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...early-morning arrest and the incarceration at Gwelo Jail hardly came as a surprise. Niesewand, 28, was one of the few enterprising and influential newsmen still reporting regularly from Rhodesia. He ran a bureau representing the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, United Press International, Agence France-Presse and a number of London and South African newspapers. It was Niesewand who broke the story in 1971 of the arrest of former Prime Minister Garfield Todd, who was also considered a threat to public order. Niesewand published exclusives on government action against the African National Council, a black political group opposed...
SUNDAY: Masterpiece Theater. Part 2 of BBC production of Aldous Huxley's social satire "Point Counter Point" features Lucy Tantamount's seduction of Walter Bidlake. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color...
...very revealing of one part of the Victorian attitude. And the book's final and complete commitment to the combination of gentlemanly Christianity as a mirror for rulers--even on a level meant for a nine year-old--is a far cry from much that this century, including the BBC's Tom Brown's School Days is quite willing to represent...
SUNDAY: Masterpiece Theater. BBC series presents one of the liveliest chapters from the English schoolboy classic, "Tom Brown's Schooldays," in which Tom is fried, framed and flogged. CH. 2, 9 p.m. Color...
...what happens daily in Ulster would bring about a state of emergency almost immediately in Britain or the Republic of Ireland. Every morning, the BBC's Northern Ireland newscast (which is not heard in Britain) begins with an overnight casualty report-a chilling recitation of bombings, shootings, killings. It ends with the day's diary of local events-choral-society meetings, flower shows, agricultural competitions-all testifying that some normal life does go on, even amidst the violence...