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...Ford motors plant and the frenzied preparations in the plant when Henry Ford descended from rich mythical America for a visit. There is a swift transition to the play proper one of Styles's customers, Sizwe Banzi, is desparately trying to find a way to stay in white Port Elizabeth beyond his permitted time. He is persuaded by his friend Buntu (also played by Kani) of the utter hopelessness of the effort; Buntu instead takes him out to get drunk, saying, "the only time a black man is happy is when he is drunk, or when he is dead...
Coming home, late at night, they stumble on a dead man in whose wallet is a bewysboek with a permit to work in Port Elizabeth. This is Sizwe's chance--in drunken self-righteousness and rebellion, he at first refuses to steal the bewysboek and take on the dead man's identity, because for a black man in South Africa, his name is all that he has, the last proof of his manhood. But he finally relents, and Sizwe Banzi is dead...
...fact, the two plays have been criticized for presenting a blunted, inadequate condemnation of apartheid, and avoiding the brutality and inhumanity of South African racism. Sizwe Banzi accepts the rules of apartheid in sacrificing his identity for the immediate reward of being able to work in Port Elizabeth. The prisoner, John, is overjoyed by his imminent release, and submits even more servilely to the daily humiliations in order not to jeopardize it. His mind is wholly filled with the expectation of domestic happiness, meeting his wife, his family. He never questions the authority that jailed him in the first place...
...Navy stuffily forgotten a part of the heralded past of the great ships at sea? Last July, Commander Connelly D. Stevenson, 41, permitted a comely go-go dancer to do her uninhibited stuff-topless-aboard his Finback, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, which was docked at Port Canaveral, Fla. Some of the crew figured that the harmless little maneuver would spur morale, and Stevenson went along with the invitation. Indeed, after the ten-minute performance, enthusiastic crew members shouted, hooted and stamped their approval; and the dancer, Cat Futch, 23, got a thank-you buss from Stevenson...
...Little Bait. In Southeast Asia, the Soviet drive is for military bases. The Russians are eying Cam Ranh Bay, the massive port in South Viet Nam built by the U.S. for more than $130 million. Because such an acquisition would really alarm China, most observers see it as unlikely. "Whether Hanoi avoids Peking's wrath will depend on how successfully the North Vietnamese can make it appear that they are working in Asia's interest and not just in their own or the Soviet Union's," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. "Hanoi just...