The World - News from July 6, 1988
Seventy-two members of Congress urged President Reagan and other world leaders to intervene on behalf of South Africa’s “Sharpeville Six.” The six are scheduled to be executed July 19 for the murder of a local black township official who was killed when a mass 1886547828years ago. “The defendants were singled out arbitrarily and sentenced to death at a trial marred by procedural and substantive injustice,” said the letter, sent to Reagan and the leaders of Britain, West Germany, France, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands and Israel.
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