Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Bantu areas in the back country. White employers had already made "idlers" of thousands by firing Africans who had stayed away from work, and Erasmus' police set to work rounding them up. There was hopeful talk of a massive speedup in Verwoerd's program to create a group of rural statelets called Bantustans for use as a faraway residence for most of the black population. The government also launched a crash program to encourage more white immigration from Europe...
Voice of Conscience. A few protests came from the tiny group of Progressive Party members of Parliament, but the loudest voice of opposition came from churchmen. From Swaziland, where he had fled to avoid arrest by Verwoerd's police, Ambrose Reeves, Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, published an Easter message: "As Christians, we dare not pretend that we have no responsibility for all that is happening in South Africa ... To do that would make us absentees from history." Militant Joost de Blank, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, aimed his attack at the Dutch Reformed Church, which provides the philosophic base...
Then they set off on a barnstorming tour sponsored by Manhattan's American Committee on Africa, a liberal pressure group that is headed by the Rev. (Methodist) George M. Houser. Next week Banda flies back to London to continue his negotiations with the British government, but Kaunda has a month-long schedule of visits to Washington, the Mid-West, and the South. High point: a meeting with some young U.S. Negro leaders of the lunch-counter campaign in the South, to compare notes on tactics...
...summary of the findings to date, written by Douglas in the form of a "Memo from a Minister's Wife," the typical MW tells the congregation: "Please realize that my husband's vocation does not automatically make me an inspirational speaker, or confident group leader, or talented singer, or piano player, or even church schoolteacher...
Separating Sinners. Last week the man from Oxnard was "talking it out" in a group psychotherapy session at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, where he is now confined. With him were eight other convicted felons and Psychologist Gerald Berton. Most striking was the fact that Psychologist Berton, in charge of the twice-weekly, one-hour session, had the least...