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...DURING this period and shortly after that the white supremacist apartheid doctrine became embodied in South African law. The ANC and the South African Indian Congress launched massive peaceful demonstrations against apartheid in 1952, initiatives which ended in more than 8000 arrests and violent government retaliation. In 1960, police fired on an unarmed crowd of anti-pass demonstrators in Sharpeville. They killed 67 Africans within minutes, shooting many in the back. The ANC was banned, and its leadership went underground. It was only then that leaders reluctantly abandoned peaceful resistance in favor of sabotage against property...
...trouble began Thursday when Wilkinson outlined his white supremacist views on "People Are Talking," a live, noontime talk show on WBZ-TV in Boston...
...like cattle into desolate reservations called bantustans and permitting them to emerge only as temporary migrant labor. Bank loans to the South African government therefore constitute a form of direct aid to state committed to the consolidation of apartheid rather than the desegregation and democratization of the existing white supremacist system. Accordingly, no loan to the South African government could be deemed humanitarian because its ultimate purpose served to reinforce or refine what is by far the world's most inhumane social system...
DIED. Brooks Hays, 83, folksy former Democratic Congressman from Arkansas whose moderate stands on racial issues, notably his attempt to mediate the 1957 integration crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, prompted a white supremacist campaign that ended his 16-year congressional career in 1958; in Chevy Chase, Md. After his defeat, Hays filled posts in the White House and State Department under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Of his role in trying to resolve the confrontation at Little Rock, Hays once said: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game...
Robert N. Brooks, associate dean of students at UMass, yesterday described UTOPIA as an anti-gay "white supremacist military superiority group...