Apartheid Edges North

Harder times lie ahead for Rhodesia's blacks. The Parliament of the breakaway colony recently adopted a series of harsh new measures designed to impose South African-style apartheid on its 5,000,000 subjugated Africans. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith still speaks confidently of achieving a "settlement" with Britain some time next year. But he knows full well that the new measures, if his government enforces them severely, could hardly be accepted by the British government.

Among other things, the new laws 1) forbid Rhodesian blacks to travel outside the country unless each journey is approved by a white civil servant, 2) force all Africans over age 16 to carry an identity pass at all times, on pain of a $140 fine and six months in jail, 3) reinforce the segregation of public swimming pools, 4) bar blacks from moving to white urban areas unless they have jobs or special permits, 5) prevent Africans from being served food and drink in white areas after 7 p.m. on weekdays and all day Sunday, and 6) declare purely white areas "Europeanized" to prevent "infiltration" of Asians and coloreds.

A likely next step: race classification boards, like those in South Africa, to determine who is white and who is not.

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