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...wasn't long before the gentleman next to the geography whiz asked me a question, hoping to show his thoughtfulness and concern about issues in Iowa. "So, what's this whole thing about an abortion battle in Iowa...
Locked away in jail, where he could not speak publicly or even have his picture published, Mandela was an ethereal inspiration to continued resistance against apartheid. To some South African blacks, however, Mandela out of prison has become an irrelevant figurehead, a dignified gentleman with utopian socialist ideas that have little to do with their daily lives...
...passengers erupted in ecstatic whooping noises. "Oooh yeah, baby," one gentleman exclaimed. "Dinner on the Trumpster tonight! Mmm, mmm, mmm," his hyperactive acquaintance added...
Political instability at home has undermined the yen as well. Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, 59, who is outside the Old Guard of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, lacks the political support to serve as a bold leader. "That poor gentleman," says one Japanese bureaucrat. "They are all trying to sink him. He gets no help." While Kaifu is moderately popular, he ! is not seen as someone who can dramatically improve relations with the U.S. or boost Japan's influence in the world. Says a disappointed financier: "Japan has not emerged as the superpower that it was expected...
...limited form of power sharing that for the first time included coloreds, or people of mixed race, and Indians, but not blacks. Whatever the failures of that system, Pik Botha insists, it at least helped condition the minds of whites "to see a man of color acting like a gentleman just like everybody else." By the time De Klerk ordered the removal of the remaining WHITES ONLY signs on South Africa's beaches just before the Christmas holidays, whites complained about "crude" black sunbathers but accepted the inevitable. As Christiaan Kirstein, 51, a corn farmer from the Orange Free State...