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...guerrilla movements in Southern Africa. It does not, therefore, come as a surprise that South African officials hailed Nixon's speech as exhibiting a deeper, more pragmatic, understanding of the complexities of the situation than any other American President. south African thinking on the relationship between verbal disapprobation and physical interference is well-revealed in a pronouncement of former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. When, in the Session of 1966, the General Assembly decided that South Africa's right to South-West Africa derived exclusively from the mandate conferred on it by the League of Nations, that that mandate has been...
...second original contribution to this year's Cambridge drama season, your recalcitrant reviewer paused a moment in Brattle Square. He has for some time been convinced that there is no shortest path between these two points, that Brattle Square, and perhaps most of the corner we occupy in south-west Cambridge, are located smack in the heart of what science-fiction writers used lovingly to term a "time warp." Four years of this town, of predictable variety and commonplace brilliance, can do that to a fellow. Places, and the people who choose to hold them, can distort perception; can modify...
Sands of the Kalahari. A hired plane crashes and burns in the wastes of South-West Africa. Out of the flaming wreckage crawl six survivors: five men and a woman. Their plight unknown, they face an ordeal by sun, sand, hunger, thirst and, as it turns out, sexual desire. Who will live? Who will die? Who will prove his strength, or weakness? And who will get the girl...
More immediate is the question of Bechuanaland's relations with its neighbors. Hemmed in on all sides by white Africa (Rhodesia on the east and apartheid-minded South Africa and its South-West Africa dependency on the south, west and north), Bechuanaland is tied economically to the nations that every true black nationalist hates. With the two other British High Commission territories of Basutoland and Swaziland, Seretse's domain is joined with South Africa in a customs union, uses South African currency, and in the past has cooperated in transportation, trade, health and general development with Dr. Hendrik...
...said that Humphrey's mail from Minnesota was also running about four to one in favor of the bill. Humphrey, too, has been getting mail against the bill from other states, particularly the South, the Mountain States, the South-west, and southern California...