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Harry Oppenheimer, son of the founder of the Anglo American Corp., the gigantic mining, manufacturing and retailing conglomerate that controls about a quarter of the country's wealth, used to take an active part in politics. He sat as a liberal in Parliament and financed the opposition Progressive Federal Party. But his efforts came to nothing. Though the corporations that the English speakers control might be expected to give them considerable political clout, the Afrikaner regime runs the country. When asked to explain the gap between English economic power and political impotence, Anglo American's current chairman Gavin Relly says...
...Solution has become something of a cause celebre. With funding from several major companies, including the giant Anglo American Corp., the authors have set up Groundswell, a political-action movement. Groundswell hopes to raise $15 million for a two-year program of lectures, seminars, television and newspaper advertising. The book will be translated into eight African languages, and a U.S. edition will be published in May. Louw and Kendall candidly admit they do not expect the white-dominated government to embrace their proposals. Instead they put their faith in creating a grass-roots demand for change...
...investment houses known as the City of London is also embroiled in a shocking stock-trading scandal. Investigators are still probing deeply into allegations of wrongdoing surrounding the $4 billion takeover last year of Distillers, the British manufacturer of Johnnie Walker Scotch and Gordon's gin, by Guinness, the Anglo-Irish brewer and distiller. The sensational affair has already ruined the careers of some of Britain's best-known businessmen, and may bring regulatory retaliation on the City...
Within the Evangelical, or Low Church branch of the Church of England, some biblical literalists oppose women clergy because of the belief that the Scriptures forbid women's holding authority over men. But the most determined opposition has come from the High Church, or Anglo-Catholic wing, which is close to Roman Catholicism in many of its beliefs, traditions and rituals. The focus for this resistance is the outspoken Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Graham Leonard, 65. Anglo-Catholics concur with Roman Catholic teaching that creating women priests would violate the intentions of Jesus Christ and would deviate from...
...Reed established publishing companies intended to expand the idea of what texts and which authors make up the canon of American literature, a national literature which includes "Chicano and Chinese, Yiddish and Native American, Anglo-Saxon and Afro-American, multicolored and multivocal," says Reed...