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...occasion was plainly significant, both journalistically and diplomatically. "Even though he is far more subtle and forthcoming than other Soviet leaders, much of what Gorbachev said was self-serving and one-sided," Grunwald noted. "One had to suppress the instinct to argue with him. Nevertheless, the interview was exciting and revealing. It showed his state of mind and his manner of thinking. It is very important for Americans to know these things...
Most people feel gossip's special fascination "as horror or as attraction," observes the author. "Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears about it a faint flavor of the erotic . . . Surely everyone feels -- although some suppress -- the same prurient interest in others' privacies, what goes on behind closed doors." Novelist Margaret Drabble is brought on to elevate the tone: "Much fiction operates in the spirit of inspired gossip. It speculates on little evidence, inventing elaborate and artistic explanations of little incidents and overheard remarks that often leave the evidence far behind." In that observation lies the key to this...
British legal scholars say this power to suppress exists in a democratic society because Britain has no American-style bill of rights to guarantee basic liberties or the citizen's right to know. As a result, many Britons increasingly have come to fear that a government could use the Official Secrets Act to hide abuses of power. Last month the Thatcher government suffered an embarrassing defeat when Clive Ponting, 38, a former assistant secretary at the Ministry of Defense, was acquitted of violating the Official Secrets Act by a jury that had been virtually instructed by the trial judge...
...come into conflict with the demands of a modern industrial economy. On the contrary, the system of enforced segregation has proven highly profitable. By containing Blacks to bantustans far from available jobs, apartheid creates a massive, migrant labor force which is difficult to organize and easy to suppress. Even where the dictates of industrialization have required some modification of existing race laws--such as the presence of Black workers in white cities--the government has been careful to preserve the essential elements of control. These urban workers, for example, are labeled "temporary sojourners" and are separated from their families...
...Crimson's stand is especially sad for two reasons. First, it comes at a time when a national consensus is emerging on the need for public opposition to the South African government--and at a time when that government has taken ever-more-brutal steps to suppress its Black majority. For The Crimson now to violate that national solidarity places the newspaper on the wrong side of the wrong issue at the wrong time...