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...reason for the picture's impact is its straight-ahead melodramatic structure. At its simplest level the movie functions as a well-constructed mystery story. A black man, a gardener named Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), comes to his employer, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find his son. The boy was taken into police custody during the Soweto protests of 1976 and has disappeared. Du Toit, a calm and rational man, believes this is surely just a bureaucratic muddle that can be easily ameliorated by a solid citizen's firm but polite intervention...
...ambitions for his French seem greaterthan his classmates', they are not sensitive toit. He appears to be acheiving his goal of being"like any other student...
...other new fellows are Judith Andre of Old Dominion University's Philosophy Department; J. Gregory Dees of the Yale School of Management; Lachlan Forrow, a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School; Henry S. Richardson, an assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, and South African dissident Andries B. du Toit, a Political Studies professor at Cape Town University...
...blaze of trumpets heralding the opening session of Parliament in Cape Town had barely died down when State President P.W. Botha unveiled an improbable proposal. Said he: "If I were to release Mr. Nelson Mandela on humanitarian grounds, could Captain Wynand du Toit, Andrei Sakharov and Anatoli Shcharansky not also be released on humanitarian grounds...
...Toit's statement was quickly seized on last week by Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, who has 30,000 of his troops stationed in Angola. He lambasted U.S.-sponsored peace efforts in southern Africa and charged that the U.S. had known all along that South Africa was lying when it claimed to have withdrawn its forces from Angola. The Angolans had been considering a phased withdrawal of Cuban forces in return for the South African pullout, but last week, according to South African sources, the Luanda government intended to break off negotiations with Pretoria...