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...charged them with robbery in international waters. The following day they collared one of the men accused of organizing the plot-Dutch Businessman Norbert Jurgens, 48, a large stockholder and employee of Veronica's. At week's end they also arrested and indicted as an accomplice Hendrik ("Bull") Verwey, one of three Dutch brothers who are the principal owners of Veronica. "We never wanted it that way," said Verwey. "No violence-oh, no. You know, the thing got out of hand...
...surprise that South African officials hailed Nixon's speech as exhibiting a deeper, more pragmatic, understanding of the complexities of the situation than any other American President. south African thinking on the relationship between verbal disapprobation and physical interference is well-revealed in a pronouncement of former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. When, in the Session of 1966, the General Assembly decided that South Africa's right to South-West Africa derived exclusively from the mandate conferred on it by the League of Nations, that that mandate has been terminated, and that the United Nations must take over the administration...
Reduced Pension. In the 31 years since he succeeded the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd as Premier, Johannes Balthazar Vorster has remained true to the goal of apartheid. Only last week, for instance, his government ruled that a retired soldier named Sam Dorkin had been reclassified as a mixed-blood "Colored" after 75 years of life as a white man; his army pension was reduced from $61 to $29 a month. Nonetheless, Vorster has managed to loosen some of apartheid's tight restrictions. He adopted an "outward-looking" policy of establishing trade and diplomatic links with a few black states...
Within the Administration, there is some talk about loosening the steel-import quotas. Hendrik Houthakker, a member of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, has been recommending that the U.S. also allow more oil and beef imports to enter. On the other hand, Nixon is committed to limiting the imports of textiles, and he does not seem ready to take big steps toward freer trade...
...Fellows, who are on leave from their jobs, spend the academic year in study related to their special fields or to their general interests. Hendrik L. Smith. of the New York Times Washington Bureau, who will be in the Times' Moscow bureau next year, is studying Russian and Russian History, Francois Van Aal, Associate Nieman Fellow from Radio Television Belge, and known to the other Niemans as "the Belgian Walter Cronkite." is taking American Government courses...