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Nearly every aspect of life in South Africa is a stark study in black and white. That was clearer than ever last week after a strong swing to the right in a whites-only national election. A jubilant State President P.W. Botha, whose party increased its seats in Parliament, went on national television after declaring victory and said, "The outside world must accept that the white electorate is here to stay and has a special duty in South Africa." To Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best-known blacks, the election carried a very different lesson. Said...
...never has been clearer why The National Enquirer has one of the largest circulations in America. Most Americans would prefer to read about Elvis Presley's ghost than about South Africa or Nicaragua, and those who feel uncomfortable indulging in such nonsense are overjoyed at the arrival of a respectable scandal, at the opportunity to turn The New York Times into a hotbed of gossip...
...vigilantes have proved an effective tool for counterinsurgency alongside the still ill-equipped and poorly paid Philippine armed forces. Nowhere is that clearer than in Davao City, the sprawling city-state in southeastern Mindanao. A year ago Davao City and its 1.4 million people were so firmly in the control of the insurgents that Manila officials called the city a Communist "urban laboratory." But in the past eight months the N.P.A. has fled into the hills, and the city has been transformed into a government stronghold. The main agent of change: the vigilante group Alsa Masa, or Uprising...
...campaign of ideas." Hart's central idea is his proclaimed ability to discern "the national interest" and his determination to pursue it. This sets up a refrain, as he compares his ideas to Reagan policies: "One choice is in the national interest, and that choice could not be clearer...
...play is a jumble of shouting voices until a police inspector (Jeff Wise) shows up. Wise, in an apt parody of the know-it-all British detective, deduces an utterly fraudulent solution to the problem. When the correct answer emerges, our understanding of the play is no clearer; in Stoppard, the process, not the plot, is the point...