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...people.'' Even so, De Klerk speaks wistfully about ''grand apartheid'' as a system that might have worked in South Africa had all the nation's diverse ethnic and tribal groups accepted geographic separation voluntarily. Mandela, a child of the oppressed majority, finds this notion hateful. It has been the labor of his life to overthrow apartheid, not because it didn't do its job but because it was morally repellent. Part of Mandela's irritation with De Klerk seems to stem from this fundamental disagreement over why change was necessary. True, Mandela largely
...Gulf War. Strapped for cash, he had to cut back funding for Palestinian schools and hospitals, students' tuition and widows' pensions in the occupied territories, which hurt his popular support. The militant fundamentalists of Hamas were winning converts and beating his candidates in elections for chambers of commerce, labor unions and student organizations. Bankrupt, dismissed by some U.S. officials as a spent force, Arafat needed Rabin. And in turn Rabin needed the Chairman. Like Arafat, Rabin had not intended to make a life of soldiering; he too wanted to go to the U.S. to become an engineer...
Ickes Joins White House Team Clinton named Harold Ickes, a New York labor lawyer and son of F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior, as his deputy chief of staff. Ickes will use his expertise as a tough political dealmaker to coordinate efforts to pass the President's health-care reform plan...
...door-to-door, assisted by a staff of about a dozen volunteers. “Unless you sit there and talk to the voters one-on-one, you can’t tell what they want,” he says.Green calls his campaign operation a “labor of love.”“It’s somewhat humbling—people are out there, selling me,” Green says with a slight sense of wonderment. “What we lack in quantity, we certainly make up in passion...
...work from individual Lowellians saved thousands of dollars. The treasurer haggled with vendors and worked with other HoCos to get group discounts that slashed thousands of dollars from our costs on lighting and tents. None of these touches tapped into an endowment—all were donations of time, labor, and love by an engaged community and its volunteer HoCo...