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Botha's talk of reform pleased few. Black rioting, predictable under the law of rising expectations, became so widespread and bloody that he imposed a harsh state of emergency last June. An estimated 20,000, mostly blacks and many of them children, have been detained without trial since the beginning of the state of emergency; some 4,500 of them are still under arrest. But black leaders refuse even to negotiate with Botha unless he agrees to legalize the A.N.C. and begin negotiations on a new and democratic constitution. Some Afrikaners, on the other hand, reacted to all talk...
...really belonging to the city, nor the countryside, a wage earner in appearance only, profoundly attached to his farm." Such men and women were pragmatic, practicing Catholics with little interest in the abstract Communist orthodoxy of Poland's Soviet-backed rulers. Their main concern was poverty. Shipyard conditions were harsh. Once, Walesa writes, 22 workers were burned alive while welding a ship whose fuel tanks had been filled early to save time. When police shot and killed at least 45 workers during a 1970 shipyard strike, Walesa fully realized the isolation of Polish workers. "We were outside the West...
...anarchy and endearing pop goofiness seems diffused on Cool. There's nothing on this album that is as wacky as the title tracks of Stoneage Romeos or Mars Needs Guitars!. Even "Party Machine," a call to hedonism that is the least serious song on the album, sounds angry and harsh...
...generates considerable poignancy and appeal. There is the little girl who takes a train trip from Seattle with her beloved parents to visit relatives in Minneapolis. Then her mother and father die, victims of the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving the heroine and three younger brothers orphaned into the harsh care of an aunt and uncle: "If I was beaten with a razor-strop for having won a prize in a city-wide essay contest, I had no need to ask myself why . . . it was to keep me from getting stuck up -- logical, given our position. And it was easy...
...Botha has been preparing for the May 6 whites-only parliamentary elections by pouring on just about as much kragdadigheid as the country can bear. His government last week was threatening to strike at neighboring countries that might be harboring anti- Pretoria guerrillas and was attempting to enforce harsh new regulations against opposition demonstrations at home...