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Springboks Beat U.S. All-Star Team
As Anti-Apartheid Protesters March
By Bart Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
' ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 22—As
‘anti-apartheid protesters marched
‘ind chanted outside, the South Af-
rican national . rughy team, the
* Springboks, easily defentedwriantrerybinny
ern Rugby Union all-star team, 41-0), ondering
‘ ‘tonight in the second match of their
three-game U.S. tour.
In a driving rainstorm that quick-
ty turned the playing field at the
city’s Bleecker Stadium into a sea of
mud and under the protection of
more than 150 police and sheriff's
deputies, the controversial match
was played without interruption be-
fore a crowd of about 500.
y” Although protesters had predicted
- that as many as 10,000 demonstra-
_ tors might appear, the rain-soaked
‘ crowd outside the stadium num-
‘ bered no more than 2,500 at its
' peak. By the time the match ended,
+ it had dwindled to fewer than 1,000.
' “It happened just as we planned
it. This is wonderful. I look forward
' to having many more successful
: rugby matches in Albany,” said Tom
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Selfridge, president of the Eastern
Rugby
Spring
Union and coordinator of the
boks’ tour,
the event could take place here as
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mortiing, state ow
York asked a federal appeals court
in Manhattan to overturn yeater-
day's injunction by a federal judge in
ing Gov, Hugh Carey
Carey had ordeted
the match last week, citing the pos-
sibility of violence, but Judge How-
ard G. Munson ruled the governor's
order violated the First Amendment.
When the appeals court declined
to overrule Munson this afternoon,
the state made a last-ditch appeal to
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thur-
good Marshall, but Marshall de-
clined the appeal without comment.
As word of Marshall's ruling
reached the organizers, rs
were beginning to assemble on the
streets and in a park just outside the
stadjim. Many protesters were from
the Albany campus of the State Uni-
versity of New York,
For the next thrée hours, they
listened to speeches and songs.
There were several standoffs and
confrontations between groups of
protesters and riot-equipped police,
but there was no serious attempt to
itor to 198 bils Shiled to saunter the two-
Rugby Union tr Schenectady
shortly after 1 a.m. The blast caused
only minor damage to the rugby
union offices but severely damaged
some adjacent offices.
Police said they had no suspects,
After tonight's game, the Spring-
jboks were whisked from the 7,000-
seat stadium under heavy guard.
The match here, with its heavy
police presence, was in marked con- ~
trast to the Springboks’ first U.S
game, at a neighborhood field Sat-
urday in Racine, Wis., with one po-
liceman present. |
The Springboks’ final U.S. match
is acheduled Saturday against a U.S.
all-star team. Neither the site, some-
where in the Northeast, nor time of
that match haa been announced,
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SCHENECTADY — A bomb extensively
damaged a building housing the Eastern
Rughy Union's offices early today, hours
before the group was to field a team against a
South African esqued that has been the
target of anti-apartheid protests, police said.
There were no reporta of injuries.
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No one e immediately c “Jaime “td tesponsibili-
ty for the blast, Patrolman Arthur Zampella
said, ;
Yom Selfridge, president of the ERU, said
the blast would have no effect on tonight's
game matching the touring Springboks, a
South African all-star team, and the ERU
squad, at Bleecker Stadium, Albany. Mem-
hers of the Springboks were reportedly
under police protection at their motel. (The
team is named after a South African qreciie,
the springbok).
Fearful of a riot, New York state officials
earlier had tried to stop tonight's scheduled
match. Schenectady is 10 miles trom Al-
bany.
‘The Fastern Rugby Union is the host for
the Springboks’ visit.
RAMIO STATION WWWD reported
that yman had phoned at 1:10 a.m. to aay
a bomgiiitould go off soon “downtown.” Dise
jockey, mle Lane said the woman hung up
within % Hentifying herself
Th ast, caused by a “high-explosive
devigiaused heavy damage to the offices
of a My producta company next to the
ERU@ieadquarters, police investigator
prath said.
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damaged, he said. Capt. Victor Pomeroy
said there was “substantial damage” else-
where on the second floor of the four-story
building.
Glass blown out by the blast littered
State Street in front of the row of renovat-
ed buildings known as Canal Square.
McGrath said the bomb had apparently
been placed in a closet 2'> feet from the
rugby office in an area accessible to the
public during business hours.
The blast was reported at 1:17 am. EDT
by a passerby, Zampella said, refusing to
identify the person. He said police have no
suspects.
US. DISTRICT JUDGE Howard
Munson ruled yesterday that Gov. Hugh L.
Carey acted improperly whan he told Al-
bany Mayor Erastus Corning IT last week
to stop the game. Carey cited what he said
was an “imminent danger of rioting” be-
cause of the planned protesta.
State officiala were to appeal Munson's
ruling today in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in New York City.
Munson said Carey's action “seeks to de-
stroy the very constitutional protections
that have enabled a century-long struggle
to bring about racial equality.”
' dill Schuker, an aide to Catey, said today
the governor was aware of the explosion
but would have no comment.
MICHAEL DOLLARD, spokesman for
the Capital District Coalition Against
Apartheid, said last night that the busloads
of demonstrators his organization had ex-
pected from New York City and elaewhere
might not materialize with so little notice.
“Enthusiasm tails off very rapidly,” Dol-
lard said.
*
did not say yesterday how many he expect -
ed to show up.
The racially mixed Springboks came to
the U.S. as an attempt at good will on the
part of the white-ruled government in the
black-majority nation. Protests have
forced the team underground: ita where-
abouts often kept secret.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Peter Yellin was to represent the state in its
court appeal today. Yellin would not com.
ment on Munson’s decision and said only
that “I feel the governor acted proper-
Richard P. Walsh Jr., representing the
Eastern Rugby Union, argued in court yes-
terday that the game was “a protected
activity — the First Amendment” and
contended t Carey lacked the power to
cancel the match.
constitution,
cons hay Tarmed hia stand that the
teams & constitutional right to play.
The Munson ruled i
condone South Africa's apartheid policy.
But Selfridge insisted the ‘wanes hal a
nant” the situation had become, the
Springboks deserved “the protection of the
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ALBANY ~— A federal
judge. declaring that tonight's
scheduled rugby game at
the South African Springboks
the rican
and a US, all-star team de-
serves protection under the
constitution, ot over-
turned Governor Hugh L.
Carey's ban of the game.
The state, will steed
an appeals court in ork
this morning in an attempt to
overturn the decision by Dis-
triet Court Judge Howard G.
Munson.
Anti-apartheid activists
met last night to make final
plans for a demonstration
they say will converge on the
stadium at 7 p.m., the game’s
announced starting time. Pro-
testers are planning to meet
at the state Capitol at 5 p.m.,
then march up Washington
Avenue to Northern Boule-
vard, then to Clinton Avenue
and on to Swinburne Park, ad-
jacent to the stadium.
In deciding to allow the
ame to go on as scheduled,
unson said: “By enjoining
the scheduled sporting event,
the governor of New York
seeks to destroy the very con-
stitutional freedoms which
have enabled (the) more than
a century-long struggle in this
country to ensure racial
equality.”
Munson’s decision support-
ing the Eastern Ragby Union,
sponsors of the planned game,
came in late afternoon after a
half-hour morning session of
oral arguments that included
. an extraordinary a rance
by Mayor Erastus Corning II,
who asked that the court
“take the position that the
game be played” and that “the
governor he ordered to pro-
vide additional *
Munson made no such order
in his verbal decision, but said
rstagh “| karoge ge that
governor mayor,
as ible public officals,
will do what they are sup-
posed to do.”
Corning had maintained
that the should be
allowed un issued his
statement last week. The
mayor said he took it as an
order to cancel the match.
The judge's decision was
based on the contention of Ri-
chard P. beg a the ERU
——, game
was entitled to a.
ment protection as a form
free speech and that Carey
had exceeded the authority
granted the in the
weiThe hol holding of the
match is protected activity
under the first amendment
itical im-
pact of the match,” Walsh
said.
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“If the governor can ban
public yeni i that what
are the limits how far he
can go?” Walsh asked.
Peter L. Yellin, the aasis-
tant state attorney general
who the
cal ideas and expression,”
Yellin toid
Yellin also claimed that the
governor, in banning the
game, was acting under his
broad authority to ensure the
public safety is maintained.”
He cited a State Police re-
port that allegedly contained
a “strong indication that pro-
fessional agitators would in-
filtrate an otherwise peaceful
demonstration” and possibly
ab ed Mangere
report was given
to Aad me who studied f be-
fore issuing his decision, Yel-
lin asked that the report be
kept secret, claiming that it
oo “sensitive materi-
a ade
Also heard were lawyers
for the New York Civil Liber-
ties Union, in support of the
rugby union, and the Capital
District Coalition Against
Apartheid, who backed the
governor's action.
Munson, whose written de-
oe in the geet hp filed
is morning, Te con-
stitutional protections that
derive from the plaintiffs’
freedom of association are
under the first amendment of
the United States constitution.
This right ia made more dra-
matic here because the plain-
tiffs' public forum has been
transformed from a igby
playing field inte a poli
arena which has invoked an
outrage of criticisms of
for freedom from racial nut
tice and for freedom of
ledges
the governor's duty to -
5 i Gtore-
hin the peace .
ona wers, however,
must fallow ble stan-
dards,” Muneon
7 as well have ruled for the
state,” said’ Munson.
After he adjourned the
court, Munson said he be-
lieved the Second Circuit
judges would hear the case
y.
The losing side would have
bs resort to the ape phe
ourt to a the appea
court devialcn.
The governor's office with-
held comment on Munson's
decision until after the ap-
peals court rules.
Thomas Selfridge, ERU
president, his plea-
sure at Munson’s decision at
an impromptu news confer-
ence on the steps of the feder-
al courthouse. “The decision
of the court is a cornerstone
for all sportamen of the
world,” Selfridge said
Selfridge’s remarks were at
times syn goes by the
chanting of demonstrators
angry at the court decision.
preg the South os
can a
for shout an hear a: a half at
Bleecker Stadium at midday
yesterday, then returned to
he Best Western Thruway
House on Washington Avenue.
There were no demonstrators
reported at the motel, in con-
trast to the throng that greet-
ed the iapoks on their ar-
rival Sunday evening at
Albany County Ai
Bishop Howard Hubbard
said the court decision did not
alter his opposition to the
game.
“I'm still opposed to the
match being conducted in Al-
rd or in the United States,”
Bishop Hubbard said. ‘Re-
gardiess of what the court de-
cided, the match still flies in
the face of the sensitivities of
a majority of the people in
Michael Young and William
Robinson, organizers of the
local Stop the ge rag
Rugby Tour, were agheat
Munson'’s
“We're totally outraged
that the U.S. Constitetion can
be used by the most
oas, most raciat it Che
world,” said Robinson. “It
only intensifies our efforts to
stop the rugby tour.”
Michael Young,
New York
Communist Workers Party,
agreed it was “outrageous”
that the Eastern R Union
was the to
monet right to hold the
match in Bleecker Stadiem.
Young lashed out at the
state "s claim that his
and others suck aa the
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tet ino violent confront
“First of all, we don't want
the Governor to sc: t us,
wan dng enh a sticky
situation,” he said.
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Bail will be sought today from Albany County Court
. Judge Joseph Harris for at least two of the persons
being held in Albany County Jail following their
‘arrests before Tuesday's anti-rugby demonstration.
‘ The public defender’s office will seek bail for John
‘H. Spearman, 31, of Lawrence, Kan.. and Michael R.
Young, 28, of Brooklyn, a leader of the Communist
Workers Party who said he was in Albany to
demonstrate against the appearance of the South
African Springbok rugby team.
The two were arrested Monday night.
Spearman was charged with criminal possession of
a handgun and possession of stolen property. Young
-4was charged with criminal possession of a ;
possession of fireworks and unlawful possession of
marijuana,
Two other persons, Vera Michelson, 36, of 400
Central Ave, Albany. and Aaron A. Espis, 22, of
Somerville, Mass, are utso in Albany County Jail on
posseasinns of fireworks charges
The cases of all four were adjourned to Oct. 6 after
they were arraigned Tuesday before Albany Police
Court Judge Thomas Keegan.
Michelson has been involved in civil rights
_ activities in the Albany area for several years.
She was incorrectly identified in Wednesday's
- editions of The Times-Union as president of the Civil
Service Employees Association (CSEA) local at the
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gic The issue had been a muddy one.
That terse order, delivered to a top
state lawyer representing Gov. Hugh L.
Carey by a lowly law clerk in Washing-
ton D.C. late Tuesday afternoon, effec-
tively ended a frantic attempt by the
governor to gain legal sanction to
cancel the rugby game at Bleecker
Stadium.
The game went on three hours later.
The constitutional question — which
had been debated for weeks — had been
settled by a Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States.
The governor had lost thrice in court
in the issue -- first in U.S. District
Court in Albany, then, earlier Tuesday,
in federal appeals court in Manhattan
and, with the clock ticking away, at the
highest court in the land.
“Rugby 3, Carey 0!’ crowed a
jubilant Tom Selfridge, president of the
Eastern Rugby Union, when told of the
Supreme Court decision.
Marshall in effect said he agreed with
the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
which hours before had refused to
interfere with a trial judge's ruling that
cleared the way for the game.
But the appeals court aiso said the
state was allowed to take steps, ‘‘in-
cluding cancelation or termination of
Carey, in a press release, had said he
believed the game should not take
place. Albany Mayor Erastus Corning
li, who testified that Carey aides on
three occasions flatly ordered him to
cancel the game, said it would not take
place. ‘
Selfridge, joined ‘by the American ~
Civil Liberties Union, said that was
unconstitutional. Supreme Court Jus-
tice Thurgood Marshall, ironically the
only black justice on the high court, did
not address the constitutionality. He
simply declined to review an appeal of
a lower federal court order which, in
effect, said it would have been unconsti-
tutional for Carey to ban the game.
(For decisions needed in a hurry, each
of the justices on the Supreme Court is ,
responsible for a district of the United
States, and Marshall is the one for this
area.)
Two area authorities on constitution-
al law contacted by The Times-Union
agreed that the decision by U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Howard G. Munson —
upheld Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme
Court — was correct.
Munson ruled that Gov Hugh L.
Carey's did not have the authority to
ban a rugby game between the South
African Springboks and an American
All-Star team, and said the threat to do
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Pi the game was played Tuesday night
in Albany's Bleecker Stedium. ,
the game and the right to protest
peacefully.
“When you have a public facility, it
belongs to everyone," said Schlenker.
“The mayor (Corning) was correct.
You cannot make a distinction.
‘IT have trouble with people who did
not want the game played and wanted
the courts to ban it because of aparth-
eid,” he said.
Schlenker added that he found it
“surprising” that the New York Civil
Liberties Union, which intervened in
the case as a friend of the court to argue
against Carey’s ban, had not taken
action when New York City Mayor
Edward Koch refused to allow use of a
public facility for a Springboks game
there.
Albany attorney Peter Danziger
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By Jonathan D. Salant
Stati Writer
The eyes of the world have been
focused on Albany because of a game
that is unknown to most Americans.
The game is called rugby, a sport
similar to football — but, like soccer, a
game which has its greatest popularity
outside the United States.
~. But Tom Selfridge wanted to change
all that. Fe
_ The Schenectady businessman, unon
becoming president of the Eastern
Union last Decernaber, invited
one of the world’s finest teams, the
South African Springboks, to play in the
United States.
“We want to compete in international
competition,’’ Selfridge said. ‘You do
‘that by bringing in first-class teams
like the Springboks.”
But at what cost? It has made Albany
the focus of international attention and
caused a public rift between Gov. Hugh
L. Carey and Albany Mayor Erastus
Corning 1] at a time when they both
face re-election.
The controversy erupted over South
Africa's racial policy of apartheid, a set
of laws, governing everything from
housing to employment, based on the
color of one’s skin.
An exiled South African, Boji Jordan,
in a speech at the Albany Public
Library, called the Springboks ‘‘am-
bassadors of apartheid."
The Springboks, after a tour of New
Zealand, were to play three games
against American teams — in Chicago,
New York City and Albany.
On July 13, the U.S. State Department
granted visas to the South African
team, allowing them to enter the
country.
As the U.S. players prepared for their
matches, so did a coalition of groups
opposed to apartheid. Called the Stop
the Apartheid Rugby Tour, the organi-
zation planned protests in the three
cities.
In New Zealand. meanwhile, the
Springboks set off on their world tour —
and were met by thousands of angry
protesters at every game. Hundreds
were arrested.
On July 27, Mayor Corning routinely
approved the Eastern Rugby Union's
request to use city-owned Bleecker
Stadium for a game between an Ameri-
can all-star team and the Springboks on
Tuesday night, Sept. 22. Corning be-
came the onty’ American mayor to
allow the South Africans to play in a
public facility.
“The Eastern New. York Rugby
Association has very top notch people,””
Corning said. ‘| have been very enthu-
siastic in supporting them. They in-
formed us this team was on their
schedule and they wanted to play this
team.”
But opposition to the game mounted.
“f haven't organized a march since
1962 but I haven't forgotten how,” said
Clara Satterfield, president of the
Albany chapter of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Colored
' People.
On Aug. 7, New York City Mayor
Edward Koch reversed his position and
denied permission to hold a rugby game
at Downing Stadium on Randalls Is-
land. Koch attributed the decision to the
chance of violence and the cost of .
providing security for the match. The
game was moved to a municipal
stadium in Rochester
On Aug. 17, the Albany Common
Council postponed a vote on a resolution
to ask Corning to cancel the game.
Three days later, a coalition of six
Christian denomin isti
United in Miasion, urged that the ans
be stopped, with this statement: ‘It will
not be just another game when the
national rugby team of South Africa
plays in Albany this . The
unpleasant reality of international
Also opposing the South Africans’ use
of Bleecker Stadium were the Capital
District Board of Rabbis, the Greater
Jewish Federation, and numer-
ous other religious and civic organiza-
tions.
Selfridge, thoughdeclaring his oppos-
ition to apartheid, refused to cancel the
tour.
“We take the position that sports and
politics do not mix because, if they do,
we cannot decide where to draw the
line," he said.
But Selfridge may not have been
totally isolated from South African
affairs. The Times-Union reported the
Eastern Rugby Union received $25,000
from a South African industrialist,
Louis Luyt, who previously had served
as a conduit for government funds.
Selfridge also solicited contributions.
from 300 U.S. firms that do business in
South Africa. None could be found who
said they donated.
On Aug. 24, Corning gave final
approval to the Springbok game at
‘We want to
compete in
international ©
competition.
You do that by
bringing in
first-class
teams like the
Springboks. ’
— Tom Selfridge
167
mel
Bleecker Stadium.
“I abhor everything about sparth-
eid,” he said. “Our Constitution guar-
antees an individual the right to public-
ly espouse an unpopular cause, and the
same right to a number of individuals in
ul assembly. For that reason, it
is wrong to prohibit an individual or
group from taking part in an athletic
event because of their beliefs or the
policies of their government.”
Corning’s decision was immediately
attacked by his two opponents in
November's election. Independent
Charlies Touhey said the mayor showed
“insensitivity to the issue of aparth-
eid,” while Citizens Party candidate
Fred Dusenbury called the decisios “a
total insult to black people.”
Four days later, it was official —
Albany would be the site of a national
protest.
“Albany is the only city where the
mayor has publicly said the stadium
can be used, and the only place where
the opposition is organized,"’ said Rich-
ard Lapchick, a SART co-founder. “We
feel Albany is the logical site to focus
our attention.”
On Aug. 30, Rochester Police Chief
Delmar Leach urged that the rugby
game scheduled for his city be canceled
because it posed a threat to the public
Safety.
The head of the US. oO} ic -
mittee expressed fear ay ea
nations would stay away from the 1984
Olympics in Los Angeles for the same
reason. F. Don Miller, a retired Us
Army colonel and executive director of
the USOC, said such a boycott could
Fearing for the Olym
pics, Los A
les Mayor Tom Bradley sent telegrams
to Corning and Chicago Mayor Jane
Byrne, asking that the Spri
games be stopped. ——
The Rochester game was
oa ‘» 4. eee Said the Serieamens
would play at a date and
determined later. _—
On Sept. 9, Albany Police Capt. John
said ail city police officers
be on duty the night of Sept. a
The opposition continued to mount.
ae
The Albany Common Council finally
voted on a rugby resolution Sept. 10.
But this time, the motion was to
approve Corning’s decision. It passed
easily while 50 spectators watched.
Meanwhile, the Springboks’ New Zea-
land tour came to an end as dernonstra-
tors threw firecrackers and Molotov
cocktails at police and a pilot from a
low-flying plane threw smoke bombs on
the field during the game. Black
African countries said they wanted to
move the 1982 British Commonwealth
games out of New Zealand because that
The team arrived in Chicago Sept. 14
as the City Council unanimously voted
to denounce apartheid.
A New York State Police report
issued Sept. 16 to Governor Carey said
that members of the Ku Klux Klan from
Connecticut and members of the Com-
munist Workers Party were likely to
attend the Albany Springbok game. The
two groups have had violent clashes in
the past.
The report went on to say hundreds of
State Police officers and perhaps the
National Guard would be needed to
keep order.
Based on that report, Carey Thurs-
day said the game should be canceled.
Mayor Corning took that cue and called
off the match.
“I don't think the team should be
playing anywheretn-the United States,
and that includes Albany,” Carey said.
On Saturday, the Springboks sneaked
out of their Chicago hotel rooms, and.
‘with a handful of reporters in hoi
pursuit, sped 80 miles to Racine, Wis.,
and defeated the Midwest Rugby Un-
ion, 46-12, in a city park in a black
neighborhood.
The threat of an Olympic boycott
seemed to fade, too, following a meet-
ing with African delegates to the World
Olympic Congress.
The Springboks arrived in Albany at 7
p.m. Sunday, to the jeers of 80 protes-
ters. Twelve hours later, Eastern Rug-
by Union officials were in U.S. Federal
District Court, asking Judge Howard
Munson to overturn Carey's decision.
the US. Court failed just
hours before starting time Tuesday, the
game was on.
At 6.45 p.m. in a steady rain at
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against the Eastern Rugby Union all-
star team.
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At about 20 minutes to 7 Tuesday night two vans
carrying a team of South African rubgy players and
their State Police bodyguards sped out of the
Thruway House parking lot for Bleecker Stadium and
Escorting them were some 10 Albany patrol cars
and unmarked detective units and State Police
Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) cars.
The 15 Springbok players had dressed for the game
in their motel rooms. In the van they wore
sweatpants which they pulled off as the vehicles
entered the Ontario Street gate.
A State Police investigator rode in each of the vans
with the players, the same investigators who were
with the players in Chicago and have been with them
The South African Springbok players leaped out of
the vans and onto the field to meet their American
rivals, the Colonials, an all-star team of the Eastern
Rugby Union. The game started seven minutes early.
The 80-minute game went off without an incident,
and for security purposes, there was a brief half-time
back to the two vans. jumped in with the bodyguards
and the caravan led by police cars sped off to the
Thruway House.
There the South Africans showered, put on their
green team blazers and joined their American rivals
at a beer party in 4 private room,
Protesters |
keep rally
untroubled
Albany's controversial Springbok rugby game was
played without incident in rain-soaked Bleecker
Stadium Tuesday night, three hours after a U.S.
Supreme Court justice turned aside a last-minute
effort by Gov, Hugh L. Carey to block it.
The South African team won handily, 41-0.
The game began in a driving rain at 6:55 p.m., with
the American team — in red shirts and white shorts
— entering the field at the west, or Field House,
entrance. The South Africans, in green shirts and
white shorts, entered from Ontario Street.
About 200 city policemen — most on overtime —
were on duty in the immediate vicinity of the stadium
during the game and the rally that preceded it, with
another 100 patrolling the rest of the city, according
to the police.-
There were five arrests, all on misdemeanor
weapons possession Charges.
While the governor had agreed to provide State
Police crowd-controi assistance if asked by Albany
Mayor Erastus Corning Il, it was not requested.
Neither Carey nor Corning attended the game. The
ma the game site earlier in the evening
from the roof of the Central Towers building at 400
Central Ave.,then had dinner at Albany's Fort
Orange Club.
The game ended at 8:22 p.m., and the South
fricans were whisked from the stadium in waiting
vans behind a police escort. They arrived minutes
later at the Thruway House motel on Washington
Avenue in Albany, where they have been staying
since their arrival Sunday night.
The security was tight as the South Africans were
whisked from the city stadium.
in a steady cold-rainfall, anti-apartheid speakers
and a series of entertainers had begun their protest
about 7:05 p.m. in adjacent. Swinburne Park and
remained on hand, jeering spectators as they left.the
stadium. |
About 10 minutes before the game's end, organizer
Tom Selfridge of Scotia, thanked spectators for
attending and predicted “more good rugby games
for Albany.
A bit later, Clara Satterfield, president of the
Albany chapter of the NAACP, said the dermonstra-
tion “helped to spread the cause to a lot of people who
either didn’t know about (apartheid) or who forgot.
See CONTROVERSIAL, Page 6
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September 23, 1981
WEDNESDAY
Albany, N.Y. 12212
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without a hitch
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This story was reported by staff writers Carol
DeMare, Fredric U. Dicker, David Brown, Cliff Lee,
Shirley Armstrong, Stuart Vincent, Nancy Connell,
Carol Polsky, Ronald Kermani, and Tom Friedman,
and was written by R.L. McManus Jr.
The rugby controversy ©
@ Some of the little tales behind the big
story. Page 6
@ Judge explains ruling to allow Spring.
bok game. Page 7
@ How one rugby match caught the
attention of the world. Page 7
@ South African press reports Springboks
wanted to go home. Page 8
@ 2 journaiiots town oul of SAGAN.
@ The rugby game stands as a victory for
the American way. An editorial. Page 11
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untroubled
's controversial Springbok rugby game was
played without incident in rain-soaked Bleecker
Stadium Tuesday night, three hours after a U.S.
Court justice turned aside a last-minute
effort by Gov. Hugh L. Carey to block it.
The South African team won handily, 41-0.
The game began in a driving rain at 6:55 p.m., with
the American team — in red shirts and white shorts
-~ entering the field at the west, or Field House,
entrance. The South Africans, in green shirts and
white shorts, entered from Ontario Street.
About 200 city policemen — most on overtime —
were on duty in the immediate vicinity of the stadiurn
during the game and the rally that preceded it, with
another 100 patrolling the rest of the city, according
to the police.
There were five arrests, all on misdemeanor
weapons possession charges.
While the governor had agreed to provide State
Police crowd-control assistance if asked by Albany
Mayor Erastus Corning II, it was not requested.
Neither Carey nor Corning attended the game. The
mayor inspected the game site earlier in the evening
from the roof of the Central Towers building at 400
Central Ave.then had dinner at Albany's Fort
Orange Club.
The game ended at 8:22 p.m., and the South
Africans were whisked from the stadium in waiting
vans behind a police escort. They arrived minutes
later at the Thruway House motel on W
Avenue in Albany, where they have been staying
since their arrival Sunday night.
The security was tight as the South Africans were
whisked from the city stadium. ae
As the match ended, the heavy iron gates at the
east end of the field swung open and 12 helmeted
police officers hurried onto the sidewalks, one of
them carrying a shotgun.
The team and its managers piled into two waiting
vans and two cars, and as the caravan sped away the
South Africans were taunted as they left
~—s shouting, ‘‘Death to the Klan, scum
eB ‘
This story was reported by staff writers Carol
DeMare, Fredric U. Dicker, David Brown, Cliff Lee,
Shirley Armstrong, Stuart Vincent, Nancy Connell,
Carol Polsky, Ronald Kermani, and Tom Friedman,
and was written by R.L. McManus/Jr.
The rugby controversy
®@ Some of the little tales behind the big
story. Page 6
@ Judge explains ruling to allow Spring-
bok game. Page 7
@ How one rugby match caught the
attention of the world Page 7
® South African press reports Springboks
wanted to go home. Page 8
7 en ne a eee
@ The rugby game stands as a victoly for
_ the American way. An editorial. Page 11
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APPREHENDED — An Albany County sheriff's deputy takes hold of a
demonstrator outside Bleecker Stadium where the controversial rugby
game between an Eastern Rugby Unien team and the South African
Springboks took place without disruption. ;
er
An Albany police lieutenant traveling
along the route of the State University
of Albany student march said he knew
the reason for Tuesday's weather
“See what Mayor Corning did,” he
announced to anyone who would listen
“He went up in the bell tower and asked
for rain. And look what it's doing right
now.”
“ee
Edward Haggerty, editor of Rugby
magazine, said the protests unfairly
singled out rugby
“Gary Player (South African golfer)
plays here and no one protests,’ he
said ‘There are 316 corporations with
$5.6 billion in South Africa, but that's
okay. But they go after our game. They
are asking us to do what the rest of the
country is not asked to do."
*?
Mike Sherlock, 33, of New York City,
Captain of the Colonials — the Ameri-
can all-star team that played the
Springboks — said Tuesday the protests
against the game could backfire.
“I think the long term effects on the
game will be good. We've gotten more
publicity than we could ever hoped for
if we'd hired a, public relations firm,”
he said.
eee
As a security precaution, the colors of
the tickets were changed from red to
blue sometime late Monday or early
Tuesday. Tom Selfridge, president of
the Eastern Rugby Union ‘said the
change was prompted by fears that
counterfeit tickets were in circulation
The change caused problems for
rugby fans who had obtained tickets in
advance. Selfridge personally handied
problems at the gate resulting from the
change
Each of the new, blue tickets also
carried Selfridge’s signature.
ee «@
Signs of the protesters outside the
Stadium carried a variey of messages.
Some read, “Death to Apartheid,"
and “Defeat White Supremacy.”
The chants included. “One, Two,
Three, Four, Stop the Springboks, Stop
the Tour.”
Picketing began at 3 p.m., with police
keeping a block distant. By the end of
the game, no major incidents had been
reported
e*ow
The Springboks scored their first
point at 7:15 p.m... and a great roar
went up from the crowd
se @
Upon leaving the Bleecker Stadium
area following the game, two demon-
Strators from New York City ex.
claimed, ‘We pulled it off, we pulled it
off. With sweat and tears, but no
blood.’
Apparently there was no blood on the
Spectators. But at least one of the rugby
players on the American side left the
field with blood Streaming down his
face — albeit from a playing injury.
* @¢ @
Another South African rugby squad
visited Albany Tuesday The Old Ed-
wardians, a Johannesburg team, is also
touring the United States. according to
Haggerty. The ciub is the fourth South
African rugby team to come to the U.S.
in the past 18 months. Haggerty said
2 @¢e
If only she had thought of it earlier,
Bonnie Osterhout of 694 Clinton Ave.,
could have gotten rich from the rugby
controversy.
“We should have pul a coffee stand
out there in the street or started selling
umbrellas,” she said. “We would have
made $1,000."
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ontroversial game
played without a hitch
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Centiinued from Page 1
Despite Carey's stated fears of viex
lence, turnout was far below the 6,000 te
8,000 protesters that demonstration
organizers had predicted and there was
no reported trouble.
Overall, about 1,200 demonstrators
attended the protests, according to
police Lt. John Dale.
The bulk marched west in the rain to
the stadium along Central and Clinton
avenues following a Capitol Park rally
and were joined at Quail Street by an
estimated 200 students from the State
University at Albany.
Some 100 protesters had spent the day
outside the stadiurn, chanting “Down
with the Sprinkboks, Death to the
Kian,” as spectators entered the stadi-
um's west gate. Many of the latter had
to exchange their color-coded tickets
for newly printed ones as a security
measure.
Police searched those entering the
Stadium with metal detectors, and
bottles of liquor and fruit were confis-
cated.
Organizers quizzed those attempting
to enter, asking such questions as
“What rugby team do you play for?”
and ‘‘Who is your team captain?"
Depending on the answers, patrons
were admitted or turned away.
While organizers said the crowd of
spectators totaled some 1,800, other
estimates ranged from 500 to 1,200.
Since tickets were available only at
rugby clubs, most of the spectators
were avid rugby fans.
Inside the stadium, Pyramid Securi-
ty, @ private company, had about 20
men on hand. Albany police also were
inside the stadium.
After the game, Selfridge said he was
“very pleased. I'm glad we were able to
hold the game.”
The Eastern Rugby Union has sched-
uled a game for Saturday between the
Springboks and another American
team, at a location which rugby union
officials refused to disclose. It is
believed, however, that the game will
be heid in New York slate.
# Prem time to time, patrons of taverns
‘wer the stadium shouted derogatory
2 at demonstrators.
had their
windows covered with plywood sheets.
- City police officers patrolled the
neighborhood four to a car — s
were visible in the back seats of the
‘black-and-whites — and state troopers
with bomb-sniffing dogs were on the
‘stadium perimeter.
Those officers on foot patrel wore
black rain gear ahd newly issued white
Tint helmets.
Meanwhile Tuesday:
@A U.S. District appeals court re-
fused to overturn an earlier decision
which permitted the playing of the
game. Organizers had sued Carey, who
had sought to block it on the grounds
that state security forces could not
protect participants, spectators or
demonstrators,
@ Two hours later, US. Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall de-
clined to review the appeals court
decision, in effect, letting it stand.
@ Federal, state and Schenectady
officials spent most of the day sifting
the wreckage of six offices in
the building occupied by the Eastern
Rugby Union following a 1:30 a.m.
bomb blast. The explosion slightly
damaged the union headquarters, bad-
ly damaged adjacent shops, but injured
no one,
@ Four persons, including an Albany
woman and a leader of the New York
City-based Communist Workers Party,
were seni to the Albany County Jail
following their arrests overnight on
assorted weapons and narcotics
charges. Police said they were asso-
— with the anti-rugby demonstra-
ee
@ At the Capitol, hundreds of state
workers were sent home fram work
about 4 p.m. as a precautionary mea-
sure and State Police beefed up securi-
ty outside of Carey's second floor
offices ~- although the governor was
expected to be in New York City when
the demonstration got under way.
Justice Marshall rejected the last-
minute appeal by state officials to block
the game about 4:30 p:m.
The state had sought to show the
game constituted what Carey called
“imminent danger of riot’’ because of
militant opposition to South African
racial policies.
Marshall said he agreed with the 2nd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which
, hours before had refused to interfere
with a trial judge's ruling that cleared
the way for the game.
Reacting to the decision, Corning
said:
“Speaking for myself, it makes me
proud to be an American. It's a victory
for democracy and a victory for the
First Amendment."
Arguments on the motion for a stay
were made before the appeals court at
midmorning:
While the motion was denied, the
panel said the game could be canceled
in the event a dangerous situation
beyond the control of state and local
police developed.
But the decision made it clear that,
unless state authorities supplied law-
enforcement resources, the game was
to go on regardless of the nature of any
potential crisis.
“In short,” the decision read, ‘‘the
game may be played, but the defend-
ants (the state) are not prevented from
taking steps, including cancellation or
termination of the game, to prevent any
dangerous situation from getting out of
In anticipation of the ruling, Assist-
ant Attorney General Stanley Camhi
was sent to Washington, D.C., Monday
night, arined with a legal brief for a
final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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trying to stay dry.
Two busloads — 50 people — had
arrived, according to oie neninal of
Brooklyn and the rest were expected to
be back around 2 p.m. after they had
lunch.
Terming the game ‘“‘political,”’ she
said she was upset because ‘every time
groups oppposed to apartheid, racisim
etc. try to demonstrate against it,we
can't get a permit to demonstrate.
“Their rights are always safeguard-
South African government trying to get
out of their political isolation,”
John Castillo, also of Brooklyn, said,
“We certainly feel they do represent
the government (of South Africa).
Representatives of South Africa have
said that, if they had to use sports to get
out of their political isolation, they
would use it.” Nees
verge miaerte| said fewer
tion Against "
David Easter, 38, of Albany, who
coordinated the session, said Albany
Capt. Gearge Houting of the police
department's Traffic Division said
eight motorcycle officers were as-
signed” to é6¢orf’ tharchers from the
Capitol to Swinburne Park.
Earlier Tuesday, a group of clergy
and Quakers calling themselves Clergy
and Citizens Concerned About Aparth-
eid arrived at the Thruway House te
appeal to the Springboks to call off the
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left, a state police officer leads a German shepherd to,
the protest area, a city police officer keeps watch, and
sheriff's deputies in bright orange slickers line up for -
action just outside the stadium.
| ‘This package of Knickerbocker News pho-
tos by staff photographer Skip Dickstein.
/FF
Preparing for an expected crush of thousands of
anti-apartheid protestors — which dwindled to less
than 2,000, partly because of a steady, daylong rain —
Albany County sheriff's deputies and Albany city
police officers pulled out all the security stops. Above:
Deputies load up tear gas rifles with pellets. Top right,
portable metal detectors are used to frisk fans
entering Bleecker Stadium. In smaller photos, from
Divan, Kickarondtaw Derg — ALE
The rugby controversy |
Amid the mud, the play went on...
private security people encircled the
water-logged field which looked more and
more like a giant, green sponge. On top of |
it. the South Africans pushed around an
American all-star team called the Coloni-
als.
The cheers all came from the nerthern
side, the questions from the south —
“What are they doing now? ,"' was the most
repeated sentence fram the press. Soon
what little interest the 200 or so reporters
had in the actual game faded and attention
was focused on other matters — such as
the chanting throng of demonstrators at
the west end of the park.
Television sound trucks and hooded
photographers slipped a little deeper into
the oozing mud which rose up to swallow
shoes and tires
When Tom Selfridge, president of the
Eastern Rugby Union which was playing
host to the South Africans, made his grand
entrance, 30 or more reporters attacked
his footsteps until they caught him by the
fence.
“Don't pester me with details. I'm here
to watch a rugby match,” he said as the
media types complained about bein
isolated. ‘Security ia security,” he nt?
“The arrangements have been made.”
Whether Selfridge finally gave the word
or the police reconsidered their stand,
reporters were allowed to seep into the fan
wection. Others lugged their cameras
outside the gates, evidently figuring at
least there they might understand what
was going on.
Despite the relentless rain and the
discomforting shouts of demomstrators
outside the gates, most of the spectators
one their attention to the playing figid
only.
There were no refreshment stands open,
except one selling souvenir T-shirts re
were no rest room facilities, except those
past the heavily secured entrance gate.
And there were no intermissions, except
those which one made for himself,
When it became obvious the Springboks
would dominate the game, the few strag-
wling reporters inside turned their atten-
Knickerbocker Mews/Jjack Pinto
FIT FOR NEITHER ...— A rain-soaked pooch finds a dry piace te hide from
the rain in a Clinton Avenue garage opposite Bieecker Stadium. He kept his
vigil with @ crowd of curious people who watched the activities at the stadium
and adjacent park.
tion en each other or the security forces
“How do you like this assignment’,” a
reporter from the Hartford (Conn. ) Cour-
ant asked a photographer from United
Press International.
“I've had worse.”’ was the reply. ‘] shot
a hurricane in Florida once. But at least
then | knew what | was doing.”
As time on the scoreboard clock ticked
off, Selfridge reappeared in front of the
‘press stands, which by now were mostly
empty.
“We'll have three or four of the Amert-
can players available for interviews after
the match,” he said, “but the Springboks
are untouchable.”’
Selfridge, who said before the match the
rain and mud would benefit his American
team, now ignored the 41-0 Springbok
romp and presented his own estimate of
the crowd inside.
“There's 1,846 fans in here. | counted
them myself at the gate.” he said. A few of
his listeners responded with some “hardy,
har, hars’ and walked toward the exit
The state police had estimated only 500
inside the stadium.
The game was slipping away, and with it
the tension which had built up for so many
days before. Nobody knew quite where to
go when it was over. A gate on the north
side of the stadium was opened for the real
fans of rugby to slide back into the murky
obscurity in which their sport 1s mired.
But for one historic night on a rain-swept
field in Albany, a rugby match was played.
it was not shouted down or blown away
by an executive order or stifled in the
courts. It was played by an apartheid
nation against one which has long stood for
individual liberty.
The Springhoks finished first on the
electronic scoreboard. It is, perhaps, too
soon to assess who and where the losers
were
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s gby team, whose wit tour triggered riots
n New Zealand and an American holitical controversy, played in rain- our rg red rot
outside railed against apartheid.
| strators who had been expected
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U.S. all-star team. ¢
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‘A bomb blast early yesterday
at the offices of the Eastern
Rugby Union in Schenectady
failed to deter the sponsors of
the match from going ahead
with thé controversial appear- |
atice of the Springboks. \ ."
‘The game started 11. minutes
before the 7 p.m. scheduled
time, only a few hours after U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Thur-
ict Marshall had rejected New
ork's arguments to to cai cel
iti! ter . ae :
_ Gov.-Hugh L, Carey's action
last week to prohibit the game
was voided by a federal judge in
Albany Monday, whose decision
was upheld yesterday by the
Send Circuit Court of Appeals
»w York and, finaly by
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The 5,000 to" 10,000 demon-
to gather.at the Capitol around 5
p.m. never materialized
Organizers: blamed the
weather and the fear of violence
sparked by the explosion for the
less than expected turnout. But
by the time the protestors began
their march to the city-owned
Bleecker Stadium, at least 500
persons chanting and carrying
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anti- -apartheid placards were on
hand.
They were greeted on the way
by about 500 students who had’
marched through Albany from
the Albany State University
campus on Washington Avenue.
Another 200 or so demonstra-
| turs were already at the sta-
| dium when the marchers
arrived.
| The crowd gathered in Swin-
‘hurne Park to hear a steady
eam of speakers denounce
.¢ apartheid policies of South
Africa and what they claimed
; was the United States’ tacit sup-
port of it.
Deputy Police Chief John
Reid Getimated that there were
2,500 to 3,000 demonstrators on
hand when the match began.
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adium it proved to be a downpour of rain, rather than anti-apartheid demonstrators. |
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More. than 300 ‘alban police
By the time the game had
erded 90 minutes later, the
dmionstratorg numbered about
40.
Inside the 7,000-seat stadium,
an estimated 2,000 spectators
endured the downpour with
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Albany Police Chief Thomas
Burke said later that officers
had arrested one person with a
knife inside the stadium and
that four others were arrested
food restaurant on Central Ave-
nue. He did not release any’
names,
“
for disorderly conduct at a fast- |
officers” were also on hand to
greet the demonstrators but
protest organizers kept the two
sides apart. About 40 members
of the Albany County Sheriff's
department later joined the Al-
sta ium as
ser oeht a :
Earlier yesterday, ‘Albany po-
lice arrested on a weapons
charge'a Communist Workers
|Party‘member, who had taken
an active part in organizing the
anti-apartheid protest. Michael
| Youn and three others were
County Jail when the game
began.
No one was injured in the 1.17
a.m. bomh. blast on the second
| oes of a Canal Square building
State’ Street in Roneeactaey.
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bany force in cordoning olf the ,
seize in an Albany apartment”
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Sev -ral of the speakers linked,
tthe rugby team and the South
, African government to Nazism
and the Ku Klux Kian, and
blasted the South African policy
of land takeovers from black
owners and forced relocation of
the natives. They denounced
South Africas recent military
incursion against Angolan
guerillas, and accused Reagan of
viewing all world politics on a
‘basis of East versus West, ‘with
no regard to the poor people who
are suffering all over the world,”
said Lapchick.
John Logan, a member of a
Boston rugby team, said the
Springboks were not the best
players in South Africa. “The
best players are the 200,000 black
rugby players who are not
allowed to try. out for the
Springboks."' He ‘said the majori-
ty of players in the Eastern
Rugby Union were anti-apartheid,
and called the players inside the
stadium ‘a small minority of
racists."’
New York City folk singer Pete 7
Seeger, a veteran of political
rallies since the early 1960's,
A Hammer," and the 50’s hit
**A-Weem-A-Wep,” which he said
was based on a South African
tribal melody.
During the rally, seven men
who identified themselves as
“Albany rugby. fans’ gathered *
- and stop the game!"’ Several. of
leit the park. “ fi human rights.
’ By the time the game was over" -
by . the stadium, booing and calling’
played banjo and sang “If I Had |. the spectators ‘‘racists.”’ cans
worth it,” said spectator Roger -
. Smith, a member of the Siena «
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near the Swinburne Park tennis 1:
politics and sports."’ |
courts, about a hundred feet from -
, “I saw the first or second best
the crowd, drinking beer from a..~-: rugby team in the world play
cooler. ‘We didn’t get in because ee tonight. I went becasue it'll help
we didn’t have the five bucks,”’.. my rugby game.”’
said one.. ‘We think it’s great “It's not often that a team of
that these guys can play here, no .‘ ‘this caliber comes into America,
matter what the niggers say." He * ‘let alone this area,” said Kevin
turned toward the crowd and | ‘ Drewyer of Williams College, who
shouted, “Slavery!"" None of the ‘were not able to ‘get into the
men would identify themselves. - - game. “I’m really annoyed that.
Poet Joyce Clarno read several _ these (protesters) are preventing
of her works, one a feminist ~~ mefrom seeing them.”
poem ‘‘about man against . Kenneth Stamp of Rochester,
woman, which must be seen in who said he was one of 700 state
the larger’ picture as black». University students who
against white.”’ “ye “ participated in the demonstration,
During the speeches, one man , ,\ said, “It’s obvious that. the
paced in front of the crowd, enh ‘eonfusion’ about . whether the
shouting, “What are we doing up,’ / game was canceled or not, and.
here? We gotta’ get down there ‘ir /the rain, kept some people away. |
It's really sad that these so-called
“sportsmen can come here while
the U.S. gives Up service to
I see this as
The size of the crowd steadly' ‘; Reagan's fault more than Corn-
dwindled as the rain kept coming. : he ; ing’ Eade
As the park continued to empty,
Martha Biddle of New York City
sat quietly at. the entrance to
‘ Swinburne Park. Mrs. Bidddle,
who said she was in her 60's, said
“I've been fighting apartheid
since the 60's and. I’m going to
continue until the African people
»\ are free.”’ :
“I'm soaked, I'm beat, and I’m
ready to get out of here, overtime
the demonstrators pulled the man —
aside and spoke to him, and he | i
shortly before 8:30, there were -
less than 300 people inthe park. = ©
Dozens of demonstrators lined’
the walkway as spectators left”
“The game was, definitely |
College Rugby Club. He said he
was not bothered by the con- or not,” confessed one deputy, as
troversial nature of the game. “ I<" he awaited orders to — the
don't think they , should mix . “tne.
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The board should,
tonight, charge its Legal Redress
Committee to prepare a news release praising the Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism, attorneys for the defense and
the defendants for carrying on their shoulders the Plight
Of all blacks. The Statement should Publicly denounce the
Albany Police Departinent and the FRI for their illeqal
tactics. It shoulda also call for a greater black rresence
in the police department. In addition, the board should call
for an investigation of the arresting officers, to determine
the extent to which the decision to cover-up a planted qun
was made by the police department,
This will help set the record straight. It will also
place the police department on notice that we will not
tolerate these offenses. It will show convincingly that the
branch is on the side of the Coalition Against Apartheid enc
Racism, This is only consistent with the long established
history of this Proud and successful international organization,
Several years ago, Harry Hamilton and I met with
