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Conceivably, as Smith himself implied last week, some of the special protective clauses for whites may be dropped from the constitution after the new government takes hold. "Whether we like it or not," he told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, "minority governments are unacceptable to the rest of the world. I had always hoped we could avoid black majority rule in my lifetime. But you have to change your tactics in this game, and we came to the conclusion that if we didn't change, we couldn't survive...
...Press in Southern Africa--John A. Mojapelo, deputy news editor, Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, Rm. 3, Coolidge Hall...
...accomplish this end at home. Rhoodie has charged that the government of former Prime Minister (now State President) John Vorster clandestinely-and illegally-poured some $37 million into an avidly pro-government tabloid, The Citizen. In the U.S., according to stories published by the Rand Daily Mail of Johannesburg, the slush fund was used to finance an equally illegal but unsuccessful attempt in 1974 to purchase the Washington Star, some four years before the paper was sold to Time...
...Pahlavis have prior experience with exile, of course. After Reza Shah, the present Shah's father, was exiled in 1941, he found refuge in South Africa, where he died in Johannesburg at age 66. Now it is like father, like son. Doors everywhere have slammed shut. Spain and Austria do not want the Shah. West Germany and France, both of which are big buyers of Iranian oil, make clear that he would not be welcome, while Britain, where the family owns a 166-acre estate outside London, is distinctly cool to his living there. Even Switzerland, the Shah...
...situation struck Bureau Chief Bill McWhirter, whose regular post is Johannesburg, in a different fashion. A man who has covered rebellions that have erupted from Northern Ireland to the Philippines, McWhirter says that the Iranian uprising was unique for him. His explanation: "Other revolts I've written about have been movements with defined goals and tactics. Here I think we are witnessing the absolute birth of a movement, a spontaneous outpouring of united resentment without any direction agreed upon, except for an Iran without a Shah...