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...consistently -both for commercial reasons and, it is said, because the Shah is still grateful to the South Africans for having given sanctuary to his late father after he was deposed in 1941. In the meantime, work is proceeding on a huge, $2 billion oil-from-coal plant near Johannesburg that is expected to supply up to 40% of the country's energy needs...
...than one other person at a time except for members of his family; he may not write for publication or be quoted-he has become, as a result, a public nonperson. Although forbidden by South African law to quote Woods on any subject or even echo his thoughts, TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter was able to spend a day with the Woods family last week at their home in the coastal city of East London. McWhirter's report on the beginning of their new life in isolation...
...order. Now all that has changed. "We can no longer talk of a great chain of being in the 19th century sense, from which there is a missing link," says Phillip Tobias, 51, Dart's successor as professor of anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand medical school in Johannesburg. "We should think rather of multiple strands forming a network of evolving populations, diverging and converging, some strands disappearing, others giving rise to further evolutionary development...
Under cover of darkness last week, South African police loosed the country's most draconian wave of repression in almost two decades. Cruising the predawn streets of ghettos from Durban and Cape Town to Soweto outside Johannesburg, they detained within hours many of the best-known black leaders in the country, more than 50 in all. In addition, under orders issued by Pretoria's Minister of Justice James Kruger, South Africa's largest black newspaper, The World (circ. 146,000), was banned and its editor, Percy Qoboza, jailed without charges...
...stunned to protest. On the day of the government's move, cordons of security forces sealed off Soweto before any demonstrations could get under way. More than 150 blacks and Indians-and a handful of white sympathizers-were arrested in protests that followed the first shock. As TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter reports: "There was little joy in Pretoria. Even among Afrikaners, the mood was one of apprehension and depression...