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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...
...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...
Gradually, the children moved away. Laura went into the Army, where, following the family's almost obsessive occupational interest, she became a communications specialist. Cynthia went to West Dennis, Mass., on Cape Cod, with her newborn son. Margaret moved to Virginia. Michael joined his father in 1980, completing his final two years of high school at Norfolk's private Ryan Upper School...
...alone, Barbara joined Cynthia in West Dennis, getting a salesclerk job in a gift shop. It was there that she finally made up her mind to turn in her ex-husband. She did so, she told the Cape Cod Times, "to protect my family -- I did what I believed in." Only after her former husband was arrested did she learn that she had unwittingly turned in Michael too. "How can a father do this?" she was quoted as saying. "He used his own son. If what they say is true, he's lucky he's in jail because I would...
...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...