Word: apartheid
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...shattered tail fin provides a clue to why Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into a mountainside, taking 520 lives. President Botha's "manifesto" for South Africa disappoints opponents of apartheid. Iran's rigid theocracy harbors fanaticism and little hope for change. How a U.S. hostage managed to film his Shi'ite captors in southern Lebanon...
...horrible," said Jennifer Brown, head of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women. The Rev. Jesse Jackson called it "an attempt to reverse history" that could result in "an American form of apartheid." But to Harvard Sociology Professor Nathan Glazer, a leading neoconservative, it was "a step in the right direction," one that "took enormous courage...
...future of our country," ostensibly laying out guideposts for significant change in the racially divided nation. But rather than a hoped for watershed, Botha's speech was an international and domestic disappointment, creating a sense that South Africa might have missed a historic opportunity to begin ridding itself of apartheid...
...Botha has pressed his agenda of modest reform, he has been forced to watch the right wing carefully. A senior National Party official estimated this month that of South Africa's 4.9 million whites (60% of whom are Afrikaners), about 20% support ultraconservative groups that insist on retaining total apartheid. If the President continues on his path of reform, the official predicted, the extreme right might increase its strength by 6% to 8%. Other analysts go further: they suggest the hardline camp could include as much as 40% of the white electorate, with support coming not only from Afrikaners...
...white man. He is an ordinary person sent to us black men." John Paul used his position to appeal for human rights and religious liberty. Though he had planned to downplay political issues on the trip, as violence spread in South Africa he repeated earlier denunciations of apartheid. In a speech to diplomats in Cameroon, the Pope then broadened the issue beyond apartheid by taking up the cause of all in Africa who suffer human rights abuses: "I would like to lend them my voice," he said. "How can one not think of arbitrary arrests, of executions without due process...