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Does this make him a journalist or an activist foremost? "I'm a man of the left and a writer simultaneously." Swanson declares, though with a slight suggestion that he'd give up the last label before the first and as for the journalist-asimpartial-observer argument, he'll hear none of it. "If journalist means a kind of mainstream person who doesn't take a stand on the issues, then I'm not a journalist," Swanson avows in an obviously oft-repeated, and only slightly defensive, response. Stressing the distinction between "neutrality and truth," Swanson contends his political views...
FROM THE BOOK'S many anecdotes--some rouching, other terrifying--Swanson constructs a fairly grim mosaic of South African reality. He provides ample illustration of the humiliating laws of separation, or "petty apartheid," but is concerned foremost with stressing the broader significance of apartheid; how the minority white regime has used a theory of racial separation to maintain class domination, transforming the color line into a poverty line as well. And despite superficial reforms aimed at placating international opinion, the captains of apartheid are standing firm behind these policies...
...foremost question in Sudan last week was whether Suwar al Dahab's 15- member military council, composed of senior officers, would make good on the chant raised during the heady moments of the takeover: "The people and the army are one." Through much of the Nimeiri era, opposition political parties, professional groups and unions were forced underground. Last week they all bubbled to the surface again, banding together in a group that they christened the Alliance of Forces for National Salvation, distributing tracts and stating their determina- tion to reclaim their rights. To pacify them, the council ordered the arrest...
...make splendid books--has the advance of observing all twenty six teams, but ever, Angell's portrayal of the Red Sox his discussions of New England's affection for its team has the touch of an artist. Gammons is correct in noting that the Sox are "sports' first and foremost regional franchise," yet his attempts to prove it are at best, clumsy...
Despite some dense, ugly passages, many of America's foremost baseball writers, including the incomparable Thomas Bowell of The Washington Post, have praised the Analyst to the highest heavens...