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...Salisbury Daily News, owned by British Newspaper Tycoon Lord Thomson of Fleet, was banned last week for supporting African aspirations, despite a protest demonstration by 100 white and non-white students before the Parliament building. The Salisbury suburb of Highfield, where rival African parties have been feuding violently for months, was put in a state of emergency and sealed off by soldiers and police...
...week was to arrest African Leader Joshua Nkomo and three officials of his People's Caretaker Council, whom the government accused of "dragging the country from crisis to crisis." The arrest triggered riots that brought white cops with tear gas, dogs and swinging truncheons into Salisbury's Highfield African Township. Before the week was out, more than 250 Africans had been arrested...
...depths of central Ohio the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players are back for their eleventh season on Cape Cod, and weekenders in the general vicinity of the Highfield Theatre, Falmouth, Mass., would be well advised to check them out. As usual their make-up is inept, their chorus movement imprecise, and their fourth encores gratuitous. And, as usual, nobody cares. For under the guiding hand of Prof. W. Hayden Boyers the Oberlin group epitomizes all that which is fresh and lively in college theatre...
Place of Slaughter. But Whitehead's get-tough policy did not silence Salisbury's 175,000 Africans. From the black ghetto of Highfield, 5,000 Africans marched on the police station demanding that they be arrested as were the N.D.P. leaders. Next day a mass strike crippled Salisbury as 20,000 Africans descended on Whitehead's office in the city center. When the mob refused to disperse, the police lobbed tear-gas shells into their midst, scattering them in all directions...
Robert E. Highfield, Indianapolis. Charles E. Nelson, Marion. Richard Russell, Indianapolis...