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...more than 4 million members. Botha's reception gave some credence to the President's claim that his white minority government has the support of a number of South Africa's 23 million blacks. The church is a rigidly conservative sect that forbids its members to smoke, drink or disobey the law. As its Bishop, Barnabas Lekganyane, 31, put it last week, "It is not for the individual to judge the law, it is for the individual to obey...
Ward recognizes that most cyclists also disobey traffic rules. "A lot of them are just inviting accident. For the most part, they tend to run red lights and ride down one-way streets the wrong way," he says, adding that drivers' legitimate expectations for cyclists to "pull some ridiculous stunt" further compounds the problem. "They'll tend to either give you a wide berth, speed up past you or just honk their horns," he says...
...most important thing at stake was whether the chief executive is subject to the rule of law," he reminisces, supping into tutorial tones. "Or to put the point a little differently, whether our Constitution is an operative restraint on our President or whether, if he chooses to disobey, he has the power...
...Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South, is a double-edged blade...
...conscience? In our view, the University should be most reluctant to offer assistance and encouragement of any kind to students who violate the law. One can appreciate the courage of those who are willing to live by their principles. But individuals who choose to stand on their convictions and disobey the law must normally bear the consequences themselves. Such repressions of conscience are highly personal, and one cannot expect others to pay the cost...