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...Sasolburg, an oil and coal center south of Johannesburg, a pamphlet was distributed with a message that was provocative even by South African standards. Referring to a white man who had married a "colored" woman after miscegenation laws were repealed last June, it asked: Do you want the Van den Bergs living on your street? Do you want their children going to your school...
...government imposed restrictions on press coverage of strikes, riots and other social unrest. Even before the voting, the ever cautious Botha government was trying to deflect right-wing attacks. At a public meeting in Sasolburg, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha responded to the furor over the Van den Bergs, who now live in a mixed-race trailer camp, by saying that housing rules would have to be reviewed. That sort of equivocation did not impress voters on either side of the race question. Said Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman of the antiapartheid Progressive Federal Party: "Ambiguous reform will lose support...
...luck with the lady from uptown. Tempting him with the prospect of purchasing one of her off-beat roommate's bagel and cream cheese sculptures, Marcie invites our hero to... what else?... her loft for a post--midnight nightcap. And so another unsuspecting Daniel enters the lion's den...
...while Ruggles' odyssey took place, the commission forgot its intransigience toward granting new liquor licenses. Since Ruggles was first denied, the commission has given three licenses--to the Charles Square Hotel, to Grendel's Den, and most recently the Wursthaus license, allowing that restaurant to serve liquor on the sidewalk...
...viewing public, Cimino assumes the Herculean task of grafting together elements of the action-adventure, love-story, cops-and-robbers and suspense-thriller genres. The final result is nothing more than an unintelligible mass of celluloid which might be more aptly titled Raiders of the Lost Opium Den or Godfather III-The Chinese Syndrome...