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...captives would be loaded aboard medical-evacuation planes for Clark Air Base in the dusty Luzon plain of the Philippines. At Clark as the release approached, the men inside the Joint Homecoming Reception Center Command Post scanned a bank of clocks reading "Hanoi," "Local," "Hawaii," "Washington D.C.," and "Zulu" -Greenwich mean time. Officers manned hot lines, and prepared to chart every movement of the prisoners from the instant of their arrival. The exercise was worthy of a major offensive, except that now the object was almost extravagantly peaceful...
Among the 50,000 black strikers, the majority of them Zulu tribesmen, were 16,000 Durban municipal employees; their walkout caused litter to pile up in the streets and forced white housewives to perform the unaccustomed task of carting away their own garbage. At nearby Hammarsdale, where 7,00 blacks left their jobs, a crowd of 200 was dispersed by police with tear gas after the demonstrators had brandished clubs and chanted "Usutu!", a traditional Zulu...
...London's Aldwych Theater, the Natal Theater Workshop Company had one of the hits of the season with a Zulu version of Macbeth titled Umabatha. Princess Margaret paid her royal respects to the cast, and any scandal sniffers tempted to read significance into the sometime absence of her husband, Lord Snowdon, might well be discouraged by the catalogue of false rumors about her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, culled from the French press by Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages...
Fully 15,000 Zulus slogged through mud and mist for the ceremony on a hillside in one of the 29 scattered patches of land that make up the Zulu Bantustan, a separate homeland set up by the apartheid government in Pretoria. Warriors rattled their assegais (short, stabbing spears) against oxhide shields. "Si-gi-di [Strength]," they thundered in unison, recalling the classic battle cry of the Zulu armies...
...will then have constitutional power over local matters of justice, finance, education and agriculture, though Pretoria will still retain control of defense, foreign affairs and police. Said Botha to Prince Zwelithini last week: "It can be expected that your reign will see a constitutional evolution of your Zulu nation to a fully fledged self-governing and independent nation...