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Others laugh more heartily at this than Young does. The exact degree of Young's blackness has always been a matter of debate in and around the S.C.L.C. Nor does Lowery let the matter drop. "We were just over in Cape Town, where they have all these degrees of color -- whites, Indians, coloreds, blacks. I don't know just where I'd put you, Andy" -- with an appraising look at him across the dais -- "somewhere between white and Indian and colored...
Whether in his well-cut business suits or ceremonial skins and feathers, Buthelezi is the country's other black leader. When Mandela and De Klerk meet in Cape Town this week to debate obstacles to negotiations, Buthelezi will be conspicuously absent. Unlike the African National Congress leader, he sees no roadblocks to immediate talks. Many whites and conservative blacks, not to mention Western leaders such as George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, admire Buthelezi's readiness to compromise and his embrace of capitalism. Antiapartheid militants, however, dismiss him as a puppet who has long collaborated with the white minority government against...
Using their clubs as shovels, Harvard dug a grave on Thursday at Willow Bend Golf Course on Cape Cod that proved to be too deep to climb...
...days after the Texas runoff, any hope that Democrats would keep their bad habits in check in Florida collapsed with the announcement by Chiles that he would, after all, enter the Sept. 4 primary. Until then, Nelson, from the Cape Canaveral area and known primarily for his 1986 ride in space, was the leading candidate, ahead of state senator George Stuart. But many Democrats think the best chance of defeating Martinez is a dream ticket of Chiles, who as "Walkin' Lawton" traveled the length of the state on foot in 1970 to win his Senate seat, and former Congressman Buddy...
...status of antiques. His title, The Mind of South Africa, is a misnomer: the nation has many minds, most of them in conflict. The sharpest divisions, Sparks observes, originated in the 19th century, when immigrant Boers -- the Dutch word for farmers -- feuded with their English overlords in the Cape Colony. When Britain forbade slavery, the Boers' Great Trek began. Kipling caught their spirit: "His neighbours' smoke shall vex his eyes, their voices break his rest./ He shall go forth till south is north, sullen and dispossessed...