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...take all the gold that South Africa has offered. The Bank of Portugal has broken the central-bank boycott and bought some of the rest at the official $35 price. The Lisbon bankers took about $145 million worth in 1968 and another $120 million worth early this year. Johannesburg moneymen also believe that South Africa has loaned some gold to other African nations...
...Johannesburg bankers imply that as part of any such compromise ending to the boycott, South Africa would drop its insistence that the official $35 price be raised and the dollar thereby devalued. Any agreement would probably be denounced by political liberals in the U.S. as unconscionable aid to one of the world's most racist nations. But a deal that would dissipate doubts about the integrity of the dollar would obviously help...
Heavily criticized abroad for its repressive policy of apartheid, the South African government takes its points of pride where it can find them. For years it has proudly pointed to the country's free press. But freedom ends at the racial barrier. Laurence Gandar, editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, has long been one of the few resident journalists bold enough to prod gently for gradual integration of the black majority. His reasoned crusading earned him the wide respect of foreign colleagues and the disfavor of the government for the past dozen years...
Which one of us. Nate, would not give his eyeteeth to leave the hurley-burley of megalopolis for such an idyllic paradise? I know I would. Incidentally, I shall be absent from Cambridge the next few weeks as pressing business summons me to Johannesburg. yrs very truly, Henry Kissinger April...
Athol Fugard's The Blood Knot came out of South Africa eight years ago. It was first produced in Johannesburg in 1960--its black and white actors had to be called "guests" to perform together in the theatre workshop. Blood Knot ran off-Broadway in 1964; with half of its two-man cast unchanged, it is now presented by the Theatre Company of Boston...