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...candidates swung into action, it appeared that their real opponent was not South Africa's other political parties but the U.S. Government. In his speech opening the campaign, Botha bemoaned the "prejudice, abuse and dishonesty South Africa had to endure at the hands of cynical and sanctimonious antagonists abroad." Lest there be any doubt about the target, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, who is no relation to the President, candidly admitted that his party would be tapping the "strong anti-U.S. feeling in this country." It is time, he said, "to show the U.S. Congress they will not coerce...
...intention in 1960 when he had his hair cut back. Thereafter he drove the Senate barbers wild with his persnickety instructions for a presidential trim. He ordered Frances Fox's special amber hair tonic rubbed into his dome daily on the campaign trail. He refused to wear a hat lest the felt crush his coif...
...blue and white. Last year a similar nickname struggle took place. By 5 to 1, students at the University of California at Santa Cruz voted to call school teams the Banana Slugs in honor of a slimy yellow gastropod that swarms over the seaside campus on rainy days. Lest anyone miss the message, pro-Slug students said they meant to twit the "football mentality" of other California schools...
During the early weeks of martial law, recalls Cory, she could not watch television lest she see Marcos or her husband's official jailer, Defense Minister Enrile (the man who signed the arrest warrant was none other than General Ramos). In her conjugal visits, she had to share her husband with hidden cameras and bugs. Once, when Ninoy's guards simply removed him from sight for more than six weeks, Cory was forced to wander from prison to prison in search...
...ministers and government spokesmen, as well as accounts of parliamentary and completed judicial proceedings. Even critical comments on security matters by M.P.s speaking outside the halls of Parliament may now be forbidden. In a blatantly Orwellian rule, publications are even prohibited from printing any blank space within a story, lest such a deletion of text or photograph suggest that the article had been censored...