Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spear of the Nation, which operates with more finesse than Poqo and at present tries to spare human life, is the militant arm of the African National Congress, whose Nobel prizewinning leader, ex-Chief Albert Luthuli, is under house arrest in rural Natal. Spear's most spectacular coups to date have been the bombing of the Agricultural Minister's office in Pretoria and the blowing up of several giant power pylons around Johannesburg. Sabotage trials continue up and down the country. In the East Rand town of Benoni, a black prisoner disrupted the court by shouting "Shoot...
...enclave of Basutoland, Poqo is a terrorist offshoot of Sobukwe's militant Pan-African Congress and is determined to "murder the whites or chase them into the sea." As it turned out, Leballo's big mouth did Poqo more harm than good. Embarrassed British officials ordered his arrest, and he barely escaped into Basutoland's rugged mountains, leaving behind him a list of 10,000 black rebels in South Africa. Thanks either to coincidence or to Basutoland's connivance, South African police rounded up 2,000 rebels, and Poqo...
...Trial Bill follows only a few months after the harsh Sabotage Bill which prescribed death for acts of sabotage and greatly broadened the grounds for political arrest. This bill, in turn, capped 14 years of Afrikaaner Nationalist legislation that established the system of apartheid and enfeebled the critics of repression...
...establishing apartheid the government has silenced all African dissidents through banning, exile, and house arrest. Last year it began earnestly to apply similar restrictions to its white opponents, jailing the radicals and intimidating the liberals. Through these measures the government enlarged the scope of apartheid: the system now clearly poisons the white community as it imprisons the non-whites. The Verwoerd regime has again validated the dictum that the rights of some cannot be destroyed without imperiling the rights...
...riots of the first night seized the imagination of the Boston newspapers, and their somewhat large headlines prodded hundreds of Greater Bostonians into Harvard Square for the second night. The activities on that occasion were finally quelled by tear gas and the arrest of the more obvious and obnoxious offenders