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Among them are Bamford and Maureen Smales, a liberal Johannesburg couple with three small children. As the rioting spreads, they turn to July, the black man who has been their servant for 15 years. He piles them into a van and guides them to his ancestral village, nearly 400 miles away. This "crash from the suburb to the wilderness" takes three torturous days and nights to accomplish...
News of the attack dominated front pages from Boston to Bangkok. JEAN PAUL II: THE WORLD APPALLED read the 1½-in. headline in Paris' daily Le Figaro. In Johannesburg, an afternoon Star editorial bemoaned the violence "that seems to pervade the whole world." The New York Times devoted its first seven pages to the story and upped its pressrun by 180,000, to 1.16 million. The Los Angeles Times hit the streets two hours earlier than usual with a rare extra edition; the Washington Star printed two extra editions within hours of the shooting. In Vatican City, staffers...
...French team of inquiry felt likewise about boxing. Though South Africa's national pastime, rugby, remains aggressively white, the Springboks squad now has one mulatto player. However admirable the blacklist may be, many South Africans fear that it threatens to undo this progress. Warns the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "There will be a tendency to say 'To hell with it all, we might as well forget about mixed sport and international contacts and play the game as we wish...
...into black hands than to prove scientifically that those who hold it now are as black as the rest." Kok also wondered why Afrikaner historians had taken so many years to make the discovery, unless "as many Afrikaners say, people of mixed blood are slow thinkers." When a black Johannesburg gardener asked a white what he thought about the alleged black blood in his background, the Afrikaner promptly replied, "That's all right, as long as it was the best blood, Zulu blood." But Cape Colored Poet Adam Small offered the last word on Hattingh's research...
...independent government led by the Marxist-oriented South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). Since then, the South African army claims that its counterinsurgency campaign has gained the upper hand. But not even the most optimistic South African officer sees any real end to the no-win war. Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark and TIME's Peter Hawthorne visited the war zone near Namibia's Angolan border. Their report...