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...response to Reagan's tax-reform plan was tepid. A mere 27% said they were either "very familiar" or "fairly familiar" with it. Those who knew of the plan favored it 51% to 36%, even though only 16% say they support it strongly; 52% thought they would personally pay more taxes if it were passed. Republicans were more than twice as likely as Democrats to favor the plan. One somewhat contradictory albeit understandable finding was that though Americans tend to favor the plan in general, they clearly oppose its major specific provisions. When asked about eliminating the deductions for state...
...with You, celebrate the ability of disparate relatives to unify against the outside world. The tragedies, like A Long Day's Journey into Night, mourn the often unbridgeable chasm between intimacy and true affection. Sam Shepard, the most protean of active American playwrights, has written about revolution and land reform and organized crime and the decline of the West (in both the Spenglerian and the John Wayne senses), but his laconic truisms sound most universal when he focuses on the tightly confined agonies of blood kin. He especially comprehends their symbiotic bonding: time and again in his plays, family members...
Constitutional reform, if indeed it is on the way, would be coming none too soon. After almost a month of emergency rule in 36 magisterial districts, the country is in greater upheaval than it has been for at least a quarter-century. The number of people arrested without charges, most of them black, approached 1,500 last week, though about 700 have since been released. The death toll since the emergency was declared on July 20 is close to 100. Tension has been steadily increasing, even in areas not covered by the emergency regulations. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel...
...change in the policy of "constructive engagement," the soft-sell diplomacy that the U.S. has practiced toward Pretoria since 1981. But they were also told that the Reagan Administration, like the Botha government, was under some political pressure to get South Africa moving in the direction of reform. The U.S. representatives noted that an economic-sanctions bill is currently pending in Congress and could become law despite President Reagan's opposition to it. At one point, McFarlane told the South Africans flatly, "It is not in your interest for the President to be overridden on a veto...
Thus the whirlwind of pressure was precipitating some sort of reappraisal. But the day of fundamental change has not yet arrived. The Botha government, even if it has revised its private notion of the national destiny, could have second thoughts. Certainly it will have trouble selling the idea of reform to rightwing South Africans. On previous occasions, South Africa has appeared ready to grant independence to Namibia, the territory also known as South West Africa, which Pretoria has ruled since 1920. Each time, however, the government has reconsidered: three months ago, it installed in Namibia a "transition" government that Pretoria...