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...front-line presidents recognize that Kissinger is willing to sacrifice the marginal Rhodesia for the sake of consolidating the much more critical position of South Africa. But they also realize that it is possible at this point to gain a great deal for blacks in Rhodesia and Namibia by negotiation, while the situation within South Africa is considerably less hopeful for the moment. And despite the conservative expectations of Kissinger and Vorster's strategy, the dismantling of white minority regimes on its borders cannot help but encourage renewed struggle on the part of those on whom the overthrow of apartheid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kissinger in Southern Africa | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

...Party Chairman Desmond Frost, who would like to split Rhodesia into black and white sectors under overall white control. After six hours of speechmaking and debate, Smith forced the issue in a dramatic scene. "Are you with me or are you not?" he demanded. "For God's sake, be honest!" He won a five-minute standing ovation, after which the congress voted unanimously to give him "a free hand to negotiate in future on behalf of all Rhodesians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA: Shuttling Between Black and White | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...court found that the committee had not capitalized on several chances to redistrict for greater racial balance in the schools, had insisted on building new schools at the center of heavily mono-ethnic areas, and had allowed students at least two bogus "options" set up in name for the sake of integration, but to which exception after exception was then made...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...court found that the committee had not capitalized on several chances to redistrict for greater racial balance in the schools, had insisted on building new schools at the center of heavily mono-ethnic areas, and had allowed students at least two bogus "options" set up in name for the sake of integration, but to which exception after exception was then made...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Fashion freaks will soon see her in some fancy Vogue photographs by Richard Avedon. TV viewers, however, will catch Actress Deborah Raffin with her hair down and plastered top-to-toe in Mississippi mud. Raffin's dive was all for the sake of Nightmare in Badham County, a TV movie in which she plays a prison-farm escapee on the run through the swamps. Raffin, 23, who last starred in a Hollywood turkey overgenerously titled Once Is Not Enough, says the gooey assignment was "the best role" she had ever been offered: "It gave me a chance, I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 13, 1976 | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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