The World - News from May 1, 1985

The Rand Daily Mail, South Africa’s best-known opposition newspaper, published its final edition, urging the nation to “go in peace” and thumbing its nose at the censors. On its second page, the newspaper displayed a photograph of two women in topless dress--in direct defiance of the country’s puritanical censorship laws. The Mail’s owners announced the closure last month, saying the newspaper group faced a loss over two years of $22 million. The Mail has been a critic of South Africa’s apartheid policies for 25 years, but in the final edition, the editorial page was blank.