SOUTH AFRICA: Condemned by the U.N.

SOUTH AFRICA Condemned by the U.N. For the eighth time in as many years, the General Assembly of the U.N. last week passed a resolution condemning South Africa's official policy of apartheid, the segregation of whites and nonwhites. The vote this time was an overwhelming 62-3 (with seven abstentions), the only dissenters being three African colonial powers, Britain, France and Portugal. The South African delegation itself boycottedl both the debate and the vote.

Though the South African government shrugged off the U.N. action as one more example of a nation the world misunderstood, the English-language Rand Daily Mail gloomily noted that...