Word: caped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spreading like a brush fire out of control, the violence that has racked South Africa for the past two months last week engulfed areas that had previously been relatively untouched. Outside Cape Town, police and soldiers brutally smashed an effort by antiapartheid forces to hold a mass protest march. The police used shotguns, rubber bullets, whips and tear gas, and were assaulted in turn by rocks, bottles and homemade gasoline bombs. Angry mobs blocked main highways with barricades of burning tires, mattresses and even barbed wire. At least 32 people were killed in the week's disturbances, most of them...
...government and the violence we have seen before. Yet the march is going ahead." On Tuesday afternoon Boesak, a founder of the U.D.F. and a member of the "colored" community (the official term for South Africans of mixed race), was arrested at a roadblock near his home outside Cape Town and was flown to a prison in Pretoria...
...widespread rioting in the townships. Several thousand marchers, led by clergymen, headed down Kromboom Road toward the prison. The police charged the procession, forcing the marchers to break and run. A group of clergymen and nuns refused to leave the scene and were arrested. Students at the University of Cape Town tried to march on the nearby Groote Schuur estate, which contains the official residence of President Botha, but they too were turned back. Later in the day, when it was clear that the march in Cape Town could not succeed, Boesak's wife Dorothy appeared at a press conference...
...issued a warning to South Africa's critics around the world. "No self- respecting nation," he declared, "can allow any other country, large or small, to dictate to it how it should be governed." Botha's unyielding speech, made at the closing of the new three-chamber Parliament in Cape Town, was a reply to the storm of international protest that has greeted South Africa's actions in recent weeks...
...urging, Barbara visited her former husband in Norfolk in April. She did not tell him that she had been in touch with the authorities. During her stay, she said John bragged that if caught spying he would become "a celebrity and go down in history." Barbara told the Cape Cod newspaper that her ex-husband had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years by the Soviets, adding bitterly: "John's a big spender. His girlfriends were very expensive, and he did a lot of traveling...