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Operation Sophiatown was neither a pogrom nor a Mau Mau roundup. It was the South African government's new, efficient way of enforcing its policy of apartheid (racial segregation). An all-African community with shops, churches and the only swimming pool for African kids in Johannesburg, Sophiatown is one of three "black spots" on the western side of the city, which the government has recently zoned as "predominantly European." For whites and Negroes to live in such close proximity strikes South Africa's Boer Nationalists as improper and possibly sinful...
...week and a half after the start of the spring term the house teams have reopened competition for the Straus Trophy. The following is a brief roundup of standings and relative strength in four winter sports. A summary of the freshman intramural basketball situation appears on page...
...witnesses who streamed in and out of Stanton's improvised HQ all identified Booth as the assassin. In a belated roundup of stablekeepers, army troops found a man who had kept Booth's horse for him till late afternoon...
...President Arnulfo Arias, a bitter foe of Remón who was arrested immediately after the assassination and this week released (along with U.S. Citizen Martin Irving Lipstein, an innocent caught in the initial police roundup...
After a police roundup jailed 300 homosexuals in one night last week, Buenos Aires' well-coached press promptly drew the moral the government wanted: sex-deviation was on the increase in Argentina, and the obvious answer to the problem was legalized prostitution. One newspaper also blamed the country's 1936 ban on licensed bordellos for "the recrudescence of shameful attacks on women." A few days later, Strongman Juan Perón cracked open the 1936 law with a decree authorizing provincial and local authorities to permit brothels "in suitable places."* Whether or not Perón was sincere...