Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slap-on-the-wrist penance package infuriated many national Assemblies leaders and church folk in general, who clogged the Springfield switchboard with calls protesting the special treatment. After all, until church law was changed in 1973, a clergyman who made such a confession would have been expelled for two years, though most left for good. Even under today's more lenient rules, it is unprecedented for an Assemblies minister caught in a sex scandal to be barred from the pulpit for less than a year. Headquarters was also perturbed that the Louisiana district had announced its plan publicly rather than...
...Said Azhar Cachalia, the U.D.F. treasurer: "The government has declared war against all peaceful opposition to its policies." Eighteen leaders of the banned organizations were served with individual restriction orders as well. These activists included U.D.F. Co-Presidents Archie Gumede and Albertina Sisulu, whose husband Walter, a former secretary-general of the African National Congress, is serving a life sentence for sabotage and whose son Zwelakhe, a newspaper editor, has been in detention without charge for more than a year. The 18 were instructed not to participate "in any manner whatsoever" in organized political activity, not to address any meetings...
...politicians and academics in South Africa linked Vlok's announcement to this week's parliamentary by-elections in two Transvaal constituencies. Botha's ruling National Party is eager to win back at least one of the seats from the far-right Conservatives, who seized them in last May's general election and supplanted the liberal Progressive Federal Party as the official opposition in Parliament. Kragdadigheid, or a show of strength, is a standard tool in Afrikaner electioneering, and the security of South African borders and the country's white minority has long been the central plank in the National Party...
President Barco's crusade followed the assassination two months ago in Medellin of Carlos Mauro Hoyos Jimenez, his Attorney General. Hoyos was gunned down by unidentified men, thought to be in the pay of the drug bosses, after he dismissed two judges and ordered the investigation of five other government officials. He had acted after a local judge released Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, one of the cartel's five leaders, from a Bogota prison. Hoyos was the latest victim in a long list of Colombian officials and prominent citizens killed by the drug brigades. The roster includes a Justice Minister...
Also last week, Alfredo Gutierrez Marquez, the new Attorney General, shocked law enforcement officials at home and abroad when he suggested that the only way to fight cocaine trafficking was to legalize the drug and possibly negotiate with the cartel. "The fight against drug dealing is useless," Gutierrez asserted. "It's time we stopped playing the fool." Gutierrez's proposal reflects the desperation Colombian officials feel as the drug lords gain strength. More and more Colombian lawyers refuse judicial appointments, fearing they will become marked...