Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visible effect on the men of apartheid. But the Nationalists are frankly jittery about the outcome of next month's referendum, when Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd will ask the voters to approve his plan to make South Africa a republic and, tacitly, to approve his apartheid policies. In Pretoria's Supreme Court last week, Farmer David Pratt went on trial for firing two shots into Verwoerd's head last April. Chief business of the court was to hear psychiatric evidence that Pratt was mentally unbalanced. Before being led away for examination by mental specialists, Pratt leaped...
...Lisbon, demonstrators hurled rocks, broke windows in the U.S. embassy. Elsewhere in the city, white-collar workers donned black ties of protest. In Montevideo, Uruguay, a crowd of 100 students gathered outside the U.S. embassy shouting "Murderers," "Assassins," and shaking fists at embassy aides who looked out windows. In Pretoria, South Africa, university students marched to the U.S. embassy, raised a banner reading "American Justice Is Corrupt" (executions for capital crimes in South Africa totaled 70 in 1958). Britain's Manchester Guardian termed the execution an outrage "because capital punishment itself is an outrage, not because of the special...
...advantages of preferential tariffs and British investment money. Others were simply apprehensive at the prospect of greater Afrikaner control that a republic would bring, along with an acceleration of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's harsh policy of apartheid. Taking heart from Verwoerd's steady recovery in a Pretoria hospital (last week doctors successfully operated to remove both of the assassin's bullets), the Afrikaners riposted by accusing the English-speakers of divided loyalties. Nationalist M.P. Dr. Carel de Wet shouted: "The real enemy of the white man is the white...