Word: somes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OVERSHADOWED by the dramatic transformation of Eastern Europe in recent months are slower, more subtle changes in South Africa. Some of President F.W. de Klerk's new policies, which have given Blacks greater rights, have been criticized by the right wing in his apartheid regime.
DE Klerk has offered some concessions to South African Blacks. Last month he released several jailed African National Congress (ANC) leaders. And this month he desegregated public beaches and recreational facilities and provided some public lands for integrated housing.
But de Klerk still controls all means of negotiation. No serious political concessions have been made, and the president will offer few unless there is some way to protect his white constituency.
The gesture was more pathetic than vexing. Some poor student wore ideological blinders so thick that he or she dismissed an indisputable photographic record of Israeli brutality as "bullshit."
I really, do not like the idea of writing this letter in defense of the Germans as a people. In fact, there are a lot of things I strongly dislike about some Germans, just as I disagree with many other people. But since Cooper attacked the Germans as a people...