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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single night by police fire; among the victims was an eight-year-old boy. The incident occurred one day after Prime Minister Vorster had repeated in a speech to his party's faithful that colored people would never sit in South Africa's all-white Parliament. In the city of Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town, the main business district was closed after hundreds of youths stoned shops and cars and tried to storm a police station. "It looks like a battlefield," said a police official. At Stellenbosch, roads leading to the nonwhite townships were closed by police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Kissinger Starts a Final Crusade | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Like the Watergate scandal from which it once sprouted, the Lockheed scandal seems to have acquired a quality of indestructibility. Even when the charges of corruption are officially denied, they keep reappearing as rumors and innuendoes. Last week, as the scandal once again rippled across Europe, a parliament debated whether to prosecute a prince, a Premier was publicly accused of graft, and a former Defense Minister repeated his assertions that he had done nothing wrong. The only certainty was that the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., the largest defense contractor in the U.S., has admitted spending some $24 million in bribes overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: The Lockheed Mystery (Contd.) | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...page report by a three-man Dutch commission headed by European Court Judge Andreas Donner, charging Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands with "unacceptable" behavior in his dealings with Lockheed. Although the commission found no proof that Bernhard actually received the $1.1 million that Lockheed allegedly paid him, the Dutch parliament last week somberly debated whether the 65-year-old royal consort should be prosecuted. A tiny left-wing faction favored prosecution. But Protestant Anti-Revolutionary Party Leader Willem Aantjes summed up the views of many: "History shows the faithfulness of the House of Orange toward The Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: The Lockheed Mystery (Contd.) | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...Manhattan. A law professor hi Moscow, Vishniak was five times arrested by Czar Nicholas II as an ardent Socialist Revolutionary. In 1917 he helped draw up the electoral laws for the provisional government headed by Alexander Kerensky and, as Vishniak later wrote, served in "the only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia," which lasted just twelve hours before it was dissolved by Lenin. Escaping from the Bolsheviks, Vishniak fled to Paris and, after the beginning of World War II, to the U.S. In the course of his long career, Vishniak published 22 books and numerous articles in Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1976 | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...regret this." In addition to giving up his post as Inspector General, he may have to abandon some 300 other official roles, which range from chairman of the World Wildlife Fund to adviser for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. In a televised speech to a tense and packed meeting of Parliament, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl said that no legal action would be taken against Prince Bernhard because of possible "serious consequences" to Queen Juliana, who married the prince in 1937. Although there had been speculation that the Queen might abdicate if Prince Bernhard's name were not entirely cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Prince Errant Loses His Epaulets | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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