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...latest black prisoner to die in security police custody-and at least the 22nd during the past two years-was Lungile Tabalaza, 20, an unemployed high school dropout from the black township of New Brighton. Tabalaza and a younger companion had been arrested by uniformed police on July 3 as suspects in a series of gasoline-bomb attacks on delivery vans and the robbery of the drivers. Because Tabalaza had earlier been involved in illegal youth meetings in New Brighton, he was handed over to security police for "further investigation...
...President-designate appeared shortly thereafter in the Hyannis Armory in Republican Barnstable County, Cape Cod. Barnstable Township had voted its Protestant prejudice the previous day, preferring Nixon over Kennedy by 4,515 to 2,783. Kennedy strode up on the platform, puffy-eyed, but still handsome. He had insisted that his father now appear with him in public, and also his pregnant wife...
...effectiveness of the city's fuel use, and are aided by Shaeffer & Roland, an environmental management firm. Says Teacher Frances Vandervoort, grandly: "By 1980 there a will be 300,000 jobs in solar energy alone, and we are helping prepare our students for these opportunities." At suburban Evanston Township High School, an architectural drawing program includes the study of solar heating, wind generators and maximum use of insulation. At a recent science fair at Brooklyn's Roy Mann Intermediate School, there was an impressive array of energy projects. One seventh-grade student, Chris Bonagura, 13, built a working model...
Even the funeral scene was marred by fighting. As Kapuuo's cortege passed through Katatura, a black township outside the modern territorial capital of Windhoek, a group of Ovambo tribesmen, the Hereros' traditional enemies, threw stones at the chiefs followers. Enraged members of Kapuuo's home guard immediately retaliated with ancient British rifles in an attack that left five dead and eleven wounded. At the funeral, thousands of Herero women garbed in scarlet mourning dresses wailed and chanted under cloudy skies. Although most of the orators counseled restraint, one warned pointedly: "The grave of the chief...
...riot." When his term ended, Parliament passed a law empowering the government to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely, and Sobukwe spent the next six years in another prison, using the time to earn an economics degree. Finally released in 1969, he was restricted to a small black township in Kimberley. He was denied permission to emigrate, but three of his four children moved to the U.S. to live with their father's friend, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young...