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...election-eve bombings are more likely to signal the last gasp of a weak, splintered racist Afrikaner minority than the start of the long-threatened great Boer revolt. Three of the 32 arrested are close to Terreblanche, including leaders of his personal bodyguard unit, the elite Iron Guard. The long, resolute march of democracy has caused deepening divisions within the white right. "The bombing campaign," says Wim Booyse, a political consultant in Pretoria, amounts to "a struggle for control of the heart of the right wing...
...power, while a trade embargo impoverishes the populace without dislodging the renegade government, has earned the contempt of both sides. From his exile in Washington, Aristide last week denounced Clinton's policy of picking up would-be refugees at sea and sending them back as "racist" and a signal that American leaders "don't care." Six members of Congress got themselves arrested on the White House lawn for protesting the refugee policy. The Administration had earlier said it would ask the U.N. to tighten the embargo. And it allowed some 400 Haitian fugitives to land in Florida -- though officials insisted...
...addition, the card keys have spiced up the otherwise humdrum Quincy atmosphere. Now, students grin and giggle upon seeing the blinking green light that denotes an unlocked door (often after shrugging in exasperation when the first attempted swipe results in a sinister red signal...
...faculty may have felt that they had tomake concessions to us, but we were only trying tosend a signal that change was needed. We didn'tmean to make a threat," Griffin says. "[They]probably weren't convinced by our arguments, butthey were seized by fear that we would damageeither them or the campus in some fundamentalway...
...explanations of a questionable 1982 loan had not been candid. "I sincerely apologize to the people of Japan," he said. But to most Japanese, mired in their worst postwar recession and governed by a weak seven-party coalition, no apology was enough. Hosokawa's abrupt decline was a depressing signal that big-money politics still haunt the Japanese government...