Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outside Cape Town, where a cordon of helmeted soldiers and sailors surrounded 100,000 beleaguered Africans in Nyanga and Langa townships, police launched lightning raids from dawn to dusk. The cops broke into the squalid homes at random, flailing the hapless inhabitants with whips and shouting "Go to work." In one foray, more than 1,500 were herded away to police stations for questioning...
...Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's little Liberal Party, except Paton himself, who commented, "I feel slightly disreputable. I must have slipped up somehow." Into the Cities. The Africans reacted like lightning crackling across the platteland sky. That afternoon a procession of 30,000 headed into Cape Town itself, chanting slogans and singing as a pink police helicopter, fluttering overhead like a nervous butterfly, radioed the throng's progress ahead to headquarters. Hastily, platoons of troops took position outside Parliament, where the legislators were debating. Carrying no weapons, the throng demonstrated peacefully before Caledon Square police station...
Third Column. Now thoroughly frightened, the authorities mobilized the 3,000-man air force for standby alert and threw companies of armed soldiers and sailors around the two big African residential locations at Cape Town to prevent another march on the city, a move that also kept thousands of Africans from their jobs in a city already partially paralyzed by lack of labor. In the countryside the entire citizens' defense force of 23,000 civilian reservists was alerted and 40% of its units put on active duty. Truckloads of skietkommandos, mostly young Boer farmers recruited from rifle clubs, sped...
...Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, 59, South Africa's husky, silver-haired Prime Minister, was born in The Netherlands, but at two, was taken to South Africa, where his father became a Dutch Reformed missionary. Verwoerd (pronounced Fair-voort) was educated at Cape Province's Stellenbosch University, intellectual fount of Afrikanerdom, became a professor of applied psychology, which should have given him uncommon insight into the minds of his nation's n million nonwhites...
With a huge gush of smoke and flame, the three-stage Thor-Able rocket last week roared from its Cape Canaveral launching pad, soon to swirl its 270-lb. package into orbit around the earth. To the scientific skeptics who claim that satellites are little more than spectacular stunts, that package provided a spectacularly practical answer: looking down from hundreds of miles in space, it could take and transmit pictures of the earth and its cloud-splotched atmosphere. At the very least...