European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes sunday september 3.1989 court reverses ruling on ban on school dances Purdy to. A an appeals court Friday reversed a judge s ruling that a Small town school District s ban on dancing violated the constitutional separation of Church and state paving the Way for the purely school Board to resume its ban. The ruling by a three judge panel of the 8th  circuit court of appeals in St. Louis is a Victory for losers and hypocrites a plaintiff in the Case said Friday and her attorney vowed to Appeal. . District judge Russell Clark ruled in August 1988 that the nearly Century old ban on dancing at the Purdy school unconstitutionally promoted the values of residents who opposed dancing for religious reasons. Clark said he did not believe the Board s claim that the ban was simply a policy matter. The school Board had said it supported the ban not because of religion but because of possible drinking and discipline problems and because it was an unnecessary expense. Although the school Board appealed Clark s Rul ing it allowed students to hold a Homecoming dance last december. The Case Drew wide attention in part because of the similarities to the hit motion picture foot  the 8lh circuit panel noted Friday that Many of the 900 residents of Purdy an ozarks Mountain town in southwestern Missouri were religious conservatives. But the judges panel said there was no unconstitutional mingling of Church and state just because the ban adhered to the conservatives religious views. We simply do not believe elected government officials arc required to Check at the door whatever religious background. They carry with them before they act on rules that Are otherwise unobjectionable under the controlling. Standards the panel said. The appeals court said the plaintiffs should sup port school Board candidates whose views Mirror their own instead of going to the courts. Political divisiveness along religious lines. Is not a proper consideration except in cases involving financial Aid to parochial schools the appeals panel said. Ransom Ellis an attorney for the school District said he was pleased with the new ruling. I know that the school Board and the defendants in the Case were also very pleased he said. But William Fleischaker an attorney representing students and parents who sued to have the near Cen Tury old ban revoked said he would ask the full nine judge appeals court to consider the Case and that he would take it to the . Supreme court if necessary. The appeals panel ignored in its finding the vast amount of evidence that the school Board in retain ing the dance ban acted with specific intent to promote a religious View Fulci Schaker said. Joan Fox one of the parents in Purdy who sued to have the ban revoked was outraged at Friday s Rul ing. I think it s a Victory for losers and hypocrites in a Community where cowardice and bigotry sustains them she said. S. Africa detains hundreds of protesters Cape town South Africa a hundreds of protesters were arrested saturday when riot police fired tear Gas and water Cannon in Cape town to Stop anti apartheid protesters from staging an illegal March. Hundreds of riot police used tear Gas water Cannon whips and clubs against activists who tried to March to parliament. More than 20 journalists also reportedly were arrested and dozens of people were injured. The March was part of a nationwide Defiance Campaign that has been escalating in the Days before segregated parliamentary elections scheduled to be held next wednesday. In one dramatic incident a Young White protester leaped atop a Mobile water Cannon that was spraying purple dyed water at the protesters. He turned the Hose straight up in the air so protes ters would not be sprayed. He scuffled with a policeman who tried to Stop him then leaped off and ran into the crowd. Police were heard giving orders that anyone seen with purple Dye on their clothes should be detained. At least two Large groups of protesters began separate marches in the City Cente before being dispersed. One group of about 700 sat Down in a Street bordering a Market Square crowded with shoppers and Sang a Freedom song As the water Cannon was brought in. Another group led by the Rev. Allen Loesak set out from St. George s Cathe dral before police moved in beating and whipping the marchers. Loesak a mixed race activist is president of the world Alliance of reformed churches. Before his arrest Loesak said Many people who wanted to join the Marc had been slopped at police roadblocks while trying to leave outlying Black and mixed race townships. Journalists said police arrested several medics trying to treat injured protesters and at one Point took away both medics and patients at a temporary clinic. Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu a prominent supporter of the Defiance Campaign was at St. George s conferring with colleagues about possible responses to the police action. Police raided at least one television news Bureau arrested a lbs cameraman at his hotel room and detained journalists working for numerous South Afri can and foreign news Media. The March was one of the major events planned Over the weekend by organizers of the Defiance Campaign. Police banned a rally scheduled for saturday afternoon in Soweto and reported that White right Wing extremists had set of bombs near a Whites Only Beach in Dur ban where Blacks and indians have scheduled a mass sit in on sunday. I. I i i  �. 1 " " la web " ?-1t4l a to " Fri i 3 fit a student directs a water Cannon into the air of tar police were deployed in Cape town on saturday to halt a protest. The Defiance Campaign began aug. 2 and has intensified As the elections approach. The Black majority is excluded from parliament. The citizen a pro government news paper quoted government sources sat urday As saying that 17 leaders of the Defiance Campaign had been detained and 13 others were being sought including some who had gone into hiding. In Soweto inc township of 2.5 million Blacks scores of policemen and soldiers were stationed at Jabulani stadium where saturday s peace rally had been scheduled to Lake place. Security forces also ringed a nearby roman Catholic Church that in the past has been used an alternative venue for banned outdoor rallies. According to police officials More than 4-10 protesters were arrested across the country Friday including Tutu his wife Leah and Loesak s wife Dorothy. They were among 36 people arrested and later released who were marching to pro test the beating of Church workers during demonstration earlier Friday in Cape town. Tutu at a news conference late Friday urged people to disobey unjust Laws. To or. . Do Klerk the acting president say we arc not interested i your elections the Black Clergyman said. We arc interested in Freedom and we will defy you until that Freedom