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...embattled country. Black activist groups were planning a meeting in Durban last weekend that could result in renewed boycotts of schools. In an effort to squelch future civil disobedience, Minister of Law and Order Louis Le Grange declared that, as of April 1, all such meetings would be forbidden under the Internal Security...
Santa Barbara's civic leaders have taken aggressive measures to let the homeless know they are not wanted. In 1979, with camping in public already forbidden, the city outlawed sleeping outdoors after dark; a ban against drinking in public followed in 1983. A police task force set up to combat street crime has racked up 1,255 arrests for sleeping and camping violations in the past two years. While attempts to prohibit the eating of garbage have failed, some grocers deter hungry vagrants by sprinkling bleach on discarded food. Santa Barbara County election officials had been denying voting rights...
...from South Africa. The sponsors of apartheid kept off their own TV screens the sight of cops clubbing protesting blacks, while not caring what the rest of the world thought. But foreign outrage began to matter when international banks shut down on loans to South Africa. With TV cameramen forbidden to photograph scenes of violence, foreign correspondents have had to conjure up with words alone the reality of the day's death toll. It isn't effective TV. Now that South Africa has ended its state of emergency, will cameras really be allowed to show what is going on? South...
Under current city law, each of Cambridge's 13 neighborhoods are limited to five shelters for every 5000 residents. Three neighborhoods are forbidden to contain any community residences since they have fewer than 5000 residents, while four others are are at their quota. Neighborhood 6, where Shelter Inc. is trying to build its shelter, is already above its limit of two shelters...
Cameras were forbidden "within telephoto range" of the township, and correspondents were barred from taking notes within the same radius. To enforce the restrictions, police were dispatched to round up uncooperative members of the press. In all, more than 20 journalists were arrested and then released. Many had cameras and film confiscated. Others, including a TIME correspondent and photographer, were threatened with further investigation and prosecution...