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Britain, said he stopped over in the
United States to speak out against the
appearance of the Springboks. He is on
. 4 “study leave" from his teaching job,
“he said,
Clara Satterfield of the Albany coali-
tion said Saturday that each week — the
*
group ig meeting every Saturday ~- new
- groups are joining the coalition.
John W. Moore of the Irish Coalition
»~ Of the Capital District announced at the
press conference that his group has
., .Jgined
“People must be treated humanely
_ and given equality and justice,’ Moore
said
The protesters claim the Springboks
tour is a propaganda move by the South
African government to win approval for
_ apartheid, a policy of racial separation.
On Friday a match scheduled for
Rochester was canceled by its sponsor,
‘ teaving Albany as the only city in the
" ‘state willing to host the controversial
”
‘squad. A New York City appearance
fell through when Mayor Koch with-
~~ drew the use of a city-owned field.
~
Last week Mayor Erastus Corning I
announced he would allow the game to
be played at Bleecker Stadium, setting
~ Off an intense effort by the opponents to
~ Ofganize a large protest.
Satterfield said she is starting to get
‘information concerning busloads of
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demonstrators which are expected to
come to Albany on the day of the game,
but she declined to give any details.
The organizers of the rally, to be heid
at Swinburne Park next to Bleecker
Stadium, said they hope to attract as
many as 10,000 people.
Satterfield said she understands that
whet pis tr Spetaghste semen on
which pits t an
all-star team from the Eastern Rugby
Union — indicaténg ‘‘we have had some
effect."’
National speakers will be invited to
the raily, but the leaders aren't releas-
ing names as yet,
Harington, who said he will speak in
Chicago Monday, where a Springboks
game is also scheduled, said he advised
the Albany coalition “to offer a con-
stant and solid affirmation of anti-
apartheid presence in America."’
On Saturday, fights in New Zealand
raged for two hours before the 6,000
demonstrators marched away from the
city’s Eden Park Stadium after failing
to carry out their threat to charge the
playing field and stop the game.
At least three people were arrested in
the street fighting, a police spokesman
said, adding police were more interest-
ed in keeping the protesters out of the
Stadium ,than in making arrests.
Vote swaps anti- for pro-rugby resolution
The Albany Common Council's Law Committee promised to raise questions at Thursday's meeting Union, said afterward.
has tossed aside a resolution condemning the use of about the committee's handling of the matter. “Ditto,” was Corning’s response when told of
city-owned Bleecker Stadium for a rugby match “I promised the people I would follow it up, and idge’ tance
featuring a tearn of South Africans. _ I'm not going to sit t there and let them calvead ine << °¢ CC :
Instead. by a 41 vote Tuesday night, the like that,” Brace said rin Selfridge was also closemouthed about an alter-
committee recommended council adaption of a The only dissenting vote eter committee native site for the Springboks Sept. 26 game. first
> resolution saying it would be “wrong* "to cancel the session was cast by porembears Nancy Burton, who scheduled for New York City, later moved to
———, rugby match. said today: “It was a avesty to come out with a Rochester, and at present without an announced
_2- __ Thenew resolution supports the position taken by resolution hah simply the opposite of what stadium.
t | Mayor Erastus Corning II in refusing to cancel the Nebraska ntroduced.” He has said the game-will be played at a private
match. In fact. the wording of the committee's “tk: saily ‘saath st all sein: Wike gual.” Ms. stadium, but he has declined to disclose the city or
- resolution andthe reasoning behind it appeared to Burton added. State in which the gume will be playa.
x Py ged Corning’s Aug. 24 statement A few hours before the Law Committee met, “It's not appropriate at this time,” was all
Thomas Selfridge, the man instrumental in bring- Selfridge would say when asked why he would not
Alderman Philip DiPace, the committee chair- ing the South African Springboks te am to Al discuss the location of the game.
_ Man, said the new resolution would be introduced at met with Corning in the mayor’ it sie
Meanwhile, the organizers of what is expected to
ge sogee decnoepalennmerany minutes. be a major demonstration in Albany to coincide
% Alderman Nebraska Brace, sponsor of the i sngr handy tecragatnagliy e were about, with the Sept. 22 game announced Tuesday a vigil
aha 6 oe ee ask the mayor if he wants to tell you,” will be held Friday evening in New York City in
= , by the committee's —— president of the Schenectady-based Eastern ; memory of a South African biack leader who died in
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a related matter, an organizer of a rugby
match scheduled for Chicago featuring the Spring-
boks said ‘‘we don't want any part” of a loca! neo-
azi group's plans te provide about 100 party
members as guards at the Sept. 19 event.
Michael Allen, a spokesman for the National
Socialist Porty of hatiarichs, said Tosotay thet group
members dressed in street clothes and armed “with
what's legal” will be scattered through the crowds
.Meanwniie, in Chicago:
South Africans ~
‘here to play’
By Nancy Connell
Staff Writer
CHICAGO ~— The South African
rugby players expected to
‘Meet trouble in this country, but they
are prepared to stay as long as their
hosts will have them, the manager of
the team said here Thursday.
“As far as | am concerned, we're
here to play,” said manager Johann
n, standing in a pelting rain in
Grant Park, where the team had gone
for a workout.
“To be quite frank, I think we
anticipated something like this,” Claas-
. Sen said, referring to the protestors who
have dogged the team since they
arrived in Chicago Monday,
' Claassen, a university professor in
South Africa, went on the offensive
when asked about apartheid, the coun-
try's systern of laws that denies blacks
and coloreds the right to vote, restricts
where they may live and work and
‘monitors their movements with an
elaborate passbook system.
“But it happens here,” Claassen said.
“Pl take you in Chicago and I'll show
* you the same thing we are accused of
* doing.”
~ When a reporter noted that in South
Africa such conditions are the law, not
*a Violation of the law, Claassen re-
sponded simply, “Yes, that is the
¢ However, Claassen said, efforts are
¥.
‘being made to change things in South
(Aftdca.
* “We are busy with changes now and
‘ft will take time,” he said. “You can’t
‘change a community overnight.”
» As tothe protestors, Claassen said, “|
think America is a democracy like our
' Country is a democracy. The protestors
haye their right to protest. | also think
the American people have the right to
play their sport."
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@Young blacks don't want
South African rugby team in
Albany. Page 6
@Man who invited Springboks
to Albany says he is only returning
their hospitality. Page 6
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appearance in Aibany in 1947,
Page 7
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the Springbok tour very signiticant
politically to South Africans.Page 8
“We represent the South African
Rugby Board. That is a sporting body.
That is not a political body. The South —
African Rugby Board's policy is sports
integration,’ Claassen said.
Anti-apartheid spokesmen, however,
contend sports integration in South
Africa is more appearance than reality,
a trade-off to keep the core of apartheid
intact.
The team members, braving a wet
and windy Chicago afternoon, had
ducked out of the Chicago Athletic
Association by an alley door Thursday
afternoon to try to walk unnoticed to
Grant Park, a city green about five or
six blocks from where they are staying.
But even at the back door, the team
was met by the troupe of reporters who
had staked out the six-story granite and
brick building in an attempt to find
where the team will play Saturday.
The location of the Chicago area
game had been kept a closely guarded
secret by the Midwest Rugby Union,
which is sponsoring the game.
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Sept. 22 match in Albany.
Union leaders from 20 labor organiza-
tions were expected to meet today to
discuss whether their memberships
will be encouraged to attend the upcom-
ing rally at Swinburne Park, according
to Andrew Hugos of the Albany chapter
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and a
member of the Capital District Com-
mittee Against Apartheid labor con
mittee.
Next Tuesday's protest is expected to
attract thousands of persons from the
Northeast objecting to South Africa’s
apartheid policy, which requires sepa-
ration of races. .
Locally, opposition to the Springboks’
tour and support of the rally appear to
be growing.
bership to attend the demonstration.
The FOCUS council adopted a resolu-
tion earlier this week, released Friday,
that reads in part: ‘Whereas we regard
the tour of the Springboks team as a
way of gaining respectability for the
notorious and brutalizing system of
apartheid in South Africa, and whereas
we wish to identify with enlightened
and humane forces around the world
who have universally condemned South
Africa's racial policies, we strongly
fellow citizens.”
Also released Friday was a statement
from the board of directors of Albany's
Neighborhood Resource Center oppos-
ing Mayor Erastus Corning II's deci-
sion to allow the to play at
Bleecker Stadium, a municipally-
owned facility.
The issue of the Springboks tour and
its relation to the South African govern-
ment as well as the Reagan administra-
tion will be the topic of a lecture being
offered at the College of Saint Rose
Tuesday afternoon. The speaker will be
Dennis Brutus, a black South African
poet who was exiled from his country in
the 1960s for a committee
organizing
that attempted to integrate South Afri-
can sports.
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2:30 p.m. in St. Joseph's auditorium, corp y ger es -
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the rally, Hugos said leaders from cited the team's constitutional rights
unions including the New York Stale the Albany Common Council hes
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African political refugee, speaks at a memorial
service for Steve Biko, a black student leader
who died in a South African jail, conducted
outside the headquarters of the Albany Chap-
ter of the National Association for the Ad-
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Washington, Lane said. He estimated
approximately 1,500 to 2,000 local union
members would be going.
Black workers in South Africa earn
“a fraction of the salary of white
workers, less than 25 percent,” he said
The Albany Coalition Against Aparth-
eid interrupted its weekly meeting
Saturday for about an hour to hold a
public memorial for Steve Biko outside
the headquarters of the Albany Chapter
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People on
Livingston Avenue
Biko was a black South African
student leader, whose death four years
; ago Saturday in a South African jail
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sparked a much-publicized investiga-
tion into police brutality
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Albany, N.Y, Sunday, September 13,1981 ss 11
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It took three minutes for a coroner's
inquest into his death to determine that
several South African police and gov-
ernmentofficials were not responsible,
Michael Doliard of the Albany Coalition
told a gathering at the service.
Biko, a medical student who was an
organizer and one of the first leaders of
the South African Student Organiza-
tion, was tortured and suffered several
blows to his head during an interroga-
tion in a prison, Dollard said. He died
six days later.
E J. Josey, first vice president of the
Albany NAACP chapter and member of
the Albany Coalition steering commit-
tee, opened the service by saying ‘‘let
us hope that what he did for us and the
life he gave will not be in vain."
After the service Dollard told report-
ers the rally organizers are.not encour-
aging violence.
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after demonstrators con-
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nae demonstration at the be arrested for harass-
Fitageraid said the group
conferred with an a st eae te
Anita Thayer, and
leave rather than submit to |
arrest. ‘
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heavily travelled route and a
demonstration there would
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for rugby protest
By Nancy Corinell
Staff Writer
As the South African rugby team
arrived in Chicago on the first leg of
its American tour, organizers on all
sides of the issue geared up Monday
for next week's game in Albany.
Tiky produced a flurry of activi-
ty... ;
To organizer of the tour met with
the Albany police chief: it was
learned that Albany Police Court is
preparing for an all-day session the
day after the match and anti-
apartheid speakers are announcing
appearances on area college cam-
puses to muster support for a protest
the day of the game, which is set for
Sept. 22.
Tom Selfridge, president of the
Eastern Rugby Union and the organ-
izer of the American tour, met with
Albany Police Chief Thomas Burke
Monday, but neither side would say
what was discussed.
it will be up to the Eastern Rugby
Union to provide security inside
Bleecker Stadium the night of the
match while the city will patrol
outside the stadium.
The police department has can -
celed days off for the day of the
game, but no further details were
available about the number of men
expected to work that night.
Albany Police Court Justice
Thomas Keegan said court will be in
session as long as necessary after
the event. “We will be available if
needed."’ Keegan said. “I sincerely
hope it isn't necessary.” <*
Court employees said they were
told to be prepared for a 24-hour
court session to process possible }
Meanwhile, the coalition of anti- *
apartheid groups organizing the
demonstration was working te
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relly at the park, adj to the stadium, at 6:30 apartheid. In the rea) world, international sporting
p.m. a. an do have political overtones."
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African speakers to denounce ap: rtheid, Squth said taps. Ppa ek teiling
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ma PO one “Maki! tier ntti it teen has a poo rel right to play oe
At onal misision to the Meanwhile, the board of directors of the Capital
United Nations, will in Albany Wednesday Region of the Civil Service Employees Association
and Thursday to speak to college and community
groups about apartheid. Dr. Dennis Brutus, a black
South African poet exiled from South Africa for
organizing the South African non-Racial Olympic
Committee, will lecture on “Reagan, Rugby and
Repression in South.Africa’’ at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday
in'St. Joseph's Auditorium on the College of St. Rose
Campus.
Richard Lapchick, one of the organizers of the New
York City-based Stop the Apartheid Rugby Tour, said
Monday that he expected students will be the biggest
group of protesters at the Sept. 22 match.
Today, Donald Woods, a journalist banned from
South Africa because of his anti-apartheid views,
plans to speak against the Springboks game before
the Interfaith Cabinet of Albany, a gathering which
Albany Mayor Eratus Corning II said Monday he
would attend.
Virtually all of the regions religious leaders, both of
‘Carning's opponents in the mayoral election, labor
unions and other have issued statements
‘condemning the decision to allow the South Africans
to use city facilities for their game.
. On Monday, State University Chancellor Clifton R.
‘|Wharton Jr. joined the chorus of dissent, with a
‘ statement that seid, “thag of South Africa
, Cont to endorse
exactly the South African government.” ss
announced that it had “strongly urged”’ its members
to boycott the Springboks game and had called on j
members to participate in protests against the even
The union, which did not urge Corning to cance! the
match, algo directed its leadership to schedule an
official “union participation” in the anti-Springboks
protest.
In Chicago, meanwhile, the City Council voted
unanimously Monday, 37-0, to denounce the South
African rugby team, shortly after the team arrived in
the city. The council passed a resolution introduced
by Mayor Jane Byrne to “publicly denounce the
intent of the South African Springboks to play in
~~ 36 players,
had arrived at Chicago's
O'Hare Airport to light applause and none of the jeers
that greeted them during a brief stop in Los Angeles.
The South Africans are scheduled to play a match
Saturday against players from various clubs in the
Midwest during the first leg of their U.S. tour, -
“We are not very much concerned about the
controversy,'’ Springboks manager Johan Claasseen
said at O'Hare. “We are Sportsmen, not politicians.
We represent the South African Rugby . Rot
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Strategy session scheduled
on handling rugby protest
‘By SUSAN SCHULMAN
Knickerbocker News Reporter
Public safety officials for the city.
county and state are scheduled to meet
Wednesday with Albany Mayor Erastus
Corning Ii and members of the Capital
District group helping to organize a
major protest when the South African
—e play rugby in Albany next
The meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m. in
Corning’s office, was set up at the
‘request of the Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid as an organizational
session in preparation for next Tues-
day's rugby game at Bleecker Stadium
and a simultaneous anti-apartheid pro-
test at Swinburne Park
Corning said he would be meeting
with representatives of the coalition,
city police, the county Sheriff's Depart-
ment, Capitol Police and state troopers
Officials of the latter group said state
police would only be called in at
Corning's request if local and county
police are unable to control the crowd
“Steck South Africans are not a
people merely kept apart; they are a
people systernatically brutalized, de-
nied education, housing, freedom of
speech and assernbly, the right to vote.
and more," he said.
The Capital District Black Students
Coalition, representing students at area
colleges, including State University at
Albany, Union, Siena, St. Rose and
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an-
nounced a press conference for
Wednesday morning.
Members of the Capital District Lrish
Coalition announced they would partici-
pate in the anti-apartheid demonstra-
tion.
The Council of Albany Neighborhoods
Association voted at its meeting Sunday
night to protest the city's decision to
permit the Springboks to play at a
municipal facility, Bleecker Stadium.
Michael Dollard of the Capital Dis-
trict Coalition Against Apartheid said
Jotwstone Makatino, the chief repre-
sentative to the United Nations from
the African National Congress, will be
They said it would be
responsibility as mayor to ask Gov.
Hugh Carey for state police assistance
if he felt it was necessary.
Corning said Monday that he
wouldn't attend next Tuesday's demon-
stration, but that he would be ‘‘on
duty.’ He repeated he didn't expect any
violence, but was concerned about the
demonstration.
“Of course I'm concerned,"’ Corning
said. ‘‘I have always been concerned.
I'm going to do everything I know how
to make sure there is no violence.’
The Springboks arrived Monday in
Chicago, where the first match of the
South African team's US. tour is
scheduled for next Sunday.
The 36-member team landed at
O'Hare International Airport and was
greeted by about 15 supporters and no
demonstrators.
Later Monday, the Chicago City
Council unanimously passed a resolu-
tion introduced by Mayor Jane Byrne to
“publicly denounce the intent of the
in Albany this week and will be one of
the speakers at next Tuesday's rally.
Donald Woods, an internationally
known journalist banned in South Afri-
ca for his political views, was scheduled
to speak in Albany today.
Albany officials ss well as protest
organizers have said they don't antici-
pate any violence erupting during the
rugby game and anti-apartheid protest.
Organizers of the protest, in fact,
have been calling the upcoming rally
“a peaceful protest.’’
But as the day for the game draws
nearer, city officials seem to be taking
additional precautions to prevent the
type of violence that erupted when the
Springboks played in New Zealand
earlier this month.
And many of the statements released
by religious, civic and educational
groure support supporting the rally urge the
tors to rally peacefully.
Albany police have previously an- right
nounced the city’s entire 365-member
force -~ excluding officers on vacation —
South African Springboks to play in
Chicago.”’
The council did not, however, atternpt
to stop the game, scheduled to be
played at Soldier Field, a facility owned
and operated by the city’s Park Dis-
trict, according to a spokesman for the
mayor's office.
The spokesman said the mayor felt
that while the city government should
condemn the game, a legislative body
in a democratic country should not act
to prevent the match.
Also on Monday, Albany city officials
said Police Court would be open all day
next Tuesday in anticipation of possible
arrests during a major demonstration
planned during the Springboks game in
Albany.
And several people and groups
throughout the Capital District added
their support for the demonstration.
Among them was SUNY Chancellor
Clifton R. Wharton Jr., who described
South Africa’s apartheid policy of
racial segregation as ‘‘de facto slav-
and sick leave — will be working the
day of the rally.
Corning said Monday that he had not
received the Mailgram from Los Ange-
les Mayor Tom Bradley asking that the
Springboks’ Albany game be canceled.
Bradley, who is reportedly vacation-
ing in New York City, said he is
concerned the rugby tour will prompt a
boyeott of the 1964 Summer Olympics in
Los Angelos.
Corning repeated that while he per-
sonally abhors apartheid, he believed
his decision to permit the South African
team use of Bleecker Stadium was the
right one.
“It believe they have a right to be
here,’ Corning said. “You cannot take
away someone's rights because some-
one else threatens violence."’
huhal toe he tents shad the Sask
African team to Albany,
ing said: Tart nie aos ate
mind thinks I want them here. No.
I don't want them here, asia
right to play here.”
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Schen ected Gupette
qf is ||
Protests Urged—
Albany’s Rugby
Match Draws Fire
ALBANY (UPI) — Protests
against a planned match
against a team from Afrt-
ca in reggon 4 Sept. 22 mounted
proae ps Bi the chancellor of
the State University and a labor
group calling for peaceful pro-
tent.
The protests have centered on
South Africa's policy of apart-
heid, a system of strict racial
segregation, Mayor Erastus
Corning I has rejected requests
that he withdraw permission for
South Africa's Springboks rugby
team to play an American team
in city-owned Bleecker sta-
dium.
SUNY Chancellor Clifton
Wharton Jr., in a prepared
statement, said he sw ed re-
quests for cancelation of the
game, but cautioned against any
violence at a planned protest
rally outside the stadium.
“Let us stand fast in our re-
jection of apartheid and in our
rejection of the violent and un-
democratic force upon shich it
rests. Let us defend human
rights by our example as well as
by our words,” Wharton said.
SUNY has a large campus in
Albany.
The Capital Region of the
Civil Service Employees Asso-
ciation “er a boycott of the
ame and participation by
JSEA members “in any peace-
ful, lawful demonstrations.”
The Student Senate of the City
University of New York asked
the ature to prevent the
match. It said the lawmakers
could act Wednesda A
al session called | Raped So
ork City’s primary election for
. 32.
rlier, Corning rejected a
by Los Angeles Mayor Tom
y to cancel ihe game.
CHICAGO (AP) — The City
Council voted a
Monday to denounce a
African rugby team scheduled
to coag A here in protest of
South Africa’s a poli-
cy of racial separation.
The 37-memper Council
passed a resolution intro-
duced Ma Jane Byrne
to” ly the in-
tent of the South African
Springboks to play in Chica-
go” on Sept. 19 net a team
8 red by the Midwest
Union.
¢ South African team,
1 Ament ere a poem
fe
Ia a telegram,
Corning to reconsider use
of fears that the Springboks’
a boycott of the 1984 Summer
a t mer
Ol in Los A
vig big ergian Sunday that
while he not yet received
Bradley's , it would not
change his stand that the South
Africans have a right to play in
Albany under Constitutional
guarantees of freedom of
speech and
ange said he would recon-
sider,“only if Bradiey can prove
to me that the Los Angeles
Olympics are more important
than the U.S. Constitution.”
Corning said the fact that a
boycott of the Olympics et
polgteren reget rimental to
,og Angeles was not reason
— to cancel the game.
“Which comes first, the Los
Angeles Olympics or the Consti-
tution of the United States?”
Corning asked
Corning has said that he
would urge those opposed to
South Africa's racial policies to
ey ceful demonstrations
at t . 22 game.
€ ition groups have pro-
m a large pretest at the con-
test.
A scheduled game in New
York City was canceled by
Mayor Edward Koch. The game .
was moved to Rochester, where
officials also canceled it but
said the contest would beplayed
ition to another game in
Chicago is also drawing pro-
taste. F
The New Zealand leg of the
min yw tour has sparked
several demonstrations and
some violence.
priv
can Rugby Union, is goin
ahead with its US, tour de
lead to a boycott by black
Affican nations of 1984
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-In Albany, —
The Issue Is
| Security
By PHIL. BLANCHARD
Gaaette Reporter
ALBANY -- Security at the
anti-apartheid demonstration
to coincide with next
uesday’s rugby game at
Bleecker Stadium will be the
subject of a meeting today
among Mayor Erastus Corning
il, city, county and state police
officials, and demonstration or-
ganizers.
(Related story,
page 35).
A week before the gume, ox-
pected to draw national atten-
tion because of the South Africa
Springboks’ participation, secu-
rity both inalde the stadium ani!
out was still very much up in the
air
Corning said yesterday that
he told Gov. Hugh L. Carey that
he might request backup assist-
ance from the state police or
even the National Guard should
the demonstration get too big to
handle.
os tee pace eon
d that it is the responsibility of
the Eastern Rugby Union, spon-
sors of the Springboks’ US. tour,
to arrange for security inside
Bleecker, Corning has, he said,
discussed this matter with ERU
President Thomas Selfridge
“He has agreed he will have
security for his pla and tick.
eted tators,” Corning said
Selfridge hasn't disclosed his
plans for security. However, the
traditional iders of stadium
security, off-duty Albany police
officers, won't be available for
hire next Tuesday night, Corn-
said,
“Fee police offi-
i"
Protest organizers said they
plan to assign at least one mar-
shal, “trained in order
and peace,” to each of the many
chartered buses expected to
a demonstrators to Albany
fe, Oe
William Robinson of the New
York-based Stop the Rugby
Tour organization, said buses
are already chartered in New
York, Boston, New Haven, Hart-
ford, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Ith-
aca, Syracuse and other cities.
The demonstrators plan to
gather at the State Capitol ai 5
p.m. and march to Bleecker Sta-
dium, where the Springboks’
game against an ERU-organ-
ived all-star team is to begin ut
7
All necessary permits for the
demonstration have been is-
yor's office said.
on safid.@ number of
prominent politicians and musi-
cians are scheduled to atiend
the demonstration. Among the
names he listed were . Shir-
‘| ley Chisholm, NAACP Execu-
tive Director Benjamin Hooks.
‘| entertainers Ossie Davis and
Ruby Dee, and musician Gil
Seott-Herron.
Chicago’s Rugby Match a Crucial Factor—
Carey May Override Corning’s Decision
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the
mayor's authority and his con-
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reactions
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could be
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what I've read. what was indi-
pr
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ponsibilit
allow for freedom of
but claimed he had overali
y to
assembly,
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“I'd have to be assured that
the state police
themselves
ago. The
problems
Albany.
Carey said he r
ener
that city would he!
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proves
outside
be solel
‘One of my major concerns is,
will be
caied to me. is the interior —
while I understand the local
where spectators would be and |
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ing were held
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other
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and again yesterda
ss conference
Said no concly
years he has been
issue he says: “I gave this a helluva
Jill Schuker
Some Carey aides
se aya no dec
a
cuss how the governor would | to the Governor
men agreed more information
Was needed from cit
after the
Monday
Mayor Erastus
Carey
isions in the 46
Carey
to stop the match
| prewed > an
“I think the power is im
eby
that power if | sions were reached: but both
that to happen, | visas. I think the
security is inad-
1 I can de under the | been taken in
police powers available to me.” | condemn this kind of
the Governor told
ne
“I. a8 an American citizen. | pohee
Of the ru
ght.”
&
“Far and away, it is the hardest decision
¥ suggested he may use| jot of thou
made,” says Albany
made many hard dec
simply can't understand what
said “1 don't know how they got
Carey's top aide. Robert Morga-
But Morgado declined to dis-
do.
the team is doing here.”
arent sure whether
“Not wanting
the
I'l) see what |
state police f
equate
mayor.
go about us
i-
(in the state constitution).
is such that the
ailable
~ Gov. Hugh Carey
out at Bleecker Sta-
a cannot handle
me
Bleecker Stadium, than 1 would
a recommendation
can't handle security
today as to whether there is ade-
ang i Ba
ve powers to cancel
: ty match in-
South team if
next week's
vol a
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calle al
dium.
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give Carey
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inside as well as outside
Gazette Reporters
ALBANY
anges
Mraters” Carey said
anticipate some possibile in-
Sec
certain —
they
Td have to be assured that
|
security. | doubt if they do.”
ee see
“T called him yesterday to tell
ing sshd youlerday waos sansd
ng sa
_— ig 's condemnation of
; ru match.
‘ “fete been on vacation and |
was alerting him to the possibil-
ity of it (trouble) happening.”
with the governor the possibility
of bringing in the state or
a the national gua pap
security @ planned
the Rleecker Stadium match.
Corning would not respond
directly to Carey's criticism to
the Springboks visit ner would
he comment on the reactions to
‘ithe match exhibited by the
‘| Democratic mayors of:Los An-
—_ Chicago and New York
He made it clear that regard-
less of who said what, C
would not his mind or
alter his decision.
“If you know in your heart
you are right..." he said, “It
makes no difference what harm
it might do me. ['m stuck. I'm
‘| convinced I'm right.”
a 2
He said he had talked to '
infinite number of le whose
opinions | admire and respect”
before making the decision. He
insists 1 was not an easy one to
make
“Far and away, it is the har-
dest decision I've ever made,”
said Corning, who has made
many hard isions in the 40
years he has been mayor of the
Albany.
He said: “i gave this a helluva
lot of thought.” D
About the only organizat,”.
that has sided with Corning’s
constitutional detense for a}-
lowing the match to be played in
a publicly-owned facility is the
American Civil Liberties Union.
And they were dismayed at
Carey's position.
9 overnor has an excel-
lent civil liberties record,” said
Sarah Birn, NYCLU associate
legislative director in Albany.
"TL would hope in this case he not
be part of what we call a heck-
ler’s veto.”
Birn said the planned demon-
stration is the response
to the rugby match, not cancel-
lation, fi a pr ou
money, but t's
democracy.”
“Nobody likes these gan
Nebody wants them playe:
Birn said. “What I hope would
ha in Albany is that a —_
nificent ® be sent indi-
cating our abhorrence of
aparthesd ~
The mayor said he discussed.
Mga ye
we strategy session scheduled on han-
dling rugby protest. Page 2-A
By ERIC FREEDMAN
and SUSAN SCHULMAN
Knickerbecker News Resorters
Gov.Hugh Carey said today he may
“request"’ cancellation of next Tues-
day’s controversial Sept. 22 rugby
game in Albany against a South African
team if Albany Mayor Erastus Corning
Il is unable to provide adequate securi-
ty for spectators, players and demon-
strators,
Carey told an afternoon press confer-
ence in the Red Room of the Capitol ‘I
hope the match doesn’t take place”
between the Springboks and an Eastern
Rugby Union Team at Bleecker Stadi-
um.
However, the governor emphasized
that it is Corning as “chief magistrate"
of the city who will decide whether or
not to cancel the match at the munici-
pal stadium.
Carey said he is talking with Corning
and looking into whether ‘adequate
protection" can be provided.
Carey could direct the state police or
National Guard to supplement the
Albany Police force, if Corning request-
ed such assistance. But Carey said,
he'd “like to know why" such additional
security would be necessary. A number
of organizations — both local and
national — are planning to participate
in protest demonstrations outside
Bleecker Stadium the day of the match.
Carey described himself as a ‘‘forth-
right foe of apartheid in any form,"’ and
said, ‘‘as an American citizen, | can't
understand what the South African
tearn is doing here.”
He also said that he has ‘‘an overall
responsibility " for public safety, which
includes preventing injuries to those
attending or protesting the match.
Corning, who was not available for
comment at press time, has said the
city would be able to provide adequate
security the day of the game. :
Albany Police Chief Thomas Burke
would not comment on the governor's
statement, but also has stated. before
that security would be sufficient.
Earlier today; an exiled South Afri-
can journalist said blacks and whites in
that country are being told that the
Springboks tour is being met with
“official acceptance” in Albany.
While wire reports on the American
people's reaction to the South African
rugby tour are sent to South Africa
from the United States, those reports
are only carried in newspapers with a
relatively small circulation, Donald
Woods, a white journalist exiled in 1977
said.
In addition to some newspapers,
television and radio in South Africa is
state run, he said. And, as a result,
reports of the games back to the South
African people are controlled by the
government.
Protests against the Springboks when
the team played in New Zealand earlier
this month were reported through the
government-run media as small out-
bursts by Communist-type groups
planted at the game, Woods anticipates
a similar situation will crop up in the
South African press with the American
tour, including the Bleecker Stadium
match.
Woods said Corning's decision to give
the Springboks use of city-owned
Bleecker Stadiurn is seen by the South
African government as “official ac-
ceptance” of the Springboks.
He said the rugby team is part of the
South African government's massive
propaganda campaign to earn interna-
tional acceptance, despite the govern-
ment's apartheid policies endorsing
racial segregation.
“They (South African government)
care what you think of them,"* Woods
said. :
Woods made his comments in an
editorial board meeting of The Knicker-
bocker News and The Times-Union.
Woods was in Albany at the request of
mayoral candidate Charles Touhey and
was scheduled to meet with Corning
and the president of the Eastern Rugby
Union teday.
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G/if3/
_Klan-among groups to appear —
By Fredric U. Dicker 9
Cliff Lee W;
and David Brown Wi K3
Statt Writers
A State Police report submitted to Gov. Hugh L
Carey Wednesday concludes that hundreds of State
Police, and perhaps National Guard troops, would be
required to provide adequate security for the planned
Tugby game featuring a South African team ir.
Albany's Bleecker stadium.
Carey ordered the report Tuesday, after stating
that he might cali on Albany Mayor Erastus Corning
Il to withdraw permission for use of the city-owned
stadium because of the potential for trouble at the
Sept. 22 game.
The report aiso states:
@ Ku Klux Klan members from, Connecticut, and
Communist Workers Party officidis from New York
City are mobilizing for what State Police theorize
could be a confrontation at the game. Those two
groups have clashed violently in the past, most
notably in Greensboro, N.C., where violence at an
anti-Klan rally left five dead in 1979.
@ Albany city police would probably be unable to
s*
provide protection sufficient to guarantee the safety
of demonstrators and spectators. It says that
“hundreds’’ of additional security forces would likely
be needed at the match to supplement the leoaj
police. :
The report was prepared under the supervision of
State Police Superintendent Wiiliam G. Connelie.
Details of the report were disclosed to The Times»
Union by Robert J. Morgado, secretary to the
governor.
Aides to the governor raised the possibility that
Carey would call on Corning to cance! the match in
the interest of public safety, telling Corning that the
State would not be able to provide ail the protection
needed to protect players, spectators and demonstra-
tors at the event.
Late Wednesday evening, Corning said he was not
aware of the State Police report. He said he planned
to speak to Carey today about it.
See REPORT, Page 4
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South Africa again seeks entrance to
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'< He said he ‘certainly!’ was concerned at
|, dhe KKK-Communist Workers Party aspect.
2\ But asked what he would do if the governor
. failed to y the necessary state police
. “protection, he replied:
2; “VU cross that bridge when | come to it.”
, Eartier, Morgado said, ‘The. report indi-
ae the potential for some serious prob-
_, ‘Agms at the match and concluded that the
+ 2
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police probably could not handle it."
fi addition, he said the State Police had
discovered that “KKK groups from Con-
necticut will be coming to demonstrate on
behalf of the team and the Communist
Workers Party is organizing buses and
en (against the match) in New York
ty.” ae :
Morgado also disclosed that Corning
_ previously had asked the state to provide
' State Police and/or National Guardsmen to
heip police the match.
Whether the state would provide the
necessary security was unclear. Carey was
said to be working on an announcement on
the matter.
te Corning has insisted he would not with.
draw the permit for the game because the
. *vgby teams had a “constitutional” right to
* play. Whether Corning might reconsider, if
-the governor refuses to provide the extra
. seeyrity the State Police report said was
Mecessary, was not clear.
>: If permission to use the city facility were
viwi) . the organizers of the match, the
Se ret dm ga Eastern Rugby Union,
probably schedule the game for a
Sprivate site, ae they have in Chicago.
t.; "We have always had alternative sites,
“gut I am not going to get into speculation
Hoy crt Bleecker Stadium," said Tom
4
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f
5
* : Carey, meanwhile, indicated Wednesday
morning that he would back away from his
_ threat to try to halt the match himself,
“Tt is not entirely clear how | can make a
Mecision in one part of the state ( Albany),
» ‘because | would then be making decisions
. all over the state on matters of local
~ Jurisdiction.”
*” However, he also insisted that “my
: overall residual power is as governor to
*
44D “
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ae
pas
‘and limb and a threat to general order.”
4 Albany police intensified their security
: ~planning Wednesday for the rugby game,
; abut there appeared to be some confusion
t. between Mayor Corning and the police over
* who would provide security inside the
intervene where I see there is athreattolife —
sor . i
é ee
"Fr
: plans “at this time” for police officers to
provide security inside the stadium
However, ice sources said Wednesday
the Searianars security plan calls for
__ officers to be stationed inside the stadium.
: Police Chief Thomas Burke refused to
comment on the department's security
* include new riot helmets,
~ plans.
It also was learned that every city police
officer has been told to report for duty the
day of the game, and that even officers who
act as attendants in Police Court have been
. told to be in uniform for duty at the rugby
demonstration. se)
' ‘The officers’ uniform is ed to
several
officers were trying on for the first time
Wednesday.
: Although police officials have said the
decision to order new riot helmets for the
» first time in about 15 years was unrelated to
‘the rugby demonstration, advertisements
‘ for bids on the helmet purchase were
authorized only a few days after it was
‘ announced the rugby team from South
‘ Africa would be playing in Albany.
Corning said he was assured by promoters
of the game that a private security force for
. inside the stadium would be provided and
that the people making up this force would
Co)
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6.
Stat! phate by Gkip Dickstein
SECURITY SHAKE — Ajibany Mayor
Erastus Corning talks with Clara Satter-
field of the Albany NAACP, the organiz-
er of the local protest at the planned .
South African Springboks rugby game.
be trained individuals “with police experi-
ence,"’
But when contacted by telephone, spokes-
men for three of the four largest security
agencies in the area said Wednesday they
would refuse to provide the necessary
security insidé Bleecker Stadium because of
the volatile nature of situation.
A spokesman for Pinkerton’s Inc, the
fourth agency, simply said the agency had
pot been asked to provide security.
Anthany Roggio, manager of the security
agency Hudson Valley Patrol inc., said
“they couldn't pay us enough money” to
accept the asaignment of providing security
inside the stadium.
He said the game ‘is a real hot potato"
and that he would be too concerned for the
safety of his personnel and the agency's
liability to accept the job.
Selfridge, of the game-sponsoring Eastern
Rugby Union, said the union would hire
security personnel for the game.
j
Selfridge algo said his security personnel
would not te armed.
Meanwhile, Police Capt. John Dale said
he was not aware of any plans for a private
security force inside Bleecker Stadium and
added that the police department assumes
“the ultimate responsibility" for security
both inside and gutside the stadium.
- During the day Wednesday, rugby match |
protesters intensified their planning in
Albany.
The Capital District Black Students Coali-
tion — # group of lecal college students
organized as @ result of the planned rugby
match — predicted 400 to 600 black students
from local colleges would participate in
Tuesday's rally and march, while Clara
Satterfield, protest organizer from Albany's
NAACP, reiterated her prediction that 6,000
to 10,000 persons from across the country
would attend the rally.
Michael Dollard, a local protest organiz-
er, said folk singer Pete Seeger and
entertainers Ossie Davi® and Ruby Dee
have agreed to attend the rally.
He said he has received confirmation that
demonstrators will come from Washington,
Philadelphia, western Mass., Ohio, Roches-
ter, New York City, and several other
locations In the state, but declined to
estimate the number of persons he expects
at the pally.
“The great bulk of the people will be out of
this region,” he said. “How many people
they (organizers) will mobilize, | can’t tell
you.”
immediately after a meeting with Corn-
ing, Albany Police Chief Burke. Albany
County Sheriff George Enfante, a Capito!
Police spokesman and several} protest or-
ganuzers, Satterfield,said
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sao enc ihe wocont al Und Sate race
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pried enforcement authorities on ie beginning of a friendship in which we'll
Prey declined comment on the condemn the people of this country to a
aia Y arrangements for the match, but tragic involvement in a bloody mess.
ui was ‘satisfied that there will he Johnstone Makatini, chief representative
Protection. of the African National. Congress to the
“4 Corning also dec! United Nations, told 100 students at the
Security afrangenn ne 9-.(2 comment on SUNY-Albany teach-in that “it's really only
give Alba Bements and Said he could not the American people who can stop this
One wane estdents any a8surance that no unholy alliance (between the two govern.
tion," Be injured: during tne demon ments).” |
‘Ne and cas i wate in a related matter, the Rt. Rev. Wilbur
nature," the nls er assurances of that E. Hogg, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of |
Guarantee it, the yor said. “we cannot Albany, issued a letter in which he reiterat-
People will not co... 3 0 guarantee that ed his earlier statement of opposition to
Séttriduenase "hae violence." holding the rugby match in Albany.
demonstrations Toned concerned that the “The Springbok rugby team represents,
4Y Will become vio. lirectly or indirectly and | think the
lifference is slight, the Republic of South
\frica,”” Hogg wrote.
In another letter, John P. DeLuca. who
said he is “one of the founders of the Albany
T (Son a3 rthiad We coalition palcarbaaher Football posal said
dedicated to Cinch Rugby ToUFT is as. also opposes the scheduled match.
Luther en Protest as Dr. ( Martin “Win, lose or draw it will be a bleak day
Dollard for America and American rugby if the
fridge that 7h Charge made by Sel. South African Springboks play at Bleecker
were behind the o-oo! Party ‘Members _ Stadium,” DeLuca said in a letter to The
Protest organizing. Times-Union.
I've Through all of this, the Springbok team —
Said. “To me sours, Statements,” Dollard just arrived from a tumultous tour in New
Wing defense gepi ke the typical right. Zealand — was in Chicago, where rugby
issue." Bainst any kind of liberal tour organizers have scheduled a game at
This is @ | an undisclosed site for Saturday.
monstration "poy eaization 4nd a local In that city, an anonymous woman
Organization here i Said. “It is our telephoned a. Station. Wednesday and
the work,” thas done the buik of | said a bomb had been planted at the
In afte te exclusive Chicago Athletic Association club,
St. Ross PnOOn appearances at the College of \ which is housing the Springboks team. No
a South Africa Albany, Dennis Brutus. bomb was found
th African who said he Was shot by “~Protesters marched around the building
exiled sie pred police, jailed, and Wednesday for the third straight day to
ment has called the South African govern. protest the scheduled Saturday match be-
Cial ambassadors" rugby team its “unoffi- tween the Springboks and the Chicago
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TIMES-UNION ****
Albany, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 17, 1961
Experts ponder
ist Amendment
ramifications
zontinued from Page 1
@ Should the government be denying equal access
‘0 a public facility on the basis of a consideration such
a8 race or politics?
Law professors like to point to the frequent 5-4
votes on the U.S. Supreme Court to demonstrate the
‘ack of a clear-cut consensus on various constitution-
il questions. Opinions, at least-among the professors,
ire equally divided now.
“Is (Corning) required to allow the South African .
‘ugby team to play? No," said Benno Schmidt,
2onstitutional law professor at Columbia University
law school and a First Amendment authority.
“I do not believe that for the purposes of a rugby
match the team can look to the Constitution of the
United States or a constitutional right to play," he
Said,
However, Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional law
professor at Harvard University, said, “The First
Amendment covers the right to communicate,
communicate anything. (And) even if rugby is not
covered by the first amendment, denying rugby
players the right to play because of an anticipated
response raises First Amendment issues."’
And several experts, including Floyd Abrams, a
first amendment attorney, said that the political
nature of the opposition to the event gave it a political
nature. ' ”
“Censorship by threat of violence is an extremely
dangerous precedent under the Constitution,”’ Der-
showitzsaid, ‘If a rugby match is going to provoke
violence, then the police should arrest those who
commit violence.”
Robert Morgado, secretary to Carey, said Wednes-
day a report prepared for the governor by the State
Police indicated “the potential for some serious
problems at the match and concluded that the local
police probably could not handle it,”
However, in First Amendment cases, said Neu-
borne, law professor at New York Unversity, there is
a heavy burden on the authorities to prove. first, that
there would be violence and that their police forces
could not control or limit it.
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‘ORY meeting can be prohibited if you can show {
there ig gamverwhelming danger of violence that
ped ii pert “Bayt it
Pent enough here ts a possibility. danger
TER a, oapaitmattt ss
” ) as a cover to (prevent? theetings
they. don't like.”
. owe Bucan argument of violence was used by Skokie,
IL, officials when they atlempted to deny a permit to
the U.S. Nazi Party to stage a march through j
predominantly Jewish suburb, and had been
frequent excuse by Southern authorities to de
permits to civil rights marchers in what Neubo:
called ‘the, heckler's veto.”’ a
The Supmeme Court, Neuborne said, has
repeatedly “you. have to demonstrate that
tried everything to control the violence bef
can call(the event) off."
""™ Mareover, he said. it is uncgnstityt 1 tor %
authority to “pick a 4008e"’ in allowing’an event to
take lee on ¢facility one day, and not allenea
oTTtaY "SVEN io take place the next because of
considerations of race or politics. :
“Tt wasn't so long ago that Pete Secges wae@enned
from singing in public pi use he was‘a
leftist,” he said.
At the heat of the constitutional debate is whether
& sports event, as opposed to a political speech or
demonstration, is entitied to the same protection
under the First Amendment right “peaceably to
It is a legal debate over how broadly to interpret
the First Amendment.
Those like Schmidt who favor a narrow interpreta-
tion say the amendment protects only gatherings
which have as their purpose First Amendment rights
such as free speech, religion and petitioning the
government for redress of grievances, .
Paul Brest, law professor at Stanford University,
said, ‘To say that a rugby match is assembly within
the meaning of the First Amendment is implausibie.
A rugby game for the purpose of entertaining people
is at the fringes or beyond of the First Amendment.”
“Hf it’s just politics, then it's not such an easy
answer on that,’ he said. “but if damage and
violence will result (from an event) that is not
designed to express. just to entertain, then I think the
city has a lot of power (to prohibit it.)
But Abrams, who represents such clients as the
New York Times, CBS and NBC, said that the
Supreme Court had ruled that such “expressions'“as_>~
nude dancing and long hair {all under the protection.
of the First Amendment, and he found it hard to
understand why sports would not be.
The match, he said, had to be considered in its
larger context: ition to iqis based on political
reasons and therefore the match itself has political
Significance. -
“There is a political element because of the nature
of the objections,” he said. .
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By STEVE NELSON
Gasette Reporter
ALBANY — Governor
—— L.. Carey may announce
y whether the state con-
stitution gives him the power
to stop the controversial
match Sept. 22 at Bleecker
Stadium between the South
African Springboks rugby
' club and an all-star team or-
‘ — by the Eastern Rugby
nion.
“He may have something to
say by tomorrow,” said Jill
| Shuker yesterday from the
governor's press office. “His
counsel is still looking at the
| issue.”
During a press conference
Tuesday, Carey questioned
| why the South African team
had been allowed into the
country considering the coun-
pl apartheid policy. He
ed Mayor Erastus Corning
II to reconsider his decision to
allow the match to take piace
in the city’s publicly-owned
stadium
Corning, claiming his ap-
proval of the game is based on
the Constitution and not any
love for the South African sys-
tem of racial discrimination,
has refused to reconsider.
The mayor met yesterday
with organizers of the large
demonstration | att
— for the day o: con-
t.
Police Chief Thomas
Burke, oY ge Police chief
John Reid, Albany County
Sheriff George Infante and
Capital Police Chief Richard
Hahn attended the session as
well, to map out securtty for
the match.
“We were all
terested in it (the
tion) nf
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“Tm that the Al-
bany police will do all in their
ated to handie it,” Corning
said.
Detective James L. Tuffey,
president of the Police Benev-
olent Association, said he
would have no comment
“right now" on the security
of the rugby match
he mayor would not re-
veal what involvement the
sheriff's department or the
Capitol Police might have in |
the security arrangements.
Infante said all details re-
garding security would have
to come from Corning, Chief
Hahn could not be reached for
comment
William Robinson, organiz-
er for SART (Stop the rt-
heid Rugby Tour) said the
meeting with the mayor was
“very constructive and prod-
uctive.
“We don’t expect anythin,
by a peaceful demonstration,
Robinson said. “We don’t even
see where violence would
enter into the demonatra-
tion.”
“We view the apartheid as
the source of violence and the
Springboks are the ambassa-
dors of that system,” he said,
Apartheid is the policy of seg-
he, seep and economic and
political discrimination
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Exile Says—
Springboks Last
Hope of S. Africa
By PHIL BLANCHARD
Gazette Reporter
ALBANY —- The Sprin
rugby team was depicted by an
exiled South African sports acti-
vist yesterday as that country's
last for acceptance in the
international sports communi-
ty
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Dr. Dennis Brutus, who was
kicked out of South Africa in the
1960s for his campaign to get
blacks on the country’s Olympic
team, told a College of Saint
Rose audience that South Africa
is “isolated from 22 of the 26
major sports ip the world.
“In each of those sports, South
Africa is a leper,” said Brutus.
With the country barred from
abl ono in the Olympics
and in Davis Cup tennis compe-
tition, Brutus said, “they're now
left with rugby.”
Brutus, who was among sev-
eral prominent rap wba
speakers brought to Albany in
recent weeks to drum up o i
tion to Tuesday's Spri ap-
pearance at Bleecker Stadium,
said:
“It is in the hands of the peo-
ple of Albany...to see that the
match does not take place, and
failing that, send a message to
South Africa that the people
here do not find racism and re-
pression acceptabie.”
Before South Africa’s explu-
sion from Davis Cup eee.
Brutus said, students were in the
vanguard of worldwide opposi-
tion to their participation. “In
Oslo, students sat in on the
courts. In England, students
tossed fiye-pound bags of flour
on the courts, obliterating the
lines. In Sweden, the st ts
threw balloens filled with oil on
the courts.”
e * &
Brutus said the nee of
the Springboks tour is a signal of
friendship to the South African
government
Yesterday's appearance by
Brutus was sponsored by CSR's
Divison of Social Sciences.
After his remarks, a college
representative issued a state-
ment that said, “the visit by Dr.
Dennis Brutus to the campaus of
the College of St. Rose is in re-
sponse to the need by students
and faculty in an acadernic en-
vironment to be fully informed
and gather data on current
events...His views are his own
and do not reflect ny official
inion by the College of Saint
ose on the matters discus-
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GAZETTE PHONE 374-414]
1),
ONE MAY NOT, ONE CAN’T, PLAY — Lt. Cmdr. Lin City (right, kicking the ball) cannot play with the Eastern
Walton of Rhode Island (left), says he may not play | Rugby Union team on Tuesday against the Springboks. He
against the South African rugby team in Albany next rack has an injured foot.
“for personal reasons”, and Chimere Okeize of New York
2 US Rugby
Players Talk
About Game
By PHIL BLANCHARD
Gazette Reporter
ALBANY ~-- One of the two
black rugby players named to
an all-star team that bra sage
the South African Springboks in
Albany next Tuesday is injured
and cannot play, and the other
says he'may not play for person-
al reasons
% he aw
Chimere Okeize of New York
City, named to the tearm by the
Eastern Rugby Union, has a foot
injury and ' “inete's no way I will
be aoe to play before next Jan-
uary or February.”
Okeize, a 25 year-old senior at
‘Columbia University, also said
that even if he weren't injured,
he probably wouldn't partici-
pate in the game because of
‘some requests from Nigeria i
received through relatives.”
Okeize, who was born in the
United States, holds dual citi-
zenship because his parents
were Nigeriar’
| He said his Nigerian relatéves
told him “it would not be te m
advantage to play against Sout
Africa.”
Okeize said he had mixed
feelings about the Springboks’
| American tour
“As an athlete, it's always
great to play ood teams. Bat,
speaking as Chimere Okeize, i
| would not be for the tour.”
-Okeize said he told Thomas
Selfridge, President of the East-
ern Rugby Union, a week i
that his injury would prec}
his playing and that he
wouldn't play in the game pn
how.
Yet, the names of Okeize and
Lt. Cmdr. Lin Walton were it-
cluded in a Bbconrvigl olgtmiegg
Tuesday to promote
Okeize ahs “He (Selfridge
might have named Walton
rugby here to show that blacks play
“Scliriage could not be
reached for comment last
night.
j
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Walton said there is a
bility, for “personal reasons,’
that he may not play. . te
— to say why, althoug
it had ing to oa with
tie tary status or the tur-
—_ associated with the Spring-
Walton ts & student af Ge
Maval War College in N
R.1. He plays club rugby in
ton and earlier this year played
on a U.S. team in a match
againat the Canadian national
rugby renga
telephone yester-
pes in “path alton seemed
oblivious to the controversy sur-
rounding the tour. “I really don't
have an spies. Walton said.
“*Tt’s just a game. It's just
r ‘
#’m not a politician, I'm an
~~, Walton said.
toa declined further odtm-
ment on the matter.
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