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MEMBERS OF the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believe their organization is above politics. But last week's decision by the IMF-approving a $1 billion loan to South Africa clearly demonstrates the United States desire to have strong ties-with Pretoria. The U.S. which has what amounts to vetoing power within the IMF, ignored a U.N. resolution and pleas from several dozen Congressmen to block the and Instead. Reagan Administration officials lobbied the other 145 members of the Fund to push the loan through...
...days before the magazine came out, South Africa formally abandoned pretense and admitted to the world that it has reached a state of economic crisis. At is press conference in Pretoria, Finance Minister Owen Horwood announced that his government urgently needs a $1.1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. The request for aid represents an abrupt turnaround, and it raises important questions about the world's most ostracized nation...
Tony and Gisela Bloom, an attractive South African couple making the London-Venice run, compared the v.s.O.E. to the Blue Train, which runs between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown and is considered one of the world's most luxurious. It was Tony Bloom who provided the only honest-to-Bond suspense on one trip: he found $17,000 in a dirty roll of bills next to the piano. The money was claimed, an official reported, by "a Frenchman." Mystery and intrigue are not dead on the Orient Express...
...after their flight to South Africa, holding only Hoare and four others on the lesser charge of kidnaping, which carries no minimum sentence. But that leniency was abandoned after other nations, including the U.S., warned that South Africa could be struck from air-travel routings unless Pretoria enforced international agreements against harboring of air hijackers. The government then brought hijacking charges against all 43 of the escaped mercenaries...
...removal from Stellenbosch. Pondering what to do, "I prayed to God to show me a way," he says. "The very next day I received the call in a telegram. As I read it, I burst into tears." A 1,000-member church in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, was inviting him to become a pastor. Smith immediately said...