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...Jersey native, he graduated first in his class at Haddon Township High School, earning all A’s while captaining the varsity baseball, basketball, and soccer teams...
...wake will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29, at Holy Saviour Church in Haddon Township, New Jersey. The funeral will take place at 11 a.m. the following day, also at the Holy Saviour Church...
First, the good news: the South African government reversed itself and decided not to expel three CBS crewmen whose network had broadcast news film of the funeral two weeks ago of 17 victims of police gunfire in the black Alexandra township near Johannesburg. Pretoria had charged CBS with acting in defiance of a government ban on the use of cameras and recording devices at the mass funeral...
...make up 73% of the population. The pass laws were stitched together in piecemeal fashion over the past 70 years in an effort to control the flow of blacks into the country's predominantly white cities. Repealing them, observed the Sowetan, the major newspaper in the large black township outside of Johannesburg, will "affect the person who matters most--the man in the street." Under the old system, the government refused to recognize blacks as citizens of South Africa, pretending instead that they were "sojourners" from the ten artificially created, all-black territories known as homelands. Those living or working...
...seems unlikely, however, that the proposed reforms will do much to quell the seething discontent in the country's black townships. Indeed, even as Botha delivered his brotherhood message last week, there were yet more tragic indications that the wounds inflicted by apartheid will be difficult to heal. During one 24-hour period, 60 homes were fire-bombed and 30 private cars and police vehicles were damaged as police tried to control a clash between militant youths and vigilante squads in the township of Alexandra, near Johannesburg. --By Janice C. Simpson. Reported by Bruce W. Nelan/Johannesburg