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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
September
Year
1976
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Bliek, a tabloid newspaper out of Zurich, Switzerland has reported that numerous witnesses have sited a "dragon-like monster" in Lake Uri near Zurich. One y of the many witnesses said, "I saw it from the side -a head and a humped back, like a dinosaur.". . . Last week the citizens of Zurich saw another hump-backed monster- U S Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who met there with South African Prime Minister John Vorster. Both were greeted by hundreds of Swiss demonstrators who abhorred the presence of the South African apartheid leader. Kisssinger and Vorster were meeting to discuss a compromise  solution to ending the apartheid policies of South Africa and Rhodesia- a solution that would not endanger U.S.investments in those countries.

 

Vorster is being pressed by Kissinger to apply pressure on the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith to tone down its racial policies. It's ironic that Kissinger isl seeking to ease the situation through Vorster, who is up to his own neck in racial woes.

 

Last week in Cape Town, South Africa violence rocked a white commercial district as "coloreds" (the official South African designation for those with mixed racial backgrounds) from suburban black towns demonstrated against South Africa 's apartheid policy. Tear gas and gun shots filled the streets. and even the wife of John Vorster tasted gas for the first time as she was caught out during a shopping trip. By Sunday, violence had spread to Uitehage, a town 150 miles east of Cape Town and 175 miles south east of Transkei. The Transkei area is the first of a planned 10 bantustans or homelands to be granted an independent status. The U.S., which is used to playing cowboys, is making eyes at this area for a proposed naval base. A U.S. military strategist has said that Transkei offers "vital surveillance and protection of the Cape Sea route" and, with the open involvement of South Africa, will "strengthen the U.S. 's strategic position in the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic". Transkei Chief Kaiser Mantanzima has already asked for U.S.developmental assistance, inckuding U.S. help in turning Port St. John into a modern facility . . .

 

When last heard Uganda's Idi Amin was killing off students who had snubbed his son. The bodies of those students and those bodies from a purge which followed the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport may nave been dumped in the Nile River, according to UPI. (Amin probably watches too many gangster movies.) The news service says that thirty Italian technicians at the Owen Falls Power Station on the Nile have resigned from their positions because the bodies have been piling up at Owen Falls . . .

 

Jerry Ford 's Dole may have been on the dole, according to a lobbyist for a major oil company. The lobbyist contends that Gulf Oil Corp. passed Illegal campaign contributions to Dole 's 1973 Senate campaign. Meanwhile Democratic hopeful Jimmy Carter met with Robert Redford --just another entertainer jumping on the Peanut's bandwagon . . . Rolling Stone in its latest issue criticizes the proliferance of entertainers who have taken to politics.

 

Apparently many people  would rather see entertainers uninvolved and ignorant in American politics. Rolling Stone also reports that the FBI conducted a secret war against the Black Panther Party between 1968-70. The article states that an elite squad was set up in San Francisco to harass, divide and destroy the Panthers. According to a retired member of the Panther Squad, "I'm proud of the things I did . . . all this was being done to get rid of this terrible canker inside the United States."

 

Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter are preparing tor their upcoming debates with each other. U.S. News & World Report says that the bruisers have already let go with their first jabs. Ford, in a right hook, has charged that Carter will go on a $ 100 billion spending spree. Carter has labeled Ford as a "dormant inactive president."