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Three CBS television staffers were ordered out of the country. The government accused them of filming a mass funeral of Black riot victims in "flagrant contempt" of a court prohibition.
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--At least 30,000 Black mourners, joined by hundreds of whites, turned a mass funeral for 17 Black riot victims yesterday into a vast demonstration of opposition to aparheid.
Sweden's two-day-old caretaker government meanwhile held its first session and discussed arrangements for the funeral of Social Democratic leader Palme, set for March 15.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Loennback said the funeral would be closed to the public, but "many foreign guests" would be invited. Palme, 59, was serving his fourth term as prime minister and was regarded as a top Western European spokesman on disarmament and socialist causes.