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...intervention was expected. Some South African government leaders favor a unilateral pullback. They worry that their involvement in an uphill struggle will destroy the fragile détente the country has achieved with some black African states and severely drain the economy. Others argue that the prospect of an outright M.P.L.A. victory in Angola, and the presence of militantly anti-South African Cubans in the country, requires an uncompromising stand. Though Pretoria has announced the biggest reserve call-up since World War II, State President Nicolaas Didderichs told Parliament at week's end that armed force can bring...
...white workers unwilling to share it. That keeps the heat off employers and the upper class. Take away racism, "heroic" wars and pacification programs like welfare or unemployment compensation, and the corporate profit system has to admit it can't make room for everyone; then it must resort to outright repression, using techniques and technology developed since the sixties to cope with future uprisings...
...policing abbreviations, hyphens, capitals, captions, etc., to tend to her antique collection and study Russian. In announcing Bachman's retirement, Managing Editor Henry Grunwald wrote: "We will miss her as the supreme arbiter of grammar and defender of TIME's English prose against many enemies, ranging from outright barbarism to simple negligence...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra is one major outlet for students' creative energies. But with no outright credit offered by the Faculty, it becomes difficult for many students to justify the time spent in orchestra rehearsal. It is possible for students to take Music 91r with Dr. Yannatos. However, the specific studies of this course are only secondary to the real learning that takes place on stage during the five hours of rehearsal time each week and the extra hours spent by each musician practicing on his own. Some University officials think of the orchestra as a "extracurricular" activity and liken...
...were hints that Neto might be prepared to offer UNlTA's Joseph Savimbi a share in a two-way coalition government. Neto gets along well with Savimbi, and such a move might avoid further bloodshed, since UNITA commands enough tribal support in the south to deny the M.P.L.A. outright victory for some months and possibly longer...