SOUTH AFRICA: Packing Parliament

By 91 to 61, South Africa’s Lower House of Parliament passed the second (and decisive) reading of Prime Minister Johannes Strydom’s bill to pack the Senate as he has already packed the judiciary (TIME, May 9). Object of the bill: to give Strydom’s Boer Nationalists the two thirds majority they need in a joint ses sion of Parliament to override the South African constitution.