The World - News from March 17, 1988
South African President Pieter W. Botha rejected worldwide appeals to halt the hangings of the “Sharpeville Six,” scheduled for Friday. Anglican Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, in a rare meeting, urged Botha to heed the appeals for clemency, but he said Botha ruled out intervention. Defense lawyers battling for a stay of execution filed an appeal citing new evidence, to be heard today. The five men and one woman, all blacks, were convicted in a 1984 mob killing of a black township official even though no evidence showed their direct involvement.
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