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...Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to meet a "crisis of survival," makes last year's Sabotage Act seem tame by comparison, has already been dubbed the "No Trial" bill. It promises the death penalty for citizens who receive training in subversion abroad or urge intervention by force in South Africa. Postal authorities can open, read and hold suspicious mail. Any political suspect, without trial, can be placed in 90-day detention, which may then be endlessly repeated. Commented Justice Minister Vorster: "This is as much power as I need for existing circumstances. If necessary, I will take even stronger steps...
...Videodex, Inc.. of New York, which determines ratings from diaries filled out by TV-set owners (in return for such gratuities as nail files and hair combs), was unable under investigation to show even one of its claimed thousands of diaries. A postal official at Chicago's Merchandise Mart, where the company had a drop box, could recall no such mail's ever arriving, and officials at the warehouse where current diaries were purported to be stored said that they had considered the account dormant since...
...addition to juror's pay of $7 a day for the first 30 days and $10 a day thereafter). Despite the strain of keeping up with the complicated evidence, the hours were not bad-usually 10 to 4, five days a week. Says James Villafana, a night-shift postal clerk: "It was just like a real vacation, and I was able to get reacquainted with the wife and kids...
Some Flimflam. There is considerable flimflam even in this claim of meager cost cutting. Part of the "economizing" results from postal-rate increases already in effect. Another part is based on the hope-which may or may not be fulfilled-that private lenders will take over from the Federal Government several hundred million dollars worth of housing loans and farm price-support loans...
...found that some of the details had already been taken care of. The blue-and-gold flag of the Central Government now fluttered over the Katangese Defense Ministry. Sixty civil servants and 120 Congolese army officers arrived from Leopoldville to take over Katanga's military remnants and administer postal service, telecommunications, customs and immigration. As resident minister, Leopoldville's top man in Katanga would be slight, sober Joseph Ileo, 40, a moderate who served as interim Premier of the Congo after erratic Patrice Lumumba was deposed...