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SOUTH AFRICA Forward with Verwoerd...
...change, but the issue in South African elections is always dismayingly the same-swart gevaar (black danger), wit baaskap (white bossdom), or just plain apartheid. Last week, when South Africa's 1.7 million white voters went to the polls, there was no new term for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racism, but both major parties were claiming to be the whitest of the white. So extremist have the nation's politics become, in fact, that Segregationist Verwoerd was even accused of being soft on blacks...
...charges would not stick, for during the past five years Verwoerd's police and a series of suppressive laws have successfully stamped out all organized black resistance. When the results were in, the Nationalists had swept a record-breaking 60% of the vote, won 126 of the 170 seats in Parliament. The once-powerful United Party, campaigning for outright support of Rhodesia's Ian Smith, took most of the rest...
...have been roaring north along the highway from South Africa, bringing in some 40,000 gallons of gasoline daily, nearly one-third of Rhodesia's rationed needs. The petroleum is being sold to Rhodesia by independent South African oil companies, which have been emboldened by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's decision not to abide by Britain's oil embargo. The trucks were seized by Smith from British Petroleum and Shell subsidiaries in Rhodesia, repainted grey and blue or yellow and black. With white Rhodesians at the wheels, the trucks are driven to secret loading points in South...
...effective use of sanctions has convinced South Africa not to interfere, Dr. Verwoerd's continuing policy of strict neutrality belies predictions that supplies from South Africa will keep Rhodesia going indefinitely. The privately subsidized shipments of South African oil should not surpass 80,000 gallons per month, less than one day's rationed consumption. Continued application of sanctions, coupled with a British offer of acceptable settlement terms, could lead to negotiations within a few months...