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Last week TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter visited St. Augustine's. His report...
...marijuana joints back and forth on dusty street corners. The object of the tours is to show foreigners that Soweto is "peaceful" again, following the epochal riots that began there two years ago, spread to other townships and eventually killed 618 people. Last week TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter paid an anniversary visit to Soweto, which has become a symbol of black anger and frustration. His report...
...equipped the Katangese rebels was "circumstantial" and "substantial but by no means conclusive." Senator Jacob Javits was the only committee member who seemed fully satisfied with the Administration's contention last week. Though the evidence produced by U.S. intelligence has not been made public, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter has learned that it includes transcripts of the radio traffic between Katangese rebel units during the invasion. Monitored by a U.S. intelligence station in Lubumbashi, the traffic points to a tangible Cuban presence in the area...
When it was over and the rebels had retreated from Zaïre to the Angolan border, the vastness of Africa seemed to swallow them up. For Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, who had flown north to enter devastated Kolwezi on the private plane of Zaïre President Mobutu Sese Seko, that vastness was a large part of the challenge. The complications of communication and transportation made the job of staying with the news especially difficult for this week's cover story (see WORLD...
...essential problem was that no telephones - let alone telex machines - were available at the battlefront. To file his reports to TIME'S editors in New York, McWhirter was forced to use his hotel phone in the beleaguered capital of Kinshasa. Within a week, he made five trips over the 1,000 miles of grassland between Kinshasa and Kolwezi by hitching plane rides on paratroop convoys, with U.S. cargo shipments, and once on a Belgian 727 converted to a refugee carrier...