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...days later, the government banned 29 black organizations from holding any meetings over the next three months in 18 districts, mainly in the Eastern Cape. Among the groups was the broadly based antiapartheid alliance known as the United Democratic Front, 16 of whose leaders already face charges of treason. The ban, said the Rev. Christiaan Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner who is general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, was "an act of desperation on the part of the government...
Blacks May Face Treason Charges...
...Black students may face charges of high treason: upon their eventual return to South Africa, Townsend said, since any form of protest by South Africans against apartheid is illegal. The penalty for such action is a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of death...
...swooped down on 70 homes and offices belonging to opponents of the government and, in particular, members of the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.), a broad- based alliance of more than 700 nonwhite community organizations, trade unions and church groups. Over a dozen dissidents were detained. Seven were charged with treason and joined eight other political activists in jail, awaiting what is expected to be a "show trial" in Durban at the end of March. If convicted of treason, they could face life imprisonment...
...Jacksons are unsettled by the neighbors' treason, but for the lonely, timid wife Barbara (Rosemary Harris) the personal betrayal cuts far more deeply. She has almost no friends other than Helen Kroger (Dana Ivey), and cannot bear the thought that Helen has lied to her and feigned devotion. In torment, Barbara rages at the snoopers: Spying on spies, she rants, is the moral equivalent of spying. She aches with desire to tell Helen to flee. Her pain is more than loyalty: it is a burning need to legitimize her own feelings...