Word: niesewand
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...wedding three years ago of Journalist Peter Niesewand and Nonie Fogarty in Salisbury, Rhodesia, one of the guests quipped to the bride: "If he doesn't look after you, my dear, I'll have him restricted." The jocular threat came from Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice, Law and Order. Niesewand has looked after his wife well enough, but for the past month he has been in jail under an order signed by Lardner-Burke. The vague grounds: the freelance reporter was "likely to commit acts prejudicial to public safety or public order." Free translation: the white-supremacist...
...early-morning arrest and the incarceration at Gwelo Jail hardly came as a surprise. Niesewand, 28, was one of the few enterprising and influential newsmen still reporting regularly from Rhodesia. He ran a bureau representing the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, United Press International, Agence France-Presse and a number of London and South African newspapers. It was Niesewand who broke the story in 1971 of the arrest of former Prime Minister Garfield Todd, who was also considered a threat to public order. Niesewand published exclusives on government action against the African National Council, a black political group opposed...