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Show DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1977 A 3 JACK flnpERSon WITH IES WHIHEN Army shell could kill our own soldiers WASHINGTON The Army's most potent nun nuclear artillery shell may wind up killing some of our own soldiers. The deadly rocket-assiste- d shell, fired by howitzers, is designed to fragment into more than 30.000 particles, pelting its victims to death. But studies at the Armys Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia indicate that the shell may rupture prematurely, our sources say. 155-m- Despite the test warnings, however, the Army remained so anxious for the shell that it ordered the weapon into production. Tens of thousands of the shells have now been manufactured at the Army Ammunition Plant in Burlington, Iowa. The problem is in the warhead, the d explosive that flies through the air. The metal must be brittle enough to fragment into thousands of particles But this brittleness can cause the shell to rupture as it is being launched. Minister Vorster told this writer, is the Experts consider it unlikely that the explosive in warhead would go off too soon. But the blast that meaning the absolutely not negotiable launches the shell could rupture the warhead's metal vote can never be conceded to the black man casing, killing anyone in the way of the particles. in or for a white parliament. Nor, according to our sources, is there any way to Interior Minister Connie Mulder thought the shells are safe. Wrote one concerned guarantee of to for be a rival Dr. some Treumicht by Flaws . .. cannot be detected consistently expert: to Vorster eventual succession Prime Minister in the warhead by any existing means of inspection. likewise used the phrase not negotiable" to Said another: The metal is a problem." describe the maintenance of separate idenFootnote: The Army vigorously defends the South in Africa. tities 9 warheads, contending the Frankford arsenal told he Everything necessary thereto, studies indicated the inspection safeguards were this writer, "will be defended with all our adequate. Some 35,000 shells are being released to power. Justice and Police Minister Jimmy the field. The Army said no injuries had occured in to We not are said: capitulate going Kruger connection with the shell. government and Afrikaner politics as it ever uncompromising yet charming and eloquent This is the first of several articles about The white man in South Africa is not was. INSIDE IRS: The nations top 1,200 corporations Andries P. Treumicht the mounting conflict between the races in deputy minister of expendable. Thats out. been placed in a special audit program, Bantu have his Education with South Africa. (African) of use the word and, Professor Viljoens Compounding the problem for Afrikaners is to confidential IRS files. Some 15 percent of 22 years as a minister in the background of according the Jews the evokes, are analogy of diaspora whom blacks with number vast the Godsell they By Geoffrey of theie conglomerates are now being investigated by Dutch Reformed Church, the most articulate and their scattenng for centuries thoughout The to deal. separate black homelands, having Christian Science Monitor News Service the IRS for criminal tax fraud. the world until their ingathering in Israel in theologian in the present government away from white South Africa, are one thing. concedes is to difficult it that differentiate of Africa The Afrikaner South are modern times. And, indeed, there This compares with less than one percent of all PRETORIA, points But the blacks in white South Africa are between racism and realistically understandnation of South Africa is fighting for its life. in the vast townships supplying the similarity between the two peoples. taxpayers who are being probed by the IRS. ordinary another; ing the differences between races and peoples. labor for such important white urban centers The financial documents in the files of these 1,200 whites The 2 12 million Afrikaans-speakin- g But he has written: "Justice is to live as Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the corporations and their 60,000 subsidiaries are so Each treasures its identity. Each turns to who have had a virtual monopoly of political the Scriptures to buttress and underpin the according to the rule or law of the Creator. To black labor on white farms in the countryside. immense, say our sources, that the IRS agents can power here since 1948 are locked in the initial stages of a challenge from the country's 18 stands it takes. Each finds inspiration and act according to the law for your own life is to Of the countrys 18 million blacks, over SO only audit samples of their tax returns, renewed determination in recollection of past express your own pure character and identity. and at this point each side million blacks And corporate tax experts, who earn twice as percent are in white South Africa and are own Your is And sees therefore character each itself isolated hard to disentangle from it. Of these, to sees it as an the finish. sufferings. today particular much as their government counterparts, outnumber proving fight and threatened by implacably hostile hordes your law of life, and the obedience to it is the urban blacks are spearheading the the IRS agents by 10 to one. The conglomerates, At stake is political power in South Africa: Afrikaners want to keep it, the blacks to wrest with little sympathy or support from the justice. Therefore we say that autogenous (i.e. challenge of Afrikanerdom. therefore, are far more likely to get away with tax outside world. (A distinguished South African separate) development is the best exercise of it from them. the fraud and slush funds than the average citizen. For the moment, the word Soweto of Jewish background confirmed the justice." CORPORATE CONNECTION: The top trust-bustIn the opulent suburbs of Johannesburg, township outside Johannesburg, which is in similarities.) fact by itself the biggest city in Africa south of or white South Africans in Congress is still being paid by a New York Durban, Cape Town, sums up that challenge. the Sahara There is poignancy in the position of the live largely insulated from what is going on (or law firm representing IBM, which the government Afrikanerdom still firmly holds political has been suing for alleged antitrust violatons. Afrikaners. Their ancestors in Africa, the being hatched) in the sharpening confrontaof Good Dutch the at settlers tion. power, but the blacks have the political original Cape Theres no possibility of initiative. David Boies, new chief counsel for the Senate Hope, first established themselves there Longtime and often lonely critic of Antitrust and Monopoly from Prime But Afrikaner leaders subcommittee, will receive g English-speakinwithin a few years of the Pilgrim Fathers an uprising in this country. the harsh side of Afrikanerdom, the Suz- substantial payments from Minister John Vorster to Gerrit Viljoen, rector his old law firm for the of Parliament, Helen revolutioin member But New the landing England. of Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesnext 10 years. The payments from Cravath, Swain We can and as the contain the situation assesses the movements it, and ideas that present man, enlightening make it unequivocally clear in nary and Moore, where he personally represented IBM, burg resistance phase of the struggle. will come from a general pool of income from clients. conversation that their overriding concern is produced in North America the Declaration of black the power quicker Justice and Police Minister Kruger assured to safeguard and preserve the Afrikaans-speakin- g Independence and the U.S. Constitution left therefore, will indirectly be getting money South Africa untouched until the British movement realizes this, the this writer that things wont get worse. fromBoies, nation, its identity, and its culture, in landed there in 1795 and then annexed the IBM while his subcommittee is investigating of an no less. Theres of possibility the face unprecedented challenge. Theyll get the giant corporation. The firm has also represented Cape in the peace settlement of 1815 ending the better. uprising in this country. We can contain it such giants as Bethlehem Steel, Chemical Bank and Wars. Napoleonic and the quicker the black power movement 13 realizes the better. Even as thoughtful Time, Inc. this, For the Afrikaners, this brought over a Boies, who conceded he may return to the law an Afrikaner as industrialist and financier of resistance to British efforts to century absovote one One man Albert Wessels said: Dont expect a French firm in the future, told us he will disqualify himself in Anglicize them. First the Afrikaners fled A massive report approved and accepted Revolution here long before that, well find a any subcommittee dealings with IBM or any other inland to the Transvaal and the Orange Free by the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed lutely not negotiable. We are possible conflicts of interest. solution. State in the Great Trek of the 1830s and 1840s to Church the national church of Afrikaners WHOS NEWS: Director Bert Lance Karel The But white Afrikaans writer avoid what was to them British oppression. not going to capitulate. in October, 1974, contains the following wants to take his $730 cabinet chair with him into scenario a offered different has Sehoeman And then, from 1899 to 1902, they fought and statements; white man in South Africa is lost the Anglo-Boe- r retirement, but it is still uncertain who will pay for it. one approximating Professor Viljoen's estiWar. a couple of dollars of what Afrikaners would do if the tide of At first, donations were solicited mate In circumstances and under out. specific not expendable. from clerical workers and $20 or $25 from their them. overwhelms Yet the durability of the Afrikaners was to history New Testament makes specific conditions the bosses. Then questions were raised about the legality nearly half a century on, in 1948. That The scenario is in Mr. Schoemans chilling- of the provision for the regulation on the basis of 33 prevail,saw solicitation. The collections have been held up of the party year uncompromising Land Geliefde Na of die of novel the separate development ly moving while the lawyers consult the statutes. Afrikanerdom win at the polls, and the party various a title A that Beloved . in . the one country. Country,) political ("After peoples has ever smee used every parliamentary whose views Sen. Barry Goldwater, plucks the same chord that provided English-languag- e system based on the autogenous or separate means possible to tighten its grip. House were solicited the White about his a Paton Alan South writer by African of can various groups development population To this end. Professor Viljoen told this of a century ago with the title for his aggravations, replied that he is tired of receiving be justified from the Bible, but the commandThe intervening years have been prosperquarter would with Afrikaners everything fight writer, letters addressed to Berry Goldberg." ous ones. Johannesburgs ment to love ones neighbor must at all times famous novel, Cry the Beloved Country. they had. They would go down fighting; and if be to And norm ethical sound toward the witness bears is what that. skyline establishing of a Judge Frank Johnson, whom President Carter Mr. Schoemans novel is the story they lost they would rather accept subservient Afrikaner who grew up in Europe and has selected to take charge of the FBI, will have to status under their conqueror, preserving their more, Afrikaners are this time sharing the interpeople relations, young wealth from which they were Here then is the ethical, even religious returns to the land of which his parents had so pay for the privilege. He could go on collecting his identity and culture, than go into diaspoia (i.e. excluded insomething the gold and diamond rushes of the $54,500 judicial salary for the rest of his life if he for the strict separation of the often talked with pride and affection. scatter abroad). If victorious blacks gave us a justification 19th Century. As recently as the 1930s, 50 down the FBI job and retired as a judge at 65. races institutionalized through Parliament by homeland, he said, yes that would be late Back in his homeland, he finds it desolate, turned of the Afrikaner population of South percent of from of was it the But arm 1977, the United Feature Syndicate, Inc. course, (C) obvious, Afrikanerdom, political acceptable. with his people living huddled in fear behind poor farmers on the National Party in power continuously since the way Professor Viljoen said this that Africa was still relatively of the with doors locked yet portraits past 1948. Dr. Treumicht told this writer he was Afrikaners would fight to the bitter end to try land. Today only 20 percent remain there. The worthies still hanging on the walls to keep convinced that the problems stemming from to avoid any Afrikaner homeland on black rest have become urbanized. hope alive. There is much talk of them, of Thus the victory and the sweetness of terms. separate development in South Africa would their police banging on the locked doors at be fewer than those that would result from The and of other unpleasantness. In addition to being rector of the massive power from 1948 to 1977 have been relatively night integration. new Afrikaans University, Professor Viljoen shortlived; and the growing threat to both the them, the their are never they, identified Mr. Sehoeman simply and tellingly is reputed to be head of the Broederbond. This from nascent black nationalism is consequentIntegration in fact is anathema to the ly all the more bitter and the more resented. mainstream of Afrikanerdom. Afrikaners leaves it to the reader to deduce that they" is a secret Afrikaner society, originally But the apparatus and the system that the established by a thinking elite as an organizaare black. utterly reject mixed marriages, whites and tion to help keep Afrikanerdom alive during Afrikaners have developed to preserve their blacks living alongside one another, even Next: The new generation of black the days of British ascendancy and to prepare monopoly of power riding in the same taxi, and any suggestion of they would say to nationalists. the day for a true Afrikaner republic. It is as preserve their identity and culture are not blacks voting for or sitting in a white The nations MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) (C) 1977, Christian Science Publishing Society powerful and influential behind the scenes in seen by them as in any way racist. The parliament. One man one vote. Prime coldest large city has embarked on a civic campaign to look and think warm this winter with pink steam, discodecorated ice fishing houses, heated bird baths and even outdoor cafes. The job was assigned to William C. Rogers, a University of Minnesota professor serving as chan man of the Minneapolis Committee on Urban Environto that too liberal and too lengthy due busmess is of a cause in ! Louis Harris high unemploymajor disruptions ment bea costs for energy as ment unemployment compensation rapidly rising Six cut of 10 Americans hold the nefits of joblessWe want ideas from everybody, a cause are he for major cause unemployment. major isic view that a major cause of the Even the Russians view is held by both This said ness. although I a believe that Fifteen rsistent unemployment is the conservatives and liberals. percent don't know how much they can contribute. Another 32 percent blame the neral recession in the country. major reason for high unemployAfter all the Winter Palace in Leningrad lack of consumer demand for proA somewhat smaller 49 pera nice warm color It is widely ment is the lack of job opportunities was red before the ducts and services. Despite the indicators that point cent of the public sees the lack of for women a relatively healthy economy, 53 real economic revolution. Now its green. Cold. recognized that a key to economic as a growth major rcent of the public believes that cause of recovery is a sustained level of Were trying to get a grant to get unemployment. Whatever In the mam, the public thinks that e country is still in a recession demand. consumer of recent from Canada, the Scandanavian the economic planners signs vigor, what it perceives as a weak id. because of this, they expect Forty-on- e feel that and Russia to come here and give will percent countries is it that the skeptical public economy is the primary cause of the the lack of a federal government lempioyment to remain lugh. The continue into next Twenty-eigus same ideas. percent see not yea'. a also whatBut is of unemployment rate gh rate unemployment jobs program for the unemployed" giving teenagers a chance to go to high Forty-fiv- e Minneapolis, with a mean temperature percent believe that is a ever the reason, people also seem to ire sign for most people that the cause of high unemployas a major cause of unempwork major of 17 degrees in January, is the coldest of introduction and automation the from its not be the federal recovering is that of governthe saying ment. aware untry Despite a series of public loyment. The public is labor-savin- g devices is a primary large city in the United States, Rogers said. ment and the private sector should onomic troubles. works measures which have been high level ol teen-ag- e unemployMontreal shares the Minneapolis average, for The reason high unemployment. a the exists higher give recent level a a job problem enacted that into of Harris sizable the to and ment law, higher portion According and the site for the new capital of Alaska is come to expect extensive has public it and it now than has that priority the still feels that Washington public among black teenagers. irvey of 1,491 adults nationwide, about the same. dislocations as a result of the must be attacked on a broad front simply has not come to grips with e public also sees other important job advanced that technology replaces than in any single, quick-fiThe Alaskans have a wonderful chance rather the problem of putting the jobless to feel asons foi unemployment these that Eighteen percent people with machines, but they have fashion to start from scratch, he said. work. and blacks discrimination against lys: come to terms with this sort of (Cl 1977 Chicago Tr.uune Thirty-nin- e people in hiring A 53 percent majority believes dislocation in a mmouteriaed era percent see Spanish-speakin- Afrikaner students chat at University of Pretoria while black gardener tends plants. brass 9 metal-encase- 2.5 million Afrikaners fighting for their lives .... er a et Thats near-Americ- Warm thoughts in Minneapolis 6 out of 1 0 blame recession for unemployment ht x g |