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Such open splits are still rare, but the new Afrikaner discontent is having its effect even on politicians loyal to Botha. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no relation to the President) told an election rally this month that some of the social restrictions of apartheid are absurd. "I cannot understand," he said, "how you can stand in a lift with a black man with a toolbox in his hand, but when he puts on a suit you want nothing to do with...
When that revision came up for a decision last October, the synod completely reversed the church's traditional stand. "The Dutch Reformed Church is convinced that the application of apartheid as a political and social system which injures people and unjustly benefits one group above & another cannot be accepted on Christian ethical grounds since it conflicts with the principle of neighborly love and righteousness." The church declared its doors open to all races, and it elected the liberal Heyns as its moderator. This does not mean that the church has become or is about to become fully integrated (or even...
Next week all that could change for millions of immigrants. May 5 marks the inauguration of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, one of the most important and wide-ranging pieces of social legislation in decades. Passed last fall in the final days of the 99th Congress, the law provides the opportunity for aliens who have lived and worked in the U.S. since 1981 to apply for status as permanent residents. In theory it will make it possible for as many as half of the nation's estimated 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants to emerge from...
...impression was of an absence of solidarity between social groups here in Gdansk, even at home, in the same building and stairway, an overwhelming solitude, fear and uncertainty. And despite everything, the feeling revolt was necessary." Thus Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of the now banned Solidarity trade union movement, describes his political awakening a decade before Solidarity was born. Walesa's 604-page autobiography, A Path of Hope, published last week in France, contains no new or explosive disclosures, but it eloquently and simply portrays brave citizens pitted against a political tyranny. Without ever explicitly saying...
...uncoupled inhabit in these stories. Most are set in the New England exurbs whose historical and residential enchantments are mainstays of Updike's magic kit. An exception is The Ideal Village, about a party of gringo fact finders in the jungle settlement of a sect of Central American social visionaries. The story is to the others in the book what The Coup is to Updike's other novels, a public variation on the folly of private utopias. Concludes the narrator: "It was not until weeks afterwards, collating our diaries in the course of preparing our report to the government, that...