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...least a month, Woods told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter in Lesotho, the reasons for going into exile had seemed more and more compelling. The government had won a strong new mandate from the country's white electorate. The inquest into the death of imprisoned Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko, who had been a close friend of the Woods family and whose death Woods had criticized and questioned, ended inconclusively-although it did show, as Woods had charged, that the circumstances of Biko's death were extremely suspicious. The Woods family had also been angered and alarmed...
...South African racial troubles, the Republic of South Africa refused to give visas to TIME correspondents during most of the 1960s. Since 1971, however, we have been able to send reporters there, and late last year we reopened our Johannesburg bureau, closed since 1962. Our new bureau chief, William McWhirter, who had orders from New York to "cover everyone and everything," was some what apprehensive. Says he: "No one knew whether this was to be one of the shortest recorded assignments in the magazine's history...
...surprise, from the moment of his arrival and especially during his reporting for this week's cover story, McWhirter found all classes and races of South Africans willing, even eager, to cooperate. "This country has a surprising effect on everyone today," he says. "Our office is more like a firehouse than a bureau, with some 50 incoming calls daily. The whole country wants to talk. It is as if everyone has been put on a think-tank-a-day alert on South Africa's future." McWhirter interviewed Minister of Justice James Kruger on the Stephen Biko affair...
...extra places are always set at meal times for neighbors who may unexpectedly call. Van Tonder is proud of his heritage, but worried about his country's future: one of his sons is serving on the Angolan front in the army. Last week TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter spent a day with the family and filed this report...
...time except for members of his family; he may not write for publication or be quoted-he has become, as a result, a public nonperson. Although forbidden by South African law to quote Woods on any subject or even echo his thoughts, TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter was able to spend a day with the Woods family last week at their home in the coastal city of East London. McWhirter's report on the beginning of their new life in isolation...