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After decades of debate over the potentially corrupting influences of television, South Africa last week was - in the words of one Johannesburg columnist - "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the TV age." More than a million view ers, mostly whites who paid up to $1,200 for color sets, watched the five-hour nightly programs, broadcast in both English and Afrikaans. They included Shane, the Bob Newhart Show, news broadcasts, a concert by the Orchestre de Paris and the film oldie Oklahoma...
...television as a mixed blessing and warned that "slanted news" would be corrected. Opposition newspapers feared that any abuses might come from the government, which has sole control over the network. "The mere presentation of the world at large is bound to have a far-reaching effect," editorialized the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. But so powerful a visual medium, it said, could also become a propaganda weapon "particularly when, as in South Africa, it is so much under the thumb of the political party in power...
...Even the aging British mercenary, Colonel Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, 55, leader of the fabled Fifth Mercenary Commando that fought in the Congo during the early '60s, seemed to be gearing up for action. Said one of the commandos at Hoare's annual reunion last week in Johannesburg: "There's something in the wind. I believe that negotiations are taking place. We feel there may be a role for us in Angola...
...while it looked like old times at the jewelry store for Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Fresh from their honeymoon in Botswana, the pair stopped off in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Dick picked out a 72-diamond wedding band for his beloved, as well as a platinum and multi-diamond dress ring worth close to $1 million. Liz, however, announced that she was "deeply moved by Richard's gesture of giving me the ring" but just couldn't accept such an "extravagant thought." Instead, she said, she and Burton had agreed to use the money to build...
...metal 41 years ago. The lifting of the ban, effective Dec. 31, is surely the most passionately awaited marketing event since Repeal reopened the nation's borders to the world's eager distillers. In hopes of an American stampede into bullion, speculators from Amsterdam to Zurich to Johannesburg have engaged in a considerable gold rush of their own. Last week alone, the price of "free market" gold traded on the London exchange climbed by $7.50 to a record $195 per troy ounce.* That was up from $155 just four months ago, when Congress passed the law lifting...