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...President's lack of sophistication on the issue was demonstrated last week in a radio interview in which he called the South African government a "reformist administration" and contended that the segregation of public accommodations in South Africa "has all been eliminated." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes later conceded that the President should have said that "some" rather than "all" accommodations have been integrated. That still would have suggested more racial progress than South Africa can claim...
...Sunday voting. When it was over, there had been a clear shift in the country's balance of political power: the Christian Democrats appeared certain of a definite majority of seats in the 60member National Assembly. The sweeping show of support gave a badly needed boost to Duarte's reformist government; it also brought fresh hope to his bold but so far frustrated effort to find a negotiated solution to El Salvador's more than five-year-old civil...
...BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN echoes a recurrent theme in the contributions from Third World women, one that they believe jeopardizes the possibilities for change--the tendency among social reformers within countries to relegate the reproductive, economic, and political concerns of women to the bottom of reformist agendas...
Signs that Pretoria might be taking two steps backward for every reformist step forward challenged Washington's belief in the Botha government's commitment to real change. Since 1981 the Reagan Administration has steadfastly pursued a line of "constructive engagement," under which the U.S. refrains from openly criticizing the South African regime and hopes instead, through diplomatic pressure and behind-the-scenes negotiation, to coax it toward easing the strictures of apartheid. While making it clear that U.S. policy was not going to change, Washington officials publicly warned that last week's show of force "cannot help prospects...
...early conviction that he belonged in politics, he stayed on to help his father. And stayed. At 26, on the verge of nervous collapse, he finally left to study political science at the University of Minnesota, then to teach the subject at a local college. He put his reformist ideas into practice as an officer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but even then he was trimming his sails. The avowed leftist not only dined with bankers, he helped expel his former radical friends from the party as the cold war dawned...