European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 16, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 new yorkers oily against apartheid my prom to Many currying Tali apartheid posters gather in new York s Central Fork saturday far a massive rally demanding is. Unctions Agail South Africa. New York a tens of thou Sands of demonstrators streamed into Central Park saturday in Prole is South african apartheid and Call on president Reagan to impose rigid economic sanctions on the nation. The crowd was orderly but booed a lion the rally opened with the singing of the Siar spangled we must deny Landing rights to South african planes remove our ambassador and Slop americans from doing business in South Africa like we be done already in Libya Slid former Tennis pro Arth Rashe. We must put our moral weight on the Side of inc people in South Africa fight no for Freedom the huge rally marked the i oth anniversary of riots in Soweto South Africa where hundreds of Blacks were killed. Among those who addressed the Rall were entertainer Hany Belafonte the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Alfred Nio Secrce Lary by neral of the african National con Gress and 3 conf darn of imprisoned Blac South african activist Nelson Mandela. The african National Congress is multiracial guerrilla group fighting from exile against South Africa s sys tem of racial segregation. No is chief executive of inc organization s head quarters in Zambia. We Hope inc America represented Here is with us against this policy of constructive engagement said has been in exile since his release from a South african prison in 1964.he also called on inc South african government la release Mandela and All other political prisoners. By Lafonze read a letter from Mande la s wife Winnie in which she com pared South african president . Botha to Hitler and apartheid to nazism. The letter closed with her prom Ising Victory is the racially mixed crowd waved hundreds of banners posters and pictures Many of them photos of Mandela. Other attacked inc Reagan administration for its South african policy of constructive engagement or quiet diplomacy a scour aging reforms of apartheid. Benjamin Hooks president of the National association for the advancement of coloured people said the United Stales should be As Lough against South Africa Asit has been against Libya. We re saying to Reagan to the sen ate and to the Congress apartheid must �0." Hooks said. Or. Reagan you have asked for sanctions against Libya and Qadhafi. Why not against Bolha and South Africa As they marched into the Park pro testers chanted Reagan Botha you can t hide. We charge you with Geno the protesters had gathered at nine Sites in Manhattan before marching 10 Central Park for the rally. One group met outside the United nations in mid town while a second group headed South from Harlem. Seven smaller marches set out from other Points inthe City. South Africa imposed a nationwide tale of emergency thursday and police have arrested More than 1,000 peo ple. The Anc said it would nonetheless proceed with a general so Rick monday to commemorate the 197d Soweto uprisings. The anti apartheid coordinating Council a coalition of labor Church and Community groups circulated about 500,000 flyers to promote the rally. Larouche backers banned from convention Springfield Iii a the democratic nominee for lieutenant governor and other supporters of political extremist Lyndon Larouche were barred saturday from the state democratic convention. Mark Fairchild the candidate for lieu tenant governor and about a dozen other Larouche supporters tried to gain Entrance to the United Auto worker shall where the convention was being held but were blocked by Security guards prompting a i0-Minule shouting match. We Are democrats. We won inc Pri Mary. Do you speak English or do you speak Only russian shouted Sheila Jones Midwest director of the National democratic policy committee. La Rouche s organization. At one Point Fairchild and Jones were splashed with Beer. Slate sen. Patrick Welch a Peru chairman of the convention s credentials committee told the Larouche support in they could remain in a tent set up outside the convention Hall to handle overflow crowds and could View the proceedings on closed circuit television. You Are not delegates he be agreed to let you slay out Here with other members of the democratic party and listen to the inside the Hall gubernatorial challenger Adlai Stevenson who resigned the democratic nomination rather than run on a Lickel with far child and a la Rouche supporter who won the Nomi Niiori for Secretary of stale said the la Rouche supporters Are Here to destroy the democratic the radicals who would crash this convention of the democratic party Are not democrats Stevenson said. He has repeatedly called Larouche Fairchild speaking at a news Confer ence before the convention opened said he would seek a contempt of court find ing if he was barred from entering the Union Hall where parly officials were meeting. On Friday a Cook county circuit judge ruled that the two could attend the convention but it s up to party leaders to decide whether they could address the delegates. Fairchild accused party leaders of using Strong armed arrogant ugly tac tics against him. Perhaps they think my philosophy is repugnant Fairchild said. But that gives them no right to exclude me from the democratic it s precisely the sort of thinking thai runs apartheid in South Africa he convention is usually a quiet affair devoted to selecting candidates for University of Illinois trustee positions the Only statewide positions rot decided in inc primary. This year s convention was beset with turmoil brought on by inc stunning March 8 primary victories of Fairchild and Janice Han who won the Nomi nation for Secretary of stale. Their victories prompted Stevenson former . Senator to renounce his democratic nomination and form a third party the Solidarity party. Stevenson still considers himself Democrat and despite his decision to Boll the party most democrats still Back his bid for the governorship. Libya says . Bomber debris washes ashore Tripoli. Libya a wreckage from a . Bomber that look part in the april 15 bombing raid on Libya has washed ashore on the libyan coast the official libyan news Agency Man said on sunday the . Administration says one plane was lost during the raid an air Force Al 11 bomber carrying a Crew of two. Shortly after the raid libyan television displayed two helmets that it claimed had washed ashore from the Mediterranean sea. The wreckage indicate that the Jetway an f-h1 whose number is 12t-40 s01 serial . F701 made on the third of september 1985," Jana said in it Brief dispatch on sunday. Late last month the Pentagon said thai the United states was still awaiting a response from Libya to diplomatic queries about the status of a body that might be one of the two missing . Air Force Olti Ceis. On May 6, libyan television showed pictures of a body it claimed was found on the Shoreline. The body was clothed in an aviator s flight suit. The two missing americans Are l. Ribas Dominicci 33, of puerto Rico and Cape. Paul l. Lorenee,31, of san Francisco. The Pentagon has declared both killed in action. President Reagan said the bombers targets were facilities for terrorist train ing and related activities
