogation of one of the captured gunmen Mohammed Baram 19. The terrorists carried a total of 15 Gre Nades when they began the attack but Only two were set off police said. Most of the id dead and 72 wounded in the attack were hit by sub machine gun fire. The Roost recent victim was Efrosini medium a greek woman who died thursday from head wounds suffered in the attack. In Vienna Austria where two travellers died and one terrorist was killed in a coordinated attack by three gunmen Julice said Friday they were scouring the country for a fourth Man with Arab features believed to have been involved in planning the assault. Officials said the Man had been staying in the Vienna Hilton with the three attack ers but did not take part in the assault. An Interior ministry spokesman said it was not lion whether it was still in tie country. The body of Don Maland. 29, of new port Richey fla., one of the five us. Citi Zens killed in the attacks left Rome for new York at i . Friday aboard Twa Miriam Kimmel 80, of Rancho Santa be calif., who suffered Bullet wounds in the legs during the attack left for Home aboard the same Light. She was taken to the plane by an ambulance. Investigating magistrate judge Domeni co Sica hoped to learn who provided the weapons and fake passports to the gunmen at the Rome Airport from three palestinians serving prison sentences for three other at tacks in 1985, sources close w the investigation said. To croon after he negotiated settlement was signed by state officials and inmate representatives. The body of the third slain prisoner Jeff Atkinson 22, who was serving a life sen tence for murder was taken from the prison Friday morning said assistant corrections commissioner William Whyte. Earlier corrections department spokes Man Jerrie clutter confirmed the death of inmate Richard Harold Dean 31, who was serving a 15-year kidnapping Ien Lence. 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