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...Daley emerging to take his place, and he says Daley would be unlikely to anoint his own successor. "Men of power rarely create their successors--like some medieval kings who would kill their sons to preserve their power and reputation," Hill said. This could mean trouble for those who depend on a "Boss" for their livelihoods...
Other states that depend on trade with the white regimes have adopted contrasting political postures. In Zaire (pop. 25,600,000), which has been receiving U.S. military and economic aid to counter Soviet influence in neighboring Angola, strongman President Mobutu Sese Seko takes a firm stand against Rhodesia and South Africa in public while carrying on a brisk covert trade (perhaps as much as $100 million a year) with the white regimes. Malawi (pop. 5,100,000) practically flaunts its desire for cordial relations with the white governments. Says the country's U.S.-educated President, Hastings Kamuzu Banda...
Hofheinz shares Schwartz's impression that the country has become accustomed to Mao's "spirit" or "guidance" and he posits that the society will depend on something akin to this "guiding light" to continue functioning as it has been. This doesn't mean all-out struggles must continue, Hofheinz says: "The spiritual factor doesn't have to do-with politics; it's a psychological factor." He believes that worries over China's precarious economic situation will impose a temporary lull on spiritual exhortation. But even in the later ranges of history he says, "swings will probably not be so violent...
...within South Africa is considerably less hopeful for the moment. And despite the conservative expectations of Kissinger and Vorster's strategy, the dismantling of white minority regimes on its borders cannot help but encourage renewed struggle on the part of those on whom the overthrow of apartheid must ultimately depend--the blacks and coloreds of South Africa, who have already shown tremendous courage in resisting the humiliations of a brutal and racist police state...
...bill will also change work study programs and basic education opportunity grants, but these provisions depend on how much money Congress appropriates under the bill, Gibson said...