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...races known as apartheid (Afrikaans for "separateness"). Hoping to perpetuate the political power of the whites, who form only 17% of the South African population, the regime plans to convert nine tribal homelands within South Africa's borders into "independent states." South Africa's blacks will be assigned citizenship ? including the 10 million who live not in the homelands but in "white" South Africa. Simultaneously, they would be stripped of their South African citizenship...
...Vorster is irrevocable. Obviously, the Rhodesian white minority had no right to think that it could rule indefinitely. Yet, as the whites well knew, there are precious few black-ruled states in Africa where the whites who stayed behind have been able to retain their full rights of citizenship...
...self-styled radical think tank where the Moffitts also worked, Letelier had begun calling for unity among opponents of "fascism in Chile." Early in September, he had spoken out against the junta at a benefit concert in Manhattan for Chilean refugees. Just before that concert, the junta revoked his citizenship, accusing him of "grave crimes against the essential interests of the state." Eleven days afterward, he was dead...
...second possible explanation would be that the junta itself was responsible for Letelier's murder. While considerably more likely than the first, this explanation is undercut by the fact that the junta had deprived Letelier of his Chilean citizenship a scant two weeks before his death. This must also be tied to the fact that the bomb which killed him went off within eye and earshot of the Chilean embassy in Washington. For the junta to have killed Letelier in Washington so close upon having denationalized him would indicate not only a ruthless cold-bloodedness (which the junta certainly possesses...
Letelier was killed last week when a bomb exploded in his car in Washington, D.C. He was in exile and the Chilean government had recently revoked his citizenship...