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...amount of economic aid can mask the racial basis of the scheme, which strips millions of blacks of their South African nationality as their tribal homelands become independent. The logical result of the plan, in the candid analysis of the former Cabinet Minister in charge of black affairs, Cornelius Mulder, is that "there will not be one black man with South African citizenship...
...PRIVATE BATTLE by Cornelius Ryan and Kathryn Morgan Ryan Simon & Schuster; 448pages...
...What I write about is not war, but the courage of man," Cornelius Ryan once remarked. In his bestselling World War II trilogy (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far), Ryan, a historian and former wartime correspondent, recounted great battles not through statistics but through narratives of personal sacrifice and drama. In A Private Battle, his last book, Ryan re-creates another kind of war: a four-year fight against cancer. Composed of tapes recorded throughout his illness, along with entries by his wife and co-editor Kathryn, Battle is as much a testimonial to the human...
...married, Clement thought it might be appropriate to hold the ceremony on the Staten Island Ferry (where both her fiancé and his father work as deck hands). Having received the necessary clearance, the couple were married last week on the bridge deck of the good ship Cornelius G. Kolff shortly after the boat left Staten Island on its 25-minute run to Manhattan. The cost of the love boat was modest indeed: members of the wedding and guests were charged the standard 25? ferry fare...
...most important finding of the commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Rudolph Erasmus, was that Vorster was fully aware of a covert operation by his former Minister of Information, Cornelius Mulder, to spend tens of millions of dollars in an illegal and secret effort to influence the news media. Retracting its own preliminary report that had exonerated Vorster, the commission concluded that he had lied in sworn testimony concerning his role in the whole affair. One witness testified that he had once asked Vorster whether the government itself was being blackmailed by Eschel Rhoodie, one of Mulder...