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...first anniversary of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 approaches, South Africa's white minority has neither chosen the carrot nor suffered the stick. The government of State President P.W. Botha has undertaken none of the political changes specified in the act, sticking instead to its own long-scheduled list of minor reforms. South Africa's economy, meanwhile, though limping in spots, has not endured any major setbacks as the result of either U.S. sanctions or similar punitive measures that have been imposed by 27 other countries. Says Helen Suzman, a staunchly antiapartheid member of South Africa's Parliament...
...from winning Senate approval. The three swing men -- Republican Specter and Democrats DeConcini and Howell Heflin of Alabama -- expressed reservations about Bork's ever changing views. "There are those who raise the issue that your changing of your position," Heflin told Bork, "came only at a time when a carrot was being dangled before your eyes." Replied Bork: "I can assure you that that's not the way I operate...
...that complicated. Even as the superpowers are moving toward unprecedented disarmament in the category of intermediate-range missiles, the Soviets are warning of a new round of the arms race in the more important arena of strategic weaponry. With that stick -- and with the carrot of the deep cuts they have conditionally agreed to in START -- the Kremlin is hoping to induce the Administration to rein...
There was chokingly sweet carrot butter, which the manufacturer claimed makes men think "they have died and gone to heaven." Also sour-sweet and metallic- tasting salad dressings "designed" by Gloria Vanderbilt and fool-the-eye chocolate Buffalo chicken wings packed with a container of blue-cheese dip. Something called Cowboy Caviar, made in California, was based on an old recipe for a Russian eggplant appetizer; and Le Brut d'Escargot, from France, proved to be ghostly, ghastly white snail's eggs that tasted like salty paregoric...
...immigration. Romano Mazzoli, the Kentucky Congressman who was a key sponsor of the original legislation in the House, sums up the sentiment behind it: "Any nation that doesn't have control over its borders is a nation whose central core might be threatened." The law is based on a carrot-stick principle: it offers legal status to long-term immigrants while mandating sanctions against employers who knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens who can prove they have been permanent residents in the U.S. since before Jan. 1, 1982, will be granted temporary resident status. After 18 months they...