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...their convention with an orgy of anti-Bush preppie bashing. The most quoted line, delivered by Ann Richards in her keynote speech, was that Bush was born "with a silver foot in his mouth." The best lines came from Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, depicting a gathering of Bushmen around the yacht-club bar, "sipping a delightfully fruity and frisky white wine, saying 'Play it again, George!' " This was not random abuse but an effort to energize voters who expect Democrats to look out for the little guy -- a venerable Democratic tactic, handed down from Franklin D. Roosevelt (himself...
SASC has never issued any leaflets or press statements making such an equation. But while South African troops drive through townships at random with guns blazing, and while entire families are transported to bantustans where there is no rain, jobs, or health care, and while the Bushmen are dying in forced migration from the Namib Desert, then perhaps recognizing the genocideal aspect of apartheid and comparing it to German fascism is not so unreasonable...
...peaceful day in Botswana's Kalahari desert, where the Bushmen live, a Coca-Cola bottle fell from the sky. It must, they thought, be a gift from the gods. But this glass icon brought with it the compulsions of civilization: greed, jealousy, rancor. So the family patriarch determined to take the bottle to the end of the world and drop it off. On his journey he saw the strangest things: beasts with round legs (Jeeps), and a female with strange skins on her back (the village schoolteacher), and a squad of shiftless African guerrillas. The gods must be crazy...
...news that Samoan society is not as peaceful and permissive as once thought is probably inevitable. Anthropologists once thought the! Kung San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert were a people for whom war and violence were unknown, but recent studies have revealed that they have a crime and suicide rate as high as that of many western countries. Moreover, several previous studies including at least one by an amateur anthropologist had concluded that Mead's picture was a little too rosy...
...Botswana, Randy Ewert, 25, and his wife Roxie, 24, American Mennonites, camp under canvas for days at a time while crossing the forbidding Kalahari Desert, bringing modern farming methods to impoverished nomadic Bushmen...