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Jody Powell tops that with, "I reject the idea that there is some undeniably true system of political or social ideals." This sort of nihilism from two of Carter's intimates is truly frightening. Do they, between tennis games, merely take a stab at "conceptualizing the process by which goals are met"? If this brand of inchoate populism is the result of employing new faces, then I wish godspeed for the return of the insiders...
...some form of presidential or federal system. One notion is to qualify black suffrage on the basis of education or property. Another is to have the several "communities"-whites, blacks, coloreds (people of mixed blood)-choose representative bodies to run their local affairs. They would come together in a sort of federal body, but not on the basis of proportional representation, in order to protect the whites from being outvoted. Who would preside over this body, and how it could equitably handle national matters such as taxation, is not clear. Vorster professes to be skeptical of all such schemes. With...
...many other places, the suppression of legitimate, moderate opposition leads to radicalization. Marxism in the black African countries, plus obvious Soviet attempts at penetration, is a very legitimate worry for South Africa-and the U.S. Some sort of socialist, one-party government is inevitable for many black African countries at this stage, but that does not mean Soviet control or even influence. Far from it. As Moscow has discovered, Africa's mercurial nations make difficult ground for political colonization. They are fiercely divided among themselves. The one thing that unites them is opposition to the racist regimes of southern...
...they also fear that any significant political concession would, in Vorster's word, "swamp" them? Wouldn't they try to hold on to what they built (with black labor, of course)? And yet the longer real change is delayed, the harder it will be to achieve any sort of moderate settlement or work out a partnership between black and white. Right now that may still be possible-just barely. The situations are different, but Rhodesia's Ian Smith could have had a much better deal, with a moderate black regime, ten years ago than he can possibly...
...says Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General and now the IBM vice president in charge of the legal defense. "Sometimes plaintiffs ask for something we don't have-we'd have to ask every salesman in every branch office-because it's not the sort of information that the company needs to run itself. Or sometimes they ask for a file from the early '60s, and those files are crated up in the warehouse with empty Coke bottles and dead mice...