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With a minute to play, Fair settled a ball at midfield and found a streaking Laurie Uustal, who raced past a straggling defense and beat Black-burn to provide the final margin of victory...
...seemed a massive irony. Through four decades of apartheid, the Afrikaner Nationalists had outlawed effective political structures in the townships and devastated black family life, creating in the process a generation of scary kids ready to burn, maim and hack to pieces real or fancied enemies -- kids who had never known a home with parents, never been to school or followed any rule but the rule of survival by violence. Now to save the whites from this Frankenstein monster of their creation, the government was counting on the recently legalized African National Congress (A.N.C.) and leaders like Nelson Mandela...
...racist overtones. Blacks are freer to flirt with racial rhetoric. In the primary battle between black former Federal Judge Alcee Hastings and ex-Ku Klux Klan leader John Paul Rogers to be Florida's secretary of state, Hastings got a laugh last month by quipping, "If ((Rogers)) doesn't burn crosses in my neighborhood, I won't spit watermelon seeds in his." If Rogers had made the vow in reverse, he would have been accused of bigotry...
...month on whether he is competent to stand trial. Until then, he rests in a locked unit at a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. His brother is outraged at the federal prosecutors. "If I had an American flag in front of me, I would spit on it and burn it," shouted Louis over his car phone last week as he drove to visit his brother. "He should be allowed to come home...
...without strengths as he ponders what move to make next. He still poses a potent military threat: he might not win on the battlefield, but he could make the contest bloody. Or he could ignite a conflagration so broad and so intense it would burn everyone. Or he could simply fold his tent, in the same pragmatic way he handed peace to Iran two weeks ago, and retire to fight another day. But for now, his best play is probably to sit tight...