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...Brenner Johannesburg...
...They were simply paid $1,000 each to oust a leftist regime, and promised a further $10,000 if the coup succeeded. But they failed. "They were the fledglings, not the real Wild Geese. Maybe that's how they came to mess it up," says Douglas Lord, a Johannesburg store manager and veteran of the Congo mercenary campaign. "But the fact is that nowadays there are more potential Wild Geese around than back...
...announce the election of the following editors to the News Board: Steven M. Arkow '84 of Far Rockaway, N.Y. and Winthrop House; Beth L. Golden '83 of Minneapolis, Minn., and Lowell House; Jeffrey E. Seifert '81-4 of Brewster, N.Y. and Adams House; Julian A. Treger '84 of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Adams House; and Richard S. Zemel '84 of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mather House...
...most whites blandly assume that South Africa will hold on to its present system of government indefinitely. A young woman who works for a foreign airline in Johannesburg doesn't think Blacks will be ready for the vote for at least another 15 or 20 years. A guide, who voted against the Nationalists in the last election because "every time they hold back (on reform) they're driving another nail in my coffin," opposes granting Blacks the vote "until they've been properly educated...
...Since many Blacks receive no schooling and few own property, this arrangement would deny most Blacks access to the ballot box. Even the liberal opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP) does not advocate one man, one vote, although it would give Blacks some kind of representation. A staffer at a Johannesburg PFP office explains that while she favors one man, one vote, the party would lose support if it came out for equal representation...