[Ivan Peter Toms was born in Germiston, Transvaal Province, South Africa on 11 July 1952]

Mailing about the likely detention of Ivan Toms who came to the U.S. under the auspices of the International Visitor Program of the United States Information Agency. The mailing says Ivan Peter Toms-was born in Germiston, Transvaal Province, South Africa on 11 July 1952; He is a medical doctor, a graduate in 1976 of the University of Cape Town. The mailing says Dr. Toms is medical director of Empilisweni clinic in the Crossroads settlement; this 10-year-old squatter community which has been a thorn in the flesh to the apartheid authorities from its beginning; the peoples' steadfastness is now under assault from Pretoria's 'vigilantes'; when he returns to South Africa - probably on 30 June, Ivan Toms is certain to be detained by Pretoria's security police. The mailing includes a copy of a letter to Charles Z. Wick, director, United States Information Agency, from William Johnston. The mailing includes a newspaper article "No doctors in South Africa's bloody crossroads" by Earl Caldwell. The mailing includes THE REALITY OF CROSSROADS signed by Rev. A. Simons (Methodist Church); Rev. P. Grassow (Methodist Church); The Rt. Rev. P. Matolengwe (Anglican Church); Rev. C. Davids (Anglican Church); Rev. S. Jacobs (Anglican Church); Rev. N. Brandt (Lutheran Church); Rev. J. Isaacs (Lutheran Church); Rev. D. Kapa (Presbyterian Church); Rev. B.N. Mgujulwa (Presbyterian Church); Rev. W.M. Mabuza (World Vision - Methodist Church); Rev. P. Oberhclzer (World Vision - N.G. Sendingkerk); Rev. N. Bixa (Methodist Church); Rev. A.M. Vithi (Methodist Church); Rev. Z. Mfengu (Apostolic Faith Mission); Rev. M. Mfenyana (Anglican Church); Rev. T. Lester (Anglican Church); Rev. S. Brichfield (Lutheran Church); Rev. B. Birchfield (Lutheran Church); Rev. A. Smith (Anglican Church); Rev. P. van den Heever (Methodist Church); Rev. J. Seremane (SACC - Anglican Church); Rev. G. Quinlan (Anglican Church); Ms. R. Quinlan (Anglican Church); Mr. J. Liddell (Methodist Church); Ms. L. Liddell (WPCC - Methodist Church); Ms. E. Huismans (WPCC - N.G. Kerk); Mr. W. van der Westhuizen (N.G. Sending-kerk); Ms. V. West (Lutheran Church); Mr. V. Petersen (Anglican Church); Rev. J. Ashe (Anglican Church); Rev. T. Steyn (Anglican Church); Rev. T. Pearce (Anglican Church); Rev. C. Jones (Anglican Church); Rev. J. Davies (Baptist Church); Rev. P. Mentoor (A.M.E. Church); Dr. H.T.. Pearce (Methodist Church); Mr. R.B. Crowder (Methodist Church); Ms. J. Joubert (Methodist Church); and Rev. H.S. Marawu (African Reformed Church S.A.) and published by WPCC (Western Province Council of Churches). The mailing discusses the South African draft resistance movement, the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the State of Emergency, the Anglican Church's Board of Social Responsibility, apartheid, the South-African Christian Leadership Assembly, pass laws, black townships, Khayelitsha, the 'wltdoeke', Nyanga Bush, Nyanga Extension, and Portland Cement.