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...every other woman photographer, she does not focus primarily on people. A whole series depicts powerful, moving machines. Her portraits all seem calculated to swallow you with merciless eyes that don't see and make you shudder in pain . . . "The living dead of Buchenwald;" "Gold miners, Nos. 1139 & 5122, Johannesburg...
...Johannesburg, South Africa
...second shift of workers were ready to board the huge bucket that would carry them down to the bottom of the mine shaft, two miles below the surface. The scene: the No. 2 shaft of the Western Deep Levels gold mine in Carletonville, about 50 miles west of Johannesburg. Suddenly rioting broke out. A swelling mob of African mine workers, angered by a chronic wage and job dispute, went rampaging through the pit area, stoning white officials, looting and setting fire to buildings...
South Africans were stunned by the sudden bloodshed. Students picketed Western Deep's offices in downtown Johannesburg with signs saying LOW WAGES CAUSE REVOLUTION and SAP [South African Police] is TRIGGER HAPPY. The English-language press called for an inquiry, and the Natal Mercury cautioned that South Africans should take the incident as a warning about the increasing tensions and frustrations generated by the years of apartheid. South Africa's implacable Prime Minister, John Vorster, seemed to take a different view; he praised the police for acting with "considerable restraint." Meanwhile, as the Africans mourned their dead, Western...
...whites mix at an international conference in Durban on mission and evangelism. In his keynote address to the 1,500 delegates and observers, Graham last week described the gathering as a watershed: "You will never be the same. South Africa will never be the same." Later, before a Johannesburg rally for 80,000, the sometime White House preacher let off some steam about crime and punishment back home. In an eye-for-an-eye spirit, Graham pushed for capital punishment and "the strongest possible rape laws. I believe that a person guilty of rape should be castrated. That would stop...