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DIED. Colgate Darden, 84, patriarchal Virginia Democrat and former Congressman who served as Governor from 1942 to 1946 and who, as president of the University of Virginia during the 1950s, modified his white-supremacist position and helped lead a successful fight against state-enforced school segregation; in Norfolk...
...disturbances and sabotage dramatized the mounting tension and deepening sense of foreboding that have come to pervade South Africa. Despite some recent loosening of the white supremacist apartheid laws, blacks, who form 71.5% of the population of 27.7 million, are insisting with increasing militance that the time has come for them to share political power with the white, Afrikaner-dominated government. The successful black liberation movements of nearby Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique have given their cause new urgency and credibility. After years of international isolation, a growing number of the white minority is realizing that the tenacious dream of maintaining...
...South African elections there is never any doubt about the outcome. The all-white electorate troops to the polls and votes overwhelmingly for the Afrikaner-dominated, white-supremacist National Party, just as it has seven times since 1948. Last week's parliamentary election seemed to be no exception: the Nationalists ran up a familiar landslide among the 1.5 million voters, winning 131 of the 165 seats at stake. But this time there were significant differences. There was an overriding issue-the extent and pace of racial reform. There were defections from the ruling party, to both the left...
...stance toward Africa has been one of most hotly debated aspects of its emerging foreign policy. Thus, it seemed like a sound idea to send Chester Crocker, who was recently designated as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, on an extensive tour of both black Africa and white-supremacist South Africa. As it turned out, however, he encountered a bumpy reception in both camps. The rebuffs dramatized the difficulty of the Reagan Administration's attempt, as Crocker put it, to "walk the line" between South Africa and its hostile neighbors...
...viable means for bridging the differences that have divided them in our racist civilization. From the early endeavors to educate Afro-American slaves, through the Abolitionist Movement, and the 20th century Civil Rights Movement, Christian beliefs and organizations have often been the cutting-edge against white supremacist negation of Afro-Americans...