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...APPOINTED. PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA, 49, Deputy President of South Africa; by President Thabo Mbeki; in Johannesburg. The former Minerals and Energy Minister, Mlambo-Ngcuka succeeds Jacob Zuma, who was dismissed earlier this month amid a corruption scandal involving his financial advisor. As a top government official, Mlambo-Ngcuka, an anti-apartheid activist, promoted black ownership in the white-dominated mining industry. She now assumes the highest political office ever held by a woman in South Africa...
...Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then Assistant Secretary of Labor, released a study depicting instability in the black family and stressing the problem of the absentee father, he was roundly accused of racism for ignoring the economic basis of the situation. In the heyday of the civil rights movement, admits Jacob, "teenage pregnancy was not the kind of subject we were willing to deal with publicly. We felt the black community would be blamed." That lack of attention was unfortunate, as black leaders now acknowledge. In the years since the Moynihan report, observes Eleanor Holmes Norton, the status of the black...
...that is not quite the end of the story. Fidelity at first canceled the park district's insurance, but eventually renewed for much less coverage at a greatly increased premium. "Park districts are a terrible risk for any carrier to have to assume," explains Jacob. Finally, the park district, gun-shy because several suits are still pending against it, began tearing down all jungle gyms and slides over 6½ ft. high and carting them out of the city's 513 playgrounds. "Accidents happen no matter what you do," says Park District Treasurer Jack Matthews. "In the past, when Johnny fell...
...deal with the lawmakers to avoid a full disclosure. "There are a large number of the programs," says Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. "They will, we think, give us an advantage. And the way to maintain that advantage is not to talk very much about them." --By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Michael Duffy and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...aggressive and progressive, and anytime you shake up the status quo, you catch flak." As his term winds down, Anaya told a newspaper interviewer that "history will be nice" to his administration. Whatever the future brings, leaving the statehouse can only be a plus for Toney Anaya. --By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Santa...