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Is objectivity at last what the public seeks from its reporters? Certainly, in matters as urgent as wars, no one wants impressionistic sketches or first-person pleas for conciliation, but it may be that pure objectivity is sought less than simple completeness, a good eye and ear for detail. People...
Two of the men executed were common murderers. The others-Thello S. Mogoerane, 23; Jerry Mosololi, 25; and Marcus Motaung, 27-were guerrillas of the outlawed African National Congress (ANC), the black resistance movement dedicated to toppling South Africa's white supremacist government. Despite ANC claims that the trio...
The successive waves of immigrants did not readily embrace the new culture, even when intimidated by the xenophobia of the know-nothing era or two World Wars. Says Historian James Banks: "Each nationality group tried desperately to remake North America in the image of its native land." When the question...
Emboldened by their success, student activists asked for another open meeting of the ACSR this spring, at which they asked it to recommend to the Corporation to sell the stock of any companies in its portfolio with ties to South Africa. Their pleas apparently had some impact on the advisory...
One of Enders' most recent brushes with the White House occurred when he fought hard to push his own candidate, Francis McNeil, Ambassador to Costa Rica, as special Central American envoy. The hard-liners won out with their choice, former Senator Richard Stone, a Reagan supporter from Florida. According...