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...South African regime, Dean Gonville A. ffrench-Beytagh (pronounced french-Beta) had indeed veered too close to Christian soldiering during his insistent campaign against apartheid. ffrench-Beytagh freely admitted distributing $70,000 to political prisoners and their families but denied the money had come from the outlawed Defense and Aid Fund of London. The more complicated charges dealt with his political statements...
...hold 800 persons who are officially classified as political prisoners. According to one recent account, the government still has 42 persons under house arrest and out of circulation, including a grandson of Gandhi (no newspaper can mention their names). In Pretoria, the terrorism trial of the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, the Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, is now in its third month. In Natal, where 14 nonwhites are also on trial under the government's all-purpose Terrorism Act, the defense has charged that all of the prisoners and some of the government witnesses were tortured to make them...
...presidents of the World Council of Churches, is a vocal opponent of apartheid. Other South African clergymen have lost their passports; they can also be detained and charged under the country's Suppression of Communism Act. That was the fate in January of the Very Rev. Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, dean of Johannesburg's Anglican cathedral. Recently, as ffrench-Beytagh's trial was postponed for "further investigations," police of South Africa's special branch, allegedly seeking connections with "subversive" organizations, swept through church offices, headquarters of Christian organizations and homes of church officials and other individuals...
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...News lives vividly for a day, fades quickly into staleness, fossilizes eventually into history. But most of it is simply forgotten: it lies abandoned in old newspaper files like heaps of dried lavender. Gradually, with the passage of years, its mustiness changes to a delicate old-fashioned odor. Editor ffrench,* a rummager rather than a historian, followed her nose through dusty English newspaper files (1805-87), pasted her miscellaneous finds into this 650-page album, calls it "the autobiography of the 19th Century." Erudite historians may find nothing startling in News from the Past, but 20th Century readers, if they...