Word: slovo
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...national executive committee are party members. As the ANC's critics see it, the ! organization runs the danger of becoming, wittingly or not, the vehicle through which Communism could eventually gain power in any change of government in South Africa. Exhibit A for this argument is usually Joe Slovo, 60, a man whose prominent shock of wiry gray hair supports many hats. A lawyer by training, he became in 1985 the first white to serve on the executive committee of the ANC, whose dedication to the abolition of apartheid has made the organization illegal in South Africa. Slovo is also...
...hats do not stop there. Slovo is also chairman of the South African Communist Party and is believed by some Western intelligence agencies to have close ties to the KGB, the Soviet secret police. Slovo has called that claim "part of a misinformation campaign" waged against him by South African security forces. But there is little doubt that his involvement with Moscow, if not formal, is at least fervent. Says Craig Williamson, a former South African security agent who infiltrated the party from 1971 to 1980: "Slovo is the classic South African Communist that the Soviets like -- tough, down...
...poke fun at some of the gravest problems of everyday Soviet life, including endemic food shortages and epidemic alcoholism. Shtern, 48, who taught geology in Leningrad, has combined her new writing career with selling real estate in Boston. Vastly popular with émigré readers of the Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word) and other Russian-language publications, her fiction is beginning to break into the pages of little magazines in the U.S. such as Stories and Pequod. Back in the Soviet Union, Shtern recalls, magazine editors regularly dispensed praise along with the inevitable rejection slips. "Bring me some more...
...government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha was careful to keep its reaction subdued and controlled. Only after the A.N.C. had claimed responsibility for the acts did the government name two of the group's nonblack expatriate leaders as the raid's presumed masterminds. They were Joe Slovo, a white Communist exile now residing in Mozambique, and Frene Ginwala, a radical woman lawyer believed to be living underground within southern Africa...