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...moral pillar of American isolationism. Wherever the American banner has been raised in the past decade -- Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua and now the Persian Gulf -- isolationists have demanded to know, How can we in good conscience oppose bad guys there and not land Marines in Port-au-Prince or Cape Town...
...Libya, Horwitz finds a designer dictator dressed in a cape, tartan sweater and red wool hat. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is also given to mismatched profundities, like "Woman is a female and man is a male" and "Democracy means popular rule, not popular expression...
...Good A day on the sands of Cape...
...finale is next. Bates, calmer than most, slips into her show-girl outfit, a jeweled network of baubles and beads cascading down her lithe body. A feather from her sequined cape floats past her painted red lips, and she blows it away matter-of-factly. Ten pounds of rhinestones, wires and multicolored feathers ascend 3 ft. over her head. The headdress hurts. Bates must crouch down and walk ducklike to clear the door to the stage...
Outside, antiapartheid protesters complained that De Klerk's manifesto did not go far enough. A.N.C. supporters demanded immediate voting rights for 28 million blacks, who constitute 70% of the country's inhabitants but have no representation in the national government. Some 20,000 demonstrators marched before Cape Town's House of Assembly carrying placards that denounced the "racist Parliament." They demanded that Parliament, which is divided into chambers for whites, Asians and people of mixed race, be dissolved and replaced by an integrated constituent assembly. Declared Walter Sisulu, a veteran A.N.C. leader: "We don't have the vote. This...