Much violence in the world, this August 6, 1976:
From South Africa: Savage fighting broke out in at least five places today: when rampaging Zulus battled blacks from other tribes in a continuing reign of terror in the Soweto township south of Johannesburg. Soweto Police Commissioner S. W. Le Roux said violence was escalating between residents of single men’s hostels in the township and other blacks after spreading from the Meadowlands area early in the day. Schools in the Meadowlands: area were evacuated and police opened fire as people fled before’ attacking mobs.
The violence spread quickly to Naledi, Moletsane, Tladi and Emdeni areas of Soweto. Unconfirmed: reports today said a mob of Zulus chased about 600 people in the Dobsonville area of the township. Clashes between Zulus and other blacks were also reported.
Meanwhile: Palestinians desperate to leave besieged Tal Zaatar refugee camp mobbed a Red Cross convoy evacuating wounded today, forcing it to abandon its rescue mission and bringing it under Christian gunfire. The Red Cross in Geneva said four persons, including a driver, were wounded by bullets fired at the convoy before it reached safety. The convoy carried to total of 74 persons to Moslem-held western Beirut, including an unspecified number of camp inmates who forced their way aboard the trucks, a Red Cross spokesman said. “It was a pretty dramatic situation,” Red Cross spokesman Alain Modoux said at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. “Fortunately, no sh(X was fired, but for us this creates a new situation, of course.” But monitored radio reports from Tal Zaatar said Christian militiamen surrounding the camp fired on the convoy..
And finally – Federal Scientists today eliminated influenza and fungi as possible causes of the mysterious “legionnaires’ disease.” They said test results point toward a toxic substance as a cause for the disease that has claimed 25 lives. “The epidemic has peaked and is its way out,” Dr. David Sencer, director of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta told a news conference there. The toll rose to 25 today, up from two from the earlier count of 23.
But both deaths were from cases that had been discovered earlier. A CDC spokesman also said that it was unlikely that the disease was caused by a virus. Don Berreth, public information officer at the CIK;, said: “No virus of which we are aware would have gone undetected thus far,” he said.
And along with the continuing news from Soweto, that’s just a sample of what has been going on in the world this August 6, 1976 as presented by The CBS World News Roundup.
