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...year ago, on June 16, the fury and frustration of South Africa's blacks exploded in rioting at Soweto, the huge (estimated population: 1.2 million) amalgam of segregated townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The violence -and counterviolence by South African security forces-spread to other black ghettos. By the time the "disturbances" subsided in December, 618 had died, nearly half the number of lives lost in Ulster's eight years of bloody civil strife...
...force of students, largely of high school age. Officially they are known as the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC), but they are described simply, by themselves and by the older blacks of Soweto, as "The Children." They are, in fact, the dominant, virtually unrivaled political power within Soweto. TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter spent two weeks in the township, observing the mood a year later and The Children in action. His report...
...beginning to take the Third World more seriously. The Washington Post has roughly doubled its force of part-time correspondents, or stringers, in the developing countries in the past five years to 14. CBS this year opened an African bureau in Nairobi, and ABC will open one in Johannesburg next week. In addition, the World Press Freedom Association, a group of Western news organizations and professional societies, is committed to raising $1 million to "assist the development of Third World news gathering...
...white couple, their black servant and an eight-year-old child were murdered by terrorists who fled across the border into Botswana. Such incidents are taking their toll on the daily lives of the country's whites. During a 1,200-mile tour of Rhodesia, TIME'S Johannesburg bureau chief William McWhirter stopped at missions and family farms, many of them along the guerrilla-infested border with Mozambique. He found that while many whites still believe they can hold their own in the war, it has become a futile effort, delaying and making more difficult the possibility...
...accepting the Owen plan, Smith again publicly committed his government to cooperation in the transition. Privately, however, in an interview last week with TIME Managing Editor Henry A. Grunwald and Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, he maintained a wary and often pessimistic view of the process. Excerpts...