Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once again the delegates had come to the U.N. with a dizzying assortment of problems and causes, ranging from nuclear tests and Red China's demand for recognition, to apartheid, Algerian freedom, South Tyrol terrorism and the future of Ruanda-Urundi. Everyone was only too eager to dump all the issues on the U.N.'s desks, whether there was any real prospect of solution or not. But all the possible agenda items seemed to fade beside the loss of Dag Hammarskjold. Every delegate knew that the whole future of the U.N. as a meaningful force for peace...
...COLONIALISM, as always, is the General Assembly's most fashionable issue. Portugal sat squirming last week as another resolution demanding freedom for Angola went on the agenda unopposed. Algeria will also be aired this session as will be apartheid in South Africa and demands for investigation of conditions of South West Africa's natives...
...past nine weeks. Gold production, the country's most important industry, is booming. The blacks are cowed and quiet, their leaders driven deep underground or into the safety of emigration. All the while, Verwoerd is implementing measures to further strengthen his government and deepen the entrenchment of his apartheid policies. Among his latest steps...
...cocktail bars in African locations. The police have long been urging the government to modify the antidrinking laws, arguing that a native allowed to imbibe openly might imbibe more moderately. But some observers concluded that Verwoerd was at last feeling the heavy pressure of African resentment at his harsh apartheid rules, and was trying a minor concession...
South Africa's non-whites could only hope that influence from abroad might some day force Verwoerd to moderate his apartheid rules. Leaving the British Commonwealth already had sorely wounded the economy; outside investment had virtually ceased, and foreign currency reserves were dangerously low. As Cape Town's pro-government Die Burger had frankly put it. South Africa now was "the polecat of the world...