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...this time, he and Matilda had had four of their five children and were living in the five-bedroom Cape Cod-style house in Holliswood, Queens, that Andrea Cuomo had built for them. Cuomo was his papa's boy: he worked all the time. But he grew restive. He needed a cause and found one in a group of blue- collar, mostly Italian families from Corona, Queens, who were trying to prevent the city from tearing down their houses for a new school. After six years, Cuomo won a compromise that saved nearly all the homes...
...sputtering unrest throughout South Africa. Early in the week the Pretoria government announced that it had found a large cache of mines, bombs, rockets, grenades and automatic rifles, supposedly belonging to the A.N.C., somewhere near Johannesburg. Rioting continued throughout the week in the squatter camp of Crossroads, near Cape Town, where gangs of conservative black vigilantes were pitted against hundreds of young antiapartheid activists. At least 32 people were killed, and tens of thousands of shacks were burned, reputedly by the vigilantes, leaving as many as half of the settlement's 100,000 residents without shelter. There were riots...
Despite the widespread unrest, the Botha government's motive in staging last week's attacks was unclear. Even as the raiding parties were carrying out their missions, a Commonwealth negotiating team arrived in Cape Town following talks with A.N.C. leaders in Lusaka. They were trying to set up a negotiating link between Pretoria and the A.N.C. Though the Commonwealth team's leaders, onetime Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and former Nigerian Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo, were reluctant to admit it, their mission had been all but destroyed by the cross-border raids. Criticism was worldwide. The Reagan Administration expressed...
...Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah Johnson...
Police used water cannon and tear gas against 200 students, most of them white, at the University of Cape Town who carried placards that said, "Botha is a terrorist...