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Conventional wisdom holds that any sane person, given the chance, would depart Cambridge as soon as possible for Cape Cod or Block Island or Newport or the Maine coast...
...slower summer pace allows students to take advantage of many things they would not have time for during the year. Doing things during the summer is less of a hassle; the annoying people who get in the way during the year are off being annoying somewhere else--like Hyannis, Cape...
...Some, like Wilhelm Verwoerd, 29, grandson of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and head of the government that locked up Nelson Mandela, have decided that what they cannot fight they should join. Last month Verwoerd stood on an A.N.C. platform in Parow, a conservative suburb of Cape Town, and confessed his political conversion to fellow Afrikaners. "I am much more than just the grandson of a symbol," he told them. "I am the symbol of a new generation who wants to stand up for democracy." Whatever their voting preferences, South Africans have good reason to say amen...
...least Soweto and other townships have schools and additional basic services. They are the envy of the country's worst off: the estimated 7 million blacks -- 18% of the population of 38 million -- living in urban shanty towns. Like Crossroads, the notorious squatter camp on the edge of Cape Town, these settlements are mostly populated by impoverished peasants from the countryside seeking jobs. The squatter camps are a breeding ground for black extremists who will make life difficult for a Mandela-led government unable to work economic miracles overnight...
...A.N.C. tries to ram through the constituent assembly. Wild cards in the electoral deck will be the 3 million colored, or mixed race, voters and the 1 million Asians. Although both groups suffered under apartheid, their conservative outlook is working in De Klerk's favor. Says Magda Bellwood, a Cape Town receptionist: "Better the devil you know than the devil...