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...internal opposition, the foundations of apartheid were sunk sleeper and deep into South African society. From 1960 to 1974. 1.5 million Blacks were forcibly relocated from "white" rural or urban areas to be kept in tin shacks in the destitute bantustans or homelands. Petty legal segregation was extended. The apparatus of the police state was crested, including a law permitting unlimited detention without trial. Despite these Draconian measures, the South African economy soared. Only the others country--Japan--outpaced South African in real growth in the 1960s. By the end of the decade, white South Africans were among the most...
...week earlier, four Interior Ministry officials had been sentenced by a Toruan court to jail terms ranging from 14 to 25 years for their role in the abduction and murder last October of a pro-Solidarity Roman Catholic priest, Father Jerzy Popieluszko. The trial discredited the state security apparatus and suggested the possibility of a plot by Communist hard- liners against Jaruzelski's leadership. As a result, the authorities seemed more intent than ever on containing their opponents...
Says a former American intelligence officer: "Shevchenko was a very big catch indeed. He had been in a lot of key places deep inside the Soviet apparatus at key times--places where we rarely get any kind of glimpse at all. He had a lot to tell us." Now, seven years later, he is telling the world. His memoir, Breaking with Moscow, is to be published this month (Knopf; 378 pages; $18.95). A resident of Washington, Shevchenko lives comfortably off lecture fees ($6,000 to $12,000 a speech). His American wife Elaine, whom he married in late 1978, helped...
...there was a last straw, however, it was probably his determination to order yet another shake-up of the party apparatus at the coming November plenum of the Central Committee. This time it was to involve not only mid- level apparatchiki but higher cadre as well. Thus he encroached upon the holy of holies, the sanctum of the ruling class. Khrushchev's meddling could no longer be tolerated...
...just specific projects or expenditures, however, that Goldwater wants to scrutinize over the next two years. "It's the whole goddam Pentagon," he said. For instance, he thinks the bureaucratic apparatus serving the Joint Chiefs of Staff is particularly bloated. "Why it takes so goddam many men to sum up the thinking and discussion of four men who meet maybe three times a week, I don't know...