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On a roadside in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- an ersatz nation created by the South African engineers of apartheid -- the two men in khaki lay bleeding on Friday beside their bullet-riddled Mercedes. A third, stretched out beside the car, was dead from gunshot wounds. "Please help us!" pleaded...
The national election campaign of 1994, the first in which black South Africans will be allowed to vote, is under way -- four years after Mandela's release from prison. Although his message of hope has been blurred by threats of violence, the election does not seem to be in serious...
With only the margin of his victory in doubt, Mandela is cautioning his voters not to expect too much too soon. The A.N.C.'s election platform promises to provide jobs, education and housing. But impoverished black citizens will not become employed homeowners "driving a Mercedes" the day after the election...
"Directors of for-profit trade schools and colleges have looted the budgets of these loosely regulated Federal student aid programs to buy themselves Mercedes-Benzes, travel the world, subsidize a drug habit, invest in religious causes or pay themselves million-dollar salaries."
In the process, the product has deteriorated. Riding around in their Mercedes, the Bigwigs right now probably don't care. But when more people tune in for Wheel of Fortune reruns this year than the NBA finals, the message might get across.