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WALTHAM, Mass.--Boston attorney David White-Lief stepped up to the reporter, shook his hand and answered the question of the day, squarely...
...year-old African National Congress. Now he has outlived apartheid. Clutching his identity book in one hand and his cane in the other, Tshaka, 95, waited patiently in line to vote last week -- like all South Africa's black citizens, for the first time in his life. He shook off offers of help, walking unsteadily but unaided into the polling station in Guguletu, one of the toughest and grimiest of the black townships around Cape Town. Minutes later he emerged, a broad grin lighting his face. "I never thought I would see this day," he said...
Upon sitting down in the conference room at the Charles Hotel for a brief interview with The Crimson, Alek Keshishian '86 tossed a pack of Marlboro Lights on the table with his left hand and inhaled Primatine Mist with his right. He waggishly shook his longish gray-streaked hair, explaining, "This is for my asthma...
...year Bosnian war that has resulted in 200,000 people dead or missing, those four U.S. bombs were a military pinprick. Politically, however, they shook the ground in all directions -- for a few days. As Bosnia lay relatively quiet, Washington took pride in its muscle flexing. "Every time we have been firm," said Clinton, "it has been a winner for the peace process." The Bosnian Serbs, who denounced the strikes as an intervention in support of the Muslims they are trying to crush, broke off contact with the U.N., charging that it had chosen sides...
...months since Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, political violence in the occupied territories and Israel has claimed the lives of 150 Palestinians and 34 Israelis. Says Yechiel Leiter, spokesman for the Yesha Council, the main lobby group for Israeli settlers in the occupied territories: "This is not going in the direction of peace. Peace is less violence, not more." That is perhaps the only point on which settlers and Palestinians agree. Short of a miracle, the April 13 deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Jericho and the Gaza Strip and commencement of limited Palestinian self...