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...Sasolburg, an oil and coal center south of Johannesburg, a pamphlet was distributed with a message that was provocative even by South African standards. Referring to a white man who had married a "colored" woman after miscegenation laws were repealed last June, it asked: Do you want the Van den Bergs living on your street? Do you want their children going to your school...
...pamphlet was credited with helping its sponsor, Louis Stofberg, win last week's by-election in Sasolburg. The ultra-right-winger thus became the first candidate of the Herstigte (Reconstituted) National Party to capture a seat in Parliament. Stofberg was the beneficiary of a surge of right-wing reaction against the halting racial reforms of the National Party government of State President P.W. Botha. In five districts holding elections, the National Party won one handily, lost in Sasolburg and won in the other three by margins much reduced since the last local balloting...
McClintic's writing never goes into the specifics of the charges against him, nor does he when he speaks of "my nefarious past." His pamphlet mentions "misrepresentation and fraud" but does not cite any examples. However, files in Cedar Rapids show he was convicted of obtaining merchandise by fraud. Dummy corporations he set up ordered calculators, watches, radios, stereos, TVs and musical instruments from out-of-state manufacturers, then sold the products locally for cash at discount prices. Problem was, McClintic's corporate ghosts failed to pay the suppliers. Thousands of dollars worth of merchandise were involved...
...impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists on the report, Defense Intelligence Agency Specialist James McCrery asserted that "for a long time" the Soviets "have been devoting very heavy resources" to developing all the technologies now involved...
...mobilizing the increasingly diverse sectors of the population with vested interests in the issue. It is a reassuring sign for feminism that both the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, which is sponsoring the local referendum, and the New Yorkbased Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force (F.A.C.T.) were on hand to pamphlet the conferences with equal vigor...