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Death and destruction. Looting and violence. Repression and response. The convulsions of a divided country's worst crisis in more than two decades intensified in South Africa last week. As the state of emergency continued in the black townships of the Johannesburg area and the eastern Cape, rioting erupted in townships surrounding the port city of Durban in Natal province, taking an additional 54 lives. But as the week ended, the country was alive with speculation that the white minority government of State President P.W. Botha was on the verge of making concessions that might, for the first time, affect...
...whom the people regard as their leaders. The police and the South African Defense Force have been put into an incredibly awkward position in that they are not seen as agents for maintaining law-and-order but as protectors of an unjust system. In the consumer boycott in the eastern Cape, for instance, there are very strong indications that the police are harassing black traders, trying to break this boycott. We really are on the edge of a precipice. It would take nothing, nothing really, to push us over...
...State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb as a "statesmanlike, thoughtful, forward-looking exposition." The U.S., said Kalb, welcomed Peres' reaffirmation of the "urgency" of moving ahead with the peace process. In fact, Washington was involved in helping Peres get his message across. Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, visited Amman two weeks ago and briefed Hussein on at least the broad outlines of Peres' forthcoming U.N. proposal. Murphy last week returned to New York City and, along with Secretary of State George Shultz, conferred with Peres before the Israeli leader left the U.S. for France...
...That impression is reinforced by the ultimate control exercised by Soviet officers during military maneuvers, which are conducted four times a year. A study conducted last year for the Canadian Defense Department that circulated around the NATO high command concluded, perhaps too optimistically: "The entry of NATO troops into Eastern Europe would trigger a collapse of the Communist regimes there...
Transplanted Midwesterners do much of the heavy lifting for the big Eastern magazines and newspapers, but Keillor was not to be one of them. Back he went to Minnesota, where, among other things, he began a five-day-a-week early morning classical-music show for a public radio station at St. John's University in Collegeville. The Prairie Home Morning Show, as it came to be called, moved to the Twin Cities, where it broadened and loosened to include jazz, country music, fake commercials and references to an obscure place called Lake Wobegon. (He stopped doing that show only...