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...dark-eyed, full- breasted young woman in the skimpy yellow bathing suit. She is wooed by men who want not only to possess but to politicize her as well. After hearing Hillela admit that she does not understand anything that she has not directly experienced, a high-ranking ANC official says, "Someone needs to take you in hand, my girl. You are not a fully conscious being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life in The Territory of Exile A SPORT OF NATURE | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...otherwise not have been heard on campus. But Kent-Brown's speech was disrupted by campus protesters on a cue from a members of the Southern African Solidarity Committee who stood up in the middle of Kent-Brown's speech and announced that he was collecting money for the ANC. As soon as this announcement was made, protesters swarmed in from all sides and attempted not only to disrupt Kent-Brown's speech and blockade him, but to physically assault him as well. Kent-Brown was effectively deprived of his freedom of speech and freedom of movement on the basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Conservative Club's | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...Constitution of the United States of America. Indeed they have a right to do this, but they do not have a right to employ violence in the process. But it is not surprising that they consider themselves above the law--after all, it is they who emphatically support the ANC, one of the most violent terrorist organizations on the globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Conservative Club's | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...Conservative Club, in its defense of having no debate with the African National Congress (ANC), alleges that it is not a "legitimate body," according to a report in The Crimson. What constitutes a "legitimate" speaker or body? Who are the members of the Conservative Club to decide this? This qualification in and of itself is elitist and contradicts the principle of Freedom of Speech. In addition, in the question and answer period there was no guarantee that our questions would be addressed since we were forced to submit them to the scrutiny of Conservative Club members beforehand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Time Out for Racism' | 3/25/1987 | See Source »

Slovo, a native of Lithuania whose parents emigrated to South Africa in 1935, exemplifies the connections that have grown up over the years between the ANC and the country's Communists. He joined the party before it was declared illegal in 1950 and helped write the Freedom Charter, the document that in 1955 became the ANC's political program. Slovo was accused of sabotage in 1963 in the same trial that resulted in lifetime prison sentences for Nelson Mandela and five other ANC leaders, but Slovo had managed to flee South Africa a month before the others were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Red and the Black | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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