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Trustees meeting
	First let's understand what we are talking about.  I saved the
folllowing news story in October but only just worked up my nerve to say
what I think in because of all the Stanford community seemed so unanimous
to me.  What the story reports is evil now and will lead to far worse
evils if the promoters of this terrorism get power.

	Well, Gary Holden and friends don't have to believe this and
can support the ANC if they want to.  However, they have as much
obligation to publically oppose terrorism by the people they support
as the U.S. Government has to publically oppose terrorism or oppression by the
Contras or the government of Chile or even these governments tolerating
terrorism by their unofficial supporters.

	The Reagan Administration has often put pressure on the Contras
and others to behave better, and they pressured d'Aubisson out of the El
Salvador presidency, because he was suspected of being involved in the
death squad activity.

	Mr. Holden and SOSA are at a more primitive moral level than the
Reagan Administration, because they won't oppose such crimes.  In fact it
appears from the message about the necklacing guerrilla theater when
Buthelezi appeared that they glory in it - a few regarding it as "bad
tactics".  When the phrase "bad tactics" is used, the natural
interpretation is that there is no moral disapproval.  Can someone tell me
that I have misinterpreted the SOSA position?

a233  1353  19 Oct 86
AM-South Africa,0680
Woman Activist Slashed to Death on Soweto Street
With AM-Restricted, Bjt
By LAURINDA KEYS
Associated Press Writer
    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A mob of black youths armed with
knives and axes chased a leader of the 1976 Soweto black student
uprisings and slashed her to death as bystanders watched, newspapers
reported Sunday.
    The killing of Masabata Loate, 29, who was imprisoned for five years
on a treason conviction, occurred Friday night in the Orlando West
section of Soweto, the huge black township on the outskirts of
Johannesburg.
    The Sunday Star newspaper quoted her mother, Maria Loate, as saying
she believed her daughter was killed because Miss Loate believed in
non-violent resistance to racial segregation in South Africa.
    The government's Bureau for Information, the official source of news
on political unrest since a state of emergency was declared on June
12, made no mention of the attack.
    ''The police don't regard this as unrest-related. It's being
investigated as a crime,'' said Caspar Venter, spokesman for the
bureau.
    According to a bureau report, two black men were killed Saturday in
Alexandra and Temibisa, two other black townships outside
Johannesburg. The victims were burned to death with flaming tires
around their necks, said the report.
    The Sunday Star said Miss Loate, a black, was slashed beyond
recognition by 20 young men who stabbed her with knives and sticks
and clubbed her with an ax, breaking several limbs.
    It quoted Mrs. Loate as saying her daughter ''totally abhorred the
'necklace' executions taking place in the townships, and always
voiced her opposition to the wanton stoning of people's cars and the
burning down of their homes.''
    ''Necklacing,'' in which a burning tire is placed around a person's
neck, has been used by black militants to kill suspected
collaborators of South Africa's white-led government.
    Miss Loate was released from prison a few months ago after serving a
five-year sentence for violations of the state security laws.
    She had been arrested, but was not tried, after the 1976 Soweto
riots, which were touched off when police fired on about 13,000 black
students who were demonstrating. Several students were killed in the
riots.
    ''That she had to die this way, after dedicating all her life to the
cause of freedom and justice, is heartbreaking,'' Mrs. Loate was
quoted as telling The Sunday Star.
    The City Press newspaper quoted unidentified witnesses as saying
Miss Loate ran to her grandmother's house when attacked, but before
the door could be opened, the mob surrounded and assaulted her.
    She escaped and ran toward her mother's home, the City Press said,
but the gang caught up with her and killed her.
    ''When I arrived at the scene, I could hardly recognize her.
Masabata was a gory mess. There was a gaping wound in her head,''
Mrs. Loate was quoted as telling City Press.
    The paper reported that family members said people in the vicinity
saw the crowd kill Miss Loate, but no one went to her aid.
    Meanwhile, about 600 residents of a black Pretoria township that the
government abolished held a meeting Sunday to call on black workers
in the area to stay away from work Wednesday as a protest.
    The Ministry of Constitutional Development and Planning declared on
Friday that Oukasie township no longer existed and more than 1,000
families must move 15 miles west, where a new township has been
built. The government says it would be too expensive to upgrade
Oukasie.
    Oukasie residents say the real reason for the forced move is that
the government wants their land for whites.
    By law and custom, under apartheid, South Africa's 5 million whites
control the economy and maintain separate districts, schools and
health services. In addition, the country's 24 million black majority
has no vote in national affairs.
    According to a combination of official and unofficial tallies, at
least 328 people have died in political violence since the state of
emergency began.
    Under the emergency rules, reporters are not allowed to describe
security force actions or publish the names of detainees without
government permission, and may not publish ''subversive statements.''
    
AP-NY-10-19-86 1652EDT
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