Word: supremacist
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...lurched from its orbit; Cassandra herself could not predict events today. Not merely state or moral statutes seem suspended, but the laws of probability and chance. The lethal tendency has been crystallizing for well over a decade. In 1960, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the high-profile white supremacist, had been ad dressing a crowd, surrounded by police. Like the Israeli guards, they searched the audience for danger, looking no doubt for the face of black rage. Verwoerd was shot by a mild white man who slipped through unsuspected. John and Robert Kennedy, whose enemies were supposed...
...task was to determine whether or not Rhodesians favored an agreement worked out by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to end the seven-year-old dispute over independence. The agreement called for British recognition of Smith's white-supremacist government and a snail's-pace apportionment of political power to Rhodesia's 5,000,000 blacks...
Facing that reality, Britain last week reached a compromise agreement with the breakaway white-supremacist government of Rhodesia. After six years of coaxing and outright pressure, including an economic embargo, London agreed to permit Rhodesia's return to colonial status just long enough to be granted official independence. It was the issue of independence, which Britain refused to grant until provision was made for some form of black majority rule, that led Premier Ian Smith to cut Rhodesia loose from its ties to Crown and Commonwealth six years ago with his unilateral declaration of independence...
...plebiscite was held, the vote would be overwhelming for continued South African rule. The whites are for it; the chiefs, who see its immediate benefits, are for it, and the tribesmen listen to the chiefs. Only outside force or the fall of South Africa's white-supremacist government could change the situation, and both are extremely remote possibilities...
...judge were below average, that his balking on granting habeas-corpus petitions was a danger signal, and that his rudeness to civil rights workers and blacks in court was inexcusable and pointed to a racist and anti-integrationist intent. In 1948 he had made a clearly white supremacist speech; in 1953 he had helped start a white-only fraternity, and in 1956 he had been the incorporator of the Tallahassee Golf Club, established for the purpose of circumventing the Supreme Court Decision of six months earlier prohibiting segregation in municipal recreation facilities. Carswell went from the frying pan into...