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THIS SUMMER in South Africa a Black boy was standing in his room as the police were breaking up a crowd on the street below. A stray police rubber bullet broke through the window and hit the boy, bursting his eye and going into his brain...
...news becomes more numerical than physical. Four Blacks killed by police. Hmm, we think, that's two more than yesterday. One more and the Sox clinch. We forget that those numbers are people, that those paragraphs are pain. That the boy was a real boy, with a real rubber bullet in his brain...
Botha is right. Sanctions will not kill South Africa like its rubber bullet killed that boy. "Sanctions may hurt," said Rep. William Gray (D-Pa.), "But apartheid has killed over 130 Blacks every month since January and jailed without trial thousands and many have just simply disappeared...
...Congress must accept the principle that the Black South African boy learned as the rubber bullet entered his eye and went into his brain: there are no uninvolved bystanders...
...twelve sufferers seeks help, says the Simon Foundation. Older people are particularly wary of disclosure. Explains Nurse Lynda Austin, an Atlanta geriatrics consultant: "When a family discovers the problem, it's often the impetus for institutionalization." Victims devise homemade solutions instead -- menstrual pads, rags and tissues in underwear or rubber balloons over the penis. The stigma for all is intense. From early childhood a sense of self-control is deeply connected to successful toilet training, notes Psychologist Ronald Rozensky of Illinois' Evanston Hospital. "Losing that control as adults sets up a downward spiral of helplessness, shame, guilt and withdrawal...