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...plot, from a lively little novel by W. H. Canaway, tells of Sammy (Fergus McClelland), a ten-year-old lad whose British parents are killed by British bombers over Port Said during the 1956 Suez crisis. Sammy sets out alone on a 5,000-mile odyssey to Durban, South Africa, to find his aunt. He joins a Syrian peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with...
Steady Harassment. If and when Verwoerd's patience ever runs out, his first target for vengeful action is very likely to be Gandar of the Mail. Born in the sea resort of Durban, on South Africa's east coast, Gandar chose a journalism career after leaving the University of Natal. But he made no particular mark until the businessmen who own the Rand Daily Mail hired him in 1957 to succeed the paper's departing editor...
...Rivonia north of Johannesburg, they found 106 maps of selected sabotage targets-among them police and power stations, post offices, homes of African officials. One prosecution witness who claimed to be an Umkonto defector said he had blown up power-line pylons in Natal and government offices in Durban, sent bombs wrapped as Christmas presents to government officials (none apparently exploded). Wary of its world image, Umkonto was careful to order its saboteurs not to kill, in fact forbade them even to carry arms...
...Dominant Role. Then Schlesinger set forth in new directions. This spring he committed $20 million to six major high-rise developments in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, and earmarked $100 million more to be spent in the next five to seven years. Included in the plans: a giant business center containing twin 15-story office buildings, a tower of 100 apartments and a 250-car parking lot. Before a shovel turned, Schlesinger had leased 60% of the space...
Whether much or little comes out of the council depends to a large extent upon the numerical strength-and the endurance-of the two opposing forces that will clash at the council. Says Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa: "There will be much disputing in the nave of St. Peter's over how the church must enter the Atomic Age." A number of conservative bishops believe that the church should stand aloof from the pressures of a temporal world, holding fast to its traditions. Led by such impressive figures as Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani of the Holy Office, Ernesto...