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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afrikaaner solution, to South Africa's racial troubles. Dr. Koornhof, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, and the Foreign Minister Pik Botha, are "verligte" i.e. liberal Afrikaaners. Dr. Treurnicht, a former chairman of the Broederbond, is "verkrampte" i.e. conservative. The question of South Africa's future will depend to a large extent on the political struggle between these factions of South Africa's national party...

Author: By Ian Brookshire and Gerald J Sanders, S | Title: 'Promises' Koornoof: A 'New Breed' Of Afrikaaner Politician | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

...Well I would disagree with that. In my own experience, I'm not saying that outside pressures and coercion are not factors or catalysts for change. Obviously at least to some extent, they are and in some cases they may be the only catalysts. In my experience, without a shadow of a doubt, those outside pressures tend to slow up the change process considerably. That is one of the most difficult and tragic things I've experienced as a minister in this country. Take sport for instance. I still think that if there had been better understanding in the outside...

Author: By Ian Brookshire and Gerald J Sanders, S | Title: 'Promises' Koornoof: A 'New Breed' Of Afrikaaner Politician | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

Whether even that prediction might prove optimistic depended to a great extent on the strength of the U.S. economy, and there the portents were mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shrinking Role for U.S. Money | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Says Political Scientist Jorge Bustamante: "We know we own the oil, and we are ready to defend it with our lives. But it has not touched our lives as yet." Just how much oil wealth will affect the average Mexican is uncertain. One worry is to what extent endemic corruption will siphon off some of those billions. Another is whether López Portillo's ambitious dreams of industrialization will really benefit the impoverished millions desperate for work, social services, or both. The 600,000 jobs promised by López Portillo, to cite one example, are 200,000 fewer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Americans have difficulty understanding Mexico, they have to a certain extent a valid excuse. In response to their country's tumultuous past, wrote Poet Octavio Paz in Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexicans have erected elaborate psychological "masks" to shield themselves from a world that they "regard instinctively to be dangerous." One such mask is machismo, the image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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