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...week to the day after the assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the leaders of South Africa's ruling Nationalist Party met in the Parliament building in Cape Town to choose his successor. There were half a dozen candidates for the job, but it was never much of a race. The obvious front runner was beefy Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 50, Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, and boss of the massive security organization that enforced South African apartheid...
...bright and balmy spring afternoon in Cape Town. In the public gardens beside the South African House of Assembly, brown squirrels scampered through the oak trees, and white men lazed comfortably on the benches marked "Europeans Only." Inside the paneled assembly chamber, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd strode down the aisle, took his green leather seat on the front bench and, in a gesture that had become automatic, touched the fingers of his left hand to a small scar on his jaw, all that remained of the assassin's bullet that had nearly killed him in 1960. Verwoerd...
Several Assemblymen grabbed Tsafendas and wrestled him to the floor. Others, including three doctors, rushed to try to revive Verwoerd. But it was to no avail. Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, architect of apartheid and South Africa's Prime Minister for eight years, was dead-just two days short of his 65th birthday...
...acceptance. But elsewhere, particularly in Europe, many people never doubted that Kennedy's murder was the product of a conspiracy involving either-there is a remarkably wide choice-the right wing, the left wing, the FBI, the CIA or the Dallas police force. When South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated last week in Capetown, officials hurriedly launched a series of anti-plot explanations to cut off the kind of who-killed-Kennedy rumors that have risen abroad...
...Died. Hendrik Verwoerd, 64, Prime Minister of South Africa; by assassination; in Cape Town (see THE WORLD...