Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHOTOGRAPHER Priya Ramrakha, whose pictures have illustrated many of TIME's stories- most recently those about the Nigerian civil war and the occupation of Czechoslovakia- was anxious to get out of Africa. He was a British citizen born of Indian parents, and he no longer felt wholly welcome in his native Kenya, which lately has turned against people of Asian origin. More important, he was determined to demonstrate that his camera could capture subjects more subtle than the violence he had been covering. But before he moved on, he wanted to finish one more assignment for TIME: another look...
ERIK M. TEN KATE Somerset West, South Africa...
Bridling at the Setup. As the source of three-fourths of the free world's new gold, South Africa bridled at the new arrangement. Officials figured that if the country turned to the free market for a gold outlet, the price of its largest export would plunge. The U.S., on the other hand, hoped that South Africa would be forced into making free-market sales, thus lowering simultaneously the price of gold and the pressure on the U.S. dollar. The result has been a six-month war of nerves. South Africa has stashed away all but a tiny...
...roam the strets with electric cattle prods; Negroes walked on the sidewalks and not in the gutters. There were more Wallace posters, of course, and the bookstands seemed notably short of books like Black Power. But if Alabama wasn't Cambridge or Haight-Ashbury, neither was it the South Africa I had imagined...
...lending capacity, but he also intends to spread the loans in new directions. More should go, he said, to projects that directly benefit ordinary people in poorer nations. Instead of concentrating on Asian development, the bank should increase its help to emerging nations in Latin America and Africa...