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...surrounded by a Hizballah government, a Hamas government, Syria and Iran. Radical Muslims will have achieved just what they have wanted: the eradication of Israel by electoral methods. Couldn't Bush's and Blair's advisers have seen coming the Islamic takeover of the Middle East? Ted Coote Boksburg, South Africa A Modern-Day Marco Polo While on holiday exploring Turkey, I happened to have with me a copy of the double issue East Meets West [Aug. 7-14]. I read with complete fascination article after article from your gifted journalists retracing Marco Polo's steps. The fact that...
...A.N.C. in 1990 and Hani returned home from Zambia as a member of the group's ruling executive committee to negotiate with Pretoria's white rulers, he looked forward to living eventually in a fair and free society. Last week, however, as he arrived at his home in Boksburg from a morning of grocery shopping with his daughter, Hani, 50, was gunned down in his driveway...
Some of Goldblatt's photographs, taken from thebook In Boksburg, were displayed in the main foyerof the Carpenter Center yesterday
Apartheid is alive and more than a little absurd in the South African town of Boksburg (pop. 106,000). Ever since rightists took over the town's city council last year, they have been strictly enforcing the whites-only laws that had fallen into disuse. They began by barring blacks from all municipal facilities, including the local park and lake. The obsession with racist regulations took on surreal dimensions last week when the council voted 10 to 7 to grant the transfer of a lease for the Golden Lake Chinese restaurant from W.G. Ho to another Chinese woman...
...silly decision is but the latest in a series of apartheid measures that have led blacks to boycott the town's business district. As a result, commercial sales are down 40% to 70%, but the council has refused to budge, ! despite pleas by the Boksburg Chamber of Commerce to reconsider. The Conservatives did make one small concession to common sense: they will allow Yip's children to eat at the Golden Lake...