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...gubernatorial race, William Jennings Bryan Dorn, his closest competitor, also outspent him by massive amounts. That campaign was similar to the present race, in that Ravenel was running against established politicians. In addition, he faced the difficulty of being largely unknown; 76 days before election day, only 5 per cent of the voters recognized his name. What made Ravenel's campaign so successful was his strategic spending on professional, well-photographed television shots--for example, five-minute shorts during prime time viewing. This differs from the traditional southern campaign, which places heavy emphasis on billboards and often sloppily-handled television...
...help end inflation. He advocates the deregulation of gasoline prices and a program for controlled fuel consumption, hoping to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. In addition, he supports "cogeneration," a method of harnessing the steam and excess energy released from factory smokestacks. This method currently provides 29 per cent of West Germany's electrical needs, he says, and could provide up to half of America's demands...
Economic violence was the quieter accompaniment to the obvious political repression: the colony's economy was structured to benefit the Belgians, and the Belgians alone. When the Congo gained independence, social security payments in Belgium dropped 40 per cent--an indication of the importance of the huge African country for its colonial masters. The rich copper mines in Shaba, then Katanga, were owned by a Belgian state monopoly. The Belgians had hoped to continue their economic control even when political power had passed into African hands...
...addition, he said, Prime Minister John Vorster is speeding up the rate at which the Bantustan--the 13 per cent of the land area which has been designated as the black majority's share of the country--are being given independence, so that soon "it will be impossible to unscramble this scrambled mess," Brutus said...
...South Africa, but he said, "We don't let those labels bother us; they are just another device to divide and rule." Suggestions that South Africa's blacks are so divided tribally that they could not rule their country are also misleading, he added, because over 50 per cent of the black population lives in cities, and the old tribal structures broke down many years...