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...this racially charged atmosphere that Officers Albert M. Claggett and James Brian Swart arrested Terrance and his 18-year-old brother Melvin on suspicion of rifling laundromat coin boxes...
Police allege that Terrance ripped Claggett's gun from his holster while the two were alone in the small processing room, shot and killed him, and then shot Swart as he ran towards the room. Melvin, who was handcuffed to a bench in another room, claims he witnessed the officers beating his brother just before the shootings occurred...
Defence attorney Mundy filed a request with the court to obtain previous records of brutality charges against Claggett or Swart and any evidence that might show they belonged to the Klan. Judged Levin denied the request...
...Party's campaign last week in what is being billed as the country's "crisis election." Looking rather like a grumpy air-raid warden, Vorster warned a rally of party faithful in the eastern Transvaal that only a National landslide on Nov. 30 could hold back the "swart gevaar" (black menace). Vorster has every reason to expect an overwhelming mandate from South Africa's 4.3 million whites. (The country's 18 million blacks, 2.5 million mixed-blood "coloreds" and 850,000 Asians cannot vote.) The latest polls indicate that his Nationals will capture...
...guard around the smoldering ruins of Soweto-a satellite township for nearly 1 million blacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg-sporadic rioting broke out in neighboring ghettos and in black suburbs near Pretoria. In both cities, whites rushed to buy arms and ammunition for protection against the so-called swart gevaar (black peril) -although at no time were any white communities threatened...