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...fiercest foe of apartheid. Methodist Leader Tom Parker despaired of support for such action by followers of "a Saviour who spilt no drop of blood but his own." W.C.C. member churches in South Africa all opposed the grants but decided not to quit the council. Prime Minister B.J. Vorster then warned darkly of "government action" if they did not. Last week the white Presbyterian Church told Vorster to mind his own business, and merged with black Presbyterians...
...Delicious. In a few arid countries like Israel and South West Africa, the people gladly drink reclaimed sewage water. When Prime Minister John Vorster of the Republic of South Africa sampled a glassful at Windhoek's treatment plant last year, he pronounced it "delicious." Americans are not yet so adaptable. President Nixon, offered a similar opportunity at the Hanover Park plant in Illinois, grimaced and said "No, thanks...
Reduced Pension. In the 31 years since he succeeded the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd as Premier, Johannes Balthazar Vorster has remained true to the goal of apartheid. Only last week, for instance, his government ruled that a retired soldier named Sam Dorkin had been reclassified as a mixed-blood "Colored" after 75 years of life as a white man; his army pension was reduced from $61 to $29 a month. Nonetheless, Vorster has managed to loosen some of apartheid's tight restrictions. He adopted an "outward-looking" policy of establishing trade and diplomatic links with a few black states...
Worried by the extremists and anxious to prevent them from creating an effective organization, Vorster called for elections a year ahead of schedule and geared his campaign almost exclusively to the verkrampte challenge. Moving perceptibly to the right, he barred U.S. Black Tennis Star Arthur Ashe from playing in South Africa. Two weeks ago, he issued a decree prohibiting blacks from holding a wide range of semiskilled jobs. The order was set aside when businessmen pointed out that no white replacements were available...
...M.P.s were defeated. Hertzog himself received only 926 votes out of 9,160 in the constituency he had held since 1948. Observers believe that Hertzog's fanaticism, which included a demand for suppressing the English language in South Africa, and the absence of any reassurance from Vorster, who was preoccupied with the Hertzog threat, stampeded many English-speaking voters into seeking a more moderate alternative...