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...many of the candidates in the race, the convention serves as a litmus test in which passing is not only important, but essential. Democratic hopefuls who receive less than 15 percent of the delegate pool at the convention will be forbidden to run on the Democratic ticket...
...strategies and whether to trust their old enemies. Much of the antiapartheid movement has been caught off balance and disorganized. Under the emergency, government policy effectively shackled them: 30 organizations were banned, hundreds of leaders were jailed or severely restricted from engaging in political activism, protests and demonstrations were forbidden, and the police presence in the townships squelched most rioting. The violent liberation movement guided by the A.N.C.-in-exile was virtually moribund...
...knew nothing at all about life in Czechoslovakia were to study only its laws, he or she would be utterly incapable of understanding what we were complaining about." Havel was first jailed in 1977. By August 1978, he was "free" under house arrest behind a barricade that said, ENTRANCE FORBIDDEN. When Havel asked police what offense he was charged with, he reported in Technical Notes on My House-Arrest, he "was only told that they had no instructions to pass such information...
...students, but because it would jeopardize a long-standing relationship between the U.S. and the now so obviously misnamed People's Republic. The Administration was so eager to repair relations that it seemed willing to do so on the terms laid down by the decrepit tyrants in the Forbidden City. Bush first sent his National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, and the Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, to Beijing secretly in July. Another visit earlier this month was not announced until after the emissaries had arrived at their destination. The whole thing looked sneaky, as though the Administration were trying...
Daily Life in the Forbidden City by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen (Viking; $75). As the Son of Heaven moved through his palaces, the Hall of Luminous Benevolence, the Gate of Divine Prowess, there was everywhere beauty to behold. The Palace Museum in Beijing has assembled a sumptuous record of this quotidian splendor...