Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many articles have been written about South Africa and apartheid, but none as searching and balanced as your cover story "The Great White Laager" [Aug. 26]. As a patriotic but very anti apartheid white South African, I hope your story will serve as the writing on the wall for the thousands of my fellow white South Africans who will no doubt read it. Perhaps the greatest tragedy in South Africa is that there are so many sensible white South Africans who turn a deliberately blind eye to one of history's saddest, most inhuman situations...
...Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is not only the ablest white leader Africa has ever produced but the only white leader in the world with the guts to speak his mind...
...commend you for bringing South Africa's apartheid policies before your readers; those policies are a matter of grave international concern. My Subcommittee on Africa has been holding hearings on United States-South African Relations since March. While we heard considerable testimony from a score of expert witnesses, and extended an invitation to American businessmen and financiers, none of the latter seemed to think it advisable to testify, which I regret...
...told. Though I have not been able to read the article, as a Canadian priest serving a "colored" community, I can affirm that apartheid is not only a delusion. It is a monstrous evil-blasphemous, antiChristian, immoral, inhuman and unjust. (THE REV.) R. L. W. RITCHIE Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...victory in Viet Nam. Already Peking has suffered considerably by its failure to produce victory in Southeast Asia: North Korea and the once-pro-Peking Japanese Communist Party declared themselves "neutral"' in the Red ideological war last month; Indonesia has shattered the Peking-Djakarta axis; Chinese inroads in Africa and Latin America have been marred by the clumsiest diplomacy of modern times. In Asia today, Peking can count on the support of only a few Communist parties, such as those of Ceylon, Burma and New Zealand...