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...scenes of terrorist carnage unfolded in Vienna and Rome, a spasm of racial violence shattered seasonal hopes of peace and goodwill across South Africa. For the country's whites, all signs appeared to point to a new and ominous phase of killing, one that seemed to bear out recent warnings by the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) that "soft" targets--meaning unarmed civilians, including whites--would no longer be off limits. Nonetheless, blacks suffered the brunt of the year-end violence. At least five people died in the township of Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused...
...stood shoulder to shoulder with conservatively dressed white matrons inside St. John's Methodist Church in a comfort able all-white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...
...campaign against apartheid. One of the government's most visible white opponents, she had been arrested several times for attending illegal gatherings with blacks and for entering black townships without permission. Blackburn was often the only white to attend mass funeral rallies for blacks who had died in the racial unrest of the past 16 months, and last week blacks paid tribute to her. "Africans in this country are walking tall on the road she has blazed," Black Activist Mkhuseli Jack told mourners who gathered inside the church for the 90-minute service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some...
...black, were killed in violence generated by unrest related to the struggle to end apartheid (see chart). Unhappily, 1986 got off to an equally bloody start. On Jan. 1 alone, there were 16 reported deaths. All of the victims were nonwhites and all of the incidents were fueled by racial conflicts...
...Callahan's coverage of the N.C.A.A. basketball finals in Dallas, there was a confusing reference to racism that apparently attempted to say something about Duke's supporters or its players or its recruiting. The reference was inscrutable. If it intended to allege something racial about Duke's admissions or fans, the charge is untrue and unfair...