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There's no reason why Vorster [Oct. 4] should be pug-nosing in the affairs of Rhodesia, as if to say he is not facing the same problems as Smith...
TIME'S prize for the Most Asinine Act of the year should go to Henry Kissinger for his conference with Vorster on the fate of Rhodesia. At the same time, Vorster's police were shooting down blacks in the Union of South Africa...
...white Afrikaaners are heading for the hills; they don't want to hear about change and they've placed all their force in Vorster," Pogrund says. "And Vorster has not budged from his commitment to maintaining apartheid. He will increase repression if he must. He has said publicly he will brook no nonsense from blacks...
...which shares the same rail line] depends on copper for his survival. The railway through Angola was destroyed during the war; he has to send the copper through South Africa. He may be distressed that his black brothers are being discriminated against, but he'll strike a deal with Vorster...
...Vorster's regime has already routed a leftist newspaper. And Pogrund expects that greater restraints will be placed on The Mail. But he has no second thoughts about his future. "South Africa is my homeland, too," he says. "This is what I've devoted my entire adult life...