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October 3, 1996
World / National View
Former Rhodesian crack
soldier implicated in 1986
murder of Swedish prime minister
By Duncan Guy
ASSOCIATED PRESS Staff Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
A newspaper reported Sunday
that the man who assassinated
Swedish Prime Minister Olof
Palmein 1986 is a former Rhode
sian soldier linked to South Afri
can security officials.
The Sunday Independent said
Dirk Coetzee, a former police of
ficial accused of murder, identi
fied the gunman as Anthony
White.
Coetzee, who in the past has
revealed apartheid death squad
activities, told the newspaper
that White, a former soldierin a
crack Rhodesian army unit, was
a close associate of former South
African spy Craig Williamson,
who has been implicated in the
assassination.
A 1992 report by the Environ
mental Investigation Agencyinto
illegal ivory trading also identi
fied White as a close associate of
Williamson, who was implicated
in the Palme killing by former
police Col. Eugene de Kock.
Palme was an outspoken critic
of apartheid and had angered
the South African governments
by being a force for tougher sanc
tions against the country.
He was killed Feb. 28, 1986, as
he walked home from a movie
theater with his wife. The lone
assassin vanished into the night
and was never arrested.
While Swedish detectiveshave
already had leads to an alleged
South African link, they have
revived their investigation of it
following de Kock’s testimony
Thursday.
“Suddenly we have a person”
who can talk about the case,
deputy prosecutor Solveig
Riberdahl told Swedish radio.
The report said she has asked
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the Foreign Ministry to see if
Swedish police can be sent to
South Africa to check out the
charges.
The 1992 report said White
had been living in Mozambique
but had gotten permission to re
turn to Zimbabwe. His current
whereabouts were not immedi
ately known.
Coetzee did not answer his
phone on Sunday.
De Kock, testifying in the pun
ishment phase of a trial that con
victed him of six murders and 83
lesser charges, told the court
Williamson headed a covert op
eration code named Long Reach
that was involved in the assassi
nation.
Williamson had denied he was
involved in the assassination.
“It was published in a Swedish
newspaperin, Idon’t know, 1988
or something,” Williamson told
Two women murdered in
possible ritual killing in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria
(AP) Two women whose eyes
were gouged out and breasts were
cut may have been the latest vic
tims in a series of ritual killings,
according to news reports.
The murders in a Lagos suburb
came two days after the govern
ment imposed a dusk-to-dawn
curfew in a southern city where a
series of alleged ritual killings
sparked riots.
Two middle-aged women, be
lieved to be returning from an all
night prayer vigil, were found
hacked to death by machetes in
the Lagos suburb of Ikeja on Sat
urday.
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The Associated Press in Angola,
where he was traveling in con
nection with his import-export
business. “I denied it then and I
deny it now.”
De Kock, in his testimony,
claimed to have heard about the
South Africa-Palme connection
through another ex-policeman,
Philip Powell, who is now a law
maker with the Zulu-nationalist
Inkatha Freedom Party.
He said Powell had been on an
operation with Williamson that
he alleged was connected to
Palme’s murder. Powell denied
it.
“lI am flabbergasted that he
would bring me into something I
had nothing to do with whatso
ever,” Powell said.
Coetzee faces murder charges
for the death of an ANC lawyer
in 1981 and is a former colleague
of de Kock, who once led
The assailants had plucked the
women’s eyesout, cut theirbreasts
and slashed open their foreheads,
the News Agency of Nigeria re
ported.
A notebook believed to have
belonged to one of the victims
identified her as Josephine
Egbufwa, a nurse at a local hospi
tal. The exercise book, filled with
sermons, had Star Christian Cen
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achild of destiny,” read one state
ment in the notebook.
Last week, several buildings
were destroyed in Owerri, capital
of Imo state, during violence after
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Vlakplaas, a covert police unit
notorious for killing and tortur
ing anti-apartheid activists.
Both have been revealing
criminal activities by former col
leagues in preparation for seek
ing amnesty from South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation Com
mission, which can grant it to
perpetratorsofapartheid human
rights abuses who offer full con
fessions and show remorse.
Although Coetzee and de Kock
are former colleagues and both
have implicated South African
agents in the Palme killing, the
two men now are bitter enemies.
Coetzee has talked to authori
ties about de Kock’s activities as
the head of Vlakplaas. De Kock,
who has frequently referred to
Coetzee as a traitor, has been
charged with conspiracy to mur
der Coetzee.
the discovery of body parts and
decapitated heads in the church
of an alleged ritualistic killer.
Mobs attacked the church, ac
cusing its mainly wealthy mem
bers of preying on the poor to use
them as sacrifices in witchcraft.
On Thursday, police ordered
residents to stay off the streets
from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. and were
deployed at majorintersections to
prevent new clashes.
An eight-member commission
of inquiry headed by a state high
court judge was ordered to inves
tigate the rioters’ allegations and
determine how to avoid future
riots.
McKinney denies
Farrakhan link
From page one
ily defeated three white male
opponents in the July primary.
Mitnick, a self-described mod
erate Republican, tried to dis
tance himself from the publicly
unpopular House Speaker Newt
Gingrich by stating up front his
support for gun control and a
woman’s right to choose an abor
tion.
An accusation by Ms.
McKinney that Mitnick is “cut
from the same cloth as Newt
CIA-cocaine link
From page one
erty also ‘disappeared’ from the
Sheriff's Department,” Braun
wrote.
At the time, sheriff’s officials
denied Braun’s allegations and
prosecutors accused him of float
ing the issue to detract from evi
dence against his client, who
ended up serving prison time.
No one was available to com
ment Saturday, said sheriff’s
Riot police battle protesters
at David Duke appearance*
By Scott Lindlaw
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
‘ LOS ANGELES
David Duke’s debate with a
civil rights activist over affirma
tive action touched off a battle
between police firing foam-rub
berbullets and protesters throw
ing rocks and bottles.
Officers in riot gear shot at
some of the 1,000 demonstrators
who were protesting the appear
ance by the former Ku Klux Klan
grand wizard at California State
University, Northridge. Sixdem
onstrators were arrested
Wednesday after police pushed
the crowd away from the student
union building where the debate
was held.
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mets and flak jackets moved
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ter from the audience. ?
The candidates squared offoffer
a national school voucher pro
gram in which children wopld
receive government moneygio
attend private schools if they
chose. -
Ms. McKinney opposes vou%-
ers, saying they would sap fund
ing from Head Start and school
nutrition programs. Mitnick sup
ports the idea, saying it would
inject needed competition into
school systems. <
spokesman Gabe Ramirez. '
The motion drew news media
coverage when it was filed‘in
1990, but U.S. District Judge
Edward Rafeedie, at prosecutors’
request, issued a gag order bat
ring Braun and other trial ld#-
yers from discussing the mattet.
Rafeedie said that, even if
Braun’s allegations were triie,
they were not relevant to the
corruption case against the depu
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against the crowd, clubbing at
least one protester over the head.
The protester had hit an officer
and the officer’s horse with rocks,
police said. E
The standoff, involving 150 Los
Angeles police officers, lasted
throughout the afternoon and
was broadcast live on local TV
stations. Several officers suffered
minor injuries. It was not imme
diately known how many pro
testers were injured. T
Duke was invited to the cam
pus to debate civil rights leader
Joe Hicks on Proposition 209, &
California ballot measure that
would bar racial or gender pref
erences in public hiring, eduéa
tion and contracting.
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