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...support among whites. You don't get 13% of the vote in Connecticut, with a 6% black population, with just black votes. You don't get 13% of the vote in Arizona, 3% black, with just black votes. This campaign has consistently attracted more nonblack votes than Hart has attracted nonwhite votes...
...government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha was careful to keep its reaction subdued and controlled. Only after the A.N.C. had claimed responsibility for the acts did the government name two of the group's nonblack expatriate leaders as the raid's presumed masterminds. They were Joe Slovo, a white Communist exile now residing in Mozambique, and Frene Ginwala, a radical woman lawyer believed to be living underground within southern Africa...
...number of "African" traits she detects in the work: "A bold physicality, rhythmical vitality and textural richness, as well as a tendency to use linear, geometric imagery and high-energy color. The work is active, not withdrawn, robust not tentative." These are also the marks of much European and nonblack American art, and this points to the difficulty of locating the work in an African matrix...
Various strategies have been worked out. Florida A. & M. uses part of the state funds allotted under its desegregation plan for incentive grants to superior nonblack applicants; 10% of its 5,700 students are now white. Georgia's Savannah State College, Virginia's Norfolk State and North Carolina A. & T. University have successful joint academic programs with nearby predominantly white colleges. Says Savannah State's President Prince Jackson: "We are getting more applications from whites as a result...
...black cosmetics are also finding a nonblack market. In Los Angeles, Mexican Americans are buying from black lines; their skin tones are closer to those of blacks than of whites. White women have begun buying black as well-some because they have extra-oily skin, others because they find the low prices attractive. On the day a new black-makeup line was introduced at one Los Angeles store, 65% of the buyers were white. Asked why, one white customer explained, dreaming of a healthy-looking suntan: "I plan to get much darker this summer...