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...runner status. But weekend reports that Breyer has a "Zoe Baird problem" clouded what had become a near certainty. As Breyer volunteered early on to the Administration, he had failed to pay almost $5,000 in Social Security taxes for an 81-year-old part-time domestic in his employ since 1980. Last February, even before Supreme Court Justice Byron White announced his retirement, Breyer paid up. Although White House aides maintained Clinton was "still leaning" toward the jurist, it was a paltry echo of earlier encomiums...
...A.N.C. goes into the April elections as the anti-apartheid champion and the party of change. But it will be handicapped by its lack of experience in government, and both the National Party and Inkatha are certain to exploit the competence factor as well as employ scare tactics that draw attention to the A.N.C.'s links with the Communist Party of South Africa. Although De Klerk says he will be out to win the election, his basic goal is to get at least 34% of the vote. That way he can block any constitution the A.N.C. tries to ram through...
Unlike Cambridge Savings Bank, Cambridge Trust does not employ commissioned loan executives, but relies rather on walk-in applications, Beal says...
South Africans have often been tempted to laugh off the far right as characters out of a comic opera. No longer. Rather than bowing grudgingly to the inevitable, many Afrikaners have grown more desperate. The militants are threatening to employ the same revolutionary tactics once practiced by black liberation groups: civil disobedience and guerrilla warfare. In the worst-case scenario, the result could be an all-out race conflict. "If they want war, let them start war," retorted a black caller to the Citizen, a conservative Johannesburg newspaper. "We are longing...
Initially the Volksfront will employ mass-action tactics such as protest marches and labor strikes led by white unions. If the main parties persist in forming a transitional government, warned Groenewald, that could force whites to secede from South Africa. He refused to rule out leading an insurrection. It is an open question, he added, whether white-led government security forces would obey orders to suppress a white rebellion. That prospect worries many. Last week De Klerk acknowledged that he was only informed after the fact when the police cracked down on the militant Pan Africanist Congress and arrested...