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...White House encouraged the switch of the Harvard-educated Roemer, 48, who was known as a fiscal conservative and social moderate while serving in Congress from 1980 to 1988. But the change by no means assures his victory, even though white supremacist Duke has been disavowed by the Republican , leadership and the flamboyant Edwards was paraded before the public in the course of two corruption trials that ended in acquittal. In Louisiana politics, being a scoundrel is not necessarily a liability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Party Pooper | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

Byron de la Beckwith was a happy man in 1964 when two different all-white juries deadlocked on whether he was guilty of shooting black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Miss. But Beckwith's tribulations are far from over: last week the avowed white supremacist and former fertilizer salesman, now 70, was arrested in Tennessee and charged once again with the 1963 killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Delayed Justice | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Fortunately for analytical purposes, there is a historical example nearly identical to South Africa--the case of the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In a groundbreaking study of the Rhodesian case, economic historian Johan Galtung concludes that 12 years of total economic embargo--the strongest international sanctions ever imposed before the Iraq-Kuwait crisis--not only failed to break the regime's resolve, but actually solidified...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: . . . Only if You Want a Civil War | 10/2/1990 | See Source »

Despite the obvious and widespread student disapproval, the University retains $ 170 million dollars in South Africa-related investments. The money that funds our education also helps prop up a brutal, white supremacist regime...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: E4D: The Classier Class Gift | 4/26/1990 | See Source »

...Minority students at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (that archetypal American town), protested the local formation of an "American White Supremacist Party...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Why Us Versus Them Still Matters | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

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