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...State Department has already protested on behalf of Americans who are being expelled, including three Methodist missionaries and a Roman Catholic priest. But deportation is only one of the government tactics. Last week, South Africa's leading black clergyman, the Right Rev. Alpheus Zulu, Anglican Bishop of Zululand, was arrested at a church center outside Johannesburg and questioned at a police station for hours. He was finally charged with failure to have with him the passbook required of all blacks, but refused to pay a $7 fine and instead demanded the right to appear in court. Bishop Zulu...
...grams." These are orders in crisp, unstilted language that show his determination to scuttle those customs and traditions that no longer seem to have a point?if indeed they ever did. There have been 65 such orders so far, received variously and eagerly at sea and ashore as "Zulu-grams" or "Zumie-grams" or just "Zoomies." In a service more encrusted with class protocol than most, they have especially endeared Zumwalt to enlisted men. Zumwalt, declares a chief on the destroyer U.S.S. Halsey, is "the first C.N.O. who has ever rattled this bird cage down to the level where...
Faust's characters frequently define themselves through movie references. Much of the novel, in fact, could be regarded as a highly inventive, sardonic paraphrasing of Zulu, a 1964 Technicolor extravaganza about the bloody exertions of a British outpost to defend itself against human waves of frenzied black warriors. This particularly holds for the novel's ending, a melodramatic surrealization of a ghetto uprising...
Died. Menasha Skulnik, seventyish, irrepressible Yiddish comedian and Broadway actor (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach, The Zulu and the Zayda) for 60 years; in Manhattan. His explanation for his popularity: "People laugh not from the jokes but from the situations I am in. I play the little guy -the schlemiel-against the world...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-10:45 p.m.). Sizzling action for a hot summer's night: Zulu (1964), the story of eight British officers (including Stanley Baker and Michael Caine), 97 men, one minister (Jack Hawkins) and the minister's daughter (Ulla Jacobsson) v. 4,000 assorted Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses were earned in the original battle of Rorke's Drift...