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...amounts to an emotionally destructive public Coventry. For five years, Woods may not meet with more than one other person at a time except for members of his family; he may not write for publication or be quoted-he has become, as a result, a public nonperson. Although forbidden by South African law to quote Woods on any subject or even echo his thoughts, TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter was able to spend a day with the Woods family last week at their home in the coastal city of East London. McWhirter's report on the beginning...
Woods now has time, lots of time. He is forbidden to write at all, even in a private diary. The government is watching-as part of the ban, the Woodses have been informed that their home, their phones, even their two cars are bugged. Plainclothesmen keep their house under surveillance. Woods gets up after 8:30 a.m., an hour later than in his newspaper days. A gifted amateur pianist, he practices, for an hour, Chopin's B-minor Sonata-which, his wife says, should take him a month to master. "It's a virtuoso piece," says Wife Wendy...
...enter a local chess competition. His table, however was separated from the rest and he could not have tea with other players afterward. Woods won the championship He may not leave the town limits of East London (50 square miles) during his ban and is therefore forbidden to play a chess match in East London's sister city, Port Elizabeth If he and his wife go to a restaurant, a friend may stop to say hello but may not sit down: that would constitute a meeting with more than one person since his wife is considered another person when...
...Spielberg's movie cost almost twice as much, Columbia Pictures, which financed Close Encounters, has gone to unusual lengths to protect its investment. From the outset, the film has been shrouded in secrecy to ensure that its suspense not be blown prior to release. Cast and crew have been forbidden to discuss the movie's contents in interviews. Security guards have watched over its sets round the clock, at one point assiduously ejecting even Spielberg when he showed up without his ID badge...
...equal protection under the law, the California court stated that the use of race as a criterion in any official program calls for judicial "strict scrutiny." Unless a "compelling state interest" can be demonstrated and there are no viable, nonracial alternative methods available, the use of race is forbidden. Here, the court ruled that the university had not exhausted alternative methods. Among its suggestions: more aggressive recruitment of minority applicants or remedial education programs, and, at bottom, special admissions purely by educational and economic disadvantage, not by race...